[The Lord of the Rings·The Hobbit] Human Body and Snake Tail

The horses shuttled through the woods, and the dwarves rode on the horses, talking and fighting with each other.

Helen was riding on a horse, far behind the team, watching the interaction between the dwarves with a smile.

"Helen."

A dwarf turned his head.

"Will you bet us that Baggins will come?"

Helen took out the money bag tied around her waist and threw it to him, stretching out her hands to make a gesture of two.

"I put all my money on it, double it, and bet on him coming back."

The dwarves barked and laughed.

"Then you will lose all of them, and now you lose ten to one."

She looked at the gloating dwarves and smiled.

"Then let's see!"

The hobbits did not disappoint her, and it was not long before they overtook their ranks.

There was still a blush on his face after strenuous exercise, and his demeanor changed from the gloomy, irritable and gloomy before, and his whole face was full of vigor and vitality.

Helen turned her head and squinted at the dwarves in front of her. After cheering for a while, the dwarves took out their purses one by one and threw them to her.

She grabbed the purse she was throwing, poured out most of the money in it, fastened the purse tightly, and tossed it to them again.

Then, brushing back the wind blown hair, he smiled and said to the dwarf

"This is for you to buy wine and drink on the way."

The dwarf, who was still depressed, immediately smiled and took the money bag.

Bilbo struggled with the horse in front of him, and no matter how hard he kicked, he couldn't get on the horse's back.

The most important thing was that the horse didn't even bother with his clumsy way of getting on the horse. After kicking its hooves, it turned its buttocks to him.

Bilbo was furious, and stamped his feet on the spot.

In the end, Helen couldn't stand it any longer, and the dwarf laughed and staggered from side to side, and it seemed that he would not lend a helping hand to the hobbit.

Helen had no choice but to hold the rein, and when the horse she was riding stopped, she got off her horse and approached the hobbit.

"let me help you."

Helen took the reins to steady the horse, and then reached out and took the hobbit's hand.

"You have to establish a relationship of mutual trust with the horse first, and then it will obediently listen to you."

As she spoke, Helen grabbed his hand and brought it under the horse's nose.

After taking a few breaths, the horse seemed to get used to his smell and began to calm down.

"look."

Helen withdrew her hand and gently stroked the horse's mane, and the hobbit followed her example and stood on tiptoe to stroke the horse's neck.

"Right, that is it!"

While stroking, Helen hugged the hobbit with her other hand and lifted him onto the horse.

The hobbit who had just sat on the horse's back nervously grasped the horse's rein and did not dare to move.

Seeing him laugh like this, Helen reached out and patted his back.

"Relax, it's not scary."

The hobbit gradually began to get used to the feeling of being on the horse's back, clamping the horse's belly with his feet, and the horse slowly picked up speed, and Bilbo laughed unconsciously.

Facing the wind, they set foot on the road.

Helen had walked this road before, when she left Mirkwood.

Years of walking and traveling were no problem for her, but for hobbits, it was hard and uncomfortable torture.

On his first night out camping, the snoring of the dwarves and the hard, wet ground kept him from sleeping.

Then, standing up, he heard a conversation among the dwarves.

"Aren't you coming?"

Gandalf looked at the Serpent-Man sitting beside him.

Helen shook her head, looking at the dark night sky.

"Fangzheng is also about their kingdom. I have heard related stories before, so I don't need to listen to them anymore."

Gandalf smoked his pipe.

"you know?"

The green snake tail was circled by her in front of her body.

"I have lived for a long time, and I still know the general things. Sorin, Irebo."

The wizard turned his head, shrugged and let out a smoke ring.

"Then you've lived a long time."

After resting overnight, they set out on the road again.

The later road is that the wizard and the hobbit popularize the knowledge of Middle-earth, and Bilbo looks miserable with a sullen face.

"You have to learn to adapt, adventure is always half the joy and half the pain."

