Chapter 440 Seeking Dumbledore's Advice

After leaving the underground cave using the portkey found on the Avery clan leader, Mike quickly commanded the Los Santos Wizards to join forces with the ants to conduct a comprehensive search of the entire Avery Secret Realm.

Because the entire Avery Secret Realm was cast with anti-Apparition, anti-Apparition and unmarkable spells, except for the Avery family leaders who were already in high positions, most of the Avery family members were trapped in the secret realm.

The main purpose of the joint search by the wizards and ants was to catch the survivors hiding in the secret realm. I believe that with the help of native creatures such as giant ants, these people will soon be caught.

Of course, catching people is only one of the purposes.

Mike's other purpose is to collect the goods stored by the Avery family in the secret realm and the property of those wizard families.

As the highest combat power present, Mike naturally did not leave the secret realm.

However, he was not idle either. Instead, he took advantage of the time of the truth serum to conduct a more detailed and strict interrogation of the Avery clan leader.

The results of the interrogation were similar to those in the underground cave, but Patriarch Avery also explained some other things, such as that they buried a huge treasure in this secret place named after their family.

There was wealth collected by the Avery family for thousands of years.

Their ancestors obviously did not believe in Gringotts, which was created by the cunning goblins, so they hid most of their belongings in this secret place, and only some scattered wealth was stored in Gringotts.

As for the value of the treasure inside, Patriarch Avery himself could not tell, because there were too many, and the value of many things was difficult to estimate.

Mike immediately asked someone to go to the location he mentioned, and dug out a warehouse full of gold galleons and various treasures there.

After preliminary inspection, the value of the treasure house exceeded one million gold galleons!

This number really surprised Mike, Franklin and others, but after thinking that the Avery family had occupied this secret place alone for countless years, Mike thought it over.

But this is not the most important news that Mike got from Patriarch Avery. Mike never forgot that their purpose this time was to find Chris and the pendant box. From what Patriarch Avery told him, Mike deduced something incredible, that is, the information obtained by Kingsley was likely leaked by Chris or someone else on purpose.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why Kingsley could easily know such a hidden thing about the Avery secret realm, nor why the Slytherin pendant box that Mike wanted to find appeared here so coincidentally.

Although Mike still didn't know why Chris or others did this, after excluding all possibilities, there was only this seemingly impossible option left!

Speaking of the pendant box, Mike checked it as soon as he left the underground cave.

But to Mike's disappointment, this pendant box was still not the Horcrux he wanted to find, and there was no trace of Voldemort on it at all.

Mike immediately judged that it was a fake, but Patriarch Avery insisted that it was the real thing.

The reason he gave was that he liked this precious magic antique very much, so as soon as Chris gave him the pendant box, he found many famous antiquities masters to come and test the authenticity of the pendant box, and the result of the test was that the pendant box was indeed genuine.

This puzzled Mike.

You know, when Voldemort made the Horcrux, he had not yet traveled to this world.

So the appearance of the Horcrux was not affected by his travel at all, and there would be no changes.

But now if this pendant box is genuine, then where did Voldemort's soul go?

Could it be that it was recovered by Voldemort in time? Or did Slytherin originally make two pendants?

Looking at the pendant box in his hand that was shining green under the light, Mike's mind was now full of question marks.

He really wanted to take the pendant box directly to Dumbledore, so that the knowledgeable Dumbledore could give him a correct answer.

Unfortunately, he had more important things to deal with in this secret realm.

"Boss, the ants and the Los Santos wizard troops have completed the search of Avery's secret realm."

Benjamin's words brought Mike back from his thoughts. He calmly put away the pendant box, nodded expressionlessly and said:

"What's the result?"

"Generally speaking, it's good. After two rounds of comprehensive searches, we have caught a total of 323 rats, most of whom are elderly people and children, and there are only about thirty strong men and women. In addition to the treasure that Chief Avery gave out, I also found a large amount of property and goods. According to preliminary estimates, the total revenue of the first wave of our operation will exceed 1.1 million gold galleons!"

Benjamin suddenly stopped talking here. Mike, who was listening to the report, turned his head and looked at him strangely, and saw Benjamin with a frown on his face, looking constipated.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Benjamin shook his head quickly, looking at Mike with a tangled face. After thinking for a long time, he stammered:

"Mike, although I am reluctant to admit it, some very bad things happened during the search."

"They hid my gold galleons?"

Mike suddenly raised his voice!

"Well, that's not the case. Our people are not fools. They know very well what will happen if they are found to have hidden the spoils. And anyway, you will give them a lot of bonuses when you go back, so they don't need to do this at all."

"What bad things can they do?"

Mike was puzzled. He really couldn't think of anything worse than hiding the spoils that belonged to him.

In response to Mike's question, Benjamin hesitated and said,

"110 of the 323 survivors were killed by them on the grounds that they were threatening. But in fact, they were killing innocent people indiscriminately. I saw it clearly. Many people were even executed just for cursing them! This is not the worst. Some witches were violated before being executed. This is really... this is really..."

Benjamin was so angry that he couldn't say anything.

Mike's face showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

When ordering the Los Santos wizards to join the ants in the search, Mike's original words were:

"Find all the survivors of the Avery family, and then find a temporary dungeon to lock them all up. If you encounter a threatening guy, just kill him directly."

