The cruise ship stopped in Athens for a day, and then came to Reggio Calabria in southern Italy. Zhao Mai and his group got off here, took a big train to go north to Lyon, where the Le Mai family lived nearby. The cruise ship would go straight west to Barcelona, ​​Spain, which was not suitable in terms of distance.

And no one wants to take a boat anymore. The Mediterranean is indeed beautiful, projecting mysterious, elegant and heart-warming demur, just like sapphire. But if you always look at it, you will be bored and want to change your taste.

Besides, Satiri, Chilia and Tyrion had never taken a train, so they were naturally interested in the things that could run on the rails with a humming and squirting steam. Nervousness, excitement, curiosity and incomprehension existed at the same time. When Dogian drew a detailed design of the steam engine, they were all very impressed that humans without magic could accomplish such miracles.

Zhao Mai almost couldn't help but speak out the power of the "I Think" technique of the tooth-hit goblin. After all, you can't just learn magic hard and look down on the machinery that others are working hard to create. Even if there is material transformation alchemy and powerful psychic power, Zhao Mai cannot design a better steam engine than a real engineer.

Since the speed of trains in this era is not fast, diesel internal combustion engines have just appeared for a few years and have not been promoted, all cross-provincial trains are sleeper berths. In addition to hard and soft sleepers, the trains also have real aristocratic carriages, luxurious decorations, and special servant services. After all, Dogian is the former queen of Wakanda. The title of Earl she obtained in France by donating science and public welfare has not been deprived. Therefore, she is qualified to buy a noble carriage and use it completely for herself. No matter where she goes, just add it and hang it behind the train.

This can be done with a telegram. When the train arrived in Rome, everyone moved into the newly obtained noble carriage, and the entire trip became a pleasure, and you could patiently see the scenery along the way.

The news of Zhao Mai returning to the European continent spread along with the news of Dogian's abdication, but no one communicated with him, and the letters sent to Dumbledore and Lemay did not respond, which made Zhao Mai feel very strange. However, when the train entered the French border, Zhao Mai saw the advertisements that the Lemay family welcomed him from the local newspaper "Romantic Wizard".

"It's hard to contact you. All the owls who delivered letters to you are lost. How did they go and come back!" After more than ten years, the lively girl Barbara was no longer youthful, and her mature charm had already climbed up to her face. However, her dress was still the style of the school in the past, with a long wizard robe and a pointed wizard hat, but the original school emblem on her chest was replaced by the Lemay family's emblem.

"The owl can't find me?" Zhao Mai thought about it and understood. He opened his territory, and foreign magic could not locate him at all. How could the owl be found? I guess even a magician like Dumbledore could use the most expensive crystal ball to contact him. He made a sudden enlightenment expression: "I understand, because I used defensive magic. I have been wondering why no one wrote me!"

"You are so heartless. If you can't receive the letter, you must still be complaining about others, without considering whether you have any problems." Barbara saw Dogian and Xiaohua, and the reserve grain that sticks out their tongues and acts cute: "Sure enough, you must have made a magic stone. Even your dog has a permanent youth potion. Everyone is still so beautiful after so many years. I am so envious!"

"You have to ask Mr. Lemay, don't come to me. How do I make immortality potions or learn from your family?" Zhao Mai introduced them to everyone, but Barbara always seems to maintain a sense of alienation, but he is slightly better for Zhao Mai, Dogian and Xiaohua.

"Why did you come to this train station to wait for me? The letter I sent to Mr. Lemay said that I would go to Lyon. I just entered the French border and arrived in Modane." Zhao Mai was a little puzzled: "Are you afraid that you can't contact us and get it wrong?"

"Actually, I have been waiting for you here for three days, and I have nothing to do, so I'm waiting." Barbara snorted and said, "I can't contact you, so we have to inquire through friends. Fortunately, you bought a noble carriage in the name of Earl Dogian, and we have a clear clue. It's not very convenient for telegraphs to go back and forth, and the telephone line is not good. I changed three stations to confirm that I came here to wait. You can't go to Lyon, our house is not there now, you have to follow me to the north."

"I remember helping your family repair the house almost all, why has it been demolished recently?"

"No. Not everyone dares to use magic to bombard us with great fanfare." Barbara sighed and said, "Although we are an old family of magic and alchemy, respect cannot resist the invasion of hostility. The magic world's influence in this world is no longer as good as before, let alone the respect accumulated in the magic world. The ancestors have moved to the houses in Switzerland, near Bern between Geneva and Zurich. If you can believe it, you can go directly by plane. Take a boat and a train, and the cost of a noble carriage is also quite good. You are really leisurely."

"Even your family has moved? I really didn't expect this. It seems that the current situation is not optimistic." Zhao Mai asked with concern: "Is there any real threat in detail?"

"We just heard some rumors, and some people covet our Philosopher's Stone. We have come to several waves of thieves. Although they were shocked by our magic defense, they have a good ability to hide their identities. We have never known who made it. In desperation, we put the Philosopher's Stone at the Goblin Bank. Not only did we have to pay high storage fees, but we also spent a lot of money to invite some of the most famous wizards to design the magic circle, and witness that the Philosopher's Stone was indeed placed in the Goblin Bank."

"Oh...then you don't need to move, right?"

"You have dismantled most of the defensive gargoyles, and the protective magic circle was destroyed by you and Grindelwald. The effect of staying there was reduced. In addition, our ancestors said that France and Germany would have a war. He always wanted to change France's foreign policy, at least remove the main contradictions from Germany from France, and give up some unnecessary interests in exchange for security, but no one listened to him. He felt that his influence was not as great as before, so he went to Switzerland for recuperation in anger, and even the people from the French Ministry of Magic disappeared."

"I will not cause him any trouble if I go?"

"He said it would definitely." Barbara shrugged and spread her hands out loud, "But he said, because you can make magic stones and immortalizers, and build a friend relationship on this basis will be more reliable, and hope to form allies. Mike, what do you think?"
Chapter completed!