"Chi--"
Lin Ze scoffed and put the coffee cup on the table. The bottom of the cup hit the wood with a muffled sound.
"Unbreakable Vow? Mr. Karkaroff, did you stay in Arctic Circle for too long and your brain was frozen?"
Karkaroff's face turned red. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, you don't seem to understand the situation yet, Mr. Karkaroff."
"You don't think that I came all the way from London to this inhospitable place just to make friends with you?"
"You!" Karkaroff felt ashamed and angry, and grabbed the wand with his right hand that had been hanging under the table.
Lin Ze was faster than him. A red light flashed and Karkaroff's wand was knocked away by Lin Ze and fell into Lin Ze's hands.
"Call out--"
"Ouch--"
Then there was a sound of air tearing, mixed with a scream.
Karkaroff fell from mid-air to the ground.
Lin Ze used "Disarming Charm" to knock away Karkaroff's magic wand that wanted to attack.
Then use "Cruciatus Curse" to knock down Karkaroff who wanted to escape from Apparition's forward swing.
At this time, Karkaroff fell painfully under the table, his whole body bent like a shrimp.
"Huh, I've been guarding against you for a long time." Lin Ze raised his brows proudly, looking at Karkaroff who was twitching like crazy until he lost his voice. Lin Ze suddenly understood why Bellatrix likes to torture people with Cruciatus Curse.
This effect is not ordinary pleasing to the eye.
Ahem, no, I am Ministry of Magic's Auror, how could I have such an idea!
Sin! Sin!
Lin Ze was not afraid of making a big fuss and being seen by Muggle in the hotel, because when the two of them just sat here, he had already cast a "Confundus Charm" around them.
Now in the eyes of the hotel proprietress, he was sitting at the table with Karkaroff, "having a drink and talking happily".
Withdrawing the magic power that maintained "Cruciatus Curse", Karkaroff's convulsions were slightly relieved.
Lin Ze squatted in front of Karkaroff and poked his still twitching body with the wand.
"You probably didn't know me well before, so I gave you a chance to make a mistake. The next time, it won't be as simple as "Cruciatus Curse" preparation~"
Karkaroff was lying on the ground, breathing heavily.
"Tsk, don't say anything. If you hear it, give a response." Lin Ze frowned.
"Oh... oh... oh... ok..." Karkaroff's body was still twitching.
"Okay, let's wait until you take your time and we'll chat again." Lin Ze nodded with satisfaction.
If you ask questions and answer them, you are a good comrade.
After a while, Karkaroff finally came to his senses. He struggled to hold the chair and sit down. When he looked at Lin Ze, his eyes no longer had the previous anger, only the clearest fear.
"Hey~ Couldn't it have been like this earlier? Can we continue talking about business now?"
Lin Ze plays with Karkaroff's wand.
This wand is made of hawthorn wood, with a slightly curved body and several Slavic-style lines engraved on the end. It feels surprisingly good in the hand.
"Can... can... ok..." Karkaroff's voice was hoarse, with some vibrato.
"No need Unbreakable Vow?"
"No... no need..."
"Very good!"
Lin Ze put the wand on the table, "I want you to tell me as many names, identities, and hiding places as you can remember of all the people you met in Death Eaters."
"Look into my eyes and I will know clearly whether you are lying or not."
Karkaroff raised his head twitchingly, and happened to meet Lin Ze's eyes.
"Legilimency"
Karkaroff, who had just experienced the baptism of "Cruciatus Curse", was at the most vulnerable time of psychological defense. Under Lin Ze's "Legilimency", the brain's defense was easily breached.
"Very well, now tell me everything I want to know..."
"Antonin·Dolohov." Karkaroff's voice was flat without any fluctuation.
"He fled to Bulgaria after the fall of Dark Lord, where his maternal grandmother had an old house, outside the city of Plovdiv."
Lin Ze's quill quickly scratched across the notebook.
"Next."
"Evan·Rosier, he ran to the south of France, I don't know the specific location..."
Karkaroff spat out a few more names intermittently, many of which were unknown Death Eaters names that he had never known.
Lin Ze tapped his fingers on the table, making a rhythmic clicking sound, "Are there any names of core members with a higher level? For example, Lucius Malfoy?"
Karkaroff's eyelids trembled, but the pain in his body and the weakening of his will forced him to give up the pitiful resistance in his heart.
"There is..."
"Say."
"Amycus·Carrow and Alecto·Carrow... They should hide in Albania..."
Karkaroff's voice shook violently when he said these two names, and he was obviously very afraid of them.
"Okay, continue."
"Barty...Barty·Crouch..."
Coming!
Lin Ze was screaming in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he even glared at Karkaroff.
"Huh? Are you slandering our great Director of the Legal Department as Death Eaters?" Lin Ze slapped his palms on the table.
Karkaroff was so frightened that he shrank back, "No... no... I mean... yes..."
"What is it?"
"He is the son of...Barty II...Barty·Crouch...Barty Crouch Jr.·Crouch..."
Huh--
Lin Ze and Karkaroff let out a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Is there any evidence?" Lin Ze asked.
"There is... I... I have memories of him torturing Muggle with Dark Lord without wearing a mask..."
Withdrawal! Withdrawal!
Lin Ze screamed from the bottom of his heart.
"Okay, give me this memory later, and I will verify the authenticity of the news."
"Okay..."
The questioning lasted for about half an hour.
Lin Ze's notebook was densely packed with names of people and places. Some of them overlapped with the names he had sorted out before, but many others were unexpected surprises.
There are also many Ministry of Magic insiders who can directly prove it through the memory of Karkaroff.
In the original work, most of these people claimed that they were controlled by "Imperius Curse", but with Karkaroff's memory testimony, these people may no longer be able to quibble.
Lin Ze cast a spell on Karkaroff and carved a five-pointed star mark on his palm.
Then he threw Karkaroff's wand and several glass vials to him, "Here, pull out the memory yourself. As for this mark, I can guarantee that no matter where you are, I can find you."
Karkaroff nodded, obediently put his wand against his temple, carefully pulled out a strand of silver thread, and then put it into a glass bottle.
Repeat several times until several vials are filled.
Lin Ze took the vial handed over by Karkaroff and nodded with satisfaction.