I think we have covered in here
several times about the dangers of a zombie horde. I’ve talked about how zoms
are little more than cattle and they do tend to wander around in packs. What
one zom is doing, other zoms will do. The larger that horde gets, the more
inclusive it becomes.
For instance, if the zombified town of
Adair started migrating towards Pryor, there is a pretty good chance that they
are going to pick up quite a few zombified residence of Pryor on their way to
Chouteau. If the city of Tulsa is migrating through Pryor, there is a pretty
good chance that once the horde shambles through, pretty much all zombies
capable of locomotion will shamble off with them.
My theory is that if the food source
in Pryor has dried up and a horde shambles through, Pryor Zoms will think to
themselves, “We don’t know what to do now but these guys seem to be shambling
in a direction. They must have a good reason. Let’s go with them.” This is our
reasoning why places like Vinita, Foyil and Disney are cleaned out of zoms.
Obviously, some zoms have sustained more damage than others and they cannot
keep up. The packs are like old Indian tribes. If you cannot keep up, you are
left behind. Other zoms might be contained/trapped in building and therefore
cannot join the horde.
But the question that I have is: Who
is leading these hordes and how do they know where they are going?
As usual, we have a theory. For
reasons that we have yet to deduce, it seems as if some zombies do seem to be
more intelligent than others. Maybe the better term is “intuitive.” I don’t
want to convey the theory that some zoms are less zombified than other zoms,
like they are holding on to more of their humanity than others. We have seen
zero evidence of that. I don’t want you to think of the Hollywood Land of the
Dead movie theory where zombies start figuring out how to use guns. That crap
is preposterous.
However, there are some zoms that seem
to sense that we are in this grocery store. I have explained how we have
limited our visual exposure to keep zoms from hunting us via sight and we do
our best to keep our noise signature reduced. Yet, despite all our best efforts
there have been some zoms that seem to make a beeline for us as if they know we
are in here.
They could be locals that have some
sort of residual sense memories and equate this place with food. Maybe they
have some sort of sixth sense regarding living human beings. We can only
speculate. Maybe the zoms that that have this sixth sense are what end up
becoming their Alpha Males. We may never know.
Just be cautious and put them down
quick because you don’t want the sheep following that shepherd to your
doorstep. Put them down fast and quiet so the herd will move on…
