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In prison, Lin Xia finally saw the polluter who was imprisoned by the professor before.

The staff and manager of Honeydukes were imprisoned separately, but their cages were connected, which made it easier to observe.

Lin Xia's eyes were immediately attracted by the manager of Honeydukes.

The manager's appearance at this time was completely different from what he had seen before. Life in prison did not make him thinner.

In just a few days, he actually swelled up twice!

The whole person was like a balloon that had been punched. He had left the category of fat people and his body was growing abnormally.

And his eyes were also dull, without a trace of light.

Lin Xia occasionally met his eyes, but the manager did not react at all.

No, to be precise, he seemed to have no reaction to anything happening outside.

Lin Xia deliberately stomped his feet, making a slight noise. Several staff members in the prison next to him reacted, but the manager did not turn his head at all. Nothing around him could attract him.

She thought about it and cast a silent and wandless supersensory spell on herself, amplifying her senses.

After careful observation, Lin Xia found that the manager's neck had a black spot, but it was mostly covered by the collar.

However, his nails had turned black, and there was a hint of black on his fingers, so the whole person was gray.

A person who was originally very fair, his skin color has turned gray, and it seems that it will continue to change and gradually develop into black.

These black colors reminded Lin Xia of the trace of black blood that Bellatrix spit out after she besieged the Ministry of Magic and was later stopped by everyone!

Lin Xia nodded secretly. The manager was undoubtedly infected. There were probably many black bugs in his body, which had affected his appearance.

Thinking of this, she looked through the observation records here again.

The changes that happened to the manager every day would be recorded by Hogwarts, and there was also a video recording of the whole process.

This video was not a record of the observer, but since the manager was imprisoned, he has been under surveillance.

Every day, whatever changes he had, the video recorded.

Lin Xia just glanced at the records of other observers and then checked the videos of these days.

Compared with the data recorded by others, she believed what she saw more.

Lin Xia buried her head in the high basin placed beside her, letting the silvery-white liquid cover her face. The next second, she entered another space.

This space is very similar to the space imagined by the Illusionary Snail, but it is far less comprehensive than what the Illusionary Snail saw.

But it feels very real. Lin Xia can stand directly in front of the store manager. Except that she can't touch him, she can see all the reactions of the store manager.

As long as she gets close enough, even the fine hairs on the store manager can be seen clearly.

She began to fast forward the recorded scenes, silently observing the changes after the store manager poured in.

Day 1: Full of energy and spirit, still in the mood to curse God, crying that she is innocent, there is nothing wrong with her body, and her eyes are a little black.

The second day: After a day's sleep, he woke up again, still in good spirits, but some of his nails had turned gray, and he scratched his body unconsciously, not caring even if there were blood marks, because he had lost his sense of pain.

The third day: The store manager began to lose his hair, but he still retained his consciousness, cried very sadly, and then found that his body was peeling, and his appetite increased, far exceeding five times that of ordinary people.

The fourth day: The eyes were black, the eye sockets were black, some of the gray nails turned black, the body shape changed, he did not drink water, the body began to swell, he was a little drowsy, and he didn't like to talk.

The fifth day: He didn't talk at all, his eyes were dull, his nails all turned black, he kept scratching his neck, and his body continued to swell.

On the sixth day, which was the day Lin Xia came, she silently repeated the phenomenon she had just observed in her mind.

With a splash, Lin Xia raised her head from the basin, waved the magic wand to dry it, and the wet hair and face became refreshed again.

Then she waved the feather pen, wrote down what she observed from her memory, and then compared it with the observer one by one.

Her perspective was different from that of the observer, and she focused on observing the changes in the store manager from physical to mental aspects.

But the observer was more meticulous, and the focus was not on the changes in appearance, but on the concentration detection of the evil god's whispers.

As expected, with the arrival of each day, the concentration of the evil god's whispers on the store manager also increased day by day.

When the whispers grow to a certain concentration, they will not increase again, but will come to a stable range.

But this does not mean that there is no growth, but the growth rate has slowed down, and there is no high-speed surge.

