Chapter 42: Climbing Mountains and Wading Waters

This place is still part of the Misty Mountains, but it is the domain of the goblins.

On either side are steep mountains that rise into the sky, and in the middle is a valley passage about four or five miles wide.

The valley is not beautiful, but rather ugly, because too many trees have just been cut down, leaving a low stump with a bare rhizome buried deep.

Gandalf's face changed because the fog wasn't supposed to be in the current season, and once it did, it was the time for the goblins to move out in large numbers.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Gandalf pointed to the location of a bucket on the mountain wall: "Take us up!" ”

It was a boulder-like protruding position, and there were no roads around it, and it was not easy to climb it no matter how you looked at it.

The few people who can fly naturally lead people to fly up one after another.

Almost as soon as they went up, the fog swept past them, making the surrounding environment invisible.

The dense fog filled the air with water molecules, and every breath of air that entered the lungs carried moisture, and the clothes on the body were soon stained with dew.

I don't know where the muffled drum beat came from, and it didn't sound like it was far away.

"The mountains on both sides have been almost hollowed out." Gandalf sat directly on the ground and said, "There are more than 200,000 goblins here, and there will be war on each side when the fog comes. ”

Sam Wes was quite curious and put his ear to the mountain wall, so that the drums could be heard more clearly.

In fact, if Frodo's uncle Bilbo was there, he would definitely recall the memories of being here when he was younger.

It must have happened fifty or sixty years ago, and Bilbo followed Thorin. Oak Shield's team was heading to the Lonely Mountain, and they had come to this place on the way.

There was only one king of the goblins here, but that king died in that confrontation.

Later, there was a civil strife among the goblins here, and a great king appeared on one side, each of whom wanted to kill the other, and the war had been going on for forty or fifty years.

"Listen." Aragorn covered his ears with one hand in a listening gesture and lowered his voice and said, "Footsteps." ”

It wasn't so obvious before, but then it may have been that there were too many people walking, and the sound of footsteps began to become clearer.

The sound of the drum also became clearer, no longer coming from the cracks in the mountain, but clearly out of the cave and beating outside.

"It's going to start again." Gandalf said helplessly, "Wait. ”

Puzzled and a little sulky, Gimli asked, "Why don't you walk through the valley while your view is obscured?" Okay, they're fighting, they won't be able to stop for a while, how long are we going to stay here? ”

Aragorn explained: "The fog has little effect on the goblins. ”

Goblins also rely on their eyes to see, of course, but they prefer to rely on their noses to recognize smells.

The fog has an effect on the goblins, but they still have sharp noses, otherwise they wouldn't have fought in the fog.

The Fellowship of the Ring Expeditionary Force is no more familiar with the goblins here than the goblins, so what should be the way to get when you can't see the five fingers?

"The fog will obscure some people's snooping around here." Gandalf didn't want to explain, but he could sense that Gimli was getting very irritable, so he said, "The goblins are quite timid, and they always think that someone will take advantage of them to start a war with each other and then make a profit. ”

As soon as Lin Bin and the others heard Gandalf say that, they immediately understood.

There are not only two goblin forces here, but also forces that can threaten goblins, but it seems that that force or several forces will not be too strong, otherwise they would have done something a long time ago.

Below, there was already a fight, and all kinds of howls and stranger sounds continued to echo through the valley.

The eyes can't see, listen to the movement and the two sides of the war will not be less than three or five thousand in number?

Maggie passed on the psychic power scan to the other three people.

Under their "gaze", don't look at the commotion quite large, but there are really not many dead goblins, and if you really want to make an evaluation, it is two groups of little children fighting and fighting, or extremely unskilled play.

"I was going to take these guys away, but now it looks stupid."

"There is no need to inquire about the surrounding forces. Those forces can't even clean up such goblins, and it's a waste of time to collect them. ”

"In this way, the races or forces that don't play in the plot of the movie basically belong to the game, and they won't affect the battle situation?"

"It should be."

Of course, Lin Bin and the others are communicating with the chain of hearts.

Their previous plan was to leave Chu Fan and Mei Li behind, either by smashing them with gold or by using death threats to take the two goblin forces here for their own use.

Gold or something, the Overworld can be exchanged for a small number of bonus points, and they brought as much as two tons.

Death threats? Naturally, it's up to Melly, the shadow assassin.

The hilarious brawl between the goblins ends before the fog clears.

It seemed to be a fierce confrontation, but after the thick fog cleared, there was no corpse in sight, just a mess of the venue, plus some blood stains left to prove that something had happened here.

Gandalf stood up, patted the dew from the mage's robes, and said, "Let's go." ”

The mages of this world may not need to be very powerful, but they need to be knowledgeable and knowledgeable about all races.

Gandalf didn't see how powerful he was for the time being, but he showed enough erudition and understanding of all parties to know exactly where to go.

When they got out of that canyon, they came to a plain.

"We need to walk across this plain." Gandalf pointed ahead, where there was a mountain range that looked like it was in the snow: "Then pass the Dur Mountain." ”

Lin Bin and the others understood when they saw the mountains in the distance.

They used to think that the scene in the movie changed because time had passed too long, otherwise it would be green all over the mountains, and the next shot was in the ice and snow, which turned out to be just different environments in different places.

It's no surprise that the environment changes with altitude in the same season. Inevitably, the foot of a mountain is full of greenery, but the top of the mountain is icy and snowy.

"There are no races inhabiting here." Gandalf said that there was a clear fear of this: "We must cross the plains as fast as we can, and we cannot stay for more than three days!" ”

Obviously someone knows why, but they don't say.

People who didn't understand asked again, but no one provided answers.

Lin Bin asked Maggie to scan the underground, and the answer he got was that there must have been an unprecedented war here, and there were dense bones under the soil!