Yes, it was such a simple sentence.

This was an order Mike gave after careful consideration, because rationally speaking, killing all the captives was the best option for his subordinates, after all, they were strictly speaking enemies.

But doing so was too cruel, so Mike finally chose to lock them all up first.

Mike thought he had done a good job.

But when he gave the order, he obviously forgot one thing, that is, the criteria for judging threats given to the executors of the task, and did not prohibit them from doing something shameful to the captives.

So, what Benjamin said happened as a matter of course.

Mike was not surprised at the occurrence of such a thing, because his subordinates were not dull robots, but living humans. It was normal for them to do some things that tested the bottom line within the scope allowed by the rules to satisfy their own selfish desires. And

to be honest, Mike was already very satisfied with their behavior.

Because until now, Mike has not taken back their unlimited right to fire.

That is to say, as long as they want, they can even kill all the captives directly.

The fact that this situation did not occur shows that the wizards under his command are not crazy enough.

But although he thought so in his heart, he could not tell Benjamin so. After all, the other party was obviously too kind-hearted.

So after a long time, Mike let out a long sigh, patted Benjamin on the shoulder and said:

"The fault of this matter is mine. There is a loophole in the order I gave them. I must apologize to you. I'm sorry."

As he spoke, Mike also bowed to Benjamin very little.

"I... I didn't mean that, Mike. I..."

Benjamin obviously didn't expect Mike to do this. After a moment of hesitation, he opened his mouth in panic to explain, but perhaps because he was too nervous, he stuttered and couldn't say it clearly.

Seeing this, Mike continued:

"Well, the mistake has been made and we have to try to make up for it. Let's do this. All the captives will be handed over to you. Of course, the general direction cannot be changed. They will still be kept in the factory after their memories are erased, but the rest of the living conditions, material rations and other things will be left to you to deal with. In addition, I will punish the wizards who made mistakes, such as confinement and fines. Do you think this is okay?"

"Of course, this is a good way to deal with it, but..."

"Then let it be. I have other things to deal with. I hope you can do your job well. After all, this is for the greater good!"

After speaking, Mike pressed the door key in his hand and turned into a distorted afterimage and disappeared in the office.

When Benjamin heard Mike's last sentence, he stood up straight and beat his chest like a conditioned reflex, and shouted:

"For the greater good!"

After shouting, Benjamin became even more confused, because Mike actually left a lot of things and ran away!

Thinking about the lot of things he had to deal with in a while, Benjamin couldn't help showing a bitter look on his face.

"He always likes to be a hands-off boss. I'm so miserable!"

Benjamin complained as he quickly left the office.

It is not an easy task to completely conquer a new secret realm. There is a lot of work waiting for him.

On the other side, after leaving the secret realm, Mike went to Dumbledore's forest villa without stopping.

The house elf named Little Teacup or Little Teapot in the villa garden was very happy to see Mike coming and greeted him very attentively.

But Mike ignored him at all and rushed directly into Dumbledore's bedroom.

At this time, Dumbledore had gotten rid of the situation of lying on the bed to recuperate. He was sitting at his desk, reading the newspaper and eating breakfast.

The breakfast looked very familiar to Mike, almost exactly the same as what he had eaten at Snape's house.

Dumbledore ate very fragrantly. The morning sun shone on his face through the dense woods and transparent glass, leaving a layer of light pink on it, representing health.

Dumbledore was obviously startled by Mike's sudden intrusion. He was holding a fork with half a sausage stuck in it and was slightly stunned. Then his wrinkled face was wide open, revealing a bright smile and said to Mike:

"Mike, you are here. Severus just came here to give me a routine treatment. At my strong request, he also made me a breakfast. I have to say that what he made was so delicious that I was simply fascinated. Oh, by the way, do you want some?"

Dumbledore said as he reached out to hand the half sausage to Mike.

However, Mike obviously had no desire to eat. He completely ignored Dumbledore's kindness and took out the Slytherin pendant box from his arms and placed it in front of Dumbledore.

"Look at this, is it real?"

Seeing the pendant box, Dumbledore's expression became solemn.

He put down his fork, held the pendant box in both hands and put it in the sun to examine it carefully. After a while, he looked at Mike with surprise and asked:

"Where did you get this?"

"I thought you had guessed it. The information Kingsley gave me led us to the deep hiding place of the Avery family, and this is where we found it."

"Yes, that's right, I should have guessed it, Kingsley has already told me about it..."

Dumbledore's expression was a little strange, he seemed to be distracted, his pupils quickly dilated, and he kept muttering with his head down.

His voice became softer and softer, and gradually even Mike couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

I don't know how long it took, but Dumbledore finally recovered from this strange state.

He slowly raised his head, looked at Mike with a complicated expression for a while, and then asked in an extremely serious tone:

"Can I know, the people of the Avery family...they are now...uh, how is the situation?"

Mike didn't say anything. He just looked at Dumbledore expressionlessly, just like he did when he was waiting for Dumbledore to speak.

The Avery Secret Realm was very important to Mike at this stage, so important that he didn't plan to reveal any information about the secret realm to anyone.

But Dumbledore obviously misunderstood Mike's reaction. After waiting for a long time without receiving a response, his expression suddenly became very sad.