Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu fought an Iron Net Zombie and used its Designated Upgrade Card to raise Tree Mother to Level 3. He learned that different Mutated Plants countered different Zombies, while the next Fog Wind and its threats remained ahead.

• Wang Yu learned that Players had received similar starting plants, while some had gained seeds and were seeking water in the Chat Channel.
• At one in the afternoon, a Level One Fog Wind arrived and produced an Iron Net Zombie near the Big Tree.
• Wang Yu's Corn Catcher stunned the Iron Net Zombie and helped the Pea Shooter and Corn Catcher destroy its iron net and kill it.
• The Iron Net Zombie dropped 688 Copper Coins and a Designated Upgrade Card for Tree Mother.
• Wang Yu used the card, raising Tree Mother to Level 3 and increasing its height, thickness, and number of branches.

Wang Yu assessed Tree Mother’s new Wall-nut and Squash plants before preparing for two approaching Level One Fog Winds, choosing to keep his strength hidden and play cautiously. Elsewhere, Huang Ji spent Pea Shooters to get ahead, while a blue-skinned woman and a popular Golden Player livestreamer revealed their unusual situations.

• Tree Mother reached Level 3 and gained Wall-nut, Squash, and two new branches, giving Wang Yu new defensive and attack options.
• A warning announced that two Level One Fog Winds would arrive in fifteen minutes, so Wang Yu weighed using his limited Solar Energy and decided not to reveal his Pea Shooter cards or gamble recklessly.
• Huang Ji used two Pea Shooters to save 100 Solar Energy, confident that his unusually large Newbie Gift Pack and luck put him ahead.
• A blue-skinned woman sat in a Big Tree with five Sunflowers while five Zombies wandered nearby.
• A beautiful Golden Player called I Am a Girl livestreamed, drawing a crowd of players who sent her supplies and Solar Energy as tips.

Wang Yu used a Wall-nut and a Squash to stop the fifth wave of Fog Winds, then obtained a Potato Mine card and learned how the new plant worked. The game revealed 36 possible zombie routes, and a warning that three Level One Fog Winds would arrive in fifteen minutes left Wang Yu preparing for a dangerous attack.

• Two Fog Winds brought four ordinary zombies, and Wang Yu used a Squash to crush one while a Wall-nut held another until the Pea Shooter and Corn Catcher killed it.
• Wang Yu learned that Tree Mother's Squash and Wall-nut each had a three-minute cooldown and that even ordinary zombies could badly damage the Big Tree.
• The zombies dropped a Potato Mine card showing six mines, which could be buried and would mature after ten minutes before exploding against low-level zombies.
• A prompt gave Wang Yu 36 possible routes around the Big Tree and urged him to place the six Potato Mines.
• A warning announced that three Level One Fog Winds would reach Wang Yu in fifteen minutes.

Wang Yu used a prediction reward to learn that three Fog Winds would bring Zombies from the east, then prepared six [Potato Mines] to defend the Big Tree. As the next assault approached, he saw that other Players were also struggling, and some had already lost branches after gambling on earlier Fog Winds.

• Wang Yu received a reward allowing him to predict the next Fog Wind’s direction and learned that three Fog Winds would arrive from the east.
• Wang Yu calculated that six [Potato Mines], his existing plants, and a damaged [Wall-nut] could cover the eastern routes, so he planted the mines along six of them.
• Wang Yu checked the [Chat Channel] and saw that most Players faced an uncovered Zombie route, while those with two [Pea Shooters] from a Newbie Gift Pack were safer.
• Some Players reported that they had gambled on the previous Fog Wind and saved Solar Energy, but extra Zombies overwhelmed their defenses and tore apart one of their Big Tree’s branches.

Wang Yu and Tree Mother defeated three Special Zombies carried by the sixth wave of Fog Wind, then Wang Yu used Solar Energy to grow a second Sunflower. As the temperature climbed and Players struggled with heat and lost branches, Wang Yu waited to see whether another Fog Wind warning appeared before planting a third Sunflower.

• Three Fog Winds stopped near Big Tree, carrying one Iron Skin Zombie and two Iron Net Zombies.
• Big Tree blocked one Iron Net Zombie with a Wall-nut, while a Potato Mine killed the other; the Pea Shooter and Corn Catcher defeated the remaining Zombies.
• Wang Yu collected 688 Copper Coins and spent 50 Solar Energy to grow a Sunflower on the branch the Wall-nut had occupied.
• Wang Yu checked Tree Mother's information and saw that it had two Sunflowers, while Players in the Chat Channel complained that Zombies had torn off their branches.
• At two in the afternoon, the two Sunflowers produced 100 Solar Energy, and Wang Yu waited for a Prompt Message before deciding whether to grow another Sunflower.

