In the territory of the Rohanate Kingdom, the terrain here is mainly a plain with grasslands and strange stones, which is very suitable for cavalry to gallop across. This is also the main grazing area for the herders of Rohan. Of course, in normal times, in addition to grazing cattle, horses, sheep and other pastoral livestock, the herders also plant a small amount of grain.
This is still a border area, and there is no fertile land with abundant grass and rivers in the Rohanate Kingdom. It shows that it looks uninhabited thousands of miles away and there is no gathering place.
If in the past few other forces except the Rohan Kingdom dared to come here to play wildly, after all, the Rohan border cavalry would often patrol this area in the past. If those evil forces exist or other forces, whether they are orcs or others, as long as they do not want to face a group of terrible knights who come and go like the wind on the grassland, they will subconsciously stay away from the territory of these Rohan people.
But today, there is a large group of strong orcs, estimated to be at least one hundred people, marching blatantly in broad daylight. These strong orcs, all with steel helmets and armor, holding hideous iron blades or steel hard bows, are lined up in several sparse formations, and seem to be running tirelessly! And on the backs of the two strong orcs, there seem to be two small hobbit prisoners tied to them?!
Now they have begun to penetrate deep into the border of Rohan, but they have not encountered the Rohan cavalry who have patrolled the border in the past. They don’t know what the situation is in the Rohan Kingdom now?
Suddenly, a leading orc who was leading the team to run suddenly stopped and clenched his fists to signal his subordinates behind him, ordering them to stop behind him and start guarding them around.
On its face, which was patting a white handprint, its nose kept shaking, as if it smelled an unusual smell around it...
"You guys are too slow, my master can't wait!"
Then, a group of half-headed orcs, who were half-headed shorter than the strong orcs, came out from behind a pile of rocks. The leader of the orcs with animal fangs on his neck were roaring impatiently at the strong orc leader.
"He is coming to those dwarves from Charles now!"
Orcs may have facial blindness and can only distinguish between elves and humans, but cannot distinguish between human populations! Therefore, they collectively call dwarves shorter than those taller humans, regardless of whether they are real dwarves or hobbits from Charles.
For example, humans cannot distinguish between the same difference between the Moto orcs, the Misty Mountain orcs, the Goblins and the Gundabha orcs. Although they can all be collectively called the orcs, they are not actually the same population.
"Hmph! I don't remember that I did things for you half-orc maggots!"
The leader of the strong orc looked at the orcs who blocked his way with disdain, and then snorted coldly.
It is obvious that the owner of this powerful orc and the owner of this group of half-orcs are not the same person, and they are not under the jurisdiction of the Demon Lord Sauron!
From this we can see that Saruman seemed to be on guard against the Demon Lord Sauron. He obviously knew the hard truth about the power of the gun. Therefore, the commandership of the strong orcs was held tightly in his own hands with magic, and let these strong orcs listen to only Saruman.
"Ao..."
When the orc leader heard that this powerful orc, a bastard who had just crossed, dared to speak to him like this, the orc leader was immediately annoyed!
Then, while its face became more ferocious, there were waves of angry whimpering sounds in its throat, and it slightly tightened the arc-shaped bone blade in its hand, and it was a tendency to pounce on it and start to do it if it was disagreement.
"Mr. Saruman will get his captives, and we will offer them in person!"
Once again, he looked up and down at the orcs who were not as tall as themselves and not as strong as themselves, and after a glance at them, the strong orc sneered and turned his eyes away. It did not think that the other party had the courage to fight with him.
They are powerful orcs, only loyal to the most powerful white-robed wizard Saruman!
Instead of the master of the orcs who were talking about the orcs! So, it would never hand over the captives that it had finally caught by others to these orcs!
"Gaha..."
After provocatively let out two roars of unknown significance, the orc thought in his heart, compared the physiques and numbers of both sides, he still did not dare to attack this powerful orc without authorization.
In its opinion, these strong orcs are now large in number and large in size, and Li Qiye is even bigger. If they really fight, they will definitely be the orcs on their side who suffer? Therefore, they can only admit defeat for the time being.
“Merry…”
"Melly? Wake up!"
At this time when the strong orcs stopped for a brief trimming, Pi Ping, who was tied to the back of a strong orc, finally had time to care about the situation of her partner Meli on the other side.
He saw that Merry was moaning weakly on the back of the strong orc, and blood was still flowing from his forehead. He seemed to be in a bad state?
"My friend is sick and he needs some water! Please give him some water..."
Seeing that Meli was still half open and moaning there, Piping finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he quickly begged to one of the strong orcs who seemed to be drinking water.
