Mortal counterattack

Zhou Chen was a little confused about his improvement. Perhaps one of them was a bonus and the other was his own practice, so his strength bonus was relatively large.

Seven days passed like this. Although the humanoid monster did not appear again during these seven days, and the city slowly recovered its previous prosperity, what made Zhou Chen speechless was that Qin Yong and the others had been secretly monitoring him these days.

Time was in a hurry. Seeing that there were only three days left before the New Year, Zhou Chen directly ignored the monitoring of the two. As long as they did not disturb him, they could monitor him if they wanted.

Zhou Chen, Leng Yiyao and Xia Rong often went to the street to buy New Year's goods these days. With the silver notes given to him by Lord Xia some time ago, Zhou Chen now had more than 1,900 taels of silver in his hand.

Zhou Chen also generously invited Xia Rong to the Beast Tower for a few good meals. There was no other way. It was inconvenient to go out hunting in the city now. If you want to quickly obtain strengthening points, you have to go to a place like the Beast Tower.

Now his reinforcement points have only increased by 5 points, which is far worse than before. On the day before the first day of the Lunar New Year, the three of them were shopping in the city, and suddenly they were attracted by a loud noise.

At this time, the place was full of people. Several people squeezed in with great effort. After entering, they found that it was the human traffickers who were selling maids. In Zhou Chen's previous world, this behavior would definitely be illegal, but it is legal here. Of course, the premise is that you have to have a contract to sell your body, otherwise it is also illegal.

It seems that they have been sold here for a few days. Now there are only two young girls left. The two girls were tied up tightly with hemp ropes by the traffickers, and a piece of cloth was stuffed in their mouths. They seemed to want to say something, but they could only make a whining sound.

The traffickers were a little annoyed when they heard their whining, and kicked them, "Be honest for me."

Zhou Chen frowned slightly. Seeing that no one bought them, Xia Rong asked, "Hey, how much silver do you want for these two girls?"

Hearing someone asking the price, the trafficker immediately greeted him with a smile and said, "Not expensive, not expensive, 60 taels for one, if you want two together, 100 taels, you can take it away."

100 taels is nothing to Zhou Chen now, but it is a sky-high price for ordinary people.

What Zhou Chen didn't expect was that Xia Rong took out 100 taels of silver without thinking and threw it over, "Hey, are you stupid? 100 taels for these two girls."

"What do you care about me? I like it."

The trafficker smiled and took the silver, then took out two indentures from his sleeve and handed them to Xia Rong.

Xia Rong took it, looked at it, nodded, and said, "These two girls are yours." After saying that, she ran away, and the people watching the excitement around her also dispersed.

After he left, Leng Yiyao stepped forward to untie the ropes for the two people, and the two looked at Xia Rong and the others with horror.

Xia Rong smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, you are free," and then tore up the indentures.

The two girls looked at each other and then knelt down to Xia Rong, "Thank you Miss for your kindness."

"Okay, get up and go home."

Hearing the word home, the two girls were shocked, "Home, where do we have a home? Our home has been destroyed by that human trafficker."

Xia Rong was puzzled, "What happened?"

Then the two told Zhou Chen and the other two everything that happened. It turned out that they did not sign a contract to sell themselves to human traffickers, but that guy killed their families and then forced them to sign the contract.

Xia Rong was furious after hearing this, "What, there is such a thing?" Although the empire acknowledged the existence of the contract, it was when both parties were willing. The empire would definitely not allow a situation like the two girls to happen.

"Brother Chen, take them back to the county government first, I will chase that guy now. No wonder he ran away after receiving the money. It turns out that he was guilty."

After that, he ignored Zhou Chen and the other two and chased in the direction that the man left.

Zhou Chen would never let him chase them alone, "Yiyao, take them back to the county government first, I'll go and see."

"Okay, let's go."

Not long after the trafficker left, Zhou Chen and the others saw him quickly with their speed. Xia Rong wanted to catch him, but Zhou Chen stopped him, "Wait, let's see where his lair is. I guess this guy should have a lot of people in his hands."

Xia Rong thought Zhou Chen was right, so she didn't make a fuss, but quietly followed him.

This guy first went to a restaurant for a big meal, then left Qinghua County and walked out of the city. The two of them followed him from a distance.

This guy was very alert. If Zhou Chen hadn't been there, Xia Rong would have discovered him long ago. This guy's strength was about fifty, which was about the same as Xia Rong's strength. This was why Zhou Chen was worried about him following alone.

After walking more than three miles from the county town, the guy actually went directly into the forest. The two of them hurriedly followed him. Not long after entering the forest, they saw a simple courtyard.

"Wait here while I go over and take a look."

"No, I'll go too. I have to teach this scum a lesson myself."

Not long after the traffickers entered, Zhou Chen and the others also arrived at the gate of the courtyard. This was a simple courtyard with two rooms. Standing outside the courtyard, you could vaguely hear a woman sobbing inside.

"Sure enough, there are other victims," ​​he said, kicking the gate open.

The traffickers came out to check after hearing the noise and found that it was Xia Rong and the others. “Why did this lady follow us here? Did the two girls just now think it was too little and want to buy a few more?”

Although he said that, his hand reached behind him. If Zhou Chen was right, he had already grasped a short weapon such as a dagger in his hand.

Xia Rong did not bring any weapons this time, and neither did Zhou Chen. Without weapons, Xia Rong’s fighting power against the traffickers was greatly reduced.

“Xiao Rong, do you or I go?”

“No need for you to do it, let me do it.”

Zhou Chen did not care. Anyway, he would not be in danger with him here. The wall of the yard was very simple, and it was surrounded by bamboos. Zhou Chen pulled out one and handed it to Xia Rong, “Just use it.”

Xia Rong took it and weighed it, “It’s okay”, then picked up the bamboo pole and killed the traffickers. The traffickers finally showed the dagger behind him.

Seeing Xia Rong coming towards him, he was not afraid at all. With a swing of the dagger, Xia Rong's bamboo pole was immediately broken in the middle. Xia Rong did not retreat and changed her moves. She changed from chopping to stabbing and stabbed the human trafficker's chest.

The human trafficker was also a veteran of the battlefield. How could he let him succeed? In just a dozen seconds, the two had exchanged more than a dozen moves. At this time, only the handle of the bamboo pole in Xia Rong's hand was left, and he gradually fell into a disadvantage.

"Xiao Rong, come back quickly." Xia Rong knew that she did not have a weapon in her hand and was no match for the human trafficker. She did not try to be brave and retreated immediately.

How could the human trafficker let him retreat easily? "Hmph, I think you are not bad looking. If I catch you, I will definitely sell you for a good price."

Then he used his feet to chase Xia Rong quickly. Xia Rong's retreat speed was far slower than his forward speed. It seemed that he was about to be stabbed in the shoulder by him.

At this moment, Zhou Chen's figure flashed in front of Xia Rong, "Hmph, how dare you hurt him."