Chapter 259: Sandworms
Gandalf left with Gast riding a giant mountain eagle, compared to the demon lord Sauron, who may have been resurrected, the dwarves' journey to the lonely mountain has become less important, no matter how the lonely mountain is, it is just a strategic place, but the demon lord Sauron is the existence that almost rules the entire Middle-earth world, as long as the demon lord Sauron is not resurrected, the orcs will always lack a spiritual leader, and they will always lack a high combat power, and the orcs will not be able to rule Middle-earth, but if Sauron is resurrected, Then things will be different, the darkness that once enveloped the land will return, and Gandalf, Galadriel, King Elon and others may not have a chance to defeat Sauron.
The Orcs didn't dare to fight the idea of the Lonely Mountain in Smaug's hands, so it was a big deal that neither the dwarves nor the orcs would touch the Lonely Mountain.
Looking at Gandalf, who had left without any nostalgia, Thorin opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just watched as the huge mountain eagle turned into a small black dot in the air, and then disappeared completely.
"Mr. Chu Ming, do you know what Gandalf is going to do? Is there anything more important than our reconquest of the Lonely Mountain? Thorin was very puzzled and asked Chu Ming, in his opinion, there is nothing in the world more important than the dwarves recovering the lonely mountain, once the lonely mountain is recovered, the dwarves can not only get the piles of gold coins and diamonds in the lonely mountain, get rid of poverty, and live a beautiful and rich life again, but the more important thing is that after the dwarves recover the lonely mountain, the dwarves will once again have their own capital, and the dwarf tribes will be unified again, and after the dwarves unite their strength, they will become one of the most powerful races in this world, The current dwarf tribe is in a divided state, the strength has been greatly weakened, and the recovery of the lonely mountain, then Solin will inherit the throne of the lonely mountain, then he will become the king of all the dwarves, after all, Tholin is the first heir to the throne of the lonely mountain, whether it is for personal purposes, or for racial purposes, in Thorin's opinion, there is nothing in this world more important than his own recovery of the lonely mountain.
"Maybe, recovering the Lonely Mountain is the most important thing for you, there is no one, but for Gandalf, it is probably not, Gandalf is a wizard, and one of the guardians of Middle-earth, Dwarf, Lonely Mountain, these things are just a small part of what he needs to protect" Chu Ming's words were a little hurtful, Thorin felt a little bad in his heart after hearing it, but he didn't say anything, after all, Thorin still needs to catch Gandalf's strength, as a dwarf prince, This snack machine Thorin still has it.
"Then let's move on, no matter what, we must reach the Lonely Mountain before the Turin Day, otherwise everything will be over" Thorin said to Chu Ming, Chu Ming nodded, and led the dwarves to continue to move forward, Chu Ming's riding skills are good, he can sit on the horse safely and firmly by relying on his legs alone, Chu Ming is carefully observing the Ring Spirit Sword in his hand at this time.
Although it is said to be a big sword, but it is only relative, for dwarves this is definitely a giant sword, but for humans and ring spirits, this is a two-handed big sword, if it is for Chu Ming who opens the demon body, this sword is a little not enough, after opening the demon body, Chu Ming is the same as the hulk with scales, human weapons are a little too small for Chu Ming, but if it is not for the orc army, or creatures such as Smaug, Chu Ming has no need to open the demon body, Relying on his own martial arts alone is enough to deal with all the dangers, as for the matter of artifacts and magic, Chu Ming does not want to be exposed to the Middle-earth world for the time being, and the ones who are worthy of Chu Ming's exposure of artifacts and magic are Galadriel and Sauron, overall, the danger level of Middle-earth is much lower than that of the mummy world.
All the way to the east, before it got dark, Chu Ming and the others climbed a high mountain, and with the help of the not very dazzling brilliance of the afternoon sun, Chu Ming saw the towering, extraordinarily tall mountain in the distance.
"That's the lonely mountain, the place where our dwarves are haunted by their dreams" Solin stood behind Chu Ming and looked at the lonely mountain in the distance affectionately and said, a trace of tears even hung on Sorin's face, and the rest of the dwarves also looked obsessed when they saw the lonely mountain, only Bilbo seemed to feel indifferent, basically all the dangers along the way were solved by Chu Ming, compared to the original plot, Bilbo's travel experience was naturally less, but anyway, Chu Ming would not let Bilbo leave the team, Bilbo left, what about Chu Ming's Supreme Ring? Right!
As far as the eye could see, a pitch-black forest appeared in front of Chu Ming's eyes, the dark jungle, the territory of the elf king Thranduil, a gathering place of elves that were already full of giant spiders, the dark jungle was no better than Rivendell, the erosion of Sauron's dark power was almost deep into the bone marrow for the dark forest, even Thranduil, one of the elf kings, had no way to do it, and he didn't even know where the root of the matter was.
