Ben #597 (He is the immortal one; he appeared a long time ago, and I couldn't post the next chapter without first posting the new chapter 1 I'm making, so you can call this a filler chapter.)
The path built by my predecessors was a narrow one; we all were born inside our tree, all the clones that appeared on the outside were killed, and the people were constantly harvesting the core of each flower to make sure no one survived, but the base was a lot smarter than them and started creating us inside the tree, one at a time, before we decided to create a small tunnel that led outside.
I was given a system, as was everyone else; it had a built-in tutorial and inventory tab.
Due to some limitations, I couldn't use the full extent of this system, but that didn't present much of a problem for me.
