You Survived for five years! Your camp ground was over run by a zombie hoard..
Five years. Genuinely impressive. Most people didn't make it past the first gas station they tried to loot, and here you are, half a decade deep into the apocalypse with a functional group, a working vehicle, and apparently some kind of system going. You were prepared, well-connected, and competent enough to keep other people alive too, which is honestly harder than it sounds when everyone is stressed, hungry, and armed.
Your setup was solid from the start. Proper gear, the right supplies, and a real talent for finding decent humans in a world that had very quickly run out of them. Your group made it through cities and towns that would have swallowed lesser survivors whole, scavenging what you needed and keeping the convoy moving. Five years of that is not luck. That is skill, strategy, and probably a very strict rule about who gets to make decisions under pressure.
So what went wrong? Well. The last city was a bust, supplies were basically nonexistent, and someone, presumably the most annoyingly cheerful person in the group, suggested camping by a picturesque little stream. And look, it was probably beautiful. Truly. Lovely spot. Horrible choice. A horde of zombies disagreed with the vibe entirely and crept in while everyone was asleep, which means the group that survived five brutal years of the apocalypse was ultimately undone by a campsite that belonged on a nature retreat brochure.
You lasted longer than almost anyone, built something real out of the chaos, and kept people alive through genuinely impossible circumstances. The ending was not your finest hour, obviously, but five years is five years. Take the win, ignore the embarrassing final chapter, and know that in apocalypse terms, you were basically a legend.