Chapter 372 Running and Carnival

"Jokunda! Stop!"

Accompanied by Nelson's leap, Jokunda put on the hood with one hand, accelerated suddenly, and got into the crowd of Diagon Alley.

As the start of school is approaching, the place is full of parents with their children shopping for books. Those little wizards who are as active as Adele are running around on the street, so that the chaotic road from Lihen Bookstore to Robe Store is blocked. .

Nelson weighed the pocket of his coat. Once the corner of the coat full of heavy objects was thrown up with the running, he might hurt many unlucky people passing by. Jokunda jumped up from the crowd and saw a little confused in the distance. Nelson grinned and made a grimace, as if to say "can't catch me", then lowered his head and disappeared in the crowd again.

At this time, Tom, who was chasing after him, broke through the crowd from behind panting, and came to Nelson.

"Have you lost your follow?" He asked intermittently while supporting his knees.

"I almost lost it," Nelson said lightly. He took off his coat to reveal a shirt with a brown vest under the coat, and threw the clothes on Tom despite his resistance. Reminds me of a hapless boy who loves to laugh."

"Can you pack a little less stuff!" Tom was so immobilized by the coat that he had to lift it up with the Levitation Charm, but when he looked up, Nelson had squeezed into the crowd and disappeared.

In the sky above Diagon Alley, a silver dragonfly hidden in the sunlight is flapping its wings, locking the bun of Jokunda who thought it was perfectly hidden with the red spot of light from its one eye.

A few minutes later, at the corner of the back street of the robe shop, Jokunda, who had been around for a long time, hid in the shadow under a bay window, carefully surveying the quiet surroundings—no one came, so go a little further Son, you can enter Knockturn Alley.

"It's so dangerous." She let out a long breath, patted her chest, hugged the package tightly in her arms, and walked quickly towards the direction of Knockturn Alley, sighing, "I was almost discovered by the elementary school boy!"

After crossing a dirty black brick wall, the ear-piercing shouts from Knockturn Alley came to her ears, she took off her hood with confidence, patted the ashes on the package, and smiled happily, "It's okay I know the way."

"Really? Sister Jokunda," Nelson's voice came from in front of her. She raised her head and passed the black wizard vendors who were crowded in front of her. She saw Nelson, who had taken off his coat, standing beside an old witch. In front of the stall, he was playing with a lacquered "sterling silver" cross that was said to be able to restrain vampires, and looked at her with a smile, "It was really hard for me to find for a while, remember? You have something left behind I'm here."

"Damn it!" She hugged the package tightly, and those annoying peddlers had surrounded her at the moment, while enthusiastically selling those seemingly unreliable goods, the escape route was blocked, but she did not give up resistance , gritted his teeth, and waved his wand under the cover of the crowd.

"There are many obstacles!"

The weak wizard who was selling the kidney-tonifying magic medicine in front of him was instantly blasted by the spell, and flew towards Nelson like a cannonball. The crowd was stunned. They had never seen such a customer. Can you hit someone if you disagree?

The crowd's stupefaction caused the originally tight encirclement to disperse. Without hesitation, Jokunda hugged the package, turned around and rushed towards the wall that came in earlier. From the corner of his eye, Nelson had already caught the wizard who seemed to be suffering from kidney deficiency. He placed him beside the old witch, but remained motionless, looking at Jokunda with a smile.

Jokunda's secret path was not good, and he turned his head to look at the wall in front of him. There was an indistinct murmur from behind the wall, "Did you find the wrong place? Didn't you say that you can enter Knockturn Alley from here?"

The entrance and exit were blocked by Nelson by some means, but Jokunda had no time to slow down, so he had to turn around, protect the package in his hand, and hit the wall with his shoulder sideways.

"What is that? More important than life?" Nelson's face showed a trace of doubt, and Jokunda, who observed this expression, felt a little joy in his heart, held the right hand of the package and clenched his wand, and silently recited the magic spell in his heart——

"boom!"

This was not the sound of her thin body hitting the wall. The silent spell was successfully released a second before it touched the wall, and the powerful spell blasted the thin brick wall into a hole big enough for people to pass through. .

She lowered her head, ignored the scolding on the other side of the wall, and rushed over with a cat waist.

Nelson was stunned. He didn't even think about what to do to Jokunda. He just wanted to ask for clarification, but he didn't expect her to be so determined. Could there be any hidden secrets about what happened back then? In this case he wanted to catch Jokunda even more.

