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

But watching through a screen and witnessing it firsthand were two different things.

That pure, brutal, utterly unskilled crushing force traveled through the seawater and submarine hull, making their scalps tingle.

Then... Lin Yue realized—the Gargantuar was currently on his side.

Lin Yue: (/≧▽≦)/~┴┴

"Gargantuar! That's insane!!!" Lin Yue slapped the clutter inside the submarine flying. At that moment... his grin had practically reached the back of his head.

The Seaweed Guard in the sixth row froze the instant the Gargantuar appeared.

Its leaves tensed straight, its stalk leaned slightly back, and its entire posture shifted from "standing ready" to "prepared to run at any moment."

After witnessing the giant, three times its size, smash a Deep-Diving Zombie into a pancake with one pillar, its leaves began trembling uncontrollably.

Seaweed Bro: ∑(??д??lll)

(A Gargantuar!!! How did this thing get here? Where did it come from? No, it really did smash a Zombie just now—but after it finishes smashing Zombies, will it smash seaweed too?)

(Seaweed is panicking right now. Seaweed doesn't know whether it should run. Waiting online for an answer, urgent!)

Seaweed Bro: (lll°△°)

(I want to... slip away... but I was acting tough in front of the human just now. Would running away now be too embarrassing?)

Zhao Lei... Hope or Despair

Seaweed Bro: (lll°△°)

Seaweed Bro shifted its center of gravity slightly backward, ready to retreat at any moment.

During those two seconds of hesitation, the Gargantuar had already lifted its stone pillar from the Deep-Diving Zombie's remains. Without even glancing at the Seaweed Guard, it dragged the pillar... toward its next target.

That was a Buckethead Zombie shuffling this way. When the Buckethead Zombie saw the Gargantuar approaching, it went completely blank, its face beneath the bucket practically screaming, "Don't come any closer."

As the Gargantuar passed by the Seaweed Guard, it did not even turn its head.

Gargantuar: o('^｀)o

Seaweed Guard: Σ(°Д°;

In... the Gargantuar's eyes, something at the Seaweed Guard's level was probably... no different from roadside weeds—

Not worth smashing, and it currently had no desire to attack plants.

(Magic-shroom: Amazing, isn't it?)

The Seaweed Guard watched the Gargantuar's back drift past it, the stone pillar even brushing against its leaves.

It froze for two seconds, then its leaves slowly unfurled. Its roots dug back into the sand, and its stalk straightened once more.

(You're not hitting me? If you're not hitting me, I'll take that as permission to keep standing guard. Fine, then I'm not running.)

It secretly straightened up and resumed that solemn, steady guard posture, as though the seaweed that had nearly fled just now and the seaweed standing here now... were not the same seaweed.

Magic-shroom... proudly raised its black magician's hat.

The hat tilted slightly back as it watched the giant it had summoned charge through the Zombie horde with an expression that said, "This is nothing."

Magic-shroom: ヽ(￣▽￣)ノ

(What's with the fuss!!! It's just one Gargantuar. Next time, I'll draw you a royal flush—two Gargantuars and two Football Zombies. Wouldn't that scare the chlorophyll right out of you?)

While Lin Yue's side was fighting furiously, everyone else on the defense line had their attention drawn over as well.

The Gargantuar was simply too huge, so huge that it could not be ignored even in the deep sea.

Its golden armor reflected blinding light beneath the searchlights, and every swing of its stone pillar came with a heavy boom and clouds of stirred-up silt.

Even from dozens of meters away, the people in the other submarines could clearly see that colossal figure rampaging through the Zombie horde.

"Wait... am I blind?" Inside one submarine, a young man with a buzz cut pressed his face against the observation window and rubbed his eyes hard.

"That's a Gargantuar, right? Right? It is a Gargantuar, isn't it? Why is it attacking Zombies?"

The others beside him... also crowded over, then fell silent as well.

Two seconds later, someone hesitantly spoke. "Why is this Gargantuar fighting its own side? Did it get hit by a Hypno-shroom?"

He clearly sounded uncertain when he mentioned the Hypno-shroom... after all, Gargantuars would not eat Hypno-shrooms.

Hypno-shrooms could indeed turn Zombies, but they could only turn ordinary Zombies. They were completely ineffective against elite units like Gargantuars.

Everyone knew that common sense... so even he could not convince himself with that explanation.

"A Hypno-shroom can hypnotize a Gargantuar? Are you underestimating Gargantuars, or overestimating Hypno-shrooms?"

"Then how do you explain it?"

"...I can't."

The people farming points nearby... fell silent at the same time.

(And inwardly concluded—Lin Yue probably had some special hypnotic talent.)

The owner of that submarine—the big shot they had been silently complaining about for "stealing kills" earlier—actually had a Gargantuar helping him.

This had completely exceeded... the bounds of comprehension.

Naturally, Lin Yue could not explain it, nor did he have any way to.

In the Federation's understanding, Magic-shroom was merely a bottom-tier gold-card plant that nobody valued.

Lin Yue simply watched as the Gargantuar swung its stone pillar through the Zombie horde, an unconscious smile hanging at the corner of his mouth.

