[The Silmarillion] Romimus

Glorfindel arrived soon. He had actually been waiting in the woods not far from the Tower of Twilight to meet Elrond and the others, but when he hadn't found anyone for a long time, he realized that they had failed up.

Glorfindel just sighed lightly at this, and didn't even bother to feel disappointed after the plan failed.

According to Romemos' request, Glorfindel rushed to the edge of Claban Cliff. At this time, it was getting late, and nearly a thousand crows circled and took off above their heads screaming strangely. The masking fits perfectly.

In the hazy night, Romimos in a long crimson dress was particularly conspicuous. As Glorfindel approached her, she turned around unconsciously, her long black hair like a flock of crows. Flying like wings in the night wind.

"I guess you should be nearby." Romemos spoke out first, drawing Glorfindel's attention back to her, "Hide away by yourself, and let someone irrelevant come forward for you Risk isn't like something you would do."

Glorfindel didn't make a sound, but turned his gaze away to observe the other people around him.There were about thirty or forty guards loyally guarding their lord's side, which is not a small number, but Glorfindel thought there would be more. It seems that Romimoth is very confident that the elves can't take her How about it.

Standing next to Romimos were Bell, Hrudir, Elrond and others. They all looked healthy and showed no signs of injury. This made Glorfindel secretly heave a sigh of relief, but then he Noticed that the expressions of a few of them were very strange: Bell was full of tears, sobbing incessantly, trembling all over, although she looked pitiful, it was not surprising that she would look like this; it made Glorfindel uneasy Yes, even Elrond's eyes were erratic, looking restless, and Herudil was even more numb, and did not move for a long time.

On the one hand, Glorfindel felt he should not be surprised no matter what Romimos could do; ...

"Huh? Don't worry. Generally speaking, I don't have a hobby of abusing captives. In fact, I planned to lock them up for a few more days before releasing them—you must let me do business with Sauron, right?" Luo Mimo Glorfindel glanced at Elrond and the others in the eyes of Glorfindel, and suddenly changed the topic, "The premise is that you are safe enough. Unfortunately, the current situation makes me very disappointed."

Romimos glanced over those people quickly, and the bell looked as if it had been whipped, and couldn't help but flinch back, tears couldn't stop bursting out.

Glorfindel couldn't stand it anymore: "I asked her to help, if you have something to rush to me, don't scare her."

"Hmm, it's a pity that you said this late. I have interrogated them. They know what they are doing very well, and they should be able to guess what the worst outcome will be. Even so, they still chose to fight against me, so now it falls to me. It’s your own fault.” Romimos narrowed his eyes and smiled lightly, “Don’t feel guilty towards them, Glorfindel, it’s your charm that people are willing to help and even love you. Besides, I haven’t said that I want to What to do with them."

But think on your toes and know you won't have any good ideas, Glorfindel sneered.

"Since you dare to lie to me, according to the usual practice, it is reasonable for me to feed you all to crows. But after all, I owe the elves once, so I will give you a special discount this time." Just as he was speaking, Romimos suddenly Looking at Herudil, who had been standing aside in a daze, he mentioned a seemingly insignificant matter, "Just now I discussed a very interesting question with this child, that is, should it be for the sake of most people's lives? sacrificing someone? I'm interested in how you respond."

Theoretically, of course it is not possible, this is a question that can be answered without even thinking about it, but since the person asking the question is Romimos, the intention of this question seems very suspicious, Glorfindel hesitated, Remain silent.

"If you don't tell me, I can probably guess how you will choose. If it were me, I would choose to sacrifice a small number of people without hesitation. You must think this is too cold-blooded. Naturally, I also know that the standard answer is everyone's choice." Life is very precious and cannot be given up easily, but I will not answer this way, and I don't take it seriously. People who think that way are just thinking that such an extreme situation cannot happen, and when they really have to face such a situation When choosing, will they still insist on letting dozens, thousands, or even more people die for one person?" Romimos raised his chin and looked around the elves, "Now I say , I'm not going to throw you all down to feed the birds. One, as soon as any one of you jumps from here, I'll release everyone else at once, what do you think?"

There was no answer, and the elves all stared at her sullenly.After a long time, someone sarcastically said: "Why do you have to be so hypocritical? If you think that any of us would sacrifice the death of our companions for the sake of surviving because of fear of death, then you are very wrong. From this point of view , the Lord of Twilight is not worthy of her shrewdness and cunning in the rumors, why don't you just put away your hypocrisy and execute us directly, so as not to lose face in the end."

"You can fight against me just to make a bet, will I still force you to live?" Romimos looked calm, "But I want to remind you that Erejan may still be waiting for Linton As for the reinforcements, even if you can leave me safely, it does not mean that you can repel Sauron, but if you all go to die, there will be no loss for me except for the self-satisfaction before death, but The last hope of Erejan was extinguished. That is to say, if one of you dies here, not only a dozen of you, but thousands of people in Erejan may be able to survive because of this. Even So, are you still insisting that you can’t sacrifice just one person in order to save more people?”

