The men sneered as they looked at Su Mingyu. "If you surrender now and turn around to leave, we'll let you go."
"What if I don't leave?" Su Mingyu wore a smile on her face, but her hand had already reached for her small crossbow arrow.
The man rode his horse closer to Su Mingyu with a leering smile, then scanned her body with lecherous eyes. "If you insist on staying, we can't guarantee what will happen next."
Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows and looked at them. Her expression remained unchanged, as if she didn't take them seriously at all.
Seeing Su Mingyu like this, the man felt a sudden surge of anger. He raised his hand to grab Su Mingyu's neck.
But before his hand could touch her, another strong hand grabbed his wrist.
Su Mingyu and the man both looked over and saw Tuoba Wuyi, full of hostility, glaring at the man with his sharp eyes.
"You've got so much strength. Instead of hunting, what kind of man are you to bully a woman?"
"Third Prince, your goal this time is to come in first and avenge our Mongolia. Such behavior might not be appropriate, don't you think?"
Tuoba Wuyi's face was dark, and with his tall and imposing figure, he exuded a sense of oppression even without making any moves, let alone looking down at the man like this.
Yelv Yanqi trembled. "N-no, I just wanted to persuade Miss Su to go back. After all, it's dangerous in the hunting ground. It would be a pity if her beautiful face got hurt."
Tuoba Wuyi looked at Yelv Yanqi contemptuously. "The Emperor has already given his consent for her to participate. What right do you have to tell her to go back?"
These words immediately woke up all the men present.
Su Mingyu had the Emperor's permission to participate in this hunt. If they forced her to go back, they would be showing disrespect to the imperial authority.
Yelv Yanqi's arrogance immediately faded. He waved his hand at the people around him. "Let's go!"
Seeing this, Tuoba Wuyi let go of him and then said coldly, "I hope the Third Prince won't miss the opportunity to shoot the beasts."
At his low shout, the men disappeared in a flash in front of Su Mingyu.
Su Mingyu grinned at Tuoba Wuyi. "Thank you, Mr. Tuoba, for saving me."
Tuoba Wuyi looked at Su Mingyu with his sharp eyes and then said, "If I had come a bit later, they would all be dead bodies. Do you know what kind of occasion this is? If you killed someone, how could you possibly get away with it? Moreover, he's the Third Prince of our Mongolia."
Unexpectedly, this man had sharp eyes. Su Mingyu shrugged indifferently. "As they said, it's dangerous in the hunting ground. If they really died here, it could only be said that they were accidentally injured."
"Gu Ruobai has always been upright and aboveboard. I didn't expect him to fall for such a venomous woman like you."
After saying this, Tuoba Wuyi rode his horse and disappeared into the forest.
Su Mingyu curled her lips disdainfully. Gu Ruobai was clearly a man with a deep and scheming mind. This Tuoba Wuyi actually said he was upright. He must have bad eyesight.
Without any more distractions, Su Mingyu soon found a prey, a roe deer.
Su Mingyu raised her pistol and was about to shoot at the roe deer when suddenly a whistling sound flew past her ear.
When Su Mingyu looked over again, an arrow was already stuck in the roe deer's neck.
Su Mingyu turned around and saw that it was the same men who had caused trouble earlier.
"Hehe, Miss Su said she'd see us on the hunting ground. So you won't mind if I take your prey, right?"
Yelv Yanqi walked over gloatingly and picked up the roe deer. "Then I'll be leaving first."
Su Mingyu looked at the man's proud back and couldn't help sighing. Was this man so childish?
Since the roe deer was gone, Su Mingyu simply gave up this area.
She had asked Gu Ruobai for a map on the way here.
If she remembered correctly, there was a water pool in the center of the forest where the animals could drink water.
Although Su Mingyu thought that there might be people guarding that place, she still decided to go and take a look.
But as soon as she walked over, she saw a mess everywhere. The ground was covered in scarlet blood. Several horses had fallen to the ground, and there were torn limbs beside them.
Su Mingyu frowned. Could it be that these people had encountered the fierce beasts released by the Emperor here?
But the horses had died so miserably. What kind of fierce beast could have such great strength?
Su Mingyu got off her horse and walked up to the severed hand. She picked it up and was about to take a look when suddenly she heard a rustling sound in the nearby forest.
Su Mingyu coldly questioned, "Who's there?"
But the person seemed very scared. Instead of coming out, they ran deeper into the mountains.
Su Mingyu didn't bother to find out who it was. Instead, she started to study the severed limb in her hand.
The severed part was uneven, clearly caused by external force.
But there were no obvious tooth marks on it, only a few deep holes.
Suddenly, a bad feeling rose in Su Mingyu's heart. Could it be that the owner of the severed limb had been captured by the fierce beast?
Thinking of this, Su Mingyu kicked the severed limb and followed the bloodstains on the ground.
But when the horse reached the stream, it refused to go any further.
Seeing the horse's frightened look, Su Mingyu's heart sank. The thing in the forest on the other side of the stream must be the culprit behind the tragedy in the clearing.
Su Mingyu took a deep breath, tied her horse to a tree by the stream, took out her pistol, and resolutely walked across the stream.
After walking just a few steps, Su Mingyu saw the fresh blood flowing on the ground. It seemed that the person had been injured not long ago.
Su Mingyu carefully observed her surroundings. She took each step very cautiously. Suddenly, a muffled groan similar to a fight came from not far in front of her on the side.
Quietly approaching a big tree, Su Mingyu pulled aside the leaves and saw the scene inside. The extremely bloody scene made Su Mingyu can't help but take a sharp breath.
She saw a huge black bear pressing a man's shoulder with its sharp claws. It let out a long roar to the sky, then opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and bit off the man's arm.
Seeing this, Su Mingyu quickly raised her gun to shoot, but before she could act, a black shadow rushed out from the side and kicked the black bear hard on the head.
The black bear was actually kicked away, but this only made it even angrier.
The black bear roared and charged towards Tuoba Wuyi. Although Tuoba Wuyi looked tall and strong, he was very agile. He leaped into the air and dodged the black bear's attack.
But the black bear was also very smart. It turned around and pounced on Tuoba Wuyi again.