Take control of thunder and lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 706 Cooperation (recommended monthly ticket)
"What should we do next? We have to determine the direction of action as soon as possible, otherwise it will be easy to fail to keep up with the progress." After allocating the equipment, Hermione asked hastily.

"Let's go straight to the shopping center!" Fred was full of confidence at this time, "We have increased our combat power so much now that ordinary monsters may not be able to stop us."

Cedric nodded when he heard the words, but still said cautiously, "Although it is true to say so, we still don't know the situation in the shopping center. Maybe we can take it lightly so soon. I have another idea."

The rest of the people turned their heads and listened to the words. The success of this battle depends entirely on Cedric's decision-making, so his words already carry a lot of weight in everyone's hearts.

"I think we should go along the left side of the main road and chase in the direction of Penello's escape!" Cedric suggested after a moment of thought.

"Chasing Penello? Are you going to attack the other teams before entering the hostage location?" George glanced at Cedric with a strange expression. From what he heard, the other party was about to start dealing with competitors.

"No!" Cedric shook his head, "It's not a wise decision for us to deal with a fifth-year wizard, even if our strength has improved now."

"What do you mean?" Fred looked at him puzzled.

"I want to bring Penelope over." Cedric said softly, "Her team has been completely separated now. Ron and Malfoy are going in the opposite direction to her. The probability of meeting again is too low."

"And Susan, who had been following her before, was also killed. This proves that Penello must be alone now. If we can win her over, it will definitely greatly increase our winning rate."

"Your idea is very good, but why did Penelope help us? Is she in the same team as us?" Terence still didn't understand. In his eyes, members of different groups were enemies. Work for the enemy.

"No, this is indeed a way." Hermione retorted, "It is indeed impossible for Penello to completely stand with us, but she may cooperate with us. She is alone now, and it is simply a fantasy to complete the task alone. .”

"That's right!" George also reacted at this time, "Her choice now is to cooperate with us temporarily, and the rest will be discussed after the attack on the shopping mall, otherwise the only thing waiting for her is failure."

"I think it will work." Fred also chimed in, "If we can have a fifth grader join the team, we will definitely increase our strength, and maybe we will become the most powerful team in the ruins right now!"

"Okay, then let's do this. Now search along the ruins on the left and try to find Penello as much as possible. If we can't find her, we will rush to the shopping center, and no one knows the situation there now. Going too early is not necessarily a good thing." Cedric said with the final word.

"Understood!" After confirming the action plan, the rest of the people responded one after another. Although the No. 4 team had finished entering, they had already grasped the great initiative at this time.

And in the process of searching along the way, these little wizards also gradually discovered that there are actually many good things hidden in the ruins.

In some house corners, cabinets, and boxes, some items that can be picked up are placed, and of course most of them are non-magic items.

The common ones are food, water, bandages, common wound medicine, etc., and even some clothes that can be used for replacement.

And occasionally they can also search for some magic items, such as magic potions for healing or recovery, magic amulets that can be used as grenade throws, and so on.

For example, George was very lucky to get a 'flash talisman', the burst of light can temporarily blind people.

At the same time, the most interesting thing is that in some abandoned houses, they saw a kind of treasure chest with a magic lock.

After discovering such a good thing, everyone naturally wanted to open one on the spot to see what good things were inside, but they found that this kind of treasure chest could not be opened with lock-picking spells or violence.

On the contrary, they saw that two treasure chests had already been opened along the road. Several people guessed that it should be done by Penello, so they speeded up the tracking again.

Following some obviously searched houses along the road, and the monster corpses that had been cleaned up, everyone finally found Penello, who was alone.

But at this time Penello's state does not look good.

When Cedric and his team found her, Penello was holding a short bone knife in his left hand and a wand in his right hand. He was sitting pale and slumped in a corner of an abandoned house, seemingly suffering serious injuries. .

When she found a few people coming out, Penello stretched out her wand very sensitively, and then slowly relaxed when she saw them. Obviously, she was under a lot of pressure along the way.

"You don't look very well, are you injured?" Hermione hurriedly stepped forward and asked concerned after seeing Penello.

Although they had no good intentions in following them up, the other party has always been a companion who gets along day and night after all, so after seeing Penello's poor condition, he couldn't help worrying about her.

"It's just a little bit out of strength, you guys be careful, there are two skeleton assassins who are good at sneak attacks nearby." Penello struggled and coughed twice, "Susan was knocked down by them at the first time, I managed to kill them I took one of them and hid here not long ago."

"In other words, there is one skeleton assassin left. How is the opponent's strength?" Cedric kindly handed over a bottle of tonic that he collected along the way.

"If you want to describe it, your physical fitness is similar to that of a third- or fourth-year wizard, but the opponent is very fast and can be invisible. I also found a chance to kill one of them when they were attacking Susan." Penello looked. After seeing the sledgehammer in Cedric's hand, his heart trembled, and he vaguely guessed what these guys had done before.

"Haha, that guy dared to take care of it and let it be smashed to pieces." George patted his chest confidently, and then looked at the dagger in the opponent's hand with some curiosity, "Is the item in your hand the equipment that the assassin exploded?"

"What? Do you want to snatch me away when you see me alone?" Penello took a sip of the tonic in his hand, and looked at the other party with a teasing face, "It shouldn't be accidental that you suddenly appeared here, you chased me all the way? "

"Don't worry, we have no intention of harming you." Cedric smiled slightly, "On the contrary, we have worked so hard to find you in order to form a cooperative relationship with you. Now you are the only one left in the first team. , you should also know that joining forces with us is the best solution."

