Chapter 397: Sound East Strikes West

But at this time, a sneer appeared on Qin Fen's face, and he said in a deep voice:

"Let's go, let's get out of here!"

Miss Silver said:

"What's wrong?"

The rest of the people were also puzzled:

"Why are you leaving? Wait and see, maybe you can grab the head. ”

Well, one of the three major illusions in life, I can fight back. The reward for killing the dragon Smaug is so tempting that most people have a desperate frenzy, but the question is, is Smaug really that easy to kill?

Qin Fen squinted his eyes slightly, and said:

"Did you notice that there seem to be a few people down there?"

"Is there one? How I didn't find out. Nami-chan asked confusedly.

Qin Fen shook his head and said:

"When I was a doppelganger, I used to count the number of dwarves and elven rangers in my spare time. Among them, there are one hundred and eighteen dwarves and fifteen elven rangers. But once the battle began, three elves and five dwarven warriors were missing...... Where do you think they went? ”

Hearing this, everyone's faces showed shocked looks. These disappeared guys fled without a fight? Obviously impossible, the elven rangers may escape, but those dwarves who are hated by the country and the family will never escape, otherwise they will not enter the lonely mountain at all.

"So, where did they go?"

Thinking of this question, everyone's eyes unconsciously looked at the towering and dilapidated palace behind them under the cover of clouds and mist. It turns out that so many people are all bait, and the real team ...... Already in the dwarven palace?

Miss Yinzi took a deep breath and immediately said:

"In that case, let's go at once."

Qin Fen shook his head and said:

"No, Nami-chan and I can just rush over, you guys stay around and don't get involved in the scuffle below. Since Smaug chose this place as the battlefield, and he is so fearless, he must have absolute self-confidence. ”

The discussion was decided, Nina, Zhang Ying and others stayed in place, while Qin Fen took the dwarf Lori to the collapsed palace. Even because the dwarf Lori ran too slowly, Qin Fen picked her up in the little girl's protest, ran all the way, and quickly arrived at the destination. When they had turned a long gorge, they suddenly noticed that the surrounding terrain had suddenly become empty.

With the widening of the terrain and the irradiation of the sun, the clouds and mist covered by clouds in the mountains are also rapidly thinning, and it can also be seen that here is a quite wide square, very wide and vast, the ground is all the best bluestone slabs, and they should all be artificially paved, the slate is large and small, but there is a kind of beauty of staggering.

However, most of the buildings near the square have collapsed, leaving only the silent ruins and faint grass, telling of the prosperity and decay of the past.

Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the dwarf Lori left here with a disgrace, and now, she has stepped on this land again.

"Do you know how to get around?" Qin Fen asked.

The architectural style of the dwarves is inherited in the same vein, and there is a dwarf Lori, which can save a lot of trouble.

Nami-chan blinked, the flush on her face had faded, and she kicked Qin Fen lightly and said:

"Well, I've never been here, but I feel familiar...... Let's take a shortcut. ”

The two walked into the crumbling ruins and pushed open a half-decayed wooden cabinet, revealing a swarthy hole in the back. The walls were made of huge strips of blue stone, each of which was the same size. It is at least three feet wide and one meter long, and the gap between them is even tighter. Not even a single hair can penetrate it, which shows how precise the construction of this project was, and the construction level has really reached a very high level.

This square dark cave entrance was about the size of an ordinary room, enough to accommodate Qin Fen and the two of them walking side by side, and it didn't feel crowded. After Qin Qianjin went, he found that this passage was extremely long, and it was still winding, he originally thought that it was only four or five zhang away, but who knew that after walking a long distance, there was a faint light in front of him.

After the dwarf Lori explained, Qin Fen finally figured out the joints. It turns out that the dwarves were born in the Misty Mountains, but they came out of the mountains a long time ago due to the threat of some evil force, and finally settled in the Lonely Mountain. But why did you choose this mountain range? This is not a beautiful place with beautiful mountains and rivers, nor is it an artery for land and water transportation, what is the reason why it attracts dwarves to settle here?

It turns out that there is a very precious and large reserve of iron ore under this mountain, and most of the dwarves have two hobbies, fine wine and iron, so you can imagine how attractive the existence of an iron mountain is to them. In addition, these black iron ores also have very valuable associated ores, the most precious of which is Mithril.

Qin Fen knew that the Mithril thing looked like solidified mercury, but it was an excellent enchantment material, just like today's uranium ore, a material that would make people break their heads and rob it, this is the real reason why Gushan is known to the world, but with the advent of Smaug, these histories have gradually been drowned in the dust.

It can be said that striking iron has been integrated into the life of the dwarves, in order to better live and work, so many dwarves have carved a tunnel under their houses, these tunnels are connected in all directions, and at the bottom is a huge furnace called "Sky Furnace", but no one has forged and burned for hundreds of years, and it must have been unusable.

After passing through this passage, the place where the two of them came out was a large stone room, distributed in a circle, at least the size of a normal elementary school classroom, and the top was very high, so it didn't feel crowded, and there were two forging tables and a small stove against the wall, but the fire in it had been extinguished for a long time, and several half-forged utensils were also covered with a thin layer of dust, and there were bright traces when you wiped your fingers.

Qin Fen picked up an unsheathed heavy sword, but he didn't get any hints, and couldn't help but shake his head, it was obvious that this weapon had not been approved by the master, even if it was put into the storage space, it could not be carried away.

There were many murals carved on the walls of the stone room, Qin Fen took a cursory look, and most of them were some engineering drawings, and occasionally there were a few lines of scribbled poems like chickens crawling, about hymns and the like.

The two rested for a moment and continued to walk with searchlights. You can see that the underground is still relatively humid and cold because of the lack of sunlight all year round, and occasionally you can hear the sound of water droplets dripping in the silence, like a faint spread like ripples.

In this cave that extends in all directions, there is a kind of mutated moss that grows, and under the influence of the environment, it can actually emit a faint faint light, so that the cave is not dark with no fingers, and the visibility is probably like the level of a dark night without a moon and only stars.

After the two came out, they didn't take a few steps before they came to the center of an avenue, and there happened to be four dark passages in the four directions of south, east, west, and northwest, and they didn't know where they would lead. On both sides of each dark and dreary passage, there are countless small passages, which extend into the darkness like veins, which makes people awe and sincerely admire the wisdom and diligence of these ancients.

In addition, the air here does not have the musty and rancid smell as expected, which means that the air circulation is quite good, and there is no need to worry about biogas explosions, gas poisoning, etc.

The two of them walked a cup of tea in this corridor, and when they came out, they had already come to the buildings that were still standing in the back of the mountain.

The two of them fought steadily at this time, not letting go of a suspicious place, and slowly touched Smaug's lair, and soon, Qin Fen saw uneven marks on the ground!

This mark is actually very, very common, in the shape of three claws, somewhat similar to the footprints left by the Tyrannosaurus rex in the rainforest, but it is a little thinner, apparently the marks left by Smaug when he entered and exited.

When he arrived here, Qin Fen said to the dwarf Lori:

"It's dangerous inside, don't go, wait for me outside, if you encounter an enemy, go underground and throw them away, remember, don't fight with them, and don't trust anyone, especially human rangers."

The dwarf Lori opened her mouth, and seeing Qin Fen's serious face, she finally nodded obediently and quickly slipped away.