After a morning of discussions, the skin-changer Beorn and the dwarves reached a cooperation.

According to Bion, although he hates the greedy and arrogant dwarves, he has a deep hatred for the orcs. Since the orcs want to kill the dwarves, then he has to help the dwarves.

After eating the breakfast prepared by Beorn for them, the expedition team said goodbye to the skin-changer Beorn, and then rode the horses provided by the other party to prepare to head towards their next destination, Mirkwood.

According to the plan of Gandalf and the dwarves, they will next cross the strange forest called Mirkwood where wood elves live.

Before leaving, Gandalf took Beorn and whispered for a long time. It was not until the dwarves became impatient that he returned to the team with an ugly face.

It was obvious that the conversation with Bion just now gave him some bad news.

The team started to move forward. Yang Pan, who was riding on Tietou, turned his head and took a deep look at Bion, which made him turn his head and shrink his neck.

In fact, according to Yang Pan's original intention, he wanted to ride Beorn in the form of a giant bear to the dark forest, because sitting on the back of a giant bear is much more comfortable than sitting on a hard dragon saddle.

However, his idea was dissuaded by Gandalf on the grounds that skin-changers could not switch between human and animal forms at will. After all, he did not want to ride on a three-meter-tall, dirty, hairy man.

After looking at Bion with some pity, Yang Pan withdrew his gaze and urged the iron head under him to follow the team in front.

After several hours of progress, the expedition team came to a forest. If Yang Pan were asked to describe this forest, he could only describe it as spectacular and weird.

According to the previous agreement, Gandalf and the others released the horses and allowed them to return to their original owner, the skin-changer Beorn. After Yang Pan threw a piece of meat to Tietou, he also took it away again.

Seeing that everyone was standing still in front of the dark forest and not moving forward, Yang Pan stepped forward and said, "Who can lead the way? What are you waiting for here?"

After hearing Yang Pan's words, everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly. It was obvious that none of these guys had ever been to the Mirk Forest, or even if they had been, they had not accomplished the feat of crossing the Mirk Forest.

"It would be great if Radagast was here. He must know the way since he lives here."

Gandalf sighed, and then took the lead towards the dark forest with his staff.

"Well, can we change the road?" Bilbo looked at the strange forest in front of him, tightened the gun in his hand and said hesitantly, "This forest makes me feel very bad, as if I am sick."

"We have no choice." Gandalf, who was walking in front, said without looking back, "unless we are willing to go around hundreds of kilometers or walk twice as far."

After hearing what Gandalf said, everyone could only accept their fate and follow the old man into the forest.

"This is the Elven Gate."

Watching Gandalf introduce the tree gate formed by two large trees like antlers, the surrounding dwarves showed some disdain.

"Elf, hum!"

It seems that the hatred of these dwarves towards elves is slightly better than that towards orcs, and there will be no way to alleviate it for a while.

Under the leadership of Gandalf, everyone in the expedition team passed through the so-called Elf Gate and slowly entered the dark forest.

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Almost as soon as he entered Yang Pan, he could already feel the difference in this forest. A trace of strange vitality almost filled the entire forest. This was a strange forest full of life.

While feeling the strange vitality of the forest, Yang Pan could also feel a breath of darkness and death. This shows that this forest and the creatures living in it have a dark side, and they have also swallowed up many things that entered the forest.

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Because he felt the weirdness and darkness of this dark forest, Yang Pan kept his hand on the handle of the ancient sword - Dragon Tooth after entering the forest, ready to attack at any time.

However, just as everyone in the expedition team had taken a few steps forward, Gandalf, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and stood there with blank eyes.

Faced with everyone's inquiries, Gandalf remained as dumb as a piece of wood without giving any response.

Just when Yang Pan wondered whether Gandalf was possessed by an evil spirit, the old man suddenly returned to normal.

Gandalf, who was still standing upright, suddenly turned his head and asked the dwarves, "You haven't released my horse yet, right?"

"How is it possible? They were all released before entering the forest." The dwarf who was asked by Gandalf replied in a daze.

"Forget it." Gandalf shook his head after hearing this, then turned to Yang Pan, who was holding the handle of the knife, and said, "Mr. Axe, I need your help."

"I?"

Yang Pan pointed at himself, his expression looking a little confused.

Before Gandalf could say anything, Thorin asked directly, "Gandalf, you want to leave, and you want to take Axe with you?"

"Believe me, I wouldn't do it unless I had to." Gandalf said helplessly.

