Luo Yong had a dream. The sky was gray and bleak, and everything lay in ruins. Endless zombies limped toward him. He stood on high ground, surrounded by zombies.
There were ten bags on the high ground, and he kept taking seeds from them and burying them in the ground.
The plants that grew from the seeds—Man-eating Flowers, Explosion Fruits, Bullet Trees, Thorn Vines, Hallucination Flowers, and Sulfuric Acid Bamboo—continually blocked the zombies. Zombies whose legs had been blown off by Explosion Fruits crawled toward his position on their arms, their intestines spilling out, only to be tangled by Thorn Vines and turned into fertilizer as the plants leveled up.
But there were too many zombies, endless and inexhaustible. After planting all the seeds, Luo Yong felt as though he had transformed into a superhuman strongman, lifting huge rocks and smashing them down below. He did not know how long it went on. All the plants had been destroyed, and all the rocks had been used up. He was surrounded by zombies atop the high ground.
Looking at the endless sea of zombies below, Luo Yong swallowed and took out his last Explosion Fruit seed, burying it by his feet.
"Fuck it. I'd rather die than become a zombie."
Boom!
Luo Yong's entire body jolted on the hospital bed as he opened his eyes. His gaze was blank, as though he were still reliving the dream. Only after realizing it had been a dream did he let out a breath. He had been so frightened that he thought he was done for.
Just as he wanted to raise a hand to wipe away his sweat, he discovered that his body was secured to the bed. A group of people in white lab coats surrounded him, their undisguised stares making him