Immorton

Because everyone knows... He shook his head involuntarily.

"You intend to carry its weight all the time, do you not?" Gandalf watched him hard.

Imerton stroked his chest and bowed slightly, stubbornly not speaking anymore.

There was a long time of contested silence, and at last Gandalf sighed: "Sit down, please. Do you mind, then, what I tell Frodo about you?"

Imerton shook his head slightly, and sat down on the steps in front of them.

In the open space below, the bonfire was bright, and the sound of gold and iron clashing and laughter drifted from time to time.Gandalf's old voice fell heavily, as if every word left a trace.Those details that were not recorded in the dossier made Imerton clearly realize that this person is not him, but he has never been so sure that he may be this person, if...

The story is finally over.Frodo let out a long breath: "How sad..."

"You admire his patience and courage, do you not. Now, tell me, Frodo," said Gandalf gently, "whether he deserved death for what he did?"

"Of course not, he didn't mean it," answered Frodo at once.

"So, what if he went directly to Mordor after leaving the wormhole and became Sauron's servant? If he surrounded Rivendell with an army, after hearing this story, do you think he was not guilty of death? "

This time Frodo hesitated and said nothing.

"Think about it. Even Sauron is not born evil." Gandalf smiled. "Think in the shoes of others, put yourself in a different situation... Never stop thinking, Frodo."

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The next day, Gandalf lost his way at a three-way intersection. After thinking about it for a long time, he simply chose the road that "feels most comfortable".In the afternoon, they stepped into the interconnected high and wide halls.Such a majestic and magnificent dome column makes people think that they are only the size of an ant.They spent one night under a certain pillar. In the early morning of the third day, they walked up the wide passageway behind the arch on the north side of the hall. After a certain distance, they saw a square house with light on the side of the road.

In the middle of the room, under a beam of sunlight, Balin's sarcophagus lay quietly.Gimli howled, and Gandalf sadly took off his hat, picked up the underground record and read it slowly.Some people listened carefully, some looked around, Zheng Zha, Gunner, and Neos discussed in low voices about the allocation of minerals that had not yet been obtained, and Pippin touched here and there curiously...Suddenly there was a sound of metal crashing, and a A metal chain and the corpse it carried fell into the deep well, making continuous beating sounds on the ground, and the whole of Moria seemed to be shaking non-stop.

Finally, the echo died down, and Gandalf called out Pippin's full name angrily. Before he could get angry, there was a muffled drumbeat in the distance, followed by war drums beating in all directions, and the orcs came.

Imerton immediately pulled the four hobbits and Zhan Lan to the corner farthest from the door to protect him behind him.Chu Xuan's double guns slipped into his hands, Zhang Heng, the female archer of the North Ice Team and Legolas opened their bows at the gate, Aragorn and Boromel rushed up to close the gate with their swords, and Zheng Zha was already riding the Nightmare Run out of the room.Sporadic arrows shot in, and then the door was closed, and shouts came faintly from outside.A moment later, the earth shook, and the wall opposite the door suddenly cracked. A cave giant stepped in, looked left and right, and smashed the thick iron rod in his hand at the four hobbits.

Before Imerton could turn around, a long wooden stick next to him knocked on the giant's ankle, and the giant's body immediately fell obliquely forward, and the iron stick grazed Frodo's shoulder and fell heavily to the ground.Frodo screamed in pain, and at the same time, blood splashed from the back of the giant's neck. Zhao Yingkong had already made a move at some point, and the giant fell to the ground and twitched a few times, then stopped moving.Emerton just had time to embrace Frodo, who was pale and limp, and shouted, "Cheng Xiao!"

Cheng Xiao came over and took a look: "It's all right. It's all right. I have a broken shoulder. I have this spell in my back." Then, he put the tip of his stick on Frodo's shoulder and muttered a few words in a low voice. After a burst of rolling light, Frodo A little color returned to Duo's face.

Emerton heaved a sigh of relief, raised his eyes and looked around. Almost everyone else was guarding the damaged gate at the other end. Most of the half-orcs pouring in from the gap in the wall were eliminated by Chu Xuan's double guns. Cheng Xiao and Zhao Yingkong was on his side, and Gandalf was on the other side of the gap, dealing with the remaining orcs.He looked down at Frodo, and said guiltily, "My negligence, I'm sorry. It will never happen again."

Before Frodo had time to speak, there was a loud noise from far to near at the gate. Zheng Zha rode Nightmare and slashed a bloody path among the half-orcs, and stopped abruptly behind Chu Xuan, staring at his back in a daze.At this moment, the gunfire stopped, and Zheng Zha immediately asked stupidly: "Uh...is that a Gauss pistol?"

