Chapter 327: Not Good at Close Combat
It is simply unreasonable for a group of wizards who have the ability to completely evade Auror criminal investigation and possess high combat power to only commit small and medium-sized thefts.
For example, they could rob wealthier shops or even raid the local wizard's bank together.
This is just like the "Ye Jihuan" gang who didn't rob gold banks vigorously, but secretly robbed Chinese medicine stores and knife shops across the country, and they couldn't steal them all at once!
The only one with such firepower, but not for wealth that is easier to spend, is Voldemort, an internationally wanted criminal!
No matter how many gold galleons he had, who would dare to trade with him?
If they steal too hard, if the Ministry of Magic implements a rationing system, or transactions can only be carried out within the Ministry of Magic buildings, they will have no chance of continuing to steal.
If it were more ruthless, as long as someone dared to attack, the Ministry of Magic would blow up all the goods in the warehouse, or store the goods in tens of thousands of locations, each location having only a tiny amount of weight.
Even more extreme, you can also grow herbs indoors and randomly harvest them before they mature. At most, there will be a lot of medicinal residue, or you need to add a variety of auxiliary drugs to remove toxin residues caused by immaturity and other problems.
In short, the combined means of the entire society can definitely reduce Voldemort's harvest by a thousand times, provided that the Ministry of Magic finds out.
"Have you finished reading?" Seeing that Chen Bin had lowered his head and meditated for a long time, Sirius began to urge.
"That person sent someone to do it." Chen Bin said firmly.
"I saw it too." Sirius rolled his eyes at him, then became excited again. "With this information, you should also guess that there is more than 80% chance that they will visit this street again in two or three hours."
"No." Chen Bin said firmly.
"Why?" Sirius asked in surprise: "Didn't you say that numbers can't lie?"
"You really want me to say it?" Chen Bin saw Sirius nodding and then added: "It hurts your self-esteem."
"Uh..." Sirius suddenly had a very bad feeling and tentatively asked, "Isn't it possible that I messed up something?"
Chen Bin nodded.
"No way, I didn't tell anyone." Sirius muttered.
Chen Bin opened the file, pointed at a word - scouting, then pointed at himself and Sirius, and then moved around with his index finger.
"Idiot." Chen Bin closed the document and apparated back to the Floo Network.
Sirius refused to believe in evil, so he walked around the street and found a corner to use the Disguise Charm.
However, in the afternoon, when Chen Bin came on duty, and after Chen Bin took over his shift, no shopkeepers on this street reported the crime.
"I wasted so much time." Sirius returned to Hogwarts dejectedly, sitting in the staff chair of the auditorium with no appetite for a late dinner.
Chen Bin used his perception and cheek pit deformation skills to make sure there was no one else in the auditorium, and immediately deployed soundproofing magic and said, "It's done."
"What?" Sirius was so surprised that he threw the silver spoon in his hand on the table. He looked Chen Bin up and down with his eyes, obviously not believing that he had quietly eliminated all the thieves without making any noise while he was watching.
"Use your brain more." Chen Bin nodded his head pretentiously, stood up and left. “You don’t have to do everything yourself…”
Before he could finish pretending, Sirius pulled at his robe, vowing not to leave the auditorium until he made it clear.
Chen Bin had no choice but to tell him that after memorizing the information, he used the Floo network to return to Hogwarts to find Lao Deng, and wrote down the locations and times of thefts in various magical communities in France today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so that He mobilized a reliable force of local and international Aurors to ambush or track them down and destroy them together with their temporary home base in France.
It is said that the methods of committing crimes by this group of people are outstanding in the magic world, and their combat prowess is also very bad. However, the seemingly disorderly time of committing crimes is too easy to calculate by mathematics.
Functions such as the store owner's working hours, business hours, peak periods of traffic, and intervals for counting goods are input into the Excel table. It is easy to find out which hours of each store are the most convenient to start with, and few people can notice it.
As long as the number of witnesses is small enough, it can be solved directly with the Forgetting Curse, and even stealing in front of the shopkeeper is no problem. Anyway, the silver cube in each shop will not detect this magic.
If you miss, it would be a bad idea to kill them physically. If you kill too many, it will be easy to add missing people.
It is not necessary to use the Death Curse to kill people. Even if the disarming spell is strong enough and hits the heart, everyone will ascend to heaven, and the alarm of the Silver Cube will not be set off.
The Silver Cube has been on the market for more than a year, and its functions have not been updated. Voldemort must have figured out its detection rules, and it is easy to think of other ways to bypass it.
It's not like you have to bypass it to commit mass murder. There are still many ways to bypass it and steal things.
Sirius once again did not believe in evil and rushed to the principal's office to find Lao Deng.
Three days later, the headlines of the Daily Prophet and Hogwarts Evening News were that international Aurors had joined forces to detect the largest theft gang in history. They had also visited 90% of the wizarding world in Europe, and lost goods worth a total of 300 million gold. Galleons.
Chen Bin was too lazy to read the praises in the article, so he put the newspaper on the dining table and left.
