Elixir 5
“So-rong, this is a laughing flower. It is a flower that can be commonly seen around Sichuan and Yunnan.”
While wandering through the forest with my older sister, I was able to easily find a colony of hamsohwa flowers blooming on a low hill.
The hamsohwa was a shrub as tall as a person, and its six-petaled, yellow, purple, and white flowers were in full bloom all over the garden.
“Is this Hamsohwa? Let’s see where···.”
Just as my older sister had said, I picked some flowers and smelled them to check if I could really smell that scent.
Then a sweet scent rushed into my nostrils.
A very familiar and sweet scent drifted strongly into my nostrils.
‘I ate one almost every day in my previous life. If I look for it here, I’ll probably find it somewhere, right?’
I nodded my head as I recalled memories from my past life.
Because it was very similar, just as my older sister said.
“It’s definitely similar.”
“Right? It’s not exactly the same, but it’s really similar, right? The people of Tangga train themselves to smell the scent of poison, so once they smell it, they never forget it.
There is a saying in the martial arts world that only a Tang family’s nose can be trusted.”
“Do you have that kind of training too?”
“Yes, there are a total of four thousand two hundred and sixty scents to remember.”
“Four, four thousand two hundred and six?”
It’s ridiculous to say that I have to remember four thousand two hundred and sixty different scents, even though I’m not a perfumer.
I was already worried about how I was going to get through the rote memorization(?) training, but the thought of having to receive training on this kind of scent made me break out in a cold sweat.
‘No, honestly, seeing the beautiful appearance of my older sister, I thought that a bad guy like Tak Woon Yang could do something to a person if he put his mind to it… But this is not even a person…’
After the training is over, you’ll be able to deal with people and go around, but the training itself is absurd.
While we were wondering what was so complicated and difficult and whether we could really do it well, we heard a voice calling us from the bottom of the mountain.
“Little Dragon! Young Lady!”
“This way!”
“This way. Commander.”
The unit leader jumped up to the hill where we were in one bound using light air.
We decided to look for the hamsohwa and the berries of the parasitic plant that gave it to us, and it seems that he found it and ran towards us.
“Miss. There just so happens to be a lot of banana trees over there, just like here. The banana trees’ fruit has arrived. It’s ripe and yellow.”
The captain held out to us a bunch of yellow berries, saying they were the fruit of the parsley plant.
But what he was holding in his hand was something very familiar, something different from what I had expected.
They said it was the fruit of the plantain, but what the captain held out was a familiar, ripe, yellow fruit.
This was definitely a banana, a fruit I know well.
‘Huh? This is totally a banana? Oh! Right, so they say bananas are a plant from the banana family! So that banana is this banana!’
The fruit of the banana tree that Daeju brought was not the one we were used to seeing, but rather a fruit that looked like a short monkey banana, and when we broke it in half, there was a whole seed inside.
‘Does it taste like wild bananas?’
Let’s taste it. It had an incredibly bitter taste, like the kind you can taste in the fiber between the banana flesh and peel, but since I wasn’t there to eat it, I spit it out and sniffed it right away.
Let’s smell the scent of the pine nut, a familiar smell.
As expected, the scent of bananas rose fragrantly.
“Is that right, So-ryong? What was So-ryong looking for?”
My older sister asks me with eyes full of anticipation as she sees me checking the smell.
I nodded slowly, feeling like I really wanted to do some deep cleaning.
“Yes, I think these two will be enough.”
“Of course! Then let’s go and tell the Lord right away!”
“Yes, my lady.”
We arrived at the campsite again, carried on the backs of our older sister and her comrades.
He gathered the warriors of the Tang family and asked them to do something.
He asked me to gather the fruits of the plantain and the flowers of the hamsohwa.
“You must gather the fruits of the banana plant and the flowers of the laughing flower.”
“Are you telling me to gather the fruits of the plantain and the flowers of the hamsohwa?”
“Yes, you said that Mokri is not far from here, so please get a jar and gather them in it.”
“Why are the flowers of Hamsohwa and the fruits of the plantain? I don’t know about the flowers, but the fruits of the plantain must have many seeds and be bitter.”
Daeju tilted his head in confusion at my request and asked again.
It seemed like he thought I was coming from training and wanted a special meal, like a company commander who came from a serious construction site and asked for burdock for dinner.
