The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 699 Anonymous Letter

On the day before Christmas, Ryan and Hermione spent a day in a spaceship setting up a batch of magic props for observation and collecting data at the seven locations selected before. When the sun began to set and the sunlight turned everything on the earth into orange-red, Ryan and the other two finally returned to Hogsmeade with their exhausted bodies.

"We just need to wait until the morning after tomorrow to retrieve the props." Ryan said to Hermione after they walked through the thick snow into the town gate and onto the street, "Because we need to analyze the different flows of magic power at different times of the day. Then we can analyze the data to select the most suitable locations, and arrange the planting of different magical plants according to the flow of magic power at the selected locations."

"After a whole day of surveying, I can feel that this work is a bit complicated." Hermione pressed her waist, which was a little sore from installing magic instruments, and said, "By the way, how much stuff do you have stored? After opening the space door just now, I saw that you only stored one warehouse for the materials for building three manors. And there are nearly a hundred warehouses in that place."

"Well, that's what's stored for large-scale wars or disasters in several worlds. I have three similar warehouse clusters in different worlds, and the warehouse cluster in the doomsday world is just one of them." Ryan explained. "The materials in each warehouse cluster can sustain the lives of 10 people for three months. In addition, there are various magical raw materials that can sustain the normal use of 3000 ordinary wizards for half a year."

"Is this a modern national reserve?" Hermione murmured. "No wonder you could destroy those important production institutions in the British wizarding world without hesitation, because you are confident that you can make up for the gaps."

"Yes," Ryan nodded seriously. "Most of the products in Weasley's Joke Shop are produced using these reserve resources recently, but I think once these plantations are established, the resources will soon be available locally."

"What about the demand for magic ores?" Hermione asked. "Before we find the mines, is this gap filled by similar ores you get from other worlds?"

"Don't forget the trade with the Celestial Empire and the underground trade with Europe," Ryan said, leaning closer to Hermione, tilting his head slightly. "The Hogsmeade Ministry of Magic wasn't idle when we were fighting before. They have successfully regained more than 60% of the overseas trade channels before the war. This is enough for us. After all, Britain was not the main producer of those magical minerals before. These things mainly rely on imports."

After listening to Ryan's explanation, Hermione nodded. At this time, an owl flew towards them and dropped a letter as it flew over their heads.

"Tonight is Christmas Eve, who would write to us at this time?" Hermione checked the letter on the ground and picked it up. "Hey - this is an anonymous letter."

"Anonymous letter?" Ryan's interest was also piqued. He was curious why someone would go to the trouble of sending him such a thing.

You know, now that Hogsmeade is on alert, this kind of letter cannot be sent from outside the town by ordinary owls. The only way is to release owls in Hogsmeade. Most of the people who can send anonymous letters are not friendly people. Ryan can't figure out who would spend a lot of energy to sneak into the town just to send a letter.

"There's only one photo in the envelope." Hermione had already checked the envelope by this time. After carefully checking it inside and out, she only took out one photo. On the back of the photo was written in purple ink an address located in the newly built area of ​​Hogsmeade.

"The thing in the photo is very strange—" Hermione said after looking at the photo in the last rays of the setting sun, and then handed the photo to Ryan. "It looks like a tall glass for drinking wine, but the foot is a bit short."

Ryan took the photo and looked at it carefully, and found that the photo was a bit old. But after a careful look, Ryan still found that it was not a goblet, but a strange crucible with a leg. The crucible was sealed in a transparent substance, and the whole transparent substance was placed on a stone platform. Maybe because the person taking the photo was some distance away from the stone platform, the stone platform and everything on it looked very small and a little blurry. This is why Hermione thought this thing was a glass.

"Then let's go to the address behind the photo first." Ryan was curious about the photo, so he suggested, "Anyway, there is still some time before dinner, and this place is close to Hogsmeade, so there shouldn't be any major danger."

"You're right." Hermione thought for a moment and said, "If I remember correctly, this place is not too far from the Weasleys' temporary residence. We can go and take a look first."

After walking along the main road in the town for three or four minutes, they turned a corner on the side road to the Hog's Head Inn. Soon, they arrived in front of the townhouses at their destination. It was already dark, but the candles hung on the trees to celebrate Christmas and the street lights on the roadside illuminated everything clearly.

"Let me see, South District 7A." Ryan muttered to himself while looking at the house number, and soon they arrived at the gate of South District 7A. This is a standard house in the newly built area of ​​Hogsmeade Town. The main building is a two-story building made of red bricks, with a pointed black roof and a small window on the roof for ventilation of the attic.

"It seems that no one is in the room." Hermione said after looking through the iron gate of the yard. This was a very obvious thing, because today was Christmas Eve, and the people living in Hogsmeade had decorated their houses beautifully with mistletoe branches and lights. But the house in front of her was dark, with no lights at all, and there was no decoration outside.

Of course, this is not surprising. After all, when the houses were first built, more was preferred over less, so there are indeed many temporary houses that are now unoccupied. For example, there are several rooms on this road that are now empty.

However, unlike those empty rooms, the snow on the wrought iron gate of the yard of this house had fallen to the ground, leaving traces of the gate being open on the snow in the yard, and a row of footprints leading directly to the gate.

"Alaho Open." Hermione chanted the door-opening spell at the iron door, and the door opened inward. There was basically no magical defense in this unmanned house. After crossing the small yard and coming to the door of the room, Ryan first released a group of pink light that penetrated into the house through the door and window gaps. After confirming that there was no danger in the house, he used the same unlocking spell to open the door.

"Luminescent." After entering the room, Ryan shone his wand. The furnishings in this house were no different from other rooms on this street, just some simple furniture. Because the environment of this place is good, there is not much dust in the room even if no one has lived in it for more than two months.

"Let's look around and see if there are any clues." Ryan said to Hermione. "I just checked the room and there is no magical fluctuation, so don't worry about the portkey or anything. But for safety, don't touch anything that looks different."

"Understood." Hermione nodded, then raised her wand and followed Ryan. Because this temporary house was not big, they quickly searched the first floor and the cellar. Everything was normal here. However, when they walked to the workshop on the second floor, the two found something on the table in the workshop that should not be there.

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