White Raven Chamber of Commerce has a shop at the north end of Diagon Alley.
The front door is not big, and there is a gray painted signboard with a White Raven with wings spread on it.
From the outside, this is a serious Potions material wholesaler. In the window are standard crucibles, samples of common medicinal materials and several bottles of dragon blood substitutes with regular colors.
Lin Ze went there the next morning.
There was only one young clerk in the shop who was dozing off behind the counter. He was awakened by the sound of the door opening and stood up hurriedly.
"What do you need, sir?"
"Look for your boss."
"The boss is not here today, if you have anything you can tell me, or leave your contact information for me to tell you when the boss comes back."
Lin Ze glanced at the shelves behind the counter.
There is nothing wrong with the samples listed above. The product name, place of origin, and inspection stamps are all complete, and the price tag is also in line with the market conditions.
He picked up a bottle labeled "African Tree Snake Venom" and looked at it. The sealing wax was intact and the label was printed properly.
"Do you do wholesale?"
"As long as the quantity is large enough, we can supply any materials."
"Any material will work?"
The clerk paused, his smile did not change, but his eyes stagnated for a moment. "Regular Potions materials are all fine, special materials need to be ordered in advance, and the boss will handle it personally."
Lin Ze didn't ask any further questions, just bought two bottles of standard dragon blood and left.
After going out, he turned into the alley next to him, applied Disillusionment Charm to himself, and went around to the back of the shop.
The back door opens into a narrow alley. The door panel is made of iron and has two locks.
Lin Ze used "Alohomora" to open the lock and push the door in.
Behind the door is a small warehouse with ordinary medicinal materials and packaging boxes piled up, nothing seems out of the ordinary.
Lin Ze used "Specialis Revelio" to scan it again. There was a secret door under a pile of wooden boxes in the corner. After opening it, there was a ladder going down.
The basement is much larger than that of the Greengrass Manor.
There are two rows of large iron cabinets against the wall, six in each row. There are nameplates on the cabinet doors with different numbers.
Lin Ze opened the first cabinet door, and there were neatly stacked glass bottles inside. Each bottle contained a dark red liquid. The mouth of the bottle was sealed with wax, and the seal of White Raven Chamber of Commerce was stamped on the wax.
The second cabinet contains solid objects, housed in flat tin boxes, ranging in color from dark red to gray and black.
The third cabinet contained bones, both long and short bones, with neatly cut sections, as if they had been specially processed.
Lin Ze looked at each cabinet, then squatted down to look at the labels on the bottom of the iron cabinets.
There is only the serial number and storage date on the label, but no source information.
When he was checking the fifth cabinet, he heard footsteps above his head.
Lin Ze ducked behind the iron cabinet, holding the wand in his hand.
Two people came down from the ladder, one tall and thin and the other short and fat, wearing the same gray work clothes.
"When will today's batch arrive?" Shorty asked.
"At three o'clock in the afternoon, a truck came from Scotland." The tall and thin man opened the record book in his hand and flipped through two pages.
"This week's volume is 30% less than last week, and the boss is not very happy."
"Scotland There has been a lot of noise recently. Auror After the Greengrass Manor dug things out, the entire supply point in the north has shrunk. The boss said to take it slow for now and then resume after the storm has passed."
"What about this afternoon batch?"
"The last batch will stop after receiving it."
The two locked the cabinet door and climbed up the ladder.
Lin Ze waited another five minutes before coming out from behind the iron cabinet, covering the secret door again, and slipped out through the back door.
After returning to Group Three's office, he told Ben the situation.
"There are a large amount of blood and bone products in White Raven Chamber of Commerce's warehouse. The sources are unknown and there is no legal purchase record. Their supply point at Scottish Highlands was probably taken over by the Greengrass Family after he escaped."
"Then what are you going to do about it?" Ben asked.
"Don't alert others yet. When the goods arrive at three o'clock in the afternoon, we will intercept them."
At 2:30 that afternoon, Lin Ze, Amos, Weiqi and Sirius were waiting at both ends of the back alley of White Raven Chamber of Commerce.
At three o'clock sharp, a black van turned in from the north, with the logo of a logistics company printed on the outside.
Amos and Weiqi blocked the alley from both ends, while Lin Ze and Sirius walked forward.
The driver tried to reverse the car, but was blocked by a "Impedimenta" from Amos.
After the truck driver was blocked by Amos, he simply turned off the engine and stretched his hands out of the window.
Weiqi stepped forward and pulled the door open to pull the person out. Sirius circled around the rear of the car and shook his head towards Lin Ze - the car was locked.
Amos hit "Reducto" to blow away the lock, and the carriage door opened. Six wooden boxes were stacked inside, and dark red stains oozed from the gaps in the box lids.
Lin Ze Pry open the top one, and there are glass bottles inside, which are exactly the same as the bottles in the warehouse, with serial number labels attached to the bottles.
The driver was pressed against the wall. After several "friendly" inquiries, he muttered that he only drove the car and that the items had been sealed in the car when loading. They were hauled from a farm in the northern suburbs of Edinburgh.
Lin Ze asked Weiqi to escort the driver back to the department, and he took Sirius and Amos into White Raven Chamber of Commerce's store. The clerk was still lying on the counter, and when he saw Lin Ze coming in with someone, his face was as white as plaster powder on the shelf, and he shook his finger and pointed under the chair where the boss usually sat.
There is a living floor under the chair, and when you open it, you will find an iron box. There is no money in the box, no account book, only a piece of parchment with more than a dozen numbers listed on it, which match the nameplates on the iron cabinets in the underground warehouse. Each number is followed by a date and an amount. The latest one is dated yesterday, and the amount is followed by "Scottish Highlands, farm, to be picked up."
Lin Ze folded the parchment. He remembered what the two gray work clothes in the underground warehouse said - White Raven Chamber of Commerce's boss knew that Auror was checking Greengrass Manor and knew that the supply point in the north had been retracted, but he did not run away. One of them knew that the news was still there People who do business as usual are either extremely stupid or have strong enough trump cards. White Raven Chamber of Commerce can hang up the signboard of Diagon Alley openly, and there are records on Gringotts's sales every week, which shows that there is something behind this shop. Seizing a shop cannot destroy the roots.
"What's the boss's name?" Lin Ze asked the clerk.
"Claude·Weil. He doesn't come here often, and he leaves when he comes. Usually the two stewards are running around."
"Weil is Pure-blood?"
"Not really..."
The clerk swallowed and lowered his voice, "Greengrass Family and Weil have been doing business for almost ten years. Most of the goods that come out of our store are delivered by Cotswolds."
Lin Ze nodded.
Either Weil has a stronger backer than Greengrass, or he doesn't care whether Greengrass falls or not.
"Amos, take Weiqi to the northern suburbs of Edinburgh and find the farm according to those coordinates. Sirius comes with me to find Mr. K."