The sun rises and sets, and the stars move.

As the ship moved, the sky soon changed from day to night, and from night to day. 、

After repeating this twice, the ships of the Lonely Mountain Team finally arrived at the north shore of Long Lake.

Seymour wanted to disembark here, but Bud disagreed.

He felt that the two-day boat ride was not worth the money he had received, so he sent them down the narrow river at the northern end of the Long River to the foot of the lonely mountain, despite Seymour and Bilbo's objections.

After getting off the boat, Seymour persuaded Bard to return to the ship, cutting off the idea of following him to the Lonely Mountain.

But even so, Bard left them with all the supplies on board, leaving only some food and clean water for himself.

"I can catch fish, the lake is everywhere." Bud said.

"With what?" Seymour looked helplessly at the mountain of supplies piled up at his feet, "I mean, we don't need this, even if you want to show off your ability to survive, at least you have to leave a spear or a knife......"

Seeing that Seymour seemed to be a little suspicious of himself, Bard smiled at him and reached out to take out his bow and arrow from the cabin behind him.

Sou! Sou! Whoosh –

Three arrows flew into the water, causing a huge splash, and streams of bright red blood spread from the water, and three large fish with arrows stuck in their bodies surfaced in the bloody water.

Bud turned around and smiled at Seymour and Bilbo, who looked surprised.

Bilbo swallowed, tugged at Seymour's sleeve and whispered, "We might be able to take him with us." ”

Seymour came back to his senses and shook his head with a smile: "Okay, I admit that your archery skills are very good, but you should keep the supplies or something, we really don't need it, as for the force - Bilbo, it seems that you don't have much confidence in me!" ”

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that it's always right to have one more person and a little more power."

"In front of an evil dragon that has destroyed the entire kingdom of dwarves, there is no point in outnumbering it, Bard's archery skills are indeed excellent, but once we really have to face the dragon, your tiny arrow will not even be able to break through its dragon scales."

"I'll admit that, but aren't you too?"

This time, it was Bard who looked at Seymour with suspicion.

Seymour glanced at him, but did not speak, but instead bent down, picked up a spear from the ground, weighed it twice in his hand, and then tilted his head to scan the sky above.

Phew-

Seymour threw the spear in his hand with a fierce shot, the sharp tip of the spear slicing through the air with the blessing of powerful kinetic energy, and with a piercing screech piercing the body of a flying bird, and then shot slightly into the sky.

The birds chirped and plunged into the long lake.

"Look." Seymour spread his hands.

"......" Bard tugged at the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help but glance at Seymour's not-so-athletic figure, "Strength can't ...... Well, I'll admit that your force is very strong, but this material ......."

"We don't really need supplies."

Seymour shook his head again, plucked a sac and aimed it at the clearing in front of him.

With a flash of light, a stack of bedding and tents wrapped in tarps appeared in front of the three of them.

Bud and Bilbo had never seen magic props of this grade, and their eyes widened when they saw this scene out of nothing, and they were stunned to wander back and forth between the materials on the ground and the phagosac in Seymour's hand.

Bilbo even suspected that he was hallucinating, and couldn't help but reach out and rub his eyes.

"This ...... It's ......"

There was a hint of dryness and disbelief in Bard's tone.

Seymour smiled, and once again put the bed and tent on the floor into the devouring sac.

"This is the magic prop that my teacher prepared for me, which is stocked with all kinds of supplies and food, although the amount is not very large, but if you save a little, it may be no problem to last for a month or two."

“……”

He smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"It's me who is too careful...... I should have thought a long time ago, how could a brave man who could go to the Lonely Mountain without fear be an ordinary elf - presumably this Lord Baggins is not an ordinary hobbit, right? ”

"Huh?"

As soon as Bilbo came back to his senses, he heard Lord Baggins's name, and immediately blushed with some shame, and hurriedly waved his hand at Bard to deny it.

But Seymour on the side responded for him with a smile: "That's right, this is the main force of this trip to infiltrate the Lonely Mountain, if you can see the dwarven army in Changhu Town in the future, then the first credit must be this Lord Baggins!" ”

“……”

Bilbo's face turned red, but in the face of Bud's look of surprise and amazement, Bilbo was not embarrassed to say the words of explanation.

After seeing Seymour's force and supplies, Bud was finally relieved.

He put away his bow and arrows and most of his supplies, returned to his ship, and then turned and looked solemnly at the two men on the shore.