Wang Yu endured the heat while his Sunflowers gathered Solar Energy, then used his Dice to increase his water supply and offered 100 ml of Purified Water for seeds. The trade drew competing offers, ending with two Cucumber Seeds offered.

• Wang Yu used 50 Solar Energy to grow a third Sunflower and kept his Pea Shooter and Corn Catcher rather than replacing them with more Sunflowers.
• The three Sunflowers gathered 300 Solar Energy over an hour as the Players endured the heat and thirst without a Prompt Message.
• At three in the afternoon, Wang Yu used his Dice and rolled a four, gaining four bottles of water.
• Wang Yu drank 100 ml of water and listed the remaining 100 ml of Purified Water in the Trading Channel in exchange for seeds.
• A Player offered one Corn Seed, and then another Player offered two Cucumber Seeds.

Wang Yu traded water for seeds and tended his growing supplies during the Survival Game. After upgrading the Tree Mother to Level 4, he discovered it had gained Ice Pea Shooter and Big-Mouth Flower as available Mutated Plants, and considered using its new branches to grow Big-Mouth Flowers.

• Wang Yu traded 100 ml of water for three Tomato Seeds, planted them in his flowerpot, and learned they would mature in 18 hours.
• Wang Yu traded another 100 ml of water for two Cucumber Seeds and haggled until he obtained two Corn Seeds for a further 100 ml.
• Wang Yu reviewed his supplies as the players endured the heat and thirst, and his Sunflowers produced enough Solar Energy to reach 600.
• Wang Yu spent 600 Solar Energy to upgrade the Tree Mother to Level 4, making it grow taller and gain two branches.
• Wang Yu checked the Tree Mother's information and learned that Ice Pea Shooter could slow Zombies while Big-Mouth Flower could swallow low-level Zombies or corpses and produce special items.

After surviving seven hours, Wang Yu chose a Mutated Plant reward and grafted a Twin Pea Shooter onto his Pea Shooter. A warning announced at least seven Level One Fog Winds in two hours, so he prepared to strengthen the Big Tree by growing a Sunflower and then a Big-Mouth Flower.

• Wang Yu received a choice between Life Supplies, Mutated Plants, and Special Items, ruled out supplies, and chose Mutated Plants.
• Wang Yu selected the Twin Pea Shooter card and grafted it onto his Pea Shooter, allowing it to attack twice every five seconds.
• Wang Yu received a warning that at least seven Level One Fog Winds would reach his area in two hours.
• Wang Yu used 50 Solar Energy to grow another Sunflower and planned to use the Big Tree's remaining branch for a Big-Mouth Flower.

Wang Yu prepared for at least seven incoming Fog Winds and tested what the Big-Mouth Flower could obtain by digesting Zombie corpses. It produced a night-active [Small Sprout] card from an Iron Skin Zombie and another from an Iron Net Zombie, leaving Wang Yu wondering whether it could produce anything else.

• Wang Yu activated the [Big-Mouth Flower] and had it swallow an Ordinary Zombie, which took five minutes to digest and yielded 688 Copper Coins.
• Wang Yu checked the Tree Mother's information and saw that its seven branches included a Twin Pea Shooter, a Corn Catcher, and a Big-Mouth Flower, which he thought would be insufficient against the coming Fog Winds.
• Wang Yu read the [Chat Channel] and learned that players who chose [Life Supplies] had received food, household goods, and water, while those who chose [Special Items] received rewards such as Solar Energy, a permanent branch, or Potato Mines.
• Wang Yu had the Big-Mouth Flower swallow an Iron Skin Zombie; after ten minutes, it yielded a [Small Sprout] card that could only be activated at night.
• Wang Yu had the Big-Mouth Flower swallow an Iron Net Zombie, and after ten minutes it yielded another [Small Sprout] card.

Wang Yu chose to upgrade his Tree Mother to Level 5 instead of saving Solar Energy for more plants, gaining two branches and a Cherry Bomb reward. He activated an Ice Pea Shooter as a Fog Wind wave carrying Zombies approached.

• The Big-Mouth Flower swallowed the remaining Iron Skin and Iron Net Zombie corpses, producing three Small Sprouts and two Sunlight Sprouts, then yielded only Game Currency from Ordinary Zombie corpses.
• Wang Yu collected Solar Energy from his four Sunflowers as Players discussed whether to upgrade their Tree Mothers before the coming Fog Wind wave.
• After learning that other Players had received rewards for upgrading, Wang Yu spent 600 Solar Energy to raise his Tree Mother to Level 5.
• The Tree Mother grew two branches and rewarded Wang Yu with a Cherry Bomb Card; its new information also showed that it could grow Twin Pea Shooters.
• Wang Yu activated his Ice Pea Shooter Card, and a blue Pea Shooter sprouted from the Big Tree.

