All Dead
But that still didn't explain why dead people were coming back to life. Jake had witnessed firsthand how this Wengol Player had summoned an old jar to poison or curse all these Wengols, and their vital signs were somewhat inconsistent.
Their body temperature had not changed, but their hearts were no longer beating. What seemed to animate them was the black gas that had taken up residence in their bodies. Yet the gas soon evaporated from these victims, dispersing into the atmosphere as if it had never existed.
Only Jake and Ruby with their special eyes could see how the gas coalesced again once it was camouflaged by the dark clouds, the black snake streaking westward like a flicker of shadow. Presumably the direction to which the Wengol Player had teleported.