Chapter 861
The Purifiers' Extermination Strategy
Chapter 861 The Purifiers' Extermination Strategy
“Wade Gray…your student…should be in New York right now.”
As soon as Brolin finished speaking, Abigail suddenly looked up, a hint of undisguised surprise flashing in her eyes.
"Wade Gray in New York?" The disheveled middle-aged man next to him, Ilary, blurted out, his face instantly filled with ecstatic joy: "Haha, what a coincidence? Wait, didn't he go back to England?"
"Intelligence can deceive, but logic and technology cannot."
Brolin leaned back in his chair and smiled, "Who else could be capable of hijacking the Stream Mirror signal so easily and precisely?"
“And of course, there’s the UMNO!” Illari showed no intention of flattering his leader, saying without hesitation, “They hijack the FMC’s signal at mealtimes every day, more punctual than advertisements! Even Magee has been forced to lie low and ignore it!”
Brolin gave him a helpless look and said, "Illari, stop fiddling with your 'toys' all the time and start paying attention to the organization's intelligence too."
After a pause, he glanced at Abigail and said, "A year and a half ago, shortly after Abigail resigned, Wade Grey disappeared. Although the news was not made public, the British wizarding community was frantically searching for him."
Illari was taken aback: "Missing? Is that true?"
He thought for a moment and asked, "So? What does this have to do with the current situation?"
"The connection is..." A hint of amusement flashed in Brolin's eyes: "Shortly after his disappearance, the UMNO was able to hijack FMC's broadcast signals. Isn't that interesting?"
"Huh?" Ilari was confused for a moment, then finally understood.
“What’s even more interesting is that shortly after the signal hijacking incident, Wade Grey returned to Hogwarts.” Brolin smiled, his eyes narrowing. “Now do you understand?”
Illari nodded: "I understand... The UMNO party originally didn't have the ability to hijack signals. They obtained the technology from Wade Gray after kidnapping him?"
“That’s it,” Brolin said with satisfaction.
He was about to continue with his speculation when he heard Ilari say hopefully:
"So... Boss, when are you going to be able to bring Vid Gray back? To be honest, although Chief Thorne thinks that a clumsy puppet is more useful, I actually think... my skills still have a lot of room for improvement!"
After he finished speaking, Illari stared intently at Brolin, as if expecting him to casually pull a Wade Gray out of his pocket.
Brolin: "...Illari?"
“Yes!” Illari replied excitedly.
“Go back to your research,” Brolin said gently. “I won’t bother you with these trivial matters anymore.”
"Oh... okay. Actually, I think it's quite interesting..."
Illari scratched his greasy hair, looking somewhat puzzled, and obediently walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.
At that moment, the man standing in the shadows, wearing a raven mask, suddenly spoke. His voice, coming through the mask, seemed to carry a cold, metallic quality: "If Vader Grey's disappearance was the work of the Vigilantes, why did they let him return to Hogwarts alive? According to their style, they should either have absorbed him or eliminated him."
Brolin finally regained his composure, clapped lightly, and said, "That's the most crucial question—why did Grindelwald let him leave? Combining this with another piece of intelligence from that time, I can barely deduce the reason."
He paused deliberately for a moment, looked around, and slowly said:
"Around that time, near a secluded private estate in northern Mexico, a very brief but devastating battle took place."
"I think you all know what the Mexican Ministry of Magic is like. They detected strong magical fluctuations but dared not approach. They waited until everything was over to see..."
"All the buildings above ground have been destroyed, and the Muggle weapons are scattered everywhere like broken toys. Tall stone pillars have sprung up on the once flat ground, and even the terrain has been altered!"
"To avoid making a fuss when Muggles find out, they spent a full two weeks just erasing the traces and altering the memories of the surrounding Muggles."
"And in the last hundred years, only two or three people have been able to achieve this terrifying, pure destructive power!"
He didn't need to mention the names of those few people; everyone understood immediately.
In order to rescue the kidnapped Wade Grey, Dumbledore must have engaged in a fierce, unseen battle with Grindelwald.
Judging from the outcome, victory clearly belonged to the white-bearded headmaster who always stayed in the castle. Otherwise, Wade Gray wouldn't have been able to study peacefully on campus for the past year or so, and wouldn't even have been able to travel abroad at will.
Rolando Stern, who had remained silent since Thorne's death, finally spoke.
His face was clouded with worry as he said, "If Wade Grey really was involved... then we'll be facing not only enemies in the shadows, but also Dumbledore!"
"But to confront that person head-on is tantamount to suicide! That's the White Wizard, whom even Grindelwald fears!"
Neither Grindelwald nor the powerful UMNO were figures that the purgers could easily surpass. They weren't particularly afraid of official power, but they feared these "kindred spirits" who also had one foot in the underworld.
Stern suggested, “Mr. Brolin, perhaps we should back down for now. Let’s abandon some less important locations and allow the Magic Congress to successfully ‘eliminate’ the Purifiers… and resume our activities once things have calmed down.”
"Back down? No, Rolando, that will only push us further into a corner."
Brolin shook his finger and said, "Of course, I won't be like that idiot Thorne and send you guys to assassinate him. That's the dumbest way."
He said with a smile, "Stern, I want you to use all our media channels to publicize the actions of that 'Purger' at the banquet, and then earnestly appeal to... Mr. Wade Gray, the inventor of the Mirror of Flow, to assist the Magical Congress in resolving this crisis."
"At the same time, secretly, another rumor was to be spread—that this darling of Hogwarts actually had an unclear relationship with the Viscideans, and was even a spy planted by Grindelwald."
"I want everyone to pay attention to him, to suspect him, to elevate him to a pedestal on one hand, and to drag him into the mire on the other; to make Dumbledore exhaust himself just trying to protect him, to keep him in the spotlight, so that he can no longer sneak around doing dirty tricks!"
(End of this chapter)