[The Silmarillion] Romimus

Before the sun had fully risen the next day, Glorfindel and Elrond slipped quietly into the thick morning mist of the Swan Lake, accompanied by less than ten other people, because their trip was not It was to forcefully break through the illusion of Romimos.

"Confronting her will do us no good," said Glorfindel with a sigh.

It is true that fighting a war is not the housekeeping skill of Romemos, and the strength of the Twilight Land is not enough for Linton's army. If this is a problem that can be solved in one battle, it will be much easier, but Luo Mi Doesn't Moss himself know how capable he is?In addition to a tough battle between the two armies, she has a hundred dirty tricks that can kill the opponent, and a fool will fight you to death on the battlefield.

"Remember, our ultimate goal is to enter the center of Twilight to find Romimus, grab her before she is ready, and force her to release the illusion around Swan Lake." Glorfindel urged.

Elrond nodded knowingly: "I know, the king should be captured first before the thief is captured."

"So we must be careful, we must be invisible, we must never let Romimos find our whereabouts." Glorfindel paused, "One more thing, especially don't let her know that I'm back. "

Elrond was stunned for a moment, but probably also felt that there might be something hidden in the past relationship between Glorfindel and Romimos, so he didn't ask why.

Even with Glorfindel, their progress is still full of difficulties. The ring of Romemos can't help them escape the spell in the swamp. The location of Mimoth's other ring.

Of course, just doing this has helped them a lot, at least the direction they are going in will not go wrong, the only thing they need to pay attention to is not to be confused by the unpredictable illusions around them...

"Do you feel that someone is watching us..." Elrond asked in a low voice.

Glorfindel felt the same way. Someone was hiding in the dark, silently watching their every move, but when they looked around, they couldn't find anything. The worst part was that they didn't even know there were real creatures around. Peeping in secret, or this is also an illusion created by Romimos' illusion.

"We can only take a gamble and move on." Glorfindel made up his mind, "Even if Romimos has discovered us, it is useless to retreat now, it is too late."

Others also agreed with him. These people were all selected by Elrond himself, and none of them were cowards, and no one retreated at this time.The group proceeded cautiously for a short distance, and the discomfort of being followed finally disappeared. Even so, no one dared to relax, and everyone wished they could have two more eyes behind their backs.

And the accident finally happened as expected.

First there was a thud, like the sound of something falling into the water. The group of people were all concerned, and even their breathing slowed down so lightly that they were almost startled to jump up on the spot. All the swords were out of their sheaths.

"Calm down! Don't panic!" Elrond shouted in a low voice.

"What's that sound?" Glorfindel frowned, looking around, it was still calm.

Just when everyone was suspicious and their nerves stretched to the limit, there were a few splashes of water from the pool not far away. The sound was not loud, but it was enough to attract people's attention in the silent swamp.

"I'll go and see," said Elrond.

Glorfindel nodded, "Be careful."

Elrond slowly moved towards the place where the voice came from just now, and gently pushed aside the tall and dense reeds in front of him. With the other hand, he clenched the hilt of his sword, and looked out intently, holding his breath.

There was a person there, who was struggling desperately in the deep pool mixed with mud and water, but he didn't seem to be good at water, and he couldn't climb ashore after a long time.

If it was normal, Elrond would have rushed over to rescue the man without saying a word, but now this matter seems too suspicious.Why did someone suddenly appear out of nowhere in the wilderness?It was such a coincidence that it fell into the water?God knows if this is another trap that Romimos used to lure them into their own trap.

Elrond stood there undecided, and when he was tangled in his heart, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder from behind, and Elrond turned his head away.

"It's me." Glorfindel said hastily, thanks to Elrond's quick reaction, he didn't stab the sword in his hand.

"I don't want to come to this damn place a second time, nothing here is 100% real." He muttered, "Honestly, you are not an illusion, are you?"

"You can rest assured that although Romimos is good at juggling illusions, she can't create voices out of thin air." Glorfindel said, "What you see here may be fake, but The voice heard must be real."

Elrond's expression tightened: "That is to say, that is indeed a man who fell into the water?"

"Who?" Glorfindel asked, and Elrond stepped aside so that he could see the woman struggling in the pool.

"Are we going to save her?" Elrond wondered.

Glorfindel pursed his lips, but said nothing.There was a time when he didn't think twice about stepping up to save a girl who seemed to be dying, and that was probably one of the things he regretted most in his life.It wasn't that he hadn't been willing to save people since then, but now that they were in Romemos' territory, it was hard for him not to think about it.

And just when the two were hesitating, the girl finally lost her strength, sank underwater and disappeared. She didn't show her head again for four or five minutes. At first, there were a few strings of bubbles floating up from the water, but slowly and continuously There are not many bubbles.

