Chapter 1078 1060. Bard
Because most of the houses in Changhu Town are built with wooden planks, the sound insulation effect is very poor. Basically, the noisy voices from two streets away can be transmitted and enter people's ears. .
The townspeople are busy and noisy, which basically fills most of the day.
Originally because of this problem, Lan En was not confident that he could find the dwarves by hearing in such a noisy environment.
It would be possible if he had already implanted the enhanced organ [Lyman's Ear] at this time.
But this place is different.
Many people around are watching this two-story wooden house. These people watching are not as noisy and busy as ordinary people.
They were all doing their own thing quietly.
This reduced a lot of surrounding noise, allowing Lan En to use his extraordinary senses as a demon hunter to hear some information from a not too far away location.
The voices that concerned him were rough and out of touch. Even if they were mixed with angry complaints, they actually sounded quite funny.
It's the dwarves!
“Found it.”
Lan En’s expression was not very surprised. After all, he and Flannel Ball had searched almost a quarter of the Changhu Town, and they met Not surprising either.
Immediately, Lan En turned over and jumped down from the second-floor corridor of the wooden building where he was, and walked towards the two-story wooden house.
There were three surveillance personnel in front of the wooden house. They immediately spotted this unusual figure walking straight towards their surveillance target.
But the three of them didn't dare to move at all.
After all, they are just monitoring, not even fighting. Such a character who was two heads taller than ordinary people and whose muscles looked like they could crush someone to death was approaching them, and they had no idea of standing up to block the way.
“But don’t you think that the lack of reaction after seeing me is abnormal?”
A man who looked like he was fishing with a hook was sitting on a fishing boat in the middle of the waterway, and his body was out of control. shuddered.
His fishing boat lies in the middle of the waterway and also serves as a pontoon.
When Lan En came over, the big hand just pressed on his neck, and the man rolled his eyes and lay limply in the boat.
The other two people looking at the main entrance of the two-story wooden house were already swallowing nervously when they saw Lan En walking this way.
When he really took action, he simply dropped the pottery and tapestries he was pretending to appreciate and asked about the price, turned around and ran away.
But before they could take two steps, the flannel ball dropped from the sky holding his helmet in one hand and a white radish he got from nowhere in the other.
After two sounds of ‘dong dong’, he stood between the two people.
Then the body fell to the ground.
The kitten threw away the white radish, put on its helmet again, and stretched out its paws to sign "yeah".
“Handsome meow!”
Lan En was very capable of providing emotional value and nodded twice in agreement with the velvet ball’s narcissism, and then climbed up the stairs to the two-story wooden house.
At this point, the words of the dwarves that were vague just now are finally certain.
"What is this? I have never seen such a weapon."
"This is a barbed spear, modified from a harpoon. That is a square-head hammer, modified from a blacksmith's hammer."
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"We paid! Genuine silver coins! You just give us these junk metal?"
When the dwarves were in Rivendell, their relationship with Lan En, Velvet Ball, and Qilin was all the same. Yes, they can play together.
So the witcher can distinguish the voices of these thirteen dwarves and a hobbit, but there is an unfamiliar tone mixed in them.
And this unfamiliar tone sounded helpless as he explained to the dwarf customers.
“We are going into a dangerous wilderness. To face danger, we need to use really good knives and guns! Made of steel, top-grade steel! Not made of iron! It has also been soaked in water!”
“Are you trying to kill us?”
The voice sounds like Bofur. He is a good-natured guy among the dwarves, but he also sounded extremely angry at this time. .
Lan En did not delay, simply stood outside the door on the second floor and knocked on the door.
As soon as there was a knock on the door, the quarrel inside suddenly stopped, followed by a noisy collision.
Presumably those weapons that were scorned by the dwarves just now are now in their hands.
The voice that was unfamiliar to Lan En quickly comforted the dwarves in a low voice.
"Don't do it! Do you want to kill people in my house? Stop, I will handle it!"
After a while of chaos, this thin wooden door was better than nothing in front of Lan En. Open a crack.
"What's there?" The face of a human man who was handsome but now weathered was revealed from the crack. "What's wrong?!"
The first half of his sentence after opening the door was quite smooth, but he was wary.
But when he realized that he could only see one person's chest when he looked straight out the door, he stuttered and realized something was wrong.
His height is just enough to match Lan En's bearskin cape.
The bearskin shawl that has been treated and enchanted by Berengar is undoubtedly smooth and smooth, revealing nobility and fierceness.
The man who opened the door looked up stiffly, and cold sweat could be seen on his forehead.
Until he finally looked at Lan En, who was bowing his head.
"You can call me Lan En, sir. I'm at your disposal."
"Oh, I'm in Bard, and I'm at your disposal."
