The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 12 12. Ruin your home, kill your dog, tear your hat to shreds
After solving the trouble caused by Ms. McGonagall, the rest of the journey went smoothly, and at the moment of dancing with the sunset in the evening, the magic train finally arrived.

With the sound of the whistle, the four people under the leadership of Old K left the train and entered the empty Hodmeade Station.The station was in a village, so this group of people naturally received a "warm" welcome from the zombie villagers.

There are not only humans, wizards, but also some goblin-like house elves, halflings, and strange species.

Perhaps they had such and other characteristics during their lifetime, but turning into zombies after death is just as dangerous. However, for the three "beaten and frosted" people along the way, these ordinary zombies can no longer threaten them.

Old K didn't even make a move, and the three of Mason cleared the station and the village with explosives and bullets.

It is worth mentioning that in this process, Bomb Girl performed very well.

She no longer had that carefree look and became a lot more silent. After she got serious, the ability to explode any objects she touched was indeed very suitable for this kind of large-scale clean-up battle.

Looking into the distance from the hillside on the edge of Hodmeade Village, there is a large lake in the sunset. According to the description of the movie, the main castle of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the center of the lake can already be seen from here.

However, when Mason, who was carrying a gun, looked in that direction, he saw nothing.

There are no castles and no colleges.

Under a miserable moonlight, all that remained on the island in the middle of the lake was a black ruin, like King's Cross Station that had been opened by a bomb, and the damage to Hogwarts was obvious. more serious.

The entire building was almost completely smoothed out by an invisible hand.

From this long distance, one can only see a boundless black Forbidden Forest still spreading beyond the ruins, like black scars on the earth.

"Is that the destination?"

The kite man beside Mason asked a little timidly.

He was standing on the side of the hillside now, and he had already let out the big kite in the backpack on his back, and he was still holding a high-speed camera in his hand.Old K told him to go to the island where Hogwarts is located to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance, and he had to come back before it was completely dark.

This is not difficult for kite people.

He was also in charge of investigating in the Clown Gang before.

But after opening up so many "visions" along the way, the kite man felt very guilty. He was afraid that he would fly there with his life but not return with his life. There are magical creatures in this world!

What if a zombie fire-breathing dragon emerges from the black forest?
"There are quite a few things with wings, but not as many as you think. Go ahead."

Mason no longer maintained the mute character design, looked away from the ruins of Hogwarts, patted the kite man on the shoulder, and took out an engineering gun and handed it to him.

In this way, with two modified pistols for body protection, at least the kite man can die with dignity.

"My kite was damaged before, and I have to repair it when I come back."

The villain comedian in the green tights curled his lips, and then took a peek at the expressionless Mason. While preparing for takeoff, he rubbed his hands and whispered:

"You seem to be very familiar with these mechanical creations, how about you help me."

"Row."

The young man nodded and said quietly:

"Wait until you come back alive."

These words made the kite man's face even uglier.

A few seconds later, the kiteman jumped up facing the hillside, and quickly took advantage of the headwind to quickly lift off and then changed direction and floated towards the island in the middle of the lake.

Mason withdrew his gaze and turned to the meeting point. Old K was a cautious guy. He didn't camp in the bloody village, but went down the mountain road to a flat grass by the lake. When Mason came back, there was already a A cozy and warm campfire.

There was also a pot set up on the campfire, in which was boiling delicious potato stew.

Old K sat by the bonfire and polished his two swords with a whetstone, while the bomb girl crossed her legs on the other side, looking melancholy at the dancing flames in front of her.

Mason sat cross-legged in front of the fire, took off his backpack as a table, and deftly disassembled the engineering bomb at hand.

"Are there enough bullets?"

Old K asked, and Mason shook his head.

The high-intensity battle left only one-fifth of the bullets he carried.The old hunter laughed, and while Mason was watching, he picked it up casually, and the heavy bullet box hit the ground with a bang.

This made the young man raise his eyebrows, and he said:
"Storage pocket?"

"Well, the official name is a travel rucksack. It's not a problem to fit a small warehouse of supplies. You will have a chance to get it after you officially join the job."

Old K said casually:

"Of course, if you want something good, you have to find a way to get it yourself.

For newcomers, the internal trade meeting once a month is a good choice, provided that you have something that can interest veterans. "

Mason nodded while packing the bullets.

He is actually very interested in these inside information, but he doesn't want Old K to see this emotion now.

"What the hell is going on with this disaster?"

After the two fell silent, the bomb girl who was hiding something in her heart finally couldn't help but asked Old K:
"You said that the stars will travel between worlds. Seeing how skillfully you deal with these troubles, have you seen such a zombie crisis before?"

