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Chapter 1796 up your alley (five)

"Have you ever seen Sirius Black's tattoo?"

Severus asked Lucius Malfoy after seeing the bare-chested boxer in the film.

"What?" Lucius asked confused.

"Tattoo." Severus pointed to his chest. "There's a symbol that looks like a ram's horn."

"I didn't notice," Lucius said. "I've never seen him naked."

Severus stared at him for a moment, then turned his gaze to the screen.

The boxer's wife, along with his children, appear in the footage.

"He's no different from the Smiley Man." Severus looked into the heroine's bright eyes and said, "They're all earning money to support their families."

"Why do you have this question?" Lucius asked.

"The Black family has a secret study, I wonder if he has any spells tattooed on his body."

Lucius thought about it thoughtfully.

"I saw runes on his neck." Lucius said, "I thought it was left by Azkaban. You can wait for Kerry to come back, maybe he knows something."

"Have the Blacks tried alchemy?" Severus asked.

"Of course." Lucius said without hesitation.

"how do you know?"

"Isn't that obvious?" Lucius spread his hands.

Severus couldn't find the right words for a while.

"He's a big problem," Lucius murmured, "but Sissy is still sad that he's dead. He's the last Black man after all."

"If he had the amulet on him, he might not be dead."

"That's impossible." Lucius said with a smile, "Harry Potter confirmed it himself. Those ghosts said he was dead. You told me about it."

Severus suddenly realized.

"I saw a dog just like him over there," he said after a moment. "He took me into the intelligence department of the French Army."

"What did you find?"

"A charter for saltpeter," said Severus.

"Why didn't he just take you to Pomona?" Lucius asked.

"In Sobek's realm, we lose magic, but alchemy items don't," Severus said. "I've heard of Hermetic alchemy and Horus alchemy, but not Anglo Saxon alchemy."

Lucius thought about it.

Severus didn't bother him, he was also recalling Black's tattoo.

"There is a symbol just under his collar." Lucius said, "Three horizontal lines and one vertical line. That is not the rune we know."

"Do you know what that means?" Severus asked.

"I told you, I don't know." Lucius said impatiently, "Speaking of which, do you think this acquisition is related to the Indonesian tsunami?"

"what?"

"As far as I know, the Americans have many factories in Indonesia. This time they wanted to rescue them, but they were rejected by the Indonesian president," Lucius said.

"I've never heard of that," Severus said honestly.

"Do you remember Honduras?" Lucius said, "The Americans also intervened after the hurricane in Honduras. In addition to rescue ships, they also sent soldiers."

Severus smiled. "You really believe Muggles invented weather weapons?"

"I really think so." Lucius said seriously, "Indonesia is a country with many hurricanes. If the Americans use weather weapons to direct hurricanes to Indonesia..."

"I believe in cloud seeding, but I don't believe they have the power to change hurricanes." Severus interrupted Lucius' unfounded worry.

"How about asking your little friend? He seems to know a lot." Lucius asked.

"That's just wishful thinking on their part," Severus said firmly.

"They dreamed a lot of things, but many of them came true. You told me not to underestimate them." Lucius Malfoy said.

"That would cost a lot of money," Severus argued.

"I know it takes an excuse to get the budget," Lucius said, "but I think weather weapons are a lot more believable than looking for aliens."

"I'll ask later." Severus said blankly, looking ahead sullenly.

Stealing corpses is illegal, but in the face of the huge demand of medical schools, some people still steal corpses, and some corpses are even "evidence" in murder cases.

Physicians often collaborated with grave robbers, and Andreas Veselius, the father of modern anatomy, studied bones in the Cemetery of the Holy Child.

It was not until 1832 that the "Anatomy Act" was promulgated. The body used for medical dissection must have the consent of the family members. The passage of this bill even caused riots.

At that time, in public perception, the dissected corpses were all from executed prisoners, and now it has become a punishment for the poor, because relatives will agree to dissect after receiving money, which will affect their resurrection after trial.

You can't imagine what human beings will do after breaking through the bottom line.

Sometimes it is not the dead that are scary and need to be guarded against, but the living. How do you know if there will be a murderer like Jack the Ripper, or kill Sarah the cat in Venice and throw her body into the lagoon The people in it appear in the catacombs.

"Let's look elsewhere," Severus said, before turning and leaving the theater.

"Have you ever wondered why the Montsouris reservoir has so many arched colonnades?" Lucius asked behind Severus.

"For the Expo," Severus said.

"Buried under the arch," Lucius said. "It's a Christian funeral custom. Have you ever been to Saint-Denis Church?"

"I've been," Severus said dryly.

"That church has a double-bridge vault, but earlier people were buried vertically, and the coffin was placed on the wall, and then it became lying down."

"You mean the Montsouris Reservoir was originally intended to be a cemetery?" Severus asked.

"I didn't say that," Lucius said. "Maybe they're planning to build an underground church."

Severus shook his head, as if he didn't want to continue the subject.

"Aaron struck the water of the Nile with his staff, and the water soon turned red and was undrinkable." Lucius said without haste, "The staff that Aaron still used after leaving Egypt, between the rocks A clear spring appeared."

"The water in the reservoir comes from the canal, it's not a miracle," Severus said.

"Do you know why milk cartons are square and Coke bottles are cylindrical?" Lucius asked again.

"Why are you talking so much all of a sudden?"

"Coke can be kept at room temperature without worrying about it going bad. It can be placed on ordinary shelves, but milk must be refrigerated." Lucius said, "If you use a cylindrical bottle, it will waste a lot of space, and the milk bottle will be delivered to your home on the same day." It’s a cylindrical glass bottle, you should know that, right?”

"I never drank milk when I was a kid," Severus said indifferently.

"That's why you're not cute at all." Lucius said unhurriedly, "What kind of child wouldn't drink milk?"

"You think babies are cute when they drink milk?" Severus asked in disbelief.

"Draco was cute when he drank milk when he was young, but he was too cute and not manly at all." Lucius said with a smile, "Since then I decided that I must be strict with him."

"I don't think Draco is cute drinking milk," Severus said grimly.

"Speaking of milk, do you remember the story of pouring milk during the Great Depression?" Lucius continued, "If it were me, I would make it into dairy products, such as cheese, which can be stored for decades. Can appreciate..."

Severus listened indifferently to Lucius talking about his business, his eyes scanning the various caves.

The French have a habit of drinking wine with cheese.

There are also many types of cheese in France, and of course it needs milk to be produced. Danone also produces cheese.

Pork can be made into cans and bacon if it cannot be sold, and it can be stored for a few years before being sold. It is a waste to directly destroy it like Americans did during the Great Depression.

Milk flowing in a river is a beautiful metaphor, and this flow is a waste of money.

In the past, the Hebrews wandered in the desert without eating, and the Lord gave them manna to eat. Newton tried to refine this thing when he was still a "novice".

If he had succeeded, there would have been less suffering in the world.

(End of this chapter)