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Dean Sprout also spoke up at this time: "Given the infectious power of the manager of Honeydukes, he will undergo a more serious transformation sooner or later. We are mentally prepared for this."

If primary and intermediate infections can be suppressed by drugs, then high-level infections are absolutely impossible, and there is currently no drug in the wizarding world that can treat high-level infections.

Even if there are some rare medicines that can suppress the infection concentration in the wizard's body, they are definitely not something that the manager of Honeydukes can access or afford.

When the manager of Honeydukes was tested, the concentration of the evil god's whispers in his body was already very high, far exceeding the threshold specified by high-level infection, so it was only a matter of time before he turned into a high-level infection.

It can be said that he still had some time to remain conscious, which meant that he had already taken timely isolation and protection measures.

Led by Professor McGonagall, the group quickly passed through various doors.

The door she took them through was obviously very unusual. Some doors would be dangerous once opened - rocks flying everywhere, time and space disordered, plants attacking... It felt like they were taking a dangerous shortcut.

But under the protection of the two professors, Lin Xia arrived at the prison cage safely without using any magic throughout the process.

The two professors didn't give her any chance to perform.

Once again in the prison cell, Lin Xia was shocked when he saw the guard's face.

This caretaker is very similar to Dumbledore, not in appearance, but in temperament.

They both have gray hair and beards, wear glasses, and have an elegant temperament.

Especially those eyes, which were also a deep blue, as if looking at a vast ocean.

But he looked much more handsome than Dumbledore, with a graceful demeanor and a relatively young face.

"You are here." The guard nodded at them and waved his wand. The outermost prison gate opened automatically.

The two professors just nodded to the guard, without saying a word, and quickly took Lin Xia inside.

As soon as they entered the prison cage, the professors took torches from the left and right walls, and Mag took a torch from one of the forks in the middle and gave it to Lin Xia.

Lin Xia noticed that the number of torches placed on the outermost layer was limited, with a total of 8 torches.

Thinking back to the last time she came to the prison cage to check on the manager of Honeydukes, she also entered with a torch in hand, and her eyes were filled with contemplation.

Does the number of torches mean the number of people who can enter the prison cage, with a maximum of only 8 wizards allowed to enter?
Because they were no longer exploring the prison cage alone this time, under the guidance of the professor, it only took them a minute to reach the prison where the manager of Honeydukes was.

When he saw the scene in the prison, Dean Sprout visibly gasped, his pupils shrinking slightly, and he was shocked at the manager's depravity.

Professor McGonagall had a blank expression on her face. She had learned about the manager's deteriorating health through other channels.

As for Lin Xia... Mag turned around and glanced at Lin Xia, worried that she would be frightened. However, the expression on Lin Xia's face looked even calmer than Sprout's.

Dean Sprout was stunned for several seconds, and quickly said to Lin Xia: "I need to observe closely, do you want to come in with me?"

Lin Xia nodded without thinking: "If I can go in, I would also like to observe it up close."

Mag said calmly, "Lin Xia, I will give you some other rare items for self-defense. You have never had the experience of observing a polluter up close, so you will be easily affected."

Sprout had already stepped inside. When Professor McGonagall was handing something to her, Lin Xia glanced at the dean out of the corner of her eye and found that there was a faint white light flashing on her body, and she looked like a glowing jade statue.

Professor McGonagall's voice came from my ears: "This is another use of the Patronus Charm. You can summon your own Patronus to protect your body.

The Patronus Charm is the most commonly used spell to deal with polluters. It can not only resist the invasion of evil gods' whispers, but also allow wizards to deal with the creatures of the evil god's world in turn."

Lin Xia whispered: "I didn't expect the Patronus Charm could be used in this way. It is almost an all-purpose spell that can be used to transmit messages and items, attack, and defend.

It can not only resist ordinary spells, but also black magic, and can resist the invasion of the power of the evil world."

