Chapter 78 Nothing is More Evil Than People’s Mind (2/2)

“You would be dead if it weren’t for him,” I poked his chest.

Feng Chunsheng giggled. “Brother Yu is really strong to be able to tell that this was a psychic tree.”

“What do you mean?” I asked him.

Feng Chunsheng replied: “That’s to say, this locust tree has cultivated and became a spirit. It is a ghost tree because it has a high affinity to evil, and according to Brother Yu, it only began to eat people by itself after Xing Xing fed it ten dead bodies over the past few years. Though this tree didn’t hurt people before, it will be harmful if it stays like that.”

He shook his head and continued: “However, Brother Yu followed the rule and didn’t kill this tree. He used that spike to remove its skills and let it practice for another five hundred years. He did what was humanly possible to help.”

He pointed in the direction Chen Yuhao had left and said: “Though he is a cold person, he is really kind-hearted.”

“That’s good.” I gave a thumbs up in the direction Chen Yuhao had gone.

Then l told Feng Chunsheng: “Maybe he has been protecting us secretly.”

“Of course. He has to, because it’s only you who can change the pattern on his back.” He continued: “Well, let’s go and burn the tree.”

I thought there but found some problem, then I said to him: “Chun…We have to get legal permission. It is not a good idea to burn this locust tree so hastily, since it belongs to someone else.”

“Well, let’s go to the landlord and talk about this matter… It’s no good for him to rent out apartments near an evil death tree,” Feng Chunsheng agreed with me.

I went downstairs and turned to Liu Qinghua for her landlord’s telephone number.

Liu Qinghua had just woken up. She talked to me with joy, saying that Brother Feng appeared in her dream after she got the tattoo. She felt very happy.

I smiled and said: “Well, you are Brother Feng, and Brother Feng is you from now.”

“Thank you.” Then Liu Qinghua gave me her landlord’s telephone number.

I called the landlord, saying that there was a death tree on his property and that we would help him deal with it, so he needed to come right away.

“Alright.”

One hour later, the landlord came, driving a Honda.

The landlord went up to the gate, checked out the tree, and looked at us. Then he gave us cigarettes.

“Are you masters?” He smiled and wanted to talk with us.

I nodded: “Well, you can say that.”

“Good. A word, please.” He pointed to a corner of the yard.

I didn’t know what the landlord wanted, but we followed him and went to the corner.

The landlord asked us with an insidious smile: “So, my brothers… Did this tree really harm people?”

“Yes,” I replied.

We didn’t mention Xing Xing. We didn’t want to make trouble, or the police would come and interrogate us about this matter.

Then he asked again: “So, did you kill this tree?”

I told him we didn’t kill this tree but only removed its powers. But we needed to burn it down just to make sure it wouldn’t hurt people any more.

The landlord snapped the fingers and said: “Well, please don’t burn this tree. Can you help it recover its powers?”

“What?”

Feng Chunsheng and I were very surprised and didn’t know why he would say something like that.

He said that he earned money through this tree, and he would be out of business if this tree died.

“Your business?” I looked at him and found it a little strange.

The landlord told us with a smile: “The rent is very cheap, but the deposit is very high.”

I understood.

I have to say, he was such a wicked man.

Feng Chunsheng spat on the ground.

What did this landlord do?

It was like this.

I guessed that he must have already known there was something wrong in his house, since so many people disappeared without a trace.

Usually, people would turn to a master to check the house and find out what the problem was, or call the police.

But this landlord was a schemer. He pretended not to notice, but reduced the rent and raised the deposit.

After ten or twenty days living in the house, the tenants would disappear - and then nobody would ask the landlord about the deposits.

And the landlord would keep the deposit.

“They have to pay rent at three hundred per month, but the deposit is twenty five thousand.” The landlord said: There were more than one hundred people who didn’t ask me for the deposit in the past four or five years. This tree was a life tree; it supported me and gave me a good life.”

I looked at this landlord, thinking that he didn’t earn money only from the deposits. Well, let me guess — maybe he followed Xing Xing and found out that this tree would destroy the corpses without a trace? So that he would kill his competitors and earn even more money…

It was a rather vicious guess… In any case, I didn’t think we could confront him without any evidence, since this was a ruthless man.

Then he looked at us and said: “Well, how about I pay you fifty thousand and you help the tree recover, OK?”

“If fifty thousand is not enough for you, what about seventy, or eighty, or one hundred thousand? That’s the most I can offer…” he stretched out his two palms.