The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

The vines behind me stopped at the edge of the woods. They swayed under the canopy for a few seconds, then slowly retreated.

Chen Siyao lay on the ground, panting heavily.

Yang Wanqing lay sprawled out next to her.

"I... never... want to... go into the woods again..."

After catching her breath, Chen Siyao finally pulled her phone out of her storage bag.

The comments on the screen were still scrolling.

She scrolled up...

"Hey streamer, look at the tree behind you!! The vines are moving!!"... This was a comment from ten minutes ago.

"Behind you!!!" — Nine minutes ago.

"All the trees have vines!! Run!!!"...Eight minutes ago.

"If she were watching the comments, she would have run away long ago"...Seven minutes ago.

"The viewers have reminded the streamer eight hundred times, but he hasn't seen it once. My blood pressure is rising."

Chen Siyao stared at the comments for a long time.

She gripped her phone tightly... this time she couldn't put it away. She had to check the live chat every now and then; four hundred million eyes were watching, and someone was bound to notice something she missed.

She had just scrolled through two pages of comments when the latest one popped up...

Watch out for the flowers next to you!!!

Chen Siyao instinctively turned her head away.

Two meters to the right, a huge, brightly colored flower was opening. The petals were a vibrant red, with serrated edges, and inside...

Inside is a bottomless tubular structure filled with mucus.

It has grown to its maximum size.

Heading in the direction of Yang Wanqing.

Chen Siyao quickly called out, "Qingqing, be careful!"

Yang Wanqing rolled to the left, and the flower petals snapped shut, biting the spot where she had been lying a second earlier.

"Mommy!"

Even flowers eat people.

Yang Wanqing scrambled to his feet and plunged his halberd into the root of the flower.

The flower convulsed violently twice, then collapsed to the ground, oozing a large amount of foul-smelling mucus.

Yang Wanqing sprang to his feet, holding the Heavenly Thunder Halberd, and scanned his surroundings warily.

"Does this wretched place have everything that wants to eat people?!"

Chen Siyao didn't have time to answer. She held the sword in one hand and her phone in the other, watching the comments as she walked.

Really useful.

"Don't touch that purple bush at the ten o'clock position; the edges of its leaves have barbs."

Chen Siyao immediately went around it.

I just took three steps around...

"What's moving under my feet!"

She looked down. In the grass, there was an extremely thin, almost transparent tendril that was wrapping around her ankle.

She stomped on the tendrils, breaking one, and followed the direction of the tendrils... another low-lying plant, its leaves spread out in a bowl shape, with viscous digestive juice bubbling at the bottom.

The Venus Flytrap in Another World Plus.

"I feel like this world is very unfriendly to humans." Yang Wanqing stayed close to Chen Siyao, moving back to back.

The next ten minutes were a nightmare for the two.

The blue meadow was covered with all sorts of carnivorous plants. Some disguised themselves as ordinary shrubs, only snapping open their serrated leaves when someone got close.

Some are buried underground, with only a section of a stone-like protrusion showing. Stepping on it will cause you to sink into a fleshy sac filled with digestive juices.

There is also something that looks just like a dandelion. Once the cotton-like particles floating in the air come into contact with the skin, they will penetrate the pores and release paralyzing toxins.

Every single one is deadly.

Chen Siyao managed to dodge most of the attacks thanks to the warnings in the live chat, but Yang Wanqing wasn't so lucky—her right wrist was cut by a thorn that shot out, and a large piece of her sleeve was torn open.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."

"Bear with it! The medicine is in my storage bag!"

"No need, it's just a scratch." Yang Wanqing gritted her teeth, clutching her right wrist with her left hand. "It's much lighter than getting slapped by Master."

The two finally made it through the area of ​​carnivorous plants.

Ahead was a wide, open slope, devoid of trees and flowers, only covered with short, blue grass.

Chen Siyao had just breathed a sigh of relief.

"Buzz!"

A low-frequency vibration came from the ground.

It is not a plant.

A black tide surged forth from a mound below the slope.

insect.

Thousands upon thousands.

Each one is the size of an adult's fist, with six legs, a jet-black carapace, and a pair of serrated mandibles on its head. Its wings beat at an extremely high frequency, emitting a continuous buzzing sound.

After they emerged from the mound, they did not scatter and fly away.

Instead, they quickly split into three groups.

One group approaches from the front. Another group circles around to the left flank. A third group circles around to the right flank.

Encirclement.

"They're flanking us!" Chen Siyao immediately recognized the tactic.

She swung her sword, slicing through the three insects charging at the front. Their carapaces shattered under the blade, and black fluid splattered out.

But the swarm behind them didn't stop at all; their dead comrades were trampled underfoot, and the living continued to advance over the corpses.

Yang Wanqing channeled energy into the Heavenly Thunder Halberd, and the halberd head unleashed a fan-shaped golden arc of lightning. As the arc swept across, more than a dozen insects were charred and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

But the number of insects was too large.

Kill one batch, and another batch will emerge.

That mound was like a bottomless pit, constantly spewing out insects.

"Run!" Chen Siyao made the same judgment as before, "We can't kill them all, run!"

The two turned and rushed off.

The swarm of insects relentlessly pursued them.

"Buzz buzz buzz buzz!"

The sound of flapping wings filled the air. Chen Siyao ran ahead, occasionally turning back to slay the closest pursuers with her sword.

Yang Wanqing covered the rear, and the lightning arcs of the Dutian Divine Thunder Halberd exploded every few seconds, blasting a gap in the pursuers' ranks.

After running for more than 200 meters, the swarm of black beetles finally dispersed.

But Chen Siyao didn't even have time to catch her breath—

"Wow!!" Yang Wanqing screamed in agony.

A swarm of moths burst forth from the nearby grass. These were no ordinary moths—each had a wingspan of half a meter, and its wings were covered with a layer of bright orange scales.

The scales scattered in the air cause intense itching when they get on the skin.

Yang Wanqing's neck was sprinkled with orange powder, and she scratched it frantically as she ran.

"It itches so badly! It itches so badly!!"

"Don't scratch! It'll only make it itchier!"

"You make it sound so easy!!"

After the swarm of moths comes the swarm of ants.

Black ants, each as long as a thumb, surged in from the ground in neat rows.

The front of the queue unfolds in a fan shape, advancing slowly but covering a very wide area.

Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing were forced to take a long detour to avoid it.

Then there's an unidentified beetle that sprays hot liquid from its back.

Then there are tiny flying insects, so dense they obscure the view.

Then...

"I see the grassland!"

From the top of the hill, Chen Siyao saw the change in terrain ahead. The forest and bushes ended, and beyond them stretched a vast, flat grassland. The grass was still blue, but shorter and denser, looking much cleaner.

There are no trees.

Without trees, there are no vines.

The two used their last bit of strength to rush down the hill and stagger into the grassland.