Now that I think about it, I haven’t explained it in detail to anyone other than my older sister.
After glancing at the lord and the warriors, he pointed in the direction where the black knights were hiding.
“Those guys hiding over there. Don’t you want to wipe them all out?”
“Are you saying you’re going to sweep it away?”
“Yes, just like that.”
As expected from a great assassination family, their eyes sparkle at the words that they will sweep everything away.
However, the Great Leader responded that he could not indiscriminately kill anyone as a member of the Tangga Baekdo sect.
“There are some people who are rumored to kidnap women and sell them or use them as prostitutes, and there are also some who deal in bad medicine, so honestly, I want to wipe them all out, but we are a family that walks the path of the white road.
“I appreciate that you have made a suggestion that would suit our family, but I cannot do anything that would go against my principles, Your Majesty.”
I was a little surprised by the unexpected answer, so I shook my head and explained.
Who said we should just kill them all?
I’m just saying this to scare you a little.
“No way. I would never suggest that we kill those guys with our own hands. I’m just saying that we should scare them away a little, so you don’t have to worry too much.”
“Huh? You’re just scaring them a little and chasing them away? How on earth?”
“Um… What should I say? Should I tell the intermediate poisonous King Geummobong that I’ll cause an unexpected accident?”
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“Huh? An accident?”
“I really like the word ‘unexpected accident’.”
When I heard the word “accident,” my older sister nodded as if she liked that, and the other warriors, who had no idea what was going on, looked back and forth between me and my older sister with bewildered faces.
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[Little Dragon, I have scattered it as you instructed!]
[I also completed the mission!]
He smiled, holding up an empty jar, saying that the commander, including the commander who was the most skilled in light-heartedness among us, had carried out the order perfectly.
It seemed as if he was looking forward to what would happen next.
Despair and screams…
[Of course, they would have scattered the most of it beyond their campsite, right?]
[Of course. I scattered the entire jar across their campsite.]
[What about the side dish?]
[Yes, I sprayed it little by little starting from the closest place where the bees didn’t react, and spread it in a long line towards their campsite.]
What the major and minor forces sprinkled was a mixture of ripe basil fruits and crushed hamsohwa flowers mixed with water and diluted in water.
Now the preparations are complete.
I gave a signal to my older sister, who had been throwing and catching a rock the size of her fist for a while.
[Hwaeun Sojo, ready!]
[Okay, Little Dragon!]
My older sister, who had caught the falling stone that had been thrown into the sky with a signal, flew it straight across the empty lot to the beehive of the Golden Phoenix King.
-Seeing!
A rock that extends straight up as if thrown with a spear.
If it was her previous life, it would have been easy to get a million subscribers with the baseball girl concept.
-Ttaaak!
The stone that escaped from my sister’s hand flew straight toward the large tree across the empty lot, and lodged itself in the center of the tree with a loud noise.
The sound then reflects off the cliff and resonates loudly.
-Ttaak···. Ttaak···. Ttaak···. Ttaak···.
Then the terrifying sound I had already heard twice began to fill the cliff and the empty space.
It’s the sound of the Golden Phoenix flapping its wings.
-Boooosh! Booosh! Weeing! Weeing!
What happened next was a familiar scene, a golden wave pouring into the entrance of the old tree.
In the evening glow, the golden feathers of the golden phoenix were shining, and they were rushing out of the entrance of the hive like a flood.
-Whew! Why!
Bees pouring out of the hive entrance like a tidal wave.
The bees that poured out of the entrance of the hive immediately flew up and circled around the house in a scary manner.
And then it immediately started shooting in the direction the wind was blowing.
The clouds of death had begun to move towards the campsite of the Black Islanders, where the wind was blowing.
A vacant lot where the bees disappeared.
“That’s true!”
“I’m really amazed!”
My sister threw the stone again, but there was no response from inside the hive.
It was clear that, with the exception of the queen bee and a few drones, all of them had flocked to the Black Beasts’ campsite.
Because I gave the signal for an all-out attack.
“Little Dragon, what on earth did you do? I didn’t know that the bees would get so angry at the scent of these flowers. Don’t bees like flowers and honey?”
My older sister continued to ask questions, saying that it was really amazing.
“That’s because I ordered the bees to launch an all-out attack.”