Professor McGonagall took out a few rare items and quickly told Lin Xia how to use them, and said:
"When you feel something is wrong, you must activate the magic item immediately. Don't rely on luck. The longer you delay, the greater the danger you will face."

She looked a little anxious and said, "If it weren't for your special physique, I really wouldn't want you to go in for observation, kid."

Lin Xia blinked at Professor McGonagall and smiled.

"Professor, please believe me, I will be absolutely fine. I cherish my life very much."

Finally, Mag waved her wand and said, "Expecto Patronus!"

A bright white light shone from the tip of her wand, which contained a happy and brave emotion.

Even through the air, Lin Xia could feel the energy transmitted by the light, which was extremely huge and warm.

Professor McGonagall waved her wand again, trying to surround Lin Xia with this power and add a layer of defense to her body.

But as soon as this force touched Lin Xia's body, it immediately encountered resistance.

Lin Xia's body also emitted a faint, white light, pushing Mag's power outwards.

Mag watched this scene in surprise: "Patronus Charm, you actually learned the Patronus Charm?"

"Patronus Charm?" Lin Xia repeated the words, and asked doubtfully: "I did learn the Patronus Charm, but I am not using it at this moment."

She looked down at herself and found that the light emanating from her body came from the mirage hidden on her shoulders and sleeves.

The mirage worm must have sensed the danger spontaneously and activated its power.

The mirage worm was summoned by her, and its power came entirely from her, so when the mirage worm stimulated its own power, it was equivalent to Lin Xia taking the initiative to start defense.

Professor McGonagall thought for a moment and said, "Since you have already learned the Patronus Charm, it will be easier."

She waved her wand again, and Lin Xia only felt that the light at the tip of her wand changed, becoming brighter and more dazzling, as if all other emotions were removed from it, leaving only pure and extreme happiness.

This ray of light automatically jumped into Lin Xia's arms and soon merged with the light emanating from her body.

Originally, there was only a faint glow on Lin Xia's body, but now the brightness on her body is comparable to that of Dean Sprout.

Professor McGonagall said quickly, "I did not infuse the Patronus Charm with my own will. This power is completely integrated into your power and is under your control."

"Go ahead, Lin Xia, collect the data you want. Opportunities like this are rare." She said seriously, "Every high-level polluter will have the idea of ​​revenge on society after losing their mind. It is very dangerous and uncontrollable.

But the manager of Honeydukes was in a special situation. Once he was contaminated, he was imprisoned in a prison cage. This place suppressed the evil god's whispers, preventing the evil god's power from completely invading his nerves.

The concentration of the mutterings continued to rise, so the store manager eventually and irreversibly turned into a high-level polluter.

But he had a trace of human consciousness, and before his death, he never thought of hurting you. The data you collect will be rare and precious data in the wizarding world."

Lin Xia nodded to the professor, took a deep breath, and stepped into the prison with a serious expression.

Inside the prison, Sprout was already taking samples from a pool of dark liquid for analysis.

Yes, when Sprout saw the store manager for the first time, he was shocked by the fact that—

The store manager has completely lost his human form and has turned into a pool of dark liquid!

This pool of liquid looks like a thick swamp from a distance, but up close it looks like a boiling black magma, with bubbles bubbling out from time to time.

But when you reach out and touch it, it's warm, with human body temperature.

It is hard to imagine that this pool of liquid actually has human consciousness. Not long ago, it was a person!

All I could see was black. This pitch-black color was like blood that had been left out in the sun for a long time and turned black, or like a dark place in the night where no stars could be seen.

The first moment they saw it, every wizard would feel a sense of physical disgust, as if they had seen the dirtiest and most filthy thing in the world.

Sprout took out a test tube containing blue liquid and extracted a few milliliters of black tissue fluid and dropped it into the test tube.

The blue liquid did not merge with the black tissue fluid. Instead, it wrapped the black tissue fluid and played a role of sealing and preservation.

She murmured softly: "The external manifestation of the power of the evil god world is black blood. It looks like liquid, but in fact it is filled with tiny bugs.

