Lexicon:Tissue Regeneration
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Obviously, I'm no scientist. I know a bit about zombies and what makes them tick, though...
In August 2005, I was trying to avoid zombies and military personnel, so I was hanging around inside a NecroTech building. They make for pretty good safehouses, you know, not a lot of people want to hang around there for fear of getting some disease... Anyway, I heard footsteps coming down a hall. It sounded like there were scientists in the group, I could hear them talking with words nobody with an IQ lower than 145 could understand.
I dived under a nearby table not wanting to be seen. Unfortunately, it happened to be the very board room they were heading to. They seated themselves around the table I was hiding under, and began talking about the results of some test or another as I was hoping nobody would drop a pen. After about ten minutes, the subject seemed to shift to why zombies stood back up, apparently for the sake of a few less-informed military personnel present.
It's been a while, so I'm likely to get a few details wrong, but they were saying about how the virus' did something or another to the areas it had infected to make the body keep going when a normal human would drop dead. Even when you took one down by shooting it's body it would stand back up in a relatively short amount of time, a headshot only delayed it more. Eventually however, the virus would rebuild the tissue blown away and spread, and the thing would stand up again. As time went on it only go more effective at doing so.
Revival syringes did the same basic thing, only a little more elegantly. The zombie virus was developed to get the host back on their feet as quickly as possible, whereas revive serum takes it's time at rebuilding things.
It was at about this point that things got interesting, but I value my life, so I won't be telling you more about it.
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