On the Silver Moon, Hu Bin sat leisurely in the stern of the ship fishing, a few Peragia seafarers skillfully managed the various posts on the ship, while Okov and several Icilian rangers were lying on the side of the ship and vomiting, these rangers who ignored the mountainous terrain and wooded terrain were actually seriously seasick.

After the Battle of Baicheng, the humans began to form an army to expedition against Modo, but Hu Bin was not optimistic about them. The relationship between the Kingdom of Rohan and the Kingdom of Gondor is not as close as it was after the war in the original story, and although the survival of King Theudon has boosted the morale of Rohan's side a little, it has lost the momentum of a decisive battle, and the army and Gondor are only allies rather than mergers. Although Aragorn saved the war at the last moment with the army of the undead, he failed to keep this terrifying army, and the regent did not go crazy as before, but fought a wonderful battle with the assistance of his son Boromir, and the aftermath of the war was also decent, coupled with the reputation that had been accumulated in the hearts of the people, the country did not want the wise regent to step down. Although Aragorn has the support of Boromir and Gandalf, he has never been able to rightfully control the military power of the Gondor Kingdom, and although the unwell Siyodon has the heart to let him command the Rohan army, but at this awkward stage, Aragorn is really not too close to the Rohan Kingdom.

The Silver Moon slowly sailed past the fortress of Aocheng, a war-torn place that was now truly in ruins, with only a pile of ruins standing by the river, except for the restored port.

Hu Bin put away the fishing rod in his hand, looked at the ruins and waited quietly. The warship slowly approached the harbor under the control of the seamen. A crowd of people was already waiting there.

Hebrew, Dale, Wolf, and Ben, the four former members of the Lords' Alliance, all became guests on the Silvermoon, and they did not accept the regent's regent. Abandoned his realm and title and rejoined the ranks of adventurers. The group prepared to sail north along the Anduin River, where they would visit the dwarven settlements of the Blue Mountains and the Lonely Mountains, and if time had enough, turn west again and group up into the Moriah Caves.

Several lord numberers also saw the current situation clearly before deciding to withdraw from the next battle, otherwise with their reputation, they would have been able to raise an army to participate in the battle.

Accompanied by Hu Bin's old friend Dwarf Vicky, this lucky dwarven numberer can be said to have responded to the saying that if you don't die, you will have a blessing, and actually came together with Aragorn Jin Li and others by mistake, and successfully completed the recruitment task of the undead legion with them. By the way, he caught up with the tail of the Battle of the White City on the Silver Moon, which had come to meet Aragon. The outstanding performance of the Undead Legion allowed Vicky to get a lot of contribution rewards, and he really let him complete the main quest, which even Hu Bin was a little envious of. And with Vicky, the head snake of the dwarf clan, Hu Bin and his entourage also decided to put the first stop of their adventure itinerary in the landing place of Vicky, the dwarven settlement near the Blue Mountains.

It was also a helpless move to go to the Blue Mountains by water, and Hu Bin, who had experienced the Battle of Baicheng, lost almost all the troops, and even the men who operated the warships had to be numbered by themselves. Fortunately, Ben and Vicky had done sailors' work in previous missions, otherwise Hu Bin, the titular captain, would have gone into battle himself.

The resurrection of the Demon Lord Sauron has led to a lot of frequent activity among the orcs in Middle-earth, making it more dangerous for Hu Bin and his party to travel to the Blue Mountains by land. However, this situation was not without its benefits, as the Modo Orcs suffered heavy losses in the Battle of White City, and the White Tower Orcs were permanently banished to the desert in the southern part of the continent for various reasons. Modo, who lacked a major general, had to requisition the orcs in the Moria mine, and the Moriah orcs, who had been defeated by the original backers, were also very willing to join Sauron's command. This means that the garrison of the Moria, where a lot of wealth is buried, has been reduced considerably.

It took four days for the Silvermoon to reach the vicinity of the Blue Mountains, and after leaving the ship in the care of Aukov and his men, Hu Bin and the others set out on a journey to visit the dwarves.

"Don't expect too much from the dwarves, they don't like outsiders, especially elves." Vicky said to the others as he stood in front of the Belegist Fortress Gate. This is confirmed by the guard's unfriendly gaze.

Despite being called a fortress, Belegist is actually just a medium-sized city with relatively high and strong walls. The city built on a hill is difficult to defend and difficult to attack, and the city defense machinery placed on the city walls by the dwarves does indeed deserve the name of the fortress.

Hu Bin and his entourage followed Vader into the fortress, only to find that it was not as prosperous as expected, and there were not many dwarves on the streets, but more humans came here to do business.

Seeing the expressions on his companions, Vicky knew what they were thinking. "There are not many dwarves here, because the lonely mountain has returned to the embrace of the dwarves, and most of the dwarves have left here for the lonely mountain. In addition, in order to contain the army of the Lune, most of the army of the Blue Mountains went out of the city to fight, so it looks a bit depressed now. Go, don't take it on the street, you will be slaughtered as a fat sheep by those merchants, and I will take you to a good place. ”

When Vicky said "good place", Hu Bin had an ominous premonition, and sure enough, Vicky led them to the door of a large wooden house, on which a large wine glass was painted, and the bustling sound in it was faintly audible.

