Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 199

Chapter 199: Chapter 199: Hospital Visit

When Melody Summers and Sophie Thorne got home, Grandma and the others had already finished breakfast. Melody told them that Roman Rhodes had found someone to help renovate their villa.

The family was overjoyed to hear that the renovation on the villa had already begun.

Grandma and Miss Lowell pulled Winnie and Melody Summers aside. "Officer Rhodes saved us and found people to help renovate our villa," they said. "He’s still laid up in the hospital. We have to go pay him a visit."

Winnie Summers and Melody Summers nodded. They agreed they had to visit Officer Rhodes. After all, he wouldn’t have gotten hurt if he hadn’t been at their house.

Grandma and Miss Lowell hurried home to gather some fresh ingredients, even catching two fish from the backyard pond. They borrowed Sophie Thorne’s kitchen and prepared some light, nourishing dishes suitable for a patient.

As lunchtime approached, Melody Summers and Winnie Summers took the food containers and drove to Roman Rhodes’s hospital.

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When word got out that Roman Rhodes had woken up, the police department sent several people to the hospital. They were there partly to check on his condition, and partly to discuss the three terrorist attacks that had occurred in the city the previous night.

Roman Rhodes was lying on his side on the hospital bed. An IV needle was in one hand, while the other flipped through a file his subordinate had brought him.

A young officer standing before the bed continued, "Captain Rhodes, that group of terrorists yesterday... they weren’t all adults. Unbelievably, there were several kids under sixteen. They had explosives strapped to their bodies... It was a full-on suicide attack..."

"We captured a few of them alive, but most committed suicide after being subdued. We managed to get one of them to talk. They’re from an organization called the Advent Sect. Their main headquarters in the neighboring province was completely wiped out, but they still have some remnant forces in other provinces..."

Roman Rhodes listened, his eyes still on the file. After a moment of thought, he said gravely, "The Crestview Hotel incident just happened, and now this group plans a terrorist attack... A coincidence this blatant means something is wrong. Start with Adler Enterprises. Investigate the connection between these two groups."

Roman Rhodes paused. ’I should tell them to focus on Hector Hayes,’ he thought. ’After all, the Adler and Hayes families were planning a marriage alliance. The Oceanus Hotel was reported before, and Melody Summers was insistent that there was something wrong with it when she submitted her tip.’

But Roman Rhodes didn’t say it out loud.

’Ever since the Oceanus Hotel was reported, the department had sent people to investigate, but they never found any concrete evidence. Roman had always suspected someone had tipped them off in advance—that there was a mole in the department.’

At that thought, Roman Rhodes subtly scanned the faces of his colleagues in the room. ’This investigation,’ he decided, ’will have to be handled quietly.’

Before long, it was lunchtime, and the visiting officers began to leave one by one.

After the officers had left, Ronan Rhodes came in, carrying a food container.

He placed the container on the table and said to Roman, "Uncle, you must be hungry. The housekeeper had this patient meal made especially for you. It’s all your favorites."

The Rhodes family chef was on par with any from a five-star hotel. Because of Roman’s injury, the meal was light yet exquisitely prepared.

But faced with this spread of fine cuisine, Roman just frowned and shook his head. "I have no appetite. You take it back and eat it. Don’t let it go to waste."

Hearing this, Ronan said anxiously, "That won’t do. How are you supposed to recover if you don’t eat?"

Roman pointed to the IV drip beside him. "I’m getting nutrients. It’s fine if I don’t eat. I really have no appetite. Just take it all away."

Seeing that Roman truly had no appetite, and that the smell of the food even seemed to be making him nauseous, Ronan could only pack up the dishes and carry them out.

After Ronan left, Roman was once again lost in thought.

He mentally constructed a timeline, reviewing his investigation plan against the remnants of the Adler family and the Hayes family.

Roman was pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration, trying to figure out how to investigate Hector Hayes without tipping him off, when the door to his room was suddenly pushed open.

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