Chapter 267 Humanoid Dementors?

I don't know if it's because the surrounding temperature is too low or because he is too excited, Benjamin's body is trembling slightly.

After a slight hesitation, he took out the wand from his pocket.

Although the guy in front of him who can lower the temperature around him looks like a human child, who can guarantee that he is not transformed from a terrible monster?

Behind Benjamin, a girl quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

She was a little reluctant and even wanted to reach out to grab Benjamin to stop him from attacking minors.

Benjamin turned around and gave the girl a silent gesture, and then continued to face the child who was still taking deep breaths.

'It's okay, I only use the petrification spell and the stun spell, so that even if this child is really a human, I can ensure his safety as much as possible. '

Thinking of this, Benjamin was ready to raise his wand to release the spell.

However, just as his idea came to mind, the child in front of him turned around and looked at him.

This was the first time Benjamin saw the child's face, but just this one glance gave him goose bumps all over his body. The child in front of him actually had no face!

The place where the eyes, nose and ears should have been on the child's face was completely bald, with only a mouth on the whole face.

No! That was definitely not a mouth!

It was a black hole, a black hole that was constantly rotating and absorbing something!

"Crackle, crackle..."

Benjamin's teeth began to tremble. At this moment, he felt like he was in the cold winter, his whole body was cold!

But strangely, the faceless monster in front of him seemed to be more afraid of them.

It turned around quickly and started running, as if it wanted to escape from another exit of the alley.

'It's going to run! Stop it!'

Benjamin gritted his teeth and raised his wand to cast a spell.

However, the faceless monster seemed to be able to predict his thoughts. Before he recited the spell, he turned back again and took a deep breath.

Benjamin watched the black vortex in the faceless monster's mouth suddenly speed up, and the next moment, the temperature around him dropped sharply!

At the same time, Benjamin felt as if something was taken out of his body, which made him feel weak and cold, and he wanted to lie down and sleep.

Everything around him darkened.

This feeling is too familiar!

Dementors!

This guy is a Dementor!

Benjamin roared with his last strength:

"Expecto Patronus!"

A ball of silver-white light suddenly exploded and turned into a strip of light that wrapped around himself and his teammates.

The faceless monster seemed to be very afraid of those light strips. Seeing that several light strips were wrapping around it, it quickly closed its mouth, and then the facial features began to emerge, and the mouth that looked like a black hole was replaced by a pale small mouth.

This is a fairly acceptable Asian face, and it can even be called good-looking if the stains on it can be washed clean.

But the expression on this face at this moment was terrified. He screamed twice silently, then turned around and started to run away.

"Stop!"

Benjamin shouted weakly. Although his body temperature had gradually recovered as the child shut up, he was still very weak at this moment and could not catch up with the child who was walking fast in front of him.

After struggling to walk two steps, Benjamin gave up the idea of ​​chasing him when he saw that he really couldn't catch up with him. He turned his head and looked at his companions.

At this moment, his companions and the drug addicts in the alley had all fainted, as did the couple who were doing bad things just now. The two skinny people were even connected until they fainted.

"Damn bastard!"

Benjamin cursed, fumbled in his modified deep pocket for a while, took out a bottle of turbid translucent liquid and took a sip carefully.

Then, he hesitated and gave each of his teammates a little.

A person who has fainted cannot control the amount of medicine he drinks, so when all the teammates have been fed, the glass bottle is empty.

Looking at the empty bottle, Benjamin felt that he was about to die of heartache.

He prepared a lot of potions for this hunting competition, all of which were made with his own money (the potions made from the materials given to you in the advanced potion class need to be handed in), and this bottle of recovery potion is considered to be quite expensive.

Of course, being expensive has its advantages.

It took only a few minutes after drinking the potion, and Benjamin felt that his body had recovered a lot, at least it was absolutely no problem to move around.

And his teammates gradually woke up.

The attack of the faceless monster just now obviously frightened them. One of the two girls burst into tears after waking up, and the other one also had tears in the corners of her eyes, but she gritted her teeth to prevent the tears from flowing out, and instead squatted on the ground to comfort the crying girl.

"I quit! I want to go home! Now!"

the girl said while crying.

As soon as these words came out, the girl who was patting her back froze suddenly. She looked at the crying girl in surprise and bit her lips tightly.

"Well, I'll let Hillary take you back when you recover."

Benjamin said.

He understood this girl very well.

This girl's family was very wealthy. This girl paid for the rent of their big apartment in the East District.

It was normal for such a rich lady to want to give up halfway.

This is not to say that children of rich people are timid and unwilling to take risks and can't endure hardships. It's just that because they have money, there are many ways to choose, and they don't have to work so hard like him.

The girl should really not want to continue this dangerous game. After getting Benjamin's permission, she quickly wiped the tears from her face, refused the escort of the girl named Hillary, and limped out of the alley.

The atmosphere in the alley became gloomy, and Hillary finally shed the tears that she had been trying so hard to hold back.

After an unknown amount of time, Benjamin's voice suddenly rang out in the alley.

"This is a competition, and the winner can get the reward promised by Mr. Townley, and use it to go one step further." Benjamin looked very tired, and his voice became extremely hoarse, "But this competition is not the exams we have in our school, where there are professors protecting us. This competition may cost lives. So... if any of you want to withdraw, I will agree, and I will never look down on you."

After these words came out, several people showed hesitation on their faces.

