401 Living Dead: Zombies & Vampires

   
    There exists two kinds of living dead in Taoyundao world: zombies and vampires.

    Generally speaking, zombies are those dead who hold strong residual thoughts and affections about their lives. Akagi is a good example (http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/black-cats-pseudo-family-black-cat.html). Most zombies treasure every part of their own bodies, even if those parts were destroyed. They also stay fascinated at alive biological stuff, like fresh human meat. Their soul were dispersed when they died, but residual thoughts can keep them to act.

    Miyako is a zombie. Before her death, she was an apprentice of a witch, and one day she was torn to pieces by a terrible demon. Miyako regretted so much at the last moment, and her emotion of desiring to survive made her left body become a zombie.

Zombie Miyako

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    Miyako's body was totally ruined. She collected parts which were in better conditions and enhanced them to be more useful by regrouping them and adding foreign organs on for supplement, then she tried to recover her spoiled pieces. Her brain worked to plan to reconstruct herself finally.

    If you meet Miyako, she can talk to you normally. However, that doesn't mean she has real consciousness. Her parts are still functional, but they just work mechanically. They are grouped biological devices, and the strong residual emotion makes them to be an integral.

    Talking to vampires, that's a different story. They keep their souls even after their death, but those souls are altered. Vampires usually posess aweful magical power, and they may view theirselves as advanced or improved human beings. Unlike zombies, vampires prefer to absorb living power and spiritual energy by sucking people's blood, and usually they have perfect bodies.

    Next time we will talk about a special case of the vampires, see you!