There are spoilers, if you haven't seen it, please avoid it.
1. In the opening chapter, a deer first eats the flowers of life and death grass, and then eats the leaves with insect eggs in one bite, and then spasms, dies, and resurrects in a puddle in pain, turning into a zombie deer;
2. When a zombie deer sees a tiger (?), it rushes over to try to bite, but the tiger bites the neck and pushes it down, but it fails to bite. Don't eat bones, don't eat brains;
3. The tiger was infected into a zombie tiger. I don't know how long it has been wandering, and I don't know if the tiger on the mural is this one;
4. The zombie tiger killed several villagers and soldiers, possibly ate some of it, and was finally killed by a headshot with a javelin (actually, the tiger’s skull is very hard). without any human tissue;
5. The person bitten to death by the zombie tiger did not mutate, and the Jurchen who was bitten on his left arm did not mutate, and did not die of infection that day;
In summary, we can reasonably guess:
1. The insect eggs on the living and dead grass are a kind of parasite. It likes low temperature and attaches to the grass leaves in the form of insect eggs. Judging from the regular arrangement of attachment methods, it should be that the adults lay their eggs on the grass leaves one by one. On - why is it only attached to the grass of life and death? will be mentioned next;
2. The first host of parasites should be herbivores such as deer. The eggs are either small or hard, which can escape the strong grinding ability of deer teeth, enter the deer body, and then develop into larvae. The filamentous one in the second season), climbs into the deer's brain along the body surface or body fluids, occupies the deer's brain, controls the deer's body, and turns the deer into a zombie deer;
3. Zombie deer have lost their herbivorous instincts, and will actively attack large carnivores such as tigers, and then be killed and eaten without any suspense. At this time, the larvae will enter the tiger's body along the venison. way to control the tiger and turn the tiger into a zombie tiger;
3-1: Here comes the first unexplainable place: shouldn't the larvae be in the deer brain? Why is it in venison too? My guess for this is that the larvae have a certain ability of asexual reproduction, and can split into a part of the individual and store it in the muscles of the zombie deer. This part of the functionally differentiated larvae is specially waiting to be eaten by the tiger, and then occupy the tiger's brain, similar to Yu eggs, which are parasites in a dormant state, will be activated once they enter the final host;
4. That’s right, the ultimate host of living and dead grass parasites is large carnivores, such as tigers, wolves, bears, etc. The parasites will spread all over the brain and whole body of the ultimate host, and the brain parasites are still responsible for controlling behavior (see living things) bite), others will develop into adults in the body, and finally excreted through excrement, and then lay eggs and complete a life cycle;
4-1. The second paradox appears: where do adults go to find life and death grass? There are several possibilities here: 1. Adult worms can fly! They will fly to the leaves of life and death to lay eggs, just like ordinary butterflies and moths; 2. There are grass seeds in the adults! The seeds absorb the nutrients of tiger dung, germinate and bloom, and then the adults lay eggs; 3. After the adults land on the ground, they become plants! In fact, this is a creature that can transform between plants and animals! (It smells like Prometheus) The adult worms are like a grass seed, which germinates and blooms after falling to the ground. The beautiful flowers are actually just bait, and the eggs hidden under the leaves are their real reproductive organs; - so, only There will be eggs on the grass of life and death, and only by eating flowers and grass at the same time, will it mutate;
4-2. Paradox 3: Since the zombie tiger is the ultimate host, then the tiger will die and rush to the street, wouldn’t it be good for parasites to reproduce on the tiger corpse? Isn't tiger corpse more nutritious than tiger dung? Why bite around and perform non-reproductive behaviors? My guesses about this are: 1. The living and dead grass need to grow separately, so the host needs to run around and pull it like alive; 2. The tiger dung pulled by the zombie tiger originally contains some internal organs, which is nutritionally sufficient for a small seedling to grow. Large, similar to sowing seeds everywhere; 3. The zombie tiger, or the parasites in its body, has a certain ability to absorb nutrients, so the zombie tiger needs to bite and eat meat everywhere, but the meat will not enter the stomach through the host's digestive tract, Instead, it is decomposed and absorbed by parasites in the mouth or esophagus, which explains why zombie tigers have bitten many people, but there are no human remains in their abdomens;
5. Finally, why do parasites parasitize and mutate humans? This can only be an accident, because according to the usual parasitic method, the deer will be parasitized only after the living person eats the infected deer, but in the play, the eggs and grass are directly stuffed into the forehead of the dead person, forcing The eggs hatch and parasitize the corpse, probably because the body temperature is not enough, which destroys the inherent parasitic chain of the parasite. As a result, the parasites in the zombies cannot hatch into adults, and can only maintain the state of larvae (filarial), so the zombies cannot While eating, the adult worms are pulled out; - so, after the residents in the first season boiled the doctor's apprentice and ate his meat, the larvae hatched because of the water temperature, making human-to-human transmission possible, and the second generation of zombies evolved successfully.
I can only think of these for the time being, let's see how the third season of the show will play (bian). Since the cause of zombies is parasites rather than viruses, the basic law (parasitology) must be followed.
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