"General Di must be exhausted, hahahaha."

"I can't imagine the state inside the motion-sensing pod right now."

"Is there any chance you don’t need voice acting and can still win?"

"What do you know? That's called momentum!"

"I really don’t think spitting on the Koreans has any momentum at all."

"Hahaha, hard work, General Di, the immersion is just too strong."

"But to be honest, this point control mode is so satisfying, everyone’s rushing nonstop."

"This mode is really simple and brutal."

"No sneaky tactics, if you’re a man, come fight head-on."

"This is seriously intense."

"......"

With the players’ discussions continuing!

Time rewinds to the present.

Perhaps because their first round victory was too easy, or maybe because the opposing zombie team were also veteran FPS players.

After taking the 1:0 lead in the small score, the second round immediately began.

But this time, the zombie team seemed to have awakened, communicating and countering their tactics.

“You like rushing the healer at the start? We’ll just swap places with your healer position.”

When Qiezi aggressively cut in on the zombie doctor, little dark inmate the Sunflower would also stay behind.

Immediately after, an engineer zombie fired a shock cannon. Without the healer’s support, Qiezi was left defenseless and was quickly focused down and killed.

Healer and tank both down at the start!

The zombie camp boldly marched to the point and, after breaking up two waves of plant attacks, successfully turned the tables to win the second round.

[1:1]

The match point round started!

This time, both sides seemed to truly understand the real gameplay.

Don’t be fooled by the fast pace; the grasp and arrangement of tactics in this game are very particular!

Whether it’s tank position pushing, firepower output strategy, healer target selection, or assault entry timing...

The squad’s coordination and tacit understanding directly influence the entire match’s outcome!

With the deepening understanding of the game, the match became more and more exciting!

The fierce battle was clearly organized, and attack targets were highly focused!

Rocket launchers and pea shooter sunflower seeds scattered everywhere; the point control progress bar swung back and forth!

Sometimes the green bar surged up, with the plant team dominating.

Sometimes the purple bar soared, with the zombie team taking control.

Both sides chased each other fiercely without relent!

Players died and revived, revived and died again!

In the end, it was a brutal five-for-six exchange!

With little dark inmate’s biubiubiu sunflower seeds barely killing the opposing zombie doctor, the point finally exited the contested state, and under his control, the progress bar soared rapidly!

"Faster! Faster, faster!"

Little dark inmate guarding the point called out anxiously, wishing he could shove the progress bar even faster!

Because at the same time, he already saw three revived zombies charging toward his position, led by the football captain!

Yes.

Because those three died earlier, their respawn time was sooner, and they rushed back to the point faster.

Three against one!

He was still just a Sunflower!

If he went down, the match was completely over.

Because time had entered the countdown and was about to go into overtime.

In overtime, as long as any one team member exclusively occupied the point for more than one second, the match would immediately end, declaring the occupier the winner.

That means!

If he died!

The zombies would enter the point, overtime would start, and the plant team wouldn’t even have time to rush back—the zombies would win.

He could not fall.

But he really didn’t know how to fight three opponents alone!

“I’m just a damn Sunflower healer!!!”

The desperate shout echoed through the squad voice chat.

And at this critical moment!

Donggua’s voice suddenly rang out: “Holy shit! My ultimate is ready!!!”

It turned out that ever since the match started, Corn Captain Donggua had not used his ultimate.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but the match was just too intense, and his ultimate needed cooldown at the start.

This meant that in the first two rounds, he either had no cooldown ready, or the match ended right when the cooldown finished, or he simply forgot about the ultimate.

But now!

Seeing his squad in a desperate situation and it being too late to rush over to help, Donggua finally remembered his ultimate!

He hadn’t used it the entire match!

Now, with the match almost lost, he decided to show them what it was like.

Thinking this, Donggua activated his main skill!

And the next second!

A countdown voice appeared in his mind—

[Three——Two——One——]

[Our air-to-ground corn missile has launched]

The moment this message appeared!

From Donggua to the livestream audience, everyone was shocked!

“Holy shit! There’s a prompt too?”

“What the hell is this ultimate?”

“Air-to-ground missile?”

“Whoo—Corn Captain—that’s the corn cannon!”

“Could it be…”

“No way…”

“Ah...?”

Amidst the astonished voices!

A whooshing jet sound was heard!

