Chapter 803
“Do you know about Grebis disease?” Cane asked Zale, he dismissed his concern about Lou was going to see Iris.
There were only two things that might happen if Lou met with Iris. He could help her to find a way to solve the problem, since he had the knowledge about magic, which Cane didn’t have, or the merchant could annoy her and he would taste his mate’s wrath.
Cane was fine with either.
“I know,” Zale said, he pursed his lips. “That disease is only for poor people. We call it ugly death, because the dead body will look very ugly because of the burning scars,” Zale told Cane about what he knew and his experience with the disease. He saw three of his friends got the disease and they passed out within two days.
“What else?” Cane asked for more detail.
“What happened?” Zale furrowed his brows. “You guys will not be infected by the disease, why do you want to know?”
There were not many people had learned about Ethan got inflicted by Grebis. They only knew the gamma only got food poisoning.
“My gamma gets the disease,” Cane replied in a matter of fact tone.
Zale widened his eyes in shock. He remembered how bad it was. He was there when three of his friends passed away because of the disease. It made his bad memories resurfaced again. “But… but, he is not poor.”
Just like what he said earlier, only poor people could be infected by the disease.
“Grace had confirmed that. Tell me more about it,” Cane said firmly.
With that, Zale racked his brain to let the alpha knew every single detail of it. He didn’t leave any information untold. Even the trivial thing such as the three of his friend habit and what they usually ate to survive. He even told him about how they looked like.
There was a tinge of sadness in Zale voice when he had to recall their last moment.
Food.
It started with food.
One thing that was very significant and critical between the poor people in the Silver River pack was food that they consumed.
“Because it’s hard to have meat, we used to eat Fire Foot.” Zale then described the plant was akin to a small bamboo that tasted rather good and you could find it easily around the Silver River pack. “You can use it to make rag. It’s very cheap and we can make it on our own. People like me used it as clothes too.”
“Fire Foot?” Cane narrowed his eyes. He didn’t dig too deep about this disease in the past, because when he learned there was no cure for it, he didn’t think much and move on to his next plan.
“I can show you if you want, I know this area,” Zale said.
“Show me.”
Zale’s eyes lit up, he practically bounced when he told the alpha to follow him. The two of them shifted into their beasts and went out of the campsite.
The little beast led the way, while the big one followed behind. It made all of the warriors and knights furrowed their brows, thinking what their alpha was doing with this little beast.
At the same time, Lou entered the food storage and found Iris was in the same position when he asked Grace and Jace to leave her alone, she was still staring at the food and the water on the table.
“You don’t think to try it, right?” Lou approached her, but Iris didn’t seem to surprise with his presence.
“Lou.”
“Yes?” Lou answered quickly.
“I read about black magic,” Iris said. She remembered she bought a book about black magic when they were in Diandem pack.
“What black magic you are talking about?” Lou was intrigued. It was a rare occasion to have a conversation alone with Iris, thus he enjoyed this time, before the alpha interrupted this moment. But, he wondered why Cane didn’t stop him, neither he made an appearance now.
“Black magic is not something that could inflict a person or a creature, but it can also inflict plant,” Iris said. “I read about Black Blood, it’s a plan that’s raised with black magic.”
“If this is a black magic, you must be able to sense it, right?” Lou rubbed his chin. He loved this conversation immensely, as he had the liberty to stare at her serious little face.
“I didn’t know how to explain it.” Iris furrowed her brows. “I didn’t feel the black magic within the black rain that happened recently, but I had that vicious feeling whenever it started raining. It’s so different from the black magic, but it’s something that made me restless.” Iris was sure the black rain didn’t contain with black magic, but it didn’t mean it was something good either.
“And what the connection with Ethan, food poisoning and that black magic?” Lou had learned about Ethan’s condition from Grace, thus he knew what Iris was trying to figure out here.
“I didn’t sense the black magic within Ethan, but I did feel that vicious feeling.”
“Do you want to say Ethan has consumed something that related to this plant named Black Blood?” Lou raised his brows. “What about the other, who got food poisoning? Why the disease only infected him? I know that he is not that handsome and maybe the disease only wanted ugly people, but it still didn’t make sense.”
Iris glared at Lou for his joke and the merchant grinned.
“Sorry, only try to lighten up the mood.”
“Can you ask Aliana whether she knew what Ethan consumed before he fell sick or the burning scar appeared?” Iris gave an order to Lou without her noticing it.
“Right away!” Lou said, he didn’t even realize that he just accepted the order. It almost like when Cane ordered him something and he did it immediately out of instinct.
Lou went out and returned half an hour later with the report from what Aliana told him.