In those days of Plants vs. Zombies

Caffeine is a special medicine made by the spiritual power of the coffee bean clan.

Taking or injecting a small amount of caffeine can temporarily drive away drowsiness and restore energy, allowing the user's central nervous system to become excited and gain benefits.

But there is an old saying in Long An: "It's medicine that's three parts poison."

Caffeine is no exception. Overdosing or injecting large amounts of caffeine will lead to very serious consequences.

It can range from sleep disorders, muscle twitching, and confusion in thinking to mild symptoms, while severe symptoms can lead to various diseases and even direct death.

What’s even more frightening is that caffeine is extremely addictive. Once you become addicted, you will become a highly despised addict (caffeine addict).

But precisely because of this, caffeine still makes many spiritual beings unable to stop.

Especially those of the mushroom clan, they are accustomed to taking coffee infusions to stay active during the day.

Once the caffeine content in coffee brews is too high, the consequences are self-evident.

As the saying goes, where there is demand, there is a market. The huge profits from smuggling and selling caffeine products have made many criminals in the dark see business opportunities.

The equation that caffeine equals world points was thus established, and it began to spread throughout the Federation.

Later, even those high-ranking capital plutocrats got involved, just for a piece of the sweet soup.

With just a little effort, you can get completely unequal and high returns.

This has also led many of the coffee bean clan to embark on the path of this gray industry, and even participated in it themselves, becoming one of the ranks of drug addicts.

At its peak, even on the streets of metropolitan areas, one can openly see both parties trading caffeine products or drug addicts lying on the ground.

However, after this gray industrial chain continued to develop for a period of time, the Federation, which had been deceived for a long time, finally came to its senses.

With the joint efforts of the Federal Security Agency (especially the Law Enforcement Special Branch) and a group of spiritual heroes, the gray caffeine industry chain has been severely hit.

As the main producer of caffeine, the plant spirit of the coffee bean family has also been implicated.

Even though a small number of coffee beans are not involved in this industry chain, they even dissuade their family members and fellow tribesmen from doing such unscrupulous things.

But it is undeniable that most coffee beans have committed irreparable sins, tearing apart countless families in the modern world and bringing shame to the entire race.

To this day, the plant spirits of the Coffee Bean clan are still at the bottom of the entire federal society.

Many coffee beans are imprisoned and forced to undergo resocialization. After being released from prison, they still bear the reputation of drug addicts.

The story also starts here, let us go through the time machine and return to the metropolis eleven years ago.

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The school bell rang in a certain elementary school in the metropolis, and young plant spirits walked out of the teaching building in groups, communicating with each other.

They chatted enthusiastically about their achievements and interesting things in school today, making it a lively scene.

However, when a child carrying a schoolbag walked out of the classroom, the originally noisy environment suddenly became silent.

The children speeded up their pace in unison, moving away from the child who had just walked out of the classroom.

The child who was kept away was not ugly. On the contrary, she was a sweet-looking and lovely girl.

With long brown shawl hair, a pair of smart brown eyes, and a pair of small pure white wings growing on his back, he looks like a little angel described in the legend of the Sun Cult.

However, wherever she passed, other children avoided her, as if she were some kind of ferocious beast.

The reason why children stay away from this little girl is just because her race is coffee beans.

"Hey, do you know? The girl named Sophia in the third grade, her parents are notorious drug addicts."

"Addict, do you mean someone who is addicted to taking or injecting caffeine?"

"That's right, when the uncle of the security bureau agent told me that during their raid last month, one of the addicts they caught secretly injecting was Sophia's parents."

"Aren't the children born to a pair of old drug addicts just like little drug addicts?"

"My mother told me to stay away from that Sophia and be careful not to get tainted with caffeine unknowingly."

"You're right, let's not play with her."

Listening to the few words of the children around her, the young Sophia just lowered her head silently and walked faster.

She knows why she is disliked by others, and she also knows why she is criticized by others.

This is not the problem of Little Coffee Bean herself, she just has a pair of irresponsible parents.

