Sailing the Waterways! The Ringwraiths Politely Draw Their Swords to See You Off

With the hardest part of the mission complete, all they had to do next was follow the guidance to the endpoint of this stage—the Prancing Pony.

Moreover, having driven back the Nazgûl's encirclement and assassination attempt had greatly boosted the Zhongzhou Team's confidence. And rightly so: although Middle-earth was an extraordinary world where true gods and demons existed, it was simply far too vast!

So vast that powerful creatures were difficult to encounter.

Especially along this stretch of road to the Prancing Pony. Unless the Nazgûl who had fled back to Mordor through the gap between life and death returned to intercept them again, there was little to worry about. And since the Zhongzhou Team had driven them back once, they could naturally do so a second time.

That was why the Zhongzhou Team members were in such good spirits.

That good mood lasted until Wang Zhen and the others reached the wooden bridge at the riverside ferry and saw the little wooden boat tied to a post at the far end. Then they all felt the awkward urge to complain, without knowing where to begin.

This was also due to ingrained assumptions. At first, Wang Zhen and the others had not considered the small boat used by the four Hobbits in the movie to be a problem. They had all assumed that since it carried four Hobbits in the film, then even though Hobbits were child-sized and the boat would not be large, it should still easily accommodate four of them.

But reality differed from their expectations.

The little boat tied to the end of the ferry bridge was not merely small—it was too small to carry four Hobbits! Wang Zhen and the others estimated that it could hold only two Hobbits at most. Clearly, this had been adjusted