"Bilbo..."
Morgan looked at Bilbo who quietly appeared outside the cell door and cried out in surprise.
Although he knew that Bilbo had the One Ring, he also saw with his own eyes that Bilbo had mastered the secret of the Ring.
But it's not that easy to get the key to the cell in this huge, heavily guarded woodland kingdom.
Although Morgan knew the general plot, he didn't dare to put too much hope in Bilbo.
For this reason, isn't he trying his best to tease Tariel just to find an extra way out for himself?
But Bilbo did it anyway.
At this time, the dwarves in other surrounding cells were still awake because they were in low spirits.
At this time, I heard Morgan's exclamation.
Immediately, a dwarf came to the iron gate.
Looking at Bilbo who was holding a bunch of keys and opening the door of Morgan's cell, every face was full of surprise.
"Bilbo..."
"Oh my God, Bilbo is here to save us..."
"Kili, come on, Bilbo has brought the key..."
"Bilbo..."
"Bilbo you did a great job..."
The dwarves stood on the iron door and looked at Bilbo who was busy outside and immediately exclaimed.
From despair to hope, only those who have truly experienced it can know how surprising and precious it is to survive from a desperate situation.
"Shh!"
Bilbo was using the key to open Morgan's door. He tried two or three keys in a row and still couldn't open it. He was so anxious that he was sweating. Then he heard the dwarves exclaiming and quickly stopped him: "Keep your voices down. There are guards nearby!”
Only then did the dwarves realize the gaffe, and each lowered their voices, their faces full of surprise.
"Click..."
Finally, when the fifth key was changed, Bilbo was the first to open Morgan's cell door.
"Well done!"
Morgan pushed them away, smiled and patted Bilbo on the shoulder, without saying much.
Just when Morgan wanted to part with the big bunch of keys in Bilbo's hand to help open the door.
Bilbo said that he had found the trick and knew how to open it.
Sure enough, when Bilbo then opened the door of Dori's cell next to Morgan's cell, it was easily opened with only one key.
The dwarf Dori followed Morgan out of the cell door.
Then the third, the fourth...
Bilbo opened the door until there were only the last few cell doors left.
Morgan looked at the open cell doors around him and said quickly: "Let's close our respective cell doors so that we can buy more time."
The dwarves thought the same thing, and immediately returned to the cell door and locked it again.
When the last dwarf, Bombur, was released, everyone in the expedition team was in order again.
Thorin Oakenshield and Dwalin were discussing which way to escape.
Bilbo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said urgently: "I know the way, come with me."
After the words fell, the dwarves visibly hesitated.
Morgan knew that this was not the time when the dwarves looked down upon others.
But Bilbo usually has no sense of existence.
Even if Bilbo stole the key and saved everyone this time, although everyone was happy and grateful, they only thought it was an accident.
He had just come out of prison and was still in the Elf Kingdom. He was far from out of danger. It was such a dangerous moment.
How is it possible for everyone to completely obey Bilbo's words? It is too normal to be suspected.
At this time, Morgan stood up, looked at everyone and said immediately: "Bilbo can enter here all the way from the outside, and can also bring the key to the cell. He must know the way out."
"I think we should believe him."
Morgan quickly stood beside Bilbo and urged: "Time is urgent, lead the way."
Seeing such support from Morgan, Bilbo let out a huge sigh of relief and quickly said to the people behind him: "The way out is this way, everyone, follow me."
When Morgan said this, the dwarves quickly reacted. It seemed that it was indeed the case. If Bilbo could come in, he would definitely be able to get out.
The dwarves soon followed.
The scale of a large team of fifteen people operating together is not small.
However, along the way, everyone was stunned not to see a single elf.
The dwarf Dori couldn't control his mouth and couldn't help asking: "Why didn't you see any elf?"
It's just that he didn't control his tone well. Groyin immediately became upset when he heard the sound: "Why, isn't it bad that I didn't see the elf?"
"Do you still miss those damn elves?"
Doli immediately complained: "Of course I don't want to see them, I'm just a little curious."
Feili also said: "Yes, we didn't see anyone around our cell just now..."
Before they finished speaking, everyone heard Morgan's voice from the front: "Today is the Starlight Festival of the wood elves. All the elves should have gone to participate in the festival. We are lucky today."
"Morgan, how do you know?" A dwarf asked immediately.
"Tauriel told me."
"Who is Tariel?"
"You idiot, Tauriel is the female elf that Morgan had sex with."
"What's good about a female elf? She has no flesh on her body and no beard on her face..."
"Morgan, I know a female dwarf with a beautiful beard. I can introduce you to her in the future."
"You idiot, Morgan is human..."
