Chapter 71

"For cunning criminals, we have no choice!" an Auror said, "Reporter Skeeter, why don't you listen to the testimony of this Mr. Alex?"

"Alex, repeat everything you just confessed!" the Auror ordered.

"I, my name is Alex Wood, I work for Murphy Darkholm, I..." Alex twitched in the chair in a daze, "I make potions for him, and sell the potions to Mug, Mug-gles..."

"It's Muggles!" the Auror corrected, "The Veritaserum makes him a bit slurred, but this doesn't affect the authenticity of his testimony. Murphy Darkholm, what else do you have to say?"

Murphy frowned, looked at Alex, then at Barty Crouch, and finally turned his gaze to Kingsley, "Is this the testimony you call it? Captain Kingsley?"

"Why? You still want to deny it?"

Murphy took a step forward, was stopped by the Auror, and he looked at Alex, "I ask you, where did you make the potions, and how did you sell them to Muggles?"

"I, I don't know... I don't know..."

"Then what evidence do you have to prove everything you said?"

"I... I don't know, I don't know..."

Alex suddenly grabbed his chest, "So painful... my chest is so painful..."

"You said I was selling potions to Muggles, how did I sell them to them, how many did I sell? What evidence do you have?" Murphy continued to press.

"Don't know, I don't know, they didn't tell me..." Alex suddenly struggled violently, "So painful! Pain! Help! Help..."

"Murphy, you..." Kingsley thought Murphy had done something to Alex and was about to scold him.

But Murphy shouted louder than him: "What did you do to him! Stop it! Do you want to silence him?!"

Kingsley was stunned.

I silence him?

Why would I silence him?

However, Alex struggled more and more violently, he roared miserably, "No, please, I know, I am Alex! Stop! Please, I remember! I work for Murphy, please, stop..."

All the Aurors were stunned, not understanding what had happened.

Rita Skeeter was also stunned by this sudden development, but the news sense of a reporter immediately brought her back from the shock, and she let the photographer grab several photos.

Big news!

Caught big news this time!

"What spell did you use on him? Cruciatus Curse?" Murphy questioned.

"What?" Kingsley looked at the scene in front of him in shock, "Impossible, he must have been cursed! Quick! Cast a counter-curse on him!"

Murphy raised his eyebrows, the reaction was quite fast.

But it was too late.

His consciousness followed the magic link connected to 'Alex' and gave the order, "Well done, now you can go die, Isaac."

Yes, the so-called 'Alex' was just Isaac, whom he had captured and undergone plastic surgery a few days ago.

After countless Legilimency and Obliviation spells, he had been tortured by Murphy into a puppet who only knew how to repeat those few lines.

Now, the performance of this puppet was over, and it was time to leave the stage.

The magic of the Thorn Oath was injected into Isaac's body along the link, instantly detonating the curse implanted in his body. Isaac only felt as if he had suddenly fallen into a thorn bush, and even thorns began to grow in his internal organs. Those countless thorns wrapped around him, tightened, and then squeezed fiercely.

Isaac suddenly let out a miserable scream, then rolled his eyes and lost his breath.

"Finite Incantatem! Finite Incantatem!" an Auror cast several counter-spells on Isaac in succession, but there was no response, "Boss, he has no breath!"

"Healer! Quick! Go get a healer!" Kingsley shouted.

"You killed him!" Murphy said loudly, "What means did you use to force him to say those words!?"

"What?! What are you talking about!" The Aurors still hadn't recovered from the shock of Alex's sudden death.

"You cursed him, didn't you?" Murphy questioned, "You forced him to say those things, and then to avoid someone questioning, you cursed him so he wouldn't slip up!"

"Us? Cursed him?" an Auror laughed in anger, "Why would we curse him?!"

"Of course, to make him say those things, to make him prove that I am a criminal!"

"Quibbling!" Kingsley was furious, "This must be you! You cursed him to keep him silent!"

The burly black man glared at Murphy, "Murphy Darkholm! You are truly ruthless! He is your assistant! He still has relatives to take care of! You actually..."

"Captain Kingsley, you have a deep prejudice against me." Murphy also looked at him fearlessly, "What evidence do you have that I killed him? In my opinion, it was clearly he who was illegally arrested by you and died suddenly after a secret interrogation! It was you who killed him! The person who should be responsible for his death is you!"

"Bastard!" Kingsley was extremely angry. For the first time, he felt that he hated someone so much.

The young man in front of him, only eighteen or nineteen years old, was already like a human devil. He disregarded the lives of others like grass and insects, and ignored all laws and rules!

He was simply like a replica of the Dark Lord!

Kingsley couldn't help but want to pounce on him and punch that arrogant face hard.

"Stop!"

Barty Crouch stopped him.

"Are you crazy! Kingsley! This is the Ministry of Magic! This is the Auror Office! Not a place for you to quarrel and fight!"

Kingsley forced himself to calm down and said to Crouch: "Director, you heard Alex's testimony just now. Murphy Darkholm's violation of the law is solid evidence. I apply to arrest him immediately!"

"Oh? And then what, continue to torture for a confession, and let me die suddenly after saying my crime?" Murphy mocked.

"Shut up!" Crouch also roared at Murphy, "Immediately summon experts to check the cause of Alex's death. Before his cause of death is found out, no one is allowed to leave the Auror Command!"

However, just as his voice fell, a wizard suddenly broke in.

"Davis?" Crouch was a bit puzzled when he saw the man, "What are you doing here?"

The young wizard named Davis just nodded to Crouch, but came to Murphy's side, smiled, and said: "Mr. Murphy, I am Minister's secretary Davis Prout. The Minister asked me to inform you that Mr. Alex Wood has just been found. He went to Germany via the International Floo Network dedicated fireplace not long ago for the purpose of visiting relatives."

"What?" Murphy was stunned, "Are you sure? Are you sure it's Alex Wood himself?"

Now everyone in the interrogation room looked at Davis.

The latter was a bit confused, but still said: "Yes, it is Alex Wood. We checked his international Floo application, and the staff member in charge of that fireplace was a classmate of Alex, and also confirmed that it was him."

In an instant, the interrogation room was silent enough to hear a pin drop.

"If Alex went to Germany," Murphy looked at the corpse behind Kingsley, "then who is this person?"

Rita Skeeter was also shocked.

The Aurors caught the wrong person? And killed the person?

Good guy!

Big news!

This is definitely going to explode!

"Quick! Quick! What are you still stunned for! Take pictures! Take pictures!"

(End of chapter)