A few weeks ago, I talked about how
we have seen zoms apparently eat their fill and get up from a human body
despite there still being meat on the bone. This would lead us to believe that
zoms have a “full meter.” But there have also been times where we have seen
zoms shambling about, stop – for no reason whatsoever – and vomit.
Now this is not a clutching the toilet
and hanging on for dear life kind of dry heave that one experiences as the
result of tequila. This is more a princess style vomit where they just stop,
practically unhinge their law, double over slightly, and… urp. What is vomited
out is usually – and I hope you haven’t eaten – compact and solid. It is not
flowing and liquidy. Liquidy? Is that a word? The spellcheck doesn’t like it.
Trademark! If you use it, you have to pay me 25-cents.
Tommy and I were observing this
closely from the pharmacy windows that we have barricaded. It gives us a nice
view of the parking lot and of the Party Mart convenience store across the way.
So bouncing ideas off one another, we came up with a theory.
A zom reanimates and the first primal
instinct is to feed. Babies have it. Animals have it. So they shuffle off
looking for anything meat related that they can find. For some reason, they
have a penchant for living human flesh but they will eat on a dead body if they
stumble across one. They will eat animals. They will eat meat out of the garbage.
They do pass on fruits and veggies so all you vegetarians and vegans out there
who think meat eating is cruel or unnatural, you can suck it. Meat is good
enough for the undead but not enough for you? Oh vegans, why u no eat meat?
Okay back on track. So a zom goes
through and eats its fill. They take living flesh over dead. I can only assume
that living flesh is 98-degrees and warmish where a body is room temperature.
That kind of makes sense. So they eat there fill and then get up to stumble
about and do whatever it is zoms do in their mush minds. Eventually, their
adapted (i.e. dead) stomachs do whatever it is it does with the meat that they
have consumed. And given how up and out of the stomach through the mouth is a
faster and much less winding path, it is just easier for them to vomit out the
meat that they have eaten after their undead forms have leached out of the food
whatever it needs.
These nutrients continue to sustain
and power the zoms undead form. Which is why when you come across a zom that
has been trapped in a farmhouse with no food source, they are much more
emaciated and decomposed than a zom that has been chowing down on a large
abundance of flesh.
Ugg. Now I feel a compulsive urge to
use a slathering of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer. I mean, that sounds like it
makes sense. How else might you explain it? So if that is the case, those zoms
that have been eating hearty could last well beyond a year… which means we may
have to fight on after a year… And it also means that the hungrier these things
get, the more desperate and savage they could become.
That is not going to be good for
anybody.