But Benjamin was waiting for them to say that they were about to quit, and continued:

"But please remember, we are different from Kelly who just quit. We don't have rich parents. Some of us don't even have parents!

It doesn't matter if Kelly messes up this competition. She has a way out. Even if she achieves nothing in the wizarding world, she can still return to the Muggle world to inherit the family fortune. But what about us?

Can we go back?"

Benjamin's eyes swept back and forth across everyone's faces, as if questioning them.

The next moment, he roared with a ferocious expression:

"We can't go back! Do you understand?

Now even fast food restaurants require you to have a high school diploma when recruiting waiters! What can we do with just our elementary school diploma?

I'm afraid we will end up relying on government relief like those hooligans I just saw on the street!

Do you want to live like this?!"

The roar just now made Benjamin's face flushed. He gasped and coughed. After a long while, he opened his arms expressionlessly and said:

"Have some self-awareness, our friends. What those purebloods said is actually not wrong. We are a group of mudbloods! And if we, the mudbloods, want to succeed, we must seize every opportunity and fight with our lives!

The above is what I want to say.

If you think what I said just now makes sense, then I beg you, don't leave, stay to help me, and it will also give you a chance to win!"

After that, Benjamin bowed deeply to everyone and did not get up for a long time.

The boys and girls who were a little shaken at first were all shaking with excitement as if they had just been injected with chicken blood.

Seeing that no one had proposed to quit for a long time, Benjamin straightened up and put on a smile on his face again.

Because he knew that he succeeded, he successfully stabilized this team on the verge of collapse.

"Okay, since no one is willing to quit, let's talk about what that thing just now is. And what attitude should we take to face it."

The team members who had just finished drinking chicken soup were very excited, but they had not lost their minds. After hearing Benjamin's culture, they all turned their eyes to Hillary.

"Ahem! I have never seen that monster just now. It should be an extraordinary creature that has not been discovered yet, or a monster created by some dark wizards through illegal biological experiments."

When Hillary said this, the team members showed disappointment. Hillary was the best student in the magical biology and dark magic defense theory courses among them, and was known as the biological encyclopedia in Hogwarts.

Benjamin invited her to join the team in order to learn about the weaknesses of some dark magic creatures he had never seen before. But now even she didn't know the identity of the faceless monster. This was bad.

However, Hilary hadn't finished her words yet. She continued:

"I personally prefer the latter, because its behavior pattern shows many characteristics of Dementors. And its appearance is almost exactly the same as that of humans, so I speculate that it should be a combination of Dementors and humans, that is, a human-shaped Dementor.

In this way, we can use the methods used to deal with Dementors to deal with it, such as the Patronus Charm."

"What evidence do you have?" asked a young man next to him.

"First of all, you should have felt it when the faceless monster attacked us just now. That feeling is very similar to being attacked by a Dementor.

Secondly, before I fainted, I saw Captain Benjamin cast the Patronus Charm, and the faceless monster seemed to hate the Patronus Charm very much and ran away directly. That's right, Captain."

Hillary said, and then cast her eyes on Benjamin. Seeing him nod, she continued:

"Finally, and the direct evidence is them."

Everyone looked at the drug addicts pointed by Hillary, with a confused look on their faces.

"As we all know, Dementors live by devouring the happy emotions of humans. So do you think these drug addicts are happy? Or do you think they are happy when they are taking drugs?"

"You mean, that thing lives by absorbing the happy emotions of these drug addicts when they are happy."

Benjamin used an affirmative sentence, and nodded after he finished speaking. What

Hillary said made sense. These drug addicts were indeed quite happy when they were happy, and judging from the behavior of the faceless monster at the beginning, it was indeed absorbing their happy emotions.

Moreover, the joy of sucking these drug insects has another advantage, that is, you don't have to worry about accidentally sucking them silly or dying.

Because these drug insects look a little neurotic to ordinary people, and even if they are sucked to death, others will only think that they are taking too much drugs.

Drug users and Dementors are a perfect combination!

Suddenly, Benjamin seemed to remember something and said to everyone:

"Now it is basically certain that the faceless monster has the weaknesses and abilities of Dementors, but I have to add that when I was fighting with that monster just now, it had interrupted my spell several times before I just wanted to take action, so I strongly suspect that it also has some kind of precognitive ability or mind-reading ability. Of course, this may also be a coincidence, but we still need to be careful."

"These are not big problems. Even if it has the ability to read minds or predict, this ability must be very limited, and it cannot be used without limit. As for the ability of Dementors, that is even less of a problem. All of us here know the Patronus Charm, so it is not difficult to trap it."

The brown-haired young man who informed Benjamin at the beginning stood up and said.

His words were immediately agreed upon by others, and everyone spoke up to reconcile.

Seeing that the emotions of the crowd were rising again, as if they were going to fight the faceless monster, Benjamin came out and waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

For a moment, there was complete silence.

Seeing this, Benjamin said, "Although the opponent's ability is not strong, to be on the safe side, I suggest that we still collect intelligence, and the best source of intelligence is..."

He did not continue speaking, but looked at the poisonous insects in the alley.

"Will this work? These people are very slick and will definitely not tell the truth."

Benjamin showed a mysterious smile and said, "It will definitely work!"

After that, he pulled out a pendant from his neck, on which hung a small glass jar filled with liquid.

"Could this be..."

"Yes, truth serum!"