Chapter 230: The Unlucky Gandalf (1st Update)

Green hills, green water, ancient forest paths, and through a dense jungle of thorns, a magnificent city wall appeared before the eyes of Lan Ze and Bilbo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is a giant city, a very magnificent giant city, the city gate is dozens of meters high, and the overall height of the city wall is even close to 100 meters, what is the name of this giant city? Lan Ze didn't know either, but judging by Bilbo's excited face, this giant city should be famous.

In front of the giant city, there is a huge plain, looking from afar, you can see the horizon in the distance, very beautiful, around the giant city, built a wide moat, the clear river water flows around the giant city, and there is a burst of fresh water vapor in the face.

The overall color of the giant city shows a gradient of black and white, and the bottom of the city wall is jet black as a whole, with a large number of sword scratches, flames, and marks of spear and axe chiseling.

But the higher you go, the fewer such traces there are, and by the time you get to the top of the wall, you have turned completely white.

Lan Ze estimated that perhaps when this giant city was first established, the city wall as a whole was white, but the perennial fighting and attack made the bottom of the city wall completely blackened by the flames of war.

In addition, the geographical location of the whole giant city is also very advantageous, located in the throat of Middle-earth, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only exit is the endless plain in front of the city gate.

Overall, this is a treasure land that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can be attacked and defended.

As long as you occupy this place, you can collect at least a third of the territory of Middle-earth.

At the end of the plain, in the center of the horizon, there is a lone lone peak, that lone peak is very peculiar, surrounded by plains, and this lone peak stands alone.

Although the royal capital of the dwarves is also called Lone Peak, there are mountains around it, so although it looks shocking, it can also be explained, but the Lone Peak in front of you is different, and it cannot be explained by science at all, glaciation? Obviously, it is impossible to create such a huge mountain.

And Lan Ze could vaguely feel that in that lonely peak, there was a complex and mysterious power, and the important thing was that this power was strongly hostile, and it was somewhat similar to the power of the three monsters that Lan Ze had just killed.

This made Lan Ze frown, looking at Bilbo who was delighted on the side, Lan Ze didn't tell Bilbo what he had just discovered, and he didn't tell Bilbo either, except for adding to his troubles, it was useless.

Riding horses, Lan Ze and Bilbo made their way towards the big city, and as they approached the big city, Lan Ze and Bilbo saw their old friend.

Gray-robed wizard Gandalf, a legendary wizard, of course, that refers to the fact that Gandalf's strength is not limited, as for now? Under normal circumstances, Gandalf is nothing more than a trickster who can do magic.

Of course, even if it is a liar, a legendary-level wizard is a legendary-level wizard after all, if he really works hard, he can forcibly increase his strength to the level of legend in a short period of time, when Lan Ze once killed the dragon Smaug with Gandalf, Gandalf once worked hard, and his strength was forced from a small wizard who was only not much stronger than ordinary people, to reach the level of legendary.

By the way, there is another point, in addition to Gandalf being a wizard, there is also a rather famous big fool, the dwarven prince Oak Shield Thorin, who was fooled by him to find Smaug desperately, if it weren't for the appearance of Lan Ze, the current dwarf king Oak Shield Thorin would have been lying in the grave. His good friend Bilbo was also fooled by Gandalf into going on an adventure at that time.

And in the future, another poor child of the Baggins family, who was also fooled by Gandalf.

However, Gandalf's luck was good, the first time he flickered the dragon Smaug to death, and the second time he flickered the Great Demon King Sauron to death.

Of course, although Gandalf likes to fool people, is full of justice and morality, is not strong, and likes to pretend to be high-minded, but there is one thing, Lan Ze must admit that Gandalf is essentially a good person, at least this guy is sincere, hopes for peace in the Middle-earth world, and has no temper, and cares a lot about his friends.

This is also the reason why Gandalf can become Lan Ze's friend, of course, in Lan Ze's heart, Gandalf's status is far inferior to Bilbo.

Although Bilbo's strength, knowledge, vision, and insight into the essence of things are not as good as Gandalf's, Lan Ze does not value strength.

