The Musafir

The Scent of Death

The Flower that Mantingan encountered today was the Scent of Death Flower. The height of six jengkal, all parts of the flower are black, including the roots. It is not because of the scent of this flower that leads a person to death, but because of the smell that smells like carrion this is called death. Can't that be interpreted as death?

The mantle slowly approached the little flower. The foul aroma was extremely stinging and dense, as if there were dozens of animal carcasses in that place. This flower is actually quite high value, even the price is higher than Purple Sari Flower. But it was impossible for Mantingan to take him to the camp and plant him there, for the foul scent of this Deathly Aroma Flower would certainly disturb his eating and sleeping.

On the other hand, Mantingan was reluctant to miss the chance of getting the Death Scent Flower. This flower is very easy to cultivate, the flower only needs a few insects to eat before it raises the buds not far from its place.

What was surprising about Mantingan was that there were no other similar flowers within the radius of a few spears from it. That is very surprising, because the Death Scent Flower is easy to breed, and usually lives in groups. It cannot be said to be a young flower that is still unable to breed. The mantan had seen for itself, the age of this Death Scent Flower was at least 100 years old.

Is it possible that there are other plant-hunters who have uprooted all of the Deathly Aroma Flowers and left one flower to be allowed to breed? If that is the case, then there is no right for the Matingan to take this flower.

However, the Mantingan did not see any traces of a draw on the ground or any signs of having any humans before here. Perhaps only Mantingan was the only human who had ever tracked this land. The more astonished Mantingan.

Are the flowers barren?

Knowing his thoughts, Mantingan smiled faintly. Are there not sterile flowers like humans and animals? Like this flower for example, it has no friends around it. However, although it is true that this flower is barren even though, Mantingan will still try to cultivate it.

The mantle approaching on the flower smelled so unpleasant it was. Then he took a deep breath, to get used to the smell. After that, the Mantingan came closer.

The mantle took a stone dagger from his waist, the dagger was used to cut off one of the flower petals. After being cut off, the rotten scent of the Death Scent Flower grew even more concentrated and gushing. Mantingan can not resist coughing and nausea when smelling the aroma. Without thinking any longer, Mantingan immediately got away from the flower.

Perhaps for Mantingan and other humans, the scent produced from the Deathly Aroma Flower was very unpleasant. But to insects like flies, the scent of the Deathly Aroma Flower was like a call to breed.

Coupled with the cutting off of one of the pieces of the Deathly Scent Flower, the scent would smell even further, inviting the crowd of flies to come and eat. Hopefully that way, this Death Scent Flower can breed.

Seeing the way of breeding from the Death Scent Flower that is so simple, then this flower is not classified as a rare flower. However, the price is still expensive, because the need is so high.

This flower is commonly used by healers for medicinal ingredients. The oil from the Death Scent Flower has been shown to relieve pain, as well as stop internal bleeding. The Scent of Death was needed during the war.

Who would dare to imagine, one would vertical the oil of the Deathly Aroma Flower, whereas that oil was the one that produced the stench? But in a life and death situation, the vertical effort of the Death Scent Flower oil seemed to be mandatory.

Mantingan continued on his way, going towards the north. Only a moment ago Mantingan walked and scattered the thickets, Mantingan's face was already flabbergasted in disbelief.

He saw in front of him. How many Deathly Aroma Flowers were scattered. Really much. Mantingan saw, the flowers numbered more than a hundred. It grows everywhere, no matter the land it lives in.

Of course Mantingan did not smell the foul scent of the hundred Deathly Aroma Flowers due to the wind that was breezing towards the north. So the scent is carried, of course, to the north, not the south!

And now Mantingan remembered what he had done to the first Deathly Aroma Flower he had discovered. The mantle cut off the petals, allowing the oil inside the petals to further spread its foul scent. The flies will come, and the flowers will breed even more. Can't Mantingan imagine what kind of smell thousands of Death Scent Flowers would produce in the adjacent place.

Manten could prevent it by killing the Death Scent Flower, but it was not cultivating. The mantan also does not want to cut the flowers in front of him now, except the flowers he has cultivated.

Then at that moment, Mantingan could only sigh and smile awkwardly.

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After discovering that Death Scent Flower, Mantingan still continued to search for other rare flowers. But he did not find the other flowers, the Deathly Aroma Flower alone. The mantle was not disappointed. If a rare flower is easy to find, then its name is not a rare flower. Looking for rare flowers that are not found that is precisely what is fun for Mantingan.

Now Mantingan had been in his camp just before the sun had set. Not to forget before entering his camp, Mantingan cleaned the body on the bank of a small river. The bonfire had been lit, Mantingan was eating deer jerky while staring at the bonfire.

Sky darkens. Not only because of the twilight, but dark black clouds are also seen covering the sky. Due to this rainy season, Mantingan built a camp that is resistant to heavy rain and storms though. However, Mantingan was not sure if what was coming was a big storm.

A flash of light flashed in the sky until it struck the dark land below, and then there was the sound of thunder rumbling. Not wrong, it's gonna rain in a minute. That means, Mantingan must immediately move to prepare the camp in the face of rain.

Mantingan ensure that the hook on the roof open-close in the planting room is not damaged, so it can be closed perfectly in case of rainstorms later. The mantingan also ensures that there are no leaks in the storage room, the roof of the roof is still tight. After that, Mantingan add and strengthen the rope bond in the tent where he sleeps.

After it was confirmed everything had been prepared, Mantingan again sat in front of the bonfire that was still burning. Waiting for the rain to chew jerky.