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NEW YORK — “DEAD CITY” TRANSFORMS INTO “THE LIVING LAB”: UN Reports First Successful Post-Zombie Human Repopulation Zone

In a stunning development that has sent shockwaves through the United Nations, the former “Dead City” of Manhattan—the infested, irradiated backdrop of The Walking Dead: Dead City—has officially been reclassified as the world’s first functional “Living Laboratory.”

A leaked U.N. task force memo obtained by this outlet reveals that after a decade of sporadic guerrilla warfare between Maggie’s reformed Bowman Militia and the remnants of the Burazi (the ex-gang turned underground sovereign), a fragile but functional human society is now thriving within the city’s skeletal remains.

The “Hive Protocol” Sources confirm the Burazi, under an unprecedented truce, have merged their scavenge networks with the Bowman Militia’s agricultural tunnels. The result? A self-sustaining, underground bio-dome city spanning from the flooded subway tunnels of Grand Central to the repurposed hydroponic farms in Central Park’s “Carrion Crater.”

The Twist No One Saw Coming But the true viral hook? The living are now the majority. New census data shows that for the first time since the outbreak, the “Human-to-Walker” ratio has flipped—from 1:10,000 to 11:1. The city’s iconic undead hordes have been systematically corralled into “Containment Corridors” along the Francis Lewis Boulevard, where they serve as a perpetual, live-warning deterrent against outside raiders.

Maggie’s Final Confession In a rare holographic press conference, Maggie Rhee (née Greene) made a chilling statement that has shattered the show’s core premise: *“We stopped surviving. We