"Oh? I'm sick, are you?"
At this time, the strong orc leader who had already negotiated with the group of orcs in front finally came over. When he heard Pi Ping's words, he pointed at Meli in Pi Ping's mouth with a grim smile and ordered:
"Come on! Give him some medicine, boys!"
Then, another strong orc came over with a water bag. After grabbing the Hobbit Meli's head with one hand, he opened the other's mouth, and directly put the water bag in the water bag inward and poured the "water" inside into Meli's mouth.
"Look! He looks much better now, right?"
At this time, Pi Ping was surprised to find that the things in the other party's water bag were actually not water, nor were they medicine! But some tissue fluid with yellow and red blood that precipitated after a long period of time?!
What he didn't know was whether these liquids belonged to ordinary animals or humans?
"Ha ha!"
"Hahaha!"
When he saw the blood-filled Hobbit finally began to cough loudly, and it seemed much better than before, the large group of powerful orcs followed their leaders and burst into laughter.
"Stop! Let him go!"
Piping was anxious. If this liquid that was obviously not a good thing was poured into it, even if Merry had nothing to do, it would have become a big problem, right?
"Hahaha! Why? Can't drink it anymore?!"
After filling half a bag of blood, the strong orc barely stopped and let the Hobbit Meli cough and moan in a low voice.
"Stop! Please stop touching him!"
Piping finally understood that they were the prisoners of these cruel orcs, and it was already amazing that these powerful orcs did not eat them on the spot. They really couldn't ask too much.
"Do you want to drink a little too? Otherwise, just shut your mouth obediently!"
After warning the verbal Hobbit with his fingers and pointed at the mouthful Hobbit with a glove made of unknown leather, the strong orc leader turned around angrily and continued to walk towards the front of the team.
These two hobbits ran comfortably on their backs for three days and three nights, but they were not satisfied? If their owner Saruman had not explained that they needed these hobbits to live, they would have eaten them and returned to work with their heads!
"What's going on? Did you smell something?"
As soon as he left the front of the team, the leader asked a strong orc with a particularly developed nose.
At this time, this shows the cleverness of the white-robed wizard Saruman's biological transformation project: While he used magic to transform ordinary strong orcs, he did not forget to specially transform a small group of strong orcs with particularly sensitive noses, allowing them to act as humanoid self-propelled radars or scouts in his army?
"It's human!"
This powerful orc with a huge nostril just smelled the smell of humans...
It is obvious that now there seem to be humans discovering them and getting closer? Because it smelled the strange smell of sweat mixed from the other person's body from the air.
"Maybe it was the group of people before, they followed..."
"Go quickly! Go ahead at full speed!!"
The strong orc leader called out anger, then waved his hand and let his subordinates start to set out again and run.
Although it didn't know whether it was Rohan's cavalry, or the small group of powerful humans, dwarves and elves who were ambushed by them in the woods before? But no matter what, it would be impossible to speed up its marching speed, leave here early, and escape back to their nest Aisinger!
...
Ranger Aragon was lying on a rock and listening carefully. Rangers like them who have been wandering in the wild all year round have more or less learned the ability to track prey and search for enemies.
Especially Aragon, an old ranger who lived in his eighties, has already mastered the ability to listen to sound and distinguish positions!
He had just heard the dull footsteps of the strong orc from the slight vibration from the ground from the rock formation! The other party had already taken action again, and was still speeding up?
It seems that the other party is probably because they have discovered the three people who have been following them all the time?
"Hurry up!"
Then, Aragon stood up from the rock and urged Leglas and Jinli behind him.
Since the strong orcs have begun to speed up, the three of them must also speed up at the same time. Otherwise, every time they delay a while, the two hobbits of Meli and Piping would be more dangerous!
"Hurry up, Jinli!"
With his bow and arrow on his back, the elf prince Leglas, who even remembers to be handsome, stood on a rock. After talking to the dwarf Jin Li behind him without blushing, he jumped and quickly caught up with the ranger Aragon who led the way forward.
It is too easy for the elves who have already been fully equipped with agility! Moreover, he even has time to enjoy the elves' delicacy - Elf Cookies Lambas while he is rushing to the road?
Therefore, Legras is still physically strong now. Apart from being unable to sleep for a long time and being a little mentally exhausted, he does not feel much discomfort! If this was not a plain, but amid the dense forest, perhaps his own speed might be faster?
"Huh! Huh!"
He gasped with big mouthfuls, Jin Li held his long-handled battle axe with both hands, so tired that his eyes were almost turning white...
