[Comprehensive] Wine is fine

"There seems to be no one here."

"We asked to be evacuated months ago, but the owls and the other soldiers were left here. As we have always said, they are our important assets and no one can peep."

The leader led the way with his wand raised. He was one of the researchers here a few months ago and had just entered the base.Originally, this was a satisfying job, government personnel, scientific research funding, except that it was too far from the city, everything else was excellent.

But the good times didn't last long, he only worked here for a few months, and then the project here was stopped.Moreover, the country was in turmoil, and he didn't care about these little researchers at all. In addition, he spent a lot of money, and he lived a poor life in just a few months.Then he thought of Yan Xuan, who was also present when she checked her last time.

The magic wand, robe, and broomstick made him sure that Yan Xuan was a wizard, and he occasionally went to the bar in the wizarding world to see the high reward posted by Britain all over the world.The person in the portrait was the brainwashed owl in the base, and he was moved, a huge bounty would allow him to live a good life for several months or years.

So he sent a message to the United Kingdom, describing Yanxuan's characteristics in detail: artificial legs, high force value, likes to drink and so on.The other party sent a reply soon, asking him to give an exact address, and they will send someone to confirm the situation.It's a pity that the turmoil in the Muggle world has also affected the local wizarding world to a certain extent, and the wizarding world is also very strict with the procedures for visitors from other countries.So much so that he spent several months of starving life before he finally saw the two British visitors.

He only wanted money, and he didn't pay attention to the status or appearance of the people who came.

"This is our laboratory, and the owl is here."

He watched the two Britons look at each other, and one of them said:

"You open the door."

Brits are trouble.

Fortunately, he still remembered the password, otherwise he could only use magic to open the door.

"I remember they are in the innermost device." He waited for the iron door to be fully opened, and recalled some details to convince the two people who were already a little excited, "Speaking of which, the owl has a lover, and the one next to her In the device. Do you want to see that guy?"

"Let us see Yan Xuan first."

They mentioned the name Yanxuan at least ten times along the way, so it can be deduced that this is the real name of the owl.

"one two Three……"

The two Britons walked behind the former Soviet man, watching each other suddenly panicked and looked around.

"What happened? Where is Yanxuan?"

The last contraption was wide open, empty.

"The device was turned on. I'll see if there is anything else in the lab that has been touched later."

"We feel even more that you are teasing us, sir!"

The former Soviets waved their hands again and again.

"The device can only be opened from the outside, and if it is not activated by the machine, the person frozen in it will not wake up. So someone must have taken her! The Winter Soldier next to her is not here anymore, someone must have taken her away Killed them both!"

He was the one who wanted a bounty, so he wouldn't let himself lose the chance to get such a large sum of money!

"The owl was here before, if you don't believe me, I can take you to the data room to find her mission records for you! Video data, you will believe me!"

A certain Englishman grabbed his companion and gently asked him to show them the so-called video material.They walked behind the Soviets and communicated by drawing letters with their wands.

Howard said he was killed by a killer called the Winter Soldier.

You can't be sure this guy is telling the truth just because of that!

He knew about Yanxuan's situation, and he also knew about the Winter Soldier.Doesn't this explain something?

I just want to meet people, not just a message!

"This... is the video data of their mission in December last year..."

The cassette buzzed in the computer, and a path appeared.If Howard had been there, he would have recognized that this was the road on which his accident had occurred.

The two held their breaths, watching the car crash into the tree trunk at an extremely fast speed, watching the two people getting off the motorcycle behind them, hearing Howard calling out two names—Barnes and Yanxuan, watching the man fight Howard died, Yan Xuan strangled Maria...

"What did you do to her?"

The younger-looking English wizard asked the person standing aside.

"answer me!"

A silent and wandless Imperius Curse was used by him, but his companions didn't stop him, they all wanted to know what was going on.

"Every time we activate them, we will brainwash them. Wash away their original memories, and use passwords to make them obey our instructions...to complete the tasks we want them to complete...missions...missions...after completion The function of the password will disappear, but the memory will not come back, and it will still obey our orders, which has been set up from the beginning..."

Several times he tried to break free from the spell, but he couldn't, so he could only obediently tell everything he knew.

"What about her!"

"...we put them all back in the freezer before we left, and someone who wasn't familiar with the operation wouldn't know how to open it. I suspect someone took them before us."

