little gentleman

Running around in unfamiliar places would get you into trouble, and Bilbo now understood the simple truth deeply.

Bilbo felt that he needed open space, and the dense forest oppressed him.He struggled to climb a large tree, perhaps a thousand years old, with a trunk thick enough to make a small tree house for a hobbit, and full of leaves, which could be seen from under the tree or from the branches. Not a whole picture of the tree.The higher Bilbo climbed, the more luxuriant the branches and leaves surrounded him, and he couldn't find his way. He became flustered and began to regret this impulsive choice.The ground below could not be seen at all. Looking up, there were still layers of branches and leaves. Bilbo's small body was wrapped in the middle, and there was a sense of suffocation that could not escape.With no choice, Bilbo could only continue to climb up, and only by rushing out of the forest could he see the direction clearly.

Bilbo climbed for a long time, and as the height increased, the leaves that blocked his sight became thinner and thinner. The light penetrated through the gaps in the leaves and fell on Bilbo's face, making him feel warm.He speeded up and climbed up, and finally crashed into a piece of blue after pushing aside the intertwined branches.

The sky is blue and bright, and underneath is the undulating canopy of trees like an ocean.A crisp wind blew by, rustling the leaves, and butterflies, shining in strange splendor like petals blown by the wind, flew from the canopy in swirls and brushed over Bilbo's head.Bilbo smiled, in the bright sunlight.

Bilbo knew the direction according to the sun, and he should not be too far away from Rosso's house at the moment, but he had never walked in this direction before.Once he got his bearings, Bilbo no longer panicked. He climbed down calmly, carefully choosing the branch where he landed.Slowly, the leaves became dense again, and it was obvious that he had already descended to the middle of the tree.

Something was wrong, Bilbo felt sensitively.There seems to be something more between the branches and leaves, it looks like a small, white silk thread, and it will touch the face if you don't pay attention.Further down, the number of white silk threads gradually increased, becoming denser and thicker, and seemed to be connected into pieces, like... a net?

At last Bilbo saw clearly that it was indeed a web, a gigantic spider's web with no end in sight.Such a large web cannot be made by ordinary spiders, so what kind of spiders weave giant webs?Thinking of this, Bilbo shuddered. He hid behind the tree trunk, not daring to breathe.

There was a rustling sound from far to near, Bilbo poked his head out from behind the tree trunk and observed quietly.He was so frightened that he could barely grasp the branch when he saw what he saw: a spider much bigger than a hobbit!No, probably bigger than a human!These hideous monsters might not be content with catching butterflies or dragonflies, and now they had a plump and juicy prey right next to them—and a meaty hobbit must be a good meal, Bilbo thought dreadfully.Spiders prowled among the trees like a king inspecting his domain.Bilbo held his breath, and prayed that the spider would not find him.After looking around, the spider slowly moved away on eight legs.Bilbo, who was hiding behind the trunk, breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to leave quietly.

When Bilbo turned around, he almost gasped in terror: another large spider had come behind him at some point, and was staring greedily at him with those scalp-numbing compound eyes.

"Ah—" Bilbo exclaimed, his legs shook, and he fell off a branch and landed heavily on another branch.The spider ran after him, and threw himself on the hobbit, who was helpless in pain.

Bilbo's eyes were staring from the fall, and as soon as his vision came back to clear, he screamed again in fright, and rolled over to avoid the huge spider that was rushing at him.But the dodging action caused him to lose his balance again, and fell to a deeper tree. During the fall, Bilbo frantically grabbed at the flying branches, but failed to grab anything, and his body kept accelerating his fall.However, the expected collision did not happen, and Bilbo felt that he had fallen on something soft, and when he tried to get up, he found that his body was stuck. Only then did he see clearly that he had fallen on a spider's web, What was even more frightening was that more spiders surrounded him. They used their slender legs to move forward quickly on the web, like a group of children rushing towards a table full of cakes.Bilbo struggled desperately, but the web held him so fast that he flapped his wings limply like a dying butterfly.In the storybooks Bilbo had read, the protagonist always closed his eyes in despair when faced with a fatal crisis, but he couldn't do it. He opened his eyes wide in horror and looked helplessly at the black people rushing towards him. predator.