"It seems that I have no other choice." Penello shook her head helplessly. Even if she turned her face now, at most she could only fight the opponent alone. Failure is probably the only ending.

Both Cedric's side and Penello himself automatically ignored Ron and Malfoy who were lost in the first team. Obviously, they didn't take these two little kids to heart.

"Well, it's not impossible to cooperate with you, but this is only before seeing the mission objectives. After entering the shopping mall, I will choose to terminate the cooperation at any time." Penello did not talk nonsense, and directly stated the words.

"No problem, as long as you don't backstab us first, this is a gentleman's agreement between us, this is just a simulated actual combat, there is no need to make it particularly complicated." Cedric smiled slightly.

"It's a deal." Penello didn't feel the need to play tricks with them here, "What are your plans? Looking at the hammer in your hand, it should be to get rid of the giant skeleton, right?"

"That's right, after you were separated, the second and third teams entered the dungeon one after another. Among them, the second team has lost one person, and the current situation of the third team is unknown. We are currently the slowest progress, so we have to hurry to the target point. .” Hermione introduced Penello to her while taking care of Penello to drink the potion.

"In this case, let's start quickly." Penello looked much better than before, and stood up with support.

"Before that, we were curious about something." George interjected at this moment, "On the way we came, we saw two opened treasure chests. You opened those things. What's in them? thing?"

"You said that..." Penello chuckled, "Opening that kind of treasure chest requires a prop called a 'master key'. They can be found from some monsters, and they can be found occasionally when searching rooms."

"As for what's inside, it's really a good thing, but it's my secret. If you want to know, you have to exchange other information." Penello is very clear that they are in a competitive relationship, so he is not willing to pay for nothing .

"We gave you a bottle of tonic for free. Even if you don't thank me, at least let us know something." Fred muttered unhappily when he saw Penello being so unreasonable.

"Well, for the sake of saving my life." Penello shook his head mockingly, and then took out a simple compass from the inner lining.

【Tracing Compass】

Mission auxiliary props: This compass can point to the nearest hostage hiding place.

The description of the item is simple and clear, but everyone can see the extraordinaryness of this item, and with it, they can grasp the whereabouts of the mission target faster.

So after seeing this prop, several people looked at each other at the same time. They all saw the joy hidden in each other's eyes. It seemed that it was a wise decision for them to choose to find Penello.

"I didn't expect there to be such things as mission props." Fred grinned emotionally, "Then what are we waiting for, let's go, the victory of this actual combat exercise must belong to us!"

Seeing how excited these people were, Penello pouted speechlessly. These bastards didn't take her seriously at all.

After packing up, everyone set off immediately, aiming for the deepest shopping center.

Although I encountered many patrolling skeleton soldiers along the way, I didn't see the skeleton assassin mentioned by Penello at all.

And these miscellaneous soldiers encountered on the road, in front of Cedric who got the [Skeleton Hammer], had no power to parry at all.

At the same time, the rest of the people have also seen the importance of owning equipment, such as ordinary skeleton swordsmen and skeleton spearmen, it is basically a matter of one hammer.

In many cases, the crowd didn't even need to cast a spell, and Cedric alone pushed them to the shopping center.

When they came to this core building, everyone could clearly see the true structure of this shopping center.

The entire shopping center is so huge that it almost catches up with a Quidditch pitch with the naked eye. At the same time, there are several skeleton squads patrolling and wandering outside the entire building, and several skeleton cavalry are obviously elite monsters. The long spear bloomed with a faint magical aura, and it looked like alchemy equipment with attributes.

"I have roughly observed that there are three entrances and exits in the whole shopping mall, which are the main entrance in the middle and the side entrances on both sides. There are 4 elite monsters [Skull Knights] defending, including 2 on the front and 1 on each of the two side entrances. Let's move on What should I do?"

In an abandoned house near a shopping mall, George, who went out to investigate, reported to everyone as soon as he returned.

"How is it? Which direction is the hostage approaching?" Cedric immediately turned his head to look at Penello after getting the general information. She has props that can detect the mission target.

"On the way back, I kept checking. The compass showed that there were at least two parts of the hostages in this shopping center. One part was concentrated on the front floor, roughly on the third floor, and the other part was concentrated on the right side. It shows that it should be located 3nd floor." Penello spread out the compass in his hand and observed.

"Needless to say, the princess must be in the middle. Otherwise, there wouldn't be two elite guards at the main entrance. As for the hostages on the right, there should be another wave." Fred speculated reasonably.

"In theory, it should be so." Hermione nodded in agreement, important hostages must be guarded in the most heavily guarded place.

"Then let's enter from the right?" Terence asked tentatively, "How can there be another group of hostages over there, and if we save more hostages, we can get more points."

"Yes." Cedric nodded, and then looked at Penello specifically, "If there are enough hostages, we can give you a few more, so that at least the scores of the first team will not be too ugly."

"Hehe, shouldn't I still thank you?" Penello gave a few people a blank look, and the other party's tone of charity made her very upset.

But at this time Penello didn't say any more, just bowed his head in silence, as if he was silently preparing for something.

While several people were discussing, a burst of violent smoke and dust suddenly burst out on the left side of the shopping center, and five wizards rushed out from the room area over there, aiming at the side door, and it was the third team led by Percy.

"No, those guys have also arrived at the shopping mall. We have to hurry up, or we might be preempted by them!" Seeing this, Fred hurriedly yelled.

(End of this chapter)