Train to Another World

After Li Zhuoguang occupied Lonely Mountain, he did not want to open the gate of Lonely Mountain. Instead, he reinforced it again, because Li Zhuoguang and his team did not need to go through the gate to enter and exit Lonely Mountain.

Even the River Valley people who moved into Lonely Mountain later were directly pulled in by Li Zhuoguang with the Crimson Touch. After entering Lonely Mountain, the River Valley people made a simple winch elevator to enter and exit.

As for the power source, it was the horses and mules brought by the River Valley people. They did not complain about the trouble of entering and exiting, because the experience of destroying the city and the country made them willing to invest everything for the safety of their homes.

Li Zhuoguang took Ariana to the terrace and greeted the old man guarding the elevator.

It seems that this old man was the duty officer of the clock tower in Changhu Town before. He was used to guarding one place all day, so since the elevator was built, he spontaneously became the guardian of the elevator.

Entering Lonely Mountain, Li Zhuoguang saw the elves waiting here. Because he had no idea how to contact Galadriel, he asked the elves who had delivered the message for Saruman to go back and reply, and then he started his return journey immediately.

Anyway, it wouldn't take him long to go back and forth with Ariana.

Li Zhuoguang informed the elf scout about what happened at Redhorn Peak in the Misty Mountains. The elf scout expressed his heartfelt gratitude and immediately took out the raven he carried with him.

Li Zhuoguang dictated and the scout wrote. He wrote down the whole story in detail.

After the elf scout released the raven on the terrace, he did not leave directly by elevator. Instead, he returned to the meeting hall to meet Li Zhuoguang.

Seeing Li Zhuoguang's puzzled look, the elf said, "In addition to reporting to the Holy White Council this time, I also went back to Lórien."

"What advice does the lady of Lothlórien have?"

When mentioning Galadriel, the elf's expression became respectful: "Knowing that you are looking for something, the lady specially used the water mirror to perform a divination."

Li Zhuoguang asked excitedly, "What is the result?"

The elf's face was a little ugly: "The result is not good. The strange object is surrounded by flames and magma. It looks like..."

The result is not good and it is covered with flames, so there is only one result left: "What I want is in the Doomsday Volcano?"

"Yes."

Li Zhuoguang sighed, and he couldn't help wondering, if he had joined the black side at the beginning, would he be lying on the sofa at home now, holding an iced Coke and guessing what the next mission would be.

Then he shook his head again, although he had a relatively flexible moral bottom line. But Qin Daniu and Xiong Facai probably don't want to cooperate with a notorious demon king.

"Oh, by the way." The elven scout suddenly remembered something and said, "Saruman the White Wizard will arrive at Lonely Mountain soon. I wish you good luck."

Watching the elven scout leave, Li Zhuoguang stroked his chin and guessed maliciously, there is no precedent of Maia running naked in Middle-earth, right?

Because of Li Zhuoguang's reputation, even if there are dark forces such as orcs rushing to Lonely Mountain. But before receiving Sauron's order, they still dare not get too close to Lonely Mountain.

So now the Lonely Mountain Plain should be the most peaceful place except for the Shire. The people of the valley made full use of this and started a street stall economy on the Lonely Mountain Plain.

The entire Lonely Mountain Plain has become a large open-air commercial plaza. Simple tents have been set up, with bars, toy stores, and open-air snacks.

Humans, elves, and dwarves passing by the Lonely Mountain are willing to stop and patronize this special market.

Li Zhuoguang was too lazy to collect any taxes. He just set the rules of prohibiting littering and urinating and defecating anywhere and then left it alone.

Because of the zero tax, the prices in the Lonely Mountain Market are more competitive. And in this market, the most popular is the board game area.

Recently, the River Valley people launched a new product called the River Valley Blind Box. Those who buy the blind box can open a carefully crafted doll.

Those who hold the doll can go to the sandbox in the board game area to play the game. Of course, it is not free, but you only need to pay a reasonable amount of money to use the sandbox and be assigned to a host to play the game.

It is said that the scripts of the game were written by the Lord of Lonely Mountain himself. There are only three at present, namely "Civil War in the Rich Family", "Severe Test", and "Phantom of the Ruins".

Of course, although the scripts are the same, the game experience is definitely not the same. If you can get a more powerful character, such as Thranduil and Galadriel, by opening a blind box, the game experience should be better.

If you get Thorin Oakenshield or something like that, you can play with it, but if you get a blank doll like the Iron Hills Dwarf or the Rivendell Elves, you need to rack your brains and be thrifty.

Of course, the most powerful group of dolls is the five-man team headed by the Lord of Lonely Mountain.

In order to stimulate sales, even the dolls of the same character will not be stereotyped. All dolls have different versions. In addition to different shapes, different versions also have different corresponding attributes and skills.

For example, the conceited King Thrall likes to use trees in the mountains and forests as crowns. There are four versions of King Thrall in spring, summer, autumn and winter alone.

For example, Galadriel has two versions, light and dark. Because the dark version is more powerful, only one dark version will enter the market for every nine light versions.

In addition to the regular version, all dolls also have a very rare hidden version. Unlike those dolls made on the assembly line, they are carefully crafted by the most experienced valley craftsmen.

Let's take Galadriel as an example. Her hidden version is Galadriel, the princess of the Noldor.

That was Galadriel who arrived in Middle-earth from Aman a few epochs ago. Unlike other versions of the intellectual elder sister, this version of Galadriel is a wild sword-wielding elf girl.

Although the hidden version is not necessarily better than the regular version, it is more popular because of its rarity and exquisite workmanship. Even players who have the hidden version are reluctant to take it out for board games and will keep it properly.

"It's out! It's out!"

"What's out?"

"It's out there?!"

"Let's go over and take a look."

Because of one person's excited shouting, people around gathered around, wanting to see what this person had opened.

"This... this shape, I seem to have heard of it."

"It's a dwarf puppet. I've seen someone get a hidden version of Pombo - Pombo Barrel God of War, but I've never seen this puppet."

"I know Pombo, and I've seen the Durin Dwarf, but when did he get the title of Barrel God of War?"

"To be honest, I don't know. I heard that he was in the Iron Hills recently. I'll ask him when he meets him."

"By Ilúvatar! I thought it was just a rumor, but I didn't expect it to really exist! This is a hidden version of Ironfoot Dain, Dwarf Elf Dain!"

The people around burst into exclamations, looking at this lucky guy with envy and jealousy.

As a former card player, Li Zhuoguang knew that even if a common card is issued in large quantities, people's impression of it is just that.

But a rare card that is rarely seen in the world, even if it has been retired for many years, people still talk about it with relish when it is mentioned.

You said so, right? Black... Dwarf Elf Dain.

Humph! You want to run away after offending the lord? !