Chapter 169 Department of Mysteries

"He is being hunted by the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters?"

Sophie stared at Sherlock, her tone of nervousness was very obvious.

This witch must have a story with Eddie. When thinking about what Eddie said about their breaking up at school and Amy's mother being unknown, Sherlock couldn't help but think of a lot of love-hate entanglements and bloody love triangle stories in his mind.

But now is obviously not the time to think about these messy things.

"That's right, so you have to take me to find Mrs. Selwyn in the Department of Mysteries as soon as possible. The sooner we find her, the sooner Eddie's situation will become safe!"

Sophie hurriedly put on a robe over her pajamas, grabbed Sherlock's arm and took him with her, Apparating into the Ministry of Magic.

The Ministry of Magic also has a permanent anti-Apparition magic, but it is ineffective for formal employees. However, unless there is a very urgent situation, no wizard will Apparate directly to the Ministry of Magic.

That was very impolite, and employees usually flushed the toilet when they went to work (in the original book, when Voldemort was in power, Mr. Weasley used Apparition to go to the office directly).

Now of course they couldn't care so much, and Apparition landed directly on the sixth floor of the Ministry of Magic.

"I have never been to the ninth floor where the Office is located, so I can only go to the sixth floor first and take the elevator!" Sophie explained, and then she took Sherlock to run all the way to the elevator. Every place they passed by suddenly lit up.

The entire Ministry of Magic seemed very lonely. At this time, there would not even be wizards on night duty. Except for the Aurors patrolling the Ministry, it was empty and there was no one.

Before they came to the elevator, they suddenly found that there was a motionless person lying on one side of the corridor!

Sophie walked forward with a pale face and saw the face of the wizard who was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

"It's Brooke! There are only two teams left in the Auror Command. They will take turns on duty tonight!"

The wizard named Brooke didn't die. He was lucky that he was just hit by the Stunning Spell. Sherlock looked at him with a frown.

"Those undercover in the Ministry of Magic have already started to act. The Death Eaters in Sheffield helped them to divert most of the Aurors' attention. Now the defense of the entire Ministry of Magic is very empty. It is not known how many Death Eaters the traitor brought to the Ministry of Magic for the time being."

"What should we do now?" Sophie said in a trembling voice, "Should we find a way to notify other people in the Ministry of Magic first, or go directly to the Department of Mysteries?"

She was just an ordinary civilian in the Ministry of Magic, with no combat experience, and she didn't even know how to use the Shield Charm, so she couldn't form a combat force at all.

Sherlock didn't count on her, and he continued to run towards the elevator.

"Do you have a way to notify all the Ministry of Magic staff within 30 minutes and ask them to rush back to the Ministry of Magic?"

"Even the Minister of Magic can't do this!"

"Then there's no need to notify them. There's no time at all. Let's go over and take a look at the situation first."

Sherlock released the control magic. The Ministry of Magic obviously had a very special magical protection. The hopeless and unfavorable control magic had been subtly restricted and squeezed. It could no longer extend to the maximum distance of ten meters, and could only barely reach a distance of eight meters.

But even if it was only eight meters, such a perception range was enough.

They walked into the elevator and started to go down.

Sophie was very nervous, but she pursed her lips tightly, and did not show any intention of retreating and leaving. She still followed Sherlock down.

When they arrived at the lobby of the Ministry of Magic on the eighth floor, they saw two Aurors lying on the ground, which made Sherlock's heart sink slightly.

There must be more than one Death Eater in the Ministry of Magic!

Finally, in darkness and silence, they arrived at the ninth floor, the floor where the Department of Mysteries was located.

Sophie held the spell tightly in her hand. After Sherlock walked out of the elevator, he took out the bag of wands and scattered more than 30 wands around.

There couldn't be more. The corridor in the Ministry of Magic had limited space, and Sherlock's control of magic range was suppressed. If there were more, the densely packed wands would be crowded in the narrow corridor, and the effect would be discounted.

After walking out of the elevator, there was only a straight corridor in front of them. Walking along the corridor, they saw another Auror lying on the ground unconscious.

