Chapter 577 Backstabbing the Ministry of Magic
"Ha! You have come to this day!"
As soon as Mike finished speaking, Zhou Hong jumped out from behind Benjamin and raised his middle finger to Victor.
God has mercy on him, he has really had enough of Victor these days. He
was so excited that he couldn't control himself.
Unfortunately, Benjamin quickly stopped his behavior. Victor was a member of the Freemasons after all.
But Victor didn't react much to Zhou Hong's ridicule. He looked at Mike and said sincerely:
"Mike, believe me, this is not a good idea."
"But this is the safest way now, isn't it?" Mike shook his head and said, "Hey, Victor, listen. You stay in the base honestly first, and when this operation is over, we will come back to continue discussing this matter. You will be fine, okay?"
"If you insist on doing so, then fine."
Victor spread his hands, the expression on his face seemed a little helpless, but it seemed that there was no change.
Seeing this, Mike didn't bother to be polite. He waved his hand and signaled the staff to shut down Victor. Mike didn't lie to Victor. He really didn't mean to punish Victor, but now he had a more important thing to deal with, so he didn't want to continue listening to Victor and Zhou Hong's arguments. He could only put the matter aside for the time being. Shutting down
Victor's computer is a very tedious task, because many data are not saved in real time, so the staff need to manually back up some important data before shutting down, otherwise Victor will lose some memory after restarting.
So there was a very funny scene-Victor commanded the staff to shut down the computer by themselves.
To be honest, this is a very aggrieved thing. After all, from Victor's point of view, he was wronged.
But Victor was very calm, even a little indifferent.
He had a blank expression on his face and gently commanded the staff to back up important data, and finally shut down Victor's energy source-a device that can generate electricity and magic energy respectively.
In this process, Zhou Hong showed a high degree of enthusiasm.
He had been studying this matter since he came back from Hogwarts, and now it was finally useful.
Unfortunately, in order to prevent him from taking revenge, his plan to participate in the shutdown process eventually failed.
Finally, with the shutdown of the device, the various machines in Victor's alchemy laboratory that were originally roaring finally stopped moving, and the Victor standing in front of Mike and others also closed his eyes and lost his voice.
Mike sighed, personally stepped forward to place Victor's body on the fixed charging seat, then turned around and said to the people behind him who were ready:
"Okay, let's go to the Ministry of Magic now!"
"Yes! Sir!"
Benjamin and others answered in unison, and then followed Mike and went to the teleportation hall together.
At this time, in the teleportation hall, a team of 20 wizards had already been fully armed and waiting here.
All of these people were drawn by Arthur from various troops. They were veterans who had experienced many key battles. They were the most elite combat wizards of the Los Santos Group and the backbone of this backstab operation.
Although they were not many in number, in this world of personal force elites, these twenty combat wizards who cooperated and had strong personal strength were already a very powerful force.
If they really had to fight, even Franklin and Benjamin might not be able to fight them head-on.
After arriving at the teleportation hall, Mike did not waste time and directly directed everyone to walk into the fireplace.
Thanks to the financial support of the Los Santos Group and the help of the remaining connections of the Order of the Phoenix, Kingsley's status in the Ministry of Magic has been significantly improved. He is now the second in command of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and is expected to directly replace the current Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in the near future. After all,
the current Director is really a bit of a charlatan.
With the help of such a high-ranking undercover, Mike's action plan this time has become extremely simple.
Kingsley had already opened a special channel in the dedicated Floo network fireplace in the Misuse of Magic Office (which includes the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office where Weasley's father works) on the second floor underground of the Ministry of Magic.
They only need to quietly teleport in and start killing people.
The plan is simple, but it is very difficult to execute, because no one knows how many emergencies will be waiting for them when the time comes.
So everyone, including Mike, looked solemn and worried.
When they finally disappeared in the fireplace, a guy with an Asian face but dyed yellow hair suddenly appeared at the door of the teleportation hall.
He looked at the fireplace not far away that was still emitting green smoke, and the corners of his mouth raised to reveal an ambiguous smile. At the same time, there was a faint blue light flashing in his eyes.
... The second
floor underground of the Ministry of Magic, the Misuse of Magic Office.
Although it is called an office, the area of the Misuse of Magic Office is actually much larger than that of a conventional office.
In fact, the main reason why it is called an office is that when the Ministry of Magic was first established, the scale of the Prohibition of Abuse of Magic Department was not large, and it was a veritable office.
Although it grew later, it still inherited the title of office.
Today, its structure is more like an open modern company, which not only has a front desk and a lobby, but also many small offices with partitions.
Of course, these offices are the office places of the leaders. As for ordinary clerks, they can only work in the public office area without shelter.
It was early in the morning, and the large-scale climate simulation magic outside the window switched the day and night mode very punctually, making the orange-red sun like salted egg yolk slowly rise from the clouds in the sky, and the glow it brought dyed the sky red, and then shone in from the window, which was beautiful.
But in the face of such a beautiful scenery, the clerks in the office area turned a blind eye, and worked silently with their heads down listlessly.
This cannot be blamed on their laziness. After all, due to the increase in emergencies in the country of Ying, these civil servants have also begun to work overtime voluntarily.
So far, they have been working for nearly thirty hours.
Amid the rustling sound of turning pages and the rustling sound of pen tips sliding on parchment, a gray-haired young clerk picked up his wand and cast a refill spell on his empty teacup.
