"Wood?"
Murphy was a little surprised. This guy actually learned how to use the phone?
"What's wrong?"
"I, I, it seems…" Wood's voice sounded a little nervous, "I encountered a little problem."
"Huh? Someone robbed you?"
Murphy immediately thought of the reminder he had given him before.
Could this guy be so unlucky that he was robbed after just buying materials a few times?
"Is he okay? How much money did he lose?" Murphy asked.
"No, it's okay. I didn't lose any money, and I wasn't robbed." Wood said.
Murphy was puzzled. You called me when you had nothing to do. Did you want to try how to use the phone?
"Then what did you call me about?"
"It's about the potion, the beauty potion. I want to meet you and tell you about it."
The beauty potion!
Murphy immediately became alert. Whether he could make money faster and build a research institute faster in the future depended on it.
Could it be that this kid had made some discoveries or breakthroughs after refining potions for a few days?
"Okay, where are you, the barn? I'll find you right away."
A few days ago, Murphy asked the Muggles to install a landline phone in the barn so that Wood could contact him conveniently.
Alex was probably using Muggle technology for the first time. He was very nervous and spoke incoherently. It was probably difficult for him to explain it clearly on the phone. It would be better to go over and take a look.
"Okay, okay, come quickly."
After hanging up the phone, Murphy Apparated to the barn.
However, as soon as he entered the door, his face became gloomy.
I saw a bald man in a black wizard robe sitting on a pile of sacks in the barn, and Alex Wood was lying on the ground, not knowing whether he fainted or died.
"Did you ask Wood to call?"
Murphy immediately guessed what happened. No wonder Wood stuttered and hesitated on the phone. It turned out that he was forced to fight.
"Who are you?"
Murphy drew out his wand, and murderous intent was already in his heart.
He never wanted other wizards to see the things in this barn. If people knew that he sold potions to Muggles, they would at least force him to stop his business, and maybe even put him in Azkaban.
"Peter Parker?" The bald wizard looked at him, as if he wanted to confirm his identity, "I haven't heard of this surname. Are you a Muggle?"
Murphy was stunned, and then he understood, "Wood told you my name?"
The bald man snorted, "You spineless guy, you confessed after using the Cruciatus Curse for a few seconds."
"How did you find this place? What are you going to do?"
Murphy asked.
He had to make sure how much information the other party knew about him and whether there were other related persons.
"Let me put it this way, Mr. Peter Parker, you have offended someone you shouldn't have offended." The bald man said, "You asked this guy to disguise himself to buy potion materials, right? Let me guess, where did all these materials go? Were they sold to Knockturn Alley or smuggled out of the country?"
Murphy frowned, but his heart was slightly relieved.
This guy doesn't know that I sell potions to Muggles.
He thought I sold potions to dark wizards? At the same time, he also understood the reason for the matter.
Someone - a big shot in the bald man's mouth, noticed that he bought a large amount of potion materials, and then sent the bald man to follow Wood - Wood used the door key to go back and forth, and the bald man could follow him back by grabbing the corner of his clothes - to the barn.
So he shouldn't know much about himself.
After all, even Alex Wood himself only knew Murphy by a fake name.
"Who I sell potions to, what does it have to do with you?" Murphy said.
"Of course it has nothing to do with me, I'm just an errand boy." The bald man jumped down from the sack with a cynical look, "But you blocked his way to wealth, and the big man asked me to tell you a message."
"Two choices, either he will give you a stake, work together, and make money together. Or, he will let the Aurors chase you to the sky and there will be no way out, and sooner or later you will be put in Azkaban to accompany those monsters."
"How about it, Mr. Peter Parker, it's a very simple multiple-choice question."
Hearing this, Murphy calmed down completely. That's it?
I thought you had a lot of evidence against me!
I overestimated the IQ of wizards.
He had probably restored the truth of the matter. It was probably because someone observed that he bought a large amount of potion materials, but there were not a large number of potions for sale on the market, so the "big shot" suspected that he sold the potions to dark wizards or smuggled them out of the country, etc.
The other party probably never thought about the possibility of "selling potions to Muggles".
After all, for most wizards, Muggles are like another creature living in a parallel world. They only see them a few times a year, and doing business with Muggles has been blocked in their minds.
"It's really a simple choice." Murphy said, "But I have a question."
"What's the question?"
"Why does that big shot think that a guy like you can threaten me?"
"What?"
The moment the bald wizard was stunned, Murphy had already launched an attack, "Petrified!"
"Armor protects!" The bald wizard reacted quickly and immediately released an armor spell to block the attack.
But Murphy would not give him a chance to breathe, "Leviosa!"
The shortened levitation spell is not a standard spell and cannot be controlled continuously, but it will cause the object to float upwards until the spell effect ends.
And what's more interesting is that this is not a single-target directional spell, but an AOE magic that targets a range and can affect all objects within the range. Even if the spell's rays do not directly hit the object, it will float up.
And the armor can only defend against the spell's rays.
Therefore, this simple levitation spell can bypass the defense of the armor spell and make the enemy float up, thereby making it lose balance and panic.
This trick made Murphy almost undefeated in wizard duels at school.
In the panic of the bald man, the armor spell could not be maintained and became invalid.
Murphy immediately added a disarming spell to seize the opponent's wand, and then added a petrification spell to prevent him from having a spare wand.
Watching the bald man fall heavily from the air, Murphy mercilessly stepped on his face, which was bleeding from the nose.
"Heart-piercing and bone-cutting!"
The torture lasted for five minutes.
Murphy finally lifted the petrification spell on the other party.
The bald man was sweating all over, his face was pale, and he could hardly speak.
Murphy curled his lips to express sympathy, and then added a magic sword and shadowless, poking several holes in his stomach.
It must be said that the two spells invented by Mr. Snape are very good. The inverted golden bell has strong control, and the magic sword and shadowless has efficient damage. Murphy likes to use them very much.
"What's your name?" Murphy asked.
The bald man's face was full of fear. He opened his mouth several times, but he couldn't say a word.
"Forget it, I'll do it myself. Legilimency!"
After a moment, Murphy smacked his lips, "Malfoy?"
So Slug and Giggs' pharmacy is his business.
"Lucius, that idiot, wants to steal my business?" Murphy sneered, mocking him.
Little Malfoy is a scumbag, and Lucius is even more of a scumbag.
That coward wants to threaten me?
He's floating with a little money, right?
Murphy didn't care about the half-dead bald man anymore, but came to Wood to check him out. Fortunately, he was just unconscious.
He was about to remove the curse from Wood, but he saw the bald man shaking his hand and taking out a badge-like thing from his arms.
"You, you will regret it! Mr. Malfoy, will make you pay the price!"
After the bald man finished speaking, he suddenly twisted and disappeared.
Murphy was stunned for a moment, "The portkey for escape?"
"These dark wizards are not completely without creativity."
(End of this chapter)