The rats may be natural animals that are infected with human DNA. Rats would have survived underground with the humans taking shelter, and they would have tried to get above ground after the scourge. With so much viral human DNA in the air after the scourge, the ones sleeping near the surface would likely be infected. I wonder if there are little cockroach people in Endtown also. Infected rats would get into the shelters and infect the people there, as well as the domesticated animals brought down for food and service. Conscious animals would have died or be killed as monsters by the sheltered survivors, and sleeping animals would be humanized by the viral human DNA brought in by the rats. Endtown may have asylums for people who seem to be mentally damaged by the mutations, but are actually humanized animals and never had a human mind.
The rats may be natural animals that are infected with human DNA. Rats would have survived underground with the humans taking shelter, and they would have tried to get above ground after the scourge. With so much viral human DNA in the air after the scourge, the ones sleeping near the surface would likely be infected. I wonder if there are little cockroach people in Endtown also. Infected rats would get into the shelters and infect the people there, as well as the domesticated animals brought down for food and service. Conscious animals would have died or be killed as monsters by the sheltered survivors, and sleeping animals would be humanized by the viral human DNA brought in by the rats. Endtown may have asylums for people who seem to be mentally damaged by the mutations, but are actually humanized animals and never had a human mind.