Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 175

Chapter 175: Chapter 175: Keeping the Appointment

By the time Melody Summers got home from the hospital, it was already lunchtime.

Even though it was just the three of them eating lunch at home now, her grandmother and Miss Lowell had still prepared a lavish meal.

A fragrant lotus root and pork rib soup, with peanuts added, was steaming on the table. The stir-fried preserved vegetables with meat and chili fried rice were also incredibly appetizing.

Just as she finished eating and returned to her room to rest, her phone suddenly buzzed with a new message.

Melody casually opened the text. It was from an unknown number and contained a video.

Melody swiped her finger and played the video. After a slight shake, Nina Walsh’s face appeared abruptly on the screen.

Melody’s eyes widened slightly in surprise—

The lighting in the video was dim. The faint glow from a wall sconce behind her barely illuminated the area where Nina was.

The collar of Nina’s shirt looked damp, and her temples were soaked. A bead of water trickled from her hairline down her forehead, but she seemed completely unaware of it.

Nina stared blankly at the camera for two seconds, then seemed to snap out of it, her eyes darting upward in a panic.

Then she began to speak, her voice slightly hoarse. "C-Cousin, Melody! It’s Nina... I’m... I’ve run away from home. Can you come to The Crestview Hotel?"

Nina seemed nervous, stammering as she spoke. "Melody, whatever you do, don’t contact my dad... We had a fight, and I don’t want him to know where I am. I’m at the hotel all by myself, and I’m a little scared... Melody, can you come see me? I just want someone to talk to!"

The video ended there.

Melody was completely baffled after watching the video. ’What on earth is going on!?’

While Melody was still puzzling over it, another text message came through.

It was also from Nina. She said she was in Room 1108 at The Crestview Hotel and included a location pin.

Melody frowned as she read the message. ’What is all this nonsense?’

Her family and her second uncle’s family barely had any contact. After the matchmaking incident, the two families had practically cut off all ties. Why on earth would Nina inexplicably ask her to a hotel?

Unable to make heads or tails of it, Melody decided to call the number the text had come from.

The phone rang and rang—BEEP... BEEP...—but Nina didn’t pick up.

Melody tried calling persistently a few more times, but Nina never answered. Eventually, she got an automated message: "The number you have dialed is currently unavailable."

Melody frowned at her phone. ’Did Nina block me?’

Melody found it even more bizarre. ’If she blocked me, then why ask me to come over in the first place?’

After hanging up, Melody watched the video from Nina again.

In the video, Nina’s face was pale, her lips completely colorless. Her expression as she looked at the camera seemed guilty, mixed with a barely perceptible hint of panic.

She kept glancing away from the camera, as if she was afraid of something.

The more Melody watched, the less it looked like someone who had "run away from home and needed comforting."

Besides, Nina had been doted on by Caleb Summers and Mindy Walsh her entire life. How could she have fought with her parents to the point of running away?

Melody remembered when they had to move the ancestral graves back in their hometown. Caleb Summers and Mindy Walsh had brought Nina back to Anworth Village for a two-day stay.

Nina was young at the time, and it was her first visit to the countryside. She wasn’t used to the food or living conditions. Unaccustomed to the simple rural fare, she threw a tantrum, demanding a specific brand of cream cookies.

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