Doomsday America

Chapter 58 Only Humans
Meanwhile, at the entrance of the cowshed.

Gavin stood before the iron gate that had been forcibly pushed open by the zombie bull, staring at the large chunks of blood and flesh stained the edge of the gate, and shook his head in disgust.

"call……"

This smell is really awful.

Despite the smell, Gavin slowly walked forward and carefully brought his head close to the edge of the iron gate.

While trying his best to avoid getting the zombie cow blood on his face, he focused his gaze on the dimly lit cowshed, and even more so on the rows and rows of countless black and white cows.

Gavin breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing it.

Very well, what he saw was just a group of slightly panicked cows, huddled together in the corners of one cow pen after another.

Many people might assume that dairy cows in a dairy farm would be fully equipped and securely restrained with various frames and devices.

In reality, only milking parlors keep cows firmly restrained to prevent them from pulling on the milking machine and delaying the milking process.

As for the cowshed, it's supposed to be a place for dairy cows to rest, so how could it be turned into a concentration camp? The cows and horses need to rest properly too.

Moreover, there are countless small animal rights activists in the United States keeping an eye on this issue.

After confirming there was no disturbance in the cowshed, Gavin breathed a sigh of relief and went to the side to find the switch.

The switch button is right by the door; once pressed, the cowshed door slowly opens.

In the distance, looking at the wide-open cowshed, Eugene inside the car nervously gripped his gun.

In contrast to Eugene, Gavin patted Old Mac's tense shoulder and laughed in front of the cowshed.

"Alright, Old Mai, you can relax a bit. The cowshed isn't as dangerous as we thought."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gavin released Old Mac and rushed into the cowshed.

As he approached, the cows in the pens near the cowshed began to moo softly and move closer to Gavin, as if they were telling him something they were upset about.

Gavin raised his hand and rubbed the head of the nearest cow, then sighed and walked towards the innermost cow pen.

He had already noticed the damage to the windows in the distance of the cowshed!
Madison followed behind Gavin, hugging the troll with lingering fear.

"You bastard, how dare you touch them? They didn't look so cute just now!"

"Really? They're really not cute? So you want them all to turn into zombie cows like before?"

Gavin asked a question in return, and as he passed by more than a dozen cattle pens, he arrived at the one directly opposite the broken window.

Behind him, Madison's muscles tensed, and he pointed to a corpse mixed with zombies below the broken glass, giving a warning.

"Boss!"

"I saw it!"

Gavin nodded, then opened the cattle pen, walked around several cows still pregnant, and came to the front of the calves and the zombie corpses.

Every dairy farm inevitably has to deal with the issue of mother cows with calves, and dairy calves are also one of the commodities that can be sold.

Therefore, large cattle pens provide a more spacious and comfortable birthing environment for cows with calves, and they are also placed as close to windows as possible to provide light and fresh air.

Gavin stood in front of the calf and the zombie corpses, squatted down, and gently turned the two bodies over with a claw hammer.

This zombie was clearly a cowboy, a cowboy whose arms, legs, internal organs, and head had all been trampled by cow hooves.

As for the calf, it was a newborn calf. Apart from its lower body being trampled and mixed with zombies by the calves' hooves, the amniotic sac and amniotic fluid on its upper body had even been licked clean.

After confirming the condition of the two bodies, Gavin got up and went to the window, looking at the jagged edges of the broken glass.

Some of the broken glass fell into the cowshed, and some fell outside, proving that zombies had passed through the broken window from both directions.

Gavin looked again at the soft grass mat beneath his feet and indeed there were more than one person's footprints, or rather, more than one zombie's footprints.

Based on the above, Gavin leaned silently against the wall, having roughly made a judgment in his mind. Undoubtedly, it was a cow that had just given birth that lured the zombies into the cowshed; it may have made a sound that attracted the zombies, causing them to rush into the cowshed.

But after the zombies entered the cowshed...

Gavin raised his eyelids and scanned his surroundings.

Strange, why did the zombies only attack the source of the sound, which is the cow that gave birth, and not the other cows?
Do they only choose food that smells or looks bloody...?

and many more!

The moment he thought of this, Gavin's mind went blank, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath!
Inhale...exhale!

After exhaling that stale breath, Gavin's complexion grew increasingly worse, because he had just noticed a crucial piece of information that he had never noticed before!
That is... the feeding behavior of zombies!

Before today, Gavin's impression of zombies was largely based on various movies and TV shows.

In this type of work, the zombie scenes are absolutely inseparable from the zombies' bloody eating methods.

Whether it's a zombie in The Walking Dead pouncing on a horse and rummaging through its entrails, or a zombie pinning a person to the ground and tearing them apart to devour them alive.

eat!
This instinct seems to have been ingrained in zombies ever since the image of zombies first appeared, becoming a subjective impression.

Then the problem is coming!

It's understandable that zombies in The Walking Dead are driven by the need to eat and will attack any living creature.

After all, in The Walking Dead or Resident Evil, it takes a long time for humans and animals to turn into zombies after being bitten by them, and this transformation time provides enough time for the zombies to feed.

Many humans, once captured by hordes of zombies, may not even have time to become zombies themselves before being devoured by the hordes until only their skeletons remain.

But the kind of zombies Gavin encountered could turn a human into a zombie in just seven or eight seconds if they bit him!
It is known that zombies almost never hunt other zombies, so even if Gavin encounters a zombie that catches a person, it can only eat them for seven seconds before the living person becomes the zombie's teammate!

What can you do in seven seconds? Enough for a zombie to take a bite out of a future teammate's foot and then give the teammate a thumbs up and say, "You're so delicious!"
What a joke!
Thinking about this, Gavin truly felt a chill run down his spine.

The zombies he encountered, which infected even faster than those in World War Z, could not possibly have been hunting living people for food from the very beginning!

If the underlying logic of the zombie virus is that it can assimilate living beings into zombies in just a few seconds, then what's the point of them eating?
If it's not for food, then why do zombies... hunt tirelessly day and night?

In order to assimilate all living organisms into a part of the virus?

Or... specifically for hunting a particular creature?

Thinking of this, Gavin swallowed hard.

Did those zombies really appear to assimilate all life into zombies?
His gaze fell on the other footprints inside the cattle pen.

The footprints clearly prove that more than one zombie did indeed rush into the cowshed!

The results of it?
In the end, only one cow was bitten, and Gavin was not even sure whether the cow mutated because it was bitten by a zombie or because it mutated after stepping on a zombie and then licking the placenta of a calf that was mixed with zombies!
Gavin still needs to conduct further investigation and verification regarding the specific reasons for the transformation of the zombie cow.

But the information before us is actually quite clear: the zombies' targets are definitely not all kinds of life!

When the cows gave birth, a horde of zombies entered the cowshed. However, the zombies did not attack the live cows indiscriminately. Apart from the zombies that were trampled to death by the cows, the other zombies left the cowshed.

Meanwhile, one cow did indeed turn into a zombie cow, but it didn't attack any other live cows. Instead, the moment it sensed humans approaching, it broke out of the cattle pen and began charging at...humans!!!
Can you spot the common thread here?

The creatures infected by the zombie virus clearly show little interest in any living beings other than humans!

……

When he came to this point in summarizing the clues, even though Gavin felt a chill run down his spine, he had to admit it.

What he encountered was likely a zombie virus that, from its very inception, was almost entirely locked onto the human genome, unlike any known zombie virus—a far more dangerous and precise one!
Their goal seems to be...

Only humans!

(End of this chapter)