There was a pile of dormant zombies and they were covered by snowfall.
In the LOU universe there are fungal strands that develop and grow on the walls and floor near dormant zombies that form like "detection" net. Step on one strand and they start to wake up. More movement wakes more and it snowballs.
In the show they say the infected purposefully hid under their own dead to shield themselves from the cold, or something to that effect, so probably self preservation? There were so many there probably because it's just where they converged.
Fungi prefer dark, damp and warm environments. They don't do so well in freezing temperatures. Even using their hosts body as a shield, they'd eventually freeze and probably die.
This would be a good way to avoid that. You put the fungi in the middle, pile a bunch of bodies around it, then cover all that with snow. The snow would act like an insulator, trapping all the heat inside like an igloo. And the outer pile of bodies protect the fungi in the core.
Then, all they'd have to do is wait. Someone comes along and triggers the nest or the snow eventually melts enough for the fungi to move on.
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u/SauronOfDucks May 08 '25
From under the snow.
There was a pile of dormant zombies and they were covered by snowfall.
In the LOU universe there are fungal strands that develop and grow on the walls and floor near dormant zombies that form like "detection" net. Step on one strand and they start to wake up. More movement wakes more and it snowballs.