Quick Transmigration: The Foolish Beauty Saves the World

Chapter 154 The Useless Prince's Power Seizure (32)

“Your Highness,” a young military officer stepped forward, “this spring hunt is of utmost importance to Your Highness. In my opinion, Your Highness need not be so sentimental.”

Jingli mounted his horse and looked down at the man with disdain:

"If we can't even protect a mere hundred people, how can we protect the world?"

"To ignore all the prey in the mountains and focus solely on fighting over these few lottery tickets—is that foresight?"

He gently tugged the reins, and White Snow took two rhythmic steps with its front hooves.

"Womanly kindness?" Jing Li scoffed. "Of the four virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, benevolence comes first. Why should you scoff at it just because it's labeled as 'womanly'? My friend?"

Despite Jingli's "harmless" aura, this round of teasing didn't evoke any disgust in the military officer, who could only repeatedly apologize and retreat.

Riding on this momentum, Jingli addressed the other princes loudly:

"My brothers, you all heard that. It's best not to try anything with me. After all, I'm not good at riding and archery, and it would be bad if I hurt my own people."

These words were indeed domineering, but coming from Jingli, they were perfectly reasonable.

Who told him to always be such an arrogant and domineering prince?

The others merely glanced at him before looking away.

No one took his words seriously, or rather, no one considered Jingli a rival during this spring hunt.

In martial arts class, everyone knew that Jingli was always the worst student, even worse than Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu. His boastful words were just a joke to everyone.

On the emperor and empress's side, there were palace servants specifically responsible for relaying information about the hunting grounds, and Jingli's words naturally reached the emperor's ears as well.

"Good! I never knew Li'er had such insights!" The emperor happily took a big gulp of wine. "Today I will see if this little Li'er can come out on top without fighting."

The eunuch standing nearby offered a few flattering words, and the ladies echoed him, expressing their anticipation for the outcome of today's spring hunt.

Lang Yue took a sip of tea and smiled, "Li'er is used to being arrogant, so I hope Your Majesty will not be disappointed."

The sentence only lightly belittled Jingli, but appropriately left her a way out.

The emperor smiled and shook his head, handing Langyue a plate of fruit: "Langyue, you treat Li'er too much like a child. Maybe he'll give us a surprise."

At the hunting grounds, the hunt officially began with the sound of drums.

Jingli had no idea where the people with her own color had gone, so she could only walk and look around in the direction Yu An had given her.

He didn't intend to have everyone together, as this would not only be detrimental to the final hunt count, but also to his later reunion with Yu An—and naturally, it wouldn't lure the snake out of its hole.

However, Jingli couldn't guarantee that everyone in the team would let those "half-beasts" go as he said. He could only ask Yuan Lanying to instruct the others that if they had to take action, they should spare those people's lives.

"Isn't Your Highness going with Lan Ying?"

“If we split up, we can catch more prey.” Jingli raised an eyebrow after saying that. “What, doesn’t Ying-ge’er believe I can catch any prey?”

Ying-ge'er is what Zeng Yuan usually calls Yuan Lanying, and Jing Li calls him that when she's joking around.

Jingli had no idea what he looked like sitting on the white horse with his eyebrows raised; he only knew that Yuan Lanying stared at him blankly for a long time.

"Ying-ge'er?"

Yuan Lanying then came to her senses, her face turning bright red.

"Yes, Lan Ying was reckless... There are guards around here. If Your Highness encounters danger, you can call Lan Ying's name. Lan Ying will be hunting around you and won't go far."

"Understood." Jingli patted Bai Xuedi's neck, tightened the reins, and sped off towards their destination.

Along the way, Jingli did not forget today's spring hunt.

In the first world, he often went archery with Ruan Qinglan. In the second world, he also had some contact with her for a period of time because of filming. In this world, after three years of study and practice, his abilities are not as bad as the other princes thought.

In addition, he had previously redeemed a "100% Accuracy" item in the counterfeit system, which made Jingli invincible.

Each team's bamboo arrows have different colored fletchings, and the prince's arrowheads are different from the others. The guards in the forest are responsible for collecting the hunted prey and sending it outside the forest for unified registration.

Before long, Jingli had reached the southeast direction of the spring hunting area. He tightened his grip on the reins and used his energy to communicate with Baixue, telling it to rest and remain vigilant.

Jingli never thought that Yu An gave him this letter simply so that the two of them could meet. The reason he gave his location was probably because he was afraid that Jingli would be out of protection if he was alone.

As if in response to Jingli's idea, he had only stopped there for a short while when two people rushed over chasing after something.

Judging from the sound, it wasn't just any ordinary prey it was chasing.

Jingli quickly released energy to soothe Baixue, and at the same time took out an arrow and nocked it on his bow, sensing the direction from which the commotion came—two people with blue ribbons tied to their arms were being lured by a bear, or rather, lured a bear, and were riding towards Jingli's direction.

The reason it was described as an enticement was because one of them was carrying a person who was bleeding profusely and whose life or death was unknown.

Jingli frowned slightly, then took out two more arrows and put them in her mouth.

There are some carnivores in this forest, but after clearing it out, it's unlikely that an aggressive adult bear like the one in front of us exists.

It was either deliberately lured in or intentionally released.

And blue—that's the team of the Sixth Prince, Xiao Cheng'er.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp—"

Three clear bamboo whistles rang out, and Jingli knew that Yu'an was nearby.

He felt reassured, aimed the arrow at the bear, drew the bowstring taut, and fired.

With a whooshing sound, the arrow pierced the bear's eye with deadly accuracy.

The bear, in pain, stretched out its claws to pull out the arrow, but Jingli pressed his advantage and fired another arrow into its wide-open mouth.

Jingli was self-aware. Even if he was a perfect shot, his strength and distance disadvantages made it too difficult to kill the bear with arrows alone. Therefore, he only wanted to limit the bear from the beginning, shooting its eyes first, then its mouth, and then adapting to the situation.

The bear's mouth was pierced by an arrow, which, given the accuracy of the shot, must have damaged its tongue. The fishy smell in its mouth both excited and confused the bear, causing it to become sluggish and begin to bar its teeth and claws.

Seeing that things were not going as they expected, the men in front abandoned the wounded man on horseback, raised their bows and arrows, and aimed them directly at Jingli.

Jingli wouldn't give them a chance; he quickly drew his bow and shot at their horses.

The enemy's arrows were already flying. Jingli and Baixue exchanged energy fluctuations and cooperated perfectly. They slightly turned their bodies to dodge the arrows. On the other side, the horse was startled and neighed as it raised its front hooves. The bear that had been attracted by the injured man heard the sound and chased after the two of them again.