102. Kidnapping
Liam saw several familiar faces at a glance. "It's the Great Prince's man!"
When those people saw Zhao Yuan and the others, they immediately stepped forward to stop them, but they were all knocked down by Liam with a wave of his arms. He took the lead and rushed into the post house, Zhao Yuan followed behind him, but there was a puzzled look on his face.
The eldest prince was indeed in the inn, and when Liam saw him, he immediately rushed up and asked, "Where has the ninth princess gone, and what have you done to her?"
The eldest prince looked stunned, and then became furious: "It's your business!" and stretched out his hand to push Liam away. As soon as Liam's tall body got out of the way, he immediately revealed Zhao Yuan standing behind him, and when the eldest prince saw Zhao Yuan, he reflexively shrank back.
Zhao Yuan grabbed Liam and said calmly: "Now is not the time to argue, Liam, the ninth princess is indeed not here." ”
The eldest prince's eyes widened: "How do you know?"
Liam rolled his eyes: "Your Excellency Zhao Yuan is an archmage, isn't it normal to know this?"
The eldest prince was ridiculed by a young boy, and he was very unhappy, but he didn't dare to attack in front of Zhao Yuan, so he had to let out a displeased snort from his nose.
Zhao Yuan glanced at the bedroom of the Ninth Princess, which was still filled with traces of his spiritual power, and it was obvious that the magic ball was crushed here. It had only taken them less than ten minutes to get here, but the Ninth Princess had already disappeared.
"Great Prince, when did you get here?" Zhao Yuan said.
The eldest prince didn't want to answer him, but when he saw Zhao Yuan's cold and indifferent eyes, his hands couldn't help but ache faintly, and he still replied obediently: "Just come a little earlier than you...... I wanted to ask the Ninth Princess to go to the hunting ground with me, but I heard her cry for help, so I directly injured her guard and broke in. ”
Zhao Yuan was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that the ninth princess was still there when the eldest prince came, and they were a step late.
"However, if the Ninth Princess had made a cry for help, how could her guards still stop you instead of rushing in to save people?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"Your Excellency Zhao Yuan, you don't know, don't say anything else, just say that in the lion clan, I dare to say that I have the second best hearing, and no one dares to say the first!"
Zhao Yuan glanced at Liam and saw that he nodded, before turning around and leaving here. The eldest prince breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zhao Yuan leaving, his palms were already full of cold sweat.
"Your Excellency Zhao Yuan, where are we going?" asked Liam, looking worried, obviously in love, very worried about the ninth princess.
"As a fox clan, the Ninth Princess will definitely find a way to leave us a message. But I don't want the eldest prince to get involved. After he leaves, let's go to the Ninth Princess's bedroom again. Zhao Yuan said. The Ninth Princess was just a second-order martial artist, and if someone wanted to kill her, they wouldn't give her a chance to call for help at all, so her condition should be quite safe. However, Zhao Yuan still has a selfish heart, and wants to give Liam and the Ninth Princess more opportunities to get along.
After staying with Mason for a long time, Zhao Yuan also found that he was getting calmer and calmer, and he didn't panic at all when he encountered this situation.
The eldest prince originally wanted to date a beautiful woman, but he was kidnapped in front of him, and he felt very faceless, so he soon left dejectedly, and Zhao Yuan and Liam immediately returned to the bedroom of the ninth princess.
Zhao Yuan roughly swept it with his spiritual power just now, and did not find anything special aura, but when he came again, he noticed a fragment of gems that fell under the bed.
Because the fragment fell right between the bedpost and the wall, it couldn't be seen at all, and it was only discovered by Zhao Yuan with his spiritual power.
He leaned down and took out the shard from under the bed, it was a sapphire shard, only half the size of a tiny fingernail, shiny as new, apparently just falling.
"Your Excellency Zhao Yuan, this is just a fragment ......of a gem," Liam said, for a martial artist, a gem is not a solid thing, it can be crushed with bare hands.
"But this is the gem fragment left by the Ninth Princess before she was kidnapped, you see, the floor of this room is so clean, and there is no magic ball fragment I gave her in the garbage basket, this place has been deliberately cleaned. Because of this, this sapphire fragment is the strangest. Zhao Yuan said, and suddenly thought of something: "Where is the maid of the ninth princess?"
"The slave is here!" a fox girl who had been guarding the door immediately replied, she glanced at Zhao Yuan, and shrunk her neck a little.
"You might see what this sapphire shard is?" Zhao Yuan put the shard in front of her.
The maidservant said with some hesitation: "The ninth princess has a lot of sapphire jewelry, and the slave doesn't know which one it is......"
Liam was anxious when he heard this, and was about to speak, but was preempted by Zhao Yuan: "Then do you remember the jewelry she wore today?"
When the maid heard this, she immediately showed a sudden expression: "Yes, Miss brought a sapphire to wipe her forehead today, and this fragment should be on it!"
"Is there anything special about that sapphire forehead, where did you buy it, and what are the allusions?" Zhao Yuan asked in a row.