Lin Xia still wanted to know more specific information about the store manager, so she chose to stimulate the store manager.

"Fluorescent flash!"

Her magic wand burst out a fierce strong light, and the light seemed to dispel a lot of the darkness nearby.

The other store clerks in the cages all reacted to the strong light, but the store manager was unmoved.

Lin Xia deliberately waved the magic wand in front of his eyes, and the store manager's extremely dark pupils suddenly turned at the maximum distance that could be reached in the warning, and glanced in the direction of the strong light.

But it was just a glance, and soon there was no reaction.

Lin Xia made a note: almost no perception of the light source.

Then Lin Xia used other methods to test and found that the process of the store manager becoming a polluter was a process of gradually losing his senses.

Test after test, in the end it was "sound" that achieved the best results.

Lin Xia amplified her voice with "a voice as loud as a bell", and the store manager was obviously excited, with the veins on his neck exposed.

He grabbed the railing with his hands and roared, as if he wanted to say something, but he seemed to have lost the ability to speak and could only roar meaninglessly.

Lin Xia looked at the records made by the observer again and said that the store manager had entered the state of an intermediate polluter the day before yesterday.

What she was more confused about was that if the polluters gradually lost their human senses and turned into unresponsive monsters, then why was Bellatrix's performance so advanced?

The store manager's current performance shows no wisdom at all.

Such polluters are like zombies in science fiction movies. What’s so scary about them?

A flash of thought flashed in her eyes. Could it be that entering a high-level pollution state would cause a radical change?

But then Lin Xia shook her head again, no.

There are many wizards who have entered an intermediate state of pollution and can still communicate with people, but their behavior will become extremely extreme.

This reason makes no sense.

In addition to observing the store manager, Lin Xia also began to observe the clerks.

The cage where the clerk is imprisoned is not like the store manager who does not have any protection.

Considering that they may not be contaminated, their cages are equipped with strange objects that can expel the evil gods' whispers.

It was a seemingly ordinary pot of green plants placed in the prison.

The shop assistants all know that this green plant can save their lives. As long as they are not irrational, they will protect the green plant very well and not dare to touch it easily.

Because Lin Xia couldn't enter the prison, she couldn't feel the effect of the green plants yet.

But Lin Xia could clearly feel that when she came outside this prison with several people, there was no fever in her body, which meant that there was almost no murmur of evil spirits here.

A total of four clerks were imprisoned. Two of them were infected, but they had been taking cold pills so they could stay sane.

The other two clerks are not infected at all, and their condition is obviously better than that of the clerk who took the cold pill.

However, primary infections can be controlled with cold pills, and they can even be expelled. Therefore, although the four store clerks are frightened by being detained here, they are not in a very depressed state.

"Help me out, help me, when can I leave this hellish place?!"

Seeing Lin Xia approaching, some clerks quickly came to the railing to ask for help.

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Lin Xia said: "As long as it is confirmed that you are not infected or in danger, Hogwarts will let you leave."

"Now, please answer me a few questions."

The questions Lin Xia asked were very simple. What had happened to her body in the past few days? Did she feel any discomfort? What noises did they hear from the store manager? Did they hear any other weird noises in the prison?

The store clerk's symptoms were so mild that observers did not record their condition.

However, all the store employees have seen the observers, and they also said that sometimes the observers will personally go into the prison to check on the store manager.

Lin Xia was surprised by this. Could it be that another person who completely resisted the evil god's whispers was so brave?

As for the rest, it was pretty much what she expected.

They heard all the store manager's murmurs when he was first locked up, and even echoed the store manager's thoughts.

But the store manager was obviously silent for the past two days and didn't say a word for a whole day, which made them very worried.

In addition, every night, some strange wailing sounds would come from deep in the prison. Every time they heard those sounds, they would feel uncomfortable and tremble.

One shop assistant said: “I feel more at ease only when I am close to green plants.”

Another shop assistant also said: "When I am too scared, I will hug green plants and dare not fall asleep for fear of nightmares."