Thranduil is also the king of the elves, and the number of soldiers under his command may not be less than that of King Elrond, but because he is a pure-blooded elven king, he has a contemptuous attitude towards humans and dwarves, and he also has a strong desire to possess treasures, and even after the dwarves of the lonely mountain failed, Thranduil himself led the elven army to attack the lonely mountain once, but unfortunately, his elven army was slaughtered by Smaug, and he was also disfigured, and he could only rely on magic to maintain his appearance, so Thrandel has too many weaknesses in human nature, and it is easy to be eroded by the power of darkness, so the queen of Galadriel, Jandrandil, is excluded from the guardian of Middle-earth, and is also the king of the elves, and Thranduil's status is much lower than that of King Elrond.
"Thranduil, a greedy elf king who likes gold and silver treasures, I'm not afraid that you are greedy, I'm afraid that you are not greedy enough, I have more gold, silver and diamonds here than in the lonely mountain, I hope you can exchange all my gold and silver treasures here" Chu Ming looked at the dark jungle that was not very far away and said, and urged the horses to prepare to go down the mountain, Chu Ming didn't want to spend time on the mountain at night, the mountains in the middle of the night and early morning were enough to freeze people, even if it was summer.
Suddenly, Chu Ming relied on his strong internal force to be extremely keenly aware of a shaking sensation coming from under his feet, and this feeling was becoming more and more intense, more and more intense.
"Be on guard! Beware of the enemy, the enemy who came this time is very strong" Chu Ming felt that the enemy was menacing this time, and it should be a hard battle.
"Alert!" With a loud roar from Thorin, all the dwarves drew their weapons and stood for them, and the twins Chili and Fili even found a few hiding places and drew their bows and arrows from their backs, ready to provide long-range vitality at any time.
The tremors of the ground became more and more ferocious, and the amplitude became larger and larger, even giving people the feeling of an earthquake, and the horses roared, their eyes widened, and even blood flowed out of the horses' eyes, and these horses were probably frightened to the point of being violent.
"The horse is scared like this, and it must be a giant beast!" Chu Ming thought in his heart, suddenly a bantam horse frantically broke his reins, and then ran away into the distance without looking back, and the rest of the horses saw this and hurriedly broke their reins, followed the steps of the first horse, and fled from the dwarves, even Chu Ming's tall horse ran away, and for a while, the target of the dwarf expedition was much smaller, because there was no horse in the team.
Suddenly, the ground seemed to be the sea, bulging, and a blood bubble suddenly appeared, and then it shattered, and the earth seemed to be tumbling at this time, the sky and the earth were indistinguishable from you and me, the dwarves howled and fell to the ground, and even rolled to other places, some dwarves were very likely to roll down the cliff if they were not caught by Chu Ming's quick eyes, "Boom!" "There was a loud bang, a big mouth that was extremely ugly, and suddenly came out under the ground, this big mouth had a circle of teeth on it, these teeth were still rotating, it looked like a giant dirt crusher, and then a thick body with a diameter of dozens of meters bounced out of the ground, and the thick body was full of lines and fishy slime, which could make it squirm quickly under the ground, in short, this big insect that drilled out of the ground looked like a huge earthworm, It's just a big mouth full of sharp teeth.
"Sandworm" Solin recognized the identity of this thing when he saw this giant insect for the first time, insecticide is a heavy vehicle of the orc race, responsible for digging tunnels for the orc army, so that the orc army can avoid crossing the mountains and mountains, and can reach the frontal battlefield at the first time, which can be regarded as a strategic weapon of the orc race.
After seeing the killing of insects, Thorin trembled all over, the appearance of sand worms shows that the real orc army is coming, not the last time there was only three trolls of the orc army, but the real orc army, the overwhelming orc army, the lonely mountain of the year was like this, Thorin They were driven out by Smaug in the lonely mountain, the orc army used the sandworm to quickly kill in front of the dwarves, and then Thorin's grandfather and father were all killed, Thorin held an oak shield and cut off one of Asog's arms, forcing the orcs to retreat, So that the dwarves were not exterminated, and now that he saw the sandworms again, Thorin remembered some bad memories, and he remembered the great battle of the year.
Sure enough, after taking a deep breath, the sandworm slowly retracted to the ground, the sandworm has no eyesight, so it does not have the ability to fight, their task is to dig a hole, after digging a hole, their task is completed, and everything else is left to the orcs to solve.
"Hurry up, get ready to fight, hurry up!" Thorin roared, urging the dwarves to get up on the ground, and sure enough, after the sandworms withdrew, a burst of neat footsteps came from inside the entrance of the cave, led by ten huge trolls, all of whom were wearing heavy armor and armed with heavy weapons such as giant axes and giant hammers, and after sacrificing their mobility, the trolls gained absolute strength and defense, at least for humans, dwarves.
After the trolls lined up, a giant white wolf came out of the hole, and on the head of the wolf sat the pale orc Asog, who had lost one of his arms, and a stabbing sword embedded in the severed hand of Asog.
Thorin couldn't believe it at first when he saw Asog, and then it turned into a monstrous rage, the culprit who killed his grandfather and father was in front of him, and Asog's hands were stained with the blood of at least a few thousand dwarves, which made Thorin how could he forgive Asog
With Asog, groups of orc cavalry, orc crossbowmen, strong orc soldiers, and thousands of orc armies appeared halfway up the mountain, blocking the progress of Chu Ming and the others, and the meaning was self-evident.