Lan En's eyes narrowed slightly. The man in front of him was polite but a little unfamiliar.
And this windbreaker seems to have been patched a lot and has been worn for many years.
The family is in decline?
Mentos quickly combines information and gives a guess. But Lan En lowered the filing level of this information in his mind. He was not here to be a detective now. "I'm here to see a group of dwarf friends. Is it convenient?"
As Lan En said this, he stretched out his hand towards the room as if questioning.
"Friends?" Bard was a little surprised. Do these dwarves know elves?
Aren’t they not willing to deal with it?
But before he could react or think, the dwarves behind him shouted happily.
"Hey! It's Lan En guys!"
Hearing the cheers of the dwarves, Bard still gave way to the door, although he still frowned suspiciously.
The witcher lowered his head and walked in, followed by Velvet Ball, and raised his little paw to greet the confused Bard.
"Hello, gentlemen."
Lan came in with his head lowered, and was careful not to collide with the clothes drying pole hanging in the room.
"It's so nice to see you, Lann!"
Thorin's nephew, Fili, jumped over and patted the witcher's lowered hand.
The other dwarves were also beaming. Only Thorin stood by the window, looking out with deep eyes. Balin, who looked like Santa Claus, was accompanying him.
Seeing Lan En walk in, they just barely smiled at the demon hunter.
What Lan En didn't hear just now is that there are three children in Bud's family.
A big boy, a big girl, and a little girl.
At this time, they saw a room full of strange dwarves and were not too alarmed. They just sat quietly in the corner of the crowded room.
The boy was okay, but when the two girls saw Lan En's face coming in, they started covering their mouths and laughing softly, and occasionally jumped excitedly.
It feels like seeing characters in fairy tales appear in real life. The girls were very polite and, although excited, did not come up to interrupt.
However, the witcher had seen this kind of situation before, so he just nodded politely towards them, which was regarded as a greeting.
"What's going on with you?"
Lan En turned to look at the group of dwarves. They were all wet. In the temperature of this lake, this state is not good. .
"You even lost your weapons, as if you were being hunted and cornered. Gandalf didn't tell me this."
"Did Gandalf invite you here? What is he doing?"
Bilbo asked, draped in a blanket and sniffling.
He cared about Gandalf.
"He has his own things to do, which is very important, so he asked me to tell you something new."
Lan En looked around at the dwarves and hobbits, and then glanced vaguely in the direction of the Bard family, indicating that it was best to talk about this matter in private.
So the dwarves ignored it with a wink.
“Everything was fine.”
Bahrain’s now iconic white beard was stuck together due to water, he sighed.
“Gandalf guided us through the magical Mirkwood, but when he received a message from a bird, he turned back into Mirkwood in a hurry.”
"We didn't care, after all, Mirkwood was here. But not long after Gandalf left, we encountered a large group of orcs, and they desperately wanted to kill us."
"We had no choice. , we can only jump into the river, hoping that the current will take us out, and as you know, carrying weapons and armor in the water will only sink to the bottom, so we can only give up most of the equipment."
At this point. , Bahrain stroked his beard out of habit, but it hurt him because his beard was wet and tangled, so he smiled bitterly.
“Thanks to the fact that we walked out of the Dark Jungle, the remaining river is not very long, otherwise we might have drowned in it.”
They lost all their leather armor, chain armor, and There are all the heavy weapons, like war hammers and battle axes, spears.
Everyone was left with only their personal clothes and a small dagger or a short knife. Only Thorin and Bilbo were not lost in the river because the elves' weapons were light and powerful.
Lan En nodded silently, indicating that he understood what the current situation was. He tilted his head again and saw Thorin's other nephew.
"Kili." Lan En called to him with a frown, "What happened to your leg?"
One of the two dwarves who was the youngest, lively and trouble-making one in the original team. One, now sitting quietly on the bed with a pale face.
“No, I have nothing.”
Kili forced a smile at Lann.
Ou Yin, who works as a doctor in the team but has bad ears, often has to insert a metal speaker into his ear as a hearing aid, said this.
"He was hit by an arrow in his leg, an orc's arrow. I dealt with it in time. I have to wait and see how the effect is."
Lan En nodded and said nothing more.
But Bud next to him intervened in surprise.
"Wait!" This man who should have been handsome when he was young, but now has gray hair on his temples, frowned with a serious look on his face. "You just said orcs? Was it the orcs who chased you near the river and jumped into it?"
"They are those ugly and cruel murderers."
Thorin said bitterly.
"No, this must be a mistake. How could the orcs appear near here? They disappeared in this area even longer than the dwarves!"
"Maybe this is the history. Yes, but you have to face reality now, Bud." Lan En lowered his head and said to him. "The orcs are indeed coming."
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(End of this chapter)