Rick was sure that he fell unconscious after seeing that green thing and now he is in a room which was completely black and he can't see how big the room is.
Although he could see but the light seems to be coming out of nowhere, he can't find the source of light.
Earth tried to explain what happened to rick "its true that you fell unconscious when you saw one of my creations.
It is the collection of plant veins.
I merged them and created a thing similar to golem.
I think you must have heard about it in some fantasy books.
Although mostly golems are made of rock and metals in human fantasy books and shows.
My creation is made of veins and it has all the organs a living thing needs but I'm still working on its intelligence which is similar to a 4years old.
It does not recognize anyone other than its parent which is me and if someone attacks it... well I will just say that it won't end well for them" while the earth was saying this he/she(earth don't have a gender) used the veins to bring the golem in the room, the golem just came out of the ground supersizing rick.
And soon a big green golem which was made of plant veins was standing in front of rick.
"it all feels like some kind of dream let me process everything which happend.... also could you give me some water?" Rick who didn't drink water for more than a day in a desert was really thirsty.
"yes although I healed your body so that you don't feel discomfort, I guess it cant be helped that your throat is dry" soon another vein came from the ground and it formed a glass shape, water was filled in it then the glass was picked up by earth whose body was made of branches.
It was similar to one of those wooden dolls type of body but with a lot of branches rather than simple wood.
Earth gave the water to rick who didn't drink it but first he put some drops of water on his palm and tasted it when he was sure its water he chugged it all.
"you don't have to worry I won't try to harm you, its my second time meeting a human"said earth.
"second time? If you are earth then wouldn't it be possible to go meet humans?" asked rick.
"Umm not exactly you see I'm not able to move away from the central area of my core it is in the center of this planet,which is me, but I can create some branches,veins and form a body.
I'm still learning how to control this ability of mine so it will take time for me to be able to create a perfect body but near the center i can do much more things like experimenting on this golem and this new body.
I can also use other abilities near the center but it will be hard for humans to go near the core with the heat as it is" explained earth.
Rick was now in a conflict of emotions, he didn't know if he should be shocked,excited or frightened.
First he was saved by a golem now he met earth, who knows what bizarre things awaits him, but through all this he did feel a little bit of excitement since he is experiencing something unnaturl.
'Hmm are zombies even natural to begin with we don't know how they were made.... oh ya we were here to find out how zombies were created' rick thought in his mind.
He asked earth "so do you know anything about these zombies why are they becoming stronger every time we kill some zombies other zombies absorb the miasma they release and become stronger.
At this rate humans will all die and there will be zombies all over the place don't you think it will harm you as well?"
"so you want to know how and why zombies are created, fine they were created when a portal to this world was created by unknown source.
It created a powerful energy blast which spread unknown energies all over the world.
It is also the reason i was able to gain intelligence but the thing is that these energies which spread all over the world had a bit of dead energy mixed in it.
So the humans who were immune to this dead energy were safe unless the energy is injected in them by a bite or scratch and those who were not immune died and became a dead energy generator, also those who die start generating this dead energy.
Since zombies are dead this dead energy makes them stronger, zombies go after humans and living beings because of the scent of dead energy on them if you put a lot of dead energy in front of them they will go after that energy rather than human.
They don't eat each other because the energy becomes part of the dead body it 'belongs'.
So the zombies wont attack each other because they are the owner of the dead energy inside them...."earth continued to explain the functions of zombies.
"Wow that's quite a lot of information to take in..... so how to stop the zombies?" asked rick.
"Stop? why? they are a part of evolution there is no need to stop them." said earth making rick raise an eyebrow.
Rick said "What do you mean by that, if we don't stop those zombies all the humans on earth will die don't you think its bad?"
"Nope its not bad at all, you see on the surface humans were creating all kinds of polutions and waste, they were even destroying nature so its good that the zombies are taking care of them"said earth without a care for humans.
"W-WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? humans are the most advanced species on earth, if you remove them then the development of this world will no longer continue, and the zombies might end up destroying the world with the power they are gaining" said rick in a panic.
"Don't worry about that humans are meant to go extinct at some point they might be born again after a few million years or so as for the zombies their life span is not more than 200 to 500 years and they might evolve into a new species and take the place of human in developing this world".
"S-so you are saying that the end of humanity is unavoidable?" said rick a bit discouraged by earth's reply.
"Hmm don't be so down.... lets see would you like to live more?" asked earth.
"What do you mean by live more?" asked rick with a bit of curiocity.
"Just as I said humans are all going to die but if you want to live more I can help you though in return you should also help me"said earth.
"What is it? What do you want?"asked rick.
"Nothing much its just that the energy which came to this world is enough to evolve me and make me able to generate my own energy so I need someone to close the gate which is sending energy in this world because if it didn't stop, I might start to break because of all this extra energy, I never had any energy container so keeping this energy in my core was all I could do and it will take a few thousand years for my body to adjust to this new energy and if this energy don't stop my core will break and ill die" said earth.
"So where can I find this gate, how should I close it and how are you going to make me live longer?" rick asked all the necessary questions.
"It's easy the gate is just a little bit down from here come with me and ill show you"said earth and a path which lead towards underground opened and rick could see stairs earth started to move down the stairs and rick followed.
"Hey do can you tell me where my friend is I was carrying him on my back" asked rick he was worried about his friend since he was sick the last time rick fell unconcious.
"Don't you know that guy died when you were on surface.
My golem was searching for zombies to kill when he found you and your dead friend was about to bite your neck so my golem took care of him and brought you with him" said earth.
"....." Sick stayed silent for a while.
He knew that something might have happened to paul.
He was hoping to hear that his friend was fine but his wish was just a wish.
"So what did you do to his..... body" he asked with a bit of sadness in his voice.
"I didnt do anything, my golem left his body where he found you" said earth.
"Could I go back to bury his body?" rick wanted to go back and at least bury his last teammate.
"I'm sorry but it will take a few hours to go there and find the body. Lets do this if you can close the portal i'll bury your friends body for you" said earth.
"thank you..."rick knew he can't find his friends body in this desert, so he left this to earth and in return he is trying to close the portal gate.