Chapter 37: The Dark Forest
The castle is dead silent, but this is just an illusion for outsiders, in fact, it is very lively inside, because there is a large group of half-orcs living inside, as well as necromancers.
"Your Excellency......", several half-orcs, with frightened expressions, stood uneasy, peeking in front of them, a pale white half-orc, who was particularly tall and sturdy, standing on the edge of the cliff, the moonlight sprinkled down, illuminating one of his arms, only half of the half-cut arm, and the lost half of the arm was replaced by a cold iron hook.
"Your incompetence makes me angry", the pale orc Azog turned his head with a calm face, but his words made the horror on the faces of several orcs even worse: "It's been so long that you can't track down the whereabouts of those dwarven scum."
"My lord, there are gray-robed wizards next to those dwarf scum, and besides, there is a mysterious thief, our spies, all of which have been dealt with silently", several orcs, trembling and arriving.
"Shut up, I only want results, you are incompetent, you must bear the necessary punishment!" , Azog coldly interrupted the words of these half-orcs, and the iron hook was drawn, directly piercing the bodies of these half-orcs, and throwing them into the wolves, these wolves, rushing to pounce on them, in the terrible scream, all these half-orcs were divided into corpses and eaten.
The end of these half-orcs made the other half-orcs tremble, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to say a word.
"Pogue!" Seeing that the orcs were shocked, Azog opened his mouth and shouted.
As he spoke, a half-orc, who was also tall and athletic, walked in and walked in front of Azog without being humble or arrogant.
Half-orcs, in fact, have two leaders, that is, Azog and Pogue, just like the elves have different tribes and different leaders, but the half-orcs all serve the demon lord Sauron, and the leader of the army this time is Azog, so nominally, Azog's status is slightly higher than that of Pogue.
Pog walked in front of Azog, neither humble nor arrogant, nor saluting, and Azog was not angry at Pogue's rudeness, but just asked: "You said that you got the fairy lair, the message that the fairy king sent me?" Did he catch those dwarf scum? ”。
"Yes, that's true", Pog looked serious, nodded and said, but then spoke again: "It's just that those dwarf scum have all fled, and the news has come from the goblin lair, it seems that they have encountered a strange thing, inexplicably, many goblin's heads have been cut off, but they can't see who made the shot, as if there is an invisible person who is clearing the way for those dwarf scum."
"The master asked me to lead the army, I have no time to separate, those dwarf scum will be handed over to you, I hope you can bring Thorrin's head back to me."
Azog's expression, with unwillingness, couldn't kill Thorin with his own hands, and when it came to the word Thorin, the hatred in Azog's eyes seemed to turn into substance, and there seemed to be a faint pain in his arm.
"Good!" Pogue nodded, turned and was about to leave.
"Wait......".
It's just that, at this moment, suddenly a monstrous flame appeared out of thin air, and the terrifying heat wave frightened all the orcs, and those brutal wolves also lay on the ground, whimpering in a low voice, and a black vertical pupil in the flames seemed to be a human figure.
The "master", whether it is the powerful Azog or the arrogant Pogue, all bow their heads, and the identity of the comer is about to come out, the demon lord Sauron.
"Is what you just said true? In that elven lair, there seems to be an invisible person who is making a way for those dwarves? Sauron, the Demon Lord, had an ethereal voice, but with supreme domineering majesty.
"Yes, the information is true, even the head of the fairy king has been cut off", Pog nodded in response.
"Azog!" , confirming this, the voice of the demon lord Sauron became much louder, "I give you permission to mobilize all your forces to find the person who can be invisible and bring him to me."
"Huh?" , This order made Azog slightly stunned, didn't the master let himself lead the army and prepare for the battle for the Lonely Mountain? It's all at a critical time, but you have to let go of everything just to find the invisible person?
"What? Do you have any objections? Sauron's voice sank.
"Nope!" , Although Azog was surprised, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly responded, the master is delegating power to himself, and he can go to the other party Solin with all his might, what better thing is this?
"Remember, you must bring me that invisible person, I only need this", the monstrous flames slowly dissipated, and Sauron's voice clearly echoed in the ears of all the orcs.
"The whole army is ready!" , Azog, his eyes lit up, shouted loudly, for a while, full of energy.
Dongfang Yu and the others naturally didn't know about the matter of the ancient castle in the Rudol Heights, with Dongfang Yu on guard, they silently solved several half-orc spies, and the explorer team did not encounter any greater danger for several days along the way.
