Chapter 78 Reserves
The prison door was locked again, and Alfred, who was lying on the ground, was thrown in. Before leaving, the dwarves picked up some garbage and blocked the windows so that people outside could not see what was going on inside.
"Perfect."
A group of people sneaked back to Bud's house and got the black arrow.
"This is a really heavy spear. I don't think an ordinary bow can shoot it."
"We need to use the wind crossbow in the center of town."
Bard raised his head and looked into the distance, and the dwarves followed suit.
"That's a killer weapon, I can see that."
"Are we going to lure the dragon over here?"
"No, that would be a huge loss to Changhu Town."
"Borrow from the mayor?"
"Do you think that given the reputation of the mayor among the people of this place, he will lend us the wind crossbow?"
"Damn it, who are these people in charge of this place?"
"I think it would be better to just take it away."
"Yes, take it away!"
"Let's do it, let's go!"
"Wait, wait, there are a lot of guards in the town center." Bard stopped them quickly.
"We can wait until night. There are only a few teams patrolling at night, and there is a large gap in the patrol time. We have plenty of time to take it away."
"There's no time, Master Bud."
Thorin looked at him and said, "We can wait, but the dragon can't. It's planning to come out and kill everyone now."
"The sooner this happens, the better. No amount of guards can stop a determined dwarf."
"That... that's fine."
They acted right away. Following the route provided by Bard, the dwarves soon arrived under the sentry tower equipped with a wind crossbow. The surrounding residents looked at them curiously, especially when they saw Bard, some people even showed a little surprise.
"Bud? You're not being caught..."
“Shh—”
"I have something important to do."
The residents looked at each other, exchanged glances, and began to take the initiative to cover for Bud.
"The guards are coming!"
“Ah, my stall!”
Just as the guards were about to come over, a resident screamed and 'accidentally' knocked over his own stall, blocking the road.
"Oh my god, how long will it take me to clean up!"
"I'll help you!"
The residents around spontaneously came over and gathered together to help the resident who accidentally knocked over the stall to clean up the mess. However, after waiting for half a day, they still couldn't clean up the mess.
It was not until the guards began to get impatient and were ready to take action themselves that the group dispersed and went about their own business.
The guards continued their patrol and found nothing unusual.
In the watchtower, two unconscious soldiers were lying on the haystack, covered up, while the dwarves had already climbed up.
"But how can we take such a big crossbow away?"
Bud really couldn't think of how to lift this thing. Looking at the size and material of the crossbow, it would be difficult to lift it without four or five strong men.
"Ha, you underestimate the dwarves. It was built with our technology, so of course we can dismantle it with our technology."
In this dwarf team, there are relatively few professional warriors and more craftsmen.
But at this time, the craftsmen were more useful. Soon, this wind crossbow that was bigger than an entire dwarf was disassembled into pieces and turned into a pile of large and small parts, which were carried by the dwarves.
“It’s time to go!”
As the dwarves moved.
In the prison, a man knocked frantically on the door, shouting, "Open the door, open the door for me!"
A guard passing by heard the shouting from the prison and shouted, "Stop shouting! Without the mayor's order, you will never get out!"
"You idiots, you don't even know that the honorable deputy of Changhu Town is imprisoned here. Hurry up and open the door and let me out!"
Huh? The guards quickly pushed the garbage stuck on the iron window down and looked inside. Sure enough, there was a familiar face with swollen eyes.
The prison door opened immediately.
"Quick, go catch Bud, that reactionary guy, he escaped from prison!"
Under Alfred's order, Long Lake Town immediately entered a state of alert, and guards were deployed in large numbers, shuttling around the town.
However, no matter how hard they searched, they could not find the person they were looking for. Instead, there were always obstacles along the way. Either the potted plants in this flower shop had fallen over, or that fisherman's net was across the middle of the road. After walking for a while, there would be some obstacles, making the guards very uncomfortable.
The guards were unable to find Bud until dark.
Long ago, he had already followed the dwarves out of town safely.
"Brother Bud, it seems that I still underestimated your influence."
On the way, Balin talked to the respected sharpshooter: "I think with your reputation, you can overthrow the corrupt mayor at any time if you want. You don't even need to do anything. The people will spontaneously push you up."
"Perhaps."
Bud shook his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
The dragon-slaying weapon is on its way to Lonely Mountain.
But Levi would not put all his hopes on this. Even if he did not have the fatal item like the Black Arrow, it was not impossible to kill a cunning dragon that liked to run around all the time.
Following the route provided by Thorin, Levi soon dug into the processing room without Smaug noticing.
"oh--"
As soon as he came in, Levi's eyes widened.
With such a reserve of materials and such a richness of props, at this moment, Levi was happier than a rat in an oil tank.
[Added synthesis: Flare Bomb]
In the processing room, Levi successfully saw the explosive bomb mentioned by the dwarves, but it was just some semi-finished products and shells, but this was enough for Levi to unlock its synthesis.
After a quick look, I found that the flare bomb is quite powerful, with eight points of damage and a small splash range. In terms of power, it is far inferior to TNT.
However, it also has advantages. That is, it is thrown and explodes as soon as it hits the ground. It is much more convenient than TNT, which needs to be placed, ignited and waits for several seconds before exploding. It also requires less materials than TNT. One gunpowder can synthesize a bomb.
Also, the flare bomb has a special buff: blinding.
If you open your eyes and face it directly when it explodes, you will be blinded for a few seconds and won't be able to see anything.
All in all, this thing is pretty good and somewhat useful, equivalent to the Middle-earth version of a flash grenade.
After making some flash bombs and storing them in his backpack, Levi opened the material box next to him and took a look.
Sulfur, saltpeter, carbon powder, and some ready-mixed gunpowder - everything needed to make a bomb was here.
Moreover, since it is an important processing site for the dwarves, there is not only gunpowder here, but also a lot of other raw materials piled up. As long as you want to find them, you can basically find some, including sand and paper.
Yes, and paper.
As the old saying goes, truth cannot be hidden.
But it can contain gunpowder.
With a huge reserve of materials, Levi directly made a lot of TNT, flash bombs, and some fireworks for experiments.
(End of this chapter)
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