Chapter 195: Chapter 175: Struck It Rich
Outside the Miracle Oasis, in the desolate desert.
Several black worms were continuously spitting out a viscous black liquid.
The black liquid pooled on the sand, floating on the surface without seeping into the grains.
As the black worms spewed out more and more of the black liquid, it began to squirm and coalesce into a humanoid figure.
The black liquid man reached down, grabbed all the worms on the ground, and stuffed them into his mouth. He began to chew with a sickening CRUNCH CRUNCH as the insects’ bodily fluids burst and trickled down the corners of his mouth.
The black liquid man extended a black tongue to lick away the fluid, after which his body began to lose its dark color and solidify. His facial features and other details slowly erged.
A mont later, a stark-naked Bai Guishou stood in the desert.
His face was extrely pale, and he looked incredibly weak. He cursed under his breath, "Those fucking idiots at headquarters sent
to die. All my precious insects, ten years of work, all wasted."
As he spoke, he dug into the sand and, a mont later, pulled out a wooden ring, which he slipped back onto his finger.
"I wasted one resurrection, but if I hadn’t died, I’d have no way to report back to those assholes at headquarters."
Bai Guishou took a brand-new white suit and a pair of black leather shoes from his Storage Ring and ticulously put them on.
Then, he soared into the air and flew out of the desert.
...
In the end, Su Ze didn’t manage to fill a whole bottle with water from the Miracle Spring. Just as he finished speaking, three drops flew out from the pool of spring water on the leaf and into his bottle all on their own.
It was clearly the work of the Mother Tree’s consciousness.
Su Ze had no choice but to give up. He shalessly put away the glass bottle, walked up to Ju Han, and said, "Mrs. Ju, I’m hungry. Can I pick so fruit to eat here?"
Even Ju Han, who had been composed the entire ti, couldn’t help but roll her eyes at him. ’Are you hungry, or just greedy? I can’t even be bothered to call you out!’
This place was filled with Spiritual Plants, and the fruits they bore were all high-grade evolution materials. So were even natural dicines.
Su Ze picking fruit here was no different from robbing a bank.
Ju Han took an apple from her storage item and offered it to Su Ze. "Here, eat this."
Su Ze glanced at it—it was just an ordinary apple. He didn’t even bother to reach for it. "Mrs. Ju, is this really how you treat your guests?"
Su Ze was feeling bold now. Since the Mother Tree had made a pact with him and would need his help in the future, he was completely safe in the Miracle Oasis. There was no harm in acting a little more assertive.
Ju Han explained helplessly, "Most of the recently ripened fruits were taken to be sold at the trade fair. What’s left is either unripe or would harm the Spiritual Plant if picked."
In the end, perhaps with the Mother Tree’s blessing, Ju Han still took Su Ze and Mr. Ya to pick so Tier 3 Evolution Fruits.
The most precious among them was a Tier 3 "Sound-Gathering Fruit." Consuming it could enhance an evolver’s hearing, making it the sa type of natural dicine as the Rootless Dodder Seed Su Ze had used before.
Throughout the process, Su Ze kept trying to cozy up to Ju Han, all while pestering her with questions. Perhaps out of respect for the Mother Tree, Ju Han did her best to answer all of them.
Su Ze finally had a general understanding of Ju Han’s role in the Miracle Oasis.
According to Ju Han, ever since the Oasis Comrce Association was founded, every president has also been the Guardian of the Miracle Oasis.
To beco the president of the Oasis Comrce Association, one must first be acknowledged by the Mother Tree and establish a connection with it, only then can they beco a presidential candidate.
With the Mother Tree’s help, the candidate would grow to Saint-level at an extrely rapid pace. Afterward, they would take over from the previous president, officially graduating from their candidate status and shouldering the responsibility of protecting the Miracle Oasis.
Therefore, Ju Han wasn’t as "old" as Su Ze had imagined. Although she wasn’t a teenager, she was still under thirty.
Why would the powerful Mother Tree need a Guardian? There was a reason for that.
The Mother Tree was very powerful, but for so reason, it could not directly act against humans. This included the Spiritual Plants in the inner circle; in a way, they were one with the Mother Tree and also couldn’t initiate attacks on humans.
However, the animals living in the Oasis had no such restriction.
That was why there were so many symbiotic relationships between mutated beasts and Spiritual Plants here.
When a mutated beast took the lead and borrowed a Spiritual Plant’s power to attack a human, it was not restricted. This was because it was the beast’s own conscious action; the Spiritual Plant was rely having its power used passively.
By the sa token, Ju Han, as the Oasis Guardian, could borrow the power of all the Spiritual Plants within the Oasis to fight against invading evolvers without any restrictions.
Upon hearing this, Su Ze had a mont of realization. No wonder the Tier 4 banana tree and fruit tree only defended themselves and never counter-attacked when Bai Guishou tried to take the spring water.
Thinking about it that way, he realized the Oasis really did need a Guardian.
And according to Ju Han, a previous Guardian had once managed to repel and severely injure a Saint-level Supre. Since then, no Saint-level expert had dared to trespass in the Oasis lightly.
’Why can’t the Mother Tree attack humans?’
Su Ze’s thoughts turned to the Mother Tree’s master. ’It’s possible that because its master was also human, they laid down a rule forbidding it from attacking humans. Of course, it wouldn’t be a re verbal promise, but so kind of compulsory rule or restriction.’
"Mrs. Ju, I’ll co visit you often," Su Ze said, waving goodbye to Ju Han as he was about to leave.
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