I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Ignoring everyone's objections, Jiang Li carried her basket on her back and walked eastward alone.

"Mom? Jiang Li went to the east alone, what should we do?"

Ye Qing glanced at Jiang Li's retreating figure, then at her own mother, her face filled with anxiety.

Li Lan stared at Jiang Li's retreating figure, her brows furrowed deeply.

"No way! She'll go alone; she's not an evolved being. If she runs into a mutated beast, who knows what might happen!"

"Why don't a few of you come with me to the east? That way we can look out for each other. Even though we've been to the east before, there might be some new resources that have emerged. We can't just let that girl go there alone."

Wang Guihua sneered, "Li Lan, I think you're just used to playing the good guy. It's her business if she wants to die, what does it have to do with us? You know there are no resources in the east, yet you're still dragging people eastward. People aren't stupid, who would want to go with you?"

"Exactly! Li Lan, why do you care what she does? We're here to find food, not to be treated like saints!"

Li Lan gritted her teeth, looking at Jiang Li, who wasn't much older than her own daughter. She couldn't bear to watch Jiang Li get into trouble. When she left in the morning, Jiang Li's younger brother said he was waiting for his sister to come back. The two siblings had a very good relationship. If Jiang Li were to leave and never return, her brother would probably cry himself to death.

Li Lan looked at Zhou Tie, "Tiezi, come with us to the east."

Zhou Tie readily agreed, "Okay."

Li Lan, Ye Qing, Ye Tong, and Zhou Tie turned around and chased after Jiang Li.

Sun Dayong's eyes widened in disbelief. "I think Li Lan and her group have gone mad! Why waste time looking for that little girl? What kind of world is this? Why bother with such things? They'll come back empty-handed, let's see if she'll cry then!"

"Dayong, shut up." Chen Feng glanced at Sun Dayong. "Li Lan's land and Jiang Li's land are adjacent; they're neighbors, after all."

"What's wrong with the neighbors?" Wang Guihua sneered. "I heard that Jiang Li isn't even an evolved being, and her younger brother is just a newly evolved useless person. Trying to curry favor with neighbors like that will not only get you nothing, but will also drag you down."

A young woman named Su Xiao spoke up from the crowd: "Sister Wang, let's ignore them and hurry up and find some wild vegetables. Your family has a lot of people, and if we can't find any, the next week will be tough."

These words reminded Wang Guihua.

She has three sons and one daughter, as well as her parents-in-law. If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't afford to support such a large family at the farm, she wouldn't have come out to farm.

Wang Guihua rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I don't care what they do. If all young people could be as sensible as Su Xiao, that would be great."

Sun Dayong: "Exactly! This unevolved piece of trash is so arrogant. He's nowhere near as good as our Su girl. He's incredibly willful! He went against the team on his first day out to dig for wild vegetables. He's practically defying the heavens!"

Su Xiao curled the corners of her mouth upon hearing this.

She came out relatively early and became very familiar with this group of people. Among the young people who came out to farm, she was the most popular.

The group, carrying knives and shovels, compared Jiang Li and Su Xiao as they walked westward.

"Sister Jiang, wait for me."

Jiang Li heard Ye Qing's voice behind her halfway down the road.

"Why are you here?"

Ye Qing: "My mom was worried about you being alone, so she asked Zhou Tie to come with us. Zhou Tie is a level four power evolver. He once killed a mutated wolf with his bare hands. He's very powerful! It will be much safer with him around."

Jiang Li glanced at Zhou Tie, a dark-skinned young man who looked quite robust.

Being able to kill a wolf with her bare hands is quite impressive; she's much stronger than her useless younger brother.

Jiang Li smiled and said, "You don't need to come and follow me. I can manage on my own."

"What can you do?"

Li Lan glared at Jiang Li with annoyance, "You haven't evolved yet! You're powerless, what will you do if you encounter a mutated beast? You should stick with the main group from now on, if anything happens, the evolved ones will take care of you."

"Young people shouldn't act impulsively; they only have confidence when they're out with the main group."

The group searched along the way, but the resources in this area had already been exhausted, and they couldn't find anything to pick.

Holding the empty basket, Ye Qing looked somewhat disappointed. "Mom, are we really going to find any wild vegetables today?"

"So what if we can't find it? We're already here, we might as well keep looking and find what we missed before."

The mountain was covered with huge, dense plants. Many wild vegetables looked big, but after testing, they were all inedible. The only ones that were edible were the unmutated, ordinary plants that looked the same size as before the apocalypse.

Jiang Li looked at the dense patch of small green dots closest to her on the online picture, and instinctively felt that it must be wild vegetables, so she lifted her foot and walked in that direction.

"Let's go take a look over there."

Li Lan looked over and frowned.

"There are mutated thorn bushes over there, it's hard to walk on, we might get injured, let's find another place."

"It's alright, I'll lead the way with my sickle, just follow me."

Li Lan didn't want to go, but seeing Jiang Li's determined look, she had no choice but to give in.

"Alright then."

Since we're already here, and no one has ever been behind that thicket of thorns...

Hoping for a stroke of luck, Li Lan followed.

After passing through the thicket of thorns, a bright and clear view suddenly appeared before us.

At first glance, nothing seemed different, but upon closer inspection, Li Lan's eyes widened!

Is she seeing things?

Li Lan rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

It was a whole patch of ferns! The plants varied in size and shape, clearly a mix of mutated and non-mutated ones. In any case, with such a large patch, there must be quite a few edible ones among them.

Ye Qing's eyes lit up instantly.

Zhou Tie randomly picked a plant, tested it, and it showed a green light. He immediately became excited, "Quick, dig them up! Quite a few that haven't mutated!"

"Girl! You're really something!"

Li Lan excitedly patted Jiang Li's shoulder, making Jiang Li's body tremble.

The five people quickly picked and tested them. Sure enough, only a few of them were non-mutated and non-toxic, but the number of them was too large.

As she filled her basket with wild vegetables, Li Lan's smile gradually widened.

"Not bad, not bad, there are indeed quite a lot to eat."

"There are so many, if we five share them, each of us can pick quite a lot."

Although it was said that whoever picked it kept it, no one rushed to grab it. They were all relaxed, checking the fruit as they tossed it into their baskets.

In the end, almost everyone picked about the same amount.

This is completely different from the previous situation where we pieced things together here and there, but could only manage to put together a dish in the end.

"I've never gotten so many wild vegetables at once before!" Zhou Tie said with a smile, looking very satisfied.

At this moment, there are at least two pounds in his basket!

"This is all thanks to Jiang Li."

Li Lan thought Jiang Li was really lucky.

The main group had searched the entire area but hadn't found many edible wild vegetables, yet Jiang Li found them as soon as she arrived.

"There are more ahead." Jiang Li stood up and looked at another green dot that was quite large.

"There's more ahead?" Li Lan asked, puzzled.

She looked ahead but saw nothing, wondering where the wild vegetables Jiang Li had mentioned were.

Jiang Li: "This place is behind the thorn bushes. No one comes here, which means no one has been to the place in front either. There might be more ahead."

Li Lan realized what she meant and exclaimed, "You're right!"

Ye Qing: "Let's go quickly."

The five people walked forward with great enthusiasm, carrying their baskets on their backs.

After climbing a small slope, Li Lan was once again stunned by the scene before her.

Down the hillside, several mutated pheasants were seen eating vegetables with their heads down!