Katerina followed him to the corridor and asked in a low voice: "Bin, what is the real result?"
Chen Bin turned around and saw that her eyes were clearly that of Maharat. Usually Katerina was not very interested in these big actions.
After walking to a deserted place by the lake, Chen Bin cast a soundproof magic and whispered, "It's not optimistic. A total of more than 5,000 armed forces were dispatched from all over Europe, killing more than 500 enemies, seriously injuring more than 40 people, and more than 10 people escaped. Medicines, seeds and wands with a total value of less than one million gold galleons were found."
"This is also pretty good. Voldemort's theft gang was disintegrated." Mahalat said with a smile.
"Auror soldiers died more than 300 people in total, and more than 100 people were seriously injured." Chen Bin looked into Mahalat's eyes, and the latter was in shock.
Then, Chen Bin told him the preliminary investigation report given to him by Dumbledore.
Sirius, the old young master, couldn't stand the strange words of the shopkeeper, which triggered a war that swept across Europe - a tragedy caused by a strange word!
His data analyzed by mathematical models proved that the magic communities in France also continued to lose medicines and wands, not just one community.
If Chen Bin inferred that this was likely related to Voldemort, this was probably not an isolated incident, but other magic ministries did not find this problem.
Old Deng immediately mobilized the intelligence network of the international Aurors to obtain the information of theft cases in various magic circles, and also shared the arithmetic analysis method provided by Chen Bin, which only involved junior high school mathematics, and asked the Squib employees of various magic ministries to use Excel tables to collect the information of the case into a pile of numbers, and came to the same conclusion as the French magic world.
Voldemort's men have been stealing supplies quietly in the European magic world for more than four months, but the magic ministries are like eating shit and they know nothing about it.
Now that they know, they immediately use the analysis method to find out the time and place where the theft will occur in each community, and then start tracking and ambushing, intending to wipe out their forces in Europe.
Chen Bin once again refused to participate in a large-scale combat operation this time. One more and one less would not be much.
This is not a real war, but a search and capture operation. Even if a tank is driven, more people will not be caught. Won't the opponent escape?
Therefore, this time, each country also sent the Auror Army as the main force, and the real Aurors only served as commanders leading each team.
However, the result was not good at all. The Auror Army in various places also sent the strongest local wizards to serve as the commander-in-chief, that is, the person who held the line, to prevent the enemy from having a strong person to come back and cut the leeks.
Unfortunately, the combat power of this group of thieves far exceeded the expectations of the Auror Army. The number of them in various places was not large, just about ten people, but their average combat power was also between Aurors and elite Aurors. In addition to knowing European magic, they were also proficient in African melee magic.
With a wand in one hand and a long staff in the other, they killed several Auror teams by surprise.
If it weren't for the excellent armor of the Auror Army, the casualties would probably have doubled. The Auror armor was specially designed for the European battlefield. No one expected that someone would poke it with a stick, one side of which was attached with magic breaking and the other side with instant death magic.
The Auror armor was made of wood. The long stick with magic breaking had greatly weakened the protective effect. Although it didn't become a real wooden armor, the instant death spell at close range could easily break their defense.
You should know that the Auror Army is mainly composed of young people, most of whom are graduates within nine years, and none of them are orthodox Aurors, at most they are police officers.
The reason why there were so many casualties this time is that the design of the wooden armor never considered the physical ability to break magic. After the bottom layer of armor was penetrated by the long staff, the inner door key could not teleport the wearer when it encountered an external invasion.
Before encountering the African wizards, no one thought it was a design flaw. Who said that there was no melee profession in Europe? Unexpectedly, there was someone holding the long staff at the other end of the intruder, causing the door key to be disturbed by external forces and exceeding the designed load weight.
However, this group of opponents are African wizards with great combat experience. They have fought magical animals since childhood and have grown into youth, middle-aged and middle-aged. Fortunately, all places have sent out ten times their troops, and there are also the strongest to hold the battle, otherwise there may be a rout.
This joint action also sounded the alarm for various magical ministries. The melee fighting style in Africa is different from that in Europe, and this group of thieves has received the dark magic in Europe instructed by Voldemort, and can shoot from a distance and fight from close range. If the Ministry of Magic does not make targeted training adjustments, it will be very disadvantageous to continue to fight with the existing tactics.
Another problem is that Voldemort has plundered a large amount of resources, a total of more than 1 billion gold galleons.
When the Auror Army and the more than 500 people broke out in battle, another group of African wizards who had never appeared looted hundreds of herbal cultivation farms, wand shops and pharmacy warehouses.
In other words, this is Voldemort's plan B - immediately after being exposed, he will transform into Ye Jihuan and rob in succession, and openly snatch the last wave of supplies.
Now, he has obtained all the common herbal seeds in Europe, and even if he is interested in being a farmer, his men can start farming in a hidden place.
As for the wand, excuse me?
Is Africa short of rare wood and magical animals?
At most, he will send his men around the world to rob the wand master, and then use the Imperius Curse to let him teach Voldemort's tribe how to make the wand they need.