Chapter 390
Rescue
Chapter 390 Rescue
"Mabel..."
A boy pulled the girl's sleeve and said, "Haley...Haley might have..."
The girl didn't say anything, but just looked at Vader with stubborn and persistent eyes, her fists clenched tightly, and her thin body was like a volcano ready to erupt.
Wade asked, "Haley is also your companion?"
"Yes," said Rita Skeeter. "She was nine years old... and was taken away about an hour ago."
Vader looked at their expressions and knew that these people were not lying, so he asked, "Do you know where she was taken?"
"I know." Mabel nodded vigorously and said in a trembling voice, "I know the route."
"Michal."
Wade waved his hand, and the firebird suddenly appeared, flying back and forth above him, tilting its head to look at Wade, and letting out a friendly cry.
"Protect Rita and these children and don't let anyone hurt them," said Wade.
Michal nodded, then dropped down between the railings above and looked carefully at the children below.
Weed looked at Mabel and said, "Lead the way, let's go find the child."
"follow me."
Mabel ran without hesitation, her long brown hair flying behind her.
Rita Skeeter watched the two men leave and wanted to call out to them, but in the end she didn't say a word.
Hearing the sound of the iron door closing automatically, she suddenly felt very insecure.
Rita Skeeter's magical abilities are only focused on becoming an excellent gossip reporter, and when it comes to fighting, she's not even as good as some third-year students.
——Wader is gone, but Dumbledore should be here soon, right?
After all, there are so many children here, the principal will definitely not ignore it.
But with so many people, how could they escape safely? No matter how powerful Dumbledore was, he couldn't summon a boat out of thin air, right?
If it were just the three of them, escaping should be easy...
Rita Skeeter couldn't help but have such thoughts, but at the same time she was deeply aware of her own meanness.
At the same time, she thought of something she dared not admit -
In Rita Skeeter's mind, she, Wade and Dumbledore are all wizards and should be considered "a group of people".
But those two people probably didn't think so...
Although they came to save her, if they had to make a choice, I'm afraid they would give priority to saving the younger children...
Thinking of the terrible Muggles on this island, and the help the children had given her in the past few days, Rita Skeeter bit her nails anxiously, leaving her nails, which she had carefully cared for, with pits and dents.
Suddenly, she heard strange noises coming from behind her. Rita Skeeter, who had been a little nervous recently, thought that the guards had woken up, so she turned around quickly.
"boom!"
Blood splattered everywhere.
"what----"
Rita Skeeter screamed uncontrollably.
The one who took the stick from the guard and smashed his head with it was a red-haired teenager who looked back at Rita Skeeter with a blank expression.
Rita covered her mouth in horror.
Luke stood in front of her and said timidly in his usual fearful voice: "She is a witch... She is different from those people."
The children in the same cell stood in front of Rita, and their thin bodies were like a fragile wall.
Rita Skeeter couldn't hold back her tears and sobbed softly.
She had just been hesitating whether to get rid of these "burdens", but they protected her once again.
The red-haired boy turned his eyes away without saying a word, raised his baton high again, and smashed it down with all his strength!
"Boom!"
Rita confirmed that she heard the sound of bones breaking. She didn't dare to look anymore. She turned her head and looked at the dazzling and burning firebird for help.
Michal combed his "feathers" with his mouth.
Vader's orders only told it to protect the children and Rita Skeeter, not the guards.
Although Michal is not a human, it can still tell who its enemies are.
This firebird was born in a special environment. Unlike other mythical birds like the Phoenix, it loves destruction and has an indifference to life in its bones.
Rita's calls for help were in vain, so she could only quietly shrink at the feet of the Firebird, clinging to the railing, helplessly watching the scene in front of her.
Led by the red-haired boy, even the children who were still in the cells came out one after another. They swarmed forward and began to attack the other guards.
Hit with a stick, stab with a knife, punch and kick...
Some people even lay on the ground like wild dogs, biting with their teeth full of resentment.
The scene was extremely bloody and horrific.
Rita Skeeter tried hard not to vomit. She didn't dare to look, nor did she dare to close her eyes. She felt an indescribable fear for these children in her heart.
