On the map, the shape of the dark forest is roughly rectangular: from the foothills of the Grey Mountains in the north to the North Loop region in the south, and from the Anduin valley to the Lonely Mountain.

If you want to take the fastest route, the closest route through the dark jungle to the lonely mountain is undoubtedly the old jungle road from the dark jungle, and after crossing the forest, you can follow the Kelduin River, also known as the rushing river, and you can reach the town of Long Lake in one day.

Then, after passing through the town of Changhu, they only needed to walk for less than a few days to successfully reach the end of this journey, the lonely mountain of Ilubo.

It's just that there is a very big hidden danger in taking this route, that is, the old jungle road is close to the Black Forest Mountains, and in this Black Forest Mountains, there are thousands of elves living in them.

These elves are not quite friendly to the dwarves like the elves of Rivendell, they are very hostile to the dwarves!

At the time of the Age of the Two Trees, the forest was vast and verdant, once covering much of Middle-earth, even as far as Los Rorien on the other side of the Anduin River in what days.

The Vanya and Noldor had passed through this place during their great journey to Valinor, and the first to settle here was the Nandor Elves, who, at the sight of the majestic Misty Mountains, were too frightened to go on, and instead broke away from the group and wandered in the verdant valleys of the great river Anduin.

Later, they settled down and multiplied in the area, and some of the Avari elves came to join them, and these elves gradually formed a group known as the "Elves of the East" or "Forest Elves".

The elven prince in the plot of the Lord of the Rings belongs to this elf family, and his father is the elven king with powerful magical powers, Thrandil!

It is rumored that he once faced the scorching dragon flame that fought against the northern dragon and did not die, of course, according to the long life of the elven clan, the elven king did not meet the fire dragon that now occupies the lonely mountain, Smaug, but another dragon!

But that's the problem, the Elven King has been watching over the treasures of the dwarves - the Arkon Jewel, the Heart of the Mountain.

It is precisely because of this that when the dwarves were driven out of the lonely mountain by the dragon Smaug, the hungry and cold dwarves once asked the elves for help, but the elves did not help them, and finally the helpless dwarves had to try to recover the Meriath mine.

It was also during that battle that Thorin lost his grandfather, his father was lost in this battle, and his dwarven legions were killed and wounded.

In fact, this is why the dwarven king Thorin has always hated the elves.

In the original movie plot, the dwarf team was discovered by these forest elves and arrested back to the country, and finally after the two kings talked to no avail, the elf king indifferently issued an order to imprison the dwarf team until they died.

In fact, if Bilbo, who had stolen the key through the stealth ability on the Ring, had rescued his fellow dwarves from the forest elves in his cell, he would have been unable to rescue the dwarves from thousands of elven archers, even if the wizard Gandalf came to him.

Therefore, if it was for Nightfeng to choose, he would rather let the team go around in an extra circle, that is, according to Gandalf in the original plot, a distance of more than 200 miles to the north, so that the dwarves only need to walk along the edge of the forest, so that the chance of encountering the forest elves is also reduced to a minimum.

After all, forest spirits always hovered near the Black Forest Mountains, and rarely appeared on the edge of the forest.

However, it would take twice as long to traverse the dark forest.

However, Night Blade was inspired by Gandalf's route, and combined with the information he had obtained from the map, he had a better plan in mind.

It is to go north to the Jungle River, which runs through the dark forest, and then cut down trees to make a simple raft and go down the river.

In this way, although it is still necessary to walk dozens of miles further north and then spend time building a raft, in this way, not only will the chance of encountering forest spirits be minimized by going down the river through the dark dense forest, but the speed of the water will also greatly reduce the time required to travel.

After all, the speed of the water route is definitely much faster than that of the land route.

All things considered, relying on the plan that Ye Feng came up with, it only took a day or two more than crossing the old jungle road, and his plan was much safer than crossing the old jungle road.

And this has a good advantage, that is, it can get rid of the pursuit of the half-orc wolf army, and its speed down the river is definitely incomparable to the wolf.

However, it was still too early to think about this, after all, the team had only just stepped out of the Misty Mountains, and they still had to walk a long way to reach the outskirts of the Dark Forest.

Later, after walking down the eagle's beak rock, the group also came to a narrow path composed of steep peaks on both sides, and the terrain here can really be said to be a master.

According to the dwarf Bahrain, this terrain is so steep that it is called the High Pass!

And after walking out of this steep high pass, what caught everyone's eyes was a prairie where the wind blows grass and sees cattle and sheep!

The whole grassland was covered with knee-high grass except for a few trees that dotted the huge grassland.

In addition, large clusters of purple and yellow flowers also grow irregularly among the plants and trees, and from time to time you can also see some bee-like creatures working hard to collect the fragrant nectar in the flowers!

It took half a day for Ye Feng and his party to walk through the meadow and come to a winding river.

The river passes through several human nations such as Rohan and Gondor before flowing into the sea.

Therefore, the width of this river can be imagined, and the distance between the banks of the river on both sides is more than 100 meters, and the river can quickly wash away any creatures that go down the river.

Even if a huge and heavy trolls fall into the river, it will be the same ending, because the depth of this river is more than ten meters.

It is precisely because of this that there are several ferries on this river, and the closest ferry to Yefeng and his party is the one known as the old ferry.