“An all-out attack!? You ordered it? We just crushed some flowers and fruits and scattered them?”
My sister’s question with her eyes wide open.
This situation seemed very strange to my older sister.
Now, to understand this situation, we must first understand the insect called bee and how bees communicate.
“That smell is the smell that signals an all-out attack.”
“Is that the smell that comes from the hamsohwa and the basil fruits?”
My sister is amazed, but the cause of all this magical work is pheromone.
Pheromones are a general term for chemical signals used by animals of the same species to communicate.
Pheromones are what make animals sometimes fall in love, sometimes angry, and sometimes calm.
Animals respond very readily to these pheromones, and many animals use them, especially social insects such as bees, ants, and wasps, which actively use pheromones as a means of communication.
That’s why I gave you the scent that bees give off when they attack all at once: the scent of bananas.
Although it is little known in Korea, among the pheromones that honeybees use for communication, the pheromone that commands an all-out attack is a component called isoamyl acetate.
Isoamyl acetate makes bees nervous and makes them attack more aggressively.
However, when biologists studied this isoamyl acetate, they discovered something surprising: it had a banana-like scent.
It was discovered that the pheromone that bees emit before they attack has a banana scent.
So I checked and found out that the main ingredient in banana flavor is isoamyl acetate.
The main ingredient in artificial banana flavoring, which we call ‘banana ester’, and the main ingredient in natural banana flavoring is isoamyl acetate.
A component found equally in the fruit of all banana plants is isoamyl acetate.
This was the same ingredient that gave the bees their pheromone to order an all-out attack.
For this reason, it is recommended to be careful about eating bananas overseas in places where there may be bees.
Because it can make bees aggressive.
“I’ll tell you the details later, but before the King of the Golden Phoenix returns, let’s first get some honey! Please keep an eye on the Vice-Lord!”
“Okay, Little Dragon.”
“Understood, Little Dragon!”
The sun will set soon.
I had to hurry before the angry bees came back, so I ordered the swarm leader to watch the net and ran to the entrance of the hive.
And I first looked into the sympathy inside.
But as expected, no sound was heard.
It was clear that there wasn’t a single worker bee left inside.
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
“I will take the lead!”
The great master, holding a dagger in both hands, took the lead, and my older sister and I followed, carrying a lantern and a brazier.
Just in case, I brought in a brazier with the pungent scent of dried mugwort.
This is to make sure that any bees left inside are docile.
The entrance to the beehive is like that.
The top of his head was full of honeycombs made of wax···.
There was a problem.
The problem is that there is no honey in sight.
“Huh? There’s no honey at all?”
“How could that be?”
“Just as the small group said, there really isn’t a single one.”
An empty honeycomb.
It is essential for any bee to store honey, but there is no honey to be seen.
I asked the Great Lord to burn the honey and looked up, but as expected, I couldn’t see even a single drop of honey.
“How is this?”
Daeju said he had experienced it once, but this was the first time he had seen such an absurd phenomenon.
But when I looked at the honeycomb, I immediately understood why there was no honey.
There weren’t any eggs in the hive.
It was clear that these guys had been preparing to migrate from the beginning.
Because bees never migrate when they are raising their young.
The cause is probably us who have appeared around us.
It was clear that they had decided to move when they saw many people around them.
That was when.
Something that catches the eye.
He lowered his head and asked the lord.
“Your Majesty, how long can you practice lightness exercises without resting?”
“Why all of a sudden? If you run leisurely, it should take about half a day?”
Daeju asked back why he was asking that, but before he could answer the question, a voice was heard from the entrance.
The captain shouted in an urgent voice.
“The Little Dragon is coming! The Golden Phoenix King is returning!”
He quickly picked up what he saw and shouted at Daeju.
“Let’s go out!”
“Yes, Little Dragon!”
The empty lot we arrived at like that.
As Daejoo tried to catch his breath, he heard his sister’s panicked voice.
“Cow, cow dragon? T, why that!?”
-Woof, wow.
I answered while holding the struggling boy in my arms.
“There’s no honey, so I brought a guy to make honey for you. Let’s run fast! Before those guys catch up! They won’t come at night, so hurry!”
The race for life was about to begin.
The Golden Phoenix King and ours.
Because I stole the queen bee, no, I brought her here.
I wanted to try bee hunting once.
