The Trail (16)

"Now, where is she?" the leader asked. He was getting impatient and wanted to finish his job to go and enjoy his fun time back at the brothel he owns back in Taiyang City (Wang Empire).

"I… I really don't know," Gu Xiang answers. But it was true, the list does say where the general area of her home was but they all didn't scout where the exact location would be so they don't know.

Lin Yu Yan has said escaping would be the best option but everyone has been captured and pinned to the ground. Even if they do make it out, the enemy is after their master and is likely to attack again. Gu Xiang was going to fake a location but felt a presence nearby.

The leader of the group was getting impatient and without waiting to hear any more words coming out of Gu Xiang's mouth, he was going to end his life.

But just when he was going to cut Gu Xiang's throat, someone came out of the bushes making everyone get defensive and point their swords at the intruder.

"I knew this was going to happened… that woman would do that." It was a man. Zhang Haocun was surprised to see him. It was his younger brother, the 3rd prince of the Wang Empire, Wang Ping.

"Ah, why are you here, 3rd prince?" the leader wasn't surprised. He knew he was following them the entire time.

"The Imperial concubine (Li Muqiu, mother of 4th prince) sent you and I'm here to stop you. I knew she will never change," Wang Ping said as he ready up his weapon.

What happened was that he was out in town trying to find his savior to thank her personally for curing him and wanted to stick around since he fell in love with her. He coincidentally saw Lin Yu Yan at the exit of Taiyang City and lost track of her and her group when they entered the Unknown Forest.

He saw someone familiar in the group and continued to enter the Forest to find out more. As he traveled trying to find the group again, he saw another person he recognizes. The leader of the group was a man working under the Imperial Concubine and he has seen him do her dirty work in the past.

Wang Ping witness people getting killed in front of him because these people wanted to protect their last hope of making their home great again after the rebellion incident. And their last hope was the 3rd prince. It was a few years back and since then, he has been getting stronger for the sake of the people who died for him at that time.

Wang Ping started attacking and took down a few of the men in seconds.

Wei Ru (age 11) and Wu Lang (age 10) took this opportunity to run away. The man that was holding then down was distracted by the intense energy of the 3rd prince that they both attack him to the point where he was knocked out cold.

The ran away fast and far. They both were quick and the bad guys took a while to notice 2 hostages were gone.

"Leader! We lost 2 of them!" one of the men shouts. The leader was getting even more impatient. 'This was supposed to be an easy job.'

"Leave them, they probably will die from the creature of the forest anyway. Just got and kill the 3rd prince."

The 3rd prince already took down a total of 6 people. The leader started sending out the others pinning down their hostages to fight him.

Gu Xiang and Chu Yang looked at each other giving each other the okay to attack and both easily defeated the men holding them down. The reason why they did it now was because they both had 3 people holding them down from the start. They went and easily attack the other men holding down their teammates.

Meiying and Li Dan E quickly helped Chu Yang and Gu Xiang to attack the other bad guys from holding down Peng Ai, Zhang HaoCun, and Xie Rong.

Jin Baoyu and Kenzhi have escaped their attackers at the same time as Gu Xiang and Chu Yang were in battle mode ready to kill anyone close.