There was a flash of cold light, and one of the spiders approaching Bilbo was decapitated.The smell of spider blood was odd, and Bilbo found himself splashed in the face.He recovered from his shock and terror, and saw the warrior fighting the spider one against ten, and he was surprised to find that it was Thorin, which brought him a moment of relief, and he wondered why he felt this way.

Thorin did not go far after parting from Bilbo, but he stayed a long time by the brook in the wood, not wanting to go back and face the King of Elves for a moment.After being rejected by Bilbo yesterday, Thorin decided to leave Mirkwood today. Dan expressed surprise at his decision. They had decided to leave in two days.But Gimli was very supportive, and the young dwarf had always been at odds with the elves.After handing the letter to Bilbo, Thorin still felt his anger lingering, and he tried to calm himself by will, but it didn't go where, and it only made him more irritated.

It was at this time that Thorin alertly discovered the spider.The eight-legged trolls rustled as they walked in the woods, and even though the dwarves could not hear as well as the hobbits, Thorin noticed.He drew his sword and ducked behind a big tree.

Before Bilbo was born, Thorin was already a warrior with rich experience in actual combat. Although he didn't know the situation of Mirkwood, he still wouldn't be afraid to face powerful enemies.He watched where the spiders were going, waiting for them to leave.

Suddenly, a small scream came from above, the voice was so familiar, it made Thorin's heart tighten.Without hesitation, he left the hiding place and ran towards the direction of the sound.He exposed himself and attracted the siege of spiders, but his only worry now is being blocked by these monsters and not arriving in time.The beast-biting sword in his hand roared with the sound of the wind, repelling one after another of the spiders that dared to rush over.

Approaching the source of the sound, the misty white net confuses the vision, Sorin looked around anxiously, looking for the figure of the owner of the sound.Soon, he found that the spiders were gathering on a tree, like a group of greedy wild dogs pounced on a desperate rabbit. Through the gaps in the branches, Sorin saw a petite figure helplessly shrunk in the spiders middle.Immediately, Thorin was seized with an uncommon panic, and risked putting his sword back into its sheath, and climbed as fast as he could up the tree where the hobbit was trapped.When he climbed to where Bilbo was, he had just time to draw his sword and swing at the first spider that tried to attack the hobbit.

While Thorin fought the spiders, Bilbo had regained his courage, and looking around, more spiders were coming towards them.No matter how brave Thorin is, he alone cannot break out of the encirclement.Bilbo scanned the surrounding area quickly, and his eyes fell on a moderately thick branch, which he snapped off, with the sharp break pointing outward, and took the other end with both hands.The Hobbit had never been in a fight, he had never even fought, but now he had to help Thorin.He moved closer to Thorin's back, glaring nervously at the rushing spider.Bilbo forced himself to face the hair-ridden compound eyes as another spider sprang at him, and thrust the branch into the spider's head as hard as he could.Amazingly, the branch penetrated the spider's skull with precision, and it twitched and fell off the branch.

"I thought the head would be harder!" Bilbo said involuntarily in surprise.

"Concentrate!" Thorin reminded him loudly.

After killing an enemy, Bilbo's courage doubled. Although he could not give the same fighting power as Thorin, he could help the dwarves share a small amount of pressure, which bought them more time.

When the battle was in full swing, other allies joined them, and Dan's voice could be heard from afar: "My God! Thorin, what's going on?"

"Giant spider of Mirkwood!" cried Thorin. "Come and help!"

Dan En and Jinli joined the battle, but the power gap between the two sides was still huge, and several of them fought and retreated.

It wasn't until a group of elf warriors arrived that they got real support.With a cold whistle, a delicate arrow shot down a huge spider, and then more arrows came, and the spiders were hit by arrows one after another.The slender and powerful figures of the elves leaped from the woods. Legolas took the lead and leaped lightly onto the branches. The bowstring in his hand was tightened time and time again. .The spiders were beaten and fled, crawling and disappearing into the depths of the dense forest.

Seeing the last spider disappear, Bilbo's heart, which had been in his throat, could be put back in his belly, along with his weight.This momentary slack had serious consequences. The branch that had been oppressed under Bilbo's feet for a long time broke under the burden, and the hobbit fell under the tree, breaking two or three branches, and fell hard into the wet forest. on the land.

This is very embarrassing, Bilbo thought before losing consciousness.