165 Medicinal herb gathering team (1/2)

Mo Wen shrugged his shoulders and didn't bother about FRB. Since someone was reluctant to tell, he was also not interested to know.

Although he felt that the conduct of the lady next to him was a bit weird, it was none of his business.

The vehicle continued on its way and moved forward gradually.

After a while, FRB seemed to be bored and found herself a subject to talk about.

”Why do you go to Baishan City?”

”Touring Changbai Mountain,” Mo Wen looked askance at Mo Fumei and said indifferently.

”You are also going to Changbai Mountain…”

Surprise flashed across FRB's eyes, but seemed to realize that she had spilt the beans and immediately said, ”There are many foreigners on this bus who are touring Changbai Mountain.”

Mo Wen looked at FRB quizzically. Why was she explaining? Whether or not she was going to Changbai Mountain had nothing to do with him.

In the afternoon, the big bus drove into Baishan City West Bus Terminal, and the passengers alighted from the bus accordingly.

Mo Wen stretched his back while looking at the unfamiliar city before his eyes and curled his lips slightly. The world is so big, but he had been to very few places. When he had time, he would definitely travel to places around the world.

After he had alighted from the bus, FRB had also alighted the bus with her four bodyguards. They behaved hurriedly, as if they had made a pre-arrangement. There were two cars waiting outside the bus terminal for quite some time, and they fetched them immediately.

Mo Wen opened up the map to verify the location of Changbai Mountain, then he found a tour group which was going to the scenic spots of Changbai Mountain. With the guide of the locals, he would avoid many detours.

The tour group would depart the next morning, so Mo Wen checked into a hotel in Baishan City that day. The next day, he finally went on his way with the tour group.

Changbai Mountain had many scenic spots that the tourists would take more than a few days and nights to complete them. However, compared to enormous size of Changbai Mountain range, the scope of the scenic spots could only be considered as the tip of the iceberg. In the deep Changbai Mountain range, many regions were mostly uninhabited.

The tour group of about more than twenty people consisted of young and old of different genders. Mo Wen followed the tour group, but didn't talk to anyone and was always behind the group. Sometimes, the tour group members had almost forgotten about his existence.

”Hey, what are those people doing? Why are they travelling around the mountains with a bamboo basket on their back? Could they be the aboriginals of the Changbai Mountain?” A young female tourist said who seemed to have discovered something and pointed suddenly at the forest below while standing on the suspension bridge in the middle of the mountain.

Those were primeval forests of the Changbai Mountain where the normal tourists wouldn't tread on. They would at most linger around the manmade scenic spots.

The female tourist's questions had immediately attracted the attention of the other people, and everyone looked in the direction of the forest below. There were indeed four or five people wearing simple ancient costumes with a bamboo basket on their backs, traversing briskly in the lush forest. Soon, they disappeared from the eyes of the people and were concealed by the primeval forest.

Those weird people piqued the interest of the tourists who came from the outside world. Many people immediately picked up their cameras and started taking photographs, in fear that they might be too slow in getting a picture of these aboriginals.

”That is the medicinal herb gathering team in Changbai Mountain. Some of them are the villagers around Changbai Mountain range who gather medicinal herbs for a living, and they rarely have contact with outside world. There are some who belong to the medicinal herbs gathering team from the outside world. They usually come well-equipped and could find some rare precious medicinal herbs,” The female tour guide smiled and explained.

Medicinal herb gathering teams were considered a normal thing, and they frequently roamed around Changbai Mountain to find some rare, precious, medicinal herbs. They usually had great knowledge of the medicinal herbs in the wild and traversed in the deep mountains. Once they found any rare medicinal herb, they would be able to fetch an exorbitant price.

Some rare herbs were very precious and could usually fetch thousands of dollars, hence, it attracted many people to search for medicinal herbs in the Changbai Mountain.

However, to find medicinal herbs in the deep mountains and virgin forests was not an easy task, as it was easy to meet with dangers. Many of the precious, medicinal herbs grew on the precipitous walls of the cliff or very secretive places, not to mention the beast and vermin in the mountains.

In order to find some of the medicinal herbs, there were frequent cases of the herb gathering team members falling off the cliff.

Other than this, due to the lack of law restriction in the deserted places in the wild countryside, there were some robbers who hid themselves in Changbai Mountains who robbed the medicinal herb gathering team members so as to reap benefits without putting in any hard work, hence, many medicinal herbs gathering teams had been robbed by these robbers.

Although the medicinal herb gathering team usually became rich overnight, medicinal herb gathering remained a very dangerous profession. There were many medicinal herb gathering team members who were lost in the deep mountains and never appeared again. There was even a case of a whole medicinal herb gathering team disappearing into thin air.

After the tour guide's explanation, all the tourists went into jaw dropping silence as the medicinal herb gathering team was a classic example of the Chinese saying, ”Humans die in pursuit of wealth while birds die in pursuit of food.”

Mo Wen glimpsed at these people who gradually disappeared into the deep mountains. A radiance flashed in his eyes, and he raised his brows before following them quietly. The rest of the people didn't realize that a person had been missing from their tour group.

Mo Wen jumped from a slab of the cliff into the forest. A figure flashed and disappeared into the forest towards the direction of the medicinal herb gathering team.

He realized the medicinal herb gathering team members were not ordinary people; they were ancient martial arts practitioners with cultivation. Their origin was definitely different from what the tour guide had mentioned. Perhaps he would find out something by following them.

He came to Changbai Mountain to find medicinal herbs, but he was not familiar with the local environment, so he was like a blind man. Hence, it would be difficult to find Silver Tooth Grass successfully.

Following the people who had frequented the deep mountains all their lives would lead him to the region with massive growth of medicinal herbs.

”Third Sect Senior brother, those sealworts in Blue Wind Valley should have matured. Do we go over and collect them?

Among the team of five ahead, a youngster with delicate features asked the youngster with a bigger built beside him.

”Although those sealworts in the Blue Wind Valley were good, they were less than fifty years old. It is of little use to gather them now, so it would be better to leave them till later.”