"What's wrong with humans? Humans can be with elves, but why can't they be with us dwarves..."
"..."
In the front, Bilbo led Morgan and a group of people behind him to move forward carefully.
The dwarves behind him were chattering and talking as usual.
Although the dwarves suppressed their voices, when the quarrel became intense, the voices would inevitably get excited.
"Shhhh!"
"You all keep your voices down!"
Hearing the voice of an elf in the distance, Bilbo immediately turned his head and warned the dwarves behind him.
But it seems that at this point, the expedition team's luck has finally run out.
A five-man elf team wearing armor turned the corner from the other direction, and then saw a dozen members of the expedition team sneaking out with bare hands from a distance.
The two parties stared at each other for just a moment.
The heavily armed wood elves immediately roared.
On the expedition team, Morgan reacted the fastest. Seeing everyone who had not yet reacted, he immediately shouted: "Quick, Bilbo leads the way!"
"Run!"
After being yelled by Morgan, everyone quickly reacted.
"Quickly..."
Everyone no longer had to walk cautiously, but started running wildly behind Bilbo.
Fortunately, Bilbo led the way and led everyone straight to the underground at the heart of the Woodland Kingdom.
Tonight on the Starlight Festival, most of the wood elves gathered together to celebrate in the center of the royal court.
This elf guard is just on routine patrol.
In addition, the Woodland Kingdom also hollows out the interior of the mountains, and its internal structure is somewhat similar to the underground Goblin Kingdom that everyone has experienced in the Misty Mountains.
Although the former surpasses the latter countless times in terms of internal construction, design, decoration, and countless other aspects.
But one thing is the same.
That is, the interior is empty. Even if you can see it from a distance, you have to take a long detour to catch up, which is very difficult.
Just like now, five wood elf guards were chasing after him while shouting.
On one side, only the dwarves could be seen running away quickly.
"Quickly, this way..."
Bilbo took the lead and ran barefoot shouting.
The dwarf behind him finally noticed something strange. He and others seemed to be drilling underground in the Woodland Kingdom.
It's just that the situation is critical and no one can ask anything.
Finally, when Bilbo led everyone into a huge wine cellar.
The dwarves completely endured it.
"Bilbo, what are you doing, we actually came to the enemy's wine cellar?"
"Are we throwing ourselves into a trap?"
"Bilbo, are you taking the wrong route?"
"..."
The impatient dwarf asked immediately, but fortunately, no one dared to speak loudly because they were worried about the two drunken wood elves not far away who were so drunk that they were snoring loudly.
"That's right, that's right, it's right here!"
"You must believe me!"
"Quick, quick, even those empty wine barrels, get in there!"
The sound of the pursuit of the wood elves outside behind him became louder and louder.
Bilbo pointed to a pile of twenty or thirty huge empty wine barrels piled up in the distance and said hurriedly.
"It's now like this, why are you still hesitating?"
Just when the dwarves hesitated again, Morgan stood up again: "Bilbo can save us, we should give him enough trust!"
Morgan said as he strode towards the huge wine barrel.
Looking at Morgan's back, Thorin Oakenshield only hesitated for a moment and immediately nodded towards the dwarves who were looking at him.
The noise outside was getting louder and louder, and two drunken wood elves not far away were showing signs of waking up.
Everyone in the expedition team got into the empty wine barrel neatly.
Then in the eyes of everyone, Bilbo quickly ran to a wooden handle similar to a mechanism and pressed it hard.
The next moment, the huge wooden board carrying many wine barrels began to sink slowly.
"Bilbo hurry up!"
Morgan shouted inside the barrel.
"coming!"
Bilbo pressed the handle of the mechanism and ran quickly towards everyone.
As soon as Morgan helped Bilbo get into the barrel, he saw the entrance to the wine cellar a little further away.
The handsome elf prince Legolas was rushing in with a group of elves.
Behind Legolas was Tauriel, the elf captain in a green robe.
Morgan looked at Tariel and moved his lips slightly.
Then it sank with the wooden board, rolled down with the wine barrel, and disappeared.
"They can't escape!"
Watching the dwarves and that hateful human disappear, Legolas said something gloomily, and then immediately ordered: "Notify the outside and close the river!"
"let's go!"
Legolas turned around and left with a group of elven soldiers.
Tauriel followed behind, feeling a little confused.
She understood what Morgan had just said to her before leaving, which was: "Goodbye, my love."
After Tauriel recited it silently twice, the corners of his mouth suddenly turned up slightly and he smiled.
"You can't leave without my permission!"
Tariel secretly murmured in his heart, and then his face quickly returned to its usual cool look, and he turned around and walked out of the wine cellar quickly.
