Chapter 112

"Hoo..."

"At last..."

"How spectacular..."

"Is this the lonely mountain?"

"It's really a lonely mountain here, but it's still a little far away..."

"Let's go. We've reached the lonely mountain. Is there still a distance..."

When they got off the ferry, they all looked up at the towering mountains ahead and sighed.

"It's already morning. We need to find the secret door into the mountain before sunset today."

"Let's go!"

SOLIN oak shield said.

The crowd moved on.

Thousands of towering mountains.

The mountain road was strewn with white snow.

It's getting colder and colder.

Fortunately, everyone was wearing the exquisite and thick equipment sent by the mayor of Changhu town.

Otherwise, it would be the original clothes.

Everyone will suffer.

GUSHAN is the first time for most members of the expedition.

But it's no stranger to SOLIN oak shield, white bearded Bahrain and devalin.

Bahrain leads the way.

The people went up along the path at the foot of the lonely mountain.

Time passed slowly.

Near noon.

The expedition finally climbed from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the lonely mountain.

The more you go up, the colder it gets.

The road also began to flatten a lot.

But at the foot of the mountain, you can still see many weeds and thorns that can tenaciously sway your soft body at the end of autumn.

At this time, in the middle, you can only see all kinds of strange stones and rubble, as well as some weathered black wood that has long died.

"It's so quiet here..."

Bilbo looked at everything in front of him, suddenly stopped and said.

"Yes, I can't hear a bird..."

"I can't see any living creatures..."

"There's something wrong with this mountain..."

"Is it because of snow?"

"Of course not..."

Hearing Bilbo's words, other dwarfs behind him also answered one after another.

"It wasn't like this before."

At this time, Balin, a dwarf with white beard, walked up to Bilbo, put his hand in his waist and smiled.

"There, there, it used to be all trees and forests."

Bahrain then reached out to birbo and continued, "at that time, the forest was full of all kinds of animals, and flocks of all kinds of birds were flying on the branches..."

"However, everything has changed since the evil dragon smog came."

Bahrain sighed and opened his mouth, his tone full of nostalgia.

"Look, what's over there?"

At this time, Philip standing in front stood on a boulder, pointed to the distance and shouted to the people behind him.

Hearing Philip's voice, members of the expedition immediately strode forward.

Morgan also walked quickly.

Then I saw a huge Valley ahead. In the valley in the distance, a huge city appeared in front of everyone.

City walls, bell towers, tall buildings, squares, and continuous houses and buildings.

The city in sight is much more than Changhu town that people have seen before.

Although many buildings in the city were collapsed and abandoned at this time, there was no trace of people.

"Where is that?"

Qili jumped onto the boulder where Philip was, looked at the huge deserted city in the distance and asked.

"That's Valley town, once Valley town..."

"Unfortunately, there are only ruins left."

Bahrain stepped forward and said with emotion, "that's what we see now after the fierce dragon smog raged."

Bahrain shook his head.

Morgan looked at the magnificent city ruins in his sight and thought that everyone was not far from the lonely mountain.

Valley town is close to Gushan.

Since you can see the valley town here, it is not far from the Kingdom at the foot of the mountain.

"Come on, we must find the secret door before sunset."

"This way, come with me!"

SOLIN oak shield took back his sight, said a word to the people, then quickly turned and walked down.

Yes, it's now a downhill road.

It's much easier to go down the mountain.

The autumn sun gradually slanted westward.

Noon passed quickly, close to afternoon.

The expedition passed through the ruins of Valley town and reached the location of Gushan secret gate marked on the map.

This is a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides.

As soon as they arrived, they were immediately ordered by SOLIN oak shield to spread around and look for them.

Morgan recalled the picture in the memory plot, looked up and tried to look at the tall mountains around him, but he couldn't find anything.

"Did you find anything?"

At this time, the voice of SOLIN oak shield came from the valley ahead.

"No, nothing!"

Grumpy godwalin was the first to respond loudly.

"No, I don't see it here..."

"I didn't find..."

The voices of the dwarves came one after another.

SOLIN oak shield frowned and had to open his hand again. He looked at the map carefully.

Morgan stepped deep down the gravel mountain road.

"This way!"

"Look this way!"

At this time, Bilbo's cry suddenly came from the other direction.

Morgan was surprised and remembered that Bilbo was the first to discover the secret door in the plot.

Is it still him now.

He turned his head and found that the mountains on Bilbo side were almost the same as those around him. It seemed that he couldn't see anything unusual.

But since the other party shouted out, he must have found something.

Morgan strode in the direction of Bilbo like the other dwarves.

It was just that Morgan could not look the same when he walked quickly to Bilbo.

He saw it.

Just above his head, where he is now, the mountain is carved into the shape of a giant dwarf holding a war hammer.

