[The Silmarillion] Romimus

Lan Wen and Ya Ruixier waited all night until a few lines of white light appeared in the eastern sky, but they did not wait for the three lords to come.

"When will Glorfindel and the others come over?" Lan Wen asked Yarisil, rubbing her eyes, "I'm hungry and sleepy."

Yarisil's heart was very heavy, she knew deep down that those three people might not come, but she was unwilling to believe that characters like Exilion, Glorfindel and Agamos could be so simple buried in the mouth of the spider.

"Maybe they went astray with us." She comforted Romemos, and comforted herself, "Let's wait a little longer. If you are sleepy, go to sleep."

In fact, she herself was too tired, but she felt that the two of them could not fall asleep at the same time. At critical moments, Ya Ruixiel always took care of Lan Wen.

After waiting for three whole days, Lan Wen still didn't see half of the figure. Lan Wen seemed to understand that Glorfindel and the others would not come again. Although she didn't say anything, Ya Ruishi could always see She secretly wiped tears in the dark.

However, the dry food and water that Ya Ruishi carried with her were running out, and they couldn't wait any longer.

"If we don't see them tomorrow morning, we'll set off on our own." Arisil made a decisive decision, "We can walk along the border of Doriath to my cousin Celegorm, if Glorfindel and the others... they didn't see us, so they will definitely know where we went, and they will naturally come looking for us then. Okay?"

"..." Lan Wen nodded listlessly.

Yarisil sighed slightly. "I'm going to find some food to eat on the way," she patted Lan Wen's head, "wait for me here, don't run around."

She left the horse to Lan Wen and gave her an exquisite dagger for self-defense, and walked into the forest on foot with a bow and short knife on her back.

As soon as Yarisil's figure disappeared, Romimos' sad face disappeared without a trace.

She leaned on the horse boredly and played with the dagger for a while, but among all things in the world, she was the least interested in weapons. After a while, her interest faded, so she took the light around her and twisted it into a doll to play with. Her brain was empty and her hands moved. But it was fast, and there were results in a short while.

She stared blankly at the doll in her hand for a long time.

It was a little doll in the shape of an elf, with the same blond hair and blue eyes as one of her previous works, but it gave off a completely different feeling, as warm and warm as sunshine, wheat fields and sunflowers.

After a long while, Romimos frowned, and when he threw it away, the doll turned back into light and disappeared into the surroundings.

Maybe she should go back to the canyon to confirm the life and death of the three people.It was impossible for them to pass through the phantasm she set up, and now three days had passed, and they had either returned to Gondolin the same way they came, or they had been sucked into three empty shells by the spider.

Romimos cast a spell on the spot to ensure that when Yarisil returned, he could perceive it in advance and return in time, then he disappeared and rushed to the valley.

The speed of Romemos without the physical constraints of the children of Iluvita is unimaginable to ordinary people. Like a gust of wind, she traveled several miles in a few minutes, and soon returned to the mouth of the canyon.

At this time, the canyon has returned to silence, but as long as you walk in, you can imagine what a terrible battle has passed here before, because the charred or chopped spider corpses can be seen everywhere in the valley, and the eyes are green and glowing. Crows and mice swarmed over the now motionless corpses of the dark creatures, snatching the few morsels of flesh and juice.

In this way, I don't know if she can still find Exilion's corpses, maybe they have been divided up by these disgusting creatures, and they should be much more delicious than those spiders.

While thinking about these things, Romemos still entered the canyon, trying to find some traces left by those people, such as golden hair, hard armor and so on.

She wandered the valley for a while, but saw nothing that looked like an elf or a horse.

Seems they fled back to Gondolin?Romemus thought to himself.

Anyway, considering the abilities of those three people, this is not unexpected, and she doesn't have to put them to death.

She was about to leave, but suddenly heard the slow but clear sound of horseshoes coming from the depths of the canyon.

This... Romimos widened his eyes in astonishment.

After Arisil and Lan Wen successfully escaped, the burden on Glorfindel's heart was relieved by more than half.

"The torch won't last long," said Glorfindel, "but if we're quick enough, we've got a good chance of getting out."

Exilion nodded in agreement, and Agamos repeated his old trick, using a flaming arrow to open a hole in the spider's encirclement. The three of them took the opportunity to rush their horses, and the spider in front of them was subconsciously frightened and dodged , those who were too late to dodge were trampled into sauce by the hooves of the horses, or pierced through the head by a sword. The wind quickly brought them out, but those spiders didn't even catch up quickly.

All three of them breathed a sigh of relief, but they still didn't dare to slow down. They only hoped to catch up with Ya Ruixier and Lan Wen as soon as possible.

Glorfindel led the way, and after a long run, he reined in his horse with a sudden jerk.

Agamos, who was behind him, was startled by him, and quickly stopped: "What are you doing?"

Glorfindel looked back at him, at this time Exilion, who was in the rear, also rushed over and stopped: "What happened, Glorfindel?"

