While Dumbledore and Harry were talking through the night, in Albania, a country that had built 750,000 fortresses but only had a population of about two million people, ancient trees towered into the sky in the deep mountains and forests. Coupled with the gloomy night sky, the sky looked even more gloomy and mysterious.
In the depths of the dense forest, many vine-like long tentacles hung down from the branches. These long tentacles would shrink when they came into contact with a creature and hang the creature up. These trees were full of white bones. After the tentacles captured food, they would secrete a highly toxic and corrosive venom. Those who were caught by them would die a horrible death. However, when these man-eating trees encountered a few people in black robes, they would shrink their long tentacles as if they did not dare to touch them at all.
A male sorcerer who looked like a python put away his wand with his right hand. His left hand tugged at a large hyena-like monster with rusty red short hair and black spikes on its back. This monster had two sharp black horns on its cheeks and its eyes shone with a red light. This was the hellhound that the British Aura loved to use.
Rubastan Lestrange patted the dog's head heavily to get the unruly hellhound to follow him. He said in disgust, "If it weren't for the fact that Master still needs these trees to cover the base, I would have asked my dog to spit fire and burn them. These long tentacles that endlessly stick out are as annoying as those Muggles that howl day and night."
Beside him, Gidro Lockhart, who had short blond hair, carefully straightened his hat that had just been knocked askew by the branches. After seeing the way these Death Eaters treated Muggle, he dared not speak carelessly now. Now that the Dark Lord had recruited a lot of men, he was not sure if his Amnesia Spell could make him suffer the same treatment as those Muggle after provoking these vicious people.
After passing through the forest of long tentacles and crossing a steep slope full of towering ancient trees, in a rather flat forest, Rabastan Lestrange bent down and cast a spell on the ground to remove the illusion. A cellar door appeared in front of everyone. Then, with a bang, the double doors of the cellar were opened and fell to the ground on both sides, splashing dust everywhere. When the dust settled, a huge dark hole appeared in front of them.
They walked down the cold and rough stone steps, and a spacious underground hall appeared in front of them. The torches on the walls were burning fiercely, illuminating the huge bluestone floor that covered the hall. Many black-robed wizards were walking in it. Beside a burning bonfire, several Muggle were hung upside down in the air. Several wizards sat on the ground and watched a big blond sorcerer with a scruffy beard shoot out spells with his wand, drawing bloody lines on the naked bodies of the Muggle for fun.
"Dolphin, don't torture these Muggle. Put them down," Rabastan Lestrange roared.
"I don't know when Lestrange became so kind as to sympathize with these Muggle." Dolphin Rolle shot another spell at a brown-haired female Muggle above him. Her legs were cut in half, and her two calves fell to the ground.
"Idiot, the master's ritual is ready. He wants us to bring these Muggle over. These days, enough Muggle have died. If the remaining number can't satisfy the master, Dolphin, your good days are over." Rabastan Lestrange folded his arms maliciously.
Dolphin's expression stiffened for a moment. He turned to look at the unconscious female Muggle, put away his wand, and rubbed his hands. "Rabastan, you've tortured no less Muggle than I have. The rest of the Muggle are all there. " Dolphin led them through a few corners, through several underground tunnels, and opened a huge stone door. All kinds of cries, wails, and moans instantly poured into their ears.
The rusty smell of blood and the stench of decay made Gidro involuntarily cover his nose. He frowned and looked up. In front of him was a gloomy world, as if there was no color except black and gray. Below the dark and uneven stone walls were densely packed iron cages. The iron cages were stained with dried black blood, and each iron cage was stuffed with no less than ten Muggle. In this dark underground, these Muggle were either lying down or wailing, crying, or in a daze.
When they heard the footsteps of Dolphin and the others, everyone tried to suppress their voices. Many female Muggle covered their mouths and the mouths of the children in their arms, lowered their heads in fear, and curled up their bodies, trying to avoid attracting the attention of these evil wizards.
"Damn it, another one is dead! You forgot to provide them with food again, Dolphin! " Rabastan stretched out his wand and pointed at an iron cage. The Muggle in the cage screamed and shrank back. An old man curled up on the ground, his face covered with ashes, and a flame fell on his body and burned him.
"Your brother Rodolphus is in charge of the food! It's none of my business if he doesn't send it! "Dolphin immediately retorted." That good-for-nothing with a broken arm can't even do such a small thing … "
Then Dolphin noticed that Rabastan, whose head was like a python's head, stared at him and dared not say a word.
"If Rodolphus doesn't send it next time, I'll get it myself … These Muggle are too weak." Dolphin lowered his head and muttered. Then, he waved his wand in coordination with Rabastan Lestrange. Clack! Clack! Clack! Clack! The door of the cage was opened.
Some of the Muggle in the cage stood up in disbelief. A young man stepped forward and obediently opened the door of the cage, but he did not dare to take a step out. They had seen too many people tortured to death because of resistance or dissatisfaction by these wizards. These bloody lessons made them completely afraid to step out of the cage. Apart from the moaning and groaning in pain, all the Muggles turned their gazes towards the evil adept.
"You dirty, lowly mudbloods, what are you waiting for? Come out and follow me." A spell hit the iron door in front of the male Muggle who opened the door first, and the sparks made the young male Muggle take a few steps back. Dolphin opened his mouth wide and laughed. He continued to shoot spells into the cage. The sparks that flew when the spells hit the stone floor made the Muggles dodge, so they were driven out of the cage.
"Line up, don't mess around, or I'll burn you to death." The fire from Rabastan's wand made his face look even more ferocious. An old woman's whole body was enveloped in flames. She wailed in pain until she could no longer make a sound. She had not been able to join the team in time because of her leg injury, so she became the target of Rabastan Lestrange's intimidation.
The Muggle could only support each other and did not dare to resist. They gathered in two rows and numbly followed these wizards out of this iron cage that made them depressed, painful, and desperate, and into the unknown fear.
Gidro Lockhart and another low-ranking Death Eater were responsible for walking at the back. He walked out of the area where the Muggle was imprisoned. The huge stone door slowly closed, and all the magic torches in the iron cage were automatically extinguished because there was no one around. A huge darkness shrouded the area. With a bang, the stone door closed, and Gidro turned and left.
Messy footsteps sounded in the deep tunnel, and they came to a room that was far more spacious than the previous hall.
In the room, a hairless male wizard in a black robe turned around. When the Muggle saw his appearance, they screamed in horror and instantly stopped.
This tall and thin, skeleton-like wizard's skin was like wax, paler than bones. The joints and muscles on his feet without shoes were strangely twisted, and the whites of his eyes seemed to be forever filled with blood. If Rabastan's head was just like a python's, then the face in front of them was like a real snake's. A flat nose, two slits for nostrils, hands like big pale spiders, a pair of shining red eyes, and vertical pupils like a cat's coldly glanced at the Muggle.
"Let them stand in a row." Lord Voldemort's high and cold voice sounded. Dolphin, Rabastan, and the other Death Eaters hurriedly drove the Muggle to line up neatly. All the Muggle were about an arm's length away from each other.
Suddenly, Lord Voldemort's two slits stared sharply at Dolphin. "Dolphin, do you like to torture them?"
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