Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Su Xi subconsciously planned to follow the cub and watch him hunting, but when she glanced at the small map in the upper right corner, she saw that a group of small dots had begun to secretly surround the Second Prince’s dot – the assassination began already? Why so fast?!
Su Xi didn’t know when the assassins would attack. She was afraid that her side quest would fail, which would lead to the collapse of the subsequent plot. So she didn’t bother to look for the cub first and switched the screen to the Second Prince instead.
At this time, the second prince was with a dozen of his followers, concentrating on drawing his bow and staring at a rabbit. The rabbit was very alert and heard the crowd’s movement, so it quickly jumped away. The second prince quickly chased after it with his guards and followers. They chased it all the way from the foot of the mountain to the jungle on the mountainside.
Su Xi glanced at the group of assassins in ambush again. They were gradually approaching the direction of the Second Prince from both sides of the valley. However, there were not only the Second Prince and his men on Qiuyan Mountain, but also many other princes and their followers. Although Qiuyan Mountain was very large and stretched to the end, there was a certain probability of being seen by others, so these assassins were extremely careful and moved very slowly…
Su Xi was nervous at first, but later she slumped on the bus seat in a state of lifelessness.
Whether to kill or not, hurry up! She was still waiting to go back and watch her cub hunting after saving the man!
When the bus arrived, she carried her schoolbag, held her phone in one hand, and still wore headphones, as she limped toward her neighborhood with a cane. She would occasionally pick up her phone to take a look, waiting for the assassins to appear.
It took the assassins more than two hours to allow the Second Prince to completely enter their sight and find a better assassination location.
Right in the heart of the forest, the surroundings were very quiet, with only the rustling sound of leaves blown by the wind.
The second prince and his followers came here following their prey.
Su Xi was already sitting at the desk, reviewing her homework with her cell phone on the left, waiting for the assassins to appear. Suddenly, she heard a burst of arrows and someone shouted “Assassins——”.
She quickly threw away the pen, picked up the phone, and stared at the Second Prince on the screen.
There was chaos on the screen.
An assassin dressed in black and with his face masked jumped out. Three of the dozen guards around the second prince had been shot dead by the volley of arrows just now. The rest surrounded the second prince to protect him.
The assassins were obviously hired fighters with great martial arts skills, and they fought with the guards.
Many of these guards had been injured in the hail of arrows just now, and were clearly no match for the enemy, so they fought and retreated.
At this moment, another group of men in black appeared not far away. They stood up from higher ground and drew their bows again to shoot a volley of arrows.
These assassins were well-prepared, and the Second Prince was outnumbered. Many guards were shot to pieces by arrows, and the remaining few were bleeding and barely protecting the Second Prince as he retreated.
One arrow was very accurate and flew straight towards the back of the Second Prince who was retreating in a hurry.
Su Xi quickly stretched out her fingers, grabbed a bird on a nearby branch, and blocked the arrow. The bird screamed and fell to the ground.
The second prince escaped.
Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
The few remaining guards pushed the Second Prince and said to him, “Your Highness, go back to the camp quickly. We will stop these people!”
These men stopped the assassin, and the second prince rolled down the hillside, rode a horse tied to the road, and escaped at full speed.
Seeing that they could not catch up with the Second Prince, the assassins became angry and started fighting with the Second Prince’s guards.
Su Xi was a little confused. How come the Second Prince had escaped safely without any injury, but there was no prompt on her side that the side quest was completed. There couldn’t be another wave of assassins, right?
She hurried over but saw that after the Second Prince rode his horse out of the reach of the assassins, he did not return to the camp but stopped by a stream some distance away from the camp.
What to stop for?
The second prince was a short man dressed in black. He was relatively low-key and only wore a simple jade pendant on his body. Su Xi hadn’t paid much attention to him before they set off at the foot of the mountain.
All she knew was that among the princes, the softest one was the crown prince, the most flamboyant and licentious one was the third prince, and the most scheming and aggressive one was the fifth prince.
As for the second prince, compared with the others, he really didn’t stand out at all, and it seemed like he had a low-key buff, making him inconspicuous on any big occasion.
At this moment, the second prince, who had just dismounted from his horse, was still holding an arrow that he had just taken from the assassins. He lowered his head to take a look, as if to confirm that it was non-toxic. After confirming this, he suddenly –
Suddenly, without hesitation, he stabbed himself in the chest!
In an instant, blood splattered three feet!
The wound was very deep!
The second prince fell to the ground.
Su Xi outside the screen was stunned!
The system popped up a prompt: “Side quest failure warning, please complete the side quest well.”
“If the Second Prince is seriously injured, he will be bedridden for half a year at most, or three months at least. He won’t need a new companion, and the storyline of the protagonist entering the Imperial Academy will have to be cut out, or we will have to find another way.”
