Chapter 448:

The issues of food and storage were not simple either. Most of the fresh food they found had already gone bad, so they would soon have to rely solely on dry food and canned goods. It was essential to manage the food supplies well, not to release too much from storage while also not letting the residents starve—just enough to keep them half-full.

Fresh food from the Grieving River wasn’t easy to come by either. Two people had gone missing while fishing, suspected to have been killed by mutated fish. Their main storage facility had also been attacked by a horde of rats led by a mutated level 11 rat, which destroyed over 200 pounds of food and injured two people. Lionel was currently building a fortified warehouse for storage.

Mutated animals were starting to appear more frequently, with reports of mutated cats, dogs, goats, and pigs being spotted in the outskirts of towns. This would likely become a significant issue for them in the future.

Today, they found a total of 57 survivors, mos