The vines behind them stopped at the edge of the woods. They swayed beneath the canopy for a few seconds, then slowly withdrew.
Chen Siyao lay face down on the ground, gasping for breath.
Yang Wanqing lay sprawled beside her.
"I... never... want to... go into the woods... again..."
After panting for a good while, Chen Siyao finally pulled her phone out of her Qiankun Bag.
Comments were still scrolling across the screen.
She scrolled back up...
"Look at the trees behind you!! The vines are moving!!" ...That comment was from ten minutes ago.
"Behind you!!!" —Nine minutes ago.
"All the trees have vines!! Run!!!" ...Eight minutes ago.
"She would've run ages ago if she'd read the comments." ...Seven minutes ago.
"The viewers have warned her eight hundred times and she hasn't seen a single one. My blood pressure is through the roof."
Chen Siyao stared at those comments for a long time.
She tightened her grip on the phone... She couldn't put it away this time. She had to check the comments now and then. With four hundred million pairs of eyes watching, someone was bound to spot something she missed.
She had just scrolled through two pages of comments when a new one popped up...
"Watch out for the flower beside you!!!"
Chen Siyao instinctively turned her head.
Two meters to her right, an enormous, brightly colored flower was opening. Its petals were vivid red, with jagged protrusions along their edges. Inside...
Inside was a bottomless, mucus-coated tube.
It had already opened as wide as it could.
Facing Yang Wanqing.
Chen Siyao hurriedly shouted, "Qingqing, watch out!"
Yang Wanqing rolled to the left. The flower's petals snapped shut, biting down on the spot where she had been lying a second earlier.
"Mommy!"
Even the flowers ate people.
Yang