On the body of the dwarf stone statue, there is a stone ladder winding upward.

That's it.

Morgan looked at the stone statues sandwiched in the huge mountains on both sides, and sighed in his heart: "the memory impression in his mind is faster than Bilbo as the protagonist."

SOLIN oak shield rushed over and looked at the stone steps above. His heavy expression quickly disappeared, replaced by an undisguised joy.

"You have a good eye, Mr. Baggins."

SOLIN oak shield patted Bilbo on the shoulder, gasped and laughed.

Morgan suddenly found out.

SOLIN oak shield's address to Bilbo seems to have always been more polite and distinguished. Bilbo's surname is "Baggins".

"Go!"

When he found the position of the secret door, SOLIN oak shield said loudly, and he ran quickly to the stone ladder first.

A crowd of dwarfs followed with joy.

"Let's go."

Morgan patted Bilbo on the shoulder and walked forward.

Bilbo quickly followed.

When the members of the expedition panted up the steep stone steps and climbed to the small open space next to the giant dwarf stone statue at the end of the steps.

The last touch of autumn sunshine is shining on the open space.

SOLIN oak shield stepped forward quickly and looked at the sunny open space and the stone wall with great joy: "the secret door must be here!"

After that, he turned his head, took out the huge key Gandalf gave him, looked at the members of the expedition behind him and laughed: "let those who have laughed at us always remember this day!"

"Ha ha..."

"Yeah..."

The voice fell, and all the dwarves cheered.

Bilbo laughed, too.

Morgan looked at me with the same smile.

Although I know there will be some twists and turns in finding the keyhole.

But you can go all the way from hobitun in shire.

Every member of the expedition is rare and amazing.

This naturally includes himself.

"Well, it means there should be a keyhole on the stone wall."

Grumpy godwalin was the most impatient. He immediately dropped his package, walked quickly to the stone wall illuminated by the sunset and shouted.

When Devlin came forward, the other dwarves, including SOLIN oak shield, retreated to one side.

Because I'm afraid of blocking the sun.

He watched devallin widen his eyes on the stone wall and grope with his hands and eyes.

Because of the memory of the plot in his mind, Morgan was interested in the key hole that could only appear in the moonlight, so he put down his package and said, "I'll help find it, too."

He strode to the stone wall full of sunset.

Looking at the fairly flat stone wall, Morgan tried his best to recall the plot picture in his memory, and used his hands and eyes to look for it on the stone wall.

But no matter how he looked, let alone couldn't find the key hole hidden in the dark gap in the memory plot.

In a gap similar to a depression, there is no one on the stone wall in front of us.

The stone wall in front of me is so small.

Morgan groped for a while, searched every inch of the stone wall in front of him, and realized that the key hole in his memory did not exist on the stone wall in front of him.

Morgan retreated to one side and shook his head at SOLIN oak shield and Bahrain.

The sunset began to set slowly.

As the sun began to disappear, godwallin began to be a little grumpy.

Use both hands and feet, and constantly scold something in your mouth.

Seeing the sun disappearing, SOLIN oak shield began to look a little anxious.

"Nori..."

SOLIN oak shield just remembered the dwarf Noli with the most small means. As soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that Noli was gone.

I don't feel it when the sun is hanging in the sky.

Once you start down the mountain, the speed of disappearance seems like turning on the accelerator.

Looking at the sunset half set in the sky.

Sorin oak shield couldn't wait. He immediately strode to the stone wall. First, he widened his eyes and looked carefully at the stone wall.

Then, Sorin oak shield, who couldn't see anything, retreated to the side, looked eagerly at the fast setting sun in the distance, and shouted to a group of dwarves, "come on, get up and kill it!"

A group of dwarves standing nearby immediately waved their weapons and slashed at the stone wall.

Just how hard the stone wall can be used to carve giant stone statues, not to mention the mechanism behind it.

There was a loud noise, and Mars was cut and splashed.

The stone wall has not changed at all.

Bahrain shook his head and said in a deep voice, "there is a seal of powerful mana on the door, which can never be opened with brute force."

Hearing Bahrain's words, the chopping dwarves had to stop.

SOLIN oak shield watched the sunset falling in the distance and looked at the stone wall. He was worried but could do nothing.

Finally, when the red sun completely fell into the horizon, the last glow disappeared.

"No..."

Sorin oak shield was devastated. He rushed up the stone wall and roared with his fist.

All the expeditionary teams around looked at SOLIN oak shield, whose faces were ugly.

Morgan, too.

Of course, he pretended.

After a while, SOLIN oak shield turned around, took out his map again, spread it out, looked at the words of the moon that had been interpreted on it, and read in a trembling voice: "the afterglow of the day of Turin will shine on the keyhole..."

