Chapter 254 252 Death

Chapter 254 252. Death

There was no roar in the howling letter, only a voice as cold as an iceberg.

"The person on the sea is not the loser who left Nurmengard. Find them as soon as possible. If you can't find them on the sea, send a team to wait for them at the end of the Arctic. I hope to get good news from you in the end. If you mess up, then die in the Arctic!"

After listening to the content of the letter, Rodolphus and Rabastan looked at each other.

Along with the letter, they also received news from France.

It has been three days since the night when the correctional facility was breached. Only now did they understand the whole process of the incident and the fact that Voldemort was defeated by Dumbledore.

The Lestrange brothers were not fools. They heard a hidden meaning from the tone of Voldemort's howling letter.

The problem at the correctional facility did not come from the front battlefield, but from the sea they were searching for!

This made Rodolphus very nervous and gloomy.

Things were getting serious.

Originally, when they took on this task, the Lestrange brothers thought it was a semi-vacation task in their spare time after returning to England from France.

Because when Voldemort first received the news from Azkaban, he identified the person investigating his past deeds on the sea as Grindelwald, and asked the Lestrange brothers to lead people to track him down, just to let them find his whereabouts. In the end, Voldemort must go to face this big man who stirred up the world fifty years ago.

But now things have gone wrong. The person on the sea is not Grindelwald, and judging from Voldemort's state and the meaning of the howling letter he sent.

It sounds like Rodolphus and the others are going to be responsible for this matter, and they have issued an extreme order that is no different from a military order.

This undoubtedly puts them under great pressure.

"What should we do?"

Rabastan asked uneasily.

The Howler, which had already completed its function, turned into a wisp of gray ash and fell into the sea after conveying Voldemort's voice.

Rodolphus's face was also very ugly, and he sighed.

"What can we do? Whatever the master tells us, we have to do. We never have the opportunity to choose. We can only do our best to do this. No, we must complete it!"

His tone was very firm, but a lingering doubt could be heard from that firmness.

Even if the person they are looking for and chasing now is not Grindelwald, he will never be an unknown person in the magic world.

And the ocean is so big, how can they be sure that the person will definitely follow Voldemort's original itinerary and will definitely go to the end of this journey?

Fortunately, their master is not a madman who is unreasonable now. He will not assign them an unfinished task and force them to die. That would be meaningless.

At the same time as delivering this Howler, the Lestrange brothers also obtained the right to mobilize all the Death Eaters in Britain.

Although for the whole sea, even if all the wizards in the Ministry of Magic were dispatched, they would be as insignificant as a drop in the ocean, but no matter what, they had no worries in terms of manpower.

For the sea area where the tower was located, Rodolphus did not ignore the investigation of clues.

He asked the Death Eaters to capture a lot of mermaids from the surrounding area and bring them to him, and recruited wizards who could understand mermaid language from the Ministry of Magic to interrogate these mermaids to understand what happened here not long ago.

However, the Hogwarts did not stay at the tower for a long time, only less than five days.

Even if there were mermaids who knew that such a ship of people visited Sir Stoke, there were only a few of them. Most of the mermaids only saw the rocket that flew out from the bottom of the sea that day and produced a big explosion, and then they fled in a hurry when the big explosion occurred, and did not return until the explosion subsided.

As for the cause and effect of the explosion, no one would know. Therefore, Rodolphus got very few clues from the mermaids. The only thing he could be sure of was that the tower that originally stood here had collapsed.

And the old man named Stoker who lived in it, as mentioned by Voldemort, had no body left.

In fact, if he could stay here longer and have enough patience to interrogate more mermaids, he would probably get clues that a large ship under the flag of Durmstrang had appeared in this sea area.

However, Voldemort's howling letter lingered in Rodolphus's mind like a death warrant. After the interrogation failed, he did not dare to delay or stay at all, and immediately took people to continue searching northward along the route provided by Voldemort.

This search lasted for more than half a month. They flew north on flying brooms day and night, and their speed was very fast, far exceeding that of Jon and his team who had deviated from the fastest route and drove the boat.

So, just when Jon and his team had just arrived at the northernmost part of the Norwegian Sea, Rodolphus led the Death Eaters deep into the waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Even when they had reached the final destination marked by Voldemort, they did not find even a single wizard.

This situation inevitably made the Lestrange brothers feel panic.

They were afraid that the man on the sea would give up the final goal, so they would never be able to complete the death order given to them by Voldemort, and in the end they would not be able to produce any results to report.

Compared with this possibility, they would rather believe that the person who caused great trouble to Voldemort deviated from the original route and was going to the Arctic.

In order to confirm his conjecture, Rodolphus sent a large number of Death Eaters to search the sea area from the Norwegian Sea to the Arctic Circle.

If any suspicious people or ships are found, they should report immediately, and if they see wizards, they must find out the details of the other party at all costs.

It was in this situation that the Hogwarts was discovered by the two Death Eaters who called themselves "Helky and Heinz".

Just like the other people on the ship thought that there was nothing wrong with the two of them, the two Death Eaters did not see any flaws in Jon's response, but even if there were no flaws, according to the instructions given to them by Rodolphus, as long as they met wizards, no matter who they were, they had to find out the details and report.

Therefore, they did not ignore the matter. After pretending to deal with it, they followed the Hogwarts from a distance and reported what they had encountered and their location.