Along the way, Thorin and the others were very happy, and at the same time secretly sighed that Gandalf's eyes were really vicious.
The snitch found really solved the big threat of the team, excellent stealth and mobility, coupled with strong combat effectiveness, with Dongfang Yu as a scout, I don't know how many orc spies were killed, so that they could not grasp the whereabouts of their people in a timely and accurate manner.
On the way, as in the original book, Dongfang Yu and others met the pedestrian changeler Bion, and Dongfang Yu maneuvered around it, as if fighting a bull, he used Lingbo to attract Bion, who was incarnated as a bear, so that Thorin and the others quietly passed through the scope of Bion's activities, and did not have too much intersection with Bion in the original book.
Along the way, directly to the dark forest, Gandalf found the Eye of Sauron on the stone tablet in the woods, combined with what Lady Galadriel said to him in Rievendell, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, turned around decisively, and set off for the heights of Rudol to find out.
"Gandalf ......", in the face of Gandalf's sudden choice to leave, the dwarves didn't know why, but Gandalf, who was in an anxious mood, didn't even have time to explain, and hurriedly explained something important.
"Mr. Dongfang, the team will bother you a lot", and finally, Gandalf said to Dongfang Yu in a serious tone.
He also knew that this dark forest was a territory ruled by Thrandui, and Thorin's hatred for the elven clan could be said to come from the cold sidelines when Thorandui was ravaged by the fire dragon when the lonely mountain was raged, so it was absolutely inappropriate for Thorin to lead the team through the dark forest, and he could only rely on the Dongfang Jade, who had established his prestige in the team.
"Don't worry, I will definitely bring everyone to Lonely Mountain safely, and wait for you to come back", Dongfang Yu said solemnly to Gandalf.
With Dongfang Yu's assurance, Gandalf felt a lot more relieved, nodded, stepped on the tall horse, and left quickly.
The dark forest, as its name suggests, is incomparably lush throughout the woods, with layers of leaves covering almost the entire sky, almost blocking all the sunlight from the outside, even during the day, the dense forest is very dim, coupled with the methane and miasma in the dark jungle all year round, it is really easy to make people tired and hallucinate.
It's just that Dongfang Yu is holding a sharp sword in one hand, and his movements are more agile than a monkey, tossing and turning between tree trunks, and from time to time he will jump on the top of the tree to discern the direction, and the dwarves under the dark and dense forest have the guidance of Dongfang Yu, although their mental state is not very good, but they will not get lost.
Sneer......
I don't know how long I walked, suddenly, there was a strange sound of footsteps in the woods, condescending, Dongfang Yu could see that dense, swarms of huge spiders, rushed towards the dwarf warriors, the huge spiders were almost the size of a car, looking at the number, I am afraid that there are one hundred and eighty.
"Alert!" , If it is ordinary, of course, with the quality of dwarves, there is no need to remind, but now, the dim light of the dark and dense forest has a miasma, which makes these dwarves sluggish, Dongfang Yu can't help but shout.
This binge, mixed with the strong internal force of Dongfang Jade, is really like a twilight drum and morning bell.
As if their heads had been smashed, these dwarves suddenly sobered up a lot, and then saw the dense huge spiders attacking, and their faces changed drastically, and they hurriedly picked up their weapons and met them.
Dongfang Jade, holding a sharp sword, Ling Bo is elegant and swift in his steps, and the long sword is shaking, although there is no systematic and powerful swordsmanship, the sword moves that can be conjured from the hands of Tianshan Folding Mei are also extremely exquisite, coupled with the blessing of internal force, even if there is no invincible sword qi, the slender elf sword also has an incomparable sharpness.
The kung fu of the Xiaoyao faction is not only simply powerful, but also very beautiful, good-looking, in the original work of Tianlong Babu, the disciple of the Xiaoyao faction, who was a monk halfway through the Xuzhu, fought against Ding Chunqiu in the battle of Shaolin Temple, that Ruan Xingzhu said in surprise that although the two of them were ruthless and their moves were not far from the point, they were as good-looking as if they were dancing.
Dongfang Jade, Ling Bo is going back with a slight step, the sword moves are ethereal and beautiful, watching him do it, it is like appreciating the most beautiful dance in the world, one by one the spiders who approached were accurately stabbed by Dongfang Yu, and died under the elegant and beautiful sword moves.
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