"Then I can see more, little girl, not every world is as peaceful as your world."

Old K served himself a bowl of rice from the pot on the fire, and said casually:
"In the multiverse system, there are almost infinite parallel worlds. The original intention of the establishment of the Stars Club is to explore these worlds and establish a cross-world organization with the goal of coexistence and cooperation.

But unfortunately, the more we explore, the more we find that destruction and doom are the keynote of the parallel world.The world in front of you is just zombies and nuclear war, which is tender enough in the sense of doomsday.

I have also seen with my own eyes that the deformed earth was wiped out in an instant.

But let's talk about these dream-disturbing horror stories later.

After you become official members of the Stars Club, a special manual will be issued. Now eat something and rest for a night.

We land on the island tomorrow morning.

There are still three days to explore, and I think we will be able to return with a full reward this time. "

This answer obviously didn't satisfy Bomber Girl, but seeing that Old K didn't want to say more, and she couldn't ask any more, Mason kept the information in his heart with his ears pricked up.

Three and ten minutes later, the kiteman successfully completed the reconnaissance and returned to the camp.

He obediently returned the camera in his hand to Old K. The latter looked at the photo and nodded in satisfaction, and after a few words of encouragement to the kiteman, he let him go to rest.

But this guy still remembered Mason's promise, and rushed to ask Mason to help repair his beloved kite with his jetpack in his arms.

Mason took apart the kite man's backpack by the firelight and found that this seemingly crude flying device was actually quite interesting.

After the character card included the drawings of the jetpack, it also gave out the drawings of the preliminary transformation.

Under the distressed and worried gaze of the kite man, the young man dismantled his eating stuff, and reassembled it in a way that made him raise his eyebrows.

Mason asked while skillfully driving the screws:
"This thing is so delicate, did you design it yourself?"

"Yes! Am I good?"

The kite man snorted and ate the potato stew with his lunch box in his arms, and replied with a little satisfaction:
"I used to be an aerodynamicist in Wayne Industries' R&D department, but I prefer this simple and amazing gadget to those cool flying machines.

Probably because I was obsessed with kites as a kid.

But after my divorce, I'm

Having said this, the kite man suddenly fell silent.

He shook his head as if trying to shake those bad memories out of his head, and when he noticed Mason looking at him, he forced a smile and grinned again:
"In short, this jetpack is my masterpiece!"

"Indeed, the kite you designed still has a lot of room for further improvement."

Mason lowered his head, tightened the hex screws, and said:
"If there is a chance in the future, maybe we can cooperate. By the way, I have always wanted to ask, do you know Poison Ivy?"

"Poison Ivy?"

The kite man froze for a moment, then touched his head and said in embarrassment:
"He's a front-line villain in Gotham. How could I, a little guy, make friends with such a character? The only big person I'm familiar with is probably my ex-boss, the clown.

It's a pity that he is so crazy that it scares me a little.

He brutally killed Batman's Robin, the kid named Jason Todd looked a little older than you, but he died a terrible death.

I've been out of his gang since then.

I may not be a good person, but shooting a child is still beyond my bottom line. "

"Jason Todd is dead?"

Mason raised his eyebrows and said:
"When did this happen?"

"Uh, about a year and a half ago?"

The kite man tilted his head and thought for a while, then said:
"Batman almost killed the Joker, I swear, that was the first time I saw Batman so angry, like a father who lost his child."

"Ah."

Mason nodded.

When he stuffed the flying backpack into the kite man's arms with normal expression, a rolled up note was also put into the guy's palm.

The kiteman immediately raised his eyebrows, and saw Mason winking at him under the light of the bonfire, and then the two of them said good night to each other tacitly, and turned to leave.

It was a restless sleep.

Especially at the darkest hour of dawn, Mason could clearly hear the eerie roar from the island in the center of the lake.

The shrill, hoarse and hollow voice sounded like some kind of large, crazy and zombified creature. Reminiscent of the strange things that existed in the Black Forest, Mason immediately felt that the road ahead was not good.

"Hagrid has raised acromantulas, dragons, and three-headed dogs. I hope tomorrow's exploration will not suddenly jump out of a zombie dragon."

It was Mason's last thought before falling asleep.

And at the same time.

The kite man who was sleeping wrapped in a warm Hagrid coat on the other side also opened the note in his hand. The contents inside made him uneasy, but he finally tore up the note calmly and stuffed it in. mouth.

Ten minutes later, a warm and trembling body suddenly got into his overcoat, startling the decadent man, and then he felt a pair of hands hugging his waist.