The dwarves fell silent after hearing this. After a while, they heard Thorin say, "You can leave, but Lord Axe cannot leave. He has to go with us."

Speaking of this, Gandalf, Thorin, even Bilbo and the other dwarves all turned their attention to Yang Pan.

Facing the gazes of everyone, Yang Pan spread his hands and said, "It all depends on what I do. As long as you guys reach an agreement, it doesn't matter where I go."

In the end, Gandalf succeeded in persuading Thorin, and he could also use the strong support of Axe to verify the thing that worried him.

Before leaving the expedition team, Gandalf specially introduced the potential dangers in Mirkwood and some things to pay attention to to Thorin and other dwarves. Then he talked to Bilbo alone for a while and encouraged him.

Yang Pan also made some preparations before leaving. After all, Thorin was his mission target, and he couldn't let the other party make mistakes.

I saw him calling Thorin aside alone, and then handed him three egg-sized balls.

Two of these three balls are dark red, soft and elastic to the touch, and look like two meatballs, while the other one is a crystal ball wrapped in a ball of holy white light.

Those two meatballs are wrapped with part of Yang Pan's spinal fluid. As long as they are eaten, the eater can become a 10-meter giant while maintaining sanity, and this will last for 10 minutes.

As long as the duration is up, the giant's body will quickly disintegrate due to exhaustion of energy, without any impact on the user.

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The reason why the meatballs have such an effect is mainly because the giant body formed after eating the meatballs is provided by Yang Pan, and the user is just the driver of this body.

However, because this kind of special meatballs is very difficult to make, consumes a lot of energy, and also has high requirements on the user's physical fitness, Yang Pan only made two as experiments.

As for the crystal ball wrapped with light, it is relatively simple. It just uses a layer of hardened crystal to store a ball of diamond light.

When using this thing, you only need to break the fragile hardened crystal outside. However, because there is not much light, its effect is only to dispel some curses, and it cannot be used against Sauron and his Ringwraiths at all.

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The reason why Yang Pan gave this thing to Solin was mainly because he remembered that someone in the expedition team would be injured later, and this thing should have some effect.

By handing all these things to Thorin and the small crystal balls used for positioning given to him before, Yang Pan would be able to feel more at ease even if he was away for a long time.

After putting away the items given by Yang Pan, Solin said with some difficulty, "Come back soon, we need you."

"What you said gave me goosebumps all over my body." Yang Pan patted Solin on the shoulder and said, "I will come back, but don't die."

After saying goodbye, Gandalf took Yang Pan and left under the watch of the dwarves.

After leaving Mirkwood, Gandalf originally wanted to borrow a horse from Beorn, the skin-changer, but Yang Pan released Iron Head and said that they could ride Iron Head together. This guy didn't care about it anyway.

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Throwing a piece of meat to Tietou casually, Yang Pan waved his hand to tell him to lie down, and then said to Gandalf, "You go up first."

"Let me go first, is this okay?" Gandalf glanced at the ferocious-looking Iron Head and asked uneasily.

Yang Pan pulled Gandalf over and said impatiently, "I don't know the road. Do you want to show me the way? Come on."

"Okay, okay, I get it."

Seeing Gandalf riding on Tietou, Yang Pan jumped directly onto Tietou's back.

Reaching out and patting the iron head to signal it to get up, Yang Pan asked Gandalf in front of him, "Where is our destination?"

"Tomb of the Ringwraiths, High Ridge of Rhudol." Gandalf's voice sounded very low, and it seemed that he must be in a bad mood now.

"Understood." Yang Pan raised his hand and slapped the iron head hard, and then shouted loudly, "Listen to this old man now, and go wherever he tells you to go, do you understand!"

"roar!"

Upon hearing this, Tietou immediately yelled to express his understanding.

"Very good." Yang Pan nodded slightly and then said to Gandalf, "Okay, let me show you the way. You should be anxious too."

"Thank you."

After thanking him, Gandalf raised the staff in his hand to guide Iron Head, and Iron Head immediately rushed out as if he had stepped on the accelerator.

Gandalf, who was on Iron Head's back, almost fell off the dragon saddle because of its strong momentum. Fortunately, Yang Pan helped him from behind.

After stabilizing his body, Gandalf lowered his body to reduce the wind pressure when Iron Head ran, then turned his head and shouted to Yang Pan, "This mount is really fierce, how did you tame it in the first place."
Chapter completed!