People did not fully understand what the base was planning, but they could guess the leader's intention.
Since the antidote research was progressing, it became increasingly clear that the leader no longer wanted zombies destroyed unnecessarily.
However, this new rule created an entirely different problem.
Killing zombies had been easy. Capturing them alive was not.
Hunters struggled. Transporting even one struggling corpse-like creature required coordination, restraints, and risk.
That was, however, until a strange ability appeared.
A man named Eli awakened an unusual superpower, the ability to knock a zombie unconscious.
At first, the ability had seemed useless. Even if he could render a zombie unconscious, his physical strength was too weak to destroy it.
He had always required others to finish the job, which made his power seem laughable.
But once the new rule took effect, Eli's ability became invaluable.
He began developing what people soon called zombie bombs.