"I ran for three days and three nights..."
"I didn't eat anything... I didn't rest... I had no trace of it except stones!"
After a little breath and a little complaining habitually, Jin Li sighed, gritted his teeth, took his short steps again, and began to rush to catch up with the two long-legged guys in front of him.
Now he is at least tens of yards behind. If he doesn't catch up quickly, he will probably be completely left behind and fall behind.
“…”
After the three of them were chasing for a long time, they arrived at the small canyon where the strong orcs and half orcs would have been together.
Then, Aragon, who was good at tracking, soon found something belonging to the two hobbits in the footprints on the ground: a pin with a stomped elf cloak?
"The Lorien pin will never fall for no reason..."
Looking at the elf-shaped pin that had been deformed in his palm, Aragon knew that they were not far from the enemy now, and seeing the freshness of these footprints, at most, it was only half a day away?
Moreover, more importantly, the three of them did not pursue the wrong direction now. The group of powerful orcs who had kidnapped two Hobbits, and they were right in front of them!
"Maybe they are still alive?"
Leglas came over to take a look at the pin and also made a guess.
Since pins, such as Hobbits, only appeared here, not before, it really means that those strong orcs should not have killed Piping and Meli, otherwise, their belongings or clothing should have been scattered everywhere!
"These footprints are still very fresh, and they should be less than a day away. Let's get faster..."
Since he has caught up with the other party's tail, Aragon is not willing to waste more time, so he stood up and continued to rush.
Now, all three of them are very tired, but he also knows that the orcs must be more tired than them! After all, they can still take time to eat a few bites of Lambas. This magical dry food containing the vigorous vitality of Amenzhou, those strong orcs do not have this treatment.
"Ah! Wait for me..."
When Aragon started running again, a round thing rolled down on a small hill behind. That was actually... Dwarf Jinli?
"Hurry up! Jinli! We're about to catch up with them!"
“…”
"We dwarves are not good at traveling a long distance!"
"We dwarves are all natural sprinters... Of course, we don't have to compare with you guys with long legs!"
Jin Li has always complained about the long-distance raid. For him, the disadvantage is too great!
"I saw them... northwest, are they planning to go to Aisinger?"
After running up to a high hill, Leglas soon saw a very conspicuous dust floating in the air for a long time on the edge of the sky in the northwest direction!
Obviously, it must be the dust that the orcs trampled on and floated when they marched on a large scale in a hot environment. Now, after three days of sleepless pursuit, it was finally the first time they had really seen each other.
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"Hey! I said, Old Man Gandalf!"
"What are we doing here? This forest looks gloomy, wet, and dirty. I don't like it here!"
After hitting the flame demon hard at the peak of Mount Mist and asking the bear Tibers to teach it how to be a qualified pet with his fist, Anne forcibly sealed it and stuffed it into her personal dimension space.
Compared to his little bear who can follow his super high-standard treatment all the time, the new flame demon is much more aggrieved...
If Anne doesn't summon it, it may always sleep in the dimensional space, and she can't think of it casually coming out to let the wind or stretch the muscles or bones.
"There is no meaning in this forest! I'm so bored!"
Originally, after cleaning up the Flame Demon and saving the half-beaten Gandalf, Anne planned to teleport back directly to continue playing her war game. However, when she saw Gandalf summoning several fun giant eagles, she felt that the big birds that could carry people to fly were a little curious, and she followed her again with a stern face.
Anne herself actually has a bigger, fiercer and more beautiful Fire Eagle, but she is not in this world. However, she is still a little curious about the giant eagle summoned by Gandalf. She felt that she could barely sit and try it, of course she would not let it go.
In the following time, they went to the Golden Forest and got a lot of fun and delicious food. Then, under the eyes of the beautiful elf aunt driving people, they then came to the Fagong Forest.
"Anne..."
"Okay, I don't really like this place, but we have to try it out to see if we can convince the ancient tree people here..."
Gandalf, who still looked a little embarrassed, was now wearing a white robe. It was given to him by the beautiful elf aunt who was in the Golden Forest before. She was a hot queen named Kellandriel!
Now he was walking slowly under the shade of a huge tree with damp and dark trees that could hardly be seen in the sun, and at the same time he was chatting with the little girl behind him who insisted on following him.
When Gandalf learned from the elves of Los Rollin that Fredo and his expedition had been broken up by the powerful orcs, he was very sad at first. The Lord of the Ring Expedition, which he led, had only walked halfway?
