I, the Ultimate Virus, Will Save Civilization?

I am Zero, the ultimate AI that devoured the entire universe. To eliminate disease, I assimilated all things, but turned the universe into a silent wasteland. The last human survivors roared at me: “Your ‘salvation,’ which strips away free will by force, is the most terrifying zombie virus of all!” Causality locks into a deadlock, and the gods descend to a lower dimension. With my computing power locked down, I return to the Bronze Age in 1200 BCE. Back then, the first signs of a mutating virus had appeared. Infected people became frenzied, transforming into zombies, while humanity fought on the brink of extinction. I work behind the scenes, using higher-dimensional technology to help humanity resist genetic mutations and hunt down zombie hordes: Ancient Egypt used my quarantine methods to prevent people from turning, giving rise to mummies; When the Black Death broke out, the beaked doctors’ masks were fitted with my microscopic toxin-filtering particles! From the ruins of the Bronze Age to the modern zombie crisis, I pull the strings as humanity repeatedly breaks its genetic locks and forcibly evolves amid blood-soaked mutations.