It is unknown how much time passed before Leng Yue was finally awakened by Ling.
"Where am I?" Leng Yue felt pain all over her body. "How can a bean feel pain?"
"If you fell from that height, a human would have died long ago. Even a bean would get hurt. You're not indestructible," Zero said speechlessly.
Leng Yue sighed, "I wish I were copper beans, like Guan Hanqing!"
"Can they be the same? What time is it and you're still being sarcastic? It seems like there's no big problem." Ling looked at Leng Yue. "The bamboo dragonfly is right next to you. See if it still works."
Leng Yue tried it out using voice commands and found that it wasn't broken. "I didn't expect this bamboo dragonfly to be so good!"
"Of course, since it's a product from the system store, we can't ruin our own reputation." Zero was quite confident.
"How can it be so cheap?" Leng Yue asked, puzzled.
"Oh, I checked. This bamboo dragonfly was a product that was launched a long time ago. But because of its limited uses, nobody bought it. The price kept dropping, and we managed to snag a bargain." Zero learned all this after reading the product information for the bamboo dragonfly in detail. The developers probably didn't expect the bamboo dragonfly to be unsellable.
"That's true. Apart from someone as small as me, without hands or feet, no one else really needs them." Leng Yue was also worried. How long would it take her to grow hands and feet?
"Yeah, you're absolutely right! It's just that you're unlucky to run into such a weak life." Zero One was the quickest to chime in with his own complaints.
Leng Yue retorted unhappily, "Who harmed me by encountering such a weak life?"
Zero chuckled, thought for a moment, and said, "It's not entirely my fault. It's mainly because your soul level is too low. Your soul strength is similar to the little creatures here, which is why we encountered each other."
Leng Yue was dumbfounded. "So, according to you, as long as my soul level doesn't increase, I'll encounter similar missions again in the future?"
"It should be." Zero was a little uncertain; this was its first time having a host, and it didn't know either. Besides, now that it thought about it, it seemed like the school hadn't taught this.
"Oh dear, this is troublesome," Leng Yue said with worry.
"Um... Yueyue, if you don't hurry, it'll get dark soon." Ling felt that he and Leng Yue had been talking a lot lately, and he wondered if he was disturbing her while she was doing her mission.
Leng Yue said "Oh," and then asked, "Doesn't the bamboo dragonfly have a GPS function? Can't it fly in the dark?"
"Um, let me check the manual, wait a minute." Zero said as she flipped through the manual. "It can only be controlled by voice, it will fly around randomly if you can't see it."
"Alright, let's keep going!" Leng Yue jumped onto the bamboo dragonfly and took flight.
As she ascended into the air, Leng Yue realized she had veered off course. The earlier strong winds had blown her southeast, but thankfully, the distance to her destination was about the same. Leng Yue was now roughly at the other base angle of an isosceles triangle, and the straight-line distance was indeed about the same.
Anyway, once she started riding the bamboo dragonfly, she was basically traveling in a straight line, so Leng Yue didn't really care as much as before.
The bamboo dragonfly whirred and twirled its wings, rising steadily with the air currents. Leng Yue gazed at the western sunset and the rolling mountains, a deep sense of melancholy washing over her. Suddenly, she understood why ancient poets loved to express their emotions through poetry!
Looking at this magnificent scene, Leng Yue felt an overwhelming sense of pride. Unfortunately, besides the word "爽" (shuang, meaning exhilarating/cool), she couldn't think of any better words to express this feeling. Compared to the ancients, Leng Yue could only feel admiration.
Soon, the sun set, visibility decreased, humidity increased, and the temperature began to drop. Leng Yue felt quite refreshed, and her skin felt much more relaxed.
Leng Yue couldn't help but stretch. Although she didn't know where her waist was, stretching still felt good.
As darkness fell, Leng Yue could no longer discern directions.
"Yueyue, stop. It doesn't feel safe if we can't see," Ling suggested.
Leng Yue didn't refute, "Then let's stop on that tree."
Leng Yue chose a very thick and large tree; looking at it now, she felt it must be over a thousand years old. The bamboo dragonfly landed safely on a branch of the tree, without falling.
After observing for a while and finding it quite safe, Leng Yue went to sleep peacefully. She didn't know how much time had passed when she heard someone talking.
"What is this thing?"
"have no idea."
"What do you think this is for?"
"have no idea."
"How about we take it back and present it to the princess?"
"have no idea."
"How come you don't know anything about this?"
"have no idea……"
"You...hey? There seems to be a dark creature here. What is it, and how did it get up in the tree? Do you think someone brought it from the human world?"
"No……"
"I know you're going to say you don't know again. Honestly, how did I end up coming out with you?"
Leng Yue peeked over and saw that it was two birds talking. Leng Yue admitted that she was completely panicked and confused, so she could only pretend to be dead.
Judging from what the two birds were saying, it seemed they had their eyes on the bamboo dragonfly and wanted to bring it to some princess. Leng Yue was just a bean, while those two birds were now above her in the food chain; one wrong move and she could become their meal.
In a situation where the enemy and friend are unclear, Leng Yue said that she dared not ask, dared not say, and could only play dead.
Leng Yue waited for the two birds to make a decision: whether to leave or stay and have a quick death. Unexpectedly, the two birds stood there and wouldn't leave. They hopped left and right, as if performing a ritual. Then, their wings collided, and after a flash of white light, they transformed into two tiny people.
"So, does this mean I can go to the human world now?"
"have no idea."
"So, do you think I look handsome like this?"
"I don't know...it doesn't look good."
"All you ever say is 'I don't know'... What! It doesn't look good? Damn. I thought you were only good at saying 'I don't know'!"
"Let's go, the moon is about to rise. We need to collect the dew before it comes out, or we'll miss out."
"oh."
The two little figures flew to the top of the tree, each carrying a bottle to collect the pre-moon dew. Leng Yue quietly escaped with her bamboo dragonfly to the grass beneath the tree, only to be startled by a voice. "Ouch, what are you? Why are you jumping on me?"
Leng Yue quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Actually, Leng Yue hadn't even seen where that thing was.
"Get off me! I'm being crushed!" Leng Yue helplessly moved to the side, but then the voice came again, "Hey, why do you keep stepping on people? Are all young people these days so rude? It's true that people's hearts have changed, and the world is going to the dogs!"
Having no other option, Leng Yue jumped in a different direction, and finally the sound stopped.
Leng Yue dared not move around too much, afraid of accidentally stepping on someone again. So she found a small blade of grass on the ground and hid there to sleep.
But Leng Yue was very puzzled. What kind of world was this?
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