Chu Xuan clasped his hands together, the clips fell out, and the two Gauss pistols retracted into his sleeves like a cloud and flowing water, and then he nodded indifferently: "Yes, you read that right."

"This is impossible! Aren't high-tech weapons forbidden?" Zheng Zha shouted in surprise.

"...I asked Erlund to engrave runes on the Gauss bullets, so that the bullets would be fired with life energy. It turned out that they were effective..." Chu Xuan explained while inspecting the half-orc corpses underground.

"In that case..." Zheng Zha was about to say something excitedly, but was interrupted by Gandalf.

"Don't talk about this, we have to go to the main bridge immediately! Quick!" Gandalf urged in a deep voice.

Zheng Zha nodded, turned the horse's head hastily, and rushed out first.The red sword light swept across, and the half-orcs fell in pieces, and then Chu Xuan's gunfire also rang out.In just a hundred meters, the orc lay on the ground.Out of the passage, they rushed into the last hall.At this time, there were half-orcs approaching like ants in all directions, even in the sky and on the ground, and the rain of black arrows became more and more dense.The crowd protected the hobbit in the middle, unable to move forward for a long time. During the battle, Neos suddenly groaned, and a short arrow broke through the defense and nailed to his right hand.

This sound was the last hammer that broke the dam.Emerton suddenly couldn't bear it anymore, all the deep emotions - anger, sadness, hatred, pain, despair, bitterness, guilt... like a flash flood, destroying layers of defenses and restraints, rushing out desperately in vitro.He suddenly turned back, raised his head and raised his hands, roaring loudly.

In the middle of the air, the ferocious human face opened its mouth wide, sucking in countless struggling orc whales, and the mummified corpses were scattered from behind like firewood, piling up continuously.The violent and tyrannical howls kept going, and the face formed by the wind and sand swirled back and forth between the countless corridor pillars, entering the next hall, and the next, until all the living beings trembled and fled in front of it... It laughed wildly in satisfaction, and whispered. Taste the sweetness brought by fear and submission, but not ready to let those humble creatures live, it wants more, all power, that fascinates it, that is everything to it... no.yes.of.

In an instant, the wind stopped.No, he wanted Ansuna... He woke up suddenly, realizing that he had lost her forever.

The original place is as empty as a wilderness.His companions drew back, many of them clutching their weapons and staring at him in horror.But now, these were ignored, he just retracted his hands, covered his face, and slowly fell to his knees.

Zheng Zha let out a long sigh, galloped over, picked him up and put him on the saddle, and returned to the crowd: "Time is short, let's go quickly. I will explain this to everyone after we get out." He took the lead and drove towards the arch.

The crowd followed. Shocked, they didn't notice that a red light shone faintly in the distance behind them.

After a few steps, Imerton jumped off the nightmare. "It's fine." He looked up at Zheng Zha, "I will pay attention to control."

"This is the first time out of control?" Gandalf walked behind them at some point.

"No." Imerton blurted out, before realizing what he had said.His emotions have not calmed down yet.He slowed down and stood side by side with Gandalf. Under Zheng Zha's worried eyes, he said, "It's the second time."

"It was the same for the first time?" Gandalf's face became more serious.

"I...don't remember much." Imerton lowered his head and looked at the road under his feet. "At that time, I just met Zheng Zha and the others...all I could see were corpses."

"And they let you join?" Gandalf narrowed his eyes.

"No, of course not... In their team, there was a girl at that time, she said that many people died... there is no forgiveness. Then, she gave a wooden stick—the one of Cheng Xiao," they turned their heads at the same time, Glancing at the walking stick, "Pin me to the ground by the cliff."

Gandalf showed a sympathetic look: "It will be very painful for you."

"Ah...fortunately, the time was short. Not long after, Zheng Zha came over, pulled out the stick, and gave me a knife—the knife he used at that time was similar to Frodo's. I woke up at the bottom of the cliff, Later, I found out that several years had passed. I went to find that girl and asked her..." He paused, "I was locked up for a while, but when Zheng Zha and the others acted, they occasionally asked me to participate. In the end, she let me go. "His tone was filled with strange fear and nostalgia.

"She left?" asked Gandalf curiously.

"I got married and had a baby." Imerton's lips curled up slightly.

Gandalf laughed, and then he said seriously: "Imorton, you know, negative energy itself is not evil." Not far behind him, the inconceivable eyes of Aragorn and the others seemed real, only the four hobbits looked confused "It's just that negative energy is stimulated by negative emotions and is more likely to get out of control, so its users are often easily eroded by it. Positive energy, if you indulge too deeply, is the same, the fall of Salaman... You have been an undead for more than 3000 years, It's extremely rare that you haven't lost it yet. However, you