The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus

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Reality proved that one couldn't be too pleased with oneself.

After one becomes mired in their pride, it's easy for them to fall onto their face.

Miaomiao's foot landed on air. When she fell into the empty space hidden by the trap cover, she was still enraptured by the beauty of the fiery flower.

At the moment she fell rapidly down, she saw Mu Sheng's face still as calm as ever. He opened his mouth with a hint of laughter in his eyes: "Be a bit more careful."

She suddenly seemed to understand something in her heart. She couldn't help but curse upwards while falling down: "You noticed this trap a long time ago right?!"

Her voice echoed and Mu Sheng's face had long since disappeared.

As she continually fell, a greenish-blue cloud suddenly appeared before her eyes. She instinctively closed her eyes and fell onto the dense cloud. She could feel something rapidly grabbing onto her four limbs and firmly tie them up.

Under her, the ground was both ice-cold and hard. A chilly wind blew from all directions, drilling into her collar and sleeves.

She opened her eyes. The hole had no lights and there was a bamboo tree beside her. This bamboo wasn't anything normal, it was as thick as a water bucket. The top of it was covered with black spots and the bamboo joints were scarily thick. Two ribs grew off it into enormous branches and leaves, seemingly covering the sky with its size.

Miaomiao had never seen such a lush bamboo tree before.

As she watched it, the bamboo tree surprisingly started to move towards her by itself, the leaves on its crown let out rustling noises as it did so.

After a more careful look, she could see that the bamboo tree's branches and leaves were the arms of a person.

The bamboo person spoke in a surprisingly comical nasally voice: "Woman, you wear such green clothes. You blended into the forest so well it took us a long time to differentiate you out."

Miaomiao lowered her head to look at her own jade green skirt and jacket, thinking to herself:
Am I to blame for that?

The scariest plotline of the green bamboo forest had arrived-- Ling Yu was captured by a demon and it took the main lead squad a whole night to come save her.

The scariest plotline of the green bamboo forest had arrived-- Ling Yu was captured by a demon and it took the main lead squad a whole night to come save her.

She couldn't avoid having to stay the night with these bamboo plants. Miaomiao let out a sigh:
"Friends, what kind of demon are you all?"

"Are you blind? Can't you see for yourself?" As the bamboo person fell into an indignant rage, its nasally voice turned even heavier.

"Even bamboo can become self-conscious?" Miaomiao conveyed her utter astonishment and thus was harshly whipped by a bamboo joint in the next moment, "Not self-conscious, we're demons!"

The bamboo's hand was the branch in the air. The branch itself was split open and the rough barbs on the leaves were still dew laden. When it lashed her body, it immediately ripped open a segment of her clothes and the dew wet her skin. Miaomiao's delicate skin immediately turned into a blood red mark.

It was extremely painful and she immediately shut up. A layer of cold sweat started to grow on her forehead.

She couldn't help but question the system: What the fart?! The missions have dangers that can kill me?