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

Chen Yang picked up the golden shovel, about to pry open the cattail grass in front of him.

"What do you think you're doing?! Stop!"

A sharp shout came from behind.

Chen Yang stopped what he was doing and turned to look at the person who had come in.

It was a zombie, holding colorful wild fruits in its hands, standing in the bushes, glaring angrily at Chen Yang.

Other players?

Why did he react so strongly?

You're still holding so much fruit in your hand?

Chen Yang was puzzled.

The cattail grass also noticed the zombie and made a friendly meow.

"Who are you?! Why are you here?!"

The unfamiliar zombie in front of me spoke in an unfriendly tone.

"Why can't I be here?"

Chen Yang narrowed his eyes and asked indifferently.

But the other person didn't answer Chen Yang. Instead, he rested his chin on his hand and began to sized Chen Yang up.

"Not weak... third rank... Were you sent by the teacher?"

"Heh, after all these years, he still hasn't given up..."

"Go back and tell your teacher not to bother me anymore. I will bring my skills to the soil."

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang was somewhat bewildered.

What is he saying?

Each word is spoken in a natural way, so how come I can't understand it when they're put together?

"Since you're doing this for the teacher, I won't make things difficult for you. You may leave now..."

The zombie emerged from the bushes and waved to Chen Yang.

Chen Yang then noticed that his lower body was not a pair of normal legs, but two metal prosthetics.

Chen Yang's pupils contracted, and his mind raced.

Would players have such high-tech limbs?

Other players can only access the Z-type zombie serum at most...

Considering the cryptic words the zombie just uttered.

There is only one possibility.

He's not a player!

But... isn't this a game space?

How can there be non-player zombies?

"and many more!"

Chen Yang began to explain.

"I don't understand what you mean. I just stumbled here by accident."

"By accident? I've never heard of anyone accidentally stumbling through the fog of confusion!"

The other party clearly didn't take Chen Yang's words seriously.

"I told the truth."

Chen Yang shrugged and said, "I don't know who you are, nor do I know the teacher you're talking about."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, the zombie on the other side didn't ask any further questions, but instead gouged out its own eyeballs under Chen Yang's gaze.

Chen Yang had seen the zombie do this action more than once.

Having eyeballs on a zombie's body must be incredibly painful...

Chen Yang complained inwardly.

The zombie pulled a new eyeball out of its pocket.

The eyeball gleamed with a metallic sheen and was inlaid with fine silver lines.

He placed it in his eye socket, and a blue light shone through. He then looked at Chen Yang again.

"Name: Chen Yang... Number: Just reached Tier 3 Zombie a few days ago... Good talent, mastered two skills... Definitely not sent by the teacher..."

He muttered something under his breath, which made Chen Yang's heart pound.

How did you manage to dig up all my secrets?

Could he be a game administrator?

"Ok?"

The zombie suddenly made a puzzled sound, its eyes filled with curiosity as it looked at Chen Yang.

"Unascended? Consciousness? How could a player who hasn't ascended yet be here?"

The blue light in his eyes disappeared, and he asked Chen Yang:

"Kid, you're a 'player,' right? Tell me the truth, what are you doing here?"

Chen Yang was stunned.

What the hell!

He also knows I'm a player??

Come on!

Are you really an administrator?

He added:

"Don't try to play tricks on me. I know whether you're telling the truth or not."

Seeing that the other party was so firm, Chen Yang had no choice but to tell the truth.

Not a single lie was told.

After all, the other party might be someone at the level of a game administrator, and Chen Yang was afraid that the other party might eliminate him if they were unhappy.

He briefly described how he was chased by a giant squash, encountered the giant Destruction Mushroom deep in a cave, and finally bravely sacrificed himself, deciding to perish together with the Destruction Mushroom.

Then I was blasted away by the shock of the explosion and woke up here.

After hearing Chen Yang's words, the other party put away their hostility and looked interested.

"You came from the Forest of Trials? You must be competing for ascension spots now."

A hint of nostalgia flickered in his eyes.

"I didn't expect that besides the Squash King, there was also a Royal-level Destruction Mushroom hidden deep underground... Hehe, you'd better be careful, Royal-level plants don't die so easily."

"Golden shovel... protective red mist... third-tier zombie, you're quite strong, you have a good chance of ascending."

"......"

The zombie claims his name is George Edgar.

After learning that Chen Yang was not sent by the 'teacher', he seemed to open up and took Chen Yang back to a small cabin in the forest.

"Sit down, sit down. I've been here for so many years, and finally someone who can talk has come. I've been so bored."

"I know you have a lot of questions right now. Ask whatever you want, just think of it as keeping me company."

Chen Yang sat on a chair with four legs of different lengths, struggling to maintain an upright posture.

He has too many questions in his mind right now, and he doesn't know where to start.

After thinking about it, Chen Yang decided to start with a less sensitive topic.

"Who is the 'teacher' you're referring to?"

"Hahahaha, you definitely know this person, no, in this world, there is no one who doesn't know him!"

“You players may not be familiar with him, but everyone has definitely heard his voice.”

Has everyone heard his voice?

"Could it be..." A name popped into Chen Yang's mind, but he wasn't sure.

“That’s right, his full name is Christopher David Shining III.”

"But people are more familiar with his other name."

Crazy Dave.

Damn it? !

The zombie in front of me is actually Crazy Dave's student?!

For the first time, he felt so close to a virtual character that the world seemed somewhat unreal.

This answer had an impact on Chen Yang no less than that of someone who discovered for the first time that XP mushrooms existed in the world.

Looking at Chen Yang, who was speechless with shock, George added a sentence.

"There's too much to say about my teacher in just a few words. Once you ascend to immortality, you'll be qualified to learn about his story."

Are there any other questions?

Chen Yang calmed himself down and then spoke.

"I want to know, what exactly is this place? Isn't it a virtual game space?"

"Hahaha, running such a large virtual world, which requires going deep into the atomic level, would require an enormous amount of computing power. How could it be wasted on screening ascendants?"

"This is somewhere in the real world. The forest where you were born is called the Forest of Trials. This is a stage that every batch of players must go through."

"and many more..."

Chen Yang keenly grasped the key words in George's words.

"Each batch? You mean, before us, there were other time travelers?"

"Otherwise, this mature selection system was perfected through repeated trials. If I remember correctly, when I left twenty-seven years ago, that batch of players was the nine hundred and seventy-third."

"Based on the frequency of one batch per year, you are the thousandth batch of players."

"According to the original plan, your batch is the last batch of players."