Naughty Dog would use the adaptation of The Last of Us to TV to expand and enhance the franchise’s story. Well, the first episode is already available and includes a lot of details that fans are slowly discovering. Thanks to these details, some mysteries have been solved, such as the way in which the Cordyceps pandemic broke out.
To promote production, the BBC shared an audio in which Joel and Ellie are heard having a post-apocalyptic conversation in which they discuss how the infection began.
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How did the Cordyceps pandemic spread in The Last of Us?
Ellie believes that it all started through the bites between people and animals. However, Joel, who had the opportunity to experience the outbreak and the 20 years that followed to assimilate what happened, says that Cordyceps is believed to have mutated in such a way that it could be introduced into food.
The interesting thing is that he then gives as examples basic ingredients that were sold throughout the country and the world, such as certain brands of fruit, flour, bread, cereal, sugar, including the mixture for crepes.
Joel believes that these products were available to consumers as of Thursday, September 25, 2003, and estimates that they were consumed that same day and during the following day, so that the effects of Cordyceps began to be felt as of Friday, September 26. of September. The early morning of September 27 was when chaos broke out in Texas, the place where the video game and TV series begins.
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Joel and Sarah came close to being infected with Cordyceps in The Last of Us
Additionally, in the official podcast of the series, Mazin mentioned the word “crumbs” to refer to the small details that fans will be able to find in the series in relation to the outbreak. And he didn’t just mean it figuratively, but also literally. And it all makes sense when we return to the series and see these “crumbs”.
Right at the beginning of the episode, to celebrate Joel’s birthday Sarah planned to make pancakes for everyone, but she didn’t because Joel didn’t buy the flour, so Joel’s bad memory saved him, Sarah and Tommy from getting infected… for double counting, because Joel had promised to buy a cake for dinner, but in the end he forgets that too.
But that’s not all, Joel, Sarah and Tommy got another chance to catch the virus, just before leaving their homes. Well, let’s remember that their neighbors, the Andlers, offered them some little packages, made precisely with flour, but that Joel rejected because he was on a diet.
Sarah released the contagion once more later when she visited the Andlers’ house in the afternoon, where Mrs. Connie offered her plum biscuits. However, the young woman left before trying them.
What reinforces the idea that the flour had Cordyceps is that Nana, the oldest member of the Adlers and who ingested the snacks, was one of the first to transform.
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