This story encompasses themes of apocalypse, a system, the world of The Walking Dead, rectifying past regrets, and features a non-single female lead (reader discretion advised).
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About ten minutes after dealing with the zombies and saving those three people.
Xu Mo held the steering wheel steadily and drove the SUV slowly off the highway. Soon, he and Magna arrived at the gate of Saint Yelm Hospital.
The scene before them was completely different from what Xu Mo and Magna had expected. The zombies here were extremely rare, and looking around, only a few zombies could be seen wandering aimlessly here and there.
Magna's sharp eyes quickly surveyed her surroundings, a strong sense of discomfiture rising within her. She frowned slightly, her eyes filled with doubt, and she pondered to herself:
"Xu Mo, it's a bit strange that there are not many zombies in the hospital here."
"Yeah." Xu Mo nodded slightly after hearing Magna's words. In fact, he had already keenly noticed that something was wrong here.
In his understanding, no matter what movie, game, or novel, once a zombie crisis breaks out, the hospital is definitely the place with the most zombies and the most danger. Even in this world of the walking dead, this should be the case.
But now, the zombies that come into view are so scattered.
Faced with this situation, Xu Mo thought quickly in his mind and could only think of two reasons.
First, this place has been cleared and occupied by other survivor forces.
Second, some strange changes occurred here, causing all the zombies here to disappear.
First, he could rule out the first possibility. After all, St. Yelm's Hospital was one of the largest hospitals in Charleston.
Although located on the outskirts of the city, the staff includes doctors from various departments, numerous nurses, medical technicians (such as laboratory technicians and imaging technicians), as well as administrative, logistics, security, and cleaning staff. In total, the number of people could be as low as 5,000 or even as high as 10,000.
In addition, there are all kinds of patients and their families. The inpatient department is often fully booked, with one to two thousand patients, or even more. The outpatient department also sees thousands of patients every day. Including accompanying family members, the cumulative number of patients and their families in the hospital each day can reach tens of thousands.
Most importantly, in the early days of the apocalypse, many people go to the hospital for various reasons or symptoms, so the flow of people in the hospital will only be greater than usual.
In theory, the maximum number of zombies in Saint Yelm's Hospital could reach 30,000 or 40,000. Assuming that even half of these 30,000 or 40,000 people were not infected or escaped the hospital after being infected, the hospital would still have nearly 20,000 zombies.
With nearly 20,000 zombies, it would be extremely difficult to eliminate them even if the army or the National Guard did not deploy thousands of people, in addition to weapons such as tanks and planes.
The army did not send so many people, which was a sufficient reason to eliminate the zombies here and occupy this place.
Even if so many soldiers were dispatched to occupy this place, theoretically, the population base should be very large. Even if it wasn't as large as the 300,000 or so people of the Civic Republic, it would at least be no less than the 50,000 people of the Ten Thousand People Federation. But Xu Mo didn't see a single person.
Since there is no possibility of being occupied by other survivors, there is only one reason to explain why there are no zombies here, that is, something strange has happened here.
Let's first sense the situation nearby... Xu Mo thought to himself, his eyes becoming focused and determined. He concentrated his attention and actively extended his perception.
Soon, Xu Mo's expression turned serious. His brows were furrowed, and his eyes revealed deep worry.
Inside this hospital, there was a zombie nearly four meters tall and as big as a mountain. Its legs alone were as thick as an adult's.
At this moment, the giant zombie was stuffing ordinary zombies into its mouth like snacks. Its movements were rough and greedy, and every swallow made people shudder.
"It seems that the reason why there are so few zombies here is that they were eaten as snacks by this giant zombie. But then again, what on earth is this thing?" Xu Mo muttered to himself, thinking quickly in his mind.
There are actually quite a few mutant zombies in The Walking Dead, and some of them have even appeared in the first season of the original series.
For example, after Rick woke up from the hospital, he met Morgan and his son, and met the zombie that could open the door lock in "Frey and Cindy Drake's house", which was the first type of mutant zombie.
Then, also in the first season, in the department store, Rick and Andrea encountered zombies smashing windows with stones (they also appeared in the eleventh season, and there were even more of them), who also belonged to the first type of mutant zombies.
This type of mutant zombies are collectively called obsessive zombies, and they retain a very small part of their muscle memory from their previous life.
The second type of mutant zombies are those that can climb walls and stairs. These zombies mainly appear at the back.
The third type is the "Lord of the Walking Dead" that Maggie met in the sewer in the spin-off series Dead City. It was a giant, bloated fusion zombie with "three heads and six arms" and was much larger than ordinary zombies.
The fourth category is the spin-off series Daryl Dixon. When Daryl and Carol were in France, they encountered various zombie variants created by scientists and laboratories there, such as fluorescent zombies, violent zombies, etc.
The fifth category is natural zombies, such as the plant zombies in the spin-off series The World Outside, the burning zombies Rick encountered in the spin-off series Those Who Lived, the stone zombies Rick and Michonne encountered later, and the radioactive zombies in Fear the Dead in the same world view, etc.
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