Fengdu, the city of ghosts, am I stupid?
In the first interview of the book, of Kwang Jingshu, in his account, he relates that an elderly woman cries out at the guoanbo, “This is your punishment!” “This is revenge for Fengdu!” Now, is it stupid to assume that Fengdu might really have been the initial cause of this new outbreak? As related in Recorded Attacks, zombies have existed for as long as humanity has. But these outbreaks were localized and self-contained, or contained by the people around them without having any real chance to spread. So, is it likely that in Fengdu, this City of Ghosts, in their temples and shrines and monasteries, there might have been, in some forgotten place, a handful of zombies? For whatever reason, they had been kept in the past in that 2000 year old place and then forgotten by the modern day or sealed away somewhere? And that, in the book, the demolition and flooding of Fengdu during the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, these zombies may have gotten free of wherever they had been kept? Subsequently spreading throughout the flooded places, and biting those who had gone Moon-Fishing, like Patient Zero and his father? And that it was from this that the entire outbreak started and spread? Slowly spiraling in the years following the demolition of Fengdu up until it reaches the point it cannot be contained, or where the failures of governments allowed it to spiral until it could not be contained.