The voice of the bomb girl rang in the ears of the kite man, saying:

"What did you eat just now? Heh, no matter what you two are planning. I want to join! I don't want to die in this ghost place."

"It's not up to me to decide."

The kiteman struggled a bit.

But the next moment, Bomber snorted and whispered:
"So, I'm going to 'pay' in advance, right? Lonely old man, but I don't have any money, what do you say between us?"
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Early the next morning, everyone boarded a small boat and crossed the lake to the island in the middle of the lake. The kite man flew in the sky to search and guide the direction.

Under his leadership, the boat quickly docked at the island in the middle of the lake.

The fully armed old K walked in the front, followed by the bomb girl, and Mason was in charge of the rear guard. They quickly set foot on the stairs into the castle.

But there was only a huge pedestal standing in place.

There should be no explosion here, but there must be a nearly invincible force sweeping past, tearing everything here like a storm passing through.

Only half of the towering city walls remained, and three of the spiers of the four branches were destroyed.

And those strange buildings that have been applied with space magic and are usually hidden in the castle are all "scattered" because of the destruction of the space system.

They were scattered around the entire island in a chaotic gesture of parabolic debris in the sky. Mason also saw a three-story wizard tower upside down and inserted obliquely on the ground.

Like a sword stuck in the ground.

The gate of the castle that should have been solemn and solemn has completely disappeared, leaving only a headless gargoyle sculpture standing alone on the pedestal.

All magical miracles were destroyed so that Mason could even catch a glimpse of the remains of the school's Great Hall after walking up the steps, the large ballroom used to welcome new students and celebrate each year.

It too was destroyed, as if torn from the sky by the claws of a giant beast.

It also left deep marks on the ground.All the luxury and wonder have gone with the wind, and there is only a dead loneliness left here.

"Scatter and explore freely!"

Old K used his special ability to investigate around, and after confirming that there was no danger in the ruins of the castle, he put away his crossbow and gave an order.

When Mason and Bomber left, Old K reminded him "friendly":
"Bring back all the things you find, and everyone will deal with them together. I think you two sensible young people will not choose to hide your secrets, right?

Especially you, Mason. "

"We don't have storage bags."

The young man said without looking back:
"Where do you want to hide it after taking it? In the eyes of X?"

"Well, crude jokes, I like them."

Old K laughed, turned around, flickered out and disappeared, while the bomb girl glanced at Mason with complicated eyes, then turned and disappeared on a road leading to the depths of the ruins.

Mason stayed put and looked left and right among the ruins of the auditorium.

"what!"

With sharp eyes, he soon found something familiar under a brick.

He ran over to pick up the thing buried in the dust and patted it, and found that it must be a dusty and tattered wizard's pointed hat.

And anyone who has seen the movie knows what it is.

Fantastic branch hat.

It was already sloppy in appearance, but now it has been roughly torn open, like a piece of rags and sacks, only a little shape can be seen, and when Mason got it, the character card immediately gave the label:

Name: Godric Gryffindor's Wizard Hat/Magic School Hat

Quality: Epic Item · Perfect Craft

Traits: Spiritualization, Fairy Thinking, Invisible Divination, Danger Prediction, Treasure Storage
Status: Seriously damaged (you can try to repair it. Complete repair requires Tailoring Lv7, Enchanting Lv6, Alchemy Lv8, Inscription Lv7)

Use: You can try to talk to the broken branch hat, but you may not get a response from the other party
Item description: It may have been a nice neurotic hat before, but now it's just a neurotic eager to be sewn up.

"Is this the legendary good start?"

Mason blinked, and casually put the school cap that was almost completely torn like rags on his head, patted it with his hands, and jokingly said:
"Hello, are you there?"

No one answered him, and the young man pouted.

He reached out to take the thing off and throw it back into the backpack, but when his fingers touched it, a piercing and mournful scream suddenly sounded from the tattered school cap:
"You! Returner from the dead! You belong to. No, no! You belong to. Azkaban!"

Mason was taken aback.

The sound of this thing is really too piercing.

It's like the half-mad old man's dying wail in those horror movies, but it's not over yet.

The tattered branch hat yelled like crazy:

"The castle falls, the glory fades away, death howls, despair rages. Precious blood is shed, mortal blood mourns, misery, noise. The storm blows, the sun shines, swords and guns ring, purgatory cries.

This resentment is not repaid, this hatred is hard to forgive!

Mason Cooper, gone astray!Make an oath, determined to revenge!Otherwise I will eat you! "

(End of this chapter)