Pokémon, but cultural invasion

Tingxiang, the studio that created the hit game, is no longer the unknown studio it once was. The news of their new work is like a spark falling into a pile of dry hay, igniting a raging fire.

after one day.

Ignoring the rampant online rumors, Quanshu focused on preparing for his Jade Rainbow Trip.

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Yuhong City, Yuhong Dojo.

Ami, with her hands behind her back, followed behind Lijia as they strolled through the indoor garden.

The glass skylights of the dome let in the golden rays of the setting sun, casting shimmering spots of light on the moss-covered stone path.

Rows of flower stands sit amidst the interplay of light and shadow, exuding a languid greenery.

Potted plants filled every crevice of the flower stand, with wildly growing vines hanging down and blooming with unknown flowers.

The passing breeze carried a faint fragrance of flowers, mixed with the smell of damp earth.

"Lijia, you really love flowers."

Ami and she had a good relationship, and she couldn't help but marvel at the indoor garden every time she entered it.

Rika, with her black hair reaching her ears, walked gracefully ahead in a kimono with a wisteria pattern, occasionally fiddling with the hyacinths on the flower stand.

"Plants are a gift from nature, and flowers are the crown of plants, beautiful and delicate, making them hard not to like."

Her voice was soft and pleasant.

Ami laughed and said, "It's one thing to grow flowers in real life, but why do you even grow flowers in a farming game and not harvest or sell them?"

"I would never turn warm flowers into cold numbers. A farm should be well-managed and colorful."

"Speaking of which, the new game released by that farm game studio also seems to be related to plants."

"Oh? Could it be that the other person also loves flowers?"

Ami opened the most popular room on the live streaming platform, where a beautiful girl with pink and blue pigtails was biting a shiny shark tooth, looking radiant.

"I remember she was a gym leader too..."

Lijia gazed curiously at this peer from a distant region.

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Why isn't it going live yet?

"A cheapskate from Stardew Valley."

"111~"

"Qishu is doing well too, it's even riding on the coattails of Tingxiang's popularity."

Qi Shu, sitting in front of the screen, twitched the corner of his mouth.

With five minutes left before the broadcast, her live stream once again topped the charts across all platforms.

The show became incredibly popular even before it started airing, prompting staff to urgently activate a backup line.

After checking his appearance in the mirror and tidying his expression, Qi Shu turned on the camera, and the live streamer Dian Dian officially went online.

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, hello ciao~~

"Capture your eye with an electric grid! Who's narrating this strange tale? It's me, Qishu!"

A vibrant and beautiful young woman leaps onto the screen, but the reactions in the comments section are quite intriguing.

"My favorite opening formula, but skipping it today!"

"My sharp eyes have already spotted it—the plant icon in the upper right corner of the desktop—"

"Who is this beautiful lady? My main folder is still on the desktop, please open it quickly."

"What exactly is the relationship between the streamer and Tingxiang? Why is she always the first one to be tested?"

Amidst the chaotic barrage of comments, Qi Shu chuckled and said, "As many viewers already know, today's live stream is about revealing Ting Xiang's new work."

"Without further ado, let the game begin."

As you click on the icon, a large tree, a tombstone, and a house with white bricks and red tiles in the distance come into view.

Enter nickname: Qishu.

The rhythmic scales rise and fall, and the theme song, mainly played by a harp, begins, creating an atmosphere that is both eerie and bizarre yet imbued with a touch of vitality.

"This background music is just right."

"The music style in Tingxiang has changed again."

"It's not a horror game, is it? The art style doesn't seem like it."

The tombstone, carved from stone with an axe, bears the five large characters: "Begin the Adventure."

Drag the mouse to open the strange tree.

A grayish-blue arm with cracked nails suddenly emerged from the ground, accompanied by a sudden, descending melody and the terrifying, grotesque laughter of a zombie.

The tombstone flickered, and the game officially began.

"Holy crap, that's terrifying."

"A ghostly sound effect!"

"Oh no, my boss heard me playing music out loud during the night shift..."

Fortunately, the laughter was short-lived; the theme music returned, and the cutscene moved in.

On a lawn with a swimming pool, a familiar plant-like Pokémon is half-buried in the ground, spewing out strange flying objects to attack ugly creatures that walk or run, dressed in bizarre costumes.

"Is this a tower defense game?"

Why is half of the trumpet bud buried in the soil?

"A zombie wearing a rubber duck...this art is so ahead of its time."