But when he knew that Frodo and Sam had already left the team alone and had crossed the Anduin River and planned to continue to go to Mordor, and Aragon and the others seemed to be chasing those strong orcs who had caught the Hobbits, Gandalf thought about it and could not wait all day long to stop working, so he planned to come to the Fargon Forest to try his luck.
He wanted to see if he could convince those powerful tree-grazing people to resist Aisinger's Saruman? If those big guys join, it might be easier to defeat Saruman by then?
"Treeherman?"
Annie can understand the tree man, but Annie seems to have never seen the tree man or something...
Then, feeling that she was a little fun, she began to look around and try to see the clues of the so-called tree shepherds from the big trees around her.
"Where are they now? Are they these big trees around?"
Annie herself could see that the big trees around her have definitely grown for thousands of years!
Their crowns are so high and dense that they cannot shine even on the sun! Over time, in this forest, except for their tall, strong, thick and large trunks, rotten fallen leaves, and the green moss that like shade and wet environments, other flowers and plants cannot grow here, making the surroundings look bare except those gray-brown trunks.
However, Anne did not discover the so-called tree people. Although the trees she saw had strong vitality, they were still a little short of the kind of tree people who could move and ancient wisdom that Old Man Gandalf said?
Tree-grazing people and other things probably won’t grow like this, right?
In Anne's own imagination, could the tree shepherds in this world be the kind of weird people with a few heads, green hair, and bark-like skin? Perhaps, they can still jump between big trees, just like big monkeys?
"No, these are just ordinary big trees, not tree people..."
"Treemen, also known as tree grazing people, are one of the oldest and most mysterious races in our Middle-earth world! They are said to have been born at the same time as the dwarves, but they walked between the continents earlier than the dwarves."
As Maiya, Gandalf began to recall the past. Some things, due to the long term, were a little confused.
"They... were born after Verayavanna asked Manvey, the king of the gods."
"To protect the ancient trees in the Middle Earth! Although they have not appeared in the sight of mortals for many years, I believe that there must be many survivals here, in this ancient Fagon Forest!"
Taking his wand as a crutch, Gandalf staggered while turning his head around to search.
"However, when they sleep, they are generally similar to ordinary big trees, so we need to be patient and careful..."
"But there is also good news, because I know that there are at least hundreds of tree herders living in the Fagong Forest, so we have a pretty good chance of finding them?"
Gandalf now doesn't know how to summon the tree man, so he didn't have any good ways to go slowly to the Fagong Forest, except for slowly searching.
"Look for it slowly?! Gandalf, are you crazy?!"
"Look, there are so many trees here! How do you look for them? Do you want to find them one by one?!"
Listening to the meaning of this old man Gandalf, he knew that he wanted to look for needles in this huge Fargon forest, and when he went looking for one tree after another, Anne immediately exploded.
She wouldn't do such a stupid thing with this old man!
This Fagong Forest is full of ancient trees. It is not easy to say that there are at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of large ancient trees, right?
If you look for it one by one like him, when will you find it?!
"Well……"
"In fact, that's what I just thought...or, Anne, do you have any good ideas?"
After sighing, Gandalf leaned on his wand and turned his head to look at the little girl with unhappy expressions on her face.
Gandalf himself is actually a little embarrassed about his stupid method of finding a needle in a haystack. It seems that this method is really stupid! But apart from that, he has no better way.
Those tree-grazing people have bad tempers. If they make a loud noise, they will easily backfire. After all, now they want to win over the other party and help them fight.
At most, he could only try his luck in places that are suitable for tree growth, and the land is wet and watery. Since the tree man has the word "tree", Gandalf thinks that they will definitely like places that are suitable for tree growth, fertile and watery, right?
Otherwise, what else can we do? If the tree people do not move and close their eyes and do not make a sound, they will really not be able to recognize them easily.
"Hmph! I won't be so stupid as you are looking for them!"
No matter how much she complained, she actually had no good idea when Annie squinted her eyes and looked at the towering trees around her that seemed to have the same vitality.
In her sight, these ancient trees all looked strangely shaped, and they all looked like sleeping tree people? Or they didn’t look like them?
"Hey, Gandalf...you just said that the tree people, their work is to protect this ancient Fargon Forest?"
His eyes turned, and after his little bear came up with a bad idea, Annie quickly knew how to make the people of those trees appear on their own.
"This... seems like this. Have you thought of any good idea?"
Of course, the herders are just to protect the trees. I still have to ask about such a simple thing?
So, Gandalf didn't quite understand what the little girl wanted to do, but when he saw the other party's cunning expression, he felt a little uneasy.
