Chapter 857
Secret
Chapter 857 Secret
—Is Grindelwald coming?
It must be said that this news stunned Wade for a moment.
But at present, at least today, he doesn't have much time to think about this.
After leaving the FMC's US branch, Antoine had to deal with internal affairs of the UMNO party, and Wid didn't have time to catch up on sleep.
Last night, the videos recorded by the beetle puppets were basically reviewed, but the files collected by the ant puppets haven't been organized yet!
Upon returning to the Traveller's Inn, Vader immediately went back to the wardrobe space and saw countless tiny ants waving their six legs, leaving dense text on the parchment that covered the floor.
Meanwhile, the other puppets were busy drying paper, adding ink to the ants, organizing intelligence, and cleaning.
As soon as Wade sat down at his desk, he saw a stack of documents being carried to the table by the little crabs with a clattering sound.
Meanwhile, Vilan and Victor also had a lot of documents piled up in front of them. They sighed and immediately began to deal with them.
There's no way around it; even though they're all puppets, there's a huge difference in intelligence between them.
This has nothing to do with body size or appearance; it only lies in the difference in the ideas that Vader imbued them with when he created them.
In general, mass-produced puppets of the same type have a simple mindset. They are like ant colonies in nature, without much complex emotion or thought, and without fear of death, but they can only perform some relatively simple tasks.
When it comes to sorting and analyzing intelligence, the ant puppets are not up to the task and can only leave it to the smarter puppets—such as those with the character "维" in their names.
Viran picked up a document and had only read the beginning when he saw Vader take a bottle of stimulant from the potion display shelf and hurriedly say:
"Master, go get some sleep! When you wake up, we'll be able to organize all the data!"
Wade shook his head: "No, the two of you aren't enough."
After saying that, he drank the energy drink in one gulp, and his mind immediately became as clear as if it had been washed with ice water, although his eyes were still slightly red from not having slept all night.
Victor frowned and shook his head, disagreeing, "If we don't have enough people, we can call Vidas and the others over. But you're still growing, you should get plenty of sleep."
“They have their own mission, and besides, I don’t want this place to attract attention.” Wade opened the file and said, “Alright, just this once, let’s get to work!”
For a moment, the room was filled with the rustling sound of parchment being rubbed together and the footsteps of the puppets delivering documents back and forth.
Wade's gaze swept quickly across the text before him, his brain working like the most sophisticated instrument, piecing together and verifying the fragmented information with the clues he already knew.
That manor belonged to some high-ranking official of the Magic Congress, who apparently had collected a great deal of secrets from within the Congress.
For example, Congress once set up secret prisons to detain and study the secrets of the Obscurians;
For example, during the later stages of World War II, Congress reached a secret agreement with a moderate faction of the Muggle government in exchange for temporary peace and certain benefits, but this was almost completely covered up.
Furthermore, Reginald Perez repeatedly and secretly altered the coordinates of the FlooNet by abusing his position.
Aldridge Corbit is suspected of abusing the Oblivion Charm to alter the memories of Muggles, and his teammates on missions have a higher mortality rate than others;
A senior member of Congress, Reva Hayes, is passionate about collecting dangerous items related to the dark magic.
Another deputy director of the Enforcement Division, Charlie Baker, secretly funded a black market hunting team that poached certain protected magical creatures, among other things.
In short, once these secrets are exposed, the officials involved will face death at best, and spend their entire lives in prison at worst.
Even some secrets of high-ranking Muggle officials were recorded—such as "the US president has been unwell recently," "a certain conglomerate has recently conducted several unusually large transactions through offshore banks," and "the military has secretly facilitated the transfer of weapons to third parties to support the Muggle war," and so on.
Vader calmly observed these secrets that were enough to cause a stir in both the wizarding and Muggle worlds, recording the useful parts as he worked. Just then, Viran handed him a document.
"Master, take a look at this."
Wade opened the folder, then frowned slightly.
The document contained the background information of seven or eight Magic Congress officials, and at least one of their relatives had died unexpectedly for various reasons.
First on the list was Lyra Picqueli, followed by Rex Grimm, Delo Calvin, Elliott Born, and others, as well as some who hadn't attended the party last night.
The reason the file owner put them in one folder was a simple statement—
[Perhaps related to the purgers].
"Judging from this, it seems that the Purifiers will try to absorb those... wizards who may have a grudge against the magical world."
Vilan said softly, "Lyra Picqueli's mother was kidnapped and killed by a crazed dark wizard. Lyra was just born at the time and was in danger as well."
"Ms. Serafina Picqueli was the President of Congress at the time. She had the opportunity to save Leila's mother... but it was a critical time of war, and for the sake of the greater good, she... missed Leila's father's distress call, and the siblings broke off their relationship because of it."
Wade also saw the more detailed records in the document.
Lyra Picqueli's smooth sailing after entering the Ministry of Magic was not only due to her outstanding abilities, but also inseparable from Seraphim's secret support.
However, Leila herself and her father did not seem to appreciate this, and the two sides remained estranged.
But looking at the poor girl in the document who had lost her mother at a young age, and recalling the cold eyes in the video not long ago, Wade shook his head.
“She couldn’t be a purger. Because she must know very well that cooperating with a bunch of rats hiding in the shadows would only destroy the foundation upon which she climbs up.”
Wade calmly analyzed, "If she really had contact with those people when she was young, she would now try every means to eradicate them completely, so as not to let those guys become a stain on her reputation."
—Although there is little evidence, that's the feeling Leila Picqueli gave Wade.
“What’s the situation with that Grimm?” Victor asked from the other side. “Is he a suspect? I remember that guy seemed like a pretty decent Auror.”
When Wade first set foot in the United States, he appeared to be accompanied only by Moody and Lupin, but in reality, his puppets were also at the airport, some having just arrived and others pretending to be there to pick people up.
Rex Grimm was among those who greeted them alongside Salina.
(End of this chapter)