All Plants vs. Zombies: I Can Add Passives to Plants

Those cloudy eyes, mostly white with little black, stared straight toward the wooden cabin and met Lin Yue's figure standing at the back door.

Or rather, it was looking at his head.

The Buckethead Zombie took a step.

It stepped onto the fifth row of land.

Chomper: "Crunch!"

Lin Yue's mind raced at that instant.

The fifth row.

It was in the fifth row.

Chomper was in the sixth row, while he was currently standing in the fifth. If it kept walking straight down this path, Chomper would never reach it. Yet it could grab him. Plants could only attack enemies in the row they occupied—this was the iron law of the Plant Garden.

Of course, it didn't work that way on a battlefield.

A battlefield row was very wide. Many plants could be planted there at once.

So it seemed he would have to lure the zombie over himself?

"Your grandpa's right here!"

Lin Yue held the shovel crosswise and slapped it against his palm with a crisp smack. Raising his voice, he shouted at the shambling gray-green figure, "Come at me if you've got the guts!"

He had no idea whether zombies could understand human speech.

The Buckethead Zombie froze for a moment, then spotted Lin Yue's head.

But Lin Yue had already charged right up to its face!

In the blink of an eye, he swung the heavy shovel down hard onto the Buckethead Zombie's head. The zombie merely swayed before reaching out to grab him.

Clearly, it hadn't taken much damage.

Seeing this, Lin Yue turned and ran toward Chomper in the sixth row.

The Buckethead Zombie noticed Lin Yue running aside. Its cloudy eyes slowly turned toward where Lin Yue stood, then it let out a gurgle from its throat, changed direction, and stepped sideways into the sixth row.

It could turn.

Just like after taking a bite of garlic, it forcibly changed lanes.

Zombies could alter their walking direction. They just usually couldn't be bothered to think. But now, a brain was right beside it, and it wanted to eat it.

After reaching Chomper's side, Lin Yue casually hurled the shovel toward the Buckethead Zombie.

The shovel spun twice in midair before its back struck the rim of the bucket with a dull thud.

The Buckethead Zombie tilted its neck.

The "new brain" had been provoking it all along!

The Buckethead Zombie accepted the "new brain's" provocation!

A deeper rumble rolled from its throat as its heavy footsteps finally left the fifth row and entered the sixth.

It was only a little way from reaching Wall-nut.

One step, then another. It stepped onto the edge of Chomper's attack range and advanced toward the Wall-nut blocking the path.

Under the moonlight, Wall-nut's round head stood in the middle of the sixth row like a small yellow stone barring the road.

The Buckethead Zombie stretched out its hand to grab Wall-nut. Its gray-green nails were less than three inches away...

It seemed ready to eat this Wall-nut first...

As an appetizer before the "new brain."

"Now!"

"Whoosh..."

A purple shadow shot out from the side so fast that Lin Yue's eyes could barely catch its full trajectory.

At that moment, Chomper's stem stretched to its limit. The entire plant lunged half a foot toward the zombie. Its perpetually half-open mouth gaped to its widest, its tooth petals tilted back, and the dark red depths of its mouth opened like an abyss... then snapped shut.

Before the Buckethead Zombie could even react from its "reaching for Wall-nut" motion, half its shoulder and its entire bucket-covered head had been swallowed neatly by Chomper.

"Now that's flavorful..."

Chomper's tooth petals kept tightening. With a crack, they bit down, followed by the teeth-grinding crunch of shattered iron being crushed flat between its teeth, mixed with the muffled sound of flesh and bones breaking apart.

Lin Yue crouched beside Wall-nut, one hand braced against his knee, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on Chomper.

Chomper's cheeks had swollen into a round purple ball, expanding and contracting as it moved.

Plant sap trailed from the corners of its mouth in thick silvery strands. There was even a faint reddish tint in the liquid, dripping onto the muddy ground beneath it.

Intermittent grinding sounds came from its mouth, like the dog he had raised as a child chewing on bones to sharpen its teeth.

Lin Yue silently counted in his heart. One, two, three... thirty-nine, forty.

Exactly forty seconds.

With a puff, Chomper spat out the chewed-up bucket along with a large puddle of plant slime.

Only the bucket remained on the ground, giving off a thin wisp of white smoke after being corroded by Chomper's digestive fluid.

With a clang, the bucket fell to the ground, rolled twice, and gleamed faintly with wetness under the moonlight.

[Health +30, slight increase in size]

Lin Yue watched the system text floating above Chomper's head. His heart slowly sank from his throat back into his chest, heavy and slow.

Chomper's health had risen from two hundred to two hundred thirty. Its stem had thickened slightly, and its leaves had become fuller and glossier in color.

At its current size, it could already be considered a special variety among Chompers.

"I love you so much..." Lin Yue remained crouched there, his voice low and his throat strangely astringent, as though something had clogged it.

In his previous life, he had loved cars most. In this life, what he loved most turned out to be the companion plants fighting at his side.

He raised his hand toward Chomper. Chomper bent down its leaf and rubbed the back of his fingers, warm and damp, carrying a faint bloody smell left behind from chewing a zombie.

"You stink. Don't breathe on me."

