Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 142

Chapter 142: Mysterious Plants

[Notification: The system has detected energy sources at a distance of 500 meters south]

Grace was completely taken aback by the notification that came out of nowhere. It was so silent just moments ago that the sound of the notification almost sent her into attack mode.

As if the system knew exactly she needed, it opened a digital map right in front of her, showing her the path that would lead her to the detected energy sources.

Davian was still inside, and Grace wasn’t sure if she had enough time to call him first. Hence, she decided to check out the situation on her own. But she still made sure to leave clues behind for him to track her down.

She took out a gun and a dagger, and used the latter to mark the trees on her way to her destination. With the right shoes, it didn’t take her too long to make her way through the snow covered path.

“Is it here?” She asked once she arrived at the location that was being shown on the map.

2025 immediately appeared beside her, its gaze scanning the surroundings just like hers. “This is indeed the right place. Now we need to find the source of these energies.” The creature said as its gaze darted toward the screen where three yellow dots were being highlighted in the same place they were present at.

“All this time, these dots haven’t moved even for a second. If I have to guess, these energies belongs to something stable.” Grace offered as she eliminated the possibility of these dots representing people or Beasts.

“Maybe… it’s a plant?” 2025 suggested once it too started using the elimination method to guess what else could possess otherworldly energy in the middle of mountains and a forest.

“Let’s look for them.” Grace said and immediately started her search. 2025 also wasted no time and joined her in the search. They looked through the bushes, rocks, and around the trees.

It was about five minutes into the search when Grace’s eyes finally fell over a glow she noticed coming from inside a small space that was hidden between the bottom part of the trunks of three different trees.

These trees had huge trunks and their bottoms were even more gigantic, making it feel like the trees were really old. Most surprisingly, all these three trees were pressed against one another, hiding a small secret space between their trunks.

“Glow! I think I found it.”

Grace informed 2025, calling it by a nickname she recently started using for it because how she found it glowing bright red and yellow all the time.

2025 wasted no time and arrived next to her, noticing the light that was slightly visible from distance. “Let’s go and see what’s hidden there.” It offered.

Grace spared a quick look at the digital screen, noticing how the system wasn’t showing any danger signs yet about these hidden items. Still, she couldn’t let down her defense. Both the gun and the dagger were clutched in her hands as she started making her way closer to the trio of the trees, ready to attack if the situation called for it.

But all her fighting spirit completely left her the moment she actually got to see what was hiding between those trees – three glowing plants, all in different colors.

There was a palm size plant with bright red leaves and a small bud at the top. A second plant with blue and yellow leaves but no buds so far. And a third plant plant with green leaves but a yellow light surrounding those leaves. All three plants looked magical, nothing like the normal plants humans were used to see.

“Let me scan them first.” 2025 took the lead to find out more about those plants.

Grace stepped back and watched as the creature used the system to scan the three plants. Within moments, they had some new information about the plants.

[Origin: Unknown

Idenity: Unknown

Type: Magical

Levels: Red – 3, Blue – 1, and Green – 1

Extra Info. – Non-poisonous]

“They are safe to be touched. But I’ll still advise you to use the sytem to directly shift them inside the space.” 2025 offered what it thought about the matter and Grace was more than happy with the advise.

She did as 2025 told her and used the system to directly shift the plants inside the space. Once it was done, she asked 2025 if it could could the rest of the mountain to see whether more such plants were present in some other locations.

It took about few minutes before the system was done scanning the entire mountains but couldn’t locate any further energy sources.

“We should head back now.” Grace said, realizing that it had been over half an hour since she left the base. She could only imagine what was going on with Davian since he might have already realized her absence.

Ass he headed back, she realized that she needed to take care of the marks she had left on the trees on her way to this place. Nothing came to her mind instantly, but after thinking about it for a while, she came up with a crazy idea, but one that excited her.

She took in a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. Once she her thoughts were stable enough, she tapped into her power and started thinking. It was simple – just removing the marks and leaving the barks looking just like they did before she created those markings.

At first, she thought her plan wasn’t working, but when she continued to channel both her power and her thought, she finally witnessed it happening.

The mark disappeared completely from the trunk of a tree, leaving behind no trace. A smile bloomed on her lips as she stepped forward, ready to remove the rest of the marks.

Her power didn’t disappoint and by the time she returned to the base, all the marks were removed. But something else was waiting for her…!