Chapter 361 Someone Has Been Kidnapped

Lin Daiyu glanced at the young general beside her, utterly speechless.

Before he appeared, the situation was excellent; the guards of the study tour group had already brought most of the bandits under control.

Unexpectedly, a young general suddenly appeared, dressed in imposing armor and wielding a long spear.

Daiyu had already shot a bandit with her crossbow and was now feigning an attack to lure the enemy in when the young general suddenly rushed into the enemy lines, disrupting Daiyu's plan and stealing her credit.

Daiyu was angry that her credit had been stolen when she heard the young general smile at her.

“Princess Lin, I saved you this time too. Let’s repay this debt of gratitude with a life for a life. I’ve repaid you for saving my life last time.”

Daiyu then noticed that the boy was the same boy she had saved in the Imperial Garden last time.

Before Daiyu could reply, the young man raised his spear at another bandit.

"She's a princess! If we can kidnap her, this won't be a loss! Everyone else, come here! Our target today is this little girl in a green dress riding a white horse!"

Suddenly a voice came from within the bandit group, and then all the bandits rushed towards Daiyu.

Daiyu panicked for a moment, but quickly regained her composure.

That damned young general, for no reason, revealed his identity, making himself the target of everyone's hatred, while he went off to kill bandits and claim credit.

Although there were many enemies, Lan Su never strayed too far from Daiyu. Holding a long sword, she formed a dense protective circle around Daiyu, and no bandit could get within three zhang of Daiyu.

For Lan Su, dealing with these people was like a complete dimensional reduction attack.

The bandits had also fought against Lan Su, but Lan Su seemed to be toying with them, forcing them back and then letting the students and guards take action.

This time, Lan Su was serious, and few people in the arena could withstand her.

As more and more bandits fell, the guards scrambled to claim credit on the perimeter.

The remaining bandits retreated, and Lan Su was too lazy to chase them. Fortunately, they hadn't gotten close to Daiyu yet. If they had, Lan Su would have had to deal with them all!

The bandits ran about ten paces away, and the young general had chased after them at some point. He obviously felt it was beneath him to follow Lan Su and take credit, so he decided to capture the bandits by himself.

The bandits, numbering in the hundreds, thought that kidnapping a few women would be a simple matter, and that the rest of them could just rob the luggage.

Unexpectedly, they were wiped out before they even saw the other person's luggage, and they didn't even know if they could escape.

Just then, the young general caught up. The bandits were furious and had nowhere to vent their anger. They couldn't beat the female demon, and this pretty boy looked like a weakling, but his clothes didn't look cheap. So they decided to tie him up!

The bandits exchanged glances, nodded, and charged toward the young general.

Before the young general could react, he saw several bandits, some holding the horse's front legs, some holding the horse's hind legs, and some strangling the horse's neck. Then two more bandits grabbed his legs and dragged him off the horse.

A knife was held to his neck.

Only then did the bandits realize that their former glory had returned.

They are bandits. Normal people should be afraid of bandits, not like that crazy woman who can slice a watermelon with a sword.

They inexplicably felt that the madwoman looked down on them, as if they were not worthy of fighting her. At first, the madwoman played with them like a cat toying with mice. Later, when they said they wanted to capture Princess Lin, the madwoman swept down a large number of them in just a few moves. What was most terrifying was that all the people who fell were still three zhang away from the madwoman!

She can kill silently without even getting close to the victim.

At this moment, not one of the hundreds of bandits was without regret. Why hadn't they found out that there was such a person in the study tour group? If they had known that such a master existed, even if they had three times the number of men, they wouldn't have dared to come out and rob!

Fortunately, they had caught this showy boy, and they finally felt a sense of triumph.

The men tied the young general up tightly, making him look like a dumpling, and put him on the horse's back. Then they urged the horse to continue on its way. They were familiar with the mountains, and if they went into a ditch, no one outside would easily find them.

People might be hard to find, but there are dogs!

Daiyu also brought quite a few good hunting dogs, so finding one or two people from here wouldn't be difficult at all.

However, I suppose that bandit is after money and won't hurt people easily. That kid is not only meddlesome but also has a big mouth, so it's good to let him suffer a little first!

Daiyu knew this person's identity; Granny Yuan had told her about it last time.

That was the tenth prince, the youngest son of the retired emperor.

Why give up being a proper prince and come here to kill bandits? He must have so much free time!

The Tenth Prince also felt extremely aggrieved at this moment.

He followed General Liu's advance team to suppress the bandits, but before they even reached the bandits' den, they learned that the bandits had already set off to rob the girls' academy's traveling students.

The advance team stayed behind at the bandits' lair to await the arrival of the main force, while he volunteered, saying that his horse was fast and he would go ahead to deliver the message.

He was quite fast, but the bandits were not slow either. By the time he arrived, the students had already dealt with most of the bandits.

The Tenth Prince originally wanted to earn some merit so that he could ask the Emperor to allow him to live outside the palace after returning to the capital.

Unexpectedly, he not only failed to gain any credit, but also got kidnapped.

At this time, the Imperial Guards on the other side of the study tour group had already made contact with General Liu's main force.

Seeing that they had wiped out all the bandits, General Liu did not feel that these people were taking credit for the work. On the contrary, he felt extremely embarrassed. If they had set off a day earlier, the study tour team might not have had to go through the trouble of personally going out.

General Liu was a magnanimous man. As long as the bandits were wiped out, it didn't matter even if he didn't personally wipe them out!

"General Liu, the bandits have not been completely wiped out. A few escaped just now and even kidnapped the Tenth Prince who came to suppress the bandits. General Liu, please send people to rescue them quickly." Mi Ling, along with the group leaders and instructors, had just finished counting the number of people. Apart from a few guards who suffered minor injuries, everyone else was unharmed.

Daiyu told her that the Tenth Prince had come before and had been kidnapped by bandits. Seeing that Lan Su had no intention of rescuing him, Mi Ling informed General Liu about the matter.

If they can rescue the Tenth Prince, that would be a great achievement.

Even if he doesn't get credit for suppressing the bandits, the Tenth Prince will still get credit for rescuing the hostages!

Although the Tenth Prince was not a favored prince, he was still a legitimate member of the royal family.

Upon hearing this, General Liu immediately mustered his troops and went to rescue the Tenth Prince.

To facilitate their rescue, Daiyu lent General Liu a fine hunting dog and instructed Liu Qianrou to return the dog to the Lin family after they returned to the capital.

Once everything was packed up, the study tour group continued their journey, this time much faster.

They brought so many prisoners of war back to the capital; they couldn't wait to show them off in the city right now!