149: Chapter 149, Plants vs. Zombies Hybrid Edition, is officially online!

October 25th, a little after nine in the morning.

In a high-end residential complex in Caohejing, inside a luxury flat of nearly three hundred square meters, Lin Xi's slender figure, clad in a black and white penguin pajama set, was flitting back and forth between the bathroom and the kitchen like a busy, industrious bee.

After finally getting herself mostly ready and taking care of breakfast along the way.

She casually tied her ink-black long hair into a bun, revealing a clean, delicate face, with a thin layer of lip balm on her lips, shimmering with a light pink, watery glow.

After changing into a pretty outfit.

She had finally made all the necessary preparations before going live and returned to the streaming room that Jiang Yuan had specifically prepared for her, intending to start today's daily stream.

And the reason she was so serious and happy.

Was for no other reason than that it happened to be a work from her best friend Jiang Yuan's company, which would be welcoming a rather major update today!

As someone who considered herself to have the best relationship in the world with Jiang Yuan.

The gaming-loving Lin Xi naturally wouldn't miss such a hot moment that could cause a small sensation in the gaming circle.

After getting everything sorted.

She first skillfully started the stream, then sent a notification about the stream starting to all her fan groups, and replied along the way: "Stop rushing me, stop rushing me, the stream has already started!"

Immediately after, her fingers, holding the mouse, clicked a few times rapidly, logging into the platform, letting the client interface of the Spark Game Platform slowly emerge on the thirty-two-inch large screen.

In just those ten or so seconds.

The number of online viewers in the streaming room had already surged to over forty thousand, and the barrage was scrolling up at a speed that made people dizzy.

One can only say that the current Lin Xi had long since lost any connection to that small streamer who used to broadcast to just a few small fish and shrimp.

Now, she could be considered one of the streamers with the hottest and most stable popularity in the streaming circle, excluding the very few top-tier streamers, and one of the heavyweights in the console gaming section of the Mouyu Platform.

"Finally streaming! I thought you were going to flake again today!!!"

"The streamer is thirteen minutes late again today, what do you have to say for yourself?"

"Are you a new fan? When is Lin Xi ever not late?"

"Late is late, as long as the streamer doesn't flake, it's fine!"

Lin Xi glanced at that barrage, and the mouthful of honey citron tea she had just taken almost made her choke. She said with dissatisfaction: "What do you mean by 'the streamer is late every day, as long as she doesn't flake it's fine'? Am I late that often? It seems like it was just yesterday, the day before yesterday..."

The more she spoke, the more guilty she felt. She pulled out a tissue to wipe the corners of her mouth, her tone carrying a sense of resignation: "Alright brothers and sisters, it seems I have been a bit late recently. After I end the stream, I will definitely reflect deeply, turn over a new leaf, and become a new person!"

The barrage instantly flooded the screen: "This is Lin Xi's signature style; we're used to it, we're used to it!"

"Hahaha, do you think I believe that?"

"I followed the streamer just to see Jiang Yuan, but I've been following for several months now, and I haven't even seen a hair of her. I'm speechless!"

Seeing this barrage, Lin Xi couldn't help but glance at Jiang Yuan's room behind her, lowering her voice, she said: "I'd advise you all not to hold out any hope. Xiao Yuan goes out early and comes back late every day. In the morning, when I'm still sleeping, she's already left for work at the company. By the time she comes back at night, I've probably already fallen fast asleep and entered dreamland."

"Never mind you guys, I haven't seen Xiao Yuan herself in a long time, okay..."

Upon hearing these words, the barrage immediately began to mock her mercilessly.

"President Jiang: What's the matter? Do I need to report to you when I come back to my own home?"

"Seeing that the streamer is the same, I feel relieved. I previously thought that this guy Lin Xi could have intimate contact with Yuan Shen every day."

"Hahaha, it feels like the streamer is a little kitten kept at home by President Jiang? You know, the kind from those female-oriented domineering CEO novels. I wonder if any sisters understand?"

"Stop, stop, keep talking and even a guy like me won't be able to resist shipping them! It's simply making me melt!"

"Jiang Yuan: Letting you live in a big housing is already very good. Xiao Xi, don't push your luck and try to ascend to the position!"

Lin Xi looked at the densely packed mocking barrage with a speechless expression. She wanted to refute it, but for a moment, she really couldn't find a good reason.

In the end, she could only snort lightly, brush past the topic in a few words, and divert the attention of the audience, whose numbers were continuing to climb and were about to break one hundred thousand, to the game that had already been downloaded and updated. She said with a sweet voice: "Alright, alright, I won't talk about this with you guys anymore. Let's start playing the game directly! A free DLC, it's said to be quite substantial and very replayable. I can only say that those who haven't bought the base game of Plants vs. Zombies will live a relatively boring and dull life!"

While speaking, she double-clicked to open Plants vs. Zombies on the Spark Game Platform.

The familiar lawn screen spread out on the display, golden sunlight spilling over the rows of lawn grids. Dave stood on the left, wearing his frying pan hat, revealing his signature big white teeth.

But today the screen was different; there was a brand new entrance in the top right corner, a small conical flask bubbling with green gas, and next to it, four words written in a playful handwritten font: "Hybrid Laboratory"!

