The Unknown Beauty

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.

Xie 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 passed 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."