Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 204

Chapter 204: Chapter 204

Thinking of the two rescued children, a look of pity crossed Winnie Summers’s face. She shook her head and said, "Those two kids are in a terrible state. Their entire bodies are covered in signs of abuse... They must have been through too much trauma. Ever since they were rescued, they’ve just been in a daze."

Officer Tristan Tanner brought the two children back to the emergency response office, where Crystal Lynch quietly gave them some canned food and compressed biscuits.

She had expected the children to wolf down the food, but instead of taking it, they just cowered on the floor in fear.

It was as if they had been starved to the point of numbness.

The staff at the emergency response office saw this and didn’t know what to do with them. In their condition, they surely wouldn’t survive, even if they were sent to a government shelter.

For the time being, all they could do was leave the two children in the property management office, where the staff would take turns looking after them.

Winnie Summers sighed and continued, "After what happened, the emergency response office is taking this very seriously. They’re planning to conduct a full door-to-door survey over the next few days to see if anyone has vanished without explanation..."

Although The Metropolis Residences had just experienced a terrorist attack yesterday, before that, it had always been one of the safest communities in the city.

That’s why since the catastrophe, many people have come to The Metropolis Residences to rent homes or seek refuge with relatives. The community’s population has nearly doubled in just a few short months.

The more people, the more problems—especially in a dog-eat-dog world like this.

You can’t gamble on people’s hearts in the apocalypse. Just look at those two poor children; before they arrived, they had no way of knowing whether the relatives they had traveled so far to join were people or monsters. All the emergency response office can do is investigate promptly.

Melody Summers sighed softly. The long night was due to end next month, but that meant the blizzards and extreme cold would come. She wondered what things would be like then.

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「The Simmons Villa.」

Joanne White’s mother bustled about the villa’s kitchen for hours, finally finishing a fragrant pot of celtuce chicken soup.

She ladled the soup into a white porcelain bowl and carefully carried it to Joanne White.

Joanne White’s eyes lit up at the familiar aroma.

She immediately lifted the porcelain bowl, took an eager sip, and said happily, "Thank you, Mom."

Joanne White had been suffering from morning sickness for nearly two weeks. This pregnancy was even harder than the last; she couldn’t