My Plants Can Talk Back

Thirty years after the nuclear war, Lin Xiaoya grew a sunflower in a shelter's crawl space that could swear like a sailor.

"Another power outage! Can't you humans get your act together?"

Only when a mutated cactus shielded her from an attack by a metal beast did she realize she had become the plants' "mom."

With an army of plants that had developed their own snarky personalities, she grew radiation-resistant wheat to feed the underground city with one hand, and used watermelon bombs to blast raiders away with the other.

Then the Foxkin Saintess brought her a pulsating, heart-shaped seed...

"Stop right there!" Old Zhou shouted as he watched her absorb radiation at a frightening rate. "A photosynthetic membrane is growing on your eyelashes!"

Deep underground, a rusted agricultural robot opened its scarlet electronic eyes. "Detecting... an escaped seed..."