Everyone’s eyes turned to Donggua!

In an instant, a roaring blast of gas surged from the connection between Donggua’s cornstalk body and his corn head.

Everyone watched as Donggua’s corn head detached from his torso, and a strong blue flame jet erupted from the back of the corn.

Then!

Boom—whoosh!!!

Screams filled the livestream!

“WTF! Donggua’s head flew off, damn it!!!”

The corn missile launched!

And Donggua’s own screams followed:

“Holy shit! Holy shit! I’m flying!”

“Holy shit! Holy shit! My body’s falling!”

“Holy shit—!!!”

Whoosh—!!!

Trailing a strong wake, Donggua felt he instantly lost control of his torso, and he seemed to become a single unified projectile!

Only when he broke through the clouds and soared high into the sky did he realize what this ultimate really meant—

He damn well turned into the corn cannon’s missile!

And at this moment!

Looking down through the thin clouds!

The zombie trio had already closed in on little dark inmate’s point!

Donggua roared furiously: “Little Dark, don’t be afraid!”

“I’m coming, damn it!”

Whoosh-swish—!!!

High in the sky!

A meteor fell!

Tracing a brilliant arc, dragging roaring airflow, a corn warhead as long as a forearm fiercely plunged downward!

Amid all the amazed voices!

Amid countless shocked eyes!

In little dark inmate’s suddenly contracted pupils!

In the zombies’ stunned faces!

Donggua’s fanatic shout echoed through the sky—

“Hit them—!!!”

Ding……

Boom! Bang—!!!

A fragrant hot wave swept over!

The massive heat rolled like a destructive mushroom explosion, raising a mushroom cloud.

In the rising and spreading dust, the scent of burnt popcorn scattered everywhere!

And along with Donggua’s explosion, a flood of chat barrage exploded across the screen—

“Ah——?????”

“Holy shit ‘Hit them’!”

“Hahahahahahaha WTF! Hahaha!”

“What the hell did I just watch? Huh?”

“I… what… huh…?”

“Gu Sheng, are you asleep? I can’t sleep! Do you want to see what you made?”

“Which good game launches its own head, damn it!”

“Ridiculous!!! Totally ridiculous hahaha!!!”

“Masterpiece! This is the dumbest ultimate I’ve seen in twenty years of gaming! No contest!!!”

“Maybe it’s not the most shocking, but it’s definitely the most abstract!”

“Hahaha I can’t take it, I’m literally crying laughing, this ultimate is so dumb.”

“An ultimate form never imagined before.”

“Seriously, sometimes I worry about Old Thief’s sanity.”

“Don’t care if it’s abstract or not, just say it perfectly recreates the corn cannon!”

“Awesome... no! Masterpiece!!!”

“I’m about to die laughing…”

“……”

This god of abstraction skill effect directly exploded the player community!

The players present were stunned!

The viewers even nearly laughed themselves under the table!

In the past, no one really knew what Corn Captain’s ultimate was.

But no matter how much they imagined, they never expected Gu Sheng’s design to be this abstract!

He actually let players become the missile, controlling the flight path to bomb the target!

The players were laughing their heads off!

Little did they know, this was also an experiment by Gu Sheng.

Because if players accepted this effect,

then in the future, our real air-to-ground missiles could smoothly launch.

Not only that, our armed helicopters and aerial gunboats would also be deployed...

At this moment, little dark inmate trembling in the corner almost jumped for joy at the scene!

“Fucking awesome! Awesome, Donggua! We won, we won! That shot was freaking amazing! Give him the credit, brothers— we are—”

But just as he said this!

Suddenly.

Little dark inmate’s voice choked off.

Because at this moment,

Under everyone’s watchful eyes,

The match countdown suddenly changed from 0:00 to [Overtime]!

How is this possible?

Little dark inmate shuddered!

They needed to remember, the game triggers overtime only if “At the end of the countdown, there are still players from both sides on the point, in a contested state!”

That means...

Looking up!

Through the rolling dust!

A tall and mighty figure appeared—

A massive body twice as tall as little dark inmate, wearing a protective mesh helmet, red and white collision armor, and tattered shorts.

At this moment, one foot was stepping on the edge line of the point.

It was over.

When the enemy in the dust cleared, all the viewers’ hearts sank.

This was the football captain zombie.

