Chapter 17: Enter Moria
On the day that the Middle-earth team left Rivendell, Elon personally took Yawen and Grovendale to bid farewell to everyone and whispered blessings to them. But there was no music or laughter in the crowd that saw them off.
"Goodbye, messengers sent by Vera!" Elon whispered, "Goodbye, may the humans, the elves, and all freedom-loving people bless you, and may the starlight always shine on your faces and expel the darkness from Middle-earth!"
"We will, King Elrond. After Zheng Zha bowed respectfully, he turned around and left with Yang Yun and the others without hesitation, as for the other team led by Xiao Hong's law firm and Zhang Jie, who went to deliver the letter, they left a day ago.
The group crossed the bridge and walked slowly down a steep passage, leaving the Rivendell Valley, where they came to a high ground where a strong wind was blowing. After glancing back at Rivendell in the distance, Zheng Qi exhaled and took out the Green Goblin skateboard.
"Then Chu Xuan, finally leave Rivendell, how about we take the Green Goblin skateboard and go directly to the Moriath Tunnel? For such a long distance, we can't walk on two legs, right?" Zheng Zha threw the Green Goblin skateboard to Chu Xuan and said with a smile.
Chu Xuan took the Green Goblin skateboard expressionlessly, nodded and said, "Hmm...... Now both Sauron and Saruman have their sights set on the Lord of the Rings and Gandalf, so we don't have to worry about being watched by others when we use the Green Goblin skateboard. With the Arctic Continent and the South Flame Continent as an attraction, we have now become a blind spot in the eyes of those two forces, so we can use the Green Goblin skateboard. β
"That's good, but we don't have any other way to go? With the Green Goblin skateboard, we can easily fly over mountains, and those difficulties in the original plot are nothing to us, do we have to go through the Moriath Tunnel?" Zheng Zha smiled at first, and then asked suspiciously.
"Let me explain. Yang Yun took another Green Goblin skateboard from Zheng Zhe's hand and said, "Do you remember that in the original plot, the dwarf Jin Li once mentioned that there were several once respected dwarves as leaders, and a large number of ambitious dwarves wanted to revive the Moria Tunnel?"
"Of course I remember, but what's the matter?" Zheng Zha didn't understand for a while: "I remember that the orcs have been playing Moria's idea all the time, and there is almost nothing left in the upper half of the mine, is there any treasure such as gold and silver ore stored there?"
"Of course, it's not an ordinary thing like gold or silver, but a greater good. It's not profitable, it's not for profit, what are they doing when they go to the Moria's pit that has been abandoned for many years?" Yang Yun sighed and said, "There are two kinds of specialties of the Moria's pit tunnel, one is Mithril, which is one of the important ingredients used to make the ring on your hand. It is as malleable as bronze and can be polished like glass. Dwarves can make it a metal that is stronger than steel, but light as a goose's feather. It's as beautiful as silver, but the luster of Mithril doesn't fade with time, but becomes more beautiful...... Forget it, you don't understand this when I tell you. Anyway, you just need to know that this thing is useful to us, and that it can make a lot of rings on your hands. β
Chu Xuan nodded and said: "That's true, one of the reasons why I didn't continue to make the Charged Mithril Ring is that the price of Mithril at the main god is too expensive, and this time I went to the Moria Tunnel, the storage of Mithril is indeed an important factor." β
"Really?"
Zheng Zhe looked at the two rings on his hand, if he could really get a large amount of Mithril by going to the Moriath Tunnel this time, then it would be completely worth the trip. You know, this charged Mithril ring can be said to have improved his combat effectiveness a lot, and the increase in continuous combat time allows him to no longer have to worry about how much time he uses the "explosion" state, if he can have dozens of rings in his hand, isn't that a horror movie in the "explosion" state from beginning to end?
"Good...... Let's go, let's make a big fuss about the Moriath Tunnel!"
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Because the Green Goblin's skateboard was so fast, everyone had just left Rivendell in the morning, and before the sun had even set, they reached the Moria's tunnel. And after some searching, Chu Xuan also found the body of a huge octopus monster by a deep lake, it seems that this is the place where everyone from the Fellowship of the Ring entered the Moria tunnel.
This is a huge octopus with a length of fifty meters, and its size is much larger than the one in the original movie plot, it seems that this time the Lord of the Rings, along with the strength of the drama, has also increased, and even a mere octopus has such a huge body.
"There were multiple bullet wounds on the body, as well as signs of being cut open by a cold weapon, and signs of being partially frozen, but these were not the main causes of the octopus's death. Someone used a giant weapon tens of meters long to almost split it in two from the front, and at the same time, I also found a crack cut by the weapon behind it, about hundreds of meters long and more than ten meters deep, directly from the edge of the lake to the bottom of the lake...... Judging from this trace, it was the South Yanzhou team and the North Ice Continent team that killed this octopus. β
When everyone arrived at Chu Xuan's location, he had already examined the octopus's corpse in detail. At this time, he was shaking the blood off his hands and reporting to the crowd what he had found.
"Fifty meters?" Zheng Zha was startled, and hurriedly looked at the octopus that had been cut in two: "Who would use such a big weapon? Could it be that someone can't use a getta alloy axe like Luo Gandao? And this power is almost close to the destructive power of the fourth order, right?"
"I don't know, but it doesn't look like it. Chu Xuan shook his head and denied Zheng Zha's thoughts: "If it is really a giant machine person, then it is a problem to summon it first, such a large machine person will definitely expose the whereabouts of the Lord Ring Guard, and the main god said that high-tech weapons are ineffective against the plot characters." β
"I noticed something strange...... What is this pit?" Yang Yun observed around for a while, and suddenly found something wrong, and hurriedly beckoned the rest of the Zhongzhou team to come and see: "The soil next to this pit doesn't seem to have been turned up for a long time, it is still relatively new, it should have been dug just a while ago." β
ββ¦β¦ Could it be that they plan to dig a pit to bury this big octopus in it, and then set up a monument?" Zheng Qi guessed.
"Let's not talk about whether they have that kind of spare time...... Are you telling me where the soil that was dug up went?" Yang Yun glanced at Zheng Zhe with disdain: "There is no pile of soil around here, could it be that the person who dug this pit ate the soil?"
"Uh...... Unlikely. Zheng Zha made up this scene and quickly shook his head. He looked at Chu Xuan, who was still thinking beside him, and said, "Chu Xuan, I can't think of anything like this, as long as we go to Roslorian and ask them what happened here, don't we know?" β
Listening to Zheng Zha's words, Chu Xuan also stopped thinking and nodded, "Indeed, the information is insufficient and cannot be inferred...... Your mention is correct, now enter the Moriath Tunnel. β
"So...... How do we get in? We don't have Gandalf now, we can't find the location of the gate, and we can't open the door in the language of the elves. Zheng Zha smiled bitterly.
"Wouldn't it be nice to use the Tiger Soul Knife to break through the stone wall and go in? This task will be handed over to you, Zheng Zha. Chu Xuan said without hesitation.
ββ¦β¦ I call you, Chu Xuan. β