However, although it is a ferry, it is not actually a boat that runs between the two sides, but a wooden wooden bridge across the river.

It can be seen that the wooden bridge has been built for a certain number of years, and the wooden bridge is full of traces of time, and under the wooden bridge, it is also covered with moss-like plants.

Fortunately, according to the introduction of the dwarves, the wooden bridges on these ferries are repaired and repaired by humans every year, so basically the wooden bridges are still solid.

Of course, if it is replaced by a large number of trolls, then it is really not guaranteed.

Despite this, for the sake of safety, the team also walked across the wooden bridge in batches, and each passing dwarf was also wrapped around a rope as thick as a baby's arm to prevent accidents.

However, it seems that this wooden bridge is quite solid, and there have been no accidents after everyone has walked it.

But at this moment, just as everyone had just crossed the wooden bridge, there was a clear and loud wolf howl behind them.

Everyone turned their heads to look, and their faces changed in an instant, only to see a large number of wolves rushing over from the grassland, and the regular and orderly vibration sound was transmitted to the land under everyone's feet.

This shows how close these wolves are to everyone.

Damn!

Looking at the army of orcs who were already clearly visible, Ye Feng also hurriedly cast an earthen wall at the exit of the wooden bridge, and the ten-meter-long earthen wall just blocked the exit of the wooden bridge.

At the same time, he also quickly turned his head and shouted to the dwarves: "The terrain here is really not conducive to fighting, and the sky is about to darken, fighting with the orc wolf at night is also very unfavorable for us, fortunately, we are not far from the dark forest now, wait a minute I will arrange some summoned beasts to block the speed of the orc army, I hope to buy us time, so that we can successfully reach the dark forest before the orc army catches up!" ”

"Wait!"

At this moment, the wizard Gandalf looked around at his surroundings and suddenly said: "Maybe I have another suggestion, there should be a fortress-like house not far away, the owner of the house has a very strong power, as far as I know, although he does not like strangers very much, but he hates orcs even more!" ”

"I heard that there are at least hundreds of orcs who died at his hands!"

"And it's only a little over an hour away, and if we rush there, maybe the orcs won't dare to catch up with him out of fear of him!"

"That way, we'll be able to survive the night safely, and we'll wait until daylight the next day to head over to the Dark Forest."

After hearing Gandalf's words, Ye Feng's eyebrows couldn't help but raise, and he was familiar with the plot, so he naturally knew who Gandalf was talking about who the owner of the house was, that is, a beast that could transform into a huge bear - Beorn the Shapeshifter!

However, because he doesn't know much about the beast's strength, although he knows about his existence from the plot of the movie, he is not ready to put his hope in him.

After all, what if this beast wasn't strong enough to deter the orc legions?

So for them on the unobstructed prairie, isn't it equivalent to being besieged by an army of orcs?

Therefore, Ye Feng would rather risk being caught up by the orc army at night, but also risk rushing to the dark forest, after all, the dark forest with high trees and dense forests is very unfavorable to the deployment of large troops, but for alien soldiers who are good at lurking assassination, it is a very favorable environment for combat.

What he didn't expect was that Gandalf suddenly suggested that everyone retreat to Beorn's hut for the Transfigurer.

Although Nightfeng was reluctant in his heart, looking at the other dwarves' expressions, he was quite in agreement with Gandalf's suggestion, and he was not very sure about his plan.

Therefore, in the end, he did not speak out against Gandalf's suggestion.

After all, the worst-case scenario is nothing more than the hard work he has accumulated in the past few months is all in vain.

In fact, with the current scale of his summoned beasts, it is not impossible to defeat the half-orc army, but the price to be paid is likely to be the huge risk of his summoned beasts being wiped out.

Therefore, only when it is absolutely necessary, he will choose this plan in desperation!

Thinking of this, Nightblanc summoned the elemental spirits and ran with the dwarves towards the cabin where the shapeshifters lived, led by Gandalf.

When they had not been running for half an hour, Night Blade, who was riding on the Dire Wolf King, frowned, because at this time he had clearly felt that the elemental elves he had summoned had been killed.

This means that the enemy will soon catch up, after all, they are walking on two legs, while the orc legions are relying on the four legs of the wolf to pursue!

No matter how much you can run on two legs, you can't run more than four legs!

Of course, the night blade riding on the back of the swift Dire Wolf King is naturally not worried about being chased by the wolves, but the problem is, there is only one wolf in the group?

Even if he can run away alone, if the others are caught up by the orcs, then even if he runs away alone, it will be useless, after all, this means that his mission to build a group this time has completely failed.

So for now, he could only hope that everyone would be able to get to the shapeshifter's hut before the orc army could catch up completely.

After the procession continued for more than ten minutes, the group finally saw a fortress-like hut made of huge rock not far in front of the woods.

Seeing this hut, the burning color in everyone's eyes flashed, and then they had the motivation to rush towards the hut in the distance.

It is worth mentioning that the fattest dwarf Pomber was unexpectedly fast, weighing two or three dwarves combined, he actually ran faster and faster, and after a while, he surpassed the other dwarves and ran to the front of the line.

And just as everyone was about to run to the front of the hut, suddenly there was a whooshing sound from the woods behind them, and after a while, black shadows jumped out of the woods, and it was a fierce wolf! Take a look at the latest chapter of "Nightmare Summoner Legendary Claw Book House" to read for free for the first time.