As the tank of the zombie side, the football captain had extremely high health.

At the moment of the missile explosion, he also received an overdose healing buff from the zombie doctor’s stimulant.

With heavy buffs,

he actually tanked a shot from the corn cannon.

Rustle—

Looking at the mighty football captain, and the terrifying Gatling gun in his hands,

little dark inmate stepped back half a pace and pressed against the wall in the corner.

His large flower head leaned against the wall, small leaves curled inward, completely weak and helpless.

“What else can you do?”

In public voice chat, the football captain’s voice sounded—it was actually a foreign player.

His tone was full of pride.

Melee main tank cutting the healer.

Not to say it’s a piece of cake, but it’s just a matter of lifting a finger.

Woo woo—

The Gatling gun’s preheat sound began.

The spewing fury was about to kill the fragile Sunflower.

Failure seemed inevitable.

In the distance, the plant brothers were rushing over, but it was already too late.

The Gatling gun was fully heated.

The football captain’s sinister laugh sounded.

And at this moment!

Little dark inmate snorted coldly.

He lifted his leaves to support his flower head.

Then, his eyes suddenly flashed with burning brilliance, and he slowly said:

“I can do whatever the fuck I want—!”

The next moment.

Lasers shot out!

Sizzle—!!!

Blazing lasers shot from little dark inmate’s eyes!

The homeland man’s scorching gaze instantly pierced through the football captain’s chest!

Sunflower ultimate!

Scorching beam!

All along, little dark inmate had been busy playing both dad and mom to his teammates, with no time to use his ultimate.

But now, 1v1!

His long-stored ultimate finally came into play!

Amid the dazzling golden light, tens of thousands in the livestream were dumbfounded!

“Damn! Fellow countryman!”

“Hometown flower?”

“Moon... Moon Crescent Beam???”

“Maybe call it... Sun Beam?”

“Sunflower: Fuck you, seed, medicine won’t save the plant.”

“How does this move even exist?”

“Pfft hahaha too ridiculous! Ah—!!!”

“Can’t stop laughing wuwuwu please spare me I really can’t stop laughing wuwuwu...”

“‘Shocking’ isn’t enough to describe this game, maybe only ‘defying heaven’ can.”

“Hahahahaha damn—”

“Defying the heavens!!!”

“……”

Boom!

The football captain’s massive body fell down with a face full of confusion and shock!

In an instant!

The overtime ended!

[Round Three / Victory]

[2:1]

Immediately, cheers erupted!

“Brothers!”

Little dark inmate raised his arms and shouted:

“We are—”

Champions—!!!

Laughter and screams filled the squad voice chat.

Crowns and countless champion words flooded the four-person squad’s livestream.

Rocket planes appeared one after another!

The four of them laughed heartily!

“Hahaha Donggua’s last ultimate cracked me up...”

“Just say if it was crucial or not!”

“Didn’t expect the enemy was foreign...”

“Damn, I led the first charge and taught them a lesson...”

“Wasn’t my scorching gaze awesome at the end?”

“Awesome awesome awesome...”

“Good job, brothers...”

As the four reviewed the match and complimented each other, a new round of matching began—they were going to experience the payload mode.

And like the four, others who felt this new abstract masterpiece from Golden Wind included XTT, Ma Teacher, Tuanzi, and even Pete and Sister Snow.

Bursts of laughter echoed from the livestream, with nonstop haha chat barrage flooding the screen.

Pure joy was fully realized in this game.

Maybe its graphics weren’t top-tier, maybe its investment wasn’t explosive, and even its marketing wasn’t as grand as other games.

But undoubtedly, this was also a well-made, fun game.

Moreover, the 65 yuan price tag was enough to earn it the title of ‘conscientious product.’

In an instant, this abstract yet pure wave of happiness swept through the gaming community.

Jiang Yun was happy because this was made in such a short time by his brothers at Golden Experience Studio; he was content with the good reputation!

Gu Sheng was happy because he could feel the players’ joy through the screen, the emotional value increase fully justifying his ‘three-in-one’ emotional investment.

Everyone at Golden Wind was happy.

Because every copy of Garden Warfare sold meant one step closer to the Billion Club for them.

But as the saying goes, some rejoice while others grieve.

Where there is happiness, there is also unhappiness.

At least now, two people were not so happy...

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Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com