Muggle... Is this also a Muggle...
Aren't Muggles supposed to be clumsy, silly, always easily fooled and unable to understand anything?
What's going on on this island?
Why are all these muggles so scary?
……
Although Mabel had always acted brave and strong, she actually had very poor physical strength. After climbing two flights of stairs from the dungeon, she was already out of breath.
But she didn't dare stop for a moment - perhaps a one-second difference could mean the difference between life and death for Haley.
Suddenly, she heard a voice very close: "Come up."
Mabel turned her head and saw Vader sitting on a broom, holding out his hand to her.
The broom was actually floating in the air!
Mabel was very surprised, but she didn't hesitate. She took Wade's hand and jumped onto the broom, sitting in front of him.
"You point the way," said Wade.
"Okay." Mabel calmed herself down and pointed, "Fly to the right!"
Vader pushed his feet into the ground and they flew out.
This time he brought with him a Firebolt that could reach speeds of up to 150 miles per hour.
But in the building, Vader naturally couldn't fly very fast, and even so, it was still much faster than Mabel running at full speed.
A ball of fire flashed outside the window and the sound of glass breaking was heard all around.
After leaving the dungeon, Mabel discovered that the situation outside had changed drastically. Most of the base was engulfed in flames, and many soldiers in black clothes fell to the ground, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.
"Are there really only two of you here?"
She faced the wind and couldn't help but ask loudly.
"of course."
Wade said as he turned the broom in the direction Mabel pointed. After turning the corner, he saw several people in white coats running away with computers in their arms.
Those people were also shocked when they saw Wade, and they hurriedly pulled out their guns.
Vader waved his wand and several people fell down.
Mabel saw those people still groaning and struggling on the ground, and she shouted quickly, "Don't let them go, these guys are demons! They all deserve to die!"
"Don't worry, they can't run away!" Wade said, but the broom did not stop.
Mabel heard a tinkling sound and turned her head hard, and saw some black marbles the size of beans falling to the ground and bouncing.
—A bomb?
She thought subconsciously, expecting those people to be blown to pieces.
Suddenly, the black marble quickly grew larger.
They turned into mantises, centipedes, spiders and scorpions that were taller than humans.
Mabel's mouth dropped open.
A shrill scream was heard from behind.
The broom turned a corner and the scene over there could no longer be seen. Mabel turned her head dully, her heart beating rapidly and sweat pouring out of every pore of her body, but her hands could only hold the broom stiffly.
"Mabel, which way should we go ahead? Mabel?"
"Oh, oh... turn left, turn left twice in a row, then go upstairs, turn right..."
Read the error-free version at 69shuba! 6=9+shu_ba is the first to publish this novel.
Mabel stammered, breathing rapidly.
"Are you scared?" Wade comforted him, "Don't be afraid, those are just insects that have been enlarged by the spell. They will change back in a while."
"Insects?"
Mabel thought to herself: Isn’t this some prehistoric monster?
"Yes." Wade thought she was wondering why they used insects, and explained, "Dumbledore didn't let me kill - I promised him."
"Oh……"
Mabel responded doubtfully, wanting to say something but not knowing where to start.
Isn't using insects considered killing?
The wizard's logic...isn't it a little bit strange...
Come to think of it, everything that happened today was so strange... It felt like a vivid dream, mixing together her most fearful and most desired scenes...
Is the base really destroyed? Can they really be saved?
Is the person behind me real?
She looked at the empty corridors, the floor littered with papers and debris left behind by people fleeing, broken glass, lights out, and even bloodstains on the walls and floors.
A man who had been shot was lying in the corner, his glasses had slipped off, and there was still an incredible expression on his face.
Mabel remembered that man—how many times had she seen him standing behind the glass wall, talking to the researcher in a negotiating tone:
"The experimental effect is not very obvious, how about increasing the dosage?"
"The blood doesn't seem to be anything special. Can we draw the bone marrow again?"
"I hope to do more comparative experiments. It doesn't matter if they fail. They are all consumables anyway, and new ones will be delivered next month."
