I told you to plant peas, and you summon Mordekaiser?

Following the two cyborg women, Zhao Changming and the others traversed this massive fortress.

Footsteps echoed in the dark corridor.

The fortress was enormous, yet there was no sign of any other humans, which made one feel uneasy.

They stopped in front of a lounge.

"Please rest here for today. There are twenty rooms inside, and you can choose whichever you like."

"Press the white bell by the door if you need anything, and we will come. Please do not wander around inside the fortress to avoid getting lost."

"Tomorrow, you will all set off for the royal city. Before that, there is a historical document in your bracelet. Please study it carefully."

The cyborg woman stood outside the door, gave her instructions, and then left.

In the center of the room is a large living room, from which a corridor extends out, with ten rooms on each side.

On the living room table, there were all sorts of foods.

The players breathed a sigh of relief as the door closed and slumped onto the sofa.

A murmur of discussion began to rise.

"Phew, finally I can rest for a bit..."

"Has what we've encountered today become a bit surreal? They actually have the technology to summon humans from other dimensions?!"

"I still don't understand what's going on."

"I thought I was going to see Dave, but he actually told me that Dave was dead?! I was dumbfounded."

"Why did they summon us here?"

"I just want to know... is it possible for us to go back...?"

"Heh, look at Sauron's attitude, does he seem like he'd let us go back?"

Zhao Changming didn't participate in the other players' discussion. He picked up a croissant from the table, ate it, and brought up the bracelet's panel.

Besides storing things, this space bracelet also provides a virtual panel in a format familiar to Zhao Changming.

Friends list, chat channels, email, and plant information.

A document titled 'Historical Data' was lying quietly in Zhao Changming's mailbox.

[Dear Mr. Zhao Changming, hello.]

It is a great honor to have you as a member of our world.

Please allow me a few minutes of your time to explain the current state of affairs in this world.

A thousand years ago, our world was incredibly prosperous, with technology reaching levels unimaginable today.

[Among these, space technology stands out the most.]

[The Tower of Ascension, the various spatial portals, and the bracelet you currently possess are all masterpieces from that era.]

Secondly, there is biotechnology.

Various exotic plant species have been cultivated, making human life more convenient.

[Streetlight plants for illumination, ice mushrooms for cooling... According to our historical research, these plants originally appeared to facilitate human life.]

[The civilization of that time was like a high-speed train, advancing unstoppably...]

[Until the outbreak of the zombie virus.]

No one knows where the zombie virus came from.

[Some scholars speculate that it may be a product of a failed biological laboratory.]

[It could also be an ancient virus from beneath the glacier.]

But none of that matters anymore; humanity has encountered an unprecedented catastrophe.

[According to statistics, 99% of humans were infected with the virus within a month of this disaster, becoming part of the zombie population.]

The surviving humans awakened various talents and used exotic plants to fight against the zombies.

[But the number of zombies was simply too great, and human resistance could barely make a dent.]

Faced with the crisis, a man named Dave stepped forward.

His portrait is still remembered by the world.

[Wearing a frying pan on his head, unshaven, and acting crazy.]

[But it initiated a plan to save all of humanity.]

The original purpose of building the Tower of Ascension is now unknown.

[But during the catastrophe, the Tower of Ascension was used to summon humans from other dimensions.]

[Humans from other dimensions will first go to a garden space to learn how to use alien plants in combat.]

[Only technologically advanced humans will ascend to the real world to participate in the fight against zombies.]

Only in this way can this world be preserved from being overrun by zombies.

Please forgive our selfishness.

[The initial summoning plan did not involve an ascension process; all humans would appear directly at the Tower of Ascension, and your fortress was there to receive humans from other dimensions.]

[With the help of humans from other worlds, and after two hundred years of struggle, we gradually gained a foothold and secured a place for human survival in a corner of the eastern continent.]

[But because the disaster was so vast and spanned such a long period, Dave and the last group of scientists who mastered the technology all died of old age.]

Many technologies have been lost to the annals of history, and our civilization has regressed by at least a thousand years.

By then, no one knew how to stop the Tower of Ascension's summons.

The Tower of Ascension involves spatial and dimensional technology; beneath the sea level lies an unimaginable amount of energy at its base.

No one dares to arbitrarily terminate the summoning process. If any step goes wrong, the consequences could be far more devastating than a zombie virus—perhaps even the destruction of the world.

[Dave initially planned to summon in one thousand batches.]

We cannot stop them; we can only guide them normally, appease them, and help them settle down in this world.

Originally, everything was moving in a positive direction.

[We continue to expand our territory, and the zombies are retreating step by step.]

[At this moment, a zombie named George Edgar appeared.]

[He wasn't originally a zombie, nor was he a native human of this world.]

[Instead, they are the offspring of the second group of humans who were summoned and settled down on this continent.]

Edgar displayed remarkable scientific talent from a young age, earning him Dave's close tutelage and becoming Dave's most valued student.

[After Dave's death, he became the next leader of humanity, and also humanity's true spiritual leader.]

[However, this spiritual leader disappeared one day, and when he reappeared, he was already a zombie.]

[After he appeared, we learned that the technique for mastering the Tower of Ascension had not actually been lost.]

Dave passed on the space technology to Edgar.

[But Zombie Edgar did not choose to close the Tower of Ascension.]

He stated bluntly that zombies, being immortal, represent the most perfect form of humanity.

He said: The zombie virus is not a virus, but an opportunity for human evolution.