[Zhongyingmei] My students are not right

By the time Aunt Carly drove to Manhattan, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Claire ate several apple pies in the morning, but she didn't feel hungry at all. She looked up at the city forest in Manhattan that had been cut into pieces. The sun calculated the approximate time, and it was almost time for the New York Wizards Market to open.

Claire made up her mind to buy a magic item with a larger storage space after seeing her two thousand light wheels sweeping the cafeteria stairs for a week. It happened that Aunt Carly was coming to New York to visit Bruce, and she happened to be in New York. Take a stroll around the wizard market and shop around for goodies.

American wizards refer to ordinary people as No-Majs, not Muggles as they are called by British wizards, and wizards in the two countries have different attitudes towards humans.

Ordinary people in the British Muggle world do not know the existence of wizards, but the high-level officials of the two groups have always maintained close contact. There is an oil painting in the corner of the Muggle Prime Minister's office. Through the oil painting, you can directly contact the Minister of Magic.

The situation in the United States is more complicated. The Magical Congress of America promulgated a law called Rappaport many years ago, prohibiting wizards from contacting No-Maj, and the legislation stipulates that all wizards in the United States must carry a wand license. It is convenient for the Magic Congress to track all magical actions, and even the wizard market, which is convenient for wizards to buy and sell goods, has strict regulations on the opening time of the market.

Claire's status is rather special, being in the gray area of ​​the various regulations of the Magic Congress.She is an American and grew up in the United States, but because of Lagerfeld's family inheritance, she did not study at the magic school Ilvermorny in the United States at the age of 11, but went to Hogwarts in the United Kingdom. , She belongs to a British wizard, and the laws of the American wizarding world cannot restrain her, so her actions in the United States are much more free than many local wizards.

Probably because the wizarding world in the United States has many rules and is more oppressed, it will naturally erupt in places that most people can't see. Claire thinks that this eruption is the Esme wizarding market.

When she came to visit Aunt Carly a few years ago, Aunt Carly still lived in Manhattan and did not move to West Chester, so she also went to the Esme Wizards Market for a day, which was very fruitful.

Most of the stalls in the Esme Wizard Market are for daily magical goods, just like Diagon Alley, but if you ask the shopkeeper if there is anything special, the shopkeeper will always smile and introduce you to the shop In the inner room, turn on the light, and display the black magic products displayed in the glass cabinet in front of you one by one.

Claire is not very interested in black magic items, but is keen on trying to unravel the curses or miniature magic circles cast on these items by well-known dark wizards, just like a person who is obsessed with mathematics, he will always buy various difficulty levels The same as the mathematics workbook.

Besides the magic items for storage, her biggest purpose is these things.

From 02:30 to 05:30 in the afternoon, it is the opening time of the Esme Wizard Market located on the ground floor of the Esme Building.

Claire bent down, hugged Irina who was squatting on the car seat, turned her head to Aunt Carly who was applying makeup in the mirror, and said, "It's almost time, I have to catch up when the wizard market opens." To the Esme Building."

Aunt Carly paused, took out a map of Manhattan from the bag on the passenger seat, drew a circle around the Chrysler Building with an eyebrow pencil, and drew a circle not far from the Esme Building. Circle, and said: "Come here to find me after you buy something, this is Bruce's research institute."

Claire looked at the two circles on the map. In addition to the Esme Building, there was another place marked by Aunt Carly called the Banner Optical Institute. It can be said to be quite extravagant, and the surroundings are the headquarters buildings of some well-known enterprises, one of which is called "Stark Tower". The more she looked at the name, the more familiar it became.

While she was studying the map, Aunt Carly poked her forehead with a finger: "At least I have been in New York for 11 years, so I won't get lost."

Claire hugged the cat in one hand, and raised the map with the other: "Don't worry, I'm a person who has traveled all over the world."

Although it wasn't her who led the way.

Although the map of Manhattan was more complicated than that of Krakow, it took Claire a few minutes to figure out the way to the Esme Building.

Aunt Carly parked the car between the Esme Building and the Banner Institute of Optics, but it was actually closer to the Esme Building, and she only had to turn a corner and walk to the opposite side of the road.While observing the surrounding landmarks, Claire looked down at the map for guidance. She had been here a few years ago and still had some impressions of the surrounding scenery, so she quickly found the Esme Building.

The Esme Building was invested and built by the electrical appliance company Esme. The first floor of the commercial building is a very large comprehensive electrical appliance supermarket. Movies, Gone with the Wind and Blue Bridge played on loop.

——This is the complaint of an American wizard Claire knew.

When Claire came here last time, "Gilda" was actually playing on TV, and the American wizard who came with her screamed and scratched her hair desperately: "Has Esme empathized! He fell in love with Li Is Tower Hayworth already!"

This time, the TVs in the window have been changed to a different model, with larger screens and thinner bodies. These TVs also do not play movies. A dozen or so screens are facing the window, and they are broadcasting the latest news. The female anchor is wearing a black suit, He said with a serious expression, "I just received the notice that around ten o'clock in the morning, Spider-Man appeared on the Kennedy Bridge. The turmoil caused by this caused damage to more than ten vehicles. Fortunately, no one was injured..."

