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

"My talent is intelligence."

Lin Yue raised an eyebrow slightly.

"My intelligence told me that among the people living in the same residential community as me, you, Lin Yue, are someone I can trust."

Of course, the intelligence she told Lin Yue about was incomplete. There was a particularly unique line after it.

[He is an extreme lolicon, severely obsessed with Jiahao, a reincarnator. You fit his tastes perfectly. He is your future husband.]

More importantly, she had another piece of intelligence, and that one required Lin Yue's Lawn Mower and shovel.

She paused here, her fingers unconsciously clutching the hem of her school uniform as her eyes flickered.

When Bai Qingfeng learned the second half of that intelligence, her first reaction was surprise. The beauty standard in this world had always favored tall women.

There was actually someone who liked her... this tiny body of hers.

But then she noticed the most unusual label in the intelligence.

Reincarnator.

Those three words made Bai Qingfeng's heart pound. She read novels all the time—did that mean this guy was some legendary protagonist?

She absolutely had to cling to this thigh.

"The second piece of intelligence," she cleared her throat and continued, "is that Dave left two unique experimental plants behind in the residential community.

"I need your help. You're not blind, are you?"

"I don't have a Lawn Mower or a shovel."

After saying that, she tilted her head, and her two braids swayed with it. She stared at Lin Yue with the perfectly justified look of, "I've made myself so clear, so why are you still standing there?"

Lin Yue stood there in silence for a full five seconds.

There was too much information churning through his mind.

Her talent was intelligence... but how broad was the range of that intelligence?

Back when he read novels, or watched anime in his previous life, the creepiest ability had always been intelligence.

He had no idea of the scope of her intelligence talent for now... but he had to keep this little girl in the palm of his hand from now on.

And then there were "the experimental plants Dave left behind"... if that was true, they were far more valuable than a wild Peashooter picked up by the roadside.

After all, the strongest plants in Plants vs. Zombies were not ordinary plants, but those hybrid and fusion super-plants.

Getting any one of them would be a massive profit. Especially with his talent, the earlier he obtained plants in the early stages, the stronger he would become later.

More importantly, Lin Yue looked at the puffed-up little girl in front of him. She was obviously nervous as hell—even the fingers pressed to her chest were trembling slightly—yet she still forced herself to put on an air of, "Hurry up and agree."

What a silly little thing. Her eyes were as clear as a college student's.

The edges of her faded school uniform had worn into frayed threads, and the white stitching at her cuffs had pilled, but it was clean, and every button was fastened neatly.

He suddenly remembered something his mother had said at dinner yesterday. "Once you enter the garden, judge people by their eyes. People with clean eyes usually have clean hearts too."

Those almond-shaped eyes before him were spotless, almost too clear.

"9."

"Huh? What wine? What are you suddenly talking about?"

Bai Qingfeng was starting to suspect there was something wrong with her talent. Otherwise, there was something wrong with this guy's brain.

"Nothing. Then, please take care of me, Intelligence-baka."

"What kind of weird nickname is that? Little Bai would be better..."

"Then, please take care of me, Little Bai~"

But there was one thing Bai Qingfeng found strange. This guy really seemed not to know her. Wasn't he a "reincarnator"?

Could he be on his "first playthrough"?

A Garlic-Scented Park

"Mm... Little Bai Qingfeng?"

Lin Yue's gaze lingered on her chest for another moment. Those three words were printed on the white name tag with black lettering, stretched plumply against the fabric of her school uniform.

Her name was really so white, so big, and so round. He silently withdrew his gaze and tried to keep his expression normal.

"What the hell is Little Bai?!" Bai Qingfeng instantly bristled, pulling both hands away from her chest and crossing them into a huge X.

"My name is Bai Qingfeng! My full name! You... wait, how do you know my name? Are you..."

She had originally wanted to ask if it was because of his reincarnation, if he had known her in his previous life.

Halfway through speaking, she followed Lin Yue's gaze and looked down at her chest. The spot where her name tag was pinned was plainly exposed to the air, and because she was shaking, her chest was even bobbing slightly.