Chomper apparently hadn't expected that response from its owner. It immediately stuck out its ferocious long tongue and licked toward Lin Yue's head.

Lin Yue crouched foolishly beneath the moonlight, seated between Chomper and Wall-nut.

Chomper's leaves rustled twice. Tilting its head, it rubbed against him again.

Lin Yue finally stood up and stretched his knees, which had gone numb from crouching.

Just as he was about to repair the fence, he caught sight of the bucket on the ground from the corner of his eye. After Chomper spat it out, its opening had tilted sideways, and there seemed to be... something inside?

He walked over, crouched down, and turned the bucket over.

A thin layer of plant slime had collected at the bottom, and amid that sticky liquid was a gift box.

Lin Yue hurriedly opened it...

[Congratulations, you have obtained a seedling]

A tender green seedling with only two tiny leaves swayed gently beneath the moonlight, its thin stem delicate and a sparkling droplet of water still hanging from one leaf.

It was alive.

This was a living plant seedling.

The seedling said, "Duh. Have you ever seen a dead one in a game?"

[Player Privilege: Defeating zombies has a chance to drop all items]

[Visitor: Defeating zombies has a chance to drop coins]

He first hurriedly placed the plant seedling into the Zen Garden. The Zen Garden was still brightly lit, with an artificial light bulb serving as the sun.

Aside from the one he had just placed inside, the five potted seedlings had visibly grown a little. Each had a bubble above its head indicating that it needed water.

Lin Yue looked around and actually found a green watering can. Then he rushed to the backyard pool and filled it with water.

"Splash, splash, splash~"

"Ding~ Ding~ Ding~"

The moment he watered them, the five plants immediately produced five silver coins. Normally, silver coins only had a chance of dropping from zombies.

"Looks like I can buy things from little brother Dave next..."

But even more delightfully, the five seedlings had already become juvenile plants. They were still tiny, but they now possessed at least a little killing power against zombies.

Backyard Reserve Force

The five plants stood neatly beneath the light, their tender leaves spread and brightly colored, like five little lives that had just awakened and were blinking at him.

"Gold!"

Lin Yue's voice could not contain his excitement, and an echo even rang through the empty garden.

Chomper poked its head in from the backyard and looked back. Its purple leaves swayed over Wall-nut's head, as if asking, "Is my owner losing it again?"

Wall-nut, meanwhile, maintained its usual steady posture, round head facing outward. It quietly tilted two degrees toward the Zen Garden, which counted as "remote attention."

Lin Yue identified them one by one.

The plant on the far left had a pinkish-purple round head, with two cat-ear-shaped leaves sticking up from its crown. Their pointed tips drooped down, making it look like a sleepy kitten dozing off.

It was plump and round, half sticking out of its pot. The little head at the top swayed gently from side to side in the breeze. Its mouth was slightly open, and a small section of pointed tail-spike peeked out, as though it were biting something in its dreams.

The entire plant squatted in its flowerpot, radiating the air of a lazy bum.

Cattail.

The game's "little kitty," a tracking shooter planted on water.

It was essential against Balloon Zombies. Its full-screen attack coverage was unmatched in the entire plant catalog. As long as there was a Lily Pad, planting Cattail could deal with most zombies, including Balloon Zombies.

"So this is what you look like..." Lin Yue reached out and very gently touched one of Cattail's cat-ear leaves.

It felt soft and moist, like touching the tip of a real kitten's ear.

Cattail's head swayed from his touch. Its little pinkish-purple round face slowly turned toward him, its round eye-dots meeting his gaze. Then its mouth opened slightly, and it breathed out at him.

"Hah~"

The sound was soft and lazy, as if saying, "Don't disturb my sleep."

Lin Yue pulled back his hand, unable to suppress the smile at the corners of his mouth.

He quickly looked over the remaining four plants.

The second was Sunflower. Its bright yellow flower disk had only opened by a third, its petals tender as if dipped in egg wash, while the ring of golden fuzzy stamens in the center trembled lightly in the morning breeze.

The third was Puff-shroom. Its grayish-brown cap was still curled up and not fully opened, like a shy child hiding inside a collar.

The fourth was Marigold. Its pale golden flower disk stood quietly in the corner, its leaves thin and translucent, the whole plant radiating a tiny air of "I'm very valuable."

The last was Peashooter. Its lush green stem stood straight, its cannon-like head aimed directly at Lin Yue, as though waiting for his command.

As expected of Peashooter, everyone's best companion.

He crouched down and looked at Cattail's status panel first.

Cattail (Growing)

Health: 110

Ability: Homing Tail-Spike

Passive: Awaiting creation

Description: Cattail is a second-generation Cattail. Its ancestors were all Lily Pads, until Dave discovered that two of his Lily Pads had rather unique genes, resulting in its birth. Its personality is as lazy as a Lily Pad's.

"Alright, I'll give you something good first." Lin Yue rubbed his hands together, closed his eyes, and focused.

He came up with a passive for Cattail that gradually increased its attack speed. The longer it fought, the faster and harder it attacked, stacking damage like a snowball in battle. Combined with its tracking ability, it could basically handle ninety-nine percent of all zombies.

Full of confidence, he began to write.