"Humph, why did you act on your own?" Moody snorted coldly. He really didn't find anything wrong. The Dawlish in front of him seemed to be doing nothing wrong. But that didn't mean he didn't have any dissatisfaction.

"I just don't want to miss the opportunity. I saw a python and it ran away as soon as it saw me. I'm worried that it is Riddle's spy." Dawlish waved his hand, and a python as thick as a thigh floated out. Moody took a look and found nothing different.

"Obviously you're mistaken!" Moody's tone was very aggressive, and he was obviously still dissatisfied with Dawlish's unauthorized actions. After he finished speaking, he walked to the other side and began his own investigation, and it seemed that he had no interest in even looking at Dawlish again.

"Don't mind it, that's just how he is." Tonks took the initiative to come forward, poked Dawlish with her elbow, and then asked, "What should we do with this snake?"

"It's useless, just let it go." Dawlish lifted the magic of the levitation spell, and the python fell to the ground, immediately coiled up in fear, its body stiff.

"Keep looking for other clues." Dawlish patted Tonks on the shoulder and encouraged her.

Tonks nodded dully, and suddenly her eyes stopped at Dawlish's wrist: "Hey, were you wearing this bracelet when you came here?"

"I've had it for a long time. I made it myself. It can protect against some not-so-strong black magic." Dalish pulled up his sleeve to cover the winding silver snake-shaped bracelet on his wrist, and said calmly.

"Oh." Tonks did not doubt it at all, but looked at the sculptures and fountains in the courtyard with great interest. "The wings of this sculpture look very delicate."

Dalish held his left wrist with his right hand, and looked at the others busying themselves, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

At this moment, Delish is naturally no longer Delish.

After Cyrus tricked Dawlish into going deep into the woods, he turned into his appearance. The real Dawlish was actually the snake just now. As for Nagini, she was now wearing it on his wrist! Since Cyrus completed the Transfiguration of Imagomagus, his understanding of Transfiguration has reached another level. In addition, the magic wand made of thunderbird feathers as the core has a very significant improvement in Transfiguration.

All these things made Cyrus confident that he could deceive Moody's magic eyes.

Of course, even if he really couldn't hide it from those eyes, Cyrus was not completely helpless.

After all, there were only four opponents, and the strongest one, Moody, was disabled, so it wouldn't take much effort for Cyrus to deal with them. But Cyrus didn't want to attract too much attention.

His current goal is to sneak into the Ministry of Magic. Not long ago, after he got the Resurrection Stone, he contacted Malfoy again. He planned to ask about Vault No. 12 and find out who the owners of the earliest batch of vaults in Gringotts were.

Cyrus actually didn't know much about the plot of "Legacy". He did buy the game, but because the plot was a bit too bland and boring, he didn't continue playing. Instead, he watched some videos and got a general idea of ​​it.

And according to his investigation, during the tenure of a certain unpopular headmaster, there seemed to be no record of a fifth-year transfer student attending Hogwarts. However, some other game characters seemed to match history.

This information made Cyrus a little confused, but no matter what, the concept of ancient magic did exist, and the most powerful evidence was Lily Potter. As for whether there were any secrets of ancient magic in Vault No. 12, Cyrus planned to go and see for himself.

After contacting Malfoy, Cyrus even returned to Azkaban once and found the Death Eater Rookwood, but this Death Eater knew nothing about the location of the key to Vault 12 and had never heard of ancient magic.

In the end, Cyrus could only rely on his own and Malfoy's guesses, believing that the key to Vault 12 was most likely hidden inside the Ministry of Magic.

Going directly into the Ministry of Magic is obviously not a good idea. He may not care about the Aurors, but Dumbledore is not dead yet!

Cyrus had no choice but to take a roundabout approach and find an identity to get into the Ministry of Magic first.

Otherwise, even if Moody could find some clues, he would not be able to find the traces of magic left in the old Gaunt house. Not to mention that Cyrus would not deliberately leave his name for Frank to reveal.

If he wanted to hide, no one in the entire town would remember that he was here.

In the end, Moody and his team naturally found nothing.

But none of them left. When the sun was about to set, an old man in a gray robe and with a beard that reached down to his belt suddenly appeared on the hillside.

Facing Dumbledore again, Cyrus still felt a lot of pressure.

"Albus." Moody limped over to greet him, "Is the school okay? With all due respect, you'd better be careful of Sirius. He is more dangerous than ordinary Death Eaters!"

"On the contrary, I think Tom Riddle is more dangerous."

As Dumbledore spoke, he stretched his neck to look at the greatly changed Riddle Mansion. He immediately sighed: "I have to say, Riddle's aesthetic taste is much better than before. I am glad that he no longer likes dark environments."

"I don't know of a darker view than in Hogwarts Castle." Cyrus complained, "If you catch Tom Riddle, I think you could ask him to help you design the castle before sending him back to Azkaban."

"Good suggestion, Dawlish." Dumbledore nodded, as if he was actually considering it. "Alastor, what have you found?"

"Four miles away, there is an abandoned house of the Gaunt family. There are strong traces of magic there." Moody said, "It is certain that Riddle stayed here and did something, but there is no trace of him now."

"I am very interested in what he did!" Dumbledore said forcefully, "Just in case, I want to make sure first. There should be no tragedy around here?"

"No, why do you ask?"

"Nothing, just a little worry about a fugitive criminal." Dumbledore groaned for a moment, "Since he didn't leave anything behind, it means he must have taken something with him. It seems we are still late."

Moody was already used to Dumbledore's weird talk.

The old fellow always kept his secrets to himself.

"Anything else you found?"

"Dawlish has found a snake," Tonks said quickly.

"That snake is no different," said Moody.

But Dumbledore was unwilling to miss any possibility, and, very importantly, he could also speak Parseltongue!

So he immediately said to Cyrus, "Will you bring it to me?"

Show it to Dumbledore?

Although memory can be modified, it is not difficult for powerful wizards to find traces of modification. Just like Dumbledore can easily see through Slughorn's manipulation of his memory; Voldemort can also dig out the broken memory of a wizard who has been cast the Forgetting Curse many times.

If Cyrus had known that Dumbledore would come, he would never have brought Dawlish, who had turned into a snake.

But now, he actually doesn't have that much pressure.

"Can."

Thanks to Kopcn for the 200-point reward! Thanks to the bounty survivor for the 200-point reward!

(End of this chapter)