Chapter 161

In April, Patrick, who was rumored to have been attacked by a bomb from a rival company, reappeared in the Muggles' field of vision.

He remained tight-lipped about his recent disappearance, which only added to the mystery surrounding the topic.

But regardless, the return of the CEO immediately got the Umbrella Company running at full capacity again, and the Blue Queen computer began to be distributed globally.

There are three tiers for the Blue Queen, ranging from four thousand to ten thousand dollars.

In just one month, the pre-orders for the Blue Queen reached a staggering one million units, directly bringing Umbrella 4.4 billion pounds in cash flow, covering the initial R&D costs in just one month.

Looking at the financial figures on the wall and listening to his assistant's voice, which was so excited it was almost two octaves higher than usual, Patrick discovered that he was not as excited as he had imagined.

Yes, he had already achieved his wish.

He had brought the greatest personal consumer product of the moment to the world.

And he firmly believed that no product surpassing the Blue Queen would appear in the next two or three years.

He helped Murphy open up an era in this world, an era belonging to the Blue Queen, belonging to Umbrella.

However, compared to Murphy's grand ambition, what did this count for?

After a conversation in the research institute, he had completely understood Murphy's goals and aspirations.

What he said about "changing the world" was not a sales pitch, nor did it refer solely to the kind of change claimed by giants like Apple or Microsoft that he had originally understood.

No, what Murphy was going to do, what he wanted to do, was more profound, more far-reaching, even comparable to the invention of the steam engine, something that would completely transform the entire human society into a completely different appearance.

Compared to such a grand vision, his current minor achievements were, truly, not worth mentioning.

And that thing, comparable to the steam engine, or even more so, was called magic.

He knew now that they had already quietly launched several magic products.

From the initial White Medicine to the current Blue Queen, every one of them contained magical components.

But thinking about what he had seen and heard in the Magic Research Institute, he also deeply understood the meaning of what Murphy said when he erased his memory more than a year ago: "White Medicine is very common in the wizarding world."

In the end, White Medicine, beauty potion masks, love potion perfumes... were all just means for Murphy to earn operating funds in the Muggle world.

Only the Blue Queen could be considered to have a slight connection to Murphy's true goal.

But only a slight one.

His goal was the end of magic, all the mysteries.

And as a former Muggle, Patrick's understanding of Murphy's goal was somewhat different from most people in the Magic Research Institute.

Isn't the so-called end of magic also the end of science?

Isn't it also the end of consciousness, the end of time, the end of the star sea?

Since that is the case, pushing Muggle society toward a higher and further future is actually the only way to reach Murphy's goal!

And on this great road, how many things he could do!

Originally, he thought that after Umbrella Company overturned most of the semiconductor table in one fell swoop and became the world's premier technology giant, he had already completed his mission.

But at this moment, he only felt that his past self was too narrow-minded.

What's the point of being number one in the world?

Shouldn't Umbrella's mission be to lead humanity to ascend collectively?

On the other side, several sensational major events had recently occurred in the wizarding world.

After various attacks, the prestige of the Aurors fell to the bottom, and with Peter Pettigrew—the dark wizard recently despised by the entire wizarding world—being rescued on the way to Azkaban, people's anger erupted.

As Murphy expected, countless complaints and impeachment letters were sent to Mi Li Sen's desk.

But unlike the inefficient and childish responses of the Ministry of Magic in the past.

This time, the Legal Enforcement Director, Barty Crouch, suddenly seemed to have a flash of inspiration, showing the decisiveness and responsibility of his youth.

On the third day after the prisoner rescue incident, he held a press conference.

At the meeting, Barty Crouch expressed apologies for the previous series of events, including werewolf attacks, Dementor harassment, the Sirius incident, etc., and lifted the arrest warrants for Sirius and Murphy on the spot.

At the same time, he also admitted that the reason for all this should be attributed to his own poor judgment of people.

