The Wood Elves escorted the Dwarven Expedition and the Snow Emperor squad to their capital.

After walking for a while, Balin couldn't help but ask strangely, "Wait, what about the elf bricks?" ”

The other dwarves looked down, and sure enough, there were no elven bricks on the road they were walking.

Thorin suddenly yelled angrily, "Where are you going to take us?" ”

Legolas said coldly: "Where else can I go, of course, I will take you back to our capital!" ”

Thorin said coldly, "But this is not the way to the capital at all!" ”

Legolas smiled coldly, "What? Do you know how to get around our Wood Elf Capital? ”

Thorin said in a deep voice, "Of course! Follow the fairy brick path! ”

Legras laughed, "If you follow the elven brick path, you will never reach our capital." ”

The dwarves present were all wide-eyed, they couldn't believe that Beorn the Druid could deceive them.

After all, Beorn had provided them with selfless help before, and even the ponies were willing to lend them money.

Legolas sneered: "If it was 30 years ago, you would still be able to find our capital along the elven bricks, but in the past few decades, the environment outside our capital has become worse and worse, and my father was worried that someone would come to our capital to cause trouble, so he rerouted the elven bricks." If you follow the elven bricks, you will be in this dark forest. ”

"......" Thorin gritted his teeth, "Abominable Thrandil! ”

Legolas immediately frowned, "Dwarves, please pay attention to your words! ”

Thorin was a proud man with his head held high, looking fearless.

And in fact, he insulted their king in front of Legolas and the other elven soldiers, and Legolas did not make a move, which was polite and restrained enough.

After another ten minutes of marching forward, they saw a moat.

After crossing the long bridge over the moat, an elven capital hidden in the dense trees appeared in front of them.

This elven capital doesn't look grand, not as imposing as Rivendell.

But the city is so intertwined that only those who actually live here know which way to get to their destination.

If a foreign enemy wants to capture the city, it will probably have to pay 10 times or even hundreds of times the price.

The closer he got to the city, the more aggrieved Thorin's heart became.

He is the dignified prince of the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, the only heir to the royal blood of the Lonely Mountain, who should be on an equal footing with the master of the city, but now he has become a prisoner of the city.

Balin quietly approached his side and whispered, "Thorin calm down, we still have hope." ”

Wish?

Thorin felt a moment of confusion.

In this case, only if Xu Feng rushes back, it is possible to save them.

After all, if an ordinary army wants to capture a fortress of the level of Jinling Capital, it is simply impossible, and only a powerful person like "Diedi" can do it.

Perhaps this is what Bahrain calls hope?

But this hope is too far away for them.

Bahrain lowered his voice and said, "Didn't you notice that we have one less person?" ”

Thorin shook slightly.

One less person?

He hurriedly swept his eyes from the head of the group to the tail of the group.

Groin, Oli, Chili, Fili, Pombo who was sleeping soundly......

There are also four members of the Snow Emperor's team, all of whom are here.

Bahrain said helplessly: "Yes...... Bilbo! ”

That's when Thorin reacted.

He even ignored Bilbo!

It is true that Bilbo is very small, and in their group, he is indeed a person who is easy to ignore, but when he counted the number of people he was concerned about just now, he didn't expect that there was a teammate like Bilbo.

Thorin's old face turned red.

Bahrain whispered, "Bilbo has been gone since the elves appeared. ”

Thorin frowned and said, "He escaped? ”

If Bilbo had escaped, Thorin wouldn't have blamed him.

After all, from the very beginning, Thorin didn't see Bilbo as a real teammate, and Bilbo has been selflessly helping them.

Now, if Bilbo escaped, he couldn't blame him for that.

Balin whispered, "No, Bilbo won't run away, he should be following us, looking for an opportunity to save us." ”

Thorin smiled bitterly and said, "How is this possible? He is one of the worst of us, and now that even we cannot protect ourselves, how can he save us? Besides, if he really followed us, how could the elves not find out? ”

Balin shrugged, "I don't know about this, maybe it's the hobbit's racial specialty." Besides, didn't Master Diedi teach Bilbo a few tricks? ”

Thorin nodded slightly, and hope reignited in his heart.

"You two don't talk to each other!" An elven soldier yelled at them.

The two exchanged glances, then parted from each other.

Regardless, it's better to have hope than no hope.

In fact, this problem has long been discovered by the Snow Emperor.

They care more about Bilbo than Thorin.

After all, it was their task to protect Bilbo and Thorin.

At the moment when Bilbo disappeared, the Snow Emperor saw Bilbo take out a golden ring from the pocket of his waistcoat.

Snow Emperor randomly understands.

Bilbo used the stealth ability of the One Ring to avoid the search of the Wood Elves.

That's fine, at least Bilbo is safe.

It's just that using the One Ring many times will cause Bilbo's body and mind to have some adverse effects.

So, where is Bilbo now?

In fact, Bilbo has been with them all the time and has not escaped on his own.

If Bilbo wanted to escape, it would have been easy, but he had never thought of it.

He thinks he is one of the expeditions, and now that the expedition is in trouble, he must save them.

He didn't know what to do for a while, so he hid and followed the team, looking for the right opportunity.

However, there were no good opportunities along the way, and the elven soldiers kept the dwarves under strict control.

So Bilbo followed all the way to the Elven Capital.

The guards guarding the elven capital saw that it was their own team that had returned, so they quickly opened the gate of the city of thorns.

Taurrell was the first to enter, with Legolas at the back of the line.

Legolas glanced back suspiciously before entering the city gates.

With his instincts as a hunter, he sensed that something was following them, and he looked back and looked closely, but found nothing.

So he walked into the gate and said to the guards guarding the gate, "Be vigilant and don't let go of any details. ”

"Yes! Your Royal Highness! The guards responded in unison.

With the gates of the Thorns closed, Bilbo quietly infiltrated the Elven Capital.