Chapter 138: The Dark Forest
Relying on the kindness of Gandalf and the Eagle King, and with the help of the Eagle King and a large number of giant eagles, Li Mu and the dwarves flew over the Misty Mountains. Under the guidance of the skin-changer Bion, Li Mu and the others will step into the dark and dangerous jungle again.
Fortunately, with Li Mu and the Dark Elves in the team, Gandalf's departure did not make Bilbo, Thorin and others worry too much about their future adventures.
A few days ago, Li Mu fought a wolf in front of the cliff, and his image of bravery and invincibility was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even everyone did not pay much attention to the danger warned by the skin-changer.
However, Li Mu didn't dare to be careless, Kadore was exploring the way ahead, Garn and Brilina were in the middle of the organization, and Li Mu was at the end just in case. Having been through a lot of battles, he won't take this danger in front of him to heart, but Bilbo and Thorin and the others can't afford to lose.
When Li Mu and the others set off, the sun had just moved to the west, but now that the sun had set to the west, spilling out thousands of golden lights, it was hard for them to imagine that there were orcs chasing after them.
When the dwarves were dozens of miles away from Bion's dwelling, they began to laugh and sing loudly, completely oblivious to the dark path in the forest before them. When night fell and the golden light reflected on the mountain peaks, they set up camp and arranged shifts for vigil. Even so, most people have the screams of orcs and the howls of wolves in their dreams.
The next day, everyone officially entered the strange dark forest, and the scenery in front of them immediately changed greatly.
There are too many parasitic vines and mosses hanging on the tree, causing all the leaves to look black. The road is very narrow and winds between the trees. Soon, the light of the entrance seemed to be a distant afterglow, and the dead silence around them turned their footsteps into a heavy drum, and all the trees seemed to listen with interest.
As their eyes adjusted to the dim light, they could finally see the sights on both sides of the road. Sometimes, a faint ray of sunlight penetrates the dense foliage and tangled branches above, and luckily shines in, giving them another source of light in front of them. But the sight was so rare that it soon disappeared completely.
The strange sounds of the bushes from time to time, the muffled grunts, scratches, and rolling sounds, all challenged the tense nerves of the crowd, for fear that a monster would pop out of the bushes beside the road.
But there are so many unknown vegetation in the forest that the dwarves can't see anything even if they keep their eyes open. However, ignorance is also a kind of happiness, under the scanning of Li Mu's yin and yang eyes, a few big guys similar to the original Helgen Fortress are communicating, and it seems that Li Mu and his party are really regarded as a plate of Chinese food.
As the cobwebs on the trees on both sides of the road became more and more dense, the dwarves became very agitated, and everyone knew that they had entered the lair of some kind of creature.
The quilt at Bion's house was still warm and he was woken up by the dwarves to continue his adventure, and Bilbo really missed the leisurely life in the pocket hole, the soft bread, the delicious milk, and the smoke rings sitting in the doorway with Erlang's legs crossed.
I really don't know which tendon is wrong with me, I actually gave up my rich and comfortable life, and desperately tried my life to go out on an adventure.
When Bilbo was caught up in fantasies about cured pork, eggs, toast, and butter, he suddenly felt that something touched him, a sticky, tough thread wrapped around his left hand. When he tried to stand up, he found that both of his legs were entangled in the same thing, so he fell to the ground as soon as he walked.
There are Li Mu and the three dark elves in the front and back, guarding the left and right, but I didn't expect these cunning big spiders to attack quietly from the top of their heads, and the hidden in the grass around them are actually just suspicious soldiers.
was put on a scene by dozens of insects, Li Mu's old face was simply thrown in, and while shouting angrily, "There are spiders", he took the lead in killing the big spiders around.
Compared with Helgen's embarrassment at that time, although the number of big spiders here has increased tenfold, Li Mu still knows more about these guys with some intelligence after studying at Winterhold Academy.
In addition, the dark elves and dwarves are not helpless, and under the wielding of Li Mu's two-handed axe, dozens of large spiders are not much thicker than the skin of half-orcs.
Under Li Mu's iron-blooded slaughter, the big spiders were not reckless men who were not afraid of death, and they gave up decisively after more than half of the casualties. In their eyes, Li Mu and his party are no longer delicious snacks, but thorny rattans, and there is no shortage of people in any intelligent species who are afraid of the soft and the hard.
After slaying off the great spiders, the dwarves finally left the dark bushes and entered a bright woodland. Seeing that Bilbo, Thorin and the others were celebrating the aftermath of the catastrophe, Li Muke couldn't be happy, because in Li Mu's yin and yang eyes, they were surrounded again.
Every time a wood elf came out from behind the woods, Li Mu's mood became heavier. The Wood Elves here are different from those in the Skyrim, although they are the same branch, but they are more warlike and less intelligent, because most of them are inherited from ancestors who did not go to the Western Wonderland.
In Middle-earth, wood elves roam between the light of the sun and the moon, but they love the stars above all else. They roam the vast forests that are now lost, and most of them live at the edge of the forest, where they sometimes go into the forest to hunt, and sometimes they can gallop across the plains by moonlight or starlight.
After the arrival of humans, they became more and more isolated, appearing only late at night or early in the morning, but these creatures were still elves and a kind race.
However, on the eastern edge of the Dark Forest, there is a huge cavern inhabited by their greatest king, Thrandil. The Battle of Turin had turned his back on Thorin's ancestors, and he was a man who was extremely distrustful of dwarves, especially Thorin and his party.
In order not to irritate the Wood Elves and avoid injuring Bilbo and Thorin in the chaotic battle, Li Mu had no choice but to lay down his weapons and be sent to the dungeon of the Wood Elves with the dwarves.
After all, the elves are not orcs, and the etiquette is still very perfect, everyone is divided into a separate cell, and they are well fed and drunk, and they will never abuse the prisoners.
And the elves seem to be very confident in their magic, since they were locked in the dungeon by the wood elves, there is no guard outside, and only when the meal is ordered, the elves come to arrange the meal.
Despite this, the dwarves who couldn't stand the vegetarian diet still cursed loudly, but the elves were probably well-cultivated, and none of them scolded back, and they probably nested in their own tree holes to rest, or followed their king out hunting.
Although the days of house arrest were safe, Li Mu didn't want to waste time, and finally on a quiet night when the black people were quiet, he relied on the success of this bewitchment technique to kidnap a wood elf to open the door for himself. Instead of rushing to rescue his companions trapped in the dungeon, Li Muyi was bold and quietly entered their Wood Elf King's residence.