Chapter 752: Cave

Dumbledore had been busy since Lupine brought back the news about Greyback, as had other members of the Order of the Phoenix.

After Tonks notified Kingsley, the Aurors did find some traces of Greyback. He had appeared near London and kidnapped a Muggle.

But the Aurors did not find the Muggle, or his body, and he seemed to have disappeared with Greyback.

A few days later, Greyback returned to the werewolf colony alone, and as if nothing had happened, he returned to his previous routine - spreading his theory of werewolves dominating the world in the gathering place.

As for the unlucky Muggle, the members of the Order of the Phoenix speculated that he was probably killed by Greyback, but no one knew why Greyback kidnapped him.

In addition, Greyback will leave the werewolf settlement with several of his men on full moon nights, hoping to increase the number of werewolves.

Fortunately, Lupine would alert the Order of the Phoenix at this time, and Greyback's several attacks all ended in failure.

If it were just like this, it wouldn't actually involve too much energy from the Order of the Phoenix. After all, the werewolves were far away from the crowd, and it would take a lot of time just to get back and forth, which would be enough for the Order to react.

But in addition to the werewolves, many Death Eaters also started to act one after another during this period. They carefully concealed their traces and dispersed to various places. This made the Order of the Phoenix have to spend a lot of energy to verify what they had done. What.

However, the number of people in the Order of the Phoenix is ​​far less than that of the Death Eaters. In addition, most of them usually have their own jobs and do not have a lot of free time like those pure-blood nobles or dark creatures such as werewolves. Therefore, the Order of the Phoenix now It can be said that it is operating at overload.

Dumbledore also had to spend time and energy while searching for Horcruxes to find truly useful content from these clues that seemed to be used to deceive others.

Then after some inspection, he suddenly discovered that Greyback, who he had previously thought was a smoke bomb, seemed to be connected to the whereabouts of the last Horcrux.

Dumbledore was not sure whether Voldemort deliberately used this true and false method to hide his purpose, or whether he went to great lengths just to set a trap for himself, but no matter what, now that he had clues about the Horcrux, Then it must be impossible for him to give up.

So he followed Greyback and other collected clues and tracked them down to a place that could barely be called a village very close to London and close to the seaside.

This village, composed entirely of Muggles, was built halfway up the cliff. Very few people usually came here, but according to the clues Dumbledore found, Greyback had appeared nearby.

In addition, Dumbledore is no stranger to this place, because he once came here with the memory of Mrs. Cole, the director of the Wu's Orphanage who adopted Voldemort - these were several places where the orphanage organized outings. one.

Unexpectedly, Wu's Orphanage has been demolished, but this small and inaccessible village still exists.

Dumbledore did not enter the village, but avoided the people in the village and came to the edge of the steep cliff.

He looked down the cliff against the howling sea wind, his white hair and long beard swinging wildly, so that he had to gather them up with his hands and hold them firmly in his hands.

When Voldemort was young, he took two orphans named Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson into a cave and frightened them severely inside. What Dumbledore is looking for now is the one Cave.

Fortunately, Dennis Bishop was still alive at this time, so Dumbledore was able to obtain the specific location of the cave from him.

It was just that the wild beard and hair and the surging waves below hindered Dumbledore's observation. It took him a long time to find the place in Dennis Bishop's memory.

After finding the correct location, Dumbledore activated his Apparition and came to a high black rock above the sea. The waves rolled and foamed under his feet. It was bare and desolate all around. Apart from the vast sea and rocks, there was not a single tree, grass or beach in sight.

Time and the wash of waves have made the environment around the rock slightly different from the scene in my memory, but I can still identify the general path to the cave.

Dumbledore confirmed the direction and then climbed down along the jagged grooves on the edge of the rock.

After some arduous climbing, Dumbledore reached the bottom of the cliff. In an inconspicuous position, there was a hidden crack. It was hidden in the shadow of the stone and the churning sea water. If it weren't for Dennis's memory, For reference, Dumbledore would not notice the existence of this crack at all.

Dumbledore first lit the wand with the lighting spell, then held it in his mouth, then gently slid into the water and swam towards the dark crack.

As he kept swimming inside, the crack gradually turned into a dark passage. The rock walls covered with mud and barnacles on both sides were only three feet wide. Under the light of Dumbledore's wand, Glistening wetly like tar.

