All People Plant Zombies: I Can Add Passives to Plants

Seaweed Guard stood frozen in place, its leaves slightly spread, but it had no idea which side it was supposed to block.

(...Magic-shroom, isn't this fighting style way too kelp-efficient?)

It wasn't over yet.

On the submarine's right side, Power Lily's second full Energy Pea had already finished forming.

Bok Choy had just finished a round of punches when it saw the Energy Pea fly over. Without a word, it opened its mouth and swallowed it.

That green surge of energy erupted from its body again. Its arms swelled once more, and the calluses on its fists glimmered faintly.

"Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora!"

A new barrage of fists engulfed the waters on the right.

The Zombies, who had just been intimidated and were still hesitating over whether to charge, never imagined that cabbage's stamina hadn't been depleted at all—it had unleashed its ultimate again.

And this time, it was even fiercer than before. After Bok Choy's breakthrough in its punching technique, every ultimate was a new round of tempering.

The Zombies did not even have time to think about retreating. In the 5×5 area ahead, they gathered before Bok Choy once again.

Power Lily's third Energy Pea had just taken shape. Before it could even catch its breath, Magic-shroom's cap tilted toward it again.

Magic-shroom: ???

(How about one more? You saw how effective that last wave was. Six Bucketheads—wasn't that awesome enough?)

Power Lily lowered its head to look at the Energy Pea it had just condensed, then looked at Magic-shroom's shameless grin.

Power Lily: ? ? ?

(None left! You've sucked this flower dry of energy! Dry... Fine! Take it. Anyway... even if this flower says no, you'll just keep staring at it. This flower can't stand that expression.)

[Evil Kitty: ?(o?o?)??????... Kitty hasn't tried an Energy Pea yet!!!]

The Situation... Was Stabilizing

Power Lily: ? ? ?

Another burst of energy flowed into Magic-shroom's body.

There was even less than last time—Power Lily really was nearly drained dry. It had never worked this hard before.

But it was enough.

Six more top hats appeared. And one of them was a full size larger than the other five.

The Zombies spotted those six top hats from far away.

They were already tearing into six Rebel Bucketheads, and the battle was chaotic enough as it was. Now, six more top hats had appeared.

What would come out this time? Six Gargantuars? Six football Zombies? Or—

Zombies: ⊙﹏⊙∥

(Does this ever end!!! We haven't even finished fighting those six Bucketheads from before, and now there are six more hats? Is this mushroom running a factory or something? One hat after another? Can you give us a chance to catch our breath? We're Zombies, not punching bags! Zombies have dignity too—)

The top hats vanished.

Six new Zombies appeared in the waters on the left—two Coneheads, three Bucketheads, and one more.

It stood in the back, three times taller than the other five.

Golden armor reflected a heavy golden gleam beneath the searchlights. A gigantic wooden shield in its left hand, a thick stone pillar in its right.

A Gargantuar.

The morale of the Zombies on the left—if Zombies even had such a concept—collapsed in an instant.

Gargantuars were terrifying enough already, but this one stood on the Rebel Zombies' side.

Soon, an incomprehensible scene unfolded on the seafloor.

A lone submarine sat in the middle of the battlefield.

On the right, a cabbage held the line alone. No matter how many Zombies surged toward it, its fists only became more ferocious.

The Zombie corpses before Bok Choy had already piled into a small hill. The silt had been stained dark brown by black blood, while severed limbs drifted slowly through the seawater. The entire right-side waters were filled with a strong metallic stench.

On the left, a Zombie civil war involving hundreds of combatants raged fiercely.

Though the Rebel Zombies were fewer in number, no Zombie could stand against the Gargantuar. Every rise and fall of its stone pillar turned Zombie remains into flattened mush.

The Rebel Bucketheads and Coneheads blocked the gap with all their might, biting and grappling with the Zombies outside.

The Zombies they bit to death sank to the seafloor, while new Zombies surged up to fill the gaps, only to be smashed flat by the Gargantuar's pillar again.

Among the Zombies on the left, a Deep-Diving Zombie whose arm had been scraped off by the Gargantuar's stone pillar grabbed at the seafloor mud with its remaining hand and crawled forward with difficulty.

But its oxygen tank had been crushed by the Gargantuar during the melee. It was drowning—if Zombies could drown, that was.

The Deep-Diving Zombie... raised its head with its last breath, stared at the black top hat still continuously summoning new Zombies, and released a dying accusation.

Deep-Diving Zombie: Σ(???ノ)

(Can we still have fun playing this game? Just wait till I tell Dave!!! You're a mushroom, why are you summoning things? Fine, summoning is one thing, but you summoned a Gargantuar? Do you even know the balance of this game is broken? I demand a rematch—no, wait, I can't float up anymore—glub glub glub—)

The light in the Deep-Diving Zombie's eyes went out. Its whole body slowly sank to the seafloor and stopped moving.

Throughout the Zombies' mass deaths, Starfruit and Kitty's firepower never stopped.

Golden star barrages and crimson spikes wove together into an ever-expanding net of death, spreading outward from the submarine and covering more and more of the sea.

Gold gradually dyed the entire ocean. What had once been deep sea now looked as though it had been plated with flowing golden stars.

Those Deep-Diving Zombies still far away, not yet close enough to approach, were precisely picked off by Cattail Cat's spikes from a great distance away from the submarine.

Cattail Cat: /? ≧?≦ ??

Kitty was in absurdly good form today—every spike precisely pierced the oxygen tanks on the Deep-Diving Zombies' backs.

