Despite their behavior sharing a lot of similarities to zombies, leading to survivors frequently mistaking them for such, the Anti-Living are not actually zombies, at least not in the traditional sense. The virus also seems to partially mutate the bodies of the infected, making their fingers more sharper and claw-like to more easily spread the infection. Once succumbed completely, the infected will enter a feral, hyper-violent state and immediately attack the closest living individual, no matter whether they be friend or family. Between mere seconds with the former to several minutes with the latter, once the infection reaches the brain, infected individuals will begin to desperately and violently attempt to remove the equation from their minds by clawing at their heads and faces. As a techno-organic virus, the corrupted Anti-Life Equation has two parallel modes of infection, digitally through the internet via compromised digital devices or biologically through infected bodily fluids via bites and scratches. Though unlike the DCeased universe these Anti-Living hungered to literally devour life rather than to simply infect or kill, their appearances for some reason resembled a bat. He would experiment and turn the family of his world's Animal Man into the Anti-Living, later unleashing them on Earth 0's Animal Man to feast on. The Anti-Life Equation was modified by the Robin King, who also figured out a way to trap them. Due to humanity's use of digital devices such as televisions and smartphones, the Batcomputer estimated around 600 million were infected immediately, with it further predicting the number to rise to billions within the coming days once the virus has had the chance to fully disseminate across the globe digitally. The infected then turned to a feral zombie-like state and attacked the uninfected in order to spread the virus through blood to blood transmission via bites and scratches. 
Upon returning to Earth the virus quickly transmitted itself from Cyborg's cybernetic body onto the internet, corrupting any digital device connecting to it and allowing it to rapidly infect the population, who immediately attempted to literally claw the equation out of their minds. In a desperate attempt to limit the damage DeSaad sent Cyborg back to Earth, though this was in vain as Darkseid destroyed Apokolips soon after. Darkseid unwittingly became the first of the Anti-Living and went on a rampage throughout Apokolips. But in so doing so while using Black Racer's essence, the equation became corrupted and transformed into a techno-organic virus. Darkseid is successful in combining the two halves and creating the Anti-Life equation. To circumvent this, Darkseid summons Black Racer and has DeSaad extract his essence and inject it into Cyborg to ensure he survived the process. However, DeSaad also reveals to Darkseid that doing so would likely kill Cyborg. While imprison there, DeSaad revealed that Darkseid intends to combine the half of the equation embedded within Cyborg's internal Mother box with the half already in his possession. Following his defeat at the hands of the Justice League, Darkseid had Cyborg discreetly kidnapped and brought to Apokolips.
The Anti-Living came to be as an unintentional result of Darkseid's attempt to acquire the Anti-Life Equation.
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