They chatted as they thought things over.
Gavin and Old Feng, along with five or six office staffers, rode their horses at a leisurely pace for over forty minutes before finally wandering near Farm Town.
The town now looked completely different from when the disaster had first erupted.
After all, on the first night of the disaster, a huge fire had broken out in Farm Town, destroying many of its wooden buildings.
Fortunately, Steve had struggled his way out of town and, while fleeing, used his pickup to knock over the town's water tower, finally putting out the blaze.
Still, even though the fire had not consumed the entire town, nearly a third of it had been covered in black scorch marks.
The charred wood had immediately become a favorite breeding ground for zombie fungus after the rainy season arrived.
As a result, although there were no zombies in Farm Town, more than three zombie-fungus nests had formed in its burned-out areas. The nearby ground was covered in pale fungal mats that made anyone reluctant to approach.
Thus, nearly half of the visible town now bore burn marks—
Because before the crew had moved into the town farm, they had simply set another fire to thoroughly eliminate those fungal mats, burning the areas where they had grown all over again—
Of course, they had prepared to put out the fire beforehand and had not allowed the flames to spread further.
In any case, in Gavin's eyes, the Farm Town before him was now clearly divided into three sections.
The first was the scorched area to the northwest. Centered around the water tower, it spread diagonally across half the town.
The second was the residential area in the south. The town camp's crew had spent half a month restoring around fourteen