Everyone works in Hogsmeade, and they are all wizards, not ordinary people.

Naturally, we know that the wizarding world can use many methods to kill people, especially the whispers of evil gods, which can invade when people are not prepared, which means it is very likely to invade in their sleep.

As soon as they hear the wailing sound, they dare not even sleep.

Lin Xia recorded some of the key points they said. She vaguely felt that the behavior of these people after being infected by the evil god's whispers was different from those of elite wizards who were infected.

After she had a thorough understanding, Lin Xia was ready to leave the prison.

Before leaving, she didn't know what she thought of, her mind moved slightly, she stopped, and stood in front of the store manager's prison.

She suddenly had an idea. The evil gods' whispers were so strong in this place, wasn't it a ready-made training place?

It just so happened that her technique could absorb the whispers of evil gods. It was difficult to come into contact with these while staying at Hogwarts, so she might as well take this opportunity to absorb a big one.

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On the other side, Harry and Ron had arrived at Professor McGonagall's office.

Harry stood outside the door and knocked several times, "Professor, I have something to ask you. Can we go in...Professor? Professor!"

After waiting for a while, there was no movement from inside.

Ron leaned against the wall with his arms folded and shrugged helplessly, "Let me just say that the professor is not here right now?"

Harry thought for a while and said: "Ron, I have been thinking about this question for a long time, but I still want to wait for the professor to answer. I want to go in and sit and wait for the professor. What about you?"

"Ah?" Ron's face immediately fell. He wanted to go somewhere else.

Harry took the opportunity to suggest: "How about this, you go to Professor Lupin's office to see if he is there. If he is, ask questions. If not, come back to find me.

I won't wait too long. If Professor McGonagall hasn't come back in half an hour, I won't wait any longer. We'll go somewhere else then."

Ron immediately agreed: "Okay!"

After Ron left, Harry took a deep breath, opened the door of the office, and walked in.

What came into view was a neat office. Professor McGonagall's office was piled with many books. The desk was very large, and it was filled with densely packed documents and students' homework.

On the desk, Harry also saw many quills.

He subconsciously came to the position where the professor was sitting. There was a huge French window behind the chair. It was snowing heavily outside the window, and the window was a little blurry.

Through this window, Harry could vaguely see the scene of the Quidditch field in the distance, and some little warriors were playing outdoors. The severe cold could not resist their enthusiasm for Quidditch.

Harry wiped the window and could see more clearly. Suddenly, he saw a person and turned around immediately. He felt nervous as if he was caught doing something bad.

Damn, he actually saw Captain Wood!

Recently, they were going to play a game with the Ravenclaws. It was scheduled for this weekend. Captain Wood personally led the team to practice crazily.

But because the weather was too cold, the team members basically delayed as much as possible, always finding ways not to go or sneaking out.

Harry deliberately asked for leave today. He asked another teammate to bring the leave to the captain, because he was afraid of seeing Captain Wood's disappointed look.

Unexpectedly, he couldn't escape after all and still saw Wood.

Due to the strong sense of guilt in his heart, Harry didn't have the heart to observe the professor's office. He glanced around and hurriedly put the sub-snail of the illusory snail in the gap of a bookshelf.

This location is quite convenient. If he comes to ask questions in the future, he will pass by this bookshelf, which is convenient for retrieving the sub-snail and checking the records.

At the same time, the place where it was placed was a gap, and most people would not touch the gap when taking books, which reduced the risk of being discovered.

After putting it away, Harry had no intention of staying, and left the office quickly with a guilty conscience.

He went to Professor Lupin to find Ron.

Ron was lucky to meet Professor Lupin coming back from outside, so Ron simply stayed to ask questions.

When Harry went over, Ron was still talking to the professor about how he felt when he used the Patronus Charm.

Ron emphasized: "Professor, I just want to share my feelings with you, so that you can have experience when you teach others next time."

Professor Lupin looked at him quietly with his melancholy eyes, "Thank you for your kindness, maybe you can say it more briefly, you have repeated the paragraph just now three times." (End of this chapter)