Looking back on my articles before I explained Zero Hour, I see in retrospect that they were not exactly sunshine and lollipops. Admitting that I wanted to die was probably not the best of postings. And it certainly may not have left you with a lot of hope. Truth be told, we have it pretty good in here, even if we are locked down in the store.
Still, I have a theory and we are using the whole team to test it. What we are about to attempt is extremely risky but I feel it is justified. We are going to test a theory on the nature of zombies because I need to know if they are warm-blooded, cold-blooded, or no-blooded. Proving this will let us adapt our plans for the future. I guess if this is my last entry, you will know something went horribly, horribly wrong…
So, here is the deal.
From what we can tell, these zombies do not function like us. It is not a normal human being that can have his legs torn off and keep crawling after you. We have seen these things take decimating wounds and still keep coming. I have literally seen a zom cut in half and its top half crawls with his arms across the parking lot looking for food. Even with all the blood poured from its body, this thing still crawled on.
We have never been close enough to examine one of these properly but these things must not have a heartbeat, blood, or need oxygen to survive. Now, granted, this causes the massive cellular degeneration that we have seen in their rotting flesh. But it seems that feasting on human flesh manages to sustain them somehow and slow the degeneration process. This must be why they are so intent on feeding on anything they can get their hands on.
So let’s say that they do not have a pumping heart, blood, or organic functions to regulate their body or their body temperature. And if that is the case, whether they are undead or not, they still have to be susceptible to the laws of physics. And quite simply, all dead tissue will freeze if it gets cold enough. I have seen frozen road kill last on the side of the road for a week during particularly brutal winters when the temperature does not rise above freezing. I guess the microbes don’t break down dead flesh in subzero temperatures.
And if that is true, then that means zombies can freeze. And frozen tissue does not shamble along very well. These guys are slow and lethargic now and we are a stone’s throw away from being hip deep in the dog days of summer.
So what happens this winter? Granted, Oklahoma is certainly no Wisconsin or Michigan but winters over the last few years here have been pretty brutal. What if all these maggot bags start freezing? Dispatching them then would not be easy but it would certainly be easier.
Of course, proving this theory in June is a pretty difficult thing to do… unless you have a large, walk-in ice cream freezer like we do. And that is why we are going to lure one of the zom’s inside.
