Chapter 696: The Transfer
Cedric had just left the bottom of the lake, holding Cho Chang when he saw a group of panicked Mermen rushing up, at least twenty of them.
“What’s going on?” He stopped a Merman and asked him, but only bubbles issued from his mouth.
The Merman made a sharp, shrill voice, gesticulating, as though in a hurry and looking very anxious.
Cedric couldn’t understand a word. The Merman couldn’t speak human language, and he couldn’t understand Mermish.
The Merman shook his green head and kept pointing down, beckoning Cedric to follow him.
“The champion who turned his head into a shark attacked us with magic, and he became very abnormal …” A particularly fierce, ugly female mermaid floated up and said in a strange voice. “He’s going to take away the hostages that are not his, and we are going to inform Dumbledore!”
“What, Krum attacked you!” Cedric froze for a moment and had a bad feeling.
He hesitated for a moment, handed Cho to the mermaid in front of him, and followed another Merman soldier to see what was going on.
In fact, he had a good impression of Krum. Although not very talkative, several contacts with him had been quite pleasant.
Krum had a calm personality. He did not have the ego as a world-famous Quidditch Seeker, had a lot of knowledge, and they could find a lot of common topics together.
What on earth happened to this guy, why did he attack the Merpeople and take away the targets of other champions?!!
There must be some misunderstanding in that; that was Cedric’s idea.
They were a little slow, and Krum had already smashed the tail of the stone Merperson.
As soon as he returned to the Merpeople village, Cedric saw Krum swimming in another direction with Harry and Gabrielle.
As for his own hostage, the boy named Poliakoff, he’d been casually left on the ground.
Cedric and the Merman soldier quickly followed, but Krum swam fast.
Evan and Harry were tied tightly together with ropes and dragged rudely forward by Krum…
More than a minute later, a large rough rock suddenly appeared in the muddy water ahead. It had paintings of Merpeople on it; they were carrying spears and chasing what looked like the giant squid.
That was what the Merpeople depicted on it. Evan had seen many similar rocks at the bottom of the lake!
Was that the Portkey? And Barty Crouch Jr., was he hiding there?!!
It was really a bold idea. That rock was close enough to the Merpeople village, and it was very confusing and difficult to be seen.
Krum placed Evan and Harry on top of the huge rock. They did not leave directly. It was not time yet.
He seemed to want to separate Evan and Harry, and started cutting the rope between them again. But Krum’s efforts, though great, were in vain. It wouldn’t work with Evan’s charm on the ropes, and that caused him a lot of pain.
Just as he decided to take some action, Cedric and a group of Merpeople caught up.
Krum stopped, turned to look at them fiercely, and held out his wand.
“Krum, what’s going on?” Cedric shouted, looking at him inconceivably. “Why did you take Harry and the girl to this place? They should stay in the Merpeople village and wait for their own champions to rescue them…”
The next second, he hurriedly lowered his head to avoid the curse jet, and looked at Krum in disbelief. The student from Durmstrang was actually attacking him.
Cedric and Krum fought together, and the two were casting spells at one another.
Krum’s movements were a bit inflexible, probably because he was being controlled; his reaction was always a little slower.
Not to mention, there was a large group of Merpeople soldiers helping Cedric. They didn’t choose to escape this time.
Although the Merpeople could not use magic, they had their own way of fighting and rushed up with their spears.
That way, the battle was soon over. Krum was fighting and retreating, trying to run away with Harry. But Cedric did not give him a chance, and a beautifully cast Stunning Spell hit him… Krum fainted.
“I can’t believe it. This guy is absolutely crazy!” said Cedric, swimming over with the Mermen.
His body was still shaking because of the battle just now, and they looked at Krum lying at the bottom of the lake.
A Merman took out a rope of weed and tied him up, and Cedric came over to find Evan and Harry.
With that unexpected situation, it was already difficult to continue the task. He was going to take the two of them back together and report to the judges what happened under the lake.
“Don’t come here, get out of here!” said Evan loudly, spitting a lot of bubbles at Cedric.
He no longer cared about being exposed, and as Cedric approached, he felt the magic reaction of the rock beneath him. It was the time set by Barty Crouch Jr., and the Portkey was about to be activated.
Seeing Evan suddenly open his eyes and speak to him, Cedric was stunned and landed on the rock.
“How could it be? Why did the silvery-haired girl wake up?”
The thought had just appeared in his mind, and the next second, he felt as though the back of his navel had been pulled.
Evan floated with Harry in the lake, Cedric was beside them.
The huge rock was floating with them. They were spinning in the lake, and now no one could leave the rock, which dragged them forward in the middle of the whistling wind and the swirling colors.
Soon, Evan felt himself falling heavily on the ground.
“Where are we?” Cedric asked, exclaiming, “What on earth is going on?!”
Next to Evan, Harry also opened his eyes. For a while, he opened his mouth and spit out a large mouthful of lake water, breathing hard.
“Cedric, Gabrielle, you …” he gasped. “What happened?”
“I also want to know … no one told me that there would be a Portkey during the second task!” Cedric clenched his wand, stood up and looked around, then lowered his head and said, “Harry, maybe this girl next to you can explain to us what she seems to know.”
Now they had completely left the boundary of Hogwarts, not under the lake.
The dense weeds, the Merpeople, and Krum lying on the ground had disappeared. Only the wet rock with paintings of Merpeople hunting proved that they had ever existed. The fog around was hazy, covering everything, and the outline of a distant hill could only be vaguely recognized!
“Gabrielle, do you know anything?!” said Harry in surprise.
Then he seemed to think of something, his face became extremely pale, and he looked anxiously at the distant hill.
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