Why do zombies eat people?

Shen Feng has always been a little confused about this issue.

If it were the zombies in the "Resident Evil" movie, it would be easier to explain. They bite and eat people mainly to spread viruses.

Transmission occurs through body fluids such as saliva and blood, which is also the mode of transmission of certain viruses, such as rabies, AIDS, etc.

Compared with more powerful airborne droplet-borne viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Ebola virus, this mode of body fluid transmission is outdated and inefficient. It is only in movies that people are destroyed by biting. The situation of the whole world.

But for the Evil Spirit Virus, there is obviously no need for such a backward transmission method. After all, the Evil Spirit Virus is completely airborne.

At that time, the yellow virus spore fog that blocked the sky in the epidemic area of ​​Tokyo was simply a layer of hell.

However, zombies infected by the evil spirit virus still choose to eat people and are very fanatical. This is somewhat illogical in terms of the virus transmission mechanism.

During the evil spirit virus epidemic and the subsequent series of events, Shen Feng was really overwhelmed and forgot to study the reasons.

Now is an excellent opportunity, and it meets the requirements of the "Real Doomsday Game" system for in-depth investigation.

Thinking of this, Shen Feng found the open kitchen of the apartment and found a knife holder and an apron with cartoon patterns on it.

It turned out to be a Zwilling knife made in China.

Shen Feng nodded with satisfaction, took these knives, hammers, pliers, tweezers and other things to the zombie, put on his apron, gloves, goggles and mask, and prepared to start violent dismantling.

Almost an hour later, Shen Feng took off his apron, which was already stained with black and red blood, took off his goggles and mask, and sat back on the sofa.

On the floor were zombies that had been dismantled to pieces. Shen Feng took out a bottle of water from his backpack and drank half of it in one breath. He raised his arm and started typing:

"Investigation:

No abnormalities were found in the bone structure.

Pulmonary fibrosis was evident.

Blood clotting and embolism.

The skin appears micro-scaly, with the possibility of bionic mimicry.

The central nervous system is abnormally developed and has obvious variations.

The muscle tissue still remains active, and the energy supply mode has been switched by visual inspection.

Brain... The brain is atrophied and deformed, showing a spongy phenomenon. The whole body is in the shape of a cocklebur or a sea urchin. There is a large amount of starch precipitation structure inside, and the core is a metal substance. It is suspected that the metal elements from the whole body have condensed into the brain, and a large amount of related metal elements have been supplemented. "

After recording this, Shen Feng looked at the zombies on the ground and added again:

"...The mutated brain has weak radio wave responses and occasional conscious responses. The overall situation is chaotic and illogical."

If you look at the variation of this zombie's body functions alone, it can be said to be unremarkable.

It's even worse than the powerfully mutated zombies in movies like "World War of the Dead" and "Resident Evil".

But what is worth noting are the mutations in this zombie's skin, nervous system, and brain.

It has simply turned into another creature.

The phenomenon of micro-scaling of the skin is definitely closely related to the change in its own energy supply mode.

Microscale formation...could it be powered by solar energy?

Then this change is too huge!

As for the condition of the brain, after dissecting so many zombies, Shen Feng also had a guess at this time. This was probably the product of the enrichment of the evil spirit virus.

It reminded Shen Feng of the famous "Kuru disease" in human history.

Papua - the indigenous people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea have historically had the custom of eating the organs of deceased relatives.

This also led to the gradual accumulation of prions in the human body, eventually causing kuru disease.

This is an incurable, degenerative human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

Symptoms begin with tremors and ataxia, followed by dementia and various systemic diseases, eventually leading to death within a few months.

Similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, infected people have sleep disorders, personality changes, ataxia, aphasia, visual loss, physical, muscle atrophy, myoclonus, progressive dementia and other symptoms, and will develop in the Death occurred within one year of onset.

The pathological features of this disease include spongiform degeneration mainly in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex and the emergence of prions.

Among them, the enrichment of prions is a very important process.

At this time, Shen Feng gradually sorted out two more credible inferences.

1. Zombies eat humans in order to absorb metal elements from their own kind and provide relevant raw materials for their own brain mutations.

2. Those who are eaten are also infected with the evil spirit virus, but it has not completely erupted yet. Zombies eat people to enrich the evil spirit virus in their bodies, that is, to absorb viruses from other sources to promote their brains. Partial variation.

These two inferences ultimately point in the same direction.

Brain variations.

Another thing that made Shen Feng very concerned was the weak brain waves that appeared in the zombie's brain from time to time. It was not like consciousness, but more like the signal return of a mobile phone.

If this brain is compared to a mobile phone, then the radio waves it emits seem to be looking for something similar to a "base station".

At this time, the brain was placed on the table next to it. Shen Feng picked up a screwdriver and poked the brain that had been deformed like a sea urchin, and poked out a little amyloid structure from it.

At this moment, the brain released weak electric waves again, but it was not completely finished yet.

This brain has completely become a rich collection of evil spirit viruses. It can be said that it is almost entirely composed of viruses. The radio waves released at this time feel very familiar to Shen Feng.

When the epidemic spread in Tokyo, the brain waves released by the deeply infected zombies he encountered were basically at this frequency.

His silicon-based brain quickly memorized the frequency of this radio wave, and at the same time began to work hard to release radio waves through the silicon-based brain.

Zombies use more than just their eyes and noses to distinguish between friend and foe, but more importantly, their brain waves.

If Shen Feng could release this kind of brain waves, he might be able to directly hide it from the zombies.

After sorting out these conclusions, Shen Feng continued to report to the "Real Doomsday Game" system:

"Investigation:

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After completing the entry, he packed up various tools, put on his backpack, opened the door with a shotgun, and walked out.

This room was in a mess after the dissection work, and it was time to change it.

However, Shen Feng did not leave the building, but went up the stairs, preparing to go to the rooftop to see what the current situation in Mexico City was like.

Judging from the decay of the zombie's clothes just now, it has been at least a year or two since the evil spirit virus broke out in this world.

What he had experienced before was all end-of-the-world missions in the game first, followed by real-world crises.

The evil spirit virus plague is completely reversed. First there is a real-world epidemic, and then there is a parallel world with apocalyptic missions.

It would allow him to feel the tragic consequences if he failed on earth.

And Shen Feng was full of doubts at this time.

After all, if this parallel world is very similar to the original world he experienced, will there also be Whisperers, the Purification Society, Cthul, the Salvation Army, and...his savior?

So what will happen to the Whisperers when the Lord of the Void takes over the world?

Does the Purification Society exist?

What happened to Cthul?

Is he, the savior... still alive?

Is the Salvation Army still spreading the flame of hope like the gray tide world?

And if the Lord of the Void is still in this world, have he ever had a confrontation with the Whisperer?

What about the battle between these nameless and unspeakable supernatural beings?

Soon, Shen Feng had climbed dozens of stairs, killed several more zombies, and arrived at the door leading to the rooftop on the top floor.

Between the rooftop and the stairs is a heavy iron door, which is fastened with iron rods and does not open.

While Shen Feng was thinking about various problems, he pulled out the iron rod and opened the iron door.

Looking up with a confused expression, Shen Feng couldn't help but curse as the Romans do:

"Fuck!"

On the rooftop, hundreds of zombies that had become ghost-like due to the weather turned their heads at the same time and looked at Shen Feng.

Everyone grinned with their mouths wide open, as if they were very happy.
Chapter completed!