Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 137: Thorough preparation... can make our death more dignified

Annie said she would go back to prepare, and this preparation would take another half month.

More than half a month has passed, and Anne seems to have forgotten about this matter and never mentioned it again.

What made Tom depressed was that Li Weide didn't even mention it.

He didn't know what this guy was planning...

To be exact, he had no idea what Grindelwald and Levid were planning!
One who, even when the time was right, still did not take any action.

As for the other one, after hearing Annie say to wait for notification, he really waited for it obediently.

Tom felt that his brain was not enough...

Although there has been no movement at Hogwarts, there has been great progress at the Magical Congress of the United States.

After such a long investigation, Dumbledore finally led the Aurors from the Ministries of Magic of various countries and found a stronghold of the Witch Party.

After capturing several Wukhovna members, they also rescued seven or eight missing hostages in the stronghold.

Fortunately, apart from some malnutrition, these people are not in danger of life.

After things finally made some progress, everyone in the Magical Congress of the United States breathed a sigh of relief.

After putting those witch gangs in prison and using all kinds of methods, including truth serum, on them.

The Aurors discovered several new strongholds again.

However, this time, although hostages were successfully rescued in several strongholds, no members of the Wu Zetian Party were captured.

In the last captured stronghold, Chairman Picqueri looked at the devastation all over the place and his face did not look very good.

"Chairman Picquery, we have rescued most of the hostages, why do you still look a little unhappy?" Tolliver asked with some confusion.

"Tolliver...are you sure we really rescued them?" Chairman Picquery said with a serious expression.

"Of course it is! Those witch gangs were actually trained on how to resist the effects of truth serum! We had a hard time prying the information out of them, and then we found these strongholds." Tolliver said.

"Yeah... the information we got with great difficulty... of course it has a certain degree of truth..." Picquery muttered to himself.

"Chairman Picquery, I think you should be happy. With the help of Professor Dumbledore, we will soon see the light! Besides, with the return of these people, the Magic Congress will be able to operate efficiently as usual..."

"No!" Picquery interrupted Tolliver, "They... need to rest. After questioning all the kidnapped people as usual, let them go home and rest for a while."

"But... many functional departments of the Magical Congress have been paralyzed for a long time... They finally came back, shouldn't they..."

"This is my decision, Tolliver, you just have to pass it on."

"Yes... President Picquery..."

"Remember, after the interrogation, send the confession to my office."

"clear."

"Where is Professor Dumbledore?" Picquery asked again.

"He is tracking down the Wushu Party members who escaped. I believe there will be news soon..."

Before Tolliver could finish his words, Picquery saw Dumbledore Apparate not far away.

Picquery waved Tolliver to do his job, and then walked towards Dumbledore.

"Albus, how's it going?" asked Picquery.

"Seraphina... the situation is not very optimistic." Dumbledore frowned. "I think they were ready to escape before we arrived."

"Could it be that they received the news when we captured the first hideout?"

Dumbledore shook his head and said, "If it were you, what would you do first after receiving the news and knowing that your position was exposed?"

"Of course we should move our people quickly..." Picqueri said.

"Well... but they didn't. They just prepared... to escape. Then they waited for us to come. After symbolically resisting for a while, they abandoned the hostages and evacuated directly..."

"I also feel something is wrong..." Picquery said, "However, even you failed to catch those guys who escaped. This shows how well prepared they are..."

Dumbledore glanced at the hostages who were reuniting with their families and asked, "How are you going to accommodate those people?"

"I asked them all to go home for the holiday... because I really couldn't..." Picquery glanced around and whispered again: "I can't trust them! Albus!"

"I'm glad they're all fine... But, precisely because they're all fine, and Grindelwald deliberately put them right under our noses... I can't tell whether they've already betrayed us... or whether they were originally part of the Witch Party!"

"...I can't use truth serum to interrogate these poor people who were just rescued and brought home! If I do that, how will the public view me? How chilled will those truly innocent people be?"

"Besides... these guys are too stubborn... even the truth serum can't open their mouths 100%! I don't know what to do..."

Dumbledore nodded, and said, "Let me talk to them. One by one..."

"Can you tell the difference?" Picquery asked in surprise.

