What's the Beauty in the Infected?

This is different from the game because there's no zombie horde that comes in and attacks them at the Capitol building. I was left with a like, why is this zombie like, flunching her with the fungus, tendrils coming out of his mouth? I don't even know what that was supposed to be besides something that was just a horrific scene. However, kudos to the storytellers here because it was sort of obvious. The thing can't see him, but you realize that it can hear him. And like I said before, echolocation,. not a superpower because these things can do whatever it's definitely a super awhile. These things are, these things are