Gandalf, are you leaving us? ”

Baggins asked softly with a puzzled expression on his face when he heard this.

"No, just leave temporarily, we'll meet again." Gandalf put away his pipe, took a puff of smoke out of his mouth, and whispered.

By this time, the blood mist had begun to dissipate, and after a while, the ponies could be released and allowed to return to Beorn's cabin.

Baggins looked up at the blood outside the dense forest, his expression was normal, even a little cold, and his right hand quietly reached into his pocket, playing with the Supreme Ring.

Ever since he got the ring, he had an inexplicable urge to keep the ring and keep it with him, so that no one could take it away.

Gandalf walked over to him and glanced sideways at Baggins, with a slight surprise in his tone, "You've changed, Bilbo Baggins." You're no longer the hobbit you left the Shire. ”

Baggins faced Gandalf's words, his hand movements stopped, a panicked look flashed in his eyes, opened his mouth, and said softly: "I have to tell you something, I ......"

"Inside the orc cave, something was found." Baggins smiled slightly, revealing a calm expression.

"What's that?" Gandalf hurriedly asked, with a hint of nervousness in his tone, "What did you find?"

Baggins pinched the Supreme Ring with his fingers, his expression was a little cold, and with a smile on his face, he said, "My courage, I found my courage in the cave."

Gandalf's gaze was a little suspicious, and a faint smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and he responded, "Very good, that's great, you're going to need it."

With that, Gandalf turned away from Baggins' side, looked at the rest of the dwarves, and said, "I'll be waiting for you at the lookout of Erebo ahead, and take care of the map and keys."

"Without me, don't enter the Lonely Mountain yet."

Gandalf whispered, his last words addressed to Chenyang, "Chenyang, I hope that in the dark forest, you will protect this team from the darkness. ”

At this time, Chenyang was helping the other dwarves, releasing those ponies out of the dense forest, raised his head to look at Gandalf, and solemnly replied, "Of course, I am also a member of this team."

"Don't worry, I'll protect this team too."

Qingqing suddenly jumped out at this time and said to Gandalf and Chenyang, instantly interrupting the conversation between them.

Gandalf glanced at Qingqing, didn't say anything, turned to pick up his steed, and walked in the other direction.

After Gandalf left, Baggins seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, his serious expression softened a lot, turned his head to look at the dense forest full of trees and yellow leaves, and whispered: "This place doesn't look good, can we take another route, the one that looks safer."

"Of course, if you're willing to walk more than two hundred miles to the north, or twice as far as to the south." Chenyang said softly, "If you want to arrive before sunset in Dulin, it's best to take this route."

Baggins looked at this somewhat gloomy forest, the whole person became nervous, took the initiative to take two steps forward, closer to the morning sun, and said helplessly: "Then do we still have a choice?"

"So, it's time for us to go in." Solo patted Baggins on the shoulder, and he continued.

The team officially stepped into the dark forest.

Chenyang walked in the front, walking along the path in the middle of the dark forest, and at the same time reminded the group of dwarven teammates behind him: "After entering the dark forest, don't walk around, only take the elven avenue." The air in the jungle has a special magic, psychedelic that invades your consciousness and leads you astray. ”

"Misguided, what does that mean?" Bahrain couldn't help but ask.

Chenyang sighed, and turned his head helplessly to look at Bahrain and the others behind him.

He knew it would be like this, and although Gandalf had already told him about the strangeness of the Dark Jungle before, none of his teammates listened.

If they weren't standing at the entrance to the dark forest now, I'm afraid they wouldn't have listened to half a word about this forest.

"This forest has magic, and if you deviate from this path and take another fork in the road, or in the woods, then you will be completely lost, and you will never be able to get out of this forest."

Sunrise took a breath and told the dwarves what Gandalf had told him to do a certain amount of reduction, hoping that this time, they would listen to it.

"Anyway, stay on the road."

After entering the dense forest for a while, Chenyang walked in the front, and walked along the big road, turning from time to time, and walking through some rugged and difficult terrain.

I have to say, this ghost place does seem a little too dangerous, as Baggins said.

Outside, the trees at the edge of the forest still have some yellow leaves, and they look like a normal forest.

It wasn't until they walked into the forest that they found that the trees inside had lost their leaves, and the twisted trunks were like groups of goblins, stretching out their claws, ready to strike at them at any time.

"Air, I need air, I feel like I'm going to faint." Dugolin walked in the middle of the line and shouted weakly.

The air here is not thin, but it has a certain psychedelic effect.

Chenyang, who was walking in the front, turned his head to take a look, took out an oxygen cylinder from the storage space, threw it to Du Golin, and taught him how to use the oxygen cylinder, which brought him back to life.

Of course, there is a high chance that it will be psychological, or that it will absorb fresh air and weaken the effect of air magic here.

No one on the road was screaming about the air anymore.

They also managed to find the magical black river, which was covered with a layer of white mist and looked no different from a normal river.

According to Beorn, there is terrible magic in this black river, and they can only walk on the stone bridge over the black river in the morning sun.

However, the only stone bridge over the Black River, for unknown reasons, was now disconnected from the middle, cutting off their only access to the other side of the river.

"Damn, the bridge is broken, and we swim through the river?" Bahrain's face turned red, and he also said in a confused voice.

"No, you don't."

Chenyang whispered, and with a light step on the ground with his legs, more than a dozen vines suddenly grew from both sides of the stone bridge, winding along the stone bridge, and finally forming a solid rattan bridge.

"Now, it's time to go." Chenyang said softly.

When Bahrain saw the small bridge made of vines, his expression was a little surprised, and he smiled and exclaimed, "Why is there another bridge?"

Tholin turned his head to look at Dugolin and said in a loud voice, "Dugolin, give that bottle of yours to Bahrain, he looks like ...... Drunk. ”

Before he could finish speaking, Balin's cheeks were slightly red, and he fell in front of the stone bridge with a pop.

As soon as Du Golin put down the oxygen cylinder, he showed a helpless expression: "Well, it looks like I don't need it."