"No, Yalan didn't buy it, it was given ......by His Majesty the Fox King," the maid of the Ninth Princess said, as if she thought of something, her face changed, no matter how Zhao Yuan asked, she didn't speak.
Zhao Yuan walked out of the post house with a gloomy face, and went straight to the Second Prince's Mansion with Liam and found Mason.
"What! The Ninth Princess is missing!" Mason was also very surprised when he heard the news, now the Ninth Princess is a member of the second prince and a party, and she is about to get engaged, and she was actually kidnapped at this juncture!
Zhao Yuan directly took out the sapphire fragment: "This is the clue left by the Ninth Princess, it should be on the Yalan forehead guard given to her by her sister." ”
Hearing the words "Yalan forehead protection", Mason's eyes widened slightly, and he said urgently: "I know where she is, follow me!"
The three of them mounted their fastest wheeled horses and galloped out of the city.
The wind hunted past the three of them, only to hear Liam anxiously ask, "Mason, where are we going?"
Mason's voice was a little blurred in the wind, but Zhao Yuan still heard it clearly: "Yalan forehead guard is one of the royal jewelry of the Zeng Fox Clan, symbolizing the wisdom of the Fox Clan, and it used to be a jewelry that could only be worn by the Fox King. But a thousand years ago, there was a pair of fox sisters who killed each other in order to compete for the Yalan forehead guard, and both died, and the fox clan experienced a decline of up to three hundred years because they did not leave the crown prince, and this Yalan forehead guard was also abandoned by the fox royal family and was known as a bad thing. ”
Zhao Yuan couldn't help but suddenly feel stunned when he heard it, no wonder the maid just now suddenly didn't want to say anything, it turned out that there was such a story behind a piece of jewelry. "Then how could the Ninth Princess still carry it?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"Yalan forehead protection can become the jewelry of the fox royal family, which naturally has extraordinary effects, and it is said to be able to permanently look good, so even if it is known as ominous, there are still many women who flock to it. Mason replied.
During the conversation, Zhao Yuan and the three of them had already left the scope of the main city of the Lion Clan and rushed all the way to the west, and a different terrain appeared in front of Zhao Yuan.
What caught his eye was a piece of yellow sand, mixed with some low vegetation in the sand, as Zhao Yuan and the others marched deeper, the plants gradually disappeared, and there was only one side of the desert with no end in sight. The autumn sun also became extremely hot, fortunately, Zhao Yuan and the three of them were all martial artists, but there was a thin layer of sweat on their bodies, but such an abrupt change in the environment still surprised Zhao Yuan.
"This is the Blue Silver Desert, the origin of blue silver gemstones. Mason said, tightening the reins and slowing the wheeled horse. "The gem on Yalan's forehead is from here, as for the story about Yalan's forehead, it shouldn't be the message that the ninth princess wants to pass on to us, she was kidnapped, and the most important message to leave is the location, and then it's a forbidden area, she should be around here. ”
"Forbidden Zone?"
"One of the nine great divine weapons of the beast clan, the realm of the Axe of the Flame Spring, is the forbidden area here, if those below the eighth order enter, ten will die!" Mason said, a cold color crossed his eyes.
Zhao Yuan didn't ask any more questions, he closed his eyes intently, his spiritual power centered on him, and he surged towards the surroundings like a tide, brushing over every grain of gravel, and climbing over layers of sand dunes. Finally, an unusual fluctuation came, and Zhao Yuan opened his eyes: "Follow me!"
He took the lead and ran towards a place in the desert, and when he reached his destination, Liam and Mason had a look of doubt in their eyes.
In front of them, there was still a yellow desert, the sand dunes were smooth, and there was not a trace of people.
Zhao Yuan sneered and said, "Hmph, the carving insect skill also dares to show off in front of me!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the void, and a yellow rune paper suddenly appeared in his hand.
The next moment, the sand dunes in front of everyone suddenly twisted, and the voices of several people came from in front of them: "It's not good, the phantom array has been broken!" "Run!"
The illusion dissipated, and what appeared in front of the three of them was a makeshift high platform, surrounded by a large white cloth, covering the situation inside.
"Liam, kill them!" Zhao Yuan said, and suddenly floated up from his horse, and stood high in the air with his body in the wind.
The people around the platform tried to escape, but Liam chased them one by one, with a hammer or a blow, or a sweep, and soon the lowly miscellaneous soldiers were killed. Some people saw that their companions were vulnerable, so they used some tricks to escape quickly, but they were caught by Mason who was guarding the side. Mason said that his talent was not good, but he was also a lion, and his combat power was not to be underestimated compared to other orcs.
Zhao Yuanfei was in the air, taking in all the scenes in the high platform. The Ninth Princess was in the middle of the high platform, she was already unconscious, and a deep wound had been opened on her left and right wrists, and red blood continued to flow out of her wrists and fell into the copper basin below. A black-robed man was standing beside her and whispering a spell.
"My lord, he's coming!" The three black-clothed martial artists who were guarding the black-robed man saw Zhao Yuan in the air, and hurriedly said to the black-robed man, but the black-robed man didn't move as if he hadn't heard, and continued to chant the incantation.