Peerless Martial Expert in the City
Chapter 437 - 438

Chapter 437: 438

Chapter 438: Zeng Xiaomei’s Regret

Damn, forget it, for the little girl’s sake, I’ll meddle one more time!

Finally, when the car reached a fork in the road up ahead, Xiao Yi couldn’t help it. He glanced at Zeng Xiaoxiao beside him who remained oblivious, already lost in deep slumber, gritted his teeth, and with a sharp turn of the steering wheel at the spacious fork, he swung the car around, heading back the way they had come.

The old man was right, I really am born to toil, my heart’s just too soft!

As the car turned around and sped forward, a wry smile surfaced on Xiao Yi’s face once again.

I hope I won’t have to get involved, and that Zeng Xiaomei can handle it herself.

After a while, Xiao Yi helplessly shook his head, silently thinking that he still harbored some wariness towards Zeng Xiaomei. Unless absolutely necessary, he was reluctant to have any interaction with her, especially to show his strength in front of her.

He didn’t know why, but he felt, instinctively, that if Zeng Xiaomei knew of his true capabilities, there would likely be a lot of unnecessary trouble. Although his conscience was clear—he had killed and punished almost exclusively unforgivable criminals—the fact remained that his actions were illegal by the standards of the laws of the land.

Facing an agent of the state like Zeng Xiaomei, and in his eyes a true one at that, he couldn’t help but feel a bit guilty.

After all, Zeng Xiaomei was not like Xiaoxiao, this little girl who could be easily deceived. A policewoman like her, skilled at making connections, could become very suspicious if she learned too much and might end up piecing a lot together.

............

While Xiao Yi was turning the car around and praying for Zeng Xiaomei in his heart, she was facing a severe test!

At this moment, she was without her usual commanding presence dressed in a police uniform. Her clothes were disheveled, a faint line of blood at the corner of her mouth, her face tired and her eyes betrayed a rare panic as she looked at the man opposite her, mixed with disbelief and unwillingness.

At her side, her two most capable assistants were lying on the ground, their fate unknown, but in her heart, she had a premonition that their chances were slim.

As she looked at the two colleagues lying in a pool of blood, clad in their police uniforms, a deep sorrow emerged in her heart, along with a profound sense of guilt and regret. If only she hadn’t been so careless and underestimated the enemy; if only she hadn’t acted alone and insisted on pursuing them, this would never have happened!

But... she had never imagined that these people could be so cunning, and so powerful!

The reason she was confident and insisted on pursuing them now was that she had immense faith in her own strength. At twenty-three, she had entered the Bone Tempering Period, a feat that, while not particularly remarkable, was at least considered competent in light of the praise from her masters.

Moreover, as the years had passed within the police system, having met so many people, she knew that exceptional Cultivators like herself were scarce. Most criminals were ordinary people.

For someone like her, these ordinary individuals were cannon fodder, mere ants with no power to resist someone who had entered the Bone Tempering realm.

Therefore, even though it was late and despite knowing these people might be no good, utterly ruthless, she had boldly given chase.

In fact, initially, it was indeed the case. The group had been terrified upon seeing her, fleeing without any intention of fighting back. The number of people that had fallen into her hands on this pursuit totaled six or seven!

It was just the leading few who had managed to escape.

Even they were running wildly, fleeing...

Until this moment, she realized... she was wrong. Maybe they were indeed trying to flee and didn’t want to confront her originally, but their strength was not as weak as she had thought. They were stronger than any criminal she had encountered before!

Among them, there was actually an absolute expert hidden, a high-level individual like her, in the Bone Tempering Period realm, and even more, his strength was slightly superior to hers. The outcome of the palm-to-palm clash just now had made it clear. Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth as she staggered back five or six steps before she managed to stabilize herself, whereas her opponent only took two or three steps back before regaining his composure!

These bastards... their strength is so immense, so terrifying... What exactly is their background... What on earth do they want to do......

Looking at the man opposite her, with a face void of expression and a scar almost splitting his entire face, making him look extremely fierce, a bone-chilling dread involuntarily rose within Zeng Xiaomei’s heart.

The reason she had come to such a distant place was precisely to deal with the child trafficking gang’s case.

After several child disappearance cases in succession in the suburbs under G City, it finally caught the attention of the municipal police department. After several meetings, the department decided to dispatch personnel from the city’s Criminal Investigation Team to get involved directly. Initially, considering the situation in the distant suburbs and the possibly arduous working environment, the department did not intend for Zeng Xiaomei to participate. However, Zeng Xiaomei volunteered to join, being the captain of the city’s Criminal Investigation Team. She mentioned that these cases might be connected to the previous one based on various signs, and she had been the one to close that prior case. Hence, the department’s leaders were unable to overrule Zeng Xiaomei and naturally allowed her to become the person in charge of this case.

Zeng Xiaomei’s promotions over the years, although inseparable from the Zeng family’s support, could not overlook her own abilities and strength. With her excellent criminal investigation capabilities, experience, and meticulous observation, and because the culprits had been careless in the remote suburbs, not expecting the city’s police to take over, Zeng Xiaomei soon found a clue after taking over the case. She followed it persistently and tracked down one of the gang’s hideouts.

She had thought she could catch the whole gang in one swoop. Despite her lightning-fast assault and the tight monitoring, the gang still managed to escape with some of their people. They only captured a few unimportant peripheral members.

These were the people who had fled from that hideout and were then chased here by her.

She had initially thought this was just an ordinary child trafficking gang—arrogant and bold, yet merely a group of petty thieves at most, a larger gang perhaps, but then.... Could a gang with a master of the Bone Tempering Period still be considered petty thieves, a small gang?

Moreover, from what she had found and various trails, these people were merely leaders of a small hideout, not holding high positions within the gang.

So... how vast, how terrifying could this gang, this organization be?

"Officer Zeng, there’s no need to go to extremes in killing. Why must you push us so hard?"

The man with the scar looked at Zeng Xiaomei with sinister eyes and spoke in a somewhat low voice.

"You heartless bastards, daring to lay hands on those children, if I don’t do everything in my power to bring you to justice, how can I face those children who are now alone in the world, how can I face the parents who are distraught with grief!!"

In Zeng Xiaomei’s eyes, a glimmer of anger shone as she looked back at the scarred man. Despite being slightly wounded in the recent clash, her presence was still emitting a terrifying aura and a righteous sternness as she spoke. Her beautiful phoenix eyes swept over, and the men opposite couldn’t help but show a hint of fear on their faces.

They were thoroughly frightened by the beautiful policewoman who looked like a blooming flower. As ordinary people, they couldn’t understand or discern the difference in strength between her and their boss. However, the terrifying strength Zeng Xiaomei had demonstrated when she broke through their hideout had been deeply etched into their minds.

She had descended from the sky, flipping mid-air with pistols in both hands, each shot taking a target, and then she landed unharmed, shattering a Giant Rock with a single punch. This was simply like a scene out of a movie!

She was practically a female monster!

"Since Officer Zeng is pressing so hard, don’t blame me for being impolite!"

The scarred man’s face flashed a ruthless look, a sinister cold smile creeping across his lips as he once again advanced towards Zeng Xiaomei.

From the palm strike a moment ago, he had roughly gauged Zeng Xiaomei’s strength, and was no longer as wary of her as before.

"Let’s see just how high Officer Zeng’s strength really is!"

After advancing a step, the cold and ruthless look in the scarred man’s eyes deepened. His hand turned into a blade and fiercely sliced towards Zeng Xiaomei as he let out a fierce shout.

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