"The world changed, I touched it from the water, I felt it from the ground, I smelled it from the air, everything that was in the past...... It's all gone, and no one remembers it now."

With this heartfelt whisper as a start, the magnificent epic masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings" began to play.

For Samsara, it was indeed just a movie, a work of Tolkien's world brought to the screen, but for Gandalf, the gray-robed wizard who was the only spectator in the Nightmare Mirror, it was himself, his past, present, and future as a whole of Middle-earth.

He saw that he had come to the Charles to attend Bilbo's one hundred and eleventh birthday, and found the One Ring left to Frodo in the hands of the Hobbits, and he saw himself rushing back to Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, and found a way to confirm the authenticity of the One Ring in ancient books, and after rushing back to the Shire, he verified the Ring and asked Frodo to leave the land of right and wrong quickly, and he himself went to Isengh to meet with Saruman, the speaker of the Holy White Council, for help, but was defeated and imprisoned by the fallen white-robed wizard and imprisoned at the top of the Tower of Osanke, With the help of the giant eagle, he managed to escape......

This was the past he really experienced, and it happened not so long ago, but at the same time, he saw something outside of himself, and it was happening, or not happening.

He saw the Ringwraiths in the form of Black Knights chasing Frodo and Aragorn, the little hobbit being stabbed by the Witch King of Agmar with a cursed sword at the top of the storm, and with the help of Aragorn and the elven princess Aven, he came to Rivendell in a hurry, and then he saw King Elon convene a meeting of the Ring where the elites of all races gathered. It was decided that Frodo would take the One Ring and the Fellowship to destroy the Doomsday Volcano in Mordo with the help of the Fellowship Squad, and encountered countless painful and great changes in this difficult journey.

Saruman summons Thunder to stop them from climbing the Peak of Karanras, forcing them to divert to the underground Mines of Moria. There, he was attacked by orcs and a remnant of an ancient firefiend, and he himself fell into the abyss to protect the expedition at the Kazad-Dum Bridge. At the same time, the white-robed wizard in Isengard performed a bloodline awakening ritual on the unhuman orcs who were once elves but were tormented by the dark forces, transforming these terrible monsters that were twisted into painless, fearless, and near-perfect orcs who could fight in the harshest environments, even with sewage and moldy food, and sent them out to hunt down the Fellowship of the Ring.

On the other hand, the expedition also fell apart due to the pain of losing the wizard and the influence of the Ring, and Boromo, the son of the regent of Gondor, died under the arrows of the powerful orcs who tracked him, and Frodo abandoned the bellies and Sam to continue his mission to Mount Doom to complete his mission. The Elven Prince, the Dwarven Prince, and the Heir to the Throne of Gondor go to the rescue of two other hobbits who have been taken captive by the Orcs.

But even when it comes to despair, as long as you believe, you will definitely see the dawn of hope.

As Gandalf basks in the grief he can only feel in the real world, he suddenly finds that the trajectory of his fate is beginning to turn in a good direction. He did not die after falling into the abyss with the Fire Demon, but fought with him from the bottom of the abyss to the top of the world under the protection of the Holy Fire, and fell into the dark world of death after successfully killing the Fire Demon, but after reawakening, he took the authority of Saruman and became a white-robed wizard. In Rohan, he banished Saruman, who possessed Sheudon with his will. And in the retreating Valley of the Holy Helm, he defeated the army of strong orcs who were ruthlessly cut down the dense Fagon Forest to build weapons and armor, and together with the Treants, he defeated the former white-robed wizard, and then went to Gondor to participate in Modor's strong attack on the White City of Minas Tirith, and the Rohan Hussars, who came for help, finally defeated the Mordo orcs and killed the King of the Rings on the plains of Pelenor, at the cost of the death of the King of Rohan, Hieudon, and countless soldiers, In the end, Frodo also reached the Doomsday Volcano after a lifetime of hardship and death, and drew an end to the fate of the whole of Middle-earth in a poignant way......

When Aragorn was finally crowned king above the White City, he and Frodo boarded the last ship to leave Middle-earth for the Immortal Lands. By the time the Third Age officially ended and the Fourth Age began, Gandalf, who had awakened at some point, was already in full swing.

“…… This is our future? ”

Xiao Lan in front of him quietly put away the magic mirror. The gray-robed wizard murmured in a voice that almost trembled.

"Yes and no." The demon nodded, then shook his head again, "That was once the future of this world, but the trajectory of fate is never static, our arrival ...... What is represented is variable. ”

Variables? This or this, at least for now, we have a chance to undo the tragedy......"

Before he could recover from the huge impact, Gandalf continued to stand there and whisper to himself, and Xiao Lan also breathed a long sigh of relief when he was immersed in it without realizing it.

