How wizards learn science and technology

Roxy and the wizard Harry are back.

Moreover, they successfully protected the wizard disguised as a biological researcher from the poisonous hand of "Cypher" and brought him back to London.

It was her, not him, to be precise—the wizard returned to his original self after the aging of the Polyjuice Potion expired.

Merlin stood outside the interrogation room with the former Galahad Harry Hart, watching the blond, blue-eyed, tall witch truthfully spit out all the clues she knew, but there were not many that could be used.

She is not a high-level person, she just sneaked into the scientific research department and provided Cypher with the address of the Kings|man headquarters.As for the whereabouts of Cypher himself, he didn't know anything. The witch didn't even know whether "Sypher" was a man or a woman.

"Any thoughts?" Agent Harry asked.

"Try tracking Cypher's mailbox," Merlin said hopelessly, "and the Ministry of Magic computer, maybe you can find... Phoebe?"

Phoebe Lovegood nodded hastily, and she pushed open the door of the interrogation room with the ancient book she bought in Knockturn Alley.

"Your book in Looney," she put the ancient book on the table, her delicate face was extremely serious. "What exactly is it?"

The witch looked surprised when she saw Phoebe's ancient book.

She looked up, looked at Phoebe carefully for a moment, and then said slowly, "That's Cypher's new research."

A mysterious hacker who stands at the top of contemporary technology, what "research results" can he have in terms of magic?

Merlin was a little puzzled and surprised: he had dealt with Cypher more than ten years ago, and an accidental mission ran into Cypher's firewall, which was also an all-round defeat of Merlin in terms of computers.

Now more than ten years have passed, Cypher is not only obsessed with science and technology, but also ready to grasp magic, which is too fantasy.

What's more, Phoebe's deciphering work is not going well.

In Merlin's temporary office, she put the ancient book on the table and frowned.

These days, Phoebe carried the book with her almost everywhere, and refused to let go of it when she ate or slept.But there was no progress. In her own words, it took Phoebe Lovegood so long to persuade the ancient book to show her the real content.

"How's the situation?" Merlin couldn't help asking.

"I can't solve the puzzle," she said, lying on the table in frustration. "The rune is difficult to understand, and the content is always changing the way of expression. It even mocks my lack of intelligence-I'm a Ravenclaw ! My ancient magic literature is among the best!"

God, seeing her swollen face, Merlin really wanted to reach out and touch her head.

But there are already examples of white cats first, it is better not to seek death, not to mention there are more important things now.

So Merlin stretched out his hand: "Let me see."

Phoebe was a little surprised, she blinked, but still stuffed the ancient book between Merlin's slender fingers.

Books that can communicate with people sound amazing.

Before turning the pages of the book, Merlin thought of many strange pictures, but there was nothing.

He opened the book, and the shabby and shabby pages were full of runes. There was no transformation of what Phoebe said, and there was no spectacle like her transformation into a living person.

Merlin flipped through two pages blankly, a book is a book, words are words, everything is normal.

Phoebe: "Look, it's taunting me again!"

Merlin: "What?"

He looked up in bewilderment to see Phoebe's expression of shame and irritation.When the four eyes met, Phoebe was startled, and then understood.

"I see," she exclaimed, "Muggles don't see magic in old books."

Phoebe leaned forward, trying to get closer to the book, and the distance between the two instantly shortened. Merlin couldn't help but move his chair back: "So?"

"So the ancient book can't fool you, what's written on it?" Phoebe asked eagerly.

Merlin glanced at the content.

Ordinary people's universities don't teach ancient runes, and he is a science student.Merlin could only guess based on his knowledge of Runiwen and the context: "This...is indeed a puzzle."

When he read the content of the book, he didn't even care about the distance between the two.After browsing the description on this page, Merlin said firmly, "The answer is tools."

As he spoke, he turned a page: "This page is another puzzle, and the answer is lightning."

And Phoebe was stunned. She obviously didn't expect that after fighting against the ancient book for so long, the final solution would be so easy.

She sighed: "I think the author of this book never thought that he would have Muggle readers."

Merlin got up: "Then I'm still his first 'Muggle' reader."

According to this rule, every page of the book contains puzzles. Merlin quickly flipped through the next few pages and said, "The answers to the puzzles are mostly things that exist in nature. Some of them involve Norse mythology, and some of them I see I don't understand, for example..."

He tried to turn to the previous page, but the moment he touched the page, Merlin suddenly felt his fingers suddenly become extremely heavy.

Merlin:? ? ?

He tried to withdraw his hand, but found that the entire left arm had lost feeling.

The next moment, Phoebe's eyes widened.

Merlin didn't expect Phoebe to have so much strength, and the slender blonde jumped up and ran straight past him.

The two rolled to the ground in a hurry, and the ancient book in Merlin's hand fell out of his hand and fell to the ground.

Phoebe drew out her wand: "Armor for protection!"

An invisible wall crossed in front of the two of them, blocking the magical attacks that burst out from between the pages of the book.With a flick of her wand, Phoebe closed the ancient book, and the attack disappeared instantly.

"Oh my God, Merlin!" Phoebe rushed to Merlin immediately, "Are you alright?"

She panicked completely and helped Merlin up from the ground.He felt the sensation in his left arm slowly recovering, and Merlin sat up straight with his body supported: "I'm fine, what happened just now?"

"It recognizes you, that is the last test of books for readers."

But Phoebe was not at all happy.

She clutched Merlin's skirt tightly, feeling very nervous.Phoebe checked Merlin up and down, and didn't relax until he was sure he wasn't hurt.

Phoebe's eyes immediately turned red.

This startled Merlin, "Phoebe, you—"

The words stopped abruptly after Phoebe wrapped her arms around his neck.

Still the smell of milk mixed with orchids.While Phoebe hugged Merlin tightly, a familiar smell enveloped him.The soft and slender girl threw herself into her embrace, and she buried her head deeply into Merlin's neck.

Merlin froze in place, in a dilemma: "...I'm really fine, Phoebe."

In fact, he wanted to say that your uncle Harry Hart should have warned you not to have physical contact with men so casually.But before he could speak, Merlin sensed that Phoebe was really nervous.

Her heart was beating fast, and the young girl's pulse was still clearly transmitted to Merlin's chest through the clothes.

The tremor of urgency left him speechless.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Phoebe apologized one after another, "I'm sorry, Merlin. I should have thought about it a long time ago. You obviously can't resist magic, but I wasn't prepared. I'm sorry."

Merlin suddenly remembered that Harry had said that her mother died in a magical experiment.

At that moment, all the warnings about etiquette and the image of a lady were stuck in Merlin's throat.

With a sigh, he slowly stretched out his broad palm and landed on Phoebe's back.

"I'm really fine."

A clear voice sounded in Phoebe's ears, and Merlin's voice was soft and gentle.He carefully embraced her.

"It's okay, you protected me, Phoebe, I should thank you."

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