Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 252 Death
There was no roar in the roaring letter, only a voice as cold as a glacier.
"The people on the sea are not the losers who left Nurmengard. Find them as soon as possible. If you can't find them on the sea, send a separate team to wait for them at the end of the Arctic. I hope to get good news from you in the end. If you mess up, then die in the Arctic!"
After hearing the contents of the letter, Rodolphus and Rabastan looked at each other.
Along with this letter, they also received news from France.
It had been three days since the night the reformatory was breached, and they were only now learning the full story of what had happened, as well as Voldemort's defeat at the hands of Dumbledore.
The Lestrange brothers were not fools. They heard a hidden meaning in the tone of Voldemort's howling letter.
The problem at the correctional facility did not come from the front battlefield, but from the sea they were searching!
This made Rodolphus very nervous and gloomy .
Things started to get serious.
When the Lestrange brothers took on this mission, they thought it was a semi-vacation mission during their free time after returning to England from France where they had made great contributions.
Because when Voldemort first received the news from Azkaban, he identified the man investigating his past deeds on the sea as Grindelwald, and asked the Lestrange brothers to lead people to track him down, just to let them find his whereabouts. In the end, Voldemort would definitely have to go and face this big man who stirred up the world fifty years ago.
But now things have gone wrong. The person on the sea is not Grindelwald, but Voldemort, judging from his condition and the meaning expressed in the howling letter he sent.
It sounded like the matter was to be completely handed over to Rodolphus and the other two, and an extreme order was issued that was no different from a military order.
This undoubtedly brought them great pressure.
"What should we do?"
Rabastan asked uneasily .
The Howling Letter, which had completed its function, after carrying Voldemort's voice, turned into a wisp of gray ash and fell into the sea.
Rodolphus's face also looked very ugly, and he sighed deeply.
"What can we do? We have to do whatever our master tells us to do. We never have the chance to choose. We can only do our best to get this done. No, we must complete it!"
His tone was very firm, but one could also hear a hint of lingering doubt in that determination.
Even if the person they are looking for and chasing now is not Grindelwald, he will definitely not be an unknown person in the wizarding world.
And the ocean is so vast, how can they be sure that the person will follow Voldemort's original itinerary and will definitely reach the end of the journey?
Fortunately, their master is no longer a tyrannical madman. He will not assign them an impossible task and force them to die, which would be completely meaningless.
At the same time as the Howler was delivered, the Lestrange brothers also gained the right to mobilize all the Death Eaters in the UK.
Although compared to the entire ocean, even if all the wizards in the Ministry of Magic were deployed, they would be like a drop in the ocean and insignificant, but no matter what, they had no worries about manpower.
Rodolphus did not neglect the investigation of clues regarding the sea area where the tower was located.
He asked the Death Eaters to capture a number of mermaids from the surrounding area and bring them to him, and he also recruited wizards from the Ministry of Magic who could understand the mermaid language to interrogate these mermaids in order to understand what had happened here not long ago.
However, the Hogwarts did not stay at the tower for long, only less than five days.
Even if there were mermen who knew that such a ship of people had visited Sir Stoke, only a few of them knew that. Most of the mermen only saw the rocket that flew out from the bottom of the sea and produced a huge explosion that day, and then they hurriedly fled when the explosion occurred, and did not return until the explosion subsided.
As for the causes and consequences of the explosion, no one would know. Therefore, Rodolphus got very few clues from the mermaid. The only thing he could be sure of was that the tower that originally stood here had collapsed.
And the old man named Stoker who lived there as mentioned by Voldemort was completely destroyed.
In fact, if he could stay here longer and have enough patience to interrogate more mermaids, he would most likely be able to obtain clues that a large ship under the flag of Durmstrang once appeared in this sea area.
However, Voldemort's Howling Letter lingered in Rodolphus' mind like a death warrant . After the interrogation failed, he did not dare to delay or stay for a moment, and immediately took his men to continue searching northward along the route provided by Voldemort.
This search lasted for more than half a month. They flew north on their broomsticks day and night at a very fast speed, far exceeding Jon and his crew who had deviated from the fastest route and were driving a boat.
So, just when John and his companions had just arrived at the northernmost part of the Norwegian Sea, Rodolphus led the Death Eaters deep into the waters of the Arctic .
Even when they had reached the final destination marked for them by Voldemort, they did not find even a trace of a wizard.
Such a situation inevitably caused panic in the hearts of the two Lestrange brothers.
They were afraid that the man on the sea would give up on their ultimate goal, and then they would never be able to complete the task Voldemort had given them, and in the end they would not be able to produce any results.
Compared with this possibility, they are more willing to believe that the person who caused great trouble to Voldemort had deviated from the original route and was heading to the Arctic.
In order to confirm his conjecture, Rodolphus sent a large number of Death Eaters to conduct a large-scale search in the waters from the Norwegian Sea to the Arctic Circle.
If you spot any suspicious people or ships, report them immediately. If you see a wizard, you must find out his background at all costs.
It was in this situation that the Hogwarts was discovered by two Death Eaters who called themselves "Helky and Heinz".
Just like everyone else on the ship thought there was nothing wrong with the two of them, the two Death Eaters didn't see any flaws in John's response. But even if there were no flaws, according to the instructions Rodolphus gave them, any wizard they encountered must be found out and reported.
Therefore, they did not ignore the matter. After pretending to deal with it, they followed the Hogwarts from a distance and reported what they had encountered and their location.