Let's just put it this way, even if Lan Ze lacks everything, Lan Ze just doesn't lack strength.

Seeing his friend, and two old friends, a happy smile appeared on Gandalf's wrinkled old face: "Long time no see, my friend, I knew you were coming, two months ago, when I went to Shire, I didn't see Bilbo, I knew that you two would definitely come here, I tell you, fortunately you left early this time, if it was a few days later, it would be chaos here, anyway, did you encounter any danger along the way?" ”

"Danger? Gandalf, with my Bilbo here, how could there be any danger? Anyway, I'm also a person who participated in the battle of slaying dragons. ”

Bilbo rolled his eyes and shouted loudly, with a look of arrogance and pride.

I'm afraid that others won't know about Bilbo's great achievements.

Gandalf looked at Bilbo, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he smiled without saying a word.

But the information in his eyes speaks for itself.

A hobbit is a good hand as a scout, but what about being a warrior? Or a warrior who slays dragons? Forget it. The good boys of Middle-earth are not dead yet, and there is no need for hobbits to come out and take risks.

In an instant, Bilbo felt like he was hurt.

Lan Ze on the side rolled his eyes speechlessly, jumped off the horse, gave Gandalf a hug, and then said directly to the point: "Say, friend, what is the matter with you calling me to come to Middle-earth this time?" I'm telling you, if it's a trivial thing, don't blame me for tearing your bones apart. ”

Looking at Lan Ze's fierce threat, Gandalf smiled bitterly: "My friend, I can assure you, if it wasn't really no way, I wouldn't be looking for you, come with me, let's go into the city and talk, this time, you must help me, otherwise Middle-earth will be over, and I will be almost finished." ”

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Gandalf took Lan Ze and Bilbo into this magnificent giant city, and on the way, Gandalf and Lan Ze talked about Middle-earth and the troubles he was in now.

First, that is, the red demon that Lan Ze saw before, the body is strong, the speed is amazing, and there is the ability to contag in the blood, Gandalf complained that if these monsters are not eliminated in time, it will not be long before all the creatures in the entire continent will become this kind of monster.

Then, Gandalf spoke of the second trouble, which was the nightmare.

Nightmares are a physiological phenomenon that is not common, but it is not so rare, and everyone will have several nightmares in their lives because of psychological and physical pressure, as well as external stimuli.

Don't say no, don't deny, trust me, everyone has nightmares a few times in their lives.

But the problem is, it's a little scary to have nightmares every day, and unfortunately, all the remaining creatures in Middle-earth, except for a very few people, are shrouded in the fear of nightmares.

Don't underestimate the power of nightmares, although they seem inconspicuous and not fatal, but when the nightmare accumulates to a certain extent, the psychological and physical pressure accumulates for a long time, it is extremely terrifying.

According to unofficial statistics, the number of suicides, riots, complete madness every day, calculated from the day the nightmare began, increased exponentially.

At the beginning of the cataclysm, why did the 300,000-strong army finally return with a great defeat? On the one hand, it is because the creatures that have become red-eyed demons are really very strong, and they are also humans, and humans who have become red-eyed demons can fight ten at a time.

On the other hand, it is because among the 300,000 people in the army are above average, with moderate depression, and among the more than half of the moderately depressed patients, at least one-third are severely depressed and have serious suicidal tendencies.

Seriously, after listening to Gandalf's story, after Lan Ze's analysis and comparison, Lan Ze found that the original 300,000 coalition troops were able to survive 100,000 in the end, which was really lucky.

With such a high rate of suicidal tendencies, it is not easy for one-third of the people who can survive in the end.

Bilbo on the side also said that the feeling of being shrouded in nightmares all the time was simply terrifying, recalling that three months ago, Lan Ze had not found himself, and the painful experience at that time seemed to be gray in his whole life, but fortunately, he had not had nightmares for a long time, and he was refreshed every day, and he felt cute every day.

As for the last question, it has nothing to do with Middle-earth, but with Gandalf himself.

Speaking of this question, Gandalf's face was very ugly, and his expression was unusually serious: "Lan Ze, our family's god has been lost. ”