“But finding other ways requires taking a long detour and generating many side quests, which is very difficult.”
Su Xi: “…”
She was wondering why she had just helped the Second Prince block the arrow, but the game had not yet popped up the prompt sound for the completion of the side quest. It turned out that it was waiting for her here!
This second prince looked low-key, but he was actually pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger!
He must have anticipated that someone would come to assassinate him, so he simply took his guards to chase the prey into the mountains, but who knew that the assassins failed, so he simply stabbed himself with an arrow.
If only a few guards had died, Qiuyan Mountain’s assassination might have been left unresolved for the sake of the royal family’s reputation.
But if it was him, the prince, who was injured, firstly, the emperor would conduct a thorough investigation, and secondly – the recent frost disaster had caused resentment among the people, and the emperor was selecting people to go to the remote northern areas to provide disaster relief. If he was injured and seriously ill, the emperor would definitely not let him go. If he did not go, the departure of any of the other princes would lead to a new layout of forces in the capital.
Su Xi almost suspected that the second wave of assassins was arranged by the second prince himself.
But the plot didn’t explain it, so she didn’t know whether her guess was correct.
This plot was beyond Su Xi’s expectations, and she was a little confused.
But the most urgent task was to find a remedy.
The second prince had been injured, and this game did not have a rewind function, so the only way was to find a way to make his injury heal within just half a month, preferably within a few days, so that it would not delay the main quest.
Thinking of this, Su Xi first opened the mall and bought a tube of sleeping pills.
She put the drug in a leaf and scattered it from the air.
The second prince had lost too much blood and was stumbling towards the camp. His mind was still clear. He thought that as long as he walked for less than half an incense stick of time, he would see the prince stationed in the camp, and then he would be safe.
At that time, he could create the scene that all the guards around him were killed and he escaped with serious injuries.
But who could have imagined that someone secretly sprinkled sleeping pills on him and he fainted all of a sudden.
“…”
The second prince before fainting: …?
After the second prince fainted, Su Xi looked at the map, made sure there was no one around, and quickly opened the golden medicine column in the mall.
The most effective gold medicine showed that ordinary arrow wounds could be healed within three days, and the effect was 100%.
But the Second Prince was cruel and ruthless to himself, and the wound was so deep that Su Xi was afraid that it would take ten days or half a month for the wound to heal, delaying her son’s important business. So she bought three bottles of golden medicine from the mall in one go, poured them all on the wound on his chest, and spread them evenly.
This should be foolproof.
Su Xi dragged the Second Prince towards the camp again, but she certainly couldn’t just drop him from the sky into the camp at the foot of the mountain, so she dropped the Second Prince on the snow more than 200 meters away from the camp.
It wasn’t over yet. Su Xi deliberately made some noise here, pretending to be a wild beast running over, to attract the attention of the guards stationed in the camp who were eating meat and drinking wine.
But who would have thought that she hit the tree several times, but the drunk guards didn’t hear it at all.
Su Xi couldn’t help but slap the screen hard!
The trees near the Second Prince all shook, and the leaves fell down one after another. The guards then heard it, and hurriedly stood up, drawing their swords and coming towards this side.
But by this time it was completely dark. The guards came to the area, checked around, and found nothing unusual, so they went back with a smile. One of them even walked straight past the second prince who was lying on the ground.
Su Xi: “…”
The Second Prince was in black and indeed not very noticeable, but such a big man lying here could not be noticed. Was it because it was too dark or were these guards too blind?
Su Xi had no choice but to pat the tree again, and then casually throw a lantern next to the second prince.
She was finally careful enough to think carefully, fearing that the same gift she gave to her baby before would arouse suspicion, so she bought the most ordinary lantern from the mall, made of straw, the kind used by hunters.
There were guards stationed on Qiuyan Mountain all year round, and the prey were also raised by hunters on the mountain, so it was normal for someone to come across the injured Second Prince, rescue him and send him here.
In addition, Qiuyan Mountain was full of high and steep mountains, and although there were guards stationed there, it was such a big mountain without even a border, so it was not surprising that other common people might accidentally enter the mountain.
When the guards returned to the camp, they found the candlelight on this side, so they went back and forth to check, and only then did they discover the Second Prince on the ground. They were immediately horrified and quickly helped the Second Prince up: “Second Prince, wake up, wake up!”
“Your Highness, the Second Prince was assassinated and injured!” Someone went to report to the Crown Prince with a pale face, scared to death.
Su Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did the interface finally pop up a reminder that the side quest was completed. “Congratulations on completing the side quest, gold coins +20, points +2.”
Since the side quest was completed, it meant that the second prince’s injuries were no longer serious due to the effect of her golden medicine, and at least it would not affect the subsequent plot.
After completing this side quest without any trouble, Su Xi quickly switched the interface to the cub.
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