Throwing the cross in his hand back to the stall, Nelson walked through the astonished crowd and returned to the area of ​​Diagon Alley.

But on the other side of the wall, there was no one on the street except a fat wizard who had been blown across the street.

But Nelson was not worried at all. Layered gears slowly emerged in front of his right eyes, and a layer of water appeared in the gaps between the gears. Jokunda's running back was clearly shown in front of his eyes. She was hiding in a road full of garbage. Panting heavily in the alley, waving his wand as if preparing to use Apparition to escape.

He moved his steps, the feeling of a hard foreign body made him lower his head, and picked up a strange hard piece.

"I have a lot of experience in running, and it seems that I have been chased a lot."

Nelson shook his head, flicked his wand casually, and appeared directly below the mayfly watching Jokunda.

Under Grindelwald's teaching, Nelson's fastest progress is apparition. He can even attack all directions in the battle situation at the same time through continuous rapid flashing. He used to play tricks like this on those dark wizards, making them dizzy.

Compared with Grindelwald's unique skill, the apparition of ordinary wizards is undoubtedly much slower, so that when Jokunda didn't even figure out the "three Ds", Nelson had already hung the "three Ds" again under the mayfly's positioning. A smiling face that made her extremely uncomfortable appeared in front of her.

Jokunda interrupted the spellcasting, turned around and ran with the package in her arms, but when she ran to the entrance of the alley, she saw Nelson, who was like a ghost, lingering again.

"Grindelwald?"

She raised her wand vigilantly, and turned sideways to block the package behind her. This was the first time she spoke to Nelson proactively after meeting.

"Well-informed, Jokunda, you don't have to... at least let me finish!"

Nelson shook his head, sighed, and chased after Chokunda who turned into another alley again.

After confirming that Nelson was more skilled in apparating than himself and had the ability to locate himself, Jokunda gave up his plan to apparate and leave after leaving the battlefield, and rushed into the cobweb-like alleys of Diagon Alley, constantly in different places. Drilling back and forth in the alleys, going around in circles with Nelson trailing behind him.

Jokunda specializes in small alleys. Compared with Nelson, she is much more familiar with the environment in Diagon Alley. As the first witch to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a broomstick, her skills also show a vigor that does not match that of a wizard. , with dirty braids flying behind his head, quickly passing through one street stall after another.

But every time she turned her head, she could see Nelson following behind her like a ghost, and he didn't seem tired at all, so she would be caught sooner or later! She looked at the fruit stand by the roadside, and a bad idea came to her mind.

"Thousands of bullets are fired!"

Jokunda, who has the right location, waved his magic wand, and the fruits placed in front of the roadside vendors flew towards Nelson like angry sparrows.

Nelson sideways avoided an apple that hit his face, and there was a crisp "bang" sound behind him. He didn't care about the passers-by behind him, and reached out to catch another apple that flew towards his shoulder. He casually stuffed it into the hand of a little boy who was sniffling, and continued to chase forward.

Followed by Tom's favorite fruit - small tomatoes, there are several ripe persimmons mixed in the barrage, all aimed at tricky angles.

Nelson raised his arm, grabbed the top of the soft felt hat, and took it off the top of his head. Then he tilted his head, and the persimmon flew behind the unruly blond hair, and he turned casually. He put his hat on his head again, and raised his wand to draw a smooth curve in the air. Under the control of the wand, one of the little tomatoes suddenly rebelled, shuttled among his "comrades in arms" like lightning, Those little tomatoes and persimmons were smashed into pieces, but Nelson passed through this round of barrage unaffected.

This operation dazzled the passers-by, but their clothes were ruined, but no one cared about it. Instead, they talked about the skills of the wizard who just ran past with relish.

"It's a good thing you didn't dirty my hat, otherwise I might really not let you go."

Nelson ran briskly. He hadn't experienced this feeling for a long time. Except for Jokunda in front of him, no one could run with his legs for such a long time. "But I'm a man called London Jackie Chan. Could it be dirty?"

He seemed to be talking to himself, but the voice came from the mayfly that was tracking Jokunda, and it rang in her ears. She was startled, nervous, and looked around until she saw Nelson behind her. With the figure chasing after him, she breathed a sigh of relief.

etc? Why should I worry? Isn't he still chasing after?

Jokunda was so angry with her own thoughts that she didn't think about who "London Jackie Chan" was. She quickened her pace and rushed forward, while controlling the fruits on the side and throwing them behind her, hoping that they would hold him back .

