The Heavens: The Magical World Begins with The Lord of the Rings

Chapter 163 Blizzard Siege
When they came out of Mirkwood along the Old Thicke Road, and came near the house of Radagast, the brown-robed wizard, Gandalf's old friend, the upper reaches of the Anduin were still bright and sunny along its banks.

Although there are still more than two months before the winter in the north, they have not encountered heavy snowfall for more than ten days in a row.

After they walked out of the dark forest, the first thing they saw was the sunny, spacious and beautiful Anduin River, which made everyone who had been walking through the old dense forest road for seven or eight days feel very happy.

Anyone who stays in the eerie dark forest for seven or eight days in a row will feel depressed, but now that he sees the sunshine again, his mood will naturally be at ease.

Gao Yuan and the others lamented how smooth the journey was, so they decided to rest for a period of time on the snow near the old ferry, which is very close to Ross Gobel at the edge of the forest, where the brown-robed wizard Radagast's activities range.

Gao Yuan and Bilbo once met the brown-robed wizard Radagast in the troll forest, when they were being hunted down by Azog's wolf cavalry.

If it wasn't for the brown-robed wizard who helped them temporarily lure away the chasing wolf cavalry, I am afraid that the expedition team at that time would not have entered Rivendell so easily.

Originally, Gandalf was going to visit his old friend in Rosgobert during these days when the large army was stationed and rested.

But when Gao Yuan, Gandalf and his party re-entered the dark towering dense forest, they saw the dilapidated and long-abandoned wooden house.

They just realized that the brown-robed wizard hadn't lived here for a while.

If Gandalf hadn't said that he had seen Radagast during the crusade against Dol Gurdur about a month ago, Gao Yuan and the others might have thought that the gray-robed wizard had been killed.

Obviously, Gandalf is not clear about the situation his gray robe wizard friend is facing now.

Gao Yuan walked into the abandoned wooden house and took a look at the situation inside.

"He should have left by himself. Although there are cobwebs left by giant spiders everywhere around and inside the wooden house, I haven't found any traces of fighting here." Gao Yuan walked out of the wooden house and said to Gandalf .

"Perhaps, Radagast went to take refuge with another friend of his." I saw Gandalf gently rubbing two fingers on the pipe, and then a plume of green smoke came from the end of the pipe. popped out.

"Speaking of which, you have all seen that friend of his." Gandalf smoked the pipe in his mouth, exhaling smoke rings, "Not long ago, he appeared on the battlefield of the Lonely Mountain with the eagles. , turned into a giant bear and killed many half-orcs, and his place of residence is not too far from here."

The person Gandalf mentioned actually knew the three people in front of the cabin.

It's just that Gandalf doesn't know that Gao Yuan and Bilbo have seen the skin-changing man a long time ago, and they have known each other before the battle on the Lonely Mountain.

In the skin-changing man's Beorn garden, Gao Yuan once had a big battle with the skin-changing man.

When Bilbo heard Gandalf's words, he immediately thought of the orc, and he shouted, "I know Mr. Beorn who can turn into a giant bear. We met him once on the way to the Lonely Mountain."

"That's what happened after the big eagle put us down on Karl Rock. Mr. Gao Yuan led us through his territory"

Bilbo excitedly told Gandalf how he and the expedition team met the skin-changing man.

"It seems that you have indeed experienced a lot along the way." Gandalf looked at Gao Yuan with a smile, "Mr. Gao Yuan, thank you very much. Compared with your efforts, I, the initiator of the expedition, seems to be a little So incompetent."

Gao Yuan spread his hands helplessly: "This is what I should do. In this expedition, everyone in the team contributed their own strength."

"Gandalf, you also have something very important to you to do, so you don't need to thank me too much."

Gandalf laughed, and then stopped saying anything. In this case, sometimes he said too much, and it seemed too raw.

Since they didn't see the brown-robed wizard Radagast in Rosegobel, the three chose to return to the Rivendell camp stationed at the old ferry.

They didn't plan to go to Beorn to find the skin-changer. Firstly, Beorn was a bit far away from their current location, and secondly, they didn't know whether the skin-changer was at home.

Gandalf seemed to be very interested in what Bilbo said about the experience of the expedition team along the way. On the way back, he kept pulling Bilbo and asked him to tell the story that happened in the middle.

It has to be said that Bilbo is indeed a very good storyteller. The adventure stories of the expedition team were told from his mouth, even Gao Yuan, who had experienced it, felt it with relish.

If these stories were told by Gao Yuan, I am afraid they would not be so vivid and interesting, because he viewed this expedition and the story angle in it completely different from Bilbo.

On the way back to the camp, Gao Yuan noticed that the diseased forest had changed significantly compared with the first time he entered it.

Compared with the completely decayed and dead forest they saw before, this forest has slowly begun to show a little vitality, especially the outer edge of the forest closest to the banks of the Anduin River.

When the winter is over and the spring when all things sprout, I believe that it will not be long before these withered trees will sprout new shoots.

However, the creatures living here are still very rare. It may take some time for the animals that escaped from the forest to return to this land.

They stayed in the forest for such a long time, but they never heard a single bird call. Those birds are the ones who know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Now they may all inhabit the mountains of the Misty Mountains, and there are lonely mountains without dragons.

Back at the camp, after a short rest overnight, Gao Yuan and the others set off with Rivendell's troops again.

Winter is the dry season of the Anduin River. In this season, the shallowest water level on the Anduin River bed is just above people's calves.

Therefore, they crossed the mother river of the middle-earth continent very smoothly, and then directly entered the mountains of the Misty Mountains from the high pass.

Facts have proved that Bilbo's worries were not unreasonable before entering the Old Forest Road. When Rivendell's army, consisting of more than 2000 people, crossed the Misty Mountains, they encountered many difficulties.

As soon as the team entered the mountains of the Misty Mountains, the bright sunshine along the coast of Anduin disappeared, replaced by a sky that had been shrouded in dark clouds.

On the second day after they entered the Misty Mountains, snowflakes larger than Gao Yuan's palm floated in the sky, which seemed to indicate that their journey through the Misty Mountains would not be smooth sailing.

The fact is also true. That night, the heavy snow in the mountains was rolled up by the strong wind and turned into a blizzard that ravaged the entire valley.

The elves struggled to prop up tents in the raging snowstorm.

Countless tents were connected together in this snowy valley, like a giant dragon lying there, and the firelight in the tents dispelled the darkness and cold in the misty mountains.

When Gao Yuan returned to his tent, his whole body was covered with a thick layer of snow.

Arwen, who had been waiting in the tent, hurried forward to help him clean off the snow on his body, and served him a bowl of warm broth.

It is ridiculous that when Gao Yuan and the members of the expedition passed through the Misty Mountains in summer, Gao Yuan once said to Bilbo that he would rather choose to cross the Misty Mountains in the cold winter than set foot here in summer.

Thinking about it now, Gao Yuan really wanted to take back what he said at the time.

Now, all of them are trapped in this valley, and they only hope that after tomorrow morning, the snowstorm will be a little lighter.

Otherwise, they don't know how long they will be trapped here.

(End of this chapter)