"Vid Gray... your student... should be in New York now."
As soon as Bloren finished speaking, Abigail jerked her head up, a flash of undisguised surprise in her eyes.
"Vid Gray in New York?" The shabby middle-aged man, Illari, blurted out, his face instantly filled with ecstatic joy: "Haha, what a coincidence? No, didn't he return to the United Kingdom?"
"Intelligence can deceive, but logic won't, technology won't."
Bloren leaned back against the chair, smiled, and said, "The one who can hijack the Flow Mirror Signal so effortlessly and precisely, who else could it be but him?"
"Of course, there's also the Witch Pure Party!" Illari had no awareness of flattering the leader and said without hesitation: "They hijack the FMC signal as punctually as three meals a day! Even Machioni has helplessly laid flat and ignored it!"
Bloren looked at him helplessly and said, "Illari, stop fiddling with your 'toys' all the time and also pay attention to the organization's intelligence."
After pausing, he glanced at Abigail and said, "A year and a half ago, just after Abigail resigned, Vid Gray disappeared. Although the news wasn't publicized, the British Magic World almost went crazy looking for him."
Illari froze: "Disappeared? This happened?"
He pondered and asked, "So what? How does this relate to the current situation?"
"The relation is..." Bloren's eyes showed a hint of amusement: "Shortly after his disappearance, the Witch Pure Party began to hijack the FMC broadcast signal. Isn't it interesting?"
"Huh?" Illari was bewildered momentarily, and finally understood.
"More interestingly, not long after the signal hijacking incident occurred, Vid Gray returned to Hogwarts." Bloren squinted and smiled: "Now do you understand?"
Illari nodded: "I see... the Witch Pure Party originally didn't have the ability to hijack the signal, so they kidnapped Vid Gray to get the technology from him?"
"Exactly." Bloren said satisfactorily.
He was just about to continue his speculation when Illari, full of hope, said:
"So... BOSS, when can you also bring Vid Gray back? Honestly, although Leader Thorne thinks that simpler poppets are more useful, I actually feel... there's plenty of room for me to improve!"
After speaking, Illari looked at Bloren eagerly, almost as if he anticipated him pulling out a Vid Gray from his pocket.
Bloren: "… Illari?"
"Right here!" Illari responded excitedly.
"Go back and continue your research." Bloren said gently: "In the future, I won't bother you with these trivial matters."
"Oh... okay. Actually, I find them quite interesting..."
Illari scratched his greasy hair, feeling a bit puzzled, and obediently walked out of the room, even closing the door for them.
At this moment, a man standing in the shadows wearing a raven mask suddenly spoke, his voice carrying a cold metallic quality through the mask:
"If Vid Gray's disappearance was the Witch Pure Party's doing, why let him return to Hogwarts alive? According to their methods, they should either absorb or eliminate."
Bloren finally regained his rhythm, lightly clapped his hands, and said, "That's the crucial question—why did Grindelwald allow him to leave? Considering another piece of intelligence at the time, I can barely speculate the reason."
He deliberately paused for a moment, looked around, and slowly said:
"During the same time, near an isolated private estate in northern Mexico, there was an extremely brief but devastatingly catastrophic battle."
"You all know Mexico's Ministry of Magic's approach. They detected intense magic fluctuations but didn't dare approach. When everything was over, they went to check..."
"All structures above ground were destroyed. Muggle weapons were strewn around like broken toys, numerous tall stone pillars emerged from the originally flat ground, even the terrain was altered!"
"To avoid Muggles discovering and causing a fuss, it took them half a month just to erase traces and alter the memories of nearby Muggles."
"Such terrible, pure destructive power, in the past century, only about two or three people could achieve it!"
He didn't need to name those few people, as everyone understood—
Dumbledore must have engaged in a secret battle with Grindelwald to rescue the kidnapped Vid Gray.
Judging by the results, the victory clearly belonged to the white-bearded headmaster always guarding the castle. Otherwise, over the past year or so, Vid Gray wouldn't be able to study peacefully at school and even travel abroad freely.
Rolando Stern, who had been silent since Thorne's death, finally spoke.
His face was clouded as he worriedly said, "If Vid Gray indeed participated in this matter... then we are facing not only hidden enemies but also Dumbledore!"
"But confronting that person head-on is tantamount to suicide! That is someone even Grindelwald is wary of—a White Wizard!"
Whether Grindelwald or the formidable Witch Pure Party, they were untouchable existences to the Scourers. They hardly feared official forces, but they did fear this kind of 'kind' with half a foot in the dark world.
Stern suggested, "Mr. Bloren, perhaps we should temporarily retreat. Give up some insignificant locations to let the Magic Congress smoothly 'eliminate' the Scourers... and resume activities after the situation calms down."
"Retreat? No, Rolando, that would only push us into a corner step by step."
Bloren shook his finger, "Of course, I won't be like that fool Thorne, sending you guys to assassination—it's the dumbest approach."
He smiled and said, "Stern, I want you to use all our public opinion channels, to promote that 'Scourer' method at the banquet, and earnestly appeal... request Vid Gray, the Flow Mirror inventor, to assist the Magic Congress in solving this crisis."
"Meanwhile, secretly, spread another rumor—say this Hogwarts darling actually has unclear relations with the Witch Pure Party, even being a pawn cultivated by Grindelwald."
"I want everyone to pay attention to him, suspect him, while pushing him to the altar, also dragging him into the mire; let Dumbledore exhaust himself protecting him, keep him under the spotlight, unable to secretly plot treacheries!"