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A possible link between NDU and Shangri La?


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I was reading about the book 'Lost Horizon' by James Hilton, and within the plotline there is a small link between NDU and Shangri La. I will make this clearer in just a minute.

'Lost Horizon' is a Novel by James Hilton, it contains the first mention of the place Shangri La, which as we know is the next Zombies map. Within the Wikipedia article on 'Lost Horizon' i found this:

In May 1931, during the British Raj in India, the 80 white residents of Baskul are being evacuated to Peshawar, owing to a revolution. In the airplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are Conway, the British consul, age 37; Mallinson, his young vice-consul; an American, Barnard; and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow. The plane is hijacked and flown instead over the mountains to Tibet. After a crash landing, the pilot dies, but not before telling the four (in Chinese, which Conway knows) to seek shelter at the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La. The location is unclear, but Conway believes the plane has "progressed far beyond the western range of the Himalayas towards the less known heights of the Kuen-Lun" (i.e. Kunlun).

Ring any bells with anyone?

A crashed plane in the middle of no-where with only four survivors, seeking refuge in a small, unknown place of shelter. Of course, NDU is a twisted, zombified version of events, but still, could this book not only be the inspiration for the newest map, but also partially for the storyline of the first?

I hope that people can take something from this, maybe even form ideas from it, in no means is it a complete theory, merely scraps of information, but it might hold something.

One other thing, the inspiration for Shangri La in 'Lost Horizons' is a mountain range in southwest China, so travelling to Germany from Japan, accross China is not entirely implausible.

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Honestly, it does look that way, but then there are loads of coincidences within the storyline, maybe little Real Life easter eggs that Treyarch want us to see, almost like a real life treasure hunt!

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The only connections I see is that a plane crashed, and it's incredibly loose as it says it crashed IN Shangri-La. Personally I see no link, but IDK.

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