The group who pushed the door in finally knew where the dwarves who had disappeared from the street were, and even as one of the largest buildings in the city, the tavern was quite crowded.

"Uncle Binko, bring each of us a glass of pure ale, remember that it is pure ale, and you are not allowed to mix water into it." Vicky shouted familiarly at the old dwarf at the bar.

"Vicky, you bastard boy, you don't feel comfortable when you come back, when has Lao Tzu's wine been mixed with water, is it tight and you want me to loosen it for you." Although the old dwarf was scolding and swearing, he quickly poured a large glass of ale wine for everyone.

"Elves? It's not very common here, how could you proud guys come to this place? The old dwarf glanced at Hu Bin and said lightly.

Hu Bin didn't have time to answer. Vicky put down a gold coin and pushed his back and walked out. He grimaced at the old dwarf as he walked.

Hebrew and the others had already found an empty table, and the six of them sat around the table listening to the chatter of the others in the bar, trying to find any useful information. As a place of information circulation, the tavern has always been a permanent place for adventurers to number, but Hu Bin is an exception, none of them have experienced adventurers in the Lord of the Rings world, and coincidentally, none of them have chosen the mercenary profession as their initial class. Naturally, he couldn't start the adventure mission released in the tavern, and after listening to a bunch of nonsense, except for Vicky and the old god who were drinking on the ground, everyone else looked a little impatient.

Hu Bin tried to take a sip of the ale wine in the cup, the quality of the ale wine was good, and the taste was very pure, but Hu Bin, who was raised by various high-end wines, still found it difficult to swallow. He put down his glass with a frown. Then Vicky, who had drunk his share, snatched the cup and laughed while drinking: "I knew you couldn't stand it, so I could drink double today." ”

"Vicky, we're not in a hurry, but it's not time to rest." Hu Bin said with some amusement, this guy is really not polite at all. I guess I've already calculated myself.

"Be patient, Reed, and know that sometimes opportunities take a little while." Vicky blinked playfully, but unfortunately it was really hurtful to sell cuteness with his honor, and he was immediately hit on the head by Hu Bin with a knife. I almost spit out the drink in my mouth.

"Don't sell it, say. Otherwise...... "Not only Hu Bin, but even Hebrew and others are gearing up to take the vicky for fun."

"Don't underestimate this tavern, Old Binko is the best master craftsman here, and many human merchants have gone out of their way to curry favor with him, and this pub was bought by a great human merchant for a large sum of gold coins, just to ask for a pair of armor for his son." Seeing that the situation was not good, Vicky immediately told what he knew.

Wild Wolf and Ben both had expressions of interest when they heard this, and the two of them just lacked a high-quality armor. However, Hebrew and Dale are not too interested, the Hebrew suit of armor is of good texture, while Dale simply does not like heavy armor.

"Vicky, I don't lack equipment, are there any other masters here?" Hu Bin rubbed his brows and asked, he started as an equipment dealer, how could he spend too much attention on this.

"Don't be disappointed, you must know that the forging skills of the dwarves are no worse than those of the elves, and Uncle Binko is one of the few masters who have mastered the technique of rune enchantment."

At this time, except for Dai'er, everyone's glasses lit up, especially Hu Bin, who didn't know about rune technology like others, and the rune enchantment technology of the dwarf race had been mentioned many times in the collection of the elves, and most of them appeared with the names of famous weapons in history.

"But Uncle Binko hasn't done it for a long time, I begged for a long time, but he didn't promise to build a rune weapon for me, so don't expect me to help anything, I'll take you to find it, and the rest is up to you." Vicky threw up his head and poured his wine, while the others looked at each other, looking at the old dwarf at the bar from time to time, but none of them made a move.

"Whew! It's really refreshing, it's been a long time since I've drunk such a pure ale, Brother Jin Li will definitely be envious to death if he knows it, the ale wine of the Blue Mountains is a must-have among the dwarves. After muttering to himself, the others, who did not know what to do, said, "Binko will hand over the tavern business to the others in the afternoon, and we can go to his house at that time to greet him." But the old guy's asking price is very high, so don't be intimidated by him then. ”

"As long as you can get the opportunity to enchant runes, even if you hit him with gold coins, you will kill him." The wolf said confidently, but he was soon not so confident, because ......

"It's not impossible to create a rune equipment for Vicky's sake, but if you have to prepare the materials yourself, you have to prepare two copies, and then get 200,000 gold coins to pay you, if you do it, I will open this old bone for you to open the furnace." In the evening, at the old Binko's house, the dwarven master craftsman shocked several people as soon as he spoke. Hu Bin did not rush to bargain, but politely said goodbye to the dwarven master and took the others out of the house. And the wild wolf, who was a little impatient, almost pulled out a knife and cut the lewd and money-greedy guy on the spot, saying that it was for Vicky's sake. It was a deliberate attempt to make things difficult for them, and he even wondered if the old dwarf was a goblin in dwarven skin.

