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"Look, there's one of the entrances."

Tarino stopped and pointed to the brick wall next to the street, where an old billboard was erected.

In fact, without Tarino's reminder, Maca had already discovered the abnormality there.

Now, he can vaguely sense anything that has magic power. Although due to the natural attenuation of magic power, the farther it is, the harder it is to perceive, but even a distance of more than ten meters is quite amazing.

That's actually how Moody's magic eye works.

Of course, the maker of that thing must be a master alchemist, and the detection accuracy is definitely far beyond the reach of the current Maca.

It's just that Moody's magic eye can only detect a rough magic reaction, and convert it into a rough visual image through the precise alchemy array.

That didn't help him feel the mystery of magic more clearly.

But even so, alchemy has proved its potential. If the knowledge is not too profound and complicated, and the failure rate of actually making alchemy items is frighteningly high, I am afraid that the study of spells would not be the mainstream of the magic world today.

While Maca was thinking habitually, Tarino had already taken out his wand, and ordered a few times on the letters on the billboard.

"Let's go! I'll take you there today to see what a 'black' market is." Tarino said with a chuckle.

Maca, who has long been accustomed to seeing the underground black market in the Muggle world, is indeed very curious about the black market in the wizarding world. If there is always darkness beyond light, then the black market is the so-called "grey area".

And this kind of place is usually quite shocking.

Sure enough, when Maca followed Tarino through the billboard, after feeling the same icy feeling as when passing through the entrance of "Platform Nine and Three Quarters", a burst of chaotic noise kept pouring into his ears. came in.

The first thing that catches the eye is an extremely wide circular square.

From the old stone brick floor under the feet, it can be seen that several centuries have passed since the original construction period.

Around this circular square, there is a whole circle of doors tightly arranged, and from time to time, one or two mysterious wizards who cover their heads come out of those doors.

Maca looked back, and sure enough, he and Tarino also came out of these stone-carved doors.

And in the four directions of this square, there are four stone roads leading to different directions.

On both sides of those roads, there are all kinds of strange buildings row upon row, and occasionally there are some ghost cypresses that seem to be dry, but are actually full of vitality, growing wantonly among the buildings.

Under the dim hanging street lights, this place is much more gloomy and dark than Knockturn Alley.

At this time, Maca raised his head and looked towards the sky, only to find that the top of his head was completely dark, without even a ray of light, making it impossible to tell the direction at all.

"This place is bigger than the two Hogsmeade villages. Once you leave these four main roads, the route will become complicated. Even the elderly who often walk here may lose their way..."

While Tarino was explaining, he led Maca towards a stone road opposite.

"The street with the brightest lights is a comprehensive peddler area. There are many messy shops, both serious and unscrupulous. But generally speaking, they are all ordinary cheap goods..."

He walked forward, pointed to the one on the left hand side by the way, and then pointed to the right after speaking.

"The slightly dimmed ones over there are mainly trading of various materials. Of course, there are also some basic products of potion science or alchemy."

"...And right now, the direction we're going," he said, pointing to the darker street ahead, "there are a lot of high-value rare items for sale, and there are even regular auctions. There's a... look, that building..."

There was no need for Tarino to point to that building, Maca had seen it early in the morning—no way, among all the buildings, that large building was the tallest and most eye-catching.

That big guy looks very similar to Gringotts Wizarding Bank, but it's obviously several circles bigger than Gringotts.

"Is that also run by goblins?" Maca couldn't help guessing.

"That's right! The Wizarding Guild of Dark Souls, in addition to providing currency deposit and withdrawal and vault leasing like Gringotts in Diagon Alley, there are more services here." Tarino said enthusiastically, "News buying and selling, personal And groups' listed employment, various task distribution and acceptance, etc., in short, it is an old-fashioned trade union with a very high reputation."

"You usually pick up jobs here?" Maca said with a smile.

"Uh...Of course, although the agency fee here is not low, the point is that there will never be no job here." Tarino shrugged, "After all, our industry is most afraid of not having reliable employers , isn't it?"