Those Deep-Diving Zombies did not even have time to accelerate into a charge before oxygen leaks robbed them of their ability to move halfway there, leaving them easy prey for the following star barrage.

The Deep-Diving Zombies collectively... fell silent.

This was the first time they had encountered such a situation. Usually, they relied on their oxygen tanks to accelerate and ambush others. But today, those oxygen tanks had become their fatal weakness.

Some Deep-Diving Zombies tried to go around, but Kitty's eyes were sharper than an osprey's. As long as there was an oxygen tank on their backs, no matter which direction they took, the spikes would precisely find it.

The Deep-Diving Zombies began to question their undead existence—should we switch unit types?

Deep-Diving Zombie: Σ(???ノ)!!!(This is humiliating! Too humiliating! Where is the dignity of us Deep-Diving Zombies? Being used as target practice by a cat? Can't you show us some respect?)

The Seaweed Guards still desperately holding on at the edge of the breach witnessed all of it.

They saw the human charging at the very front, leading the plant army to reinforce the weakest gap in the defense line;

They saw Bok Choy punch open a vacuum zone on the right;

They saw the Rebel Zombies summoned by Magic-shroom bite and tear into the enemy on the left;

They saw golden star barrages dye the entire sea in flowing gold;

They saw Kitty's spikes pick off Deep-Diving Zombies one by one as they charged;

And they even saw... a nest of little mushrooms!!!

An old kelp plant whose leaves had all broken off, leaving only a bare stalk, was supported by its companions.

Its body could no longer hold itself up. Two-thirds of its roots had been severed by Blue Whale's tail fin, and green sap continuously leaked from the breaks near its base.

But it... did not close its eyes. With the last of its strength, it watched that golden barrage, watched the submarine bathed in the light of four Starfruits, and watched the cabbage before it that was still throwing punches without pause.

The old kelp's mouth curved upward slightly.

Kelp could smile too.

The smile was not on its face, but in the curve of its leaves—the last tender leaf that had not completely fallen from the tip of the old kelp's bare stalk slowly, slowly curled upward.

The Seaweed Guards supported one another as they watched the submarine's back, watched the human who had charged into this chaos like a madman.

They had guarded this place for who knew how many years, yet this was the first time they had encountered such an outrageous human.

This was the first time they had seen... well... such an over-the-top human.

Seaweed Guards: (T.T)--(T.T)

(Find big brother. Acknowledge big brother. There are still more good people than bad in the sea. From now on, we'll follow this human—no one try to stop us, we want to be his algae.)

The two Seaweed Guards standing on either side of Lin Yue's submarine heard the cries of "acknowledge big brother" rising and falling from their companions behind them. Their leaves did not move, and their stalks remained perfectly straight.

They did not turn around, but the smug curve at the edges of their leaves gave them away.

These two kelp plants had been Lin Yue's earliest bodyguards, and they had also been the first algae to decide that this human was worth following.

Now, watching their entire clan gravitate in the same direction, they had only one thought—told you so.

But the battle was far from over.

The Zombies' offensive had been forcefully halted by Lin Yue and the plants.

The Zombies still flooding into the breach were either being savagely beaten by Bok Choy's fists on the right, torn apart by the Rebel Zombies and the Gargantuar on the left, or harvested midway by Kitty and Starfruit's crossfire.

The number of Zombies was visibly decreasing. Pressure on the breach was easing. The Seaweed Guards finally had enough room to carry their injured companions to the rear, while the remaining defense line was slowly being repaired.

But... Blue Whale was still there.

Blue Whale was still rampaging through the Kelp Defense Line. Every time it crashed into the net wall, the entire defense line shook violently.

The sounds of snapping net ropes rose one after another, while fragments of kelp leaves drifted through the water like snowflakes.

Damn... You Old Bastard!!!

"Fortunately, they're all Tier One Zombies." Lin Yue stood inside the submarine, watching the data flashing across the panel.

The Zombies' levels really were not high—Tier One, ordinary Tier One Zombies, with no special abilities beyond their numbers and speed.

That was why they could keep the situation under control.

If Tier Two or Tier Three Zombies had arrived, no matter how hard Bok Choy's fists were, it would not have been able to withstand the level suppression.

But now—the Zombies had been contained. What about Blue Whale?

Lin Yue had tried.

He had Peashooter attack Blue Whale, but the effect was far too small.

The peas struck Blue Whale's skin with dull thuds, and then—Blue Whale did not react at all.

Its skin was at least several inches thick, with a thick layer of blubber beneath it. To Blue Whale, the impact of the peas was probably equivalent to a mosquito bite.

It was not even a scratch. It did not even qualify as an itch.

Blue Whale... did not even turn around for a glance. It continued using its enormous tail fin to batter the defense line woven by the Seaweed Guards.

(Wasn't it supposed to be a neutral marine creature?)

Lin Yue leaned against the control console with his arms crossed over his chest, his brows furrowed so tightly they could have held a pen.

He ran through every plan in his mind—Plant Food ultimate?

Magic-shroom's summoning was the strongest area attack, but the Zombies it summoned were equally ineffective against Blue Whale.

Physical attacks would not work.

Control?

Lin Yue... currently had no plants capable of controlling Blue Whale.

Ocean currents?

Forget that... marine creatures were not afraid of ocean currents.

Lin Yue... needed a way.

A way he had not thought of yet, but one that could genuinely work.

Lin Yue... bit his lower lip, his fingers unconsciously tapping out a rapid tap tap tap.

The plants inside the submarine... all waited quietly for Lin Yue to speak. They knew he was thinking of a solution.

Chomper: (ＯДＯ)つ... I think I smell a familiar scent!!!