"Stop thinking unneeded stuff. I do not care about the dark side of humanity. What is good or bad, its not on me to think. Every species has its own thing. The previous species were eating their children if they were hungry. As I could see humans were eating humans as well, but not all. Most humans were against it. Humanity has dark sides but they know it and fight it. So from my side, your species still have some hope in surviving. Let's continue."
The first file opened up and she saw space on it. "Space?"
"Its your own world. I used the simple game as a base for this place and you can plant and store stuff you want inside. For now, you can plant just two plots of land. About storing...You can store many things. Just wave your hand and it will be stored later you just have to enter the program and choose from storage." He explained while she could see strange two squares in the side.
"I don't have plants from the Earth as an option. So you must find seeds to plant."
Maria was curious and pointed at a bunch of seeds in the corner of the room. "I bought many seeds as well. Can they be used?"
"Just wave your hand." Zero patiently explained.
She wove her hand and suddenly the things were in her storage with the count of it. "This is amazing. Then I might as well..." She went to one of her rooms and waved her hand.
Again the same thing happened. Everything in the room was inside her inventory.
"How do I get it out?" She was curious.
"Just press what you want and choose amount if it and it will be out."
She pressed at a picture of Chinese noodles, then choose which ones and chose only one. Soon on the floor appeared one bag of Chinese noodles brand she used before.
"This is amazing. How large is the storage?"
If she could store it all, maybe then she won't have problems if someone tries to enter her rooms.
"For now just a hundred square meters. Later it will grow and become own world. But unfortunately, my old employers were hating it so they tried to destroy me." His sound was sad.
"Explain. There must be a reason." She was sure there must be a glitch.
"Its space, but not the world itself. It can grow until a certain point, and that's it. Yes, it is livable. But life needs the real world as well." He sighed.
"You are right. Life needs real world. So now tell me about my shield, can I get bitten, hurt, scratched?"
"No. Why?"
"You said I will get instant power."
"Yes, but it's still weak. But! If you use it often and kill many of the creature's it will level up and grow."
Maria suddenly smiled. "Then, let me clean some mess in my building. You will help me. As a program, you can help me unlock the doors."
"Hey, I'm not your key!"
"No, but you are amazing program and I'm just silly Hyman that doesn't know how to open it without an electronic key card. Pleaseee."
"Fine. You are now anyway too weak to do it yourself. Just a small door. I can open. Tsk, weak humans."
Again his haughty tone. Maria found it so cute that she made the decision to pike it when it gets it's the original form again. Too bad he is not fluffy being where she can squeeze it tightly... she likes fluffy things...
Suddenly she felt warm surrounding her and she realized that the shield protected her from temperature variations as well. Nice feat.
"It regulates temperature as well?"
"Of course. I searched for your biodata and realized how weak humans really are. As I'm connected to you, I definitely must protect you. This shield can get enhanced later in, but for now, it's good enough against dead humans."
"Zombies."
"Oh, yes. That is how you call them. Zombies."
"Tell me, what do you know about this zombie story? Is it a virus, bacteria or radiation or something I couldn't consider."
"Neither."
"What?"
"As I said it is the point of species evolution. At some point, species evolve. But those that can't evolve die and turn into creatures that eat evolved ones to support their basic need of survival. And those creatures will evolve later on as well. So it will be hard to survive if you don't grow your powers. And other humans must do the same. The faster you clear this world of ...zombies... faster you will evolve.''
''Wow, completely different from all the theories so far I had. Indeed. Smart program. You know so much.'' She added some fuel on his already large self-esteem. The light puffed up and became bigger making her want to hug it. But how can you hug light...
Even tho she knew she had a shield, she somehow felt securer as she put full set of clothes and shoes. Looking at her countenance in floor mirror she sighed.
Too much. She could barely walk normally.
" You know you are hurting me. This shield is so good you van walk in your own skin without to fear to be hurt."
"Not going to go naked."
"Just saying."
She took off all the jackets and thick clothes and stood there in just a normal shirt, jeans and boots.
"Well, good enough. If I die... I die..."
Her heart was thumping hard as she approached the door and before opening it she stopped.
"What is it now?"
"How to use power?"
"Oh right. Your species do not have powers so you never used it before. Concentrate and just imagine a ball of light."
She just had an idea and snapped fingers. A small light ball floated over her hand.
"Like this?"
"Wait... you did it fast. Your species... it seems I am wrong about few things. Later when you rest your body I will connect again to the internet, I need more information's about your species. More..."