Wang Yu assessed Big Tree’s defenses against the coming A Large Wave of Fog Wind and searched for a way to survive without sacrificing his Sunflowers. He realized his strength as a Player of Transcendent Level A might let him attack the Zombies himself, and considered using a Pea Shooter as a weapon.

• Wang Yu counted Big Tree’s four Mutated Plants and concluded they could handle only about three and a half Fog Winds, far fewer than the coming wave might contain.
• Players in the Chat Channel proposed spending 200 Solar Energy on Squash and Wall-nut to handle four Fog Winds, but Wang Yu rejected the plan because the consumables would leave him with a costly, unsustainable victory.
• Wang Yu considered using his four Pea Shooter cards, but growing them would require sawing off Sunflowers and would only counter two Fog Winds.
• Wang Yu recognized that his strength as a Player of Transcendent Level A was an advantage and decided he might kill Zombies himself from Big Tree, without descending past the Ground Curse.
• Wang Yu considered throwing a Flowerpot or Sun Umbrella at the Zombies, but ruled them out because he needed to keep them.
• Wang Yu turned back to his Pea Shooter cards and wondered whether a sturdy, meter-tall Pea Shooter could smash a Zombie to death.

Wang Yu tested whether the Big-Mouth Flower could retrieve a Pea Shooter and discovered it recycled Mutated Plants into Solar Energy. Just as he planned to use the trick to fight zombies, the game announced the Hidden Mechanic to every player and rewarded him with 300 Solar Energy.

• Wang Yu tried sawing off a Pea Shooter and ordering a Great Tree branch to retrieve it, but the branch could not carry it.
• Wang Yu fed the Pea Shooter to the Big-Mouth Flower, which swallowed it and could not spit it out on command.
• After a minute, the Big-Mouth Flower produced 50 Solar Energy, leading Wang Yu to realize it could recycle Mutated Plants.
• Wang Yu planned to prepare three Pea Shooters to smash zombies and have the Big-Mouth Flower dispose of them afterward.
• The game announced the Big-Mouth Flower's recycling ability to all players and awarded Wang Yu 300 Solar Energy, ending his chance to keep the mechanic secret.

Wang Yu’s hidden mechanic discovery drew attention across the Survival Game, and he used his Solar Energy to prepare the Tree Mother for the approaching Fog Winds. As the other players reacted to being in the same game as him, Wang Yu decided to grow a Twin Pea Shooter to strengthen his defenses.

• The Survival Game announced Wang Yu’s reward of 300 Solar Energy, and players across the network flocked to his region and discussed his reputation.
• Jia Feng recognized Wang Yu and resolved to stay far away from him, while other players and Chi Luo reacted to the news of his presence.
• Wang Yu saw that his Solar Energy had risen to 350 and assessed the Tree Mother’s defenses against the coming Fog Winds.
• Wang Yu decided to spend 200 Solar Energy to grow a Twin Pea Shooter on the empty branch, raising the tree’s capacity to withstand 4.5 Fog Winds.

Wang Yu prepared his defenses for the large wave of Fog Winds, then learned that nine were attacking his region. After identifying the Zombies they carried, he arranged for his Corn Catcher and a Potato Mine to handle the two Ordinary Zombies on one path.

• Wang Yu gathered three Pea Shooters, used 200 Solar Energy to grow a Twin Pea Shooter, and collected another 200 Solar Energy from his Sunflowers.
• The system notified Wang Yu that nine Fog Winds were attacking his region, and he saw them approach Big Tree from all around.
• The Fog Winds revealed four carrying an Iron Skin Zombie or an Iron Net Zombie and five carrying two Ordinary Zombies each.
• Wang Yu noticed that one Fog Wind had stopped over a Potato Mine, but it carried two Ordinary Zombies, so the mine would only destroy one.
• Wang Yu sent his Corn Catcher to kill the leading Ordinary Zombie, planning for the Potato Mine to blow up the one behind it.

Wang Yu survived a large wave of nine Fog Winds by using his Mutated Plants and hurling Pea Shooters at the Special Zombies. A prompt offered another wave in an hour, and Wang Yu realized the Zombies’ corpses—and the useful items the Big-Mouth Flower could produce from them—were the likely reward.

• Wang Yu weighed his options for handling the incoming Zombies, then cut down a Sunflower and had the Big Tree grow an Ice Pea Shooter to strengthen his attack.
• The Mutated Plants attacked the Ordinary Zombies while Wang Yu hurled Pea Shooters at the Iron Skin Zombies and Iron Net Zombies, and the Big-Mouth Flower swallowed the last Iron Skin Zombie.
• A Potato Mine killed the final Ordinary Zombie, and Wang Yu survived all nine Fog Winds with four of his six eastern Potato Mines remaining.
• A prompt offered Wang Yu another Fog Wind challenge in an hour, warning that it would contain at least eight Fog Winds and that dangerous tombstones would appear after nine at night.
• Wang Yu realized that Zombie corpses were probably the reward for surviving the waves, since the Big-Mouth Flower could produce useful items from them, and he considered whether to accept the next challenge.