"Vicky, is there a place to sell alchemy and potion materials here?" Dale finally couldn't bear it, although she was very interested in runic weapons, she didn't have the determination to win it, and such a big price was not something she could afford.

"Of course, there are also quite a few human alchemy workshops here, you can visit the human merchant trade area. But be careful not to get caught. After Vicky finished speaking, he saw that Dale walked away without hesitation, holding a list of materials in her hand, and constantly calculating how many more possessions she had to take out.

"Let's go to the other places too, maybe there's something new to discover, and we'll meet at the tavern." Hebrew said with some regret that all of his and Dale's resources were used to complete the main quest, even though he had gained a lot of money from selling his land. But it's not enough to be squandered.

"I'm with you!" Ben left with the Hebrews.

"I'll go to the tavern for a few more drinks, and I'll see you then." The wolf walked slowly in the direction of the bar with a shocked expression.

"I'm sorry, Reed, I look like I made you run for nothing." Vicky said with some depression.

"No, friend, in fact you did me a great favor. You take me out to death. On the way, can you tell me about this Binko master? Hu Bin didn't express any dissatisfaction with the master craftsman's lion mouth, in his opinion, the old dwarf's reward was simply too reasonable for a rune piece of equipment.

"Well, okay. But are you really interested in that condition? ”

"Who knows."

……

At midnight, Hu Bin said goodbye to the drunk others and returned to his room in the hotel. Lying in bed, I thought about what I got from Vicky about Master Binko tonight.

Master Binko's background is quite not simple, and as one of the few top master craftsmen of the Dwarven Clan, he has a very high status in the Clan. However, the dwarven master did not pay much attention to the affairs of the clan, and after the establishment of this city in the Blue Mountains, he settled here as a member of the Blue Mountains Council at that time.

Vicky told Hu Bin that this master is very protective of his own people, and Vicky was taken care of by him when he first came here, and most of the armor weapons were half sold and half given to him by the old dwarf, but if he was a foreigner, the old dwarf was not so good at talking, and if he wanted to get any equipment in his hands, he had to be prepared for heavy bleeding. But because of the old dwarf's superb forging skills, even so, there are still many people who are willing to spend a lot of money to beg him to build some equipment.

"One of the members of the Parliament? It seems that we have to start from other aspects. Hu Bin suddenly remembered that Hebrew and Ben had come back from shopping and complained to the others, the price of grain in the Blue Mountains was too expensive, and Hebrew, who wanted to buy some grain and grass, was already disappointed with the price of goods in the city.

"The Blue Mountains are hilly and the land is not suitable for growing crops, and the only people close to it are the Runnes and the Forest Elves, and it is obviously impossible for these two forces to deliver food here. It seems that the food here is transported by human merchants, and given the distance from here to human cities, it is not surprising that food prices are high. The corners of Hu Bin's mouth curled slightly, and he touched the headband on his head, looking like he had something to do again.

The next morning, Dale returns to her room after breakfast to continue her bottles and cans, while Vicky and Wolf get together for a new day of drunkenness, while Hebrew and Ben continue to explore the opportunities in the city.

Hu Bin ordered a glass of juice and went to the seat in front of the bar, took out a piece of Lambas from his baggage and gnawed it, the old dwarf glanced at the dry food in Hu Bin's hand, muttered something in his mouth, and turned around to wipe the wine cabinet.

After Hu Bin ate a day's worth of Lambas with the juice in his own cup, he took out a bottle of wine from the warband world and poured it into the previous juice cup in front of the old dwarf.

"Bring your own drinks here!" Old Binko said with some dissatisfaction, but his nose was wrinkled by the smell of wine.

"But people who invite people to drink must be welcome here, why don't you have a drink?" Hu Bin said as he lifted the thin-necked bottle containing the wine.

The old dwarf unceremoniously grabbed the wine bottle, poured himself a full glass of wine, drained half a glass in one go, and then took a long breath and said: "What a sweet wine, no wonder you don't like my wine here, you are different from other elves, let's say, if you have anything to do with me, say it in advance, and the conditions for me to build equipment are not missing at all." ”

Hu Bin was not hit by the old dwarf's unkind words, because the space clearly indicated that the favorability between him and the old dwarf had improved a lot, and sure enough, good wine was the best stepping stone in front of the dwarves in any world, and then Hu Bin was going to get to the point. "Master Binko, I can solve the food problem of the Blue Mountain Clan."

The old dwarf did not immediately react to Hu Bin's words, but stared at Hu Bin with sharp eyes for a long time, Hu Bin looked at the old dwarf without fear and waited patiently for the other party. The old dwarf, who had been silent for a long time, took one last sip of the wine in his glass, and when he filled himself again, he finally burst into words: "Go on." ”

The corners of Hu Bin's mouth finally curled.