Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 151

Chapter 151: Chapter 151: A Surge in Peach Blossom Value

After breakfast, Melody Summers took Grace Sutton to the hospital.

Fortunately, the knife wound wasn’t deep, and since it had been treated promptly the day before, the wound wasn’t infected.

Melody Summers was relieved to see this. As the doctor redressed Grace Sutton’s wound, Melody went out to pay the bill.

While paying the bill, Melody Summers took a look around. The last time she was at this hospital, she thought it was rather quiet with few patients. But today, the hospital was surprisingly crowded. Many patients were suffering from infections and pneumonia caused by the volcanic ash.

It seemed the air pollution was inevitably affecting a great number of people.

Unlike the previous heatwave, which you could escape simply by hiding in an air-conditioned room, the global atmospheric pollution was a different beast. Even wealthy families with air purifiers couldn’t be completely sure they were safe from the contaminating volcanic ash.

Melody Summers finished paying, picked up the medication, and was about to head back when she spotted Clara Hayes and a bodyguard checking Sylvia Lancaster out of the hospital.

Melody stood to the side, quietly observing them.

Sylvia Lancaster looked utterly haggard, while Clara Hayes was beside her, comforting her in a low voice.

Melody watched them leave without a word. She recalled what Yuri Walsh had told her about the Sutton family doing a paternity test. ’It looks like the results are in,’ she thought. ’Sylvia Lancaster has been abandoned by both the Suttons and the Lancasters.’

’But why was Clara Hayes the one picking her up from the hospital? Where were Robert Lancaster and Elaine Hughes? And Simon Lancaster... he doted on his sister so much. Why wasn’t he by her side at a time like this?’

Full of questions, Melody walked over to the inpatient ward of the obstetrics and gynecology department. With just a few cans of meat and fruit, she managed to pry out the information she wanted.

The caregiver who accepted the cans told Melody everything she had seen over the past few days. She vividly described Ethan Sutton causing a scene and getting into a brawl with Simon Lancaster, and how the Lancaster family had abandoned Sylvia at the hospital.

Melody’s brow furrowed as she listened.

Ethan Sutton had always claimed his love for Sylvia was deep and unwavering, and Robert Lancaster and Elaine Hughes had told her on multiple occasions how sensible and well-behaved Sylvia was.

’To think they could abandon Sylvia so decisively.’

’Especially Robert and Elaine. Sylvia was the daughter they had doted on for twenty years, yet they had the heart to sever ties with her at a time like this.’

Even the caregiver clucked her tongue in disapproval. "Those parents are truly heartless. Their own daughter just had a miscarriage and is so weak, yet they just dumped her at the hospital. They didn’t even pay her hospital fees! Aren’t they just leaving her for dead?"

Melody remained noncommittal at the comment. After thanking the caregiver, she picked up Grace Sutton, whose wound had been treated, and they left the hospital together.

*

Melody was preoccupied with getting back to her space to make loquat paste, so she drove rather quickly on the way home.

While passing through a section of road with no traffic police, Melody noticed someone trying to flag down her car.

Having learned a lesson from Grace Sutton’s previous experience, Melody didn’t dare to stop and drove right past.

Grace Sutton also grew tense when she saw the person trying to hail them. It was a classic case of "once bitten, twice shy." She knew that in this day and age, you couldn’t afford to be naively kind.

But as soon as the two of them returned to The Metropolis Residences, they found a crowd gathered at the main entrance.

Melody frowned and looked over. A van was pulling away from the complex entrance, and several residents were chasing after it, running and crying out.

They ran after the van for a short distance, but when it pulled too far ahead for them to keep up, they stopped, squatted down on the road, and clung to each other, sobbing uncontrollably.

The night was thick and the surroundings were quiet. Their cries carried clearly to Melody’s ears, and her heart tightened in her chest.

Just then, Melody saw Officer Tate standing by the entrance. She got out of the car and ran over. "Officer Tate, what’s going on? What happened? Why is everyone crying?"

Officer Tate answered with a grave expression, "Two residents committed suicide by jumping from their buildings. Another two passed away from high fevers caused by lung disease."

The van was taking the bodies of the four residents to be cremated. The people chasing the van and crying were the families of those four unfortunate souls.

Officer Tate sighed and continued in a low voice, "All four of them were in their twenties and thirties. In the prime of their lives, and now they’re just... gone."

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