National Calamity? My Mutant Plants Are Drooling

[Welcome to the game Global Disasters: Survival in the Apocalypse.]

[Contestants from every country around the world have been deployed simultaneously.]

[Contestants can boost their country's fortune by surviving, gathering supplies, and building safe zones.]

[Penalty for failure: The contestant will be eliminated, and a disaster will descend on their country as well.]

[Global livestream begins. All of humanity will watch in real time.]

Rifts in the earth, torrential rain, toxic fog, scorching heat, sandstorms...

Disasters struck one after another. Contestants from every country showed off their skills and scrambled for supplies, but the Dragon Nation livestream was filled with wails of despair over the contestant they'd been assigned.

As Li Qingxia pondered, the System's notification suddenly rang out:

[The Host's soul resonates with plants. Talent awakened: Plant Symbiosis.]

[Plant Symbiosis: You provide vitality, and plants return power. You grow together in symbiosis and evolve in tandem.]

Li Qingxia's eyes lit up.

Beneath her feet, the wasteland, once dry, cracked, and barren, began to sprout and grow wildly before her very eyes.

[The Peashooter with Insufficient Firepower Anxiety]: Born convinced it never has enough firepower, it sets up a machine-gun formation of pea shooters at the first sign of danger and fires madly at the disaster. It won't stop until the battlefield is completely cleared.

[The Sunflower with OCD]: It has to arrange the sunlight it absorbs in neat, perfectly square rows before it can power the safe zone.

[The Nosy Morning Glory]: Born eager to snoop on gossip and drama, it can eavesdrop on the slightest stir a thousand meters away with a single stretch of its trumpet-shaped flower, making it a walking intelligence network.

And there was mugwort, purslane, foxtail grass... Every plant was on the job, building an impregnable plant safe city right in the middle of one disaster after another.

Global Announcement

[Congratulations to player "Li Qingxia" for building the world's first plant safe zone.]

[National fortune boost: Favorable weather, increased grain yields, and +1 disaster immunity!]

[Title unlocked: Master of the Oasis.]

Global Announcement

[Congratulations to player "Li Qingxia" for successfully resisting ten consecutive disasters.]

[National fortune boost: A major increase in the physical fitness of the entire population and higher resource yields!]

[Title unlocked: Barrier Against Ten Thousand Disasters.]

Global Announcement

[Congratulations to player "Li Qingxia" for unlocking full-area purification.]

[National fortune boost: Environmental purification and the eradication of epidemics!]

[Title unlocked: Disaster Overlord.]

The players still struggling through the disasters were collectively dumbfounded: ???

While others were hunted by the uncanny in the endless night, Li Qingxia's peashooters were already in formation, firing away and forcing the creatures back.

While others choked in the toxic fog until their lungs felt torn apart, her pitcher plants opened wide and gulped down the poison. Moments later, the air was fresh and sweet.

While others blistered under the scorching heat, her enormous sunflowers burst up from the ground and greedily absorbed the blazing sunlight for energy, instantly cooling the plant city.

The players went mad with desperation, racing toward the oasis and doing everything they could to make it into the safe zone. But after the disaster passed, when they were about to head out and gather supplies, they suddenly realized they had gained a buff!

[Wild Rose] Physical Defense +2

[Mugwort] Poison Resistance +10%

[Purslane] Stamina Recovery +2/h

[Foxtail Grass] Movement Stamina Consumption -10%

The survivors had barely stepped through the city gate when they froze. The next second, they spun around and charged back, shouting, "City Lord! Can I stay a little longer and stack more buffs?!"

Theme: Plant, plant, plant!