Looking at the teacup that was refilled with strong tea, he sighed heavily, then stretched his body, ready to drink a sip of tea and continue working.
But at this moment, he accidentally caught a glimpse of smoke rising slowly from the fireplace in the hall.
His body, which had just stretched out, froze immediately, and he bent down again with a nervous expression, and started working again without even drinking the tea.
Because he knew very well that the fireplace was a special fireplace in the Office of Prohibition of Abuse of Magic, and those who could come out of it were either leaders or senior clerks.
If they saw him slacking off, he would definitely be criticized again.
There were many people who had the same reaction as him. Everyone pretended to be working hard, but they secretly observed the fireplace with their peripheral vision, trying to figure out who would return to the Office of the Prohibition of Abuse of Magic at this time.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
The next moment, accompanied by the sound of bursts of fireworks, Mike and others and twenty elite combat wizards from Los Santos suddenly appeared in the hall.
The clerks who were secretly observing the fireplace looked puzzled. They didn't know any of the people in front of them!
But they did not become alert because of this, but continued to work seriously with their heads down.
After all, this is the largest department of the Ministry of Magic. The floor above is where the Minister of Magic and the Logistics Department are located. It is impossible for an intruder to directly skip the departments downstairs and attack here directly.
And their performance also surprised Mike and others.
Benjamin, Franklin and others looked at each other, and everyone's faces were full of confusion.
The people here... seem to be a little too calm.
Shaking his head, Mike's mouth corners rose slightly.
Mike, who had never been a social animal, naturally could not understand the scene here, but this did not hinder his next move.
He raised the elder wand in his hand lightly, and with the ominous aura of the curse, a huge transparent ring-shaped blade suddenly formed from his body and shot out fiercely.
"Feng!~"
The ring-shaped blade brushed through the air, bursting out a crisp sound, and then it cut through the entire office hall effortlessly like cutting tofu, cutting all the furniture and the Ministry of Magic clerks who were still sitting at their workstations in half, and finally fell on the hard outer wall made of special anti-magic materials in the office hall, engraving a deep gully on it.
This move was like a signal, and all the combatants around Mike also moved.
They turned into a group of black shadows and rushed quickly to the offices on the side!
This was also part of the original plan. Mike was responsible for dealing with the enemy's large forces and the tough strongmen, while they needed to subdue those senior officials as quickly as possible to prevent them from tipping off and buying time for the entire operation.
It was not until this moment that the clerks in the office hall finally reacted.
They looked at the black shadows flying in the hall in astonishment. Just as they were about to ask what happened, they found that they suddenly felt a sharp pain in their necks, chests or waists.
They looked down in confusion and saw a line of blood spreading rapidly from the place where they just felt the pain, and eventually expanded into huge wounds that were enough to completely cut off their bodies.
"Ah!"
"Merlin's beard!"
"Medical technician! Medical technician!"
...
Countless screams accompanied by gushing blood spread in the office hall. Except for the lucky ones who were beheaded directly, the rest did not die immediately after being cut in half, but fell in a pool of blood and wailed miserably.
Standing in this hell-like scene, Mike acted very indifferent.
He walked straight to the magic elevator, without avoiding the blood and various garbage spreading on the ground, but those things automatically avoided him as if they had consciousness.
After arriving at the elevator room where the magic elevator was located, he did not press the button, but flipped his palm and flew into the air, reaching the underground floor, which was the floor where the Minister's Office and the Logistics Department were located.
Although it was the floor where the Minister's Office and the Logistics Department were located, it was completely different from the busy scene of the Office for Prohibiting the Abuse of Magic downstairs.
As soon as he walked out of the elevator room, the first thing that caught Mike's eyes was a long corridor, with heavy black marble doors on both sides of the corridor.
Through magical perception, Mike could clearly "see".
Behind the marble doors here were huge spaces opened up by the Traceless Extension Spell, which were piled with a large amount of supplies.
At this time, these supplies were being transported out by house elves according to the needs of various departments through the inherent cargo magic elevators in each space.
The whole process was fast and quiet, and no wizard intervention was required at all.
In fact, in the original Scrimgeour era and the term of office of other Ministers of Magic before, the porters and custodians in these warehouses were actually all wizards from the Logistics Department.
This also led to the Logistics Department becoming the most lucrative department in the entire Ministry of Magic.
After all, as an important department in charge of the materials of each department, if others want to smoothly take materials from the Logistics Department, they must first establish a good relationship with the officials of the Logistics Department. There are considerable benefits in this.
At worst, these watchdogs can also embezzle, right?
But after Chris Flint became the Minister of Magic, everything changed.
He directly ignored the unspoken rule that the Director of the Logistics Department must be rotated by members of the family of the highest chief of each major department, and directly announced that he would serve as the Director of the Logistics Department, and laid off all wizard employees, using more loyal house elves as staff of the Logistics Department.
Undoubtedly, this move made the material circulation speed of the entire Ministry of Magic more efficient.
It also triggered the departments of many senior officials in the Ministry of Magic.
Fortunately, Chris's legendary strength was strong enough to stop the officials from making any rash moves. Otherwise, they would have overthrown him long ago.
But all of the above were minor matters. Chris's reform of the logistics department also caused the most serious consequence, which was that the defense of the logistics department became particularly weak.
In the corridor, looking at the closed doors, Mike's face showed a bright smile.