According to Sophie, there are now two teams of Aurors left in the Ministry of Magic, that is, ten people, including Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office. There are a total of eleven Aurors. They found that four of them had been knocked out by the spell!

After walking along the corridor for about two minutes, they came to the end.

There is a black door here. The door is very simple. There is no door handle or any sign on it, and it has been opened a gap.

Sherlock walked to the door and used his magic to detect the scene behind the door in advance. After making sure that there was no one ambushing at the door and it was safe, he pushed open the black door.

Behind the door was a huge circular room, where everything, including the ceiling and floor, was black.

There were twelve doors on the wall that were the same black as when they came in. After Sherlock and Sophie came in, the circular wall started to rotate quickly, making it impossible for them to tell which door they had just come in from and which door they should enter now.

Sophie asked with a short breath.

"No one here? They're not here?"

Sherlock didn't answer her question, because the rotating wall had stopped at this time. He walked along the circular wall from door to door, trying to use control magic to detect the scene behind the door.

However, he couldn't "see" anything this time. Behind all the doors was nothingness, as if the black circular room they were in was independent of all the space.

Thinking of this, Sherlock suddenly showed an enlightened expression on his face.

That's right, they are indeed independent of the space now. The hall of the Department of Mysteries is a space that has been opened up separately, and those black doors are not real doors, but entrances to another space!

That's why his control magic couldn't detect the situation behind the door.

After Sherlock figured it out, there was no better way. He could only open each door one by one to find out which door the Death Eaters had entered.

Dozens of wands floated behind him, and at the same time, Sherlock walked to a black door.

"Be prepared." He reminded Sophie.

Sophie's palm holding the wand was sweating warmly, and she nodded, indicating that she was ready.

Then, Sherlock pushed the door in front of him with a little force.

This square room looked very bright. The room was almost empty, with only a table. In the center of the room, there was a huge glass water tank filled with dark green liquid, which was large enough for people to swim in.

Many white things were floating slowly in it. At first glance, people would think that these things were some special species of jellyfish, but careful observation would reveal that the things floating in the water were actually all brains!

Sophie said with trembling lips, looking at the scene inside.

"I seem to have heard of this place. This is the Brain Hall, where the Unspoken study the human brain."

Sherlock only took a few glances and then turned his eyes away from the Brain Hall.

Those brains in the glass water tanks all looked like living things, and it was creepy to look at them for a long time.

There were many other doors in the Brain Hall, but Sherlock did not intend to open them one by one to confirm. He must first confirm whether the Death Eaters were behind these twelve black doors.

The door of the Brain Hall was not closed, and the circular wall inlaid with black doors would not rotate again.

Sherlock did not stop. He moved quickly to the next black door, and the wands floating around him also changed the position of the wand tips.

He pushed open the second black door.

This was a room full of planets, pitch black, with no visible boundaries, ceilings or floors.

Even Sherlock, who didn't know much about astronomy, could see the solar system prominently at a glance. The nine planets rotated around the big fireball in the middle according to their own orbits and speeds (in 2006, Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet, and now there are only eight planets in the solar system).

Even if Sophie didn't say it, Sherlock could guess the name of this room - "Planet Hall".

Then he opened the third door.

The space behind this door was large, dimly lit, square, and concave in the center, forming a huge stone pit, about twenty feet deep.

The stone steps surrounded the entire room, like stone benches, gradually descending one step at a time, and each step was very steep, like a lecture hall.

In the center of the stone pit was a raised stone platform, on which stood an arch, which looked very old and tattered. There was no wall supporting the arch, and a tattered black curtain or drapery hung on it.

Although the air here was cold and there was no wind, it was swaying gently, as if it had just been touched by someone.

This room gave Sherlock a very bad feeling. He did not study what kind of hall it was, but continued to open the fourth door.

This room was full of beautiful, diamond-like sparkling light, and clocks could be found on every surface.

They were of different sizes, ranging from floor clocks to pocket watches.

The "tick-tock" sound of the pointers on countless clocks sounded, like the sound of thousands of tiny footsteps marching in a row.

At the same time when this door opened, in the middle of the room, a wizard holding a magic wand and wearing an iron mask on his face met Sherlock's eyes!