Barty Crouch conducted a profound analysis and reflection on the various drawbacks existing in the Legal Enforcement Department in the past, including the entanglement with the legislative and judicial departments of the Wizengamot, unclear powers and responsibilities, the fact that Aurors still possessed powers no less than those in extraordinary times after the end of the wizarding war, and the lack of supervision, etc.

And to solve these problems, he proposed three measures.

First, immediately dismiss Gawain Robards from his position as Director of the Auror Office, and before a suitable candidate takes office, Barty Crouch himself will hold the position concurrently.

Second, reduce the discretionary power of Aurors. In the future, Aurors will be managed using the same prior reporting system as the Legal Enforcement Squad, and cannot investigate cases and individuals without authorization.

Third, strengthen the supervision mechanism and apply to introduce the Watchers, who have been very trusted by the public recently, into the Ministry of Magic as a supervisory agency under the Wizengamot to supervise all affairs of the Legal Enforcement Department.

Barty Crouch pointed out that to defend the peace and order of the wizarding world, reform is the only way!

He showed great determination to reform the accumulated drawbacks of the Legal Enforcement Department, and even set a military order: from now until the end of his current term, if the Legal Enforcement Department still cannot satisfy the vast number of wizards, he will retire.

Such a vigorous and resolute style immediately reversed his own reputation, and the reform plan he proposed also received the support of the vast number of wizards, and was quickly pushed through the internal meeting of the Ministry of Magic and implemented by ministerial order.

And Barty Crouch lived up to expectations; half a month later, he captured two Death Eaters—the Carrow siblings.

The Carrow siblings confessed that it was they who participated in the prisoner rescue incident of Peter Pettigrew with Yaxley, Avery, and others.

And their purpose was because Pettigrew had once revealed to them a plan to resurrect the Dark Lord. They wanted to save Pettigrew, and under the other's guidance, find the Dark Lord and resurrect him.

So a massive search for Yaxley and Avery began, and half a month later, both were captured by the Watchers with Murphy's covert help.

The four seemed to have suffered a huge blow, to the point that they confessed to their crimes without reservation, and after a strict trial, they were all locked into Azkaban.

At this point, Barty Crouch's prestige rose again, even reaching an unprecedented height during the wizarding war.

The only pity is that Peter Pettigrew is still missing.

Some speculate that Pettigrew may have gone to defect to his master.

A cloud of gloom once again shrouded people's hearts.

But at this moment, due to the great activity of the Watchers, the contradiction between the rhetoric of "there are not many dark wizards now, so there is no need to give Aurors such great power" and the current situation was automatically ignored by people.

After all, whether it's the Watchers or the Aurors, isn't it enough to be able to deal with dark wizards?

On the contrary, the current Watchers are younger, more handsome, and more approachable.

Look at their unified black-blue wizard robe uniforms, full of abstinence, aren't they much more pleasing to the eye than that group of crooked-mouthed and squint-eyed Aurors?

Moreover, since the Watchers took office, dark wizards seem to have indeed decreased.

As for why they decreased...

"What the hell!"

At the White Ferret Mountain cabin, Murphy's eyelid twitched, and he tore a letter from someone claiming to be a well-known dark wizard into pieces.

That guy shamelessly claimed in the letter that he was a Muggle-killing demon that Aurors feared, and was accustomed to using the Cruciatus Curse to torture Muggles to death.

He felt that he was so fierce that he must be able to contribute to Murphy's "future great cause."

This made Murphy furious.

Do you think I, Murphy, am Voldemort?

You want all kinds of monsters and ghosts?!

"Harold Nelson, right," Murphy's heart moved, and thirty lightning crows received the order, "Find this unlucky bastard for me."

"What kind of level are you, wanting to be my subordinate!"

However, his mood recovered quickly because a lightning crow reported that more than forty werewolves were gathering in a forest in Suffolk.

Leading them was Fenrir Greyback.

"Finally, caught you."

(End of chapter)