After knowing the future of himself and the world, it is impossible to continue to develop like the original plot anyway, but let the gray-robed wizard see that those things are not just for the sake of more direct variables, and when Gandalf's body and mind are invested in the dream, the Majin has already obtained what he wants-

The movie in the dream is not a light and shadow effect, but a physical impression recorded in the consciousness.

Gandalf was not so much watching the trilogy of movies as reading Xiao Lan's own viewing records, in which what he heard was not "sound", but the induction of consciousness, the most direct and transparent words at the spiritual level that directly represented intentions.

Just like seeing people from different countries see the same beautiful girl, Chinese have "goddess" in their hearts, British and American people have "beauty" in their hearts, Japanese people have "びじん" in their hearts, Koreans have "??" in their hearts, and "Schnheit" in Germans' hearts, Gandalf unconsciously translated them into the elvish, dwarven, orc, and lingua franca that he knew on the way to watching. And in the Nightmare Mirror, through his subconsciously open part, he completes the entire language system, including words. In the past, Xiao Lan could only master this level by killing someone to read the soul, and now that he has obtained this key language and writing, the biggest obstacle in Middle-earth has disappeared.

And so it goes. Xiao Lan is not particularly in a hurry.

Originally, he planned to break down the door violently, use the Book of Death to revive a few dwarven undead in it, help direct the mining and get the relevant refining technology, and then deal with the fire demons and half-orcs inside, given that the necromancer he revived could not be as easy as the king of the necromancer, the whole process is estimated to take a lot of effort and energy, but since Gandalf is here and not here to find trouble. They have a better choice.

He stood very quietly on the side, and Flora, Kira, and Pandora didn't make a sound, just quietly looked at the living screen character in front of him. After half an hour, the gray-robed wizard finally let out a long breath like waking up from a big dream, and the light of wisdom flashed in his eyes that were no longer confused.

"Dream, Future, Time...... The power you have is truly awe-inspiring, but please forgive an old man for his curiosity. Now that you've known what's going on inside the Moria's Pit. Why do you want to enter this hellish place of right and wrong? ”

Regarding this question of the gray-robed wizard, Xiao Lanzhi had no intention of concealing his intentions, "Sauron has an army of orcs from Mordo, and Saruman has his army of strong orcs, but compared to the powerful dark forces, the elves are moving away to the western immortal lands, and the power of the humans is scattered and plagued by emotions and illnesses, and if there is no equally powerful army. Even if you know the enemy's plan, you can't change it, and if you want to change your fate, you must have enough power......"

"So here I am. The orcs and fire demons in the mines of Moriath will be sacrificed to my summoning army, and if possible, I would like to try to awaken the souls that inhabit this place. ”

“…… Army, revenant? Gandalf's voice trembled, and after a long silence he sighed again, "It seems that you have much more power than what I have seen, so I'll go with you." ”

"Facing the Fire Demon, this is also a fate that I should not avoid......"

The last sentence was slight and could only be heard by himself, but after this sigh of realization, the figure of this old man was inexplicably taller.

Then, he touched the neck of the giant eagle that had brought him, and reluctantly sent the clever big guy away, and then, after noticing the huge scars left by the sword of victory of the oath in the lower river valley, he passed between Flora and Xiao Lan, who made way for a way, and groped for a crescent-shaped stone shining blue from his arms.

"I'm glad I have a moon stone with me, otherwise we'd really have to wait until ......the evening," he sighed softly, and the gray-robed wizard raised his staff, chanted a syllable, and tapped it on the hand in his hand, and then saw a moonlight shine on the gray plane of the rock wall, and then a faint light began to appear, and silver lines appeared on the rock. At first it was a tiny cobweb-like trail on which the moonlight could only occasionally be reflected, but after a while, the lines gradually spread outward and began to become very clear.

-- The door appeared.

High within the reach of Gandalf's hand was an arc of elven words meaning "Gate of Turin, Lord of Moria, speak of friends and enter", and underneath it was a figure of luminous lines. At the top are seven stars, accompanied by a crown and hammers and anvils below, and in the lower half are two large trees with crescent-like branches, and the most obvious is a star with many stars in the center.

As for the secret words that bothered Gandalf for a long time in the original plot, they were said here without thinking, "Mellon!" ”

The next moment, the stars on the door shone for a moment, then dimmed again. Then a large portico began to emerge, slowly parting from the center and opening outwards until both doors were fully open, revealing a section of ascending stairs inside.

Just looking at the darkness inside that seemed to swallow everything, loss and sadness crept up on the old man's face in an instant.

"Let's go inside, Moria's Pit...... The grave of this dwarf. (To be continued......)