Elrond's face was extremely ugly. He walked back and forth several times in the same place, and finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "I have to save her."

"Think about it." Glorfindel warned him, "Even if that person really just accidentally fell into the water, if she is one of Romimoth's subjects, then she is likely to drive us into the dusk If the news of the land is notified to her lord, then our plan will be completely disrupted if we don't want to startle the snake."

"But what if she is not from the Twilight Land, but just a nearby villager who accidentally walked here and got lost?" Elrond sighed, "Besides, even if she is really a human being under the jurisdiction of Romemos , does not mean that her death is deserved, maybe she is an innocent person, maybe she was captured here and fell into the water when trying to escape."

"Or maybe she is just like Romemus, who just wants to take advantage of the kindness of others to frame them." Glorfindel said, "I thought you were able to sternly reject Anata's overtures because of my words Lessons learned from the story."

"Two things," said Elrond, "I do not like Anatar, but until he is revealed, if I see him hunted by Orcs in the woods, or struggling in the pool , and may not extend a helping hand. Even if there is a [-]% chance that the person is innocent, I should save him. I have never looked down on you because you were deceived by Romimos at the beginning. Kindness is worth it. Your honor, my lord."

"Stupid goodness can sometimes be twisted by evil to bring about evil results."

But Elrond said: "It may be ignorance, it may be evil, but it will never be good that brings evil results."

"Evil loves to hide goodness in disguise." Glorfindel said solemnly, "But if you know the possible consequences of what you do, then go for it."

So Elrond took off his robe and went down into the deep water. He grew up by the sea, and it didn't take him long to find the woman who fell into the water, and he lifted her to the surface.

The woman's eyes were closed tightly, and she seemed to have fallen into a coma. Fortunately, the condition was not serious, and before Elrond brought her back to the shore, she slowly opened her eyes.

Elrond breathed a sigh of relief. "Just relax, don't move around, I'll help you up." He said, "Do you feel okay now?"

The girl's spirit was not bad, and she even had the strength to smile at Elrond: "I'm fine. Your water skills are not bad among mortals, but I don't know if you can't breathe underwater all the time, can you survive?" How long?"

Elrond's fine hair stood on end in an instant. He lowered his head and glanced at the pale and weak woman who fell into the water just now with a smile all over her face. She stretched out her arms wrapped in long dark hair like algae , wanted to grab Elrond by the neck and drag him into the water.

Unexpectedly, Elrond's face was pleasant, but in fact, he had been secretly guarding against such a situation where a good man would not be rewarded. The woman's long nails did not even touch Elrond, and her body suddenly lightened. It was picked up and thrown far away, and flew in the air for a full two seconds before smashing into the water with a big splash.

The woman who looked like a water demon was dazzled by this blow, and she was stunned for a long time before she recovered. Looking up, Elrond had already swam far away.

"You, you stop! Don't go ashore if you have the ability!" The woman was furious, and chased after her. She moved in the water at an incredible speed. Even though Elrond was already swimming extremely fast, the distance between the two was too short. Visibly getting closer.Finally, when it was less than ten meters away from the shore, the water demon was less than an arm's length away from him, and he could be pulled back with his hand.

However, the water demon was so busy chasing Elrond that he forgot that there was another person on the shore. When the two chased after each other, Glorfindel chopped off several reed stalks with a dagger, Straightforwardly tied into a bundle, the water demon just swam to the shore when she was hit in the face with a stick and knocked back into the water.The water demon was still not reconciled, and wanted to pounce again after being beaten back, but Glorfindel was standing on the shore, no matter how she rushed left or right, the other party easily blocked her back , and taking advantage of this time, Elrond had already swam to the shore, and the water monster knew that once he got back to the shore, he would have nothing to do with the two of them. After Lofindel hit back into the water, his voice became weeping.

"You guys are too deceitful! I'm going to find Luo Mi right now! When she comes, you two just wait to die!"

Glorfindel and Elrond looked at each other.

"Let's be reasonable. We kindly rescued you, but you pushed him into the water. Who is it that bullies you so much?" Even Elrond couldn't help but feel incredible.

"Hey, everyone is sneaky, they are not good people at first glance, and they deserve to be drowned!" The water demon spat, "You better tell the truth what you are here for, otherwise I will not be polite."

Is your impoliteness just crying and complaining?Are the guards in the Twilight Territory at this level?How can this kind of place exist for 1000 years under the attack of all sides?The lord is a Maier, isn't he amazing?

While this nixy isn't quite as scary as she could be (though this is the Land of Twilight, don't be fooled by the seemingly innocuous things people pick on), she's a real threat. The last thing Lofindel and the others hoped to happen was that they were neither afraid of the swords of Orcs and other enemies, nor were they afraid of ghosts and ghosts. The only thing was that the whereabouts of the group should not be exposed to Romimos too early.

