Chapter 25: Malfoy Manor

Murphy returned to the old house of Darkholme and found Alex.

"It's not safe here anymore. Pack up your things quickly and take away all the prepared potions and remaining materials."

After that, Murphy went to the basement, opened a cabinet, carefully stacked a dozen bottles of potions in a small box, and put them into his traceless stretch bag.

Alex had packed up and was a little worried. "Will those people find this place?"

"Well, are all the things packed up?"

"Packed up."

"Did you miss anything?"

"No."

"Okay."

After Murphy finished speaking, he drew out his wand and pointed it at the Darkholm mansion, "Pestis Incendium!"

The majestic flames burst out from Murphy's wand, and as he drew a circle over his head, it rolled up, forming a violent fire tornado above the old house.

The speed of the tornado was getting faster and faster, and the temperature of the flames was getting higher and higher. The rolling heat waves made Alex retreat continuously.

"This, is this the Fiery Curse?!" He was stunned.

This is black magic!

If this kind of magic flame touches your body, it will be burned to ashes. Ordinary methods cannot extinguish it at all. It is extremely terrifying!

Who is Mr. Peter Parker, the man he serves, and how could he have such profound black magic?

And what is he going to do? This should be his own home, right?

Alex had seen several portraits in the corridor on the second floor. Although they were all destroyed and could not be moved, the characters in the paintings looked very similar to Mr. Peter Parker.

But before he could figure it out, Murphy pressed his wand down.

"Boom!"

The old house of Darkholme was directly crushed by the tornado and instantly ignited. The violent flames seemed to have found food and attached to it, turning the old house into a huge torch in an instant.

Since Lucius already knew his true identity, it was easy to find this place.

He had done many potion experiments here, and there were too many traces of him left in the house. In order to avoid missing any clues and being caught, he still burned it down to make him feel at ease.

Anyway, he had nothing to miss here.

"Let's go."

Murphy didn't explain much, grabbed Alex and Disapparated directly.

They appeared in a warehouse.

"You stay here, I'll do something."

Murphy put a few old wands on his waist, raised his head and drank a bottle of polyjuice potion, and soon he turned into a black uncle.

Just as he was about to leave, he thought about it again and threw a traceless stretch bag to Alex, "If I don't come back within two hours, take these Galleons and go to Scotland or France to hide for a few years."

Murphy's words made Alex nervous again, "Mr. Parker, what are you going to do?"

"To save people," Murphy said lightly, "If possible, kill a few people."

After that, he disappeared from Alex's sight.

...

Murphy rode on a flying broom and patrolled in a suburb.

Although there are many flaws, as a private aircraft, the flying broom is still very useful in many ways. For example, searching for a house in the suburbs. At this time, he had roughly figured out Lucius's purpose.

Being able to find the factory means that Lucius has connected himself with the Umbrella Company and discovered the fact that he sold potions to Muggles. It must be said that Murphy underestimated the intelligence of wizards and was too careless at this point.

It is easy to understand that he attacked the factory, it was nothing more than revenge. But it is a bit strange that he captured the factory workers and took away the materials and finished potions.

Dianxian essence is an incredible magic medicine for Muggles, so pharmaceutical companies have the motivation to kidnap workers and take away samples in order to seize the formula, which is why Patrick believes that the attack was caused by pharmaceutical companies.

But for wizards, the formula of Dianxian essence is clearly written in the textbooks, and they have no reason to do this for the formula.

Thinking from Lucius's perspective, when he learned that Murphy sold potions to Muggles, he would understand that what Murphy feared most was that the wizarding world would know about it, and he needed evidence to prove that Murphy had violated the Wizarding Statute.

As long as there was evidence that Murphy sold potions to Muggles, it would be easy to threaten him to cooperate or send him to Azkaban. Getting evidence was the reason they kidnapped the workers. In order to get conclusive evidence, they needed to torture the workers and understand the sample potions.

Maybe Lucius was thinking about learning from Murphy's methods, figuring out Murphy's operating procedures, and taking over the business after putting him in Azkaban to make a fortune. Therefore, Murphy guessed that they probably didn't hand over the workers and samples to the Aurors, and they were probably still in Malfoy Manor.

Murphy had previously obtained the approximate location of Malfoy's house from the bald wizard Paped's head, somewhere outside the town of Chippenham in Wiltshire.

However, since it was far away from the Muggle community, there were no specific Muggle roads and streets connecting it, so he had to find the exact location himself.

After searching for half an hour, just when Murphy thought that Malfoy had used the Fidelius Charm to hide his house, he suddenly saw a piece of woodland.

However, the next second, the woodland disappeared from his sight again.

He frowned and flew back a few meters, and the woodland suddenly appeared at the edge of his vision.

He tested it for a while and realized that there were two invisible barriers in front of him. They met here and formed an angle, and just now, he passed by the inside of the angle and discovered the existence of the woodland.

"Finally I found you."

Murphy cast an Illusion Spell on himself and quietly flew closer to the woodland.

Sure enough, he soon saw a manor surrounded in the middle of the woodland.

He quietly landed behind the manor house, silenced his voice with a silent spell, then opened a window with a unlocking spell and climbed into the mansion.

He didn't need to search hard. As soon as he entered, Murphy heard a scream, "Ah, no, please, I really don't know..."

There was another woman's voice, "We really don't know anyone with the surname Darkholm. Our boss is Patrick, and there is another big boss named Murphys, Murphys Annon, please, don't kill me..."

Then there was a fierce man's roar, "Tell me, you Muggle, you don't have a wand, how do you prepare white fresh essence! Tell me, or I'll kill you!"

"White, white fresh essence? We don't have it... We produce white, white medicine... We use machines, distillation, extraction... Please, I'm just an ordinary worker. I can only operate those machines and look at the instruments. I don't understand chemistry..."

Murphy leaned over to see that there were five workers in the hall in the middle of the corridor, and three wizards were interrogating them.

He was about to rescue people when he heard a woman's dissatisfied voice from a room next to him, "Lucius, you shouldn't let your 'friends' come home! And let them torture those Muggles in front of Draco! Draco was scared!"

"Mom, I'm not scared!" A little boy retorted unconvinced.

"It's normal to be scared, Draco, you're still a child." The woman's voice comforted, and then said: "You should be more cautious, Lucius, it's not the past now..."

There are five adult wizards here, even if Narcissa is not counted, there are four enemies. Lucius was a Death Eater, and his fighting strength may not be as cowardly as his character, and the remaining three guys are also ruthless dark wizards. Murphy is not sure about one-on-four.

Must be more cautious, maybe hold little Malfoy hostage?

As he was thinking these things, a voice suddenly came from behind him, "Sir, who are you? You are not the guest invited by the master."

Murphy turned around in surprise and saw a big-eyed man looking at him in confusion.

(End of this chapter)