WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for DCeased: Hope at World's End #2 by Tom Taylor, Renato Guedes, Rex Lokus and Saida Temofonte, now available.
The digital series DCeased: Hope at World's End takes place during the events of the original DCeased. It takes us back to the days when the Anti-Life virus had not yet wiped out everyone on the planet. Instead, we find the Anti-Life virus in its infancy, as it starts to infect more and more people in a very short amount of time. The first issue of the digital series revealed that a secret war was about to take place between the living and the undead. However, before we can see how that war turned out, DCeased: Hope at World's End #2 winds the clocks back just a little to show how the leader of the Anti-Life army, Black Adam, initially became infected.
In DCeased: Hope at World's End #2, we see how the Anti-Life virus first arrived in Teth-Adam's nation of Kahndaq and how devastatingly efficient Black Adam is at handling a potential zombie outbreak.
DCeased: Hope at World's End #2 opens mere minutes after the Anti-Life virus has begun taking over the Earth. Almost as soon as the infection reaches the borders of Kahndaq, Black Adam comes to understand how it propagates: through digital screens. Therefore, he flies into action, calling for his nation to be taken offline entirely. Black Adam may rule his country with an iron fist but, as the narration reveals, this is one instance where that is actually a benefit. With a single command, the entire country goes dark with no more Internet, connections to the outside world or digital devices of any sort.
Without screens to spread the virus, there can be no new infected victims through that measure, and that part of the problem is controlled. The only thing that is left to deal with is those who are already infected. Since they can kill others and infect them, they also have to be wiped out, and that is exactly what Black Adam does.
With his super-speed, strength and lightning, Black Adam doesn't waste a second to fly through his nation, killing everyone who is infected by the virus -- and even some who aren't. In the name of efficiency, Black Adam sacrifices the lives of many people who are just in proximity to the infected. It's a cruel method that comes at a terrible cost, but it also works: Kahndaq is the only country in the world free of the Anti-Life virus.
Black Adam is a character who isn't exactly known for his bedside manner, and he proves that yet again in DCeased: Hope at World's End #2. The ruler of Kahndaq sacrifices the lives of his people, but he does so in the name of the greater good. The means are questionable to say the least, but the end results speak for themselves. While the rest of the world is overrun, the rest of Kahndaq is safe.
But, unfortunately for him, Black Adam missed one of the infected, and it only took that one oversight to doom himself and presumably his nation.