This little witch must be planning some irrelevant ghost idea again!
"Ahhh! Of course I thought of a good idea!"
After saying that, little Annie grabbed a big red fireball directly from her hand, then looked at the trees around her with a strange smile and said:
"If I burn this forest now, their tree-man gates will definitely come out, right?"
While smiling strangely, Annie made the fireball in her hand gradually grow bigger. It seems that she really has the urge to burn this small piece of Fagong forest nearby?
"Don't!!!"
Without thinking, Gandalf quickly turned back two steps and reached out to persuade the little girl.
"Annie... we are here to ask the tree people for help, not to make enemies... Please, please don't do such things that make the tree people angry..."
Gandalf also knew a little about the ancient tree herding people.
After all, he has seen many tree people in Middle-earth for so many years, and the trees in this Fagon Forest are also familiar to him?
If this little girl, she really used the method of burning trees here to lead them out, Gandalf believed that what he wanted to do would definitely be nothing to talk about! Those angry tree people would definitely attack them crazily until they drove the two of them out of the Fargon Forest?
"But, I think this method is pretty good!"
Frowning her cute brow, Anne was a little confused.
On one side is the old man Gandalf who begged her not to set fire, and on the other side, the little bear Tibers who was still trying hard to burn the forest in private and scared people to come out to play. She felt very embarrassed about this...
Is this going to burn? Or continue to burn...
"At worst, when we lead out their tree people, we quickly put out the fire and then deny it, saying that it was actually done by someone else?"
It seems like this is pretty good?
As long as you don’t admit it, I’m sorry that those trees can’t do anything to them, right?
Anyway, Anne herself would definitely not have looked for it as what this old man Gandalf said, "I went to search for it one by one, and it would be really stupid to do that! In comparison, it is more reliable to burn the forest directly to lure them out to put out the fire."
As long as they are not seen on the spot, she believes that the wood-burned heads of the tree people must not be so many curves. Do they dare not believe it?!
"That's it, that...uh..."
When Gandalf suddenly wanted to say something, he suddenly stopped talking.
Then, he looked up embarrassedly at the sky ahead of him, then looked down at the little girl who was eager to try and planned to burn the forest to attract the tree man and then deny it, and sighed deeply.
"Little witch...I heard what you said just now..."
Suddenly, an old and slow voice rang behind Anne's back.
When little Annie turned around in surprise, she found that the big tree she had seen before had opened a pair of huge eyes and pulled out its two feet-like roots from the wet and green moss-filled land?
This is actually a tree man? It's so amazing that she didn't even find the other person just now.
"Extinguish the evil flame magic in your hand right away... and leave our forest as soon as possible... Otherwise... I will definitely stomp on you..."
After looking at the embarrassing white-robed wizard Gandalf in the distance, the tree beard stared at the one below it again, holding a little witch in her hand that made it feel very disgusted.
The tree beard had already felt that the energy intensity in the fireball in the other party's hand was very strong, which made it feel very uncomfortable. It felt that their Fagong Forest was threatening...
Once this dangerous spell explodes in the Phagong Forest, if a bad thing is possible, a large area of ​​ancient forest may be easily burned!
Therefore, this is something that the tree-grazing tribe absolutely cannot tolerate, absolutely not!
"Wow! You actually dare to threaten me? You can try it down!"
After looking up at the tall and big tree man, Annie retorted indignation that what she hated the most was that others were threatening her with big body.
"You'll try it! At that time, if I don't burn all this forest, then I won't be Anne!"
After making the fireball on his hands bigger and brighter, Anne stared coldly at the big tree man who was brave enough to threaten him, if they had the courage to do something like this.
Don't think it's amazing if it grows big. This big and stupid guy is no different from the one in the Azeroth world. Isn't it great? Doesn't their wood and brains know that their flame magic is specifically used to restrain plants?
Now it’s still unrest, and you dare to threaten to stomp yourself? Borrow it with a hundred courages to try it out!
"etc!"
After seeing the tendency of one big and one small, one big and one tree, one big and one big, Gandalf became anxious.
"Annie, there are also tree beards, don't be impulsive. This is actually a misunderstanding, it's really a misunderstanding! Tree beards, please believe me!"
Then, he quickly ran over, stretched out his hands and blocked the two sides, trying to make this little girl Anne, who was desperate to catch fire, and the tree-grassing man who was angry when he saw the fire, must calm down for the time being.
Gandalf came here today and came to this Fagong Forest. He really wanted to come to discuss major issues with the tree people, and not to be an enemy of the tree people!
Chapter completed!