The Golden Eagle's Message Helps Me Solve the Mystery of Multiple Disappearances in the Mountains

Herbalist Lin Sui ventured onto the sheer cliffs of Misty Mountain to gather medicinal plants. While saving a golden eagle chick that had slipped and fallen, she struck her head hard against a rock and began bleeding profusely. She expected the adult eagle to attack her for threatening its young, but instead the raptor brought her a golden, unusual herb. Mistaking it for turmeric, she chewed it up and applied it to her wound. Her flesh healed at a visible, astonishing speed, and she unexpectedly awakened the ability to understand the speech of birds.

Trouble was brewing beneath the mountain. One after another, herb gatherers and hikers went into the mountains and vanished mysteriously, while police searches turned up nothing. Only the birds had seen the bloody secrets hidden in the forest, but no one believed their words. Using fragments of information passed on by the birds, Lin Sui pursued the truth, only to stumble upon a gang of medicine thieves coveting the spirit herb guarded by the golden eagles.

To cut off her source of information, the thieves began poisoning and hunting birds throughout the forest. As her investigation deepened, Lin Sui realized that the golden eagle had not given her the divine medicine simply to repay a favor. Buried behind it was an ancient pact between her ancestors and the golden eagles. Her power to communicate with animals was both a gift and a shackle. Forced to stand between humans and raptors, she had to use the eyes of the birds and the strength of the golden eagle flock to fight the criminals and expose the many crimes buried in Misty Mountain.