Quite a few vegetables had survived.
The fields were simply overrun with weeds, with more grass than vegetables.
But the five of them were delighted.
Something was better than nothing.
"Good thing zombies don't contaminate the soil, or we'd really be finished."
The five of them searched through the weeds.
They could still identify the more obvious cabbages, but with so many weeds, the rest were rather difficult to make out.
"There's a patch of pumpkins and sweet potatoes here!"
Pumpkins and sweet potatoes were both good things. Their leaves and fruits were edible, sweet potatoes could serve as a staple food, and pumpkins also had a high yield.
Overjoyed, the five hurriedly picked quite a few pumpkins, pumpkin blossoms, pumpkin vines, sweet potatoes, and sweet potato leaves to take back.
Together with the celery, cabbage, amaranth, shepherd's purse, scallions, garlic, and other things they had gathered,
they could already make a hearty dinner.
After being busy for so long, they were quite hungry too.
"There's a ditch here, but the water in it doesn't look very clean."
The five had no idea how to deal with the water.
After all, they had previously moved between different survivor settlements. The settlements provided water; although there was little of it, at least it was guaranteed to be uncontaminated.
"Let's take the vegetables back first."
Just as the five were about to return to the town, they saw a car swaying toward them ahead. But whether it had run out of gas or suffered some other problem, it stopped on the small road.
Behind the car, more than a dozen zombies were chasing after it.
Though they were roughly a thousand meters behind, that distance was only a few minutes for zombies.
The people in the car were clearly panicking. Before long,