Chapter 66 Xia Rong's Rage
Zhou Chen was a little confused about his improvement. Maybe one was added with extra points and the other was trained by himself, so his strength bonus was relatively large.

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

Time flies and the New Year is only three days away. Zhou Chen simply ignored the surveillance of the two people. As long as they don't disturb him, let them monitor him if they want.

Zhou Chen, Leng Yiyao and Xia Rong have often gone to the streets to buy New Year's goods these days. Together with the silver notes that Lord Xia gave him some time ago, Zhou Chen now has more than 1,900 taels of silver in his hands.

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

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

At this time, the place was already full of people. It took a lot of effort for several people to squeeze in. After entering, they found that it was human traffickers who were selling maids. In Zhou Chen's previous world, this behavior would definitely be illegal, but here it is legal. Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to have a contract to sell your body, otherwise it is illegal.

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

The human traffickers became annoyed when they heard their whining and kicked them, saying “Behave yourself.”

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

When the human trafficker heard someone asking the price, he immediately came up with a smile and said, "Not expensive, not expensive, sixty taels each. If you want two together, one hundred taels and you can take them away."

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

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

"Don't worry about me, I like it."

The trafficker took the money with a smile, then took out two indentures from his sleeve and handed them to Xia Rong.

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

After he left, Leng Yiyao stepped forward and untied the ropes for the two men. The two men looked at Xia Rong and the others with horror in their eyes.

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

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

"Okay, get up and go home."

Hearing the word "home", the two girls felt a chill all over their bodies. "Home, where is our home? Our home has been destroyed by that human trafficker."

Xia Rong wondered "what's going on".

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

After hearing this, Xia Rong was furious, "What? There is such a thing." Although the empire acknowledged the existence of indenture contracts, that was only based on mutual consent. The empire would definitely not allow situations like those involving the two women to happen.

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

After saying that, he ignored Zhou Chen and the other two and chased after the man alone. Zhou Chen would never let him chase after him alone, "Yiyao, take them back to the county government first, I'll go over and take a look."

"Well go ahead."

The human trafficker had just left not long ago, and Zhou Chen and the others quickly spotted him with their speed. Xia Rong wanted to go up and catch this man, but Zhou Chen stopped him and said, "Wait, let's see where his lair is. I guess this guy must have a lot of people under his command."

Xia Rong felt that what Zhou Chen said made sense, so she didn't alert the enemy, but followed him quietly.

This guy first went to a restaurant and had 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 been discovered by him long ago. This guy's strength was around fifty, which was similar to Xia Rong's. This was why Zhou Chen was worried about him coming alone.

The guy walked more than three miles away from the county town and went directly into the forest. The two of them hurriedly followed him and saw a simple courtyard not long after entering the forest.

"Wait here while I come over to take a look."

"No, I will go too. I must teach this scum a lesson myself."

Not long after the human traffickers entered, Zhou Chen and the other person also arrived at the gate of the courtyard. It was a simple courtyard with two rooms. Standing outside the courtyard, they could faintly hear a woman sobbing inside.

"Sure enough, there are other victims," ​​he said and kicked open the door.

When the human trafficker heard the noise, he immediately came out to check and found that it was Xia Rong and her friends. "Why did this young lady follow us here? Could it be that the two girls just now thought the amount was not enough and wanted to buy a few more?"
Although he said that, his hand reached behind him. If Zhou Chen guessed correctly, he already had a short weapon like 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 human traffickers was greatly reduced.

"Xiaorong, are you going to go first or should I?"

"You don't have to do it, let me do it."

Zhou Chen didn't care. He would not be in danger as long as he was here. The wall of the yard was very simple, made of bamboos. Zhou Chen pulled out one and handed it to Xia Rong, "Just use it."

Xia Rong took it and weighed it, thinking "it's okay", then she picked up the bamboo pole and rushed towards the human trafficker. The human trafficker finally showed the dagger behind him.

Seeing Xia Rong rushing towards him, he was not afraid at all. He swung the dagger and Xia Rong's bamboo pole was immediately broken in half. Xia Rong did not retreat and changed her move. She changed from chopping to stabbing and stabbed the human trafficker in the chest.

The human trafficker was also a veteran, so how could he succeed? In just over ten seconds, the two had exchanged more than ten moves. At this time, only the handle of the bamboo pole was left in Xia Rong's hand, and he was gradually falling into a disadvantage.

"Xiao Rong, come back soon." Xia Rong knew that she didn't have any suitable weapons in her hand and was no match for the human trafficker. She stopped trying to be brave and retreated immediately.

How could the human traffickers let him go so easily? “Huh, I think you’re pretty, I can sell you for a good price if I catch you.”

Then he exerted force with both feet and chased after Xia Rong quickly. Xia Rong's retreating speed was much slower than his forward speed, and she was about to be stabbed in the shoulder by him.

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

(End of this chapter)