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of all the elves changed to varying degrees, either they were anxious or their eyes were burning.

"I know that what makes you hesitate is not only whether to sacrifice that person, but also a question-if you want to sacrifice, who should be sacrificed?" Romimos continued, "You cherish your reputation, even if thousands of people die. Tens of millions of people will be saved because of your choice, and you don’t want to be charged with killing your own people, but instead say that this is your noble performance. In this case, I have a way.”

Not counting Glorfindel, there were 11 elves present, including Elrond. Romimus waved his fingers gracefully, and several beams of light flew out from the lanterns or torches in the hands of nearby people, and gathered towards her. Beside him, eleven numbers from "1" to "11" were formed in mid-air, lined up neatly, and each letter was facing an elf.Afterwards, with another wave of Romimos' hand, they formed a circle, and slowly rotated, and the rotation became faster and faster, until finally the number could not be seen, but it seemed to be a continuous golden light belt.

"Then choose the moment when the rotation stops, what is the person represented by the top number? This is fair enough, even if you are unfortunately selected, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky. As for who is responsible for calling the stop—" Romimos pretended to think for a moment, but after only a second, she turned and looked at Glorfindel, "Let it be up to you, Glorfindel."

She definitely did it on purpose, or rather, she dug this hole for Glorfindel from the beginning, no matter how he chooses, it won't make him feel better.

Glorfindel still responded silently to Romimos's obvious malice, neither uttered reprimands nor nodded in agreement, only the cold anger in his eyes could reflect his state of mind at this time.

"Make a decision." Romimos urged him. "Although I have enough patience to spend with you, time waits for no one. Think of the innocent people of Erejan, who are hiding in the land that may be destroyed by Mordor at any time." Trembling behind the breached city wall; think about the underage children, maybe there has been no water or food in the city, and they have been starving for weeks; think about the soldiers who are fighting to defend their homes, every second you delay, they You have to sacrifice more blood and even life."

"But you don't want to show any more sympathy for all of this." Elrond said through gritted teeth.

"I also think about my people." Romemos said, "and haven't I already given you a choice? Either die here, or sacrifice only one person, but you can escape without paying any price." , is it too greedy? Do you really think that everyone is so rare to be friends with elves? Even if we are not in a hostile relationship, what is wrong with executing robbers who trespass on other people's territory without authorization? Are you here because My kind invitation?"

Is it because they co-authored this?No matter how quick-witted he was, Elrond could only stare with anger in the face of an unreasonable opponent.

Then Glorfindel finally spoke.

"Repeat what you said," he said to Romemus, "that if one of us sacrifices, the others will be free?"

"Don't follow her way, Glorfindel! Otherwise we will follow her way." Elrond stopped him, "The devil will not keep his promise, but will only use despicable means to make people fall into the mud. Extricate yourself."

"Even the devil will not easily break the contract when it is not necessary. On the contrary, it is precisely because the devil always keeps his promise that his promise is extremely tempting." Romimos said, "Of course you have reason to doubt me. Every word I said, Glorfindel, but you also know that if I hadn't fulfilled my promise when I promised you to give up the pursuit of Gondolin and the others, Elendil's son would never have been born at all, let alone Said to be choked with me here. So, you have decided to accept my conditions?"

Glorfindel remained silent, as if acquiescing.

"Then, you can ask me to stop the roulette at any time." Romemos said, but she suddenly had some doubts. She clearly had the upper hand at this time, but she felt uneasy in her heart, because of her attitude towards Glorfindel. I understand that it is absolutely impossible for the other party to agree to her proposal, and she didn't expect him to agree, but she was inexplicably angry and deliberately teased him.But now Romemos began to reflect on whether he had gone too far, and tried to take a small step back with feigned ease: "Before then, if you ask, I can remove the son of Erendil from here." Go out. Even though there is less than a [-]% chance, you don't want him to be chosen in the end, do you?"

"That's not necessary," said Glorfindel. "I've already made my choice. You just have to promise you will do what you say."

This is even more absurd, sacrificing other people's lives is extremely reluctant and sad for him, how could it be possible——

At that moment, Romemos suddenly realized the loophole in his words: "Wait!"

However, she said it too late, and things developed as she least expected but most naturally.Glorfindel didn't give her a chance to make the offer. He strode up to the edge of Claban Bluff without even pausing, and in the blink of an eye he disappeared from above.

Elrond and others turned pale with shock: "Lord Glorfindel!"

But there was one person who reacted faster than everyone else, almost in the next second, Romimos rushed over like a fiery whirlwind, and jumped down following Glorfindel without hesitation .