However, they did not need to face the mistakes they made, but chose to let their daughters bear the consequences of it all.

Children of her age are not the only ones who hate Sophia.

"Why hasn't the school expelled her yet? If such a bad person comes to school, won't it affect my children?"

This is the point of view raised by a parent of a student in Little Coffee Bean’s class to the teacher on the stage during a parent-teacher meeting.

He stretched out his hand and pointed at little Sophia sitting in the corner of the classroom, his tone full of disgust and disgust.

Other students and parents in the classroom either ignored the matter or looked at the little coffee bean with indifferent eyes.

The lonely Sophia just sat in her seat and lowered her head.

Little Coffee Bean's parents naturally had no interest in holding a parent-teacher conference for her.

In their eyes, this daughter is just their nanny.

Sophia's value in their hearts may not be as important as a shot of caffeine.

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Amidst the cynicism along the way, Sophia returned home, a place that could barely be called "home".

She carefully took out a key from her backpack, lowered her voice as much as possible, and quietly opened the door.

If you disturb your parents, you may get a severe beating.

In the small and dark rental house, the floor was covered with all kinds of domestic garbage, and there was almost no place to put a foot down.

The brown-haired man was thin and flushed, and the wings on his back looked limp under the influence of the drug.

He was sitting on the smelly sofa, with a few syringes scattered around him.

It was obvious that the man had just injected himself with a shot of caffeine, and he was still savoring the ecstasy at this moment.

He didn't even notice his daughter coming home. What a failure of a father.

Naturally, it was the same scene in the bedroom. The brown-haired woman had disheveled hair, the wings on her back were contracted, and she was curled up on the bed.

There were a few syringes thrown under the bed as always, and there was still a lot of uninjected caffeine left in them.

Little Coffee Bean stood on tiptoes, crossing the garbage on the ground, trying to return to his room.

A small storage room is where Sophia lives.

This is probably the cleanest place in the whole house, with a moldy mattress on the floor and only a thin blanket covering it.

A pair of old tables and chairs faced a small vent. As long as the wind window was opened, one could see the scenery outside the apartment building.

Little Coffee Bean sat on the chair, opened the zipper of his backpack, and took out today's homework assignment.

While it is still dark, through the light from outside the vent, I must finish my homework as soon as possible.

Sophia rummaged through her backpack and took out her homework. She could vaguely see the perfect score card sandwiched between the books.

But just as she picked up the pen, she heard a man's roar coming from outside the storage room:

"You bitch, where did you die? Come out quickly!"

Frightened by the sudden roar, Little Coffee Bean quickly put down his homework, walked out of the storage room, and came to the living room.

The flushed man squinted his brown eyes and looked at his young daughter with a cold and ruthless gaze.

"What are you looking at me doing? Why don't you go and cook!"

Sophia lowered her head and walked into the kitchen as if she was used to it.

There wasn't much food left at home. She vaguely remembered that there seemed to be some bread and ham in the refrigerator.

When he opened the refrigerator door, the scene inside made Little Coffee Bean extremely chilled.

The entire refrigerator was filled with bottles filled with brown liquid, and nothing else.

A bottle of concentrated caffeine can be sold at a drug dealer for a thousand world points.

Sophia lowered her head and found bread and sausages that had been trodden by someone on the floor in front of the refrigerator.

Looking at the refrigerator full of caffeine, an inexplicable look flashed in Little Coffee Bean's eyes.

She knelt down, picked up the bread and sausages, hurriedly cooked a decent dinner, and served it to the table.

The man had been waiting for a long time and was enjoying his dinner with the woman who had just come out of the room.

The two of them were like reincarnations of starving ghosts, stuffing food into their mouths randomly, as if they were eating just to fill their stomachs.

After eating, they ignored Sophia and went straight to the kitchen.

He opened the refrigerator, took two bottles of caffeine each, and returned to the bedroom.

The door to the bedroom was closed with force, cutting off the inside and outside. After a while, a deafening snoring sound came from inside.

Little Coffee Bean returned to her room. She was silent, as if she had made some decision.