"Take care, there's ...... Be sure to come back alive! ”

"We will."

Seymour and Bilbo nodded, and immediately stood on the shore, watching Bud sail into the distance.

After Bard left, Seymour let out a sigh of relief and turned to look at the nearby mountain, a slightly excited smile on his handsome face.

"Lonely Mountain, Evil Dragon...... I'm coming! ”

With a smile on his face, Seymour strode towards the lonely mountain.

Bilbo stood there for a moment, and it took a long time for him to come to his senses, and he couldn't help but smile on his face.

"Hey, Mr. Baggins......"

He took a cheerful step, shaking his head and following Seymour.

The place they stopped at the moment was the southern branch of the lonely mountain, which was once a land full of life, and where the river flowed, there were green meadows and trees everywhere.

Thanks to the dragon, there is no vegetation here, except for the charred stones and earth all over the ground, only the stumps of trees that have burned to the point of remains, and a new name - Wuqiu.

At the top of the Uqiu, there is a dilapidated watchtower, where Gandalf and the dwarves agreed to meet.

But now, the dwarves are still locked up in the woodland elf prison, and only a hobbit and a mysterious elven boy have arrived.

Looking along the end of the river, you can see a huge cave in pitch black.

It was the entrance to the main entrance of the city below the mountain, but Seymour and Bilbo had no intention of going through the main gate, after all, they were here to steal, not to be guests.

Seymour and Bilbo carefully touched the bottom of the hill, trying to avoid the crows hovering at the mouth of the cave, for Bilbo believed that the black birds were the eyes and ears of the dragon.

Seymour didn't quite agree with this statement, but he did it honestly.

After all, this world is different from his world, and the dragons here may have some special abilities......

Quietly climbing the ridge of the spur, they began at the edge of the southern spur, step by step, searching the secret doors marked on the map of Thorin, looking for any possible traces.

Minutes and seconds passed.

For three hours, Seymour and Bilbo found no trace of the secret door.

In desperation, Seymour and Bilbo decide to find a place to rest.

So they came to a boulder and sat down to drink some water.

But at this moment, Seymour suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a little reflection in the corner of his eye, so he quickly stood up and walked around to the boulder, only to see one or two smooth square stone bricks, on which there seemed to be traces of artificial polishing.

"It's a staircase!"

Bilbo, who was called over by Seymour, whispered excitedly.

Seymour also had a smile on his face, and the two of them suddenly stopped resting, and walked up the ridge along the stone brick staircase that came and went.

After a long journey, the two of them reached the top of the cliff at the mouth of the valley.

It was a strangely located and strangely shaped col, it was at the very top of the cliff, so that it was completely invisible from the bottom, and it was shaped like a small piece of it had been chiseled from the top, so that only a shadow could be seen from further afield, and only those who flew from above, or whose eyes could ignore optical illusions, could find it without going through stairs and roads.

After entering the col, the first thing you see is a mountain wall perpendicular to the ground at 90 degrees, the mountain wall is very flat, there is not much undulation at a glance, and there are many traces of artificial polishing near the ground.

"Looks like we should find the secret door!"

"I don't see any doorposts, doorknobs, or doors......

"Don't worry, Bilbo."

Seymour smiled and took out the map and spread it out on the stone wall in front of him.

"When the thrush strikes, standing beside the gray rock, the setting sun will shine on the keyhole by the afterglow of the day of Turin...... We may have to wait until the last rays of sunlight to see the keyhole. ”

"Or think about it the way the dwarves think about it."

A slightly smiling voice came from Seymour's arms.

Bilbo was taken aback, but Seymour pulled out the silver card with a look of surprise.

"Master, you're online again!"

"......" The voice in the Yinmang card froze for a moment, and then replied helplessly, "Yes, I'm online again, I didn't expect you to come to Lonely Mountain so soon." ”

"It's been a few days of traveling...... Where are you? ”

This time, Seymour had a long memory and directly asked Lin Yi's location first.

Seeing that his apprentice had learned well, Lin Yi couldn't help but smile with relief.

"We're going to get to Moria, I'm contacting you now to say sorry to the dwarves on Gandalf's behalf, he and he probably won't be able to go to the Lonely Mountain for a while......"

Seymour said unconcernedly, "It's okay, I'm sure the dwarves won't mind!" ”

Bilbo: "......"

They can't mind!

After graciously forgiving Gandalf for the dwarves, Seymour hurriedly asked, "Master, what did you mean by that sentence just now?" ”