——The Third Era, 3018, October 5th—

Fengyunding().

“This was once the great watchtower of Amon suel, but now it is just an ancient ruin that barely shelters the wind and rain,” Aragorn said, looking at the ringed ruins in front of him, almost the same color as the rock. “We will camp here tonight.”

"In an era when it was still intact, the gem of Palantíri, also known as the True Knowledge Crystal, can be used to look far or communicate with other True Knowledge Crystals," Frodo continued: "We are being chased by the Ring Spirit. Is it really good to camp in such a conspicuous place?"

"The Ring Spirit thinks the same way," Aragon took out four daggers, or should be short swords, and handed them over to the Hobbit: "I will go around to create some traces of misleading them. You can stay here and try to protect yourself."

"Can we make a fire and cook?" Sam took the pot from behind that he had been carrying since Brie: "Uh, you know, we have to have a midnight snack."

"Hey! Are you stupid?" "Light on the wardrobe?" Merri and Piping immediately condemned.

"...Yes, but you can't leave this circle." Aragon picked up the long sword behind him, poked it on the ground, and drew a large circle around the ruins.

During this process, whenever he completes one-third of the arc, a word with a dark red stream appears on the arc, in order of "Laas", "Yah" and "Nir".

"That looks like some kind of rune from before the Second Age," Frodo said.

"Perhaps, there will always be something that is so ancient that it is not clear about its origin. Their meanings are, "life", "search" and "tracking"," After Aragon finished drawing, he jumped out of the circle: "The positive position can be used to confirm whether there are living things around, and the reverse position effect is to cover up the lives within the influence range from being tracked. As long as you don't leave this circle, even if the ring spirit passes outside, it will not be noticed."

"Then you don't have to go out, right?" Frodo said: "It's dangerous outside, I'll worry."

This kid is endless, right?

"It is necessary," Aragon decided to ignore the words behind Frodo: "If they can't find the traces of our passing and leaving, they will probably search nearby, and even if they don't doubt it, they will definitely come and search."

"That--"

"I might spend more time without waiting for me." Aragon swung his cloak and turned around and left.

"I'll build a stove!" "I'll make a fire!" Meili and Piping cheered and began to attack.

"Hey, Mr. Baggins, what do you want to eat tonight?" Sam began to flip through his cooking bag.

"Grilled tomatoes and fried cabbage." Frodo replied.

"Oh, can you eat some meat? I hate vegetarian dishes."

"That's why you're so fat."

“…”

——

“【Barkins-hiss--】”

“【Barkins-Huh--】”

When Frodo was awakened by the hoarse voice of the Ring Spirit and the overflowing chill, he saw five black knights in black robes gathering outside the ruins of the Fengyunding Shrine Tower, communicating with each other in an incomprehensible way.

After a while, four of them rushed in different directions, while the tallest one turned over and jumped out of the nightmare and rolled into the ruins of the whistle tower in black robe.

Obviously, Aragon did a great job of misleading, so that the ring spirits could not tell which side was the real goal, so they turned to Fengyunding, the most obvious landmark building, as the center, and divided the areas to track them.

"Ba Jin--" Sam was awakened at this time, subconsciously trying to say something, and Frodo covered his mouth.

However, the circle drawn by Aragon seemed to have a certain obstruction effect on the sound. The ring spirit just paced slowly in the ruins of the whistle tower, without the idea of ​​killing the past with the sound.

At this time, Meili and Piping also woke up and covered each other's mouths extremely decisively.

Frodo noticed that every time the Ring Spirit walked to the edge of the circle drawn by Aragon, it turned and left without warning, but it itself was unaware of anything.

However, with the increase of similar behaviors, the runes "inscribed" on the circles began to fade gradually, originally like burning bonfires, but over time, they were gradually developing towards the burning firewood.

"—" "—" Merry and Piping obviously noticed this and began to compete with Frodo and Sam.

"What they mean is to prepare for attack first. After the rune fails, no matter which side the ring spirit discovers, the people on the other side must immediately sting it backstab." Sam pressed his voice to a very low point and said quietly to Frodo.

"—" Frodo made a thumbs up at Merry and Piping, then took out his own dagger and signaled to them.

“【hiss-huh--】”

Sisi-Boer.

As the Ring Spirit walked to the edge of the circle again, the runes on the sword mark left by Aragon were finally completely extinguished, and the Ring Spirit's original casual pace also stopped and slowly turned to look at Frodo and Sam.

"Oh! Bad guy! Mr. Sam is not afraid of you!" Sam winked at Merry and Piping, then rushed towards the ring spirit who had not pulled out his weapon with a short sword.

Bang! Bang!

The Ring Spirit raised his hand and slapped Sam and hit the ruined wall on the other side, then slowly walked towards Frodo, who was constantly retreating.

"You're looking for this, are you?" Frodo pulled out the necklace from his collar and shook it at the ring spirit.