Glorfindel frowned: "Don't you think we've been here before?"

"How is it possible? This canyon is a straight line, so you can get lost?" Agamos laughed at him, but he noticed that Exilion's expression became serious, and he couldn't help but looked around carefully. After that, I was shocked.

Glorfindel was right!Isn't this the place where they were surrounded by spiders just now?It's just that the densely packed spiders here just now have almost all disappeared, and the few remaining sporadic ones saw them and ran away quickly.

"How did this happen?" Agamos couldn't believe it. "I remember the people of Doriath saying that there is no other fork in this canyon except for the cave leading to the mountain."

"There's actually a fork," said Glorfindel, "but..."

As the elves of Doriath said, this canyon is a standard line of sky, except for the caves on the rock walls on both sides, there are almost no forks in the road, but in the middle and rear of the canyon, there is a small hill A huge rock like a giant rock lies in the middle, and the road in the canyon is divided into two sections here, and after bypassing the huge rock, they meet again to form a ring.If you look at it from above, it looks like a knot in a long thread.

That is to say, although there is a fork in the canyon, as long as you don't go around this circle, it is impossible not to get out.

Glorfindel thought he had a good sense of direction, so why did he come back out of nowhere?

"You may have been dazzled by those spiders just now." Agamous said, "I'm going ahead this time."

Glorfindel shrugged and gestured please.

After 10 minutes, they returned to the same place again.

"How is it possible?! What's going on in this valley?" Agamos flicked his whip angrily.

Exilion, who had been silent all this time, spoke at this moment: "I think this place may be enchanted by some kind of evil force."

"Curse?"

"Well, this used to be the habitat of the giant spider Angorian, isn't Angorian also the fallen Enu? Maybe she cast a spell after she fled to this valley, and all creatures who accidentally enter here will get lost , and finally buried in the mouth of the spider here."

"Then what should we do?"

Exilion frowned and remained silent.

If the weird situation here was really caused by Anggolian, then it was impossible for them to escape anyway.

"I can only try my luck." After a long time, Glorfindel said, "If it is really only possible to circle around here, then Lan Wen and Ya Ruixier should not be able to go out, but we have not seen They, this shows that there is still a possibility of going out."

Exilion thought for a while, then nodded cautiously, indicating that this is also a possibility.

Agamos heaved a sigh of relief: "Then we will go against the direction this time and see what happens."

Neither Exilion nor Glorfindel had any objections, so the three of them walked towards the roundabout again, with Exilion leading the way this time.

They were back at the intersection in no time, and Exilion stopped, and Glorfindel and Agamos heard him sigh a long way.

"What's the matter?" Agamose's expression collapsed.

Exilion stepped aside and let them see for themselves.

"..."

"I remember the last time we walked here, there were only two forks, right?" Glorfindel said.

But now, four almost identical roads lie in front of them.

The three of them felt that they could almost hear that nasty Maya smirking in their ears: "Please choose, if you choose wrong, you will die~"

Agamos muttered a sentence that could already be considered a swear word among elves, but this time even Exilion didn't blame him for it.

"What should we do now?"

"I think it's best not to act rashly." Exilion said helplessly, "If you make a wrong choice this time, who knows, there will be a few more forks in the road next time."

But one thing is basically certain, the enchantment here must be a good thing done by some Maiya, it is impossible to create such...an exquisite and hateful illusion with the magic of the elves.

The three of them stalemate at this fork for a long time, and tried to think of many ways.

"If we have a long-long rope, maybe it can be tied around one person's waist, and then that person goes to find the way, and the other two don't act rashly, so at least one wrong path can be ruled out."

"Yes, but the premise is that we have such a long rope. Even if you take off all the clothes on your body and twist them into a rope, it may not be enough. The stone in the middle is too big."

"What if we climbed onto this rock and looked down from above?"

It turned out that when they were halfway up, they were driven down by spiders who inhabited the cave in this rock.

"Or we divide our troops into three groups, so that there is a [-]% chance that one person can go out."

But this likely means that the other two are trapped in the valley forever.

"This is a last resort. I absolutely do not agree to do this until the last moment." Exilion shook his head.

"If it doesn't work, we can only pray to Vera for a miracle to remove this stone."

"Don't be funny, if Vera would help, they should have appeared when we crossed the ice gorge..."

The only Valar who could possibly answer their call was Ulmo, but the water here had been polluted by darkness, and it was impossible to convey their plea for help.

The three of them discussed for a long time, but to no avail, and it was already late at night.

Agamose's mouth moved, probably intending to complain, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

"At least Princess Arisil and Lan Wen should be safe." Glorfindel comforted him.

"This...of course it's a good thing." Agamos squeezed out an ugly smile.

There were rustling sounds of animals crawling around again, and as the night fell, those spiders began to move restlessly again.

"Glorfindel, start the fire, try to keep the fire to a minimum, and save some fuel." Exilion sighed, "The three of us will take turns keeping vigil tonight, and we will think of a solution after dawn."