svetikya Chapter 213 It feels so good to be alive! (5)
Chapter 213 It feels so good to be alive! (5)
There was a greasy smile on his face that every boss would show when he was trying to impress his employees.
"Uh-" Mr. Miller was suddenly helpless by the smile on Anthony's face.
He really doesn't have time to eat. To be precise, he hasn't had much rest these days or months. The business of the publishing house is getting bigger and bigger.
After the popularity of "Dumbledore", the reborn publishing house also ushered in an explosion. Authors who had previously wanted to terminate their contracts have all withdrawn.
Some emerging authors have also begun to seek cooperation with their publishing houses. In addition, they are also actively exploring overseas markets. In addition to the traditional European and American markets, he is also actively preparing to open stores in the Far East.
It can be said that he has been really busy recently.
"Let's go, sir. This is my house. I'm just treating you to a family dinner." A certain shady financial man stood up and said with a smile. Then, ignoring Harry's doubtful eyes, he took Mr. Miller directly to the living room.
That place is usually used to entertain foreign guests, but it's not impossible for him to borrow it.
Of course, this requires the Queen's consent...
As for whether the Queen would agree - haha - Anthony put the income of the publishing house in the past few months in an envelope, then got rid of the housekeeper and gave it to the Queen.
They haven't made much money for months...
If converted into pounds sterling, it would only amount to tens of millions.
Of course, this must be coupled with the development momentum of the publishing house. In the foreseeable future, this number will expand rapidly. Even Anthony cannot estimate how big that number will be.
With this achievement, Mr. Miller is enough to be awarded a knighthood.
Sure enough, the queen agreed to Anthony's request very quickly.
In that huge building, inlaid with gold and silver, the surrounding walls were covered with portraits of various figures from the 78th century. Under the care of several servants, Mr. Miller had the most enchanting lunch in his life.
This is an unforgettable day that he will probably remember for the rest of his life.
After sending Mr. Miller away, Anthony has one more job to do next, which is to write a biography of Grindelwald.
He has no doubt that major changes must have occurred in Europe, because whitewashing Grindelwald means that they need him. In the wizarding world with Dumbledore, the Federation still needs Grindelwald...
Anthony had to suspect that there was an enemy in the wizarding world that even Dumbledore could not defeat.
Therefore, he was particularly concerned about this matter.
As for how to write a book - hehe!He really knows this aspect!
Within a few days, he wrote the first draft, probably still playing the emotional card.
After revising and finding someone to polish it, Anthony did not release this book as a new book, but as a supplement to the "Magical Legend: Dumbledore".
This way you can also enjoy yourself, so why not do it.
And he also complied with the Federation's request. The price of this book was very low, only three galleons.
This time it’s time to go big!Anthony shouted loudly in his heart.
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Unlike the frightened Anthony and Harry, Hermione in Paris lived a very relaxed life.
"Sneeze—" Hermione sneezed in the hotel. She rubbed her nose, walked to the window and opened the curtains, and the sunlight immediately shone in from the outside.She took a deep breath and looked at the vases on the balcony with a smile on her face.
In Paris, France, even the air is full of romance.
"It's so comfortable..." Hermione closed her eyes and enjoyed the baptism of sunshine and flowers, feeling happy.
The early summer wind blew across her cheeks, and the itchy feeling made the corners of her mouth rise uncontrollably.
This was her second week in Paris, and she had already visited all the scenic spots she could visit, such as the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe.The weather was so nice today, she really wanted to go to the French Magic World to see it.
But when she remembered Anthony's warning, she hesitated.
Although she was still somewhat confident in her magical abilities, facing those vicious dark wizards, her level of skills would probably only make her die a second too late.
Forget it, Hermione exhaled slightly. After all, Europe is already chaotic enough right now. Her parents are still around, so don't cause any more trouble for yourself.
"Hey! That person over there - that person looks so familiar!" Hermione, who was suddenly standing on the balcony on the third floor of the hotel, inadvertently saw a very familiar person walking past on the street below.
The other party just disappeared around the corner in a daze, and Hermione didn't even have a chance to take a second look.
Dazzled?
She frowned and shifted her gaze from the street corner to the city skyline in the distance.
What Hermione didn't know was that in the hotel where she was, someone she knew well - the professor, was knocking on a door with a frown.
"Please come in!" Another old woman's voice came from the room.
After hearing the sound, Zhang Qingqiu opened the door and entered.
"What's going on, I don't have time for you to waste!" She was not polite at all, opened the door and asked in a questioning tone.
And Qingqiu was accompanied by two people, two men, who were also Aurors.
"Not every story can have a happy ending..." the old man said slowly, her eyes seemed to penetrate time, through the layers of fog, and finally landed on Qingqiu!
"Don't use your official tone! Councilor Zhou!" Qingqiu was still angry. Sitting on the sofa, she looked completely different from a year ago. She had no time to take care of her messy hair. It came down from the temples.