Wang Yu weighed the cost of challenging another wave of Fog Wind after learning that other players had faced as many as nine. He decided to proceed and prepared his plants and Solar Energy, ending with 375 Solar Energy.

• Wang Yu checked another player's defenses and learned from the Chat Channel that the largest number of Fog Winds players had faced was nine, while the next wave could bring up to ten.
• Wang Yu calculated that his plants, Cherry Bomb, and Solar Energy could handle ten Fog Winds at a steep but affordable cost, so he decided to challenge the next wave.
• Wang Yu cut down a Sunflower that would not produce Solar Energy again until morning and had the Big Tree grow another Big-Mouth Flower for 150 Solar Energy.
• Wang Yu used the new Big-Mouth Flower to digest three smashed Pea Shooters, recovering 150 Solar Energy, then fed it the cut Sunflower and gained another 25 Solar Energy.

Wang Yu had his Big-Mouth Flowers digest Zombie corpses, ate a Compressed Biscuit, and collected several Sprout Cards. Tens of thousands of Players gathered to watch his region, hoping to learn whether he would challenge the next Fog Wind.

• Wang Yu fed the Iron Skin and Iron Net Zombie corpses to his Big-Mouth Flowers, which spat out one Sunlight Sprout Card and three Small Sprout Cards.
• Wang Yu ate a Compressed Biscuit and drank water because he had gone all day without food.
• Wang Yu realized the corpses had brought his total to three Sunlight Sprouts and six Small Sprouts.
• Wang Yu discovered tens of thousands of Players watching his region after they noticed his valuable Mutated Plants and wondered how he had survived nine Fog Wind attacks without losing either Sunflower.
• The watching Players speculated about whether Wang Yu would challenge the next Fog Wind and watched his Big-Mouth Flower spit out a card.

Wang Yu prepared the Big Tree’s Mutated Plants for the next Fog Winds, balancing defense against the cost of replacing plants. When ten Fog Winds arrived, he used a freshly grown Wall-nut to complete his defense plan.

• Wang Yu calculated that he needed to defend against ten Fog Winds and ruled out expensive Twin Pea Shooters and sawing off the special Corn Catcher.
• Wang Yu cut off two Sunflowers, fed them to the Big-Mouth Flower, and used the freed branches to grow two Wall-nuts.
• Wang Yu chose to challenge the next wave, prompting tens of thousands of players to watch his territory as the Fog Winds approached.
• A few minutes before the wave arrived, Wang Yu sawed off one Wall-nut and held it while viewers wondered what he was doing.
• When ten Fog Winds were announced, Wang Yu spent 50 Solar Energy to grow another Wall-nut, bringing his defenses up to ten Fog Winds.

Wang Yu easily defeated ten Special Zombies carried by ten Fog Winds, then waited for nightfall and collected cards from the Zombies’ remains. At exactly nine o’clock, the Big Tree shuddered as the nighttime Survival Game began.

• Ten Fog Winds brought five Iron Skin Zombies and five Iron Net Zombies, and Wang Yu’s Mutated Plants attacked them.
• Wang Yu crushed Zombies with a [Squash] and a thrown [Wall-nut], while his plants and [Big-Mouth Flowers] eliminated the rest.
• Players watching Wang Yu shared a recording of his [Wall-nut] attack in the [Chat Channel].
• The [Big-Mouth Flowers] spat out ten cards, including a [Big Sprout] Card, a [Tombstone Devourer] Card, two [Sunlight Sprout] Cards, and six [Small Sprout] Cards.
• Night fell, the Mutated Plants went to sleep, and Wang Yu rested until nine o’clock.
• At exactly nine o’clock, the Big Tree shuddered as the nighttime Survival Game began.

At nightfall, Wang Yu learned that tombstones would spawn regularly and release Zombies, while Tree Mother unlocked new nighttime plants. He planned to use Sunlight Sprouts to fund Tombstone Devourers, but first needed to deal with the three tombstones near the Big Tree.

• At nine o’clock, three tombstones rose near the Big Tree, and a prompt warned Wang Yu that Zombies would emerge from tombstones at night.
• Tree Mother unlocked Small Sprout, Sunlight Sprout, Big Sprout, and Tombstone Devourer as nighttime Mutated Plants.
• Wang Yu learned that a Small Sprout could grow for free every ten minutes and that Sunlight Sprouts produced Solar Energy at night, then activated five Sunlight Sprout Cards.
• Wang Yu realized Tombstone Devourers could swallow tombstones before Zombies appeared, and planned to grow Sunlight Sprouts on every branch to fund more of them.
• Wang Yu decided to proceed with the plan to survive the night and earn Solar Energy, but first set out to deal with the three nearby tombstones.