In front of the window, apart from Claire, there was also a young mother holding a child. The little boy pointed to the Spider-Man flying back and forth on the Kennedy Bridge on TV, and shouted excitedly: "Mom! It's Spider-Man! I want to be Spider-Man in the future too." Spiderman!"

Claire turned to look at the child and shook her head.

Son, you are still young.

When she was about to turn around and leave, the news had changed again. In the picture, a military helicopter waved a huge propeller and slowly landed at the airport. A group of people in white uniforms stepped forward slowly after the propeller stopped turning. A man wrapped in white plastic sheeting was won from the cabin.

Claire blinked. With this posture, is the head of state of any country visiting?

However, there is a head of state who visits wearing a plastic sheet all over his body.

Elena squatted on her shoulder and let out a soft cry. She turned her head and patted Elena on the head, turned around and left the window, and walked towards the back of the building. "Arrested", she didn't know much about it, she just felt that this guy named "Magneto" was a bit pitiful, even if he was arrested, he was forced to wrap himself in a plastic sheet, even if he was wrapped in a plastic sheet, Even on TV.

When she walked to the back of the building, she could no longer hear the news broadcast by the female anchor. It was already 02:30 in the afternoon, and the sun was at its hottest. There is still a shadow everywhere, only a ray of sunlight penetrates through the gap between the two buildings and stops on the fifth stone slab on the ground.

Claire drew out her wand and cast a confusion spell at the entrance of the alley. After making sure that no passing Muggles would see her, she squatted down and tapped the tip of the wand on the tip of the sun on the fifth stone slab. The sunlight immediately became like the moonlight in the water and swayed on the ripples of the water surface. The narrow gap between the fifth and sixth stone slabs gradually expanded, and the stone slabs retracted at the same time, turning into a ladder leading to the ground. .

Claire hadn't met Elena when she came to the United States last time. It was the first time for Elena to come to the Esme Wizard Market. It saw an opening in the ground at first glance, meowed, and took a few steps back. Claire Then he laughed and said, "I can't see it, you usually dare to bite Snape's robe, but this time you were scared by the stairs."

Elena meowed twice in embarrassment.

Claire bent down and lifted Elena up, hung it on her shoulders, and stepped on the stone steps. As she got deeper and deeper, the stone steps she had stepped on before gradually rose up, turning into a piece of stone on the ground. Smoothly ground stone slabs.

And after turning a corner along the revolving staircase, the darkness was dispelled by the sudden light, and the voices of people that should not belong to the ground filled my ears.

Compared to Diagon Alley, this place is more like a large market fair like the Krakow Textile Hall, surrounded by shops selling various items on both sides, there are mobile vendors pushing wheelbarrows in the crowded aisles, and on the dome There were more than a dozen huge chandeliers hanging, illuminating the entire venue as if it were in daylight.

"It feels a little different from previous years." Claire said as she walked down the stairs slowly. At this moment, there was a commotion in the crowd under the stone stairs. The chandelier swayed like a pendulum, reminding her of Spider-Man flying between the beams of the Kennedy Bridge in the morning.

what happened? !

Is it possible that Spiderman not only went to the Kennedy Bridge on weekends, but also visited the Wizard Market?

She raised her head and stared closely at the shaking chandelier. The light flickered, casting a marquee-like yin and yang in front of her eyes. She frowned, only to see a dark creature jumping down from the lampshade. Seeing clearly what this creature looked like, a thing shining with a clear blue light had fallen out of its arms and hit her face straight.

Claire raised her hand to catch it firmly, then looked up, and was facing a flat-mouthed creature covered with black fluff and soft thorns, and the flat-mouthed creature blinked at her with black eyes the size of mung beans, Then it landed on her chest.

Claire: "..."

Elena stood on Claire's shoulder, raised her tail and let out an angry cry, she stretched out her claws to slap the flat-mouthed creature away, but the creature moved very quickly, its claws grabbed Claire's collar and jumped up , successfully occupied Claire's other shoulder.

Elena was furious, grabbed Claire by the nape of the neck and was about to jump over there, the flat-mouthed creature immediately moved towards Claire's face, its soft belly pressed tightly against Claire's face, With Claire's head as the center of the circle, the two animals started a game of chasing each other.

Claire: "..."

She reached out and lifted the two animals stuck on her head. When she saw the flat-mouthed creature, she frowned suddenly: "Sniff?"

At this time, a dozen or so people dressed as wizards chased after them panting, and when Claire pinched the flat-mouthed creature that was lifted in the air by its neck, he let out a long sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I finally caught up."

"Is this the guy you're chasing?" Claire raised the flat-mouthed creature with a wooden face, "Sniff?"

"Yes, sniff." One of the middle-aged men wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, "You can shake it."

Claire shook the snuff in her hand as she said, and then watched a pile of sparkling pocket watches, gold coins, necklaces, bracelets and other items falling out of its small body, among which even There was also a civilization stick studded with colored gemstones, which fell straight down and hit her instep.

Claire: "..."

Xixiu blinked his eyes at her again, with an innocent expression on his face.