At the same time, several screams were heard.
"Your Excellency…"
"Bai Jun... Where are you guys?"
Immediately Ara turned around and saw several people holding torches in their hands. They were friends of the crown prince. Just looking at their state, she already knew that they also managed to defeat the foreigners.
Ara took a step back, looking at the situation around her, especially Zhang Jiangwu and Bai Jun's condition, her brain was working fast. Maybe this is the right time to escape.
Xiao Ara cleared her throat, "Your Highness, and Honorable Master. I'm sorry, it seems I can only accompany you all the way here. I have to go, take good care of yourselves, I am not an intruder like I said before, nor am I someone as dangerous as you thought. I'm just someone who got lost in this kingdom. If you want to return the favor because I helped you guys earlier, don't ever look for me after this. I'm going, thank you for the food and drink," she said at length, then jumped into the darkness of the forest and disappeared there.
Zhang Jiangwu and Bai Jun had not yet digested what the girl meant, and she had already disappeared like a passing wind.
"What did she say earlier?" Bai Jun muttered, turning to the crown prince with a confused look. It's not that he didn't hear the girl's words, it's just that everything she said indicated one thing, that since earlier it turned out that the girl was lying and they had been tricked?
Zhang Jiangwu didn't say anything, the man's jaw tightened.
Xue Yen, Yue Ahn, and the others walked over while continuing to call out their names.
"We're here," Bai Jun shouted after gathering the remaining energy in his body.
Several people immediately searched for the source of the sound and finally found the two men sitting on the ground with wounds on their bodies.
"Yue Ahn, Feng Ming, take some people and immediately look for the girl who is with us, she ran into the forest towards that," Bai Jun said immediately when he saw that the man nearby didn't budge.
"Huh? Did the girl run away?" Xue Yen asked, aiming his torch around and searching for the girl's whereabouts, but found her nowhere.
"Didn't you hear what I said? The Crown Prince was injured, and the girl ran away. Immediately search and find him," said Bai Jun again, representing the crown prince.
"A-Alright," Feng Ming stammered. He then grabbed Yue Ahn's arm and jumped into the forest, several soldiers following the two men.
"What happened?" asked Hao Chu, the man approached the crown prince and helped him up.
"Are you still able to walk, Your Majesty?" he asked again.
"We must return to the palace soon tonight," Wang Xiumin chimed in, his gaze fixed on the arrow still stuck in Zhang Jiangwu's body.
"The palace is too far from here, as far as I know, there is a small village not far from here. Let's take the crown prince there, then find a healer to treat his wound," Bai Jun suggested.
"We can't just sit here and watch his wound without treatment," he added.
"I am alright. It's just a small wound," Zhang Jiangwu said with difficulty.
"No. If we leave you like this, we will receive punishment from His Majesty the King," Bai Jun said again.
Zhang Jiangwu didn't respond anymore, he then scanned the surrounding scenery, then said, "Are all these people dead?"
"W-We haven't checked, Your Majesty. After defeating them at the camp earlier, we immediately searched for your whereabouts," replied Wang Xiumin.
"I and some soldiers will examine them one by one, don't worry about this," Xue Yen said.
"You guys just go, let me take care of here. We will follow you soon," he added.
Hearing that, Wang Xiumin approached Bai Jun and helped him up.
They then moved to a village not far from there using Bai Jun's instructions.
Moving in the night, splitting the darkness along the river bank. The sound of horse hooves echoed.