Chapter 32: The Mines of Moriath (2)
World of the Ring, Middle-earth, Morea Pits.
This Lord of the Rings world is also the same as many fantasy series of worlds, the elves in it are also noble and beautiful creatures, and the dwarves are also creatures that like to dig the ground, of course, this is a little ominous, and there is also a suspicion of slander in it, but the dwarves are indeed creatures who like to dig underground ore veins, and those precious minerals are in their opinion, which is their greatest pleasure in digging.
According to Gandalf, they had to walk in this tunnel for five days and five nights before they could cross from one end to the other end of the tunnel, not to mention that the length of the tunnel seemed exaggerated in this world, even in the real world, a mountain passage that was enough to walk for five days and five nights, and it was dug up little by little by manpower.
After entering the pit, Gandalf had already raised his staff, and he didn't know what he was doing, but a soft white light emerged from the gem on the staff, illuminating the entrance to the pit.
"It's not a tunnel, it's a grave!" Boromo looked around for a moment, and he said heavily.
At the entrance to the tunnel, the ground was covered with bones that had been reduced to dry bones, most of them dwarven remains, and a few of the wreckage looked a little distorted, as if they were the remains of some humanoids, which was indeed more appropriately described as a grave.
"No, no, no!" Jin Pi was immediately stunned, he screamed loudly, and the whole person threw himself towards the group of wreckage.
Legolas, the elven prince, who had always been the calmest of the all, pulled an arrow out of a wreckage, looked at it twice, and immediately exclaimed, "Orc! With that, he threw his arrow, and pointed his bow directly at the darkness.
The rest of the men drew their weapons as well, and Boromo shouted as he drew his weapons, "So, we shouldn't have come here at all, we should go to the Rohan Pass, only there will be a safe passage through the Carranras Mountains!" ”
"Calm down, don't talk too loudly, the orcs shouldn't have noticed us yet. And looking at these corpses, it should have been a while, and it is still uncertain whether there are orcs left in the pit. ”
As for the wealth in the pit, the other members of the reincarnation team are not willing to give it up. Aren't they just orcs, just leave it to us.
Originally, in the original plot, the gate of the cave was smashed by the big octopus before, so they had to continue to move towards the tunnel, but now the gate remains intact, and the octopus was killed by everyone, so they can quit at any time if they want to retreat, which is an unexpected accident.
Gunnier hurriedly said: "But the Rohan Pass is really too dangerous, after all, you don't have to face the army attacking in the field in this tunnel, right?" If we had been discovered by Saruman as we passed through there, no, we would have been discovered, and in that case, wouldn't we have been able to escape? Besides, this passage is really so big, as long as we pass through this tunnel quietly, we may not be discovered by the orcs. ”
Li Nan said to Sister Sakura beside him: "Sister Sakura go to the front to explore the way and see if there is any trace of the orcs." As he spoke, he handed Zhao Yingkong a brooch, which was an accessory equipped with a camera. Zhao Yingkong didn't speak, just nodded to Li Nan, and then her figure slowly became transparent. It is said that after Sister Sakura reached the fourth order, her stealth became more and more excellent, and now even if Li Nan's mental power scanned, there was no way to scan her location.
Then Li Nan took out a tablet and connected it to the signal of Zhao Yingkong's brooch, and the picture captured by the camera also appeared on the tablet. In this way, Sakura Sister walked along the main road for almost ten minutes, and found nothing other than the corpses all over the ground. As for the orcs, there were many corpses, but not a single one was found alive.
So, Li Nan also let Sister Sakura come back in the path. Then he said to Gandalf: "You have also seen the situation, and it is the same inside as here, not a single orc has found it. ”
This made Gandalf and the others hesitate, and Neos suddenly said at this time: "Well, let the Ring Bearer decide whether to pass through this quiet passage or avoid it, and pass under Saruman's eyes, Frodo, you decide." ”
There are obvious traps in these words, first of all, Neos compared this passage to quiet, although it is indeed quiet now, but under this silence there is hidden danger, and he compared the Rohan Pass to Saruman's nose, although the Rohan Pass is indeed very close to Esinger, but the distance between the two is not so close under the nose, but under the influence of the environment at the moment, Gandalf and others did not care about the trap in these words.
Frodo looked at the people around him, he looked at the remains of the corpses under his feet, and after a long time he said, "Let's pass through this tunnel, everyone be quiet, there shouldn't be any danger, that Saruman's magic can't hide if you want to, let's pass through this tunnel." ”
Now that Frodo had made a decision, Gandalf could only sigh, and then walked at the front of the line with his glowing staff. At the same time, he whispered: "Everyone should be vigilant, there are monsters more terrifying than orcs in this dark underground world. ”
Then Golden Bolt and Legolas followed behind Gandalf, followed by the four hobbits, then Boromo and Aragorn, and finally the fourteen members of the Samsara Squad.
"Quiet, it's going to take five days to get to the other side, I hope we won't alarm anything" Gandalf kept repeating the phrase along the way, which made everyone feel like they were infected by the atmosphere, and they didn't care about it anymore.
After walking through a flight of stairs and a narrow passage, the group finally arrived in the pit, where Sakura Sister was waiting for them.
Although this Moriath Tunnel is called the Tunnel, it is actually quite huge, from the mouth of the Golden Thunderbolt, everyone can know that this tunnel was originally a huge cave, after the dwarves found this cave, the entire mountain range was opened, and a habitable underground town was built in the flat area inside, and the Mithril and Arogus metal produced from this tunnel made the dwarves ecstatic, they relied on these two metals to exchange many important resources with wizards or elves, or humans.