Once these bugs come into contact with human skin, they can penetrate through various pores and gaps. Even if they cannot penetrate the pores, they can directly break through the surface of the skin and penetrate into the blood vessels to take root.

The evil god's whispers can never be completely eliminated from the bodies of low-level polluters because these black bugs are too tenacious, like viruses that parasitize the host's body.

No matter what method is used, it cannot be destroyed, it can only be put to sleep, but once a specific activation time comes, these black bugs will wake up in the wizard's body and grow strong from then on."

The dean sighed softly: "As the number of black bugs increases, they will corrode the wizard's body and eventually lead him to corruption.

Our main goal this time is to develop a drug that can inhibit and completely kill the black bugs, and also to preserve as many black bugs as possible so that we can have samples for experiments."

Lin Xia looked down at the pool of liquid for a while, and suddenly asked: "Professor, if he still has human consciousness, this pool of liquid is his body. If we extract the liquid, will the store manager feel pain?"

Dean Sprout said in a deep voice: "Yes, he may not be able to express it if he has long lost the sense of pain, but I firmly believe that he will also feel pain.

Many wizards, when they reach the stage of advanced pollution, gradually lose their five senses and physical bodies, which makes them fall into self-doubt.

Their mental will itself was in conflict with the power of the evil god, and their physical collapse overwhelmed their last line of mental defense.

I often have this idea that the high-level polluters finally set off a riot in the wizarding world because they were too mentally broken and resorted to self-destructive self-rescue. "

Lin Xia did not ask any more questions, but waved her wand silently and whispered, "Pain-relieving spell."

A magical ray with warm yellow light penetrated into the liquid, and a burning smell immediately rose in the air.

More bubbles suddenly appeared in the liquid, as if expressing its pain through boiling water.

But Lin Xia knew it was just an illusion.

Because the advanced polluter is no longer an ordinary spell, it can cause damage to it.

If Lin Xia really wanted to get rid of him, she should have used the Patronus Spell, which would have caused real damage.

Lin Xia stared at the pool of liquid and said, "You can leave with peace of mind. I have given your last words to the manager of Hogsmeade Village. He will follow your instructions and hand the store over to the person you want to inherit it.

I talked to your family, and they decided to keep the Honeydukes business going, passing it down from generation to generation.

No matter who the store manager is, the store will still be there and will not change, creating many wonderful memories for the little wizards every year."

The bubbles coming out of this pool of viscous liquid suddenly became much smaller.

There was a feeling of oppression and stagnation in the air not long ago, but at this moment, it seemed to have disappeared, leaving only peace.

Lin Xia waved her hand, and many transparent test tubes appeared in the air. Her preservation method was different from Sprout's.

The dean used a special blue liquid to store the black bugs, but Lin Xia precisely cut the liquid into standard portions and snapped his fingers. Under some invisible force, all the black liquid was pressed into the test tube.

The next second, she waved her hands again, and many glowing candles appeared in the air.

Lin Xia stretched out her hand and gently rubbed the tips of her thumb and index finger together, "The flames are blazing."

All the glowing candles were lit, and candle wax flowed out at a very fast speed. Lin Xia controlled these candles and poured candle wax into the bottle mouth of each test tube.

"呲-"

The brilliant power attached to the candle wax came into contact with the insects, and the black blood in the test tube immediately rolled violently, trying to resist the brilliant power.

But the insects in the test tube were too weak to resist the brilliant power in the candle wax for long.

Finally, out of the need to survive, these insects became calm, shrank into a small ball (from the outside it looked like several drops had morphed into just one drop), and settled at the bottom of the test tube.

The candle wax slowly flowed to the bottom, forming a sealed space. Only the drop of black blood in the middle had a faint sense of flow.

This is how Lin Xia stores the black bugs, stimulating the bugs' desire to survive and causing them to fall asleep on their own.

This way, the black bugs can be taken out without becoming dead bugs in a short time due to lack of a host to parasitize, thus losing their activity. (End of this chapter)