Looking at this screen, Lin Xi couldn't help but exclaim: "I've heard Xiao Yuan say that this hybrid edition DLC is just a small attempt, and in the future, Spark Games should continue to update Plants vs. Zombies with more fun and interesting free DLCs!"

"What I said just now might have been a joke, but speaking seriously this time, for a price of a few dozen yuan, you can continuously experience a conscientious game with no in-app purchases that also provides continuous free updates. You really can't go wrong with buying this!"

Barrage: "666, I give this endorsement a full score!"

"Wait, no? After living together, you've really started to involuntarily think of President Jiang? Is your relationship really not suspicious?"

"What's suspicious about that? Isn't it just recommending a game from your best friend's company?"

"You don't understand, these idiots have already started shipping them themselves. Now they want to shout 'sweet, sweet, sweet' at everything they see!"

"To be honest, Plants vs. Zombies is indeed one of the most worthwhile games I've bought in the last few years. I just don't know if Spark Games' other games will have major version updates? Releasing a paid DLC would be fine too!"

While the barrage began to discuss enthusiastically, Lin Xi, who had successfully promoted Plants vs. Zombies, didn't idle either. After taking a deep breath, she clicked into the Hybrid Laboratory.

The screen switched to an extremely exaggerated laboratory scene, where Dave stood in front of a row of culture dishes bubbling with green smoke, his hair in an explosive perm, and with his thick tongue, he mumbled and announced that the Hybrid Laboratory was officially open!

Two culture dishes were placed side by side on the operating table, and below them was a golden button that flashed, reading "Start Hybrid".

Lin Xi almost didn't hesitate; the first thing she did was drag the Peashooter into the left culture dish, and then dragged the Sunflower into the right culture dish.

She clicked synthesize. After a burst of exaggerated green smoke effects exploded, a brand new plant icon immediately popped up on the screen: a strange plant with Sunflower petals on top, but hiding a Peashooter barrel in the center of the flower disk. The name was "Peashooter Sunflower", and the effect was "shoots peas while producing sunlight"!

Lin Xi stared at this hybrid plant for a long while and complained: "Wait, no? Is this design reasonable? Dealing damage while producing sunlight, isn't that the same as one person working two jobs without needing to sleep?"

Barrage: "Spark Games is truly a pure capitalist. It's not enough to exploit company employees; they don't even spare the plants in the game?"

"That's enough. As an industry insider, let me say this: Spark Games is now considered the game company with the best salaries and benefits in the industry, without exception. Even Tencent and NetEase can't compare, okay."

"I can prove this is true! The biggest wish of most employees in all companies in the industry now is to be able to jump ship to Spark Games!"

"I was just joking, look at how anxious you guys are?"

"Streamer, streamer, quickly try Torchwood plus Wall-nut, see if it can synthesize?"

Lin Xi followed their suggestion and tried Torchwood plus Wall-nut. The thing synthesized was called "Torch Wall-nut", and its effect was that when a zombie gnawed on the Wall-nut, it would be ignited and continuously lose health.

Next, she synthesized Cherry Bomb plus Sunflower, which turned into "Sun Bomb", which could drop extra sunlight in the explosion area when it exploded.

Ice-shroom plus Cattail turned into "Ice Crystal Cattail", which could shoot ice bullets with a slowing effect and also freeze nearby zombies.

There was also Garlic plus Gloom-shroom turned into "Garlic Mushroom", which could make zombies switch to another lane when they got close, while also getting half their health chipped away by the Gloom-shroom's area damage.

After Lin Xi selected the hybrid fusion plants and started the game, while planting plants in a flurry in Endless Mode, she laughed into the microphone: "I feel like these hybrid plants are getting stronger one after another! Will the zombies be bullied into running away later?"

After playing for a while. She gritted her teeth to gather enough sunlight, and planted the Hypno-Doom-shroom.

It actually exploded instantly, covering half the lawn with it as the center in a strange light, blasting the Buckethead Zombie that was just charging over with claws bared, along with the two Screen Door Zombies and three usually Zombies following behind it, causing them all to suddenly pause, with pink hearts popping up on their heads in unison.

The next second, this group of zombies collectively turned around, waving their arms and starting to slowly attack their companions behind them who hadn't reacted yet.

Lin Xi looked at this amazing effect with a surprised expression, then slowly turned her head to look at the camera, her expression extremely serious as she said word for word: "Brothers and sisters, this hybrid edition is really awesome and fun, everyone go download and play it quickly!"

Barrage: "Do I even need you to say that? I'm already playing it, okay!"

"No way? There wouldn't actually be anyone just watching the stream here without even buying the game, right?"

"That's enough, is there anyone who watches the stream here at Lin Xi's who hasn't bought Plants vs. Zombies? I really don't believe it!"

"It's so fun and it was made into a free DLC? Jiang Yuan really... I'm crying to death!"

"I originally thought the price of fifty-something for the base game was a bit high, but now it seems my perspective was too small back then!"

"I can only say that in the domestic gaming circle, perhaps only Jiang Yuan, who is currently financially free, can make the decision to turn such an interesting gameplay into a free DLC. Other big companies are internally complex and couldn't possibly do this, and small companies don't have this kind of financial strength!"