Corpse Flower Bloom Cycle 소설 & 이야기

"Look at these 'Moonshade Orchids'!" She pointed at the ethereal blue flowers that seemed to glow with their own inner light. "They only bloom in thousand-year glacier crevices! Every single harvest requires teams of expert climbers risking their lives, dangling over bottomless abysses! One wrong move means death!" The guests began looking around with new appreciation—and shock—at the floral arrangements. "Yet you've filled the entire hall with them!" Lydia's voice cracked with emotion. "Do you know how much this cost? How many lives were risked for these flowers alone?"

Leonard pressed on, he didn’t look the bit convinced. “No Leo. I don’t know” Liora replied and furrowed her brows. “You don’t believe me?” She asked and Leonard shifted in his seat. “It’s not that I don’t believe you but those flowers are Shenzhen Nongke Orchids. They only bloom every 4-5 years and that massive one that one sent to you? They were definitely specially grown. Does a random person send that to another random person?” He asked and Liora stared at him stunned.

But someone else had beaten them to it. How could there be such a coincidence? A flicker of suspicion crept into Halsey's mind. Who bought the Snowpeak Bloom? Shaun asked, "Do you know if there are any other Snowpeak Blooms available around here?" The neighbor shook his head. "That flower's really rare. It only blooms once every 50 years. There aren't any others on these mountains. Mark just got lucky and found one." So that meant there were no others. The Snowpeak Bloom only bloomed once every 50 years. If they missed this one, who knew how long they'd have to wait for the next?

“Yeah, sure. If we grind the seeds and mix them with the crushed flowers, it will become a lethal poison to the hybrids.” My shoulders went limp after hearing that. "And you said it was a rare plant, Doctor." “That's right. Besides not being easy to grow in random places, this plant only grows once a hundred years. And it will grow, flower, bear fruit, then die in just one week.” "What?" I ruffled my hair in frustration. "And do you know where this plant spread?" “Yeah. And it's pretty far away." “Oh, this is bad! This is so bad!"

Kiran observed quietly, wanting to see if there were any changes in the corpses. The corpses that had devoured the Devil’s Flower turned red as if their bodies were regenerating blood, resurrecting them. What shocked Kiran the most was that the flower greatly increased their strength. However, Kiran still did not take action as he wanted to see where the corpses would head next. After consuming the Devil’s Flower, they walked out. Kiran followed. As they all walked away, they turned toward the cave’s exit. Kiran was surprised that the corpses still had a sense of direction.

She plucked one. The glow of the flower dimmed faintly in her hand.There was power in it. Without Gina noticing, she carefully slipped the flower into satchel. ——— Later that night—At the Blackmoon Pack Library… Laura sneaked into the library. She sat by the heart a sack of old leather-bounds times beside her. She picked few books about herbs. One of the books had what she was looking for. Solaris Bloom. It was also known as “The Flames of Renewal”the Bloom is a rare flower said to glow with the last breath of a fallen star.Known for its potent restorative properties.

Then it began to spread, like vines creeping up a wall's foundation. The stone wall cracked. A clean, deliberate fracture split the stone, leaving it scarred but un-shattered. A fissure tore open from the highest point of the dome, and from inside that fissure poured more light, heavier and thicker and more ancient than anything in this chamber. The Lily of the Valley scent buried beneath this building's foundation three hundred years ago cascaded down through that crack. Aurora's pheromones. Dried and dormant for three centuries, now reignited by her granddaughter.

Not possible, no, Richard’s mind gibbered. These nocturnal plants peaked only once a year, twice at the most. Ugly ducklings, Michelle used to brag, that opened into swans and took your breath away. Night-blooming cereus encircled them, the same weedy hothouse flowers his wife used to grow, bursting into glorious life here in late September, in a lightless cellar yet. Spiny clusters of white all yawning together, and perfuming the air. Running riot down here where they should not be.

If he survived this, I would curse him to death. My current focus was to find the two ingredients needed to make an antidote for Dimas' body. Black Selinide Mushroom and Turnia Flower Root. As for the Turnia Flower, I've seen it at the Glafelden City flower shop. Turnia flower was an annual plant with a height between 70 to 90 cm. Each stem has only one flower at the end of the stalk. The shape of the flower when the bud was like a drill bit but would be very beautiful when it bloomed. If the season came, the Turnia Flower, which has dozens of petals, would bloom clockwise. Because of its very beautiful shape, Turnia Flowers were hunted by people as gifts or decorations at home.