Mabel pinched herself so hard that tears came to her eyes.
It doesn’t seem like a dream.
She stretched out her hand again, as if wanting to verify Vader's authenticity.
Although Vader was riding on the same broom with her, he remained alert and never took off his wire cloak.
Seeing Mabel with a dazed expression, pointing her finger at him as if she wanted to pinch him, Wade immediately warned:
"If you lay a hand on me, I'll throw you overboard—have you forgotten that we're on our way to rescue Hayley?"
"Haley!"
Mabel woke up as if from a dream and finally returned to her normal state.
"The door here needs to scan the eyes of the people inside before it can be opened. We need to find a guy wearing a green surgical suit..."
Before Mabel could finish her words, she saw that the metal door in front of her, which was supposed to be locked, had opened a crack, and a string of bloody footprints on the ground extended messily from the inside to the outside.
Mabel suddenly had a very bad premonition. She jumped off the broom, rolled on the ground, then climbed up using her hands and feet and rushed into the door.
Wade looked at the bloody footprints on the ground and saw that they were all the size of adults, so he threw out another handful of black marbles.
A dozen insects quickly grew larger, and with a point of Vader's wand, these guys followed the direction of the footprints with a clattering sound.
As he walked into the room, he heard Mabel screaming, unable to tell whether it was pain or fear.
Wade walked in quickly and first saw several conveyor belts that looked like an assembly line factory. After seeing the objects on them clearly, he realized that this was a "processing plant" that used humans as raw materials.
He recalled the confession of the administrator before -
"Blood, organs, bone marrow, skin... anything is fine... As long as someone can afford it, we can provide it... There are also people who specialize in collecting bones and eyes... Especially the sphenoid bones..."
On the conveyor belt, a head with its sphenoid bone removed was placed casually. Perhaps it was about to be "processed", but a sudden power outage caused it to stop halfway.
When Mabel was on the verge of collapse, she saw the hair on it, took a deep breath, pressed her chest, and said while breathing hard:
"No... He is not Haley... Haley, Haley may still be alive... I must find her..."
She ran two steps and suddenly fell down. Her whole body twitched violently. She clutched her neck tightly with both hands and gasped like a dehydrated fish in death.
Wade quickly moved closer, took out a bottle of healing potion and gave it to her, used a spell to stop the girl from convulsing, then pulled her hand away and took a look.
Mabel had a black collar on her neck, which was almost embedded in her flesh. It was making a slight buzzing sound, and one could even faintly smell the smell of burning flesh.
Her neck was almost entirely covered with bright red burns, which looked like blood flowing out after beheading at first glance, very scary.
Wade frowned and pointed his wand. The collar made a "click" sound, but it didn't break. There were just a few cracks on it.
But the humming stopped, and Mabel took a deep breath and then began to cough violently.
Vader was about to continue unlocking her collar, but the girl pushed him hard.
"Don't worry about me... go find Hailey..."
"...Okay, be careful."
Wade knew that there was no time to waste, so he placed two little puppets beside her and quickly ran to one end of the room.
——If one end of the conveyor belt is connected to the place where corpses are processed, then the other end is naturally connected to the place where surgery is performed.
He pushed the door open with a clang, walked through a place full of picture books and old toys, then through an empty operating room, and then in the third room, he finally saw a figure.
On the blood-stained bed, the girl with her stomach ripped open lay there, as pale as a paper doll.
She looked so small and so weak, as if her soul had gone to another world, leaving behind only a porcelain body.
Vader was stunned.
Although he didn't actually have any expectations, the scene before him still gave him a great shock.
He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly found that... the girl's eyelids trembled very slightly.
……
"Cough cough cough..."
Mabel was lying on the ground, coughing violently. She tried to stand up but failed.
She didn't understand why she had become so weak - her heart was beating as if it was going to burst out of her chest, she had no strength in her body, her mouth was dry, her head was dizzy, and her breathing was extremely difficult.
Suddenly, Mabel stopped struggling and turned to look to the side.
"Jingle Bell……"
She heard a familiar ringing sound.
(End of this chapter)