"Needless to say, Mithril is the best known magic guide of the metal, and it is light and tough, it is a precious metal with a unit value of 100 times or more than gold, and it is also the most famous in the Crypts of Moria."
Gandalf walked along the path of the tunnel cliff, and he pointed the light of his staff at the passage cliff, and sure enough, the cliff reflected a silver light, which was a mineral that had not yet been refined by Mithril, and the reflection of the silver light could already be faintly seen.
"In addition to this Mithril, the output of Arogus metal is much less, only one of a thousand Mithril minerals may appear in one of the Arogus metal minerals, this is a super precious mineral, the output of Aarrogs metal in the entire continent is only a hundred years to make a plate, this metal is the best spiritual power to entrust metal, this does not seem to be easy to describe, I will use an analogy, wizards' mage towers often need to use spells to open, or the gate we enter this tunnel is also, And how do you recognize these spells? It is necessary to add a small amount of Erogus metal, and then entrust the spirit to identify it, and add a little bit of this metal when creating a weapon, which can make the weapon produce a small amount of self-consciousness, just like the One Ring, only the first person to drip blood on it can use it, and the subsequent people who use it will not be able to use a lot of the mysteries in it, which is the characteristic of the metal. Gandalf told everyone as he walked, and on the one hand, he did show off his knowledge a little.
The first day's march was uneventful, and in the words of the Golden Thunderbolt, everyone was still outside the gate of Moria's residence, and the ground of Moriah was too big for even if there were really orcs, so after the first day of peace, everyone's vigilance was gradually relaxed, at least not as suspicious as when they entered, and then everyone found an open and flat place to camp down, and then lit a fire to make food, and when everything was cleaned up, everyone had a chance to rest a little.
After the meal, the hobbit Merry and Pippin practiced their swords with Aragorn and Boromo as usual, while Sam and Frodo, two good friends, were sitting together, eating Sam's delicacies. Because Sam is in charge of cooking, he is usually the last to eat, and as his good friend, Frodo also waits until the end to eat with him.
And Zhan Lan was carving a magic array in the center of the platform he was now on. And Gandalf, who was originally smoking a cigarette, saw Zhan Lan's movements and also came over to watch. Although the systems are different, as an experienced magician, Gandalf can still understand a little bit of Zhan Lan's magic array.
"A positioned magic array at this time?" Gandalf asked curiously.
After carving the magic array, Zhan Lan stretched his waist, and then said: "That's right, at this time, a magic array for positioning, combined with my teleportation magic, can reach here through teleportation, and Li Nan asked me to set it up at this time." As he spoke, he released another camouflage spell on the magic array, and now the entire magic array looked like an inconspicuous broken place on the entire platform, and there were many such damages nearby.
"Oh, why are you setting the coordinates of the teleportation here?" Gandalf expressed confusion about Li Nan's behavior.
At this time, Li Nan was eating the fruit, which was brought out of Rivendell, and at the same time gave Zhan Lan one, and then said to Gandalf: "Actually, this is just insurance, and Zhan Lan has also carved a magic array at the entrance gate." That way we'll be able to teleport here or back to the entrance at any time. ”
Gandalf frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "Is it for the orcs?" ”
Li Nan also nodded, and then said, "That's right, there are monsters that are more terrifying than half-orcs you said." You look at this location, apart from the platform we are on, there are only two narrow passages connecting here. Both passages can only accommodate one person, so as long as we hold on to the passages, we can't help any number of orcs. And we can go back to the entrance through the teleportation array, and if this tunnel really doesn't work, we'll have to exit and redirect to Rohan's pass. Of course, this is just a preparation in advance, in order to deal with unexpected accidents. It's best if you don't need it. ”
In short, everyone was in such a life of resting and eating when they were tired, walking and hurrying when they were idle, and camping and sleeping when they were sleepy, and before they knew it, nearly four days had passed, and after Gandalf got lost on the way, everyone finally came to the gate of Moria, a magnificent palace, on both sides of the palace were large pillars with a diameter of five or six meters, and the pillars were all carved with countless runes and strange figures, such pillars were hundreds of them, and they were really a magnificent palace.
Everyone walked slowly in such a huge hall, everyone had a shock in their hearts, and it was not until they passed by a small room next to the hall that Jin Li rushed over, everyone looked at each other, and they all ran over, only then did they see a beam of sunlight shining directly from the top of the room, and fell directly on a sarcophagus in the center of the room, and Jin Li was lying on this sarcophagus crying sadly.
Gandalf walked to the sarcophagus and said silently: "Bahrain rests here, son of Fondin, king of Moria"
"He's dead." Gandalf took off his hat and said helplessly, "Sure enough, as I feared, there are no dwarves in the whole of Moria. With that, he bent down and picked up a book on the ground.
Then, Gandalf whispered the record from the book. Most of the characters in the plot listen very carefully. Of course, most of them are not all, and it is clear that the bear child of the hobbit is once again dead.
The hobbit called Pippin, one of the Hobbits F4, and Merry are the death duo of the Hobbits. He was now playing with the bones of a dead dwarf sitting on a well, and when he was fiddling with the armor, the head of the skeleton suddenly fell off the corpse, and with his helmet, he fell into the well that had dried up.
The loud noise startled everyone, and then the hobbit bear child thought about turning and running away and leaving the crime scene before being discovered. However, it was too late, and the tragedy did not end there. As soon as Pi Ping turned around, the dwarf's bones lost their support and fell into the well, and then dragged the chain on the iron bucket next to him, and pulled the bucket into the dry well. Then, a loud noise resounded throughout the hall, and at the same time spread far away.