"Hmm... what about the darkest road before?" Maca pointed behind him and said, "What's there?"

After hearing this, Tarino curled his lips subconsciously.

"That's the residential area," he said emphatically, "the living area of ​​the 'nobles' of the underground world."

"The nobles of the underground world?" Maca thought for a while, then suddenly asked, "Could it be... those dark wizard families from ancient times?"

"You also know?" Tarino asked in surprise, "As far as I know, there is no such news outside, and the existence of Dumbledore these years has made those families very low-key..."

"If you look for it carefully, you can still find some clues." Maca spread his hands and said, "But they are really low-key, have they been around for hundreds of years? There is no rumor at all... It's not just because Is it because of Dumbledore?"

"I heard that from others too, who knows?" Tarino said indifferently, "Those families are already very weak, and I wouldn't be surprised if they all died at any time."

However, once it is combined with the above things in the ancient times, nothing is simple - about this, Maca has already experienced it deeply.

If it was said that those families continued to decline, he would believe it; but if it was said that they would disappear silently, he would not believe it even if they were killed.

In the face of death, even the Flobber caterpillar, which eats and sleeps all day long, will struggle to the death. How could those once behemoths die without warning?

While chatting aimlessly, the two walked side by side towards the large building named "Dark Spirit Pavilion".

When they passed through two grand black metal gates in a row, a wide hall immediately came into their sight.

The shiny black marble floor and the hall without any load-bearing columns make this place look much bigger than it looks from the outside.

But it can be seen that there is no sign of the No Trace Stretching Curse being cast here, but because there is no visual cover, it looks wider than imagined.

In the three directions of the hall, there is a long counter. Behind that, sat a large number of goblin staff, who were handling different businesses for all kinds of customers.

In the hall, there are more strange wizards. To say that Maca is most emotional at the moment is because he has personally experienced the number of wizards.

Although many of the wizards who appeared here must not be the so-called "dark wizards", those guys who exude suspicious aura are definitely not good people.

From this point of view, the number of wizards in the entire British wizarding world may be much more than the official announcement. The reason for this must be the "solitary" habit that wizards have been difficult to correct since ancient times.

Although the British Ministry of Magic has been established for nearly four hundred years, the loose and free life attitude of wizards has directly led to the loose and unruly society of wizards.

If it weren't for this, no matter how powerful Voldemort was, it would be difficult to have such a big impact on the wizarding world.

"So, if I set up a mission to detect werewolf movements here..." Maca looked at the large counter on the left, and asked Tarino, "How long does it usually take to get news?"

"If you're not in a hurry, you can do this..." Tarino nodded, "I estimate that a week at most will be enough."

"Then what if I want to go faster?" Maca thought for a while and said, "Or should we be able to find werewolves directly here?"

"Greyback has registered here before, and has also accepted employment missions for a period of time. But you know... Werewolves have always been unpopular, and the same is true in the underground world." Tarino shook his head, " Now...there must still be werewolves here, but even if there are, they are very low-key, and generally they will not reveal their identities easily."

It was Maca himself who proposed to come here. Although he wanted to come here to see and see, wouldn't it be better if he could find clues here?

As far as the environment here is concerned, it is at least much easier to do things than to search for clues aimlessly.

"You are more familiar than me here, let me see, where should I go to try my luck?" Maca looked around and asked casually.

Tarino pondered for a moment, then gestured towards the entrance of the side hall next to the counter on the left with his chin.

"There are several large hiring teams there. If you have enough Galleons, it won't be a problem for them to capture Greyback directly." He said, "Of course, they also sell news, the price, of course It is a bit more expensive."

Maca considered his current property for a while, and felt that finding a way to make money for himself in this place full of money was the most important thing.

Since his partner Tyrande left Hogsmeade, his income has dwindled considerably. Now his level of potions has improved greatly compared to before, and he has invented several more potions. It doesn't seem to be very difficult to make money.

Just as Maca was thinking, a commotion came from a corner of the hall, which attracted his attention.