Chapter 22

"A hero or..." Ollivander didn't finish, but said: "The goodness or badness of power depends on the wizard who uses it, Mr. Murphy, challenging authority is a very brave thing, but the destruction of order often brings suffering, I hope you can use your power cautiously."

"Thank you for your advice, Mr. Ollivander," Murphy said, drawing another shorter wand from his sleeve.

Ollivander's eyes widened, "This, this one... you really..."

Murphy aimed the wand at the old man, "Sorry, Mr. Ollivander, I'm afraid you have to re-remember some things... Legilimens!"

Then, "Obliviate!"

"Legilimens!"

"Obliviate!"

Legilimens could force Ollivander to recall the situation when Murphy's predecessor bought the wand seven years ago, locate this memory, so that Obliviate could blur it, while adding false memories, and after repeating it several times, strengthen this false memory through repeated incorrect recall, making it as real as a real memory.

Memory is such an ambiguous thing; people have never truly read memory purely, every recall is actually a correction and strengthening of past memory.

And Murphy was using this mechanism at this moment to confuse part of Ollivander's memory of him buying the wand today with the situation when Murphy's predecessor bought the wand seven years ago, replacing the material of the wand he bought at that time with today's appearance.

After three repetitions, Ollivander would only remember that Murphy bought an aspen wand back then, and would have completely lost the memory of the original cypress wand in Murphy's hand at this moment.

Ollivander fainted, Murphy let him have a sleep.

After the violent tampering, the brain needed a rest to self-adjust the contradictory memories.

After waking up, he would only feel that he had a strange dream.

While Ollivander was sleeping, Murphy summoned his ledger, which recorded the data of every wand sold from here; Murphy found the record from seven years ago, drew a light line on the wand, and the original "twelve point four inches, cypress, unicorn hair" became "fourteen inches, aspen, phoenix feather".

With this, Murphy possessed a wand with no registration data and could not be traced.

He could do whatever he wanted with it in the future without worrying about investigations like Priori Incantatem.

More importantly, the history of this wand was also buried, becoming something that never existed.

A trip to Knockturn Alley, Murphy gained a lot, and happily Apparated back to the old Durkheim Manor.

After chatting with Alex Wood for a few words and learning that the potions used to refine the Beauty Potion were all used up, and that the work of mixing materials had all been completed, Murphy thought for a while and arranged another job for Alex.

"Do you know any spells that can make people keep secrets?" Murphy asked.

He was preparing to build a potion research institute, and in the future, he might also build a spell research institute, both of which would require a large number of Muggle scientists and researchers to participate in the research.

Therefore, making them keep secrets became a problem that had to be solved.

"The Unbreakable Vow?" Alex said.

"I naturally thought of this, but the effect of the Unbreakable Vow can make people die after revealing a secret, while the goal I want to achieve is to make the subject unable to reveal a secret at all."

The Unbreakable Vow can act as a deterrent, but its premise is that the person taking the vow must be sincere and know that the consequence of breaking the vow is death.

This point makes its application range very narrow.

When Muggle researchers know that they will die if they accidentally reveal some secrets, it is probably unlikely that they will accept such a vow from the bottom of their hearts.

"The Fidelius Charm?" Alex thought of another spell.

The Fidelius Charm is very powerful; it is almost one of the most powerful spells Murphy knows; it can treat an entity or a location as a secret.

When this secret is kept by the Secret-Keeper, the entity cannot be found, seen, or touched by anyone other than the Secret-Keeper.

Saying it is powerful is because the scope of this spell is conceptual; it reverses the scope that originally only acted on the Secret-Keeper and the object of the secret into acting on everyone outside of it through a reverse logic.

At the same time, the effect it achieves is also conceptual; it rejects all contact behavior of non-Secret-Keepers with the object of the secret, whether physical or magical, whether it is looking, listening, or Accio, Point Me, etc., none of them will work.

It is as if it erased the object of the secret from the world of non-Secret-Keepers.

Murphy shook his head, "This spell is not applicable."

The Secret-Keeper can actively reveal the secret; the Fidelius Charm cannot achieve Murphy's goal.

"Is there any spell similar to the Unbreakable Vow, but its effect is not that the subject will die if they reveal the secret, but that once they want to reveal the secret, they will be cast with Silencing Charm, or Petrification Curse, etc., to prevent their behavior of revealing the secret."

As an orphan, Murphy learned spells from school, most of which were standard spells, and a small part like the simple Levitation Charm was also seen from books in the library.

There are still many magics he doesn't know, and children from wizarding families like Alex might know more than him.

"Silencing Charm..." Alex thought for a long time, "I seem to have seen something similar somewhere... but I can't remember..."

"It's okay, think slowly, this matter is not urgent."

Anyway, it would take some time for the research institute to be built, and before that, he still had to solve the bankruptcy crisis of the Umbrella Corporation.

Thinking of this, Murphy packed up the medicinal materials mixed by Alex and a bottle of Beauty Potion and went to find Patrick.

After letting Patrick find him a warehouse and packing the mixed medicinal materials into it, Murphy told Patrick the result of his meeting with Rita.

"She is unwilling to endorse us. And it seems she is not a person who can be moved by money."

Murphy still admired scientists with such personal persistence very much; he couldn't do things like using the Imperius Curse on the other party.

"It's already very good, at least you have already attracted the attention of many scholars, perhaps their research will bring us some good news. We can also use this point to do some positive publicity."

Murphy nodded, "How about you, how did the talks with those companies go?"

Patrick shook his head, "Don't mention it, a pack of wolves! Insatiable! They also know we want to delay time, so they are pushing very hard; I found a few negotiation experts, but they instead advised me to go public."

"Go public?" Murphy didn't quite understand.

"On the surface, they say going public can accept public supervision, offset some negative public opinion, and at the same time allow those pharmaceutical companies to take a stake, turning enemies into friends."

"In reality, they only think about launching a mandatory tender offer after going public and eating us up."

(End of chapter)