Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 310 Trees and Vines
The old man called Bai Zhilin's face changed and his expression was a little moved. It was obvious that Cao Yang's words just now had shocked him greatly.

"As expected of the captain of the headquarters, he is so well-informed."

Bai Zhilin quickly returned to his previous calm and composed self, and even clapped his hands to show his approval of Cao Yang's speech.

"I have no intention of becoming an enemy of you, Mr. Bai, but Baiyu Village is a man-made spiritual place that has maintained balance for decades. In modern times, I doubt whether Baiyu Village can continue to be stable."

Cao Yang answered in a neither humble nor arrogant manner. In fact, this was his true thought. As strong as Meng Xiaodong and Luo Qian, who were among the Seven Elders, the spiritual land they suppressed would go out of control, causing immeasurable losses to reality. Bai Zhilin in front of him was obviously not as good as the Seven Elders, so it was normal for Cao Yang to have doubts about this spiritual land.

"Since this captain is able to find out my code name, why is he still suspicious of Baiyu Village?"

After listening to Cao Yang's words, Bai Zhilin was not angry, but asked back with interest.

"To imprison a ghost is to imprison a person. Old Bai, you use your ability to imprison evil spirits, but aren't you also imprisoning yourself? I may be a little blunt, but if one day Old Bai can't hold on any longer, who can guarantee that the evil spirits you have imprisoned for so many years will not break free and reappear in reality?"

The old man and the young man started a confrontation, and only Bai Ru was still bearing the terrifying weight of the oppressive ghost.

"You're right. If there are more young people like you, there will still be hope for this era. But I've already considered your concerns the moment I founded Baiyu Village."

"Since you are the captain, I guess you have been to many mysterious places. So I want to ask you, what is the most important thing in a mysterious place?"

Bai Zhilin raised his hand slightly, and several vines about the thickness of an adult's arm suddenly stretched out from the ground beside Bai Ru. Although they were soft, they were very powerful. These dark and even somewhat scary vines instantly wrapped around Bai Ru's body and dragged him directly into the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the vines emerged from beside Bai Zhilin, and brought Bai Ru up with them.

Cao Yang didn't mind this. He didn't have any intention to kill Bai Ru, otherwise no one present could have saved him.

"The core of the spiritual land is balance, and it is a dynamic balance between ghosts and ghosts, and between spirits and spirits. Each link is closely linked to each other. Once one step fails, it is only a matter of time before the entire spiritual land gets out of control."

"Yes, but not entirely."

"Perhaps my question is not accurate enough. A spiritual place that can achieve a stable balance is certainly successful and can maintain stability for at least ten years. But a truly spiritual place should also have another characteristic - circulation."

"The seeds grow into small trees, the small trees grow into big trees, the big trees bloom and bear fruit, the fruits bring new seeds, and this cycle repeats endlessly. Only such a magical place can be truly called successful. It does not need external intervention to maintain it, and it can achieve mutual restraint and balance by itself."

"And Baiyu Village is exactly like that. You see me now, I am very weak, maybe even not as strong as Bairu. But I have merged with the entire Baiyu Village. I am a part of Baiyu Village. Even those strong people will still die due to lifespan issues, and I am no exception."

"However, it's not like I haven't done anything over the years. I have already chosen a suitable successor. He will inherit all my supernatural powers and continue to shoulder the mission and responsibility of protecting this village."

Having said that, a look of relief and pride emerged on Bai Zhilin's face. It seemed that the heir made him quite satisfied.

"Heir? Isn't it a bit too much for you to impose your will on the younger generation?"

"Of course it's heavy. I, Bai Zhilin, and a few good friends built this ghost village with great difficulty. It took us a few old guys more than ten years of hard work. Now all the pressure is on that kid. How can it not be heavy?"

"But I also respected his opinion and sent him out to be a person in charge of your headquarters. I guess he was similar to the City God of our time."

Bai Zhilin shifted his gaze and looked into the distance. That place was none other than Zhongning City, a port city on the coast of Zhejiang Province. The heir he mentioned was the person in charge of that city.

"Bai Heng is a good kid. I hope you can take care of him for me, Captain. After all, I can't leave the village easily, and it's not easy to send him out." "Bai Heng?"

Cao Yang seemed to have some impression of this name.

"Bai Heng, the person in charge of Zhongning City?"

I remembered that after agreeing to take over the headquarters, my uncle Cao Yanhua gave me a file of several city leaders, including Bai Heng.

"Yes, he is the little city god of Zhongning City. He is a fruit born from a ghost tree. I teamed up with the necromancer and the mourner to force the fruit to have the consciousness of a living person, so he can leave the village, but I can't."

"Not only that, he and the ghost tree are one, and he can borrow the ghost tree and even the spirit of the entire Baiyu Village anytime and anywhere."

Cao Yang's expression moved slightly. Bai Zhilin's words contained a huge amount of information. If Bai Heng could really mobilize an entire spiritual land, it would definitely not be a problem for him to get the position of captain with his strength. In fact, at a certain period of time, Bai Heng might be much stronger than Yang Jian.

"From the perspective of your headquarters, Bai Heng is a real ghost. Although Bai Yucun and I are his backers, we can't play a role in deterring or protecting him. That's why I want you, the captain, to take better care of him."

Bai Zhilin continued.

"So the core of Baiyu Village is the ghost tree? But seeing what you did just now, the ghost tree should be the supernatural power you control, right?"

Cao Yang did not give a direct answer, but avoided the topic.

"Promise me first to take care of Bai Heng, and the other problems will be easy to solve. Captain, this is a sure win deal. It's like I'm giving you an entire spiritual land. There are countless spiritual items in Baiyu Village. You're tempted by Bai Ru's candle shop alone, right?"

Bai Zhilin moved closer and closer, as if he was sure that Cao Yang would agree to his request.

"Okay, I want half of all the supernatural items in Baiyu Village, not including this entire candle shop. As compensation, you can make another request that is not too excessive."

The special effect of the white candles is already very obvious, and Cao Yang will never give up. However, he is not the kind of person who is immoral and robs people by force. A favor from the captain of the inspection team is very valuable, enough to solve 70% to 80% of the current troubles in the supernatural circle.

"Haha, okay. Then I won't be polite, but my request is not difficult. If one day I can't hold on any longer, I hope you can come and collect my body. Bai Heng is not a guy who can do that."

Bai Zhilin suddenly laughed heartily, without any taboo in his words.

"He is indeed an outlier."

Cao Yang silently said in his heart that most of the older generation of ghost riders had already taken care of their own affairs in advance, and basically would not cause any trouble to the outside world. But the aliens were different, because the death of the aliens meant that there would be one more ghost with the wisdom of a living person in the world, and such an existence was very terrifying in reality.

That's why Bai Zhilin made such a request. Given Bai Heng's personality, he probably wouldn't have the heart to take action at that moment. Instead, it would be better to have an outsider like Cao Yang intervene.

"By the way, I haven't asked for the captain's name yet?"

"My surname is Cao, and my given name is a foreign character."

(End of this chapter)