Then her face began turning red from the roots of her ears, inch by inch, like a shrimp scalded in boiling water. The blush spread across her cheeks and the tip of her nose, even trailing down her neck and disappearing beneath her collar.

"Oh... y-you were looking at my name tag!"

Bai Qingfeng froze in place, both hands raised in front of her chest like claws. Her mouth opened, closed, opened, and closed again, as though steam were rising from her head.

She seemed to want to say something to salvage the situation, but her tongue was tied, and she could not force out a single word for ages. In the end, a muffled whimper squeezed out of her throat, and her whole body visibly deflated.

Lin Yue's mind exploded when he saw her like this...

She was fucking adorable.

From head to toe, from those sparkling almond eyes to her two crooked braids, from her little mouth with its sharp tiger teeth to that faded but clean and tidy old school uniform, from her fierce exterior and hopelessly clumsy interior to the embarrassment that made her curl into herself after realizing she had made a fool of herself... every movement she made seemed meticulously designed, hitting every single one of Lin Yue's preferences with flawless precision.

How could someone fit my tastes so perfectly?

Having lived two lives, it was the first time he felt as though the tip of a feather had lightly scratched his heart.

"I can help you." Lin Yue pushed the Lawn Mower forward half a step, his voice softer than before. He considered his phrasing and decided not to beat around the bush. "But I should make this clear first... I had a good first impression of you. You're attractive, and you happen to hit every one of my preferences. If that makes you uncomfortable, you can still run away now."

Lin Yue said it very frankly.

In this life, he had no intention of pretending otherwise. What his parents taught him was to "live clearly and honestly." If he liked something, he admitted it. If he did not, he avoided it. No need to drag things out.

Bai Qingfeng froze for a moment and blinked twice, seemingly taking three whole seconds to process what he had said.

Then her face, which had only just returned to normal, flushed red again with a whoosh. It was even redder than before, red enough to start smoking.

She looked exactly like a steam princess.

She stomped her foot hard... right onto a loose stone, nearly twisting her ankle... After steadying herself, she spat at Lin Yue. "Pervert! Who wants to hear you say that?!"

But after saying that, she did not turn and run away. Instead, she huffily turned around, her braids swaying as she headed toward the community park without looking back. After three steps, she stopped and turned half her head, her cheeks still red though her voice was deliberately calm. "Hey, you. Aren't you coming?"

Lin Yue stood where he was, looking at her puffed-up back. Whoever designed this little thing had done a great job. She was really fun.

Bai Qingfeng did not walk quickly, but every step landed heavily, as though she were throwing a tantrum at the ground.

Lin Yue hesitated for two seconds before pushing the cart after her.

He had to wander around Happy Residential Community anyway. It made no difference who he wandered around with.

Staying with a soft, cute little loli was far better than being around those people who started drooling the moment they saw his Lawn Mower.

Besides, no matter whether her two pieces of intelligence were true or false, he would make a killing if they were true. If they were false, he would still just be wandering around the residential community, except with an attractive little loli by his side.

Bai Qingfeng led the way ahead, her steps quick and hurried as her little legs moved rapidly beneath her like a rabbit's.

Every now and then, she looked back to see whether Lin Yue was following. Every time she did, she glared at him first before quickly turning back around, as though she were making sure that "the filthy pervert is still within my line of sight."

But Lin Yue soon realized something was wrong.

Bai Qingfeng led him into a community park. The iron gate at the entrance had rusted until only half of it remained, while the other half lay crooked on the ground, mostly swallowed by weeds.

He had not expected there to be a place like this in the residential community.

The park looked completely abandoned, as though it had been left untouched for years. Fallen leaves lay in a thick layer, sinking beneath half a foot when stepped on. There was no telling whether the stuff underneath was mud or something else, so he would have to watch his footing.

The ground was uneven, and dark green duckweed floated in the puddles. Every so often, a bubble rose and burst in the air with a gurgle, releasing a rich, sour stench like something that had fermented too long.

The smell shot straight into his nose, carrying an indescribably complex array of scents. It was somewhat like someone had tossed a block of foul-smelling fermented tofu into a sewer and let it rot.

