Train to Another World

A few days later, Saruman arrived at the Lonely Mountain, but what Li Zhuoguang didn't expect was that King Elrond and Bilbo came with him.

Li Zhuoguang did not expect that these three would appear together.

Although Li Zhuoguang wanted to give Saruman, an old man, a show of strength, for the sake of King Elrond, he decided not to do it.

After all, when the dwarves and Gandalf came to Rivendell together, didn't King Elrond receive him equally?

Li Zhuoguang led the three of them to the living room. There was a plate in front of each person, with a portion of dried meat on the plate.

Li Zhuoguang picked up his portion of dried meat and chewed it deliciously, but found that none of the three people opposite him had eaten.

Li Zhuoguang held the dried meat in his mouth and said vaguely: "Eat it, you're welcome."

King Elrond's eyes were filled with astonishment, "I treated you like that when you came to my home, and you treated me like this when I came to your home?"

Bilbo also poked his fork into the hard meat with some disgust, even though he didn't have a dog. But he swore more than someone else that if he had a dog, the dog's lunch would be richer than this.

Li Zhuoguang didn't say much, just looked at the three of them with encouraging eyes.

King Elrond has human blood, so his tolerance for meat is quite high. And in a sense, he is as decent a person as Xiong Facai, and will never embarrass his owner.

So he picked up the fork next to the dinner plate and thrust it into the dried meat, but it didn't go in.

King Elrond raised his eyebrows, put his fork against the meat, and slowly pushed the fork in with his amazing wrist strength that he had practiced swordsmanship for many years.

He raised his hand, put it to his mouth, and opened his mouth with difficulty. well! If I had known this, I shouldn't have come.

Um? !

I reluctantly took a bite. Although I didn't know what kind of meat it was, it was still quite delicious. What's more important is that after swallowing this dried meat, it's like a fire ignites in the belly, making the whole body feel warm.

Hobbits are very picky about food, but Bilbo saw that Elrond, the king of elves, ate everything. As a guest brought by King Elrond, he had no reason not to eat.

So he tasted some too.

Um? !

King Elrond suddenly remembered something and asked tentatively: "Isn't this Smaug's flesh?"

Bilbo and Saruman were shocked when they heard this.

Li Zhuoguang replied confidently: "I guarantee with my personality that this is definitely not the meat of the Dragon King. You have seen it too, Daniel. In fact, this is a specialty of the Daniel family."

King Ailong thought that Li Zhuoguang had no need to lie, so he nodded and took a few more bites.

Bilbo also kept talking. Although he didn't know why his body became hot after eating this dried meat, his body instinctively felt very comfortable.

The only person at the scene who had not touched the dried meat was Saruman.

Li Zhuoguang's reply to him could not be called friendly, and as a Maiya who had lived for countless epochs, he felt that this person had a bad attitude towards him from the first time he met Li Zhuoguang.

Did you see something? No, there will never be anyone else present when he comes into contact with Sauron. Even if he can hide it from him, he will never be able to hide it from the Demon Lord's perception.

That was the hostility generated simply because of his behavior in asking for the Ring.

Doesn’t he know that these Maiyas represent God the Father?

No, according to what Gandalf said, he once persuaded this man to give up the treasure of the Lonely Mountain, but this man's attitude towards Gandalf was not like this. Should everyone look down upon him? Damn Gandalf!

Now that the light meal was over, it was time to get down to business. Li Zhuoguang led them to the living room. When passing by Saruman's seat, Li Zhuoguang directly picked up the dried meat from Saruman's plate and fed it to Huang Shiren on his shoulder.

This scene made Saruman even more certain that Li Zhuoguang was humiliating him with pet food. But what he didn't expect was that Li Zhuoguang actually humiliated an Elf King in order to embarrass him.

This man is really too unbearable, he just has no strength. It should be impossible to detect his relationship with Sauron. Saruman made an evaluation of Li Zhuoguang in his heart.

But what he didn't see was the look of regret in the eyes of King Elrond and Bilbo after they saw Li Zhuoguang feeding dried meat to Huang Shiren.

After arriving at the reception hall, everyone sat down in three groups. Li Zhuoguang watched this scene with interest.

According to this posture, King Elrond is not on the same side as Saruman.

Saruman spoke first: "I hope you can hand over the Supreme Lord of the Rings and keep it under the custody of the Holy White Council. After all, the corruption of the human heart by the Lord of the Rings is inevitable."

"Then do you think the Lord of the Rings has corrupted me?" Li Zhuoguang asked.

"Maybe you have the means to avoid the corruption of the Lord of the Rings, but it's inevitable over time..."

"I'm asking you, do you feel that the Ring is corrupting me now?"

Although Saruman was a little annoyed by Li Zhuoguang's continuous interruptions, he continued: "Although you can stop being corrupted when you stay away from the Lord of the Rings, if you stay away from the Lord of the Rings, how will you take care of it? So you still leave it to me. Holy White Council......"

Li Zhuoguang calmly took out the Supreme Lord of the Rings from his storage bag.

In an instant, a murmur appeared in the ears of everyone present: "Who said I was far away from it, but I always carry it with me."

"What are you doing?!"

"My belt bag can isolate the influence of the Supreme Lord of the Rings. As long as it is placed in the belt bag, no matter how long it is exposed to, there will be no problem."

Saruman's expression changed, and then he smiled and said: "Then it will be more convenient for us, the Holy White Council, to keep the Lord of the Rings."

"Can your Holy White Council slay the dragon?"

"... As long as we gather our strength, we can still do it."

"Smaug destroyed Dale City, occupied the Lonely Mountain, and has built a nest here for decades. Why don't you come to slay the dragon?"

"..."Saruman's face sank and he was unwilling to speak.

Li Zhuoguang glanced at Saruman with contempt: "You can slay the dragon, but you can't get away unscathed, right?

If you fight Smaug head-on, you should lose one or two. This is the real reason why you, the White Council, have not dealt with Smaug in the past few decades.

You can't accept the price of slaying the dragon, and Smaug is different from Sauron. He won't fight everywhere. As long as he has enough treasure, he will build a nest and sleep.

Anyway, there are no dwarves in the White Council. As long as the dwarves suffer, other races will not be invaded by dragons."

"No Like this!"

"Okay, just pretend that I'm wrong. Then, we killed the dragon without paying any price, not even a scratch.

The White Council has five leaders, and we also have five people, so who do you think has stronger overall strength?"

"Fighting against the dark forces does not depend solely on the strength of power."

"What a joke, if the power was sufficient, there would be no need to separate the ring from Sauron to defeat him in the war that year. Wouldn't it be better to just tie him to an anvil and sink him into Mount Doom?"

"You are making up stories!"