The Unknown Beauty Chapter 41

Group 3

Zhang Haocun and Xie Rong are on their way to get their first herb . Xie Rong was able to catch a rabbit for lunch . They walked around to try to find the first herb . The herb is a poppy seed, used to make sleeping powder .

"The paper said these flowers that hold the seeds are usually around dead trees . " Zhang Haocun was reading the paper and soon reached notice the dead trees around them . "It should be around here . " He started to look around for the flowers .

Advertis.e.m.e.ntXie Rong sensed something was not right here . 'Why is there so many dead trees?' The air also became a lot stale the deeper they go . "What colors are the flowers?"

"They should be a bright deep pink . If we do find it, be careful . We just need the seeds . The paper said the flowers grow them infinitely until they die . " Zhang Haocun walks around a little farther and notice his vision became a little foggy . 'I'm a little tired…'

Xie Rong walks behind him and also felt his vision fogging up and his mind feeling tired . Zhang Haocun was still reading the paper . "You will know you are close when you start feeling tired for some unknown reason…" And pa.s.sed out while reading . He fell to the ground and woke up from the impact . Same thing happened to Xie Rong and they both get up quickly .

"Shoot! We fell asleep!" He got up and looked over at Xie Rong . "We are near the flowers . Don't fall asleep on me now!" Xie Rong nodded his head . They pinched themselves while moving their legs so it wouldn't happen again .

They closer they got, the more hazy their vision, and the more they want to sleep . The air got thicker and colder by the minute .

They both sensed something, a creatures or so right in front of them . Black Vultures, They are not strong, but not weak and they are a sign of death . Because they bring death, they were cursed to never sleep again which is why they live around the Poppy flowers .

They are not evil creatures . They just feed on dead corpses which is why they are a sign of death .

Xie Rong notice there wasn't one but hundreds of these birds around them . But they are all sleeping . Because of their curse, they are the only creatures known to be able to wake up consciously around this fog . Most creature including people, may die without them knowing . Which is a perfect place for these creature to live since food will be here for them .

Zhang Haocun looks at Xie Rong signaling them to slowly move to the flowers . Zhang Haocun mouth the words, 'Watch me' to Xie Rong to be careful when getting the seeds . On the paper, it says to pick up the seeds that are already on the ground . Everyday, each flower will lose 30 to 40 seeds a month and will land on the ground to grow more around them .

Xie Rong understood and quietly pick up the seeds and placed them in the pouch . They grabbed 3 pouch fulls of seeds and plan to leave right away when Zhang Haocun had an idea .

'Let's kill two birds with one stone, literally killing 2 of those black vultures for the spirit beast task . ' He whispered those words to Xie Rong and he agrees .

They each slowly walk up to a bird and sliced it by the throat as quietly as possible . But the bird cawed very loudly waking up the others around them noticing the Zhang Haocun and Xie Rong .

They rushed out of the area holding the dead vultures in their hand and being followed by the rest of them . They were quicker then the vultures and made it back into the lively part of the forest .

"We made it!" Zhang Haocun sighed in relief . "Alright on to the next task . "