"You wait first." In a hurry, Elrond stopped the water demon.

The water demon immediately became complacent: "Tell me, who are you guys? Even if I don't tell you, I guessed it, are you spies from outside?"

"This... this must be a misunderstanding." Elrond hesitated for a long time, but couldn't think of an excuse for a while, "We are... are..."

Seeing that the water demon's suspicion and disdain became more and more serious, Glorfindel had no choice but to bite the bullet and open his eyes to say nonsense: "We are our own people."

"Who are you bluffing? Think I'm a fool!" The other party really didn't buy it. "The elves have always regarded the land of dusk as a ghost den and a den of ghosts. They are usually arrogant, and they feel that they are blaspheming even if they get close to half a step. Now that they are about to die, they will start Say we are our own people?"

"I didn't lie to you, Romimos and I... the lord are old acquaintances." Glorfindel said, clenched his fists indistinctly.

"The mouth is on your face, of course you can say whatever you want." The water demon shrugged, "Luo Mi didn't tell me that there will be friends coming to visit recently, and people from Mordor never want to enter the Twilight Land. If you don’t take this path, no matter how you look at it, you are talking nonsense, or you should show some actual proof, right?”

Elrond was troubled, and the nix was not so foolish as he seemed.

"I can't take it out." The water demon looked as expected, "Forget it, we don't easily conflict with the elves in Twilight, and I won't make it difficult for you. If you go back honestly, I will pretend that this has never happened, but if Let me see you again in the Swan Lake, hum, you know the consequences yourself."

The water demon sneered a few times pretending to be high-spirited, and wanted to dive into the bottom of the water to leave, but was stopped by Glorfindel again.

"I have the evidence," he said, "I'm just afraid you won't recognize it."

"Nonsense, of course I won't recognize it if you don't take it out." The water demon rolled her eyes and urged, "Stop moaning, are you delaying time?"

Glorfindel took a deep breath.This may not be a good move, and it may even be a steal, but things did not go as smoothly as planned at the beginning. This is really a helpless move, and we can only take one step at a time.

There were far more entanglements and struggles in his heart than it appeared on the surface. Under Elrond's worried eyes that he tried to hide as much as possible, Glorfindel finally took out the ring.

"She gave it to me," said Glorfindel. "It should be a pair. Maybe you saw another one at your lord's..."

The water demon impatiently listened to his chatter, and swam closer to the shore: "Come here, bring it here and let me have a look."

Glorfindel carefully walked a few steps towards the water, always on guard against the water demon repeating his old tricks. Fortunately, the other party really didn't intend to drag him into the water this time, but just took Glorfindel. Del handed her the ring, held it in his hand and looked at it very carefully.

Of course, the works of craftsmen often have their own personal style. If you are a knowledgeable person, you can recognize the forger of the ring, but the problem is... this water monster does not look like a knowledgeable person. .

"Huh, it's really Luo Mi's stuff." As a result, the water monster only watched it for half a minute, then came to a firm conclusion, looked up at the two people on the bank with unpredictable expressions, and grinned awkwardly, "Ah, so it's really my own. I'm sorry, sorry, I was rude just now."

Glorfindel and Elrond hadn't recovered yet.

"Because the elves have always had a bad attitude towards the Twilight Land, so I didn't expect you to be good people." The water demon said happily, "Luo Mi is also true, and I don't notify me in advance when there are guests coming."

"Uh, maybe she doesn't want to bother you." Elrond said a little embarrassed.

"Oh, we've been friends for hundreds of years. What's the trouble? I've been too busy for a while. Are you going to find Luo Mi? Let me show you the way." The water demon greeted enthusiastically, " Otherwise, with your speed, when will you be able to cross the Swan Lake."

Glorfindel and Elrond looked at each other.

They didn't expect things to turn out like this at first. At first, they just wanted to put the water monster in a perfunctory way, so that she wouldn't complain to Romimos.

But now the water demon once again hit their minds—they were running out of time, and if they could reach the center of the Twilight Land to find Romimos, the sooner the better.

Although the risk is obvious, the ghost knows whether this water demon really believes that they are his own people, or whether he is acting on the surface but has other plans in his heart.Glorfindel felt that the latter was more likely.

But still the problem, Erizan may not really last long.

"Hey, keep up!" While still hesitating, the water demon had already swam tens of meters away, and waved at them from a distance, "Go find the other people who are with you first, and if everything goes well, we will meet you in two days." reach the tower of twilight."

"You decide," Glorfindel said to Elrond.

"I want to take a gamble." Elrond said, frowning. "This may be a stupid decision. I can't give you a reason to convince you. This is just my intuition."

"Intuition often plays an unexpected role in critical moments." Glorfindel said, taking a deep breath, and followed up first, "Come on."