Lin Yue paused, covering his nose with his sleeve.

Yet Bai Qingfeng ahead of him seemed not to smell a thing. Her little legs moved even faster, squelching through the muddy piles of leaves as she bent over and looked around, clearly searching for something. She did not even notice that her clothes were covered in mud.

Was this little girl's sense of smell broken? Or had Dave really left two plants in this place?

This place, this smell... could it be Garlic?

Lin Yue covered his nose.

Carefully avoiding a puddle of sludge beneath his feet, he stepped on relatively hard stones and followed her.

The park was littered with rotten trees lying in every direction. Most of their bark had peeled away, exposing grayish-white wood fibers covered in unknown black fungal patches.

Several park benches lay crookedly on the ground. Some had lost a leg and leaned against tree trunks, some had flipped over entirely, and many strange newspapers and Coneheads were scattered across the ground.

The farther they went, the stronger the stench became. Lin Yue felt as though he were about to suffocate.

His body was forcing him to change his path.

But just then, Bai Qingfeng suddenly let out a delighted cheer, her voice bright and crisp.

"Wow! Found them! We hit the jackpot! We hit the jackpot!"

Little Bai turned around and waved hard at him, seemingly urging him to hurry over and see what she had found.

She pointed beneath a pile of rocks and dead vines nearby, practically bouncing with excitement. "Come here! Look at this!"

Lin Yue quickly walked over, rounded the last patch of waist-high weeds, and looked down in the direction Bai Qingfeng was pointing.

"Dave's experiments." Bai Qingfeng crouched beside them, bracing both hands on her knees as she tilted her head to carefully examine the two plants. Her voice was filled with undisguised pride. "See? My intelligence didn't lie to you, did it?"

"No wonder it smells like that. It really is Garlic! There's also a Wall-nut beside it, but I can't tell what's different about this Wall-nut yet."

Lin Yue parked the Lawn Mower beside them and glanced at Bai Qingfeng, who was crouching nearby.

She was carefully wiping the specks of mud off Garlic with her sleeve, her movements gentle and serious. There was even a smudge of dirt on the tip of her nose, but she had not noticed it at all.

Garlic's strange big eyes were also staring at the girl in front of it, who was utterly unafraid of its smell. For the first time, Garlic felt that someone liked it.

[I want to go with her. Can she take me with her?]

Surrounded

"I'm exhausted..."

Lin Yue patted the last handful of soil firmly into the Lawn Mower, then straightened up. His back cracked, and a dense aching soreness spread along both sides of his spine.

He raised a hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, only to find his hand covered in dirt, leaving another gray streak across his face.

The two plants sat quietly in the cart. One was a yellowish-green Wall-nut sapling, round like a ball, its thick leaves hugging together in a foolishly adorable way. It was probably still growing.

The other was white Garlic, its six cloves crowded together in a cluster, its entire body glowing with a faint purplish sheen. Its two large eyes blinked as it kept staring at Bai Qingfeng.

"Even plants are lolicons these days!"

"Fortunately, neither of them has matured yet, so they're not very big. It's a little cramped fitting two of them into one cart, but they can squeeze in."

As for Garlic's pungent smell... it drifted through the air, spicy and mixed with a sharp earthy stink. After smelling it for too long, even his brain seemed to tremble... honestly, it was hard to ignore.

While fanning the air in front of his nose, he turned to look at Bai Qingfeng standing beside him.

"By the way, there are only two plants total. Which one do you prefer?"

He asked casually. Although they had only found them because of her talent, he had contributed the tools and the labor.

No matter which one she chose, with the support of his talent, whether it was Wall-nut or Garlic, once planted in the Plant Garden, it would eventually become a sturdy front-line defender.

Garlic did have one special effect: it could alter the route of Zombies that bit it. However, at Tier One, Garlic only had six hundred base health.

Wall-nut, on the other hand, had a full four thousand.

Although the difference in health was enormous, Garlic was more useful in terms of function.

And these two plants had been left here by Dave. For now, it was still unknown what unique effects they possessed.

Only after returning to his Plant Garden could he view the plants' status panels.

But Bai Qingfeng seemed stumped by the question.