Chapter 51: Dragged onto the pirate ship

Murphy carefully looked at the other party. It was indeed Alex, just looking like he had lost a circle of weight.

After the Supreme Potion Shop opened, Alex didn't need to brew Beauty Potions himself, but he still had to be responsible for accepting the Beauty Potions brewed by those thirty-plus pharmacists to ensure quality.

And he was also doing the processing work of White Medicine materials.

At this moment, Alex was expressionlessly processing the mountain of White Medicine materials, his face lifeless and his eyes dull.

This is the expression of a working slave being squeezed to the limit.

Poor child, it seems like he should recruit a few more people. If he keeps picking on this one sheep, the sheep will be picked to death.

"Thank you for your hard work, so I'm prepared to let others take over these chores in your hands and give you an easy position."

White Medicine raw materials can already be obtained directly from the plantation, and the whole process does not require the participation of the wizarding world, so there is no need for wizards to be responsible for the processing of raw materials.

This kind of work can be handed over to machines in the future.

As for the acceptance of Beauty Potions, just find a pharmacist to replace Alex later.

This kid has followed him for a long time, and Murphy knows him well and feels relatively at ease using him, so he intends to start letting him come into contact with his true secrets.

Alex doesn't believe Murphy's words so much now, looking at him with dull eyes, waiting for Murphy's follow-up.

"Cough, I need you to tutor some people in magic homework. Their magic knowledge is probably equivalent to the level of Hogwarts students. You only need to answer some common sense questions for them and occasionally demonstrate some spells and potions when they need them."

Alex was a little puzzled, but this job didn't sound very hard, at least far better than processing materials here all day.

"Three hundred Galleons a month." Murphy added.

Alex's dim eyes instantly brightened.

Tsk, Galleons are really useful.

"If you have no problem, let's go meet your students."

They were just about to leave when Selica came.

This girl also looked exhausted. "Sorry, Mr. Murphy, I didn't find Joachim's village."

"I searched through a lot of materials, but Caerphilly Town is too remote, wizards don't have any records, I went there to search for a few days, and didn't find any similar place."

Murphy looked at her, hesitated for a while, and asked: "There is someone who might be able to find clues, do you want to go meet him?"

One is dragging, two is also dragging. Murphy thought it would be better to just drag these siblings onto the ship.

Selica was still confused. "Okay!"

So Murphy brought the two to the magic research institute under the mansion.

Murphy introduced to the Muggle researchers: "These two are Alex Wood and Selica Wood. Your guiding wizards."

Alex: "M-m-m-m-m-m-Muggles!!!"

Look at how scared this child is, he's almost wetting his pants.

Alex grabbed Murphy's sleeve and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Murphy, this is i-i-illegal, right?!"

Murphy: "What do you think? You've already been illegal for a long time, and the Aurors have already reserved a room for you in Azkaban."

Alex: "!!!"

Selica had already hidden behind Murphy.

If Murphy used Legilimency on her now, the thought would likely be: "Can't see me, can't see me, you can't see me, I'm not here..."

Murphy pulled her out too. "Have you seen the appearance of the two of them clearly? Teacher Alex is more skilled in potions, and Teacher Selica is more skilled in spells. If you have corresponding questions, you can ask them directly."

Selica was about to cry. "Mr. Murphy, why do we have to teach Muggles magic!"

Murphy: "It's because you are too useless. Relying on you to research magic, I might not even be able to beat Snape in my life."

After arranging accommodation for the two in the research institute, Murphy threw Alex to the Muggle researchers. When leaving, Alex looked at Murphy as if he were a little white rabbit thrown into a wolf pack, which was heartbreaking.

Murphy pretended not to see it. Child, people always have that one time when they need to experience pain before they grow up.

"Kill the boy and let the man be born!"

Taking Selica, Murphy found a historian in the research institute. He handed the image revealed by the notebook to the other party. "This is a hand-drawn map of a village about a hundred years ago. The location should be near Caerphilly in southern Wales. Can you find where this village is?"

According to the life of Cattale, the author of "Biography of Dark Wizards," it is not difficult to infer the time he drew this picture, which is about a hundred years ago.

The historian was an elegant gentleman named Hunter Werner. He picked up the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, then nodded. "It shouldn't be difficult."

"Oh? Can you see anything?"

Murphy was very curious. To him, that hand-drawn map was just trees, mountains, houses, and collapsed stone walls. He really couldn't get any useful information from it.

"The features are very obvious," Hunter pointed to the mountain road on the map: "There are not many mountains near Caerphilly. This appearance looks like the Cambrian Mountains. But the most conspicuous is this stone wall. It is clearly a creation before the 18th century, and it is a section of the city wall. And only Caerphilly Castle meets the conditions near Caerphilly, so this village is very close to the castle. Wait a moment."

Hunter said, took a map, gestured on it for a while, and circled a small circle. "It should be right here."

Selica was stunned. She had been flipping through books for several days and ran around Caerphilly Town several times but couldn't find the place. Others only looked at that extremely simple sketch a few times and marked it out directly.

"Is this Muggle magic?"

"This is called knowledge. Now do you know why I want Muggles to research magic?"

Although Selica still didn't quite understand, she was truly shocked and took the map to look at it. "But, there is no village here."

Yes, the location circled on the map looked like a desolate valley, with nothing.

"After all, the map is a hundred years old, and that village may no longer exist now." Murphy said, "I feel the hope of finding that spell is not great. Do you still want to try?"

"I want to!" Selica didn't give up.

Not to mention the failure of "creating spells" before, now even "magic archaeology" can't compare to Muggles, Selica is very worried about her existence value.

But she at least has one advantage that Muggles cannot compare with. She is a wizard after all.

She has the ability to sense magic and can track the traces of magic existence.

Although she cannot locate a village through a picture, exploring the specific location of magic is not something Muggles can do just by "knowledge".

"I'm leaving now."

"So anxious?" Murphy was surprised, but didn't persuade her, instead saying: "After finding the place, if there are any discoveries, send the news back first, and wait for me to explore together. After all, Joachim is called a dark wizard, so it's better to be careful."

"Well, I know, I will write you a letter with my magic paper crane."

"Magic paper crane?"

Selica pulled a piece of paper from her great bosom, recited a spell, and the latter turned into a small paper crane, which could actually fly.

Selica, like her younger brother, also couldn't Apparate and could only use this method to transmit information.

"Okay, contact in time."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 52 =====