【The Hut with the Strange Tree】

The view is of a barren backyard where not a blade of grass grows. The camera pans to the right, and there are several bald zombies with their tongues sticking out standing on the road.

The turf rolled, carving out a green path in the yellowish wasteland.

"Please purchase Pea Shooter."

"Click to collect sunlight; you'll need it to buy more plants."

Following the prompts, Qi Shu looked at the plant list at the top of the screen.

The plant called "pea shooter" is actually a trumpet bud.

The peculiar tree with its trumpet-shaped bud icon is planted in the last square of the lawn.

The lower half of the trumpet bud is in the soil, with two leaves and the brown main stem showing.

As the music played, it swayed its body, its yellow gourd-shaped head bobbing back and forth.

"The village has gone mad, finally upgrading from planting flowers and grass to planting Pokémon."

"Hilarious! I never realized how mesmerizing the dancing trumpet buds were before."

"Sunlight is falling down! Quick, pick it up, I have OCD!"

When the strange tree collected a hundred suns, a gray-blue zombie in a suit and tie sauntered out from the right side of the lawn.

This zombie brother is having a tough time. His jaw is dislocated and he can't close it, he's missing half of his teeth, and his left knee is thin.

The adorable trumpet sprout even spits out a round pea the size of half a zombie's head from its "O"-shaped mouth, which hits the ordinary zombie hard.

A crisp striking sound rang out, and fearing that the zombie wouldn't be killed, the strange tree quickly planted a second trumpet-bud shooter.

The two trumpet sprouts unleashed their full power, and after a few peas, the zombie's left arm broke off, revealing its bare bones, and finally, its head flew off.

The headless corpse took two steps forward and then collapsed limply.

"No wonder it's called Pea Shooter."

Qi Shumei's eyes flashed, and she roughly understood how the game was played.

When the third Peashooter appeared on the lawn, its terrifying firepower melted away any ordinary zombies that dared to invade.

A small card was found on the fallen corpse.

【sunflower】

"Produces sunlight after being planted"

"Isn't that the Sunflower Monster?"

"The zombies move so slowly."

"Damn it, Qishu has been put into EZ mode."

After glancing at the description of the Sunflower Monster card, Qishu smiled confidently.

"I have a general idea of ​​how to play: collect sunlight to plant Pokémon to fight zombies, and get new Pokémon cards when you pass a level. It's like a tower defense game."

"The game's map is simple, with only five straight roads, and the zombies move slowly, so passing the level is a piece of cake."

A strange tree with inexplicable self-confidence.

The atmosphere in the comments section became strange.

"666, what a bold statement at the start."

"It's back, and all the parts where I love to be humiliated are back."

"You just said 'as easy as turning one's hand,' right?"

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Stop! Your Pokémon is crying!

A ring of golden petals flowed around the sunflower monster's cheeks, converging towards the center to form a dazzling ray of sunlight.

Qi Shu was quick-witted and picked it up, then planted the third sunflower.

"Isn't this sunflower monster producing sunlight a little too slowly?"

At the end of each of the three grassy running tracks, a sunflower was planted, swaying its head back and forth but never seeing the sunlight.

With sirens blaring and zombies roaring, a red-collared, brown-suited zombie with mismatched eyes appeared on the middle track.

The image shows a gray pea shooter pokes at a strange tree; the enemy is closing in step by step, the sunlight is slow to arrive, and it feels as if ants are crawling all over her body.

"You like greed?"

"Zombies: A swift raid that caught us off guard."

I've finally saved enough money for the Peashooter.

Qi Shu silently counted the number of attacks: 1...2...3......10.

"It takes ten attacks for the Peashooter to defeat a zombie, during which the zombie moves about three squares, while the track has nine squares in total."

"That means I can let the zombie run four squares first, and then shoot the pea shooter."

Ignoring the second zombie that was attacking, the strange tree slapped down the sunflower.

She planted the Peashooter, which had just been off cooldown, when the second zombie reached the vicinity of the center line.

One shot... two shots... The tenacious zombie walked up to Bellsprout, about to reach out and bite it, when the next pea shot took its life.

"Precise calculations, and this is so cool?"

"As expected of a war god who fought his way out of trashy little games, I would call the streamer a mad maggot in a sea of ​​dung."

"Burn units! Burst units!"

With the economic resources provided by a large number of sunflowers in the early stages, Qishu assembled a large army of pea shooters, whose concentrated firepower kept the large waves of zombies from raising their heads.