After feeling an itchy feeling, she frowned and then moved her hair behind her ears.Then he continued: "Every time when I am about to capture Jin Cangshui, someone will jump out and cause trouble, every time!"
"I don't understand, since you don't want to catch her, why did you send me there?"
"Enough!" Zhou Ya (God 1)'s face was warm and angry. She put the tea in her hand suddenly on the table, and a crisp and harsh sound of clinking porcelain was heard.
"Are you doubting the International Federation of Wizards?"
"I don't dare! Haha! After all, I'm just a retired professor from a magic school. How can I dare to doubt the aloof and powerful association?" Qingqiu had a fake smile on his face, and a strange and sinister tone of ridicule in his mouth. He waved his folding fan slightly, and kept sizing up the senior official of the federation in front of him with his frivolous eyes, who had been at least more than 60 years old!
"Huh! You don't understand, kid, you are still too young." Zhou Ya suddenly seemed to be discouraged. Her gray hair, although spotless, had long lost its luster. "I am already old, and some--"
"I told you, don't talk to me in official style!" Qingqiu said in disgust: "Do you think everyone cares about your position?"
Seeing that the other party refused to accept her words, Councilor Zhou stopped talking to her elegantly. His face suddenly changed, and a cold look appeared on his face.
"Ha-why bother yourself? It's much more uncomfortable now?"
"Okay, Zhang Qingqiu, he is indeed the best student of Taixue, and his temper is really fierce. Let's get straight to the point, how do you accept this job?" Zhou Ya crossed her legs and raised her head. , stared at her lightly and said.
"Tell me the truth! All of it! Then I'm thinking about it, remember, this is the premise!"
"Hmph! I knew you would ask this." As she spoke, she waved, and the box placed beside her slowly opened, and then pieces of parchment floated steadily in front of Qingqiu.
"Everything you want is here."
"Including the federation's review report on Jin Cangshui!"
...
The room suddenly fell into silence, and after a long time, a rich and angry laughter came from Qingqiu's mouth.
"Support plan?"
"Haha! What a support plan?" Her eyes suddenly turned aside, and then she waved the jade fan in her hand, and the sword with the flowing water was firmly placed on the neck of the old woman in front of her.
Upon seeing this, the Aurors responsible for the security of the congressmen on both sides quickly drew out their wands - but before they could even utter a single spell, Qingqiu just waved his hand, and the two of them were knocked out and trapped between the walls.
The wall seemed to come alive, with the bricks and stones interconnecting with each other, locking the two of them tightly!
"The Federation actually supports a dark wizard? This is simply the biggest joke I have ever heard!"
"So, you are too young." There was not much panic on Zhou Ya's face as the sword gathered by the magic power was pressed against her neck.
"The Federation needs an enemy, a dark wizard who can overturn the world. In the past, we thought it would be Tom Riddle, but unfortunately his vision was too narrow, and he only focused on the small country of Britain. After that, we thought it would be you, but unfortunately , Old Master, that stubborn old man, has protected you so well that we can’t penetrate you.”
"It doesn't matter, we have a new goal. Both parents are dead, attacked by vampires, and have been discriminated against since childhood. There is no more suitable person than her!"
"Crazy? Are you crazy, or are you all crazy! What benefits can you get from supporting a dark wizard who will subvert the world?" Qingqiu's voice was bone-chilling, and the anger in his eyes almost turned into substance.
"Benefit? The benefit is that the Federation will gain supreme rights!" Zhou Ya tightened his collar and continued: "The Federation needs an enemy, an enemy that can make all countries fear it, because only in this way, those groups Only short-sighted guys will stick together for warmth and think of the Federation! Since the failure of Grindelwald, the authority of the International Federation of Wizards has begun to decline. At the beginning of this century, the Federation was still able to hold the Ministry of Magic of various countries accountable, and even became tough. Force all countries, but now? The Federation has almost become the mouthpiece of all countries!"
"And this is all Dumbledore's fault! Under his 'wise' leadership, the authority of the Federation has continued to decline, and look what it has become now! Hmph! He is unwilling to reform, and he is unwilling to leave that position. , this is really embarrassing~~~”
"Just for this?" Qingqiu almost laughed in anger. She had eaten sand in the desert of the Middle East for a year and a half and got this result?She really wondered if Zhou Ya had been kicked in the head by a donkey.
"Of course, there's more than that..." Zhou Ya narrowed her eyes slightly: "This world is far more complicated than you believe - there is much more!"
Her wrinkled face raised slightly, her cloudy brown eyes stared at Qingqiu, her lips wriggled slightly, "Child! When will you really grow up?"
"Snapped!"
A crisp sound echoed in the room, and blood slowly flowed from the corner of Zhou Ya's mouth!
Then, before she could recover from this brief lapse of consciousness.Qingqiu, who was on the side, had firmly grasped her chin and twisted her head so that she could look into his eyes.
Looking at her eyes full of murderous intent, "So you messed up! Bitch! You messed up!!"
"Do you know what that bastard did in Libya?"
