Chen Ping's Sword-Chapter 54: Impossible to Guard Against

The crowd was in an uproar.

Seven or eight voices began whispering beside.

"This woman appears so proper, yet she’s so malicious..."

"Such an adorable child, even if she bumped into someone, she would let it go. How could she bear to mistreat like this? Aren’t we all raised by parents? How could she be so ruthless?"

"Yes, yes, my mother always says that the more beautiful a woman is, the more she can be as deadly as a viper. It’s a pity, when I first saw this woman, I was even interested in pursuing her..."

The Sword-Shirted woman’s face suddenly turned pale, her lips trembled, and her whole body shook.

Both wronged and angry.

She clearly didn’t poison anyone.

Why is everyone saying this?

Are they all blind?

But the little girl in front of her did indeed show signs of poisoning...

The black aura on her face was moving quickly, her lips were slightly purple, and her body was convulsing.

Clearly enduring pain.

Of course, it might also be a sudden illness, and she was just unfortunately caught up in it.

The Broken-Browed Woman was wiping her tears while holding the little girl and screaming, her face filled with terror as if the sky was falling, reaching out to scratch the Sword-Shirted woman.

"Hmm..."

The Sword-Shirted woman’s brow slightly raised, she grunted, straightened her shoulders and back, exuding a majestic aura.

The stone floor beneath her feet silently crumbled, and her footprints sank deeply into the ground.

"Auntie, I can assure you, the chicken leg given to your little girl is absolutely non-toxic. Why don’t we quickly find a doctor to take a look, can’t afford any delay."

Seeing the imprint at the foot of the Sword-Shirted woman, the Broken-Browed woman’s eyes flickered, but then she cried even louder, leaning on the little girl’s body, and begged the surrounding crowd:

"Look, everyone, look. She poisoned someone and didn’t admit it. Is there no justice? No law? The chicken leg must be dodgy...

My child, just took a small bite, and immediately had issues... If you don’t believe it, I’d eat a bite myself and die."

Saying that, she was about to take the chicken leg still grasped in the little girl’s hand, looking like she was seeking death.

The Sword-Shirted woman was cornered into admitting poisoning, sweating on her forehead.

Without thinking further, she grabbed the chicken leg first, "Alright, you said it has poison, I’ll eat it and see who’s lying?"

She had bought them herself, consumed half of the meat, if it were poisoned, she would’ve been dead long ago, not until now.

In a few bites, the Sword-Shirted woman consumed the chicken leg, and to demonstrate her innocence, she barely spit out any bones, swallowing them all.

Not noticing the flash of triumph deep in the Broken-Browed woman’s eyes.

As soon as the chicken leg went down her stomach, the Sword-Shirted woman was about to speak when suddenly, her head spun, and she saw double.

Her once incredibly strong physique now felt foreign, weak, and swollen, her whole being felt like she was floating in clouds.

Her mind was incredibly clear, just unable to muster any strength.

At this moment, how could she not realize she’d been tricked, her eyes widened, staring at the Broken-Browed woman.

"Hurry up, the chicken leg indeed had poison, that woman’s so foolish, eating what she poisoned, didn’t she know?"

"Her mind’s muddled, indeed, the larger it gets, the less brain there is."

"Quickly, take them to the clinic, two lives at stake, heaven has a virtue of sparing lives."

As they spoke, several "enthusiastic" men and women rushed out, carrying and backing, moving the little girl and the Sword-Shirted woman towards a nearby carriage.

"Indeed, there are still kind people in this world."

"People’s hearts aren’t what they used to be, repaying evil with virtue, how to repay virtue. As I see it, that vicious woman ought to just die from the poison, rather than be cured and cause harm again."

An old scholar shook his head in anguished disapproval.

People around nodded in agreement.

With no more drama to watch, the crowd began dispersing again, excitedly going to see the lanterns and solve riddles.

"Seventh Brother."

Zuo Duanshou was about to rush out.

He was pinned by Chen Ping’s hand on his shoulder, unable to move.

He looked at Chen Ping, puzzled.

"Those people clearly set a trap... Although I didn’t understand how the chicken leg turned poisonous, Meigu certainly harbors ill intentions, the female swordsman is in trouble."

Not far away, Hua Lian’er also gazed over with a face full of concern...

"I know."

Chen Ping’s eyes were cold.

"Since Chizi Hall went through so much trouble to set a trap for this female swordsman, it’s certainly not just to kill her, she’s temporarily not in danger.

Have you forgotten our goal, don’t you want to save your little sister?"

"Seventh Brother means, let the line out to catch the big fish, and then follow the vine to find the melon?"

"That’s right, you bicker with Little Table and Little Stool every day, yet you’ve learned some good phrases, follow closely, this time you need to show your tracking skills."

Chen Ping gestured, allowing Hua Lian’er and the others to wait as planned.

He acted like a lantern-watching tourist, with seemingly slow yet fast footsteps, keeping his senses sharp... using his peripheral vision, he locked onto the moving carriage.

Disrupting Meigu and her accomplices’ deceitful schemes is certainly easy.

He can even expose their plan, eliminate these people, including those who incite trouble and the "passersby" enthusiastically taking them to a clinic.

And then rescue the female swordsman.

But that would only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Even saving one, there would still be a huge number.

He’s sure, what they call a grand scheme, can’t just be abducting one person.

It’s definitely a grand operation.

It might involve ten, dozens, or hundreds of such women being snatched away.

Without uprooting them completely, Chen Ping feels truly unwilling.

Watching the distant carriage, a hint of crimson emerged in his eyes, his killing intent was extremely intense.

Just like that day in his past life, seeing his female classmate quietly floating in the well water.

And seeing his hands full of blood...

All around, corpses sprawled everywhere.

There are endless injustices and despicable people.

Since encountered, how can one let go?

...

Indeed, that carriage wasn’t heading to the clinic.

But towards the city gate.

In the middle, it stopped for a while.

Two more carriages gathered, and from the brightly lit Flower Market, they gradually merged into the darkness.

"Did you see clearly?"

Chen Ping whispered.

At this time, the two of them lowered their postures, trailing far behind the carriage, dashing past corners and walls in the night, without fear of being discovered.

"Over ten little girls, heads covered in black cloth, some figures look vaguely familiar, the scent is familiar too."

Zuo Duanshou felt both hopeful and anxious.

Hoping to save them later;

Worried whether his own little sister was among them.

Whether there are other groups of girls joining ahead.

The opponents seem to have many experts.

Can Seventh Brother handle them?

He recognized more than a few familiar faces, saw many sturdy men in black, and those two fierce faces.

Black Wolf Langning, Leopard Huayun.

Their qi mechanism is fierce, eyes sharp, truly like leopards and wolves.

One wielding a twin-bladed fang, another with a leopard-plume spear slung on their back, guarding the carriages, never leaving their sides.