Helen throws a cloak to the hobbit.

"Use it to keep out the rain, you may not be used to it when you go out for the first time."

The hobbit grabbed the cloak, looked again at the snake man who was drenched in the rain, thought for a while, and handed the cloak to Helen again.

"You're also in the rain."

Helen smiled.

"Help is often given to those who need it. I'm used to this kind of life. How about treating it as an exchange for hot milk?"

Seeing that Helen really didn't need it, Bilbo put on the cloak after he sneezed. After putting on the cloak, he didn't forget to tell her

"If you feel uncomfortable, tell me and I'll pay you back."

Gandalf's attitude changed a lot when he got along with her day and night.

Occasionally, I will initiate a conversation with her.

The journey was uneventful, and Helen thought that there would be no more accidents on the road, but she met a troll looking for food that night.

Bilbo was caught and held hostage, and the other dwarves had to lay down their weapons.

While Bilbo was fighting for time, Helen approached the troll quietly from hiding in the grass.

The troll looks big, but it's actually very simple to deal with.

Helen bound the ogre, who had been paralyzed by witchcraft, with a few ropes.

Then, the tail lashed at them fiercely.

The unshackled dwarves joined the activity as soon as they could move, and the whipping ogre screamed, but it didn't take long for the sky to dawn.

Trolls turn to stone, and there's not much fun in whipping them.

The dwarves left here with a look of regret, and followed the wizard to find the troll's cave.

Before leaving, Helen looked back at Bilbo.

The lovely and kind-hearted hobbit seems to have become a lot braver after this incident.

"this is for you."

Thorin threw a sword in front of her.

After she picked up the sword, the dwarf had already walked away, leaving behind a shadow.

Looking carefully at the blade, Helen recognized at a glance that the sword was made by elves. No wonder Thorin didn't look very good.

"Didn't expect this to be in the troll's cave."

Helen tore off the spider silk wrapped around the scabbard, and swung the sword for a while.

The sudden appearance of another wizard broke the calm.

The wizard looked terrified, and grabbed Gandalf as if to say something.

And Helen's first reaction was to immediately hide her snake tail in the cloak and hide behind the dwarf.

It didn't take long for Gandalf and the wizard to speak, and the orc's mount appeared.

The wizard distracted most of the orcs, and Gandalf led them away everywhere.

When running away, Helen was still thinking.

It was the first time in such a long time that she ran away in such a mess.

It didn't take long for the dwarves to be discovered by the orcs after killing a half-orc cavalry.

Finally, they hid in a stone cave in hiding.

Thorin's expression grew even uglier after he took an arrowhead from the neck of an orc.

"This is the arrow of the elf."

"I can't go on with you any longer."

Helen stood behind them and said to them with a smile.

"why?"

The hobbit did not quite understand her words.

"Because I'm a half-orc."

The dwarf, who was still screaming, suddenly fell silent.

"I have not given up on this journey, I will keep up with you and wait for you in front"

Thorin bowed to her and waved his hand to the other dwarves.

The dwarves approached her, embraced her one by one, and followed Thorin into the depths of the cave.

"I don't understand, you can't enter with us because you are a half-orc?"

the hobbit asked her.

"Ahead is the territory of the elves"

The wizard told the hobbit.

Helen looked at the hobbit, and put her hand over his forehead.

"Probably, the elves don't like half-orcs very much. I don't want the elves to dislike you because of this."

Helen crouched down, grabbed the hobbit by the shoulders, and turned him to face the wizard beyond the cave.

"Gandalf and the others are still waiting for you, go quickly."

The hobbit kept looking back at her, and walked slowly towards the wizard.

Helen smiled and shook her hand at him.

"Orcs won't hurt me."

——Because, I am a half-orc!

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The next chapter should be almost ready.

Happy Valentine's Day and Lantern Festival everyone! ! ! !

I'll see if I can reunite them on Valentine's Day.