In the underground waterway.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
Huge wine barrels fell one after another like fried fish, splashing a lot of water.
When Morgan came back to his senses while holding his head that was hurt by the hit.
Only then did he realize that he was in a dark river five to six meters wide.
The underground river flows rapidly.
Only when he saw what was going on around him was he quickly carried by the river downwards.
Fortunately, Balin, the white-bearded dwarf near the shore, grabbed the barrel and prevented it from being swept away by the current.
At this time, the wooden barrels containing all members of the expedition team stopped by the dark river.
Thorin Oakenshield was counting heads loudly.
They were smashed down by people from a height of more than ten or twenty meters. No matter how good the quality of these wine barrels were, the people inside would still be a little bit overwhelmed.
At this time, Morgan saw the powerful and violent Godwalin among the dwarves being hit and his nose was bleeding.
Dori, the problem baby among the dwarves, had a purple-green swelling on his bald head, the size of an egg.
Fili, a handsome dwarf with pigtails, also had a gash on his forehead, and blood flowed all over his face.
However, these three were the unlucky ones. The others were injured to varying degrees, but it was not a big problem.
Although everyone was bruised and bruised, the dwarves in the expedition team were in a very good mood.
They looked at each other's embarrassment and still laughed.
Because they escaped from the prison of those damn wood elves and escaped from the woodland kingdom.
"Kili, Fili, Bombur...Morgan and Baggins..."
"Mr. Baggins did a great job this time..."
"This place is very close to the Lonely Mountain. We will definitely have time before Turin Day."
"Nothing can stop us!
Thorin Oakenshield was in a good mood when he saw that everyone was present. After encouraging everyone, he waved in a deep voice and said: "Let's go!"
After the words fell, Thorin Oakenshield took the lead in letting go of the rocks on the shore and rowed forward.
"Let's go..."
"let's go..."
"Go to Lonely Mountain!"
The dwarves shouted, letting go of the rocks at hand and quickly rowing towards the middle of the river.
Morgan followed silently without saying a word.
He didn't want to tell the dwarves that this river was the main channel for trade between the Woodland Kingdom and Lake Town.
How could there be no elf soldiers stationed downstream in such a passage.
Moreover, the speed at which the elves informed each other was much faster than that of the expedition team.
However, Morgan had no unnecessary thoughts at this time.
Because with the help of Bilbo, he entered the underground river channel to escape, which was the same as the plot scene in his memory.
It was also the same as the terrifying dream he woke up from today.
He has already entered the water and entered the river, so are the orcs in the dream in the plot still far away?
As Morgan paddled the water, the images from today's dream flashed uncontrollably in his mind.
At this moment, Thorin Oakenshield's roar came from the front: "Hurry up!"
Morgan came to his senses and then plunged into the rushing water below.
"Gulu gulu..."
After choking several times, Morgan emerged from the water and coughed repeatedly.
Looking at the dense weeds and forests on both sides of the river, he realized that he and the expedition team had already rushed out of the underground river of the Woodland Kingdom.
Then, if there were orcs really catching up, they would have to hide in the dense forests on both sides of the river.
At this moment, Morgan's vigilance was immediately raised to the highest level.
"Help, Morgan..."
At this time, Bilbo's feeble cry came from behind. Morgan quickly turned around and picked up Bilbo who was constantly rising and drinking water.
"Is everything okay?"
"fine..."
"I just drank a little too much water."
Bilbo, who was lying next to Morgan's bucket, was breathing heavily, shaking his head quickly and saying weakly.
But Morgan was in no mood to talk to Bilbo at this moment.
He was thinking about the orcs in the dream, and while controlling the barrel, he kept looking at the dense forests on both sides.
After leaving the underground river, the water flow became more and more rapid.
The barrels belonging to the expedition team were carried in the river and flowed rapidly downstream.
Half an hour later.
A checkpoint appeared on the river ahead.
Thorin Oakenshield and the dwarves were originally nervous when they saw the level, but when they saw that there was no one on the light card, and even the waterway gate below was wide open, their originally tense minds immediately relaxed.
But when Morgan's eyes shifted from the dense forests on both sides of the river to the front.
Looking at the empty river checkpoint and the wide open river.
Morgan's hair stood up at this moment, and his vigilance was raised to the extreme.
His expression changed drastically and he yelled at Thorin Oakenshield and the other dwarves ahead: "Be careful!"
The words just fell.
"Swish swish swish..."
A series of jet-black arrows shot out from the dense forests on both sides of the river like raindrops.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of orcs in full armor appeared densely on both sides of the river.
The leader was none other than Borg, the tall orc leader with a ferocious face.
He stared at the dwarves in the river and shouted ferociously: "Go up, kill them all!"
