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

On the other side, in the garden space, the sky was already bright.

Although the system notification said that the zombies would launch an attack at midnight, eight hours have passed and there is still no sign of zombies.

The players didn't completely let their guard down, but they all calmed down mentally.

After a sleepless night, the players are chatting to relieve their boredom.

"Do you think the system is just kidding us? There's no such thing as a zombie attack."

"It's been eight hours, and we haven't even seen a shadow of a zombie."

"Hahaha, I guess the zombies think we're too strong and don't dare to attack."

"Does that mean we'll all be able to ascend in four hours?"

"Awesome! Zhao Changming must be itching to get this. He worked himself to the bone to get a spot for ascension, while we can just wait twelve hours and ascend without doing anything."

"Hey, has anyone speculated about what it's like after ascension...?"

Some players have already started popping champagne at halftime.

Chen Yang did not linger in front of the zombie portal and had already returned to his garden.

He stayed in front of the portal until 3 a.m.

The dark purple portal emitted a corrupting energy.

Just standing on the sidelines, feeling that evil aura, is enough to quickly exhaust one's spirit.

Chen Yang, who had been guarding the portal until after 3 a.m., was also feeling exhausted and chose to return to the garden to recover his energy.

Fortunately, no zombies were seen until 8 a.m.

At this moment.

Centered on Chen Yang's garden, the four gardens on the left and right have become gathering places for players.

More than 300 players from Zone 1 and Liu Yan's Zone gathered here.

The back half of the garden is left unplanted, providing a space for players to move around.

The road in front of the five gardens is filled with all kinds of plants in flower pots, so densely packed that it is difficult to walk.

Once the plants are planted, there's nothing left for the player to do, not to mention that no zombies have appeared yet.

Players from both areas gathered in groups, some resting, others chatting.

Some carefree players have even started to fall asleep.

"Just hold on a little longer... and we'll be able to ascend." Huang Aotian, with his head as a pillow, lay on a recliner and let out a huge yawn.

Chen Yang and Liu Yan moved two small stools to the side and played Ludo, a game they had just bought from the daily necessities section of Dave's store, around the grass.

"Hey! You ate my plane again! Didn't we agree not to eat it?" Liu Yan angrily moved a plane back to the parking area.

"I only have one plane left, so this is the only way I can go," Chen Yang said, both amused and exasperated.

"You two have been playing for two hours, aren't you done yet?"

Huang Aotian looked at the two of them and made a comment, then yawned and listlessly fiddled with the cards in his hand.

"These zombies are really something, why aren't they here yet... I haven't seen them for five days, I'm starting to feel a bit uneasy..."

Before he could finish speaking, shouts suddenly came from the front lines.

"Zombies...? Zombies are coming!"

The shout was like a sharp blade, piercing the silence and instantly waking all the players.

Huang Aotian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up.

"No, buddy...really?"

"Zombies?!" Chen Yang and Liu Yan exchanged a glance, then quickly got up and looked across the garden.

The forest remained dark and silent.

But Chen Yang could clearly sense that the forest had changed.

Something unusual is hidden in the silence.

An inexplicable sense of oppression emanated from the forest.

All the players watched the direction of the forest warily.

"Uh--"

A deep roar came from the darkness, breaking the oppressive silence.

Then, shadowy figures emerged from the forest.

Soon, more figures emerged.

The zombies surged forth from the dark forest like a tide.

They were densely packed, seemingly endless, forming a vast army of the dead with no end in sight.

A cold wind blew by, carrying with it a faint scent of decay and death.

"Holy...holy shit..."

"You haven't come for eight hours, and you've been holding in this for ages?!"

Players in Zone 1 had all experienced a large-scale zombie attack before, but the scale of this zombie outbreak still shocked everyone.

[Current zombie army information has been updated]

A system prompt came.

The players in the garden frantically opened the panel and saw a new information box pop up.

[Time remaining until ascension: 3 hours and 42 minutes]

[Total number of zombies: 7097]

[Number of Tier 1 Zombies: 4872]

[Number of Tier 2 Zombies: 1357]

[Number of Tier 3 Zombies: 794]

[Number of Tier 4 Zombies: 72]

[Number of Tier 5 Zombies: 2]

Looking at the zombie information panel, one player swallowed hard and muttered, "...Tier 5 zombies?...This is different from before..."

In the minds of ordinary players, although this world is extremely cruel and most of humanity has died.

However, the surviving players can still feel that the difficulty of the zombie attack follows the basic rules, and it is all based on the gradual improvement of the player's strength. There will not be unreasonable things like the third-level zombies at the beginning of the game.

Therefore, in their conventional thinking, although this is called a large-scale zombie offensive, the difficulty will not be much higher than before.

It will simply mean a few more Tier 3 zombies and several times more cannon fodder zombies.

However, the scene before them shattered their illusions.

The zombies surged in like a tidal wave, a breathtaking sight.

This is no longer at the level of several times or more.

"This is practically an army... seven thousand of them?"

"...This doesn't make sense, does it? Did the administrator accidentally add an extra zero to the zombie count?"

"Tier 5? I've never even seen a Tier 4 zombie, and you want me to fight a Tier 5 one?"

The panel displayed detailed information about the attacking zombies.

Huang Aotian was stunned when he saw the zombie information displayed on the panel, and he read out the information in a daze.

The total number of zombies is 7,970.

"Among them... there were two level-five zombies... and seventy-two level-four zombies..."

"Holy crap...can we even hold out for four hours?"