It was the dead of night at this time, and the storm that had ravaged the misty mountains had long since subsided.

It was pitch black in the cave where the expedition team was located. The torches used for lighting were extinguished due to lack of fuel, but there was still a small amount of light, which did not make it difficult to see inside the cave.

The cave, which was originally quite spacious, was now filled with sleeping dwarves, leaving people with nowhere to step down.

Everyone was exhausted today. After a long journey of more than ten days, they encountered the thrilling battle of rock giants. The dwarves were exhausted physically and mentally, and fell asleep after a simple dinner.

Gao Yuan was covered with a blanket, leaning on a rock with his eyes closed to relax. He looked at Bilbo's location from time to time.

Because he knew that when the goblins approached them, the stinging sword on Bilbo's waist would emit a blue light as a warning.

Gao Yuan could tell at a glance that the hobbit was not asleep yet. He was lying motionless on the ground with his arms folded across his chest.

When a normal person sleeps, he will never remain motionless for several hours. The only explanation is that he is pretending to sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but Gao Yuan noticed that the stabbing sword on Bilbo's waist was emitting a faint blue light from the scabbard. He knew that the time had come.

Bofur, who was on duty at night, apparently also noticed this abnormal phenomenon.

Bofur stood up in confusion. He walked carefully to Bilbo's side and shook Bilbo's body.

Bilbo, who had been tossing and turning, immediately opened his eyes.

"What's the matter?" Bilbo asked quietly.

Although Bilbo tried his best to suppress his speaking volume, it was still very obvious in this silent cave, and his voice also woke up Thorin Oakenshield, who had been on high alert.

He opened his eyes and looked at Bofur and Bilbo who were talking.

Bofur pointed to the stabbing sword at Bilbo's waist.

"What do you have there?"

Bilbo looked confused. He looked in the direction of Bofur's finger and saw that the stabbing sword originally hanging on his waist was emitting a faint blue light.

He sat up and slowly pulled out the Stinging Sword. He saw that the sword was flashing blue light, and the blue light illuminated the dark cave.

Thorin stood up in shock. He took out the beast-biting sword he was carrying, and saw that it was also shining with blue light.

He looked around and saw that the sand that had been spread under the dwarves began to drain away rapidly, and cracks appeared on the sand.

When the sand grains were almost gone, Thorin discovered that this was not the ground at all. What was hidden under the sand were stone slabs.

Thorin immediately became alert and shouted: "Get up quickly!"

The originally sleeping dwarves were awakened by Thorin's voice, and they quickly reached for the weapons beside them.

"This is a trap!"

Thorin's reaction was very quick, but it was too late.

The flaps were activated one after another, and the dwarves were caught off guard. Everyone fell into the tunnel under the flaps, including the confused Bilbo.

Because Gao Yuan was familiar with the plot and had been mentally prepared for it, he did not fall like the dwarves.

At this moment, he was relying on his telekinesis to float in mid-air.

The screams and exclamations of the dwarves who fell into the tunnel reached my ears.

Gao Yuan tilted his head, secretly glad that he knew the plot. If he had been bumping around in the tunnel below like the dwarves, he might not have been knocked off his head.

He used his mind power to control his body and entered the tunnel beneath him. When Gao Yuan entered the tunnel, the replica above turned over again and returned to its original state.

Accompanied by the screams and exclamations of the dwarves, a dozen dwarves fell out of a narrow hole, and they fell into a palm-shaped cage.

Numerous dwarves were stacked on top of each other, and the last dwarf to fall was Pombo, who was the fattest. Originally, the dwarves had already suffered a lot in the tunnel, but when Pombo hit him, Groin was pinned down at the bottom.

and Fili almost died on the spot.

Before the dwarves could recover, they saw a large number of goblins rushing towards them. They were shorter and smaller than the dwarves, and their appearance was extremely ugly. They only had a few rags on their bodies to cover their dwarfs.

Humans have disgusting bodies, and half-orcs look much better than them.

The ugly goblins made strange and unpleasant noises and swarmed towards the dwarf.

"Get out of here, you filthy beast."

"Get out of my way!"

"Don't touch me with your dirty hands..."

"Damn you, you're going to do this..."

"You will regret it."

The dwarves had just fallen from above and were smashed to pieces, and they had not recovered yet.

The palm-shaped cage originally held thirteen dwarves and a hobbit and was already very crowded, but now it was crowded in by a group of ugly goblins.

As these goblins crowded forward, they could hardly even wave their fists, let alone find their weapons that had been lost to no one knows where. There was no room for resistance.

Soon the dwarves were captured by these goblins, and their weapons were also taken away by the goblins.

Each dwarf was surrounded by at least four or five goblins, who held the dwarves' hands and feet.

The dwarves cursed loudly, but there was nothing they could do. The depressed dwarves could only be pushed forward by the goblins.

In the chaos, Bilbo was also moving forward in the crowd, but as he walked, he suddenly found that no goblins seemed to notice him, and they were just pushing the dwarves forward.

Bilbo had an idea. He suddenly squatted down and curled up into a ball. The goblins simply ignored him.

Noli, who was struggling, accidentally saw Bilbo squatting on the ground pretending to be an ostrich, with a look of disbelief on his face.

Upon discovering that Bilbo had escaped death, he immediately fled into the shadows and watched helplessly as the dwarves were taken away.

When the goblins left, Bilbo stood up and pulled out the stabbing sword from his waist. The sword was still shining with blue light at this moment.

Looking at the light on the Stinging Sword, Bilbo hesitated. He didn't know whether he should save the dwarves.

He remembered all the ridicules and insults the dwarves had given him before, especially those words Thorin said, saying that there was no place for him in the expedition.

At this time, Bilbo's mind echoed again what Gao Yuan's elf girlfriend Arwen said to him in Rivendell: "Perhaps in the future, its current or future owner will go on a great adventure.

, use it to write a legendary story.”

Bilbo thought of Gao Yuan. If Gao Yuan were standing here at this moment, what would he choose?

He would definitely save those dwarves without hesitation. After all, he was so powerful that he would definitely be able to save the dwarves from the hands of the goblins.

"This is an opportunity to prove you, Bilbo. Thorin Oakenshield said that there is no place for you in the team. Now you can prove to him that what he said is wrong." Gao Yuan's voice spoke to Bilbo.

rang in my mind.

Bilbo turned around and looked at the palm-shaped cage, but unfortunately there was no one there, and Gao Yuan was not there.

"Fight!" Bilbo made up his mind.
Chapter completed!