This time, Nelson simply did not dodge or dodge, letting the fruits hit him, including a rare pineapple, which was about to be hit on the head by the pineapple, but those fruits passed through his body, as if through a waterfall A few drops of water were usually stirred up, and Nelson's body became flickering, sometimes as if in water, sometimes as if in fog. He passed through the barrage safely, but it hurt the innocent passers-by behind him.

"Damn it! Who threw the apple... Ah! Why are there... pine...apples..."

An unlucky guy fell limply, and everyone laughed and helped him up. All the wizards who saw this scene, including the vendors who lost the fruit and the pond fish that were affected, regarded this as a rare festival and followed Nelson He ran up, cheering and encouraging loudly.

"Come on! That's how I chased after my wife back then!"

An old wizard with a pipe in his arms was hugged by his burly wife and ran wildly with Nelson.

"Come on, little girl!" His wife shouted loudly to Jokunda in front, "Give the man a little more test!"

They actually regarded the two as a playful couple. Only Jo Kunda, the person involved, understood the danger—she once escaped from a group of American Aurors by relying on her superb escape skills. Only she understood what Nelson had. Able to chase people.

More and more people joined the run, cheering for the two leaders with their own imaginations, and even those at the end of the line didn't know that there were two people chasing desperately ahead, they just ran with the flow stand up.

Looking at the spacious but crowded street ahead and the familiar robe shop, Jokunda put on the hood, and rushed into the crowd with joy in his heart.

Going back to the original starting point and making a circle, Jokunda once again squeezed into the crowd on the main road. It was on this road that Nelson chased her for the longest time. She understood that for a person who can always find herself People, the crowd is her most powerful protective color.

Jokunda is not a big man like Hagrid. When she bowed to hide, it was difficult for Nelson to see her in the crowd. Even the mayfly's vision was temporarily vacant, so he simply stepped on the drainpipe. The buckle turned over to the roof, hoping to use a wider view to lock on the traces of Jokunda. During the chase, mayflies flew out of the robe shop, blocking the aerial view of the main road.

Soon, Jokunda's carefully bowed figure appeared in Nelson's field of vision. She was already approaching the direction of the Quidditch boutique with the crowd. Coincidentally, the clerk was holding a broomstick Come out and clean up the dust from the broom head.

More and more passers-by were affected by the "festival" atmosphere, ran and fell into the carnival, even though they didn't even know what the theme of the carnival was.

"Got you."

Nelson stood on the roof, wand raised.

"It's finally here!" Jokunda's hanging heart finally fell. She rushed straight to the clerk, snatched the broom in his hand, and straddled it gracefully, kicking the ground with her sore legs, like a young eagle Generally take off with a bang!

At the same time, a silver curse similar to skylight rushed out from the tip of Nelson's wand and followed Jokunda.

Jokunda realized that the magic spell was approaching. She lifted the broom handle and accelerated into the air. However, it was difficult to control it with one hand. The magic spell still brushed off her right hand holding the broom. Jokunda did not notice that a falcon A shape imprint quietly appeared at the root of her little finger, it flapped its wings, and soon disappeared.

Accompanied by Jokunda's almost vertical lift-off, the passers-by erupted with huge cheers, and surrounded by the sound waves, Jokunda soared straight into the sky.

And Nelson has returned to the gown shop. Although the two instigators have left, the revelers are still immersed in the absurd joy, and the running team is getting longer and longer.

"Did you lose track?"

Tom saw Nelson who pushed open the store door and came in. He threw back his coat angrily and asked the same question as before.

"No, I left a mark to make sure I could find her at all times...now she stands out to me like the moon at night," Nelson said softly, "and I've made an interesting discovery."

The fragment left by Jokunda on the rubble appeared in his hands, with a unique texture and rich colors, like a piece of irregular scales, and like an overly hard shell.

"Oh, that's fine, but it's not easy to see the moon at night in London." Tom looked over his head, quickly lost interest, and asked without interest, "When are we going to catch her?"

"Let me see what she is doing first?" Nelson once again saw the water curtain surrounded by gears, "I stopped like that, the hint has been written on her face, why is she still running so desperately?"

"If you chase like that, anyone will definitely run away."

Tom pouted, and reached out to take two pink sweaters from the hanger. They were of the same shape but with different patterns.

"Choose one, the Witchbird or the Pygmy Puff."

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