Elsewhere.

"No... I'm dead! I'm dead! I'm dead! I'm dead!"

Zhao Lei's voice had already gone shrill.

Alone in the submarine, he ran back and forth in a panic, sweat covering his forehead and streaming down his cheeks onto the control panel.

Around Zhao Lei's submarine were densely packed Zombies—Deep-Diving Zombies, Conehead Zombies, ordinary Zombies...

Zhao Lei... was the wealthiest among the first group of residents in Happy Residential Community.

He had a good father—well-connected and deeply established.

Before this event, Father Zhao... had gotten Zhao Lei several powerful plants—some for crowd control, some for high burst damage—

But... powerful plants shared one common flaw: they were expensive.

Their sunlight consumption was absurdly high.

To summon all those little ancestors, Zhao Lei had nearly exhausted all the sunlight he had saved during the days before the event.

The plants were in place, but the sunlight was gone.

And because oxygen was needed early on, while seaweed produced sunlight... the submarine had suffered damage during the first two days.

By the fourth day, although Zhao Lei's plant lineup was impressive, his submarine's durability had already been reduced to just 20% during those first two days.

(Zhao Lei: I bet I can survive!)

Wave after wave of Zombies surged in, the plants fought harder and harder, and the Zombies only kept increasing.

When the first batch of Zombies reached the hull, the submarine's durability had already fallen to 18%.

Zhao Lei stared at that glaring red number on the panel, his heart nearly jumping out of his throat.

"If I'd known, I would've just coasted for two days. Greedy—why did I have to be greedy! The plants are strong... ah! The sunlight... is gone. I, Zhao Lei... after a lifetime of brilliance, am going to die in this shitty seabed—"

As he muttered frantically, he repeatedly clenched something in his palm.

An Energy Pea.

Emerald green and the size of a thumb, with a soft glow flowing across its surface.

This was his last trump card—a Plant Food that could instantly make one plant unleash its full strength.

He had only one of these. Supposedly, it was his father's annual quota.

This was the critical moment.

Zhao Lei knew that.

But the question was—who should he give it to?

Zhao Lei... swept his gaze across the plants inside the submarine.

The Repeater's firepower was not steady enough, so the results of giving it Plant Food would be unpredictable;

The Pea Cannon could fight, but it was in the third row. The greatest Zombie pressure was currently in the first and sixth rows, so even giving it Plant Food would not cover them;

Spiked Okra... went without saying. It could only handle one lane and could not solve a large-scale Zombie attack.

Zhao Lei began thinking hard. He weighed every option over and over, rejected it, weighed it again, then rejected it again.

Second by second passed, while Zombies continued gathering.

"Who do I give it to? Who? Damn it, who the hell do I give it to—"

Zhao Lei anxiously spun in place when his foot suddenly caught on a raised metal edge.

He lost his balance and pitched forward, the Energy Pea flying from his hand.

The emerald point of light traced an arc through the air. Zhao Lei watched helplessly as it flew over the passage between planting grids, over—Magic-shroom's head.

Then it landed precisely in Magic-shroom's mouth.

Magic-shroom had been spacing out.

Ever since it had been summoned, it had not done anything useful—Zhao Lei had only planted Magic-shroom because Lin Yue thought it had some hidden potential.

So Magic-shroom had been squatting in the corner, occasionally tossing out a few cards to deal with scattered Zombies.

When the Energy Pea dropped into its mouth, even it did not realize what had happened. Its cap tilted sideways, its cheeks moved instinctively, and with a "gulp," it swallowed it.

Zhao Lei lay sprawled inside the submarine, one arm stretched toward Magic-shroom. The expression on his face shifted from panic to terror, then from terror to despair.

"Don't eat—"

Amid... Zhao Lei's nearly broken, despairing scream, Magic-shroom let out a burp.

"NO—damn it—don't!!!"

What Was... a Surprise!!!

"NO—damn it—don't!!!"

Zhao Lei panicked.

Three languages burst out of him within a second, showing that he was now too frantic to organize his thoughts.

Still sprawled on the ground without getting up, his mind had already flashed through what would happen next like a slideshow.

If he got lucky, he would survive... if not, he would become an extra meal for the Zombies.

After all... Magic-shroom had been considered hopeless in the Federation from the very beginning. Someone had once experimented with Plant Food on it.

But... at most, it had summoned ordinary Zombies. It had even caused the First Federation to deduct funding from the experiment because a Plant Food had been wasted.

Zhao Lei felt that he was finished.

(Those under a lot of pressure can try putting themselves in his shoes.)

"This is bad..." Zhao Lei climbed up from the ground, his voice weak. "Good thing I have Dad's Sea God Grass. It should be fine—"

"—Fine my ass!!!" Zhao Lei's final note shot straight into a scream.

He closed his eyes in despair.

"Bang~ boom—"

A muffled roar rang out.

Not one sound, but many sounds erupting at once.

The sounds came simultaneously from all six rows of the submarine, shaking the hull slightly. Even the glass of the observation windows trembled.