"Although it may be a bit immodest to say this, I really don't need to use truth serum to know whether the other person is lying." Dumbledore smiled.

"But……"

"Don't worry, I promise that everything will be done quietly... But it may take some time..."

……

morning.

Hogwarts, Great Hall.

On the dining table, Tom put down the Daily Prophet and looked at Levitra in surprise and suspicion.

He whispered, "The development of the matter is pretty much the same as you said... Last night, Dumbledore really helped the Magical Congress of the United States to rescue a lot of hostages very easily... It was so easy, there is no other explanation except that he released them on purpose." Livid smiled and said, "Does Dumbledore intend to talk to them in person?"

Tom glanced at the newspaper again and said, "Yes... The newspaper said that Dumbledore wanted to personally question the hostages in order to find more clues and catch Grindelwald... According to your previous speculation, he should be planning to screen out the witch party lurking among these hostages?"

"Well... yes, Tom... are you ready? If I'm not mistaken, tonight is the time for Grindelwald to take action in Hogwarts." Levid said calmly.

"How did you know that?" asked Tom in surprise.

"Because this kind of questioning cannot be delayed in order not to attract attention. Dumbledore needs to finish all the questions in one go. Otherwise, others will easily think that this is actually an interrogation, and this is what the Magical Congress of the United States of America least wants others to know... Therefore, Dumbledore will be very busy and very focused in the next two days... so that he will have no time to take care of other things..."

As soon as Li Weide finished speaking, Annie hurried over from a distance.

She leaned close to their ears and whispered, "Meet in the common room at nine o'clock tonight!"

Hearing this, Tom looked at Levi in surprise again. Anne's coming to report proved that Grindelwald would take action tonight!

This time... Li Weide guessed it again?
After Anne finished speaking, she hurried away without noticing the expression on Tom's face.

"Tom...are you ready?"

"Well! I've made all the preparations as you said!" said Tom.

"That's good……"

"Does that mean that as long as we make these preparations, Grindelwald won't be able to kill us?" Tom couldn't help but ask again.

"No...if he wants to kill us, we can't stop him."

Tom, who had felt relieved, suddenly asked in horror: "What's the point of preparing all this?"

"It's useful...it can allow us to die with dignity."

"You...you...I want to quit!"

"It's too late to regret now, Tom."

"It's not too late, I just don't go tonight!"

"You've got to go, Tom."

"why?"

"Because if I'm going to die, I can't let you live."

"I...what hatred or grudge do you have?"

"This is also for the future of this world..."

"Ah? Am I some kind of scourge that is hated by heaven and man?!"

"Tom, have you no idea what kind of man you are?"

……

8:40 pm.

Li Weide and Tom sat by the window in the common room, waiting quietly.

Tom's face was dark, and he was completely disheartened at the moment...

"Take it and drink it..." Li Weide handed over a small bottle.

When Tom saw the small bottle, his eyes lit up.

"Elixir of Fortune?"

"Hmm...what better time to use it than now?"

As Li Weide spoke, he took out another small bottle of Fuling potion, opened the bottle, and dripped two drops into his mouth.

Tom didn't hesitate and dropped two drops into his mouth.

Maybe I can avoid death tonight because of these two drops of elixir!
Li Weide couldn't help laughing when he saw Tom's fearless look.

He said this just to tease Tom.

In fact, he was indeed fully prepared.

After all, he didn't want to gamble with his life.

"Tom...the enemy is about to attack, let's make a pot of black tea first."

Li Weide said this and gently wiped the table with his right hand.

Then a steaming teapot and two clean cups appeared on the table.

I don't know where he got it from...

"I...I don't want to drink." Even after drinking the Felix Felicis, Tom was still so nervous that he wanted to vomit.

"You really don't want to drink?" Li Weide picked up the teapot and poured tea into the two cups in front of him.

"No!" said Tom angrily.

"Well... I'm going to drink it. Maybe this is the last cup of tea in my life." Li Weide said with a smile.

"Fuck! Li Weide, you are a bastard!"

Tom took the cup in front of him, drank it in one gulp, and then rolled his eyes because of the heat.

(End of this chapter)