Chapter 706 Dark Under the Lamp
"Did you see the cavalry? Where are they? Why can't I see them?" Zeratul put up a pergola and looked around, but he couldn't find anything except grass, gravel and the ruins of the old lookout post. He looked at Zhao Mai doubtfully.
"My question is, do you have cavalry? You idiot, don't you even understand what the question is?" Zhao Mai flipped his wrist and "transformed" a giant bow from somewhere. The orc Blackfoot is about 1.9 meters tall, and this bow is much shorter than his height. The entire bow is made of unknown metal, even the bow strings. Zhao Mai pulled out an arrow made of ice, put it on the bow, and suddenly pulled it round.
The biggest advantage of the ice arrows is that they melt and turn into water after a while. No one can tell who shot them to death. Before Zeratul could stop him, Zhao Mai shot out the arrow. The bowstring vibrated, and there was a loud bang that hurt Zeratul's ears and eyes.
"The cavalry is ours, especially those who ride horses are ours, and those who ride wolves are basically ours!"
"Shoot him to death." Zhao Mai turned his hand, the long bow disappeared, and his hand turned into a spear again.
"Shooted to death? Who are you kidding? The arrow flew very fast, but I could still see it. It flew behind the hill. But can your eyes bend? Can you aim across the hill? Shoot an arrow and hit a advancing cavalryman?"
"Yes, that's right." Zhao Mai waved his hand and snorted: "Using human cavalry on the territory of Mordor, how arrogant is this to come up with a way to find death! Let me help you solve it You have to thank me for this trouble."
"You! You haven't seen the commander yet, and you still want me to thank you?" Zeratul shook his head: "I think you are the arrogant one who is marching on the road of death! Evil will definitely be defeated by justice. , you’d better switch to my side quickly.”
"On your side, this sounds really ironic. You are still my slave." Zhao Mai was disdainful. He beat his chest with his fist and said, "Come on, use your justice to defeat my evil."
"Now is not the time. I want to take you to see the commander, then pick up my sister and take her to a safe place. Then I will come and defeat you."
"A true Zeratul should learn to see everyone, including enemies, and especially enemies, from a comprehensive perspective. You are still too young."
Zhao Mai used various methods to stimulate Zeratul along the way, mocking and undermining his self-confidence, and it was not without reason. Zeratul is entangled with a strange power, which seems to be the will of the world of light, but it is different from Thrandis, and it is also different from Zeratul's previous one. This power carries beauty and order, but it is not good at justice. Zhao Mai smelled the smell of revenge and the desire for power.
Revenge and power are not inherently good or bad; it is how they are pursued that defines good or evil. Just like "Behead the evil" is just an attitude, it is never justice. Zeratul's will to the world is a bit like "revenge against the dark forces at all costs." Zeratul believes that this is good and just, but Zhao Mai has a different view.
Therefore, he kept testing and looking at the reaction of this world's will from all aspects, so Zhao Mai could probably understand his character without actually coming into contact with "Commander" Talion or Elf "King" Celebrimbor. sex. It is better to observe their actions than to observe their words, and every action they take will bring different characteristics to the will of the world.
When Zhao Mai first entered this world, he had no history behind him and no "labels" on his body. Therefore, when the will of the world entangled him, his "attributes" were very clear, black, white, righteous and evil. But as time goes by and events unfold, these attributes blend into each other like dyes, becoming more intricate. In Buddhist terms, this is called cause and effect.
Zhao Mai does not know how to cultivate immortality, but this does not affect him from learning the wisdom of other schools. After analyzing world will with the concepts and methods of cause and effect, many problems can be easily explained. After he detected Zeratul's will characteristics, he stopped "tickling" him.
The two people left the Nurn Plains and entered the northern part of Mordor. If they continued north, they would reach the Gorgoroth Plains and Mount Doom, but they would be facing Sauron's lair head-on. Fortunately, they turned towards the Ash Plains to the east, an area covered with gravel and unable to be cultivated.
Even orcs find it difficult to live here, but there are lairs of gray-green goblins and fallen gray dwarves underground. They are also slaves of the Demon King Sauron, but their status is a whole class lower than that of the orcs. They also do the hard work of mining and digging wells.
The underground situation here is very complex, and it is very close to Sauron's Dark Eye. The most annoying thing is that there is no grass growing here. If Xi soil comes here, anything will grow here, so it is particularly easy to arouse suspicion. In addition, the airspace curse here is much stronger than that in the south of Mordor. There is a great danger of surveillance insects flying over, and they will die from the curse at any time. If they exploded and burned in the air and aroused Sauron's curiosity, it would be more of a loss than a gain.
Therefore, Zhao Mai's surveillance of this area is very weak. Rather than spending time here, we might as well figure out how to lay the creep pipes down to Mount Doom. But having said that, as long as the germ carpet is passed, the gardener dragon, inspection bugs and worker bugs will not dare to go there. In fact, it will not play the role of intelligence collection.
At this time, it is better to use the old method, such as setting up warehouses in Doomsday Mountain and Evil Black Tower to receive and sell legion luncheon meat bread, and let the cunning goblins collect some information. The Ringwraiths also gathered in the Evil Black Tower and Mount Doom, especially Mount Doom, and there was no way to sneak past their surveillance.
"Zeratu, don't the Ringwraiths come to patrol your place?"
"Where did the Ringwraiths come from? Their power is terrifying and terrible. Only specially bred ghostly war horses can carry them around. The ghostly warhorses don't like the environment here, so the ringwraiths don't come here. They only circle around the outside at most. Just left."
"Even if they like the environment here, you're going to make them dislike it, right?"
"You can say that. The commander has gathered many capable people who can accomplish magical things, as you will see soon."
Going all the way east, passing through the eighty-mile Gobi Desert, what appeared in front of Zhao Mai was a grassland. Although the grass is short, yellow, and sparsely grown, it is still vegetation. You must know that on the west side of the line, the Gobi is full of gravel and sand, and underground poisonous gas is constantly emerging from some terrible cracks. Other holes without poisonous gas are basically the entrances and exits to the settlements of goblins and fallen dwarves. Even though creatures such as spiders, scorpions, centipedes and lizards move in and out of these caves, they keep their main living areas underground and rarely come up to the surface.
On the other side, there is something like a normal natural environment, and even the breath of the natural force.