Tiny white crystals, each a size smaller than a soybean, were about the size of an adzuki bean.
"Medicinal Beans!" Zhao Youcai's face fell. He narrowed his eyes, a cold light glinting from between his lids.
Having been a Mountain Runner for many years, Zhao Youcai recognized it at a glance.
Mountain Runners just called this stuff Medicinal Beans.
Every year around April and May, some Hunters would set up bait stations in places where deer passed through. They would then fill them with coarse salt mixed with Medicinal Beans to lure the deer in to lick it.
The substance had a scientific name: aluminum potassium cyanide.
It was a deadly poison that killed on contact with blood.
These days, aluminum potassium cyanide was hard to come by. Only steel mills had it, so it wasn't something an ordinary person could get their hands on.