"That's what it says..."

Sorin oak shield raised his head, looked at him with great disappointment, and the people continued, "what did we miss?"

"What did we miss, Bahrain?"

SOLIN oak shield said, walking up to Balin, the wisest of the dwarfs, and asked in a trembling voice.

Bahrain looked miserable and shook his head: "we missed the sun."

"We missed the only chance..."

Bahrain looked at Sorin oak shield and whispered, "I can't go back to heaven."

Hearing this, Morgan did not intend to remain silent.

He stepped forward a few steps, picked up the map dropped by SOLIN oak shield on the ground and looked at it.

Soon, he whispered, "when the thrush standing next to the gray rock begins to beat..."

"I didn't see the thrush when the sun was shining. Did you see it?"

Morgan's voice fell, and a group of dwarfs around were very disappointed and ready to leave.

Sorin oak shield suddenly looked at Morgan, and a trace of color seemed to rise in his extremely disappointed eyes.

"Didn't you see it?"

"I didn't see it, and you..."

"I didn't..."

"No, not to mention the thrush. I didn't even see the bird shit."

“......”

The dwarves immediately said.

Morgan didn't care. He read the words of the moon on the map again: "the sunset will fall on the keyhole through the last afterglow of the Turin day."

"I remember you said that the day of Turin is the dwarf's new year. It is the day when the last bright moon in autumn and the first sunrise in winter meet in the air at the same time?"

Morgan finished reading the secret words on the map, looked up and asked Bahrain.

Bahrain nodded and said, "you remember right."

Seeing what Morgan seemed to find, the hope in SOLIN oak shield's eyes seemed to rise again.

Morgan looked at the crowd and continued to say, "since we can't find the keyhole in the sunlight, and we don't see the thrush, does it mean that the last afterglow in the secret language doesn't refer to the sunlight?"

Morgan said, looking at Bahrain again.

This time, Bahrain pondered, nodded and said, "you can say so."

Morgan smiled: "then wait for the moonlight. Maybe the moonlight can surprise us."

After listening to Morgan, the dwarfs finally understood something.

In particular, Morgan emphasized the "appearance of thrush bird" in the secret language, which immediately rekindled hope in the hearts of the dwarfs.

SOLIN oak shield nodded again and again. After listening to Morgan's words, his eyes were almost shining. He quickly nodded and said, "listen to Morgan, let's wait."

"Hoo..."

He took a long breath and smiled at the nervous look on the faces of the dwarfs.

In fact, as long as you are careful enough, the details of the thrush can be found.

However, Sorin oak shield was too eager to find the secret door.

So that he ignored the details.

But no one else is to blame.

You know, when the Elven lords of ravendale and eldron interpreted the map ciphertext, there were only five people present: SOLIN oak shield, Bahrain, Gandalf, Bilbo and Morgan.

And now Gandalf is not here.

The map has been collected by SOLIN oak shield himself, and no one can touch it.

Just now SOLIN oak shield himself was the first to vent his disappointment.

Bahrain and Bilbo who know something are naturally easily influenced by his emotions.

As for the other dwarves, they knew nothing about the secret language.

That should be why SOLIN oak shield couldn't find the difference before.

Now that Morgan has pointed it out, SOLIN himself has reacted now.

The dwarf's Turin day is indeed magical.

Soon after sunset, the sky darkened rapidly.

Didn't keep people waiting too long.

A curved moon quietly appeared in the sky.

The moonlight shines quietly on the earth.

A hazy light naturally shone towards the mountain wall.

This made the members of the expedition who chewed the dried meat sent by Changhu town stand up immediately.

At this time, a small thrush flew straight to the stone wall with a screw in its mouth and began to knock.

The dwarfs who found this scene were more excited. They were about to say something loudly, but SOLIN oak shield stared at them and whispered, "don't disturb the bird."

At this time, Morgan had walked to the stone wall again.

Looking at the dim moonlight shining on the stone wall, a dark stone crack actually appeared on the stone wall.

And with the moonlight, the key hole hidden in the dark stone crack finally emerged.

"SOLIN!"

Morgan growled at once.

Sorin oak shield immediately came forward with the key in hand, looked at the clear key hole on the stone wall and inserted the key excitedly.

Ka, the key is smoothly inserted into the cave.

SOLIN oak shield slowly turned the key.

"Click click..."

A mechanical sound immediately came out from behind the stone wall.

The faces of the dwarfs behind him were full of joy.

Soon, the key turned and the mechanical sound stopped.

SOLIN oak shield turned and looked at the excited and expectant people behind him, took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the stone wall in front of him, and pushed it in.

"Bang..."

It was accompanied by a burst of dust and a dull noise.

A dark secret door that has been dusty for more than 200 years.

Impressively appeared in the eyes of everyone.