"Come to think of it, you, a bastard with only the word "power" in your head, can't imagine it, right?" Qingqiu held her head with both hands and roared angrily. She stared into her eyes, "Then I’m here to show you! Open your dog eyes!”
In an instant, all the light was stripped away by Qingqiu, and the whites of Zhou Ya's eyes were covered by a black cloth, 'Crack!Click! 'The ground beneath my feet seemed to be broken, and there was a sound like glass falling to the ground.
Then everything disappeared, and they seemed to have arrived in a weightless space.
Then Qingqiu let go of her hand and kicked the old bitch out.
In the void, the sense of direction up, down, left, and right was gone. Zhou Ya only felt that she seemed to be flying, or maybe falling to the ground.
She wanted to scream, but she couldn't open her mouth.
Suddenly, she felt a hand seem to grab her face, and the blood from the fingernails scratched across her face and fell on her shoulder.
It was as if she was not wearing any clothes, and the touch was quite strong.
Then a second hand, then a third, four, five, six, seven, countless.
The surrounding space was like a sand leak, squeezing out corpses covered in blood.
Old people, children, men, women, black people, white people, the only thing that was the same was that they all had no pupils, and they were shouting silently with their mouths open, and Zhou Ya happened to fall (fly towards) among this group of people.
"Hiss!" A heartbreaking feeling came from her palms, then her arms, cheeks, and calves.Those people were biting her, like zombies, eating her alive one bite at a time!
"Help! Help -" she screamed silently, struggling hard, but she couldn't get rid of the imprisonment on her body.It was as if her body was tied up, and no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free!
She could only feel that she was being eaten clean by countless people.
Until the last bite.
"How does it feel?" Qingqiu's arrogant voice came from the darkness.
"Do you know? What I have seen is ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times more cruel than this!"
"You and the monsters you raised can continue to live like a rat in the sewer." As he said that, many papers and parchments suddenly floated out of the void!
Creamy yellow parchment was like snowflakes, floating in the ink-like space. Suddenly a piece of paper covered her eyes, and all the light seemed to have returned in the next second.
She sucked greedily, holding her body with both hands, her whole body trembling slightly.
"It feels so good to be alive!"
Qingqiu raised his head and looked down arrogantly on this senior monster who had been deeply involved in the Federation for more than 60 years.A monster without humanity and a moral vacuum.
Then she raised her feet and left the room, which made her bored.
————“Uh——Professor?”
The moment she went out, a crisp voice stopped her.
Qingqiu slowly turned around, and a girl with fluffy tea hair was looking at her happily.
"Well - you are..." She had some impression of this girl, but not much.
Over the past year, those horrific scenes have continued to torture her nerves, making her memory of the past blurry.
"Hermione, Hermione Granger, Professor Zhang, I will be sitting in the front row of your public class at Hogwarts!" Hermione ran to Qingqiu excitedly, her eyes shining like stars. .
She didn't expect that she would meet Professor Zhang Qingqiu here. She was deeply impressed by this professor who only stayed at Hogwarts for a few days. After all, her magic looked so magnificent, far better than waving a wand. They look much 'pretty'.
She asked many questions at that time, trying to learn even one of those wonderful magics.
It's a pity that this professor left too quickly. The magic she taught was so different from that of Hogwarts that Hermione couldn't figure it out at all.
"It's you!" Qingqiu nodded in a daze, then asked subconsciously: "Why are you here?"
"Summer vacation! Hogwarts is on summer vacation, and my parents and I came to Paris for a trip. What a coincidence, Professor, that I met you here." Hermione continued to say excitedly.
If she could, she wished she could learn a trick or two from this professor right now.Her original plan was to use her visit to Paris to learn some different magics. Unfortunately, this kind of thing happened in Europe recently, which made her a little disappointed, but she didn't expect that there would be another village full of bright flowers!Suddenly, I bumped into Professor Zhang at the corner.
"Sorry Hermione! I have something else to do." Hermione's clear eyes made Qingqiu look a little dazed for a moment. She reached out and touched her hair, and water seemed to flow from the tips of Hermione's hair on her fingertips. Soon her head was full of fluffy hair, as if it had been straightened.
Her beautiful long hair made Hermione's charm at least several times greater.
She hadn't seen such a look in a long time.
Zhang Qingqiu's lips wriggled slightly, his teeth biting the glossless lips.
In the past year, all that has been happening in front of her is death, poverty, hunger, cannibalization and killing.
She has long forgotten what warmth is.
Through all this, she seemed to have regained the courage to go on.
"Professor?" Hermione called in a low voice. The little witch touched her soft hair happily, but the sudden surprise did not make her look away from Qingqiu's body.
The sudden change in her expression was noticed by Hermione, who had a keen mind.
The professor was so sad...this was her first feeling.
Qingqiu quickly forced a smile and said, "Sorry, I have something urgent to do and must leave immediately."
After saying that, she turned around and walked towards the other end of the corridor, finally disappearing around the corner.
"Hmm - Professor is so strange!" Hermione frowned, looking at the direction where Qingqiu disappeared, thoughtfully.