"【Hiss---]" The ring spirit "stared" at the ring, stretched out his hand while moving forward, as if he was about to grab it directly.

"Drink!" "Hey!"

Taking advantage of the attention of the Ring Spirit, Meili and Piping took the opportunity to rise up and poked the two short swords into the back of the Ring Spirit's broad black robe.

Puff puff.

“【Ga---】”

Although the short sword only heard the sound of piercing the fabric after it hit, the ring spirit made an extremely sharp roar. The whole "person" instantly ignited a raging flame, and he struggled with his hands for a while. The black robe and the armor pieces in it fell down as if they had no support and turned into ashes and scrap iron.

"Hey! Frodo! Did you see it?" "We two—"

"【hiss-huh--】"X4

As the unusually familiar sound rang out, Meili and Piping turned their heads stiffly, and as expected, they saw the other four ring spirits standing there, who had drawn their swords and were unsheathed.

"I saw it, you have to fight four." Frodo said.

"..." Meili and Piping were not even in the mood to respond. They barely raised their swords to the ring spirit, but kept retreating in a hurry in the face of the heavy steps of the Black Knight and the pressure caused by the sharp sword.

[Only by wearing a ring can they be saved] The Lord of the Ring bewitched at the right time.

"Come on, I think so too - aren't you looking for it? Come on!"

Frodo pulled the ring off the necklace, yelled at the ring spirits, and put it on his index finger.

———

【Subtle…】

【Scare scare…】

The moment he put on the ring, there were noisy sounds in Frodo's ears, like the whispering of countless people, and the scene in front of him also changed.

Originally dark sky, earthy stone ruins, and bright bonfires.

It has turned into a dark blue sky with an unusually large vortex, a building ruin with a dark surface that is completely unreflective, and a flame with pale and powerless color, and even a fainter brightness than the ring spirits there.

Of course, the Ring Spirit.

After Frodo put on the ring, the "Black Knights" turned into pure white spirit bodies dressed in ancient armor, tall and powerful, with Kong Wu.

"Sure enough... they will not be killed on the reality level. Maybe they will have a chance in this state... but it cannot be today," Frodo hooked the ring spirits with his fingers wearing rings like a provocative way, then turned around and ran away.

“【Finished-Barkins--]”

“【Put the ring-----]”

The Rings gave up Sam, Merry and Piping directly and flew towards Frodo.

"Did Uncle Bilbo see this when he used it to play tricks? But he must not feel like this." Because after putting on the ring, the surrounding environment became brighter, Frodo could clearly see the road without a torch, and after escaping from Fengyuntung, he ran all the way.

【In the shadow, only death -]

After Frodo put on the ring, he stopped bewitching and instead said something proud in a tone of victory.

"Although I have a very strong idea of ​​'giving the ring to the ring spirit' now, it can be easily denied because it is too unreasonable," Frodo ran and looked at the "pure white ring spirit" who was gradually getting closer behind: "I hope the 'Big Stepper' can arrive in time like his name."

Huhuhu--

“【Super the ring--]”

Although the Hobbit was quick and agile, he was too short and was soon chased by the Ring Spirits. Just as the Ring Spirit reached out to grab him, Frodo suddenly turned and turned around, then pulled the ring in his hand off.

call--

The ring spirit, who had regained the appearance of "Black Knight" and "Facial Ghost", was caught off guard and was thrown out a lot. After looking around in a daze for a moment, he caught up again.

"As Uncle Bilbo did," Frodo said to himself as he ran: "Wear the ring and disappear into the real world. If you want to track it, you must use the perspective of the 'soul world'. Once you get used to the perspective of the soul world, if I suddenly take off the ring, they will lose the target in their eyes. Out of the confidence of 'the body in the soul world', they did not ride those nightmares when they chase me, and now they can only chase me on foot. When the real danger is, the next time I wear the ring and get rid of the 'Black Knight', after all, they will not be stupid enough to be shaken twice by me with the same move."

——

Puff.

"Damn...shameless..."

Frodo pressed his pierced shoulder and his body was shaking.

He really couldn't shake the ring spirit twice, because when he put on the ring and was about to use the same trick again the second time, a huge flame eye suddenly appeared in front of him. Compared to the "bewitching" produced by the ring, which required his own cooperation, this eye could force him to froze in place and unable to move.

"[I saw you--]" The eye made an indescribable sound, and it was extremely frightening to hear it.

The next moment, the ring spirits who were shaken caught up from behind and swung their swords to penetrate his ring-wearing arm.

This time, no matter how strong his will is, it is useless. His already unconscious arm was extremely obedient and raised it on his own, reaching the ring on his finger towards the ring spirit emitting white light in front of him.

"If the 'Big Striker' can catch up, I won't talk about the weird sentences that look like from Uncle Bilbo's collection..." Frodo murmured to himself.
To be continued...