Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 27 Human Skin List
"Hey, uncle."

"Cao Yang?"

Cao Yanhua on the other end of the phone was a little surprised.

"Didn't I tell you before that you can't reveal our relationship during work hours? Oh, forget it, be careful next time. What do you want from me?"

Cao Yanhua is always tolerant towards his only nephew.

"Uncle, what I want to ask is, how many merits are needed to exchange for a place to control a second ghost?"

Cao Yang asked directly to the point. He knew Cao Yanhua would not lie to him. Merit is final. If it is not enough, it is not enough. The key is to see whether Zhao Jianguo will take the opportunity to exploit him later.

There was silence on the other end of the line.

"I looked at the file you just created. There is a Class B incident, an Class X incident, and it also involves a supernatural place that is suspected to have a historical heritage. Although the incident has not been completely resolved, it is still a great achievement."

"How about this, I will arrange one or two easier-to-solve incidents for you in a while, and then I will help you apply for the opportunity to control the second ghost. But the success rate of the experiment is too low."

In vain, Cao Yang's heart trembled, and his eyes widened instantly.

Cao Yang stood up and closed the door of the office. Now the office was completely isolated by gold. Although Cao Yang didn't know why he did this, facing a ghost of the peddler's level, he chose the highest level of caution.

Cao Yanhua finally chose to compromise. Cao Yang was his only relative, and he couldn't bear to watch Cao Yang die in front of him.

Facing Cao Yanhua, Cao Yang also played the emotional card, although he didn't know whether Cao Yanhua would buy it or not.

Then he opened the paper and saw some words written on the human skin.

"Okay, you're right. Becoming a ghost rider was an accident. Uncle doesn't want anything else to happen to you. I will do my best to help you get resources."

"Uncle, how many days do you think I have left to live after I solve these two cases? From the day I chose to become a ghost rider, I have been prepared to die. But like you said, the experiment is not a 100% sure thing. I just don't want to die without any hope."

The leather list was a dark brown color that had been settled for a long time, and there was a faint smell of corpse. According to Cao Yang's guess, this list should be made of human skin, but he didn't know if it had any connection with the human skin paper of Yang Jian.

The brown leather was soft and a little cold, as if it had been taken out of an ice storage, exuding a strange and ominous aura. This piece of paper was folded in half, and the surface was smooth and flat, as if it had been polished.

In the office, after Cao Yang finished the call, he took out the list.

"My name is Cao ■■. When you see this sentence, I will be dead."

"Parchment, this is not funny."

Cao Yang was very familiar with this beginning, which was clearly the usual routine of Yang Jian's human skin paper. However, the name of the person on the paper seemed to have been dripped with ink when it was written, and it was no longer recognizable.

"There are two black spots, which means it's not Cao Yang. Could it be that the ghost peddler was also surnamed Cao? It can't be such a coincidence." "The handwriting is quite neat. Except for the stains, everything else is easy to identify. It's obvious that this was written by someone in his lifetime, and it may have been passed on to the peddler after several rounds."

After calming himself down, Cao Yang continued reading.

"Getting the list means being cursed by the ghost peddler, that is, by the ghost carrying the shoulder pole. I can't see its face, but I know it is scary. I got the list, but I know that one day I will be captured by this ghost because I can't complete the transaction, so I left these words."

Cao Yang was not surprised by this information. Perhaps the essence of the peddler was a curse, but it was just a concrete and substantial form of expression.

"But during the transaction, I found that this curse is not unsolvable. I found a way to get rid of the curse, which is to steal. Become..."

The words at the back were completely covered by the ink-like black stains and could not be distinguished at all.

"Steal? Become? Riddler, get out of here, Mystic Resurgence!"

Cao Yang's expression at this moment was exactly the same as that of sweating soybeans, and his speechless mood reached its peak.

Suddenly, the words on the paper were fading away quickly, as if being erased by an eraser. New words were emerging, but this time they were just the "code names" of the ghosts. Cao Yang took a look and saw a special name - little girl.

"Little girl? You didn't mean quietly?"

"This name is really appropriate. I remember that Jing Qiao was described as a vicious ghost in the original book who looked like a little girl. She was an absolutely stubborn ghost who could not be imprisoned or restricted."

There was a line of small words at the bottom of the list, which Cao Yang could only see clearly when he got closer.

"The first transaction period is three months. After each transaction is completed, the ghost peddler will pay for the goods, and the period for the next transaction will be extended by one month."

"That's quite thoughtful. They know that even if the Ghost Rider receives payment for the goods, he may not always be in a good condition to complete the transaction. This month is left for the Ghost Rider to solve his own problems."

"But we have a plan to trade Jing Quiz. As long as we completely block the county in time and hand over the last Jing Quiz to the peddler, the deal will be done. Jing Quiz can be given the highest priority. As for these armors, ancient corpses, etc., we have no clue at all, so let's put them aside."

"If I'm not mistaken, the complete sentence at the beginning should be: If you want to completely get rid of the peddler's curse, you can only steal the peddler's supernatural powers and eventually replace the peddler to become the new ghost peddler."

"As expected, this is also the arrangement of the ghost controllers of the Republic of China. The peddler buys up evil spirits, which is indirectly solving supernatural events. However, all the consequences that the peddler himself may cause will be borne by the cursed person. Using one person's life in exchange for the stability of the overall situation is in line with the thinking of the ghost controllers of the Republic of China."

"And this kind of curse is not necessarily a bad thing. The ghost charioteers' involvement in supernatural events and the peddler's purchase of evil spirits can also be seen as a process of training ghost charioteers."

Cao Yang quickly figured out the relationship, but he didn't know if his guess was correct. The peddler was extremely scary and it was very difficult to steal. In the original novel, Yang Jian, who controlled the Ghost Lake, was not sure to deal with this weird man. Now he was even less likely to touch porcelain, so he could only complete the transaction honestly.

"The first transaction will be in three months, so there is still plenty of time. During this time, I need to find He Tianxiong to seize the trampling ghost, steal the ghost blood, and try to make the ghosts achieve a perfect balance."

(End of this chapter)