When Tom and Dumbledore walked out of this base together, the effect of the compound potion had long since expired, but that guy didn't see their real appearance.After Tom asked what he wanted to ask, he rewarded him with a coma and let him sleep there. It's not his business whether he will freeze to death or not.

He rummaged through the materials in the reference room, and took away all the paper materials. After weighing, all the video materials flew into the backpack that Yan Xuan had left him with the Flying Curse.The entire reference room was empty, only the brand-new traces on the dusty cabinet showed that something had been placed on it before.

It's just that if you want to watch the video data, you must use the so-called Muggle computer. As two people who live in the magic world, computers are really useless, so I can only go back and ask Howard for advice.

Howard was so comfortable in the portrait that Dumbledore could see him chatting with others in other portraits every day.Not at all like someone who just died not long ago.

He's even more alive after Maria's portrait is done!Since Maria's portrait was also painted as a youthful appearance at his strong request, the two people look more compatible in the portrait.The vitality of the young people is also more manifested.

Running hand in hand in various portraits of Hogwarts, looking at the scenery here, chatting with the portraits there, could not have been happier.

"Let's go, Tom." Dumbledore looked at Tom who didn't know whether he was pretending to be calm or really calmed down. "Go back to Hogwarts and listen to Howard."

"Don't call me by that name." The black-haired man frowned and glared at Dumbledore. He had obviously changed his name for so many years, but this man still only called him by his original name. "Remember to take a sip of Polyjuice Potion, Albus. Otherwise there's no way to explain how two of England's biggest names are in this country."

"You two don't call me when you go out!"

"Don't blame us for not calling you if you are dead."

Tom snapped back casually, and naturally sat on the soft chair by the window of the principal's office, and stretched out his hand to tease little Phoenix next to him.This little guy just passed nirvana a few days ago, but now his hair has grown a lot.

"You brat! Do you know how to respect the elders!" Howard waved his fist in the portrait, but unfortunately he couldn't hit it.

These two people have always looked like this every time they met since they got acquainted.Dumbledore still remembers that when Tom saw Howard in the portrait for the first time, he said very bluntly that his scourge finally didn't have to scourge others.

"Who...is this from? Howard, do you remember what an owl looks like?"

Dumbledore picked up from the table a thick stack of letters that had been sent to him in the past two days. Some of them he could still recognize the sender from the handwriting, but there was one that made him not sure.

"They are all very ordinary owls. But one of them looked very tired, and it took a long time to rest after flying here before leaving."

"Does it sound familiar to you?" He handed the letter to Tom, and it was written in broken English: Albus Dumbledore accepts it.

Silently, Tom took out the reply letter written by Yan Xuan from his backpack. It was written by the same person in crappy handwriting.

my dear Albus,

Forgive me for not reconnecting with you decades later.I don't know if you are still alive. If you are alive, I think this letter can be sent to you. If you are dead, the owl will return with the letter.

Speaking of which, I sent one to Tom, too, and if you're alive, he must be alive too.

During this period of time, I have been living in a normal way, and I have been tricked by a guy I have always hated until now, so that I can recover.If he hadn't died of illness in the past [-] years, I guess I would beat him to death in front of my eyes regardless of his possible advanced age.

It could be seen that Yan Xuan was very angry, and the force with which she wrote left a deep imprint on the paper.The letter was also very short, and after recounting the past, she talked about her so-called current situation.After waking up, Yan Xuan seemed to be doing well. She said that she had regained the command of a small team, and that she was going to find an opportunity to ascend to a high position in the next step, guarding against them, and seeing who would dare to do anything unfavorable to her.

If you remember Howard Stark...

Forget it, you don't need to say it, I will personally go to the grave of him and his wife to say sorry.My own sins, I will apologize myself.

Let it end here, Albus.If I can wrap up my plans in a short time, I can find time to go to England to find you.

My friends don't know how many are left in the world...

But she still didn't say where she was or who she was working for.

Howard carefully read the letter floating in front of the portrait. There were many doubts in Yanxuan's letter, but if she didn't tell them, they would have no way of knowing the truth.

"We still have to wait for her to come back."

The three men in the room looked at the envelope that had returned to the table in silence, and that was the only way they could do it now.They couldn't find any specific trace of Yanxuan, and everything was arranged before she came back.

Futile

of.