CHAPTER 437: ABYSS VOID TREE SEED

"You mean this is food too?" Chunhua’s interest was piqued. She did overhead their conversation about planting and fertilizer.

The Liches definitely wanted General to grow these seeds.

But when did the Liches became as kind as to give General Kang food?

It smells fishy in her opinion.

Haoran was also in the same phase as her.

The two appraised the seeds.

[Advanced Appraisal Skill Activated]

[Abyss Void Tree Seed- 6th Class]

This is the first time she seen a sixth class. It’s more valuable than the ginseng.

Her doubts increased.

[-A tree of the Void Abysmal Race, with enough fertilizer, it can used to breed Abysmal Monsters Fruits]

Breed Abysmal Monsters Fruits?

Chunhua’s eyes constricted.

She remembered something a plot. In the sixth weekly monster tide is where the most casualties occurred. It was because of the appearance of the abysmal monsters.

The abysmal monsters were stronger than normal monster and the most annoying part about them is they can endlessly revive and raised the other non-abysmal monsters corpses as one of their own. In other words-- necromancy.

Unless they were killed by a light element spell or their cores protected by an extremely hard shell were destroyed, they were unkillable.

Chunhua’s expression became solemn.

So it was not the system’s doing but the Liches behind it? And to think they had conspired this early on.

Nevertheless, for her discover it early too was a blessing.

Haoran heard a sound and saw Chunhua’s hand covered with the familiar golden glow and the seeds along with the pouch were into fine powder except for one seed, intending to ask the Elf about it.

Chunhua used the most primitive method of interrogating. It was fortunate the psychedelic liquid had imbued some kind of truth serum to General Kang, making him more cooperative otherwise Chunhua would have used the most primitive method of interrogating.

Though, the information she extracted from him was very shallow.

The liches paid him potions that permanently boost his attributes in exchanged for growing the Abyss Void Tree Seeds and weapons.

Both sides met on the first day of the second week.

[Beginner Level- Strength Boost Potion

-Permanently increase Strength by 3 points. Cap at 10. May contain side-effects.]

[Beginner Level- Agility Boost Potion

-Permanently increase Agility by 2 points. Cap at 10. May contain side effects.]

"It says ’may contain side effects’. I bet this isn’t simple as diarrhea." Chunhua muttered after inhaling the rotten smell and staring at the shady vials with no instructions.

Haoran smiled at her remark.

"Did you already drink one of the potions?"

"I did but just one of the strength potion. They told me to consume one every day."

General Kang answered in his sleep.

"Did you feel anything unusual?" Chunhua bent her knees and sat closer to the old man.

"Nothing."

Chunhua also didn’t notice anything peculiar in General Kang’s appearance but if she were to use to her enhance eyesight, she found out the bloodthirsty red aura surrounding him was mixed with tinge of black.

Only those demonic beasts and a few elders from unorthodox factions share the same black aura.

Though, the black aura on General Kang was only tiny spots right now, this doesn’t put her on ease.

The liches to which he referred to as ’Distinguished Business Partners’ only told him that these seeds was a special kind of fruit trees, their main food source.

The land of the Main Game Planet is more fertile than theirs but because their time in staying is very limited, they couldn’t look after the seeds and thus needed the players’ help.

"How do you grow these? Did they say something?" Chuanhua asked since she wasn’t able to hear that part because of the system notifications.

"They told me to use the blood of monsters...and to inject mana into it continuously."

That’s a sixth-class seed. If it’s valuable to them, they wouldn’t carelessly hand it over to some stranger even if the latter’s land is fertile.

Most importantly as far as she had read, Liches are like Death Envoys, they don’t need food or fruits in order to survive.

Haoran was thinking the same thing.

He also cooked food for some prestigious people in the past and before he was hired, he had to undergo background check and even while he was cooking, someone was watching him, fearing he would have done something to the food.

"It’s better to investigate this matter. Those people may not only approach him. There may be others as well." Haoran suggested.

"I think so too." Chunhua looked at the vials. Stats are precious and with these potions, the players will definitely accept the Liches’ deal.

Judging from the future plot, the liches probably sent someone in every area to do the same thing.

How to deal with the problem?

The psychedelic liquid had toll on a person’s mind and thus General Kang had fallen asleep completely. Chunhua couldn’t extract any more information.

Those two liches would come back tomorrow to meet with General Kang again.

Her eyes inadvertently landed on the Nightmare Flower and grinned. "Little Flower, can you do me a favor?"

"Scree?"

Half an hour later, Private Kai and Private Lian received the news that General Kang was found, unconscious on the moat.

The quickly pulled him up, unaware of a little purple flower waddling towards General Kang’s private residence.

Chunhua after harvesting five bottles of psychedelic liquid from the Nightmare Flower, Chunhua and Haoran left the crime scene.

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Death Island Entrance.

After cleaning the monsters within the periphery, the three brothers rested and started browsing the Global Chat where the players were discussing about the Death Island.

"Uncle Meng, what are you doing to those bamboos?" Cui squatted near the middle-aged man and picked up the thin bamboo strips that Uncle Meng had been busy for a while.

Meng Chu ran his dagger across the strips to chip off the excess fiber.

"I’m going to make baskets, cabinets, hats, boxes, and some toys to earn points to buy a house since Remi said the landowner will be upgrading the territory soon and there will be single and family sized houses being sold and rented. Since Cassia and the others ordered two sets from me, it would be waste of an opportunity. I can go hunting by the day and sell things at night."

After the courtyard-style or siheyuan behind the Landowner’s house was build, everyone longed to live in one too.