At the end of the waterway, there was an obvious step, which had never appeared in Dennis's memory. Dumbledore looked along the step, and it turned out that it indeed led to the cave in his memory.

Dumbledore climbed the steps, feeling secretly relieved.

This step has obvious traces of being washed by the sea for a long time, which at least shows that this is not a trap prepared by Voldemort temporarily, at least it is one of the secret places he has used before.

But this does not mean that this is not a trap. After all, Voldemort has always regarded werewolves as a useful tool. Dumbledore finds it hard to believe that he would expose his Horcrux to Greyback.

Even if Voldemort really told Greyback about his Horcrux, it would not be a good thing, because Voldemort now knows that several of his Horcruxes have been destroyed, but he still doesn't care about them. This means that he is already preparing to make new Horcruxes... and may even have made them.

No matter what the situation is, Dumbledore still has to confirm the situation inside. He waved his wand with a heavy heart to make his body dry and warm, and then walked to the center of the cave, raised his wand high, and slowly turned around in place, carefully checking the rock wall and the top of the cave.

The magic mechanism here is not the same type as the one in the old Gaunt house. It is not offensive, but hides the real entrance.

Dumbledore approached the cave wall, touched it with his fingertips, and whispered some strange language. He walked around the cave twice from the right, touching the rough cave wall as much as possible while walking, and occasionally stopped to grope up and down with his fingers. Finally, he finally stopped and pressed his palm flat on the cave wall.

Dumbledore stepped back from the cave wall and pointed his wand at the rock. Suddenly, the outline of an arch appeared there, emitting dazzling white light, as if there was a strong light behind the crack.

However, as the light faded, the outline disappeared along with it. The rock was still as hard and thick as before, with nothing on it.

"Too low-level." Dumbledore said, his words revealing contempt and even disappointment.

Obviously, the mechanism set by Voldemort here did not meet the standards expected by Dumbledore.

He pulled out a silver dagger that he usually used to cut potion ingredients from his robes, and then cut his arm without hesitation.

As Dumbledore's blood fell, the dazzling white outline of the arch appeared on the wall of the cave again, and this time it did not disappear. The blood-stained rock in the arch suddenly disappeared, revealing a doorway, which seemed to be endless darkness.

Inside the cave was a large black lake, the lake was extremely wide and boundless. In the center of the lake, a hazy, green light flickered.

Dumbledore walked silently around the lakeshore, and he didn't know how long he had walked. He suddenly stopped, then stretched out his hand and slowly stroked in the air, as if trying to find and grab something invisible.

A few seconds later, Dumbledore's face showed a happy look, and then he closed his hands and grabbed something invisible in the air. At the same time, he raised his wand with his other hand and knocked his fist with the tip of the wand.

Immediately, a thick green copper chain suddenly emerged from the depths of the lake and leaped towards Dumbledore's clenched fist. Dumbledore tapped the chain with his wand, and the chain began to slide through his fist like a snake, coiling on the ground, and the sound of ding-dong-dong hit the rock wall, making a loud echo.

A moment later, the chain pulled a small boat up from the bottom of the lake. The boat emitted a green light like the chain, which looked very ominous.

But Dumbledore climbed on it without hesitation, and the boat immediately began to move automatically, sending Dumbledore to the green light in the middle of the lake.

More than ten minutes later, the boat gently hit a smooth rock island in the middle of the lake and stopped.

The island was about the same size as Dumbledore's office: a large flat black stone slab, empty on it, with only the light source emitting the green light - it was emitted from a stone basin similar to a pensieve, with a base under the stone basin.

Dumbledore approached the stone basin and looked into it. The stone basin was full of emerald green liquid, emitting a glittering phosphorescent light.

Dumbledore stretched out his hand and wanted to touch the liquid in the basin, but found that he couldn't do it. Then he tried various methods and found that he couldn't empty the liquid in the basin.

Only when he used a cup to scoop it, the liquid in the basin could be put into the cup, but when Dumbledore poured the liquid in the cup aside, it would reappear in the stone basin.

"I think... I roughly know what happened to that poor Muggle..." Dumbledore put away the cup, looked at the dark lake around him, and murmured: "But... Will Voldemort really entrust such an important matter to a werewolf?"

Dumbledore stared at the lake and pondered for a long time, and finally nodded heavily as if he had made up his mind.

He came back to his senses, took a deep look at the green liquid in the stone basin, and then re-boarded the boat and carefully left the cave along the original path.

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