Inside Origin Internet Cafe, the cheerful, catchy background music of Plants vs. Zombies rose and fell.
The powerful figures who had once been so composed now seemed possessed, staring fixedly at the tiny lawn on their screens as their fingers clicked frantically on their mice.
[You obtained a new plant—Repeater]
Tang Ya looked at the green card on the screen. This new plant looked similar to an ordinary Peashooter, except it had an extra leaf-like eyebrow on the back of its head, and its mouth seemed to pout more.
"It fires two peas at once?"
Curiously, Tang Ya planted it at the far left of the lawn.
When a Conehead Zombie came staggering over, Tang Ya had initially worried that a single Peashooter would not be enough to kill it.
But the next second, the newly planted Repeater sprang into action.
Pop pop! Pop pop! Pop pop!
A crisp barrage rang out. Green peas shot forth like a continuous cannon volley, with barely any gap between each pair, almost connected end to end.
The Conehead Zombie, which had seemed so tough and thick-skinned, had not even reached the middle of the lawn before the cone on its head was blasted away, followed immediately by its head.
"So fast..."
Tang Ya's pupils constricted slightly.
But that was not the end.
As the level progressed, she bought an even higher-tier purple-card plant from the shop—the Gatling Pea.
When the plant god of war, wearing a helmet and spitting out four peas at a time, appeared on the screen, Tang Ya could no longer sit still.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
That was no longer mere shooting. It was firepower suppression.
Combined with the Torchwood planted in front, the flame-enhanced peas became massive fireballs. A fully armed Buckethead Zombie lasted only three seconds under