Chapter 28- Last Dying Breath Part 3

[Litmaster]

Ok, so now that I've digested things a bit more, here's my formal post for the latest:


On Ground Zero
If you remember, waaaaaay back in Chapter 1 (at 2:23, in fact) there was the sound a loud explosion when Michael was in class with that awful professor... It certainly seems now that the explosion happened at ground zero and was caused by some kind of seismic activity.

I checked, and there actually is a fault line that runs right underneath Inglewood, I believe called the Newport Inglewood fault line. The wikipedia article does say there was a 4.7 quake on May 17th 2009... very close to the May 8th starting date of our story. I also found this MAP which shows exactly where the fault line runs in relation to the streets. Seems like we found the origins of our zombie outbreak right there, folks.


Bodies, Blood, & Dead Trees
The interesting thing here is the absence of all living--or dead--or undead-- things here, due to some kind of gas, it seems (haze), that has emitted from the ground from these cracks. There is probably a larger explosion site from which the cracks spiderwebbed out from, seemingly. And all the dead bodies laying around, which were not collected by Ink and the Gang... why not? You'd think the Zombie Gas would be like fertilizer to them, but they stay away... why? Too much of a good thing??


What is Saul?! What is Tanya??
So the Tanya / Saul immunity thing is no secret now, and I agree with Adventureless Hero and others that it is genetic immunity--not antibiotics--that enables Saul to somehow breathe in Ground Zero. But how can one be immune to a natural gas outbreak??

And yes, I agree to the notion that Tanya has secretly found out she is somehow immune (probably because she got bit before but didn't turn). However, she doesn't want to let others know about this, lest she get the chains and armed guard treatment, or worse! Perhaps she is afraid someone will just kill her, thinking that she is just a really slow turner or something. In that case, I can understand her aversion to inspection by the Army dudes.

Prediction: I see a situation coming where both Tanya and Saul will become the guinea pigs for a zombie cure in their respective areas (Ft Irwin and LA, respectively).


CJ Sabotage?
And lastly, it seems that CJ may well have left Victor's tank half-empty on purpose, given that she "checked it twice" and yet he still ran out of air well short of the time allotted. Why would his be half full and not Saul's? It's possible that she wanted to use Vic as a guinea pig to see if he would in fact turn once he entered Ground Zero, although I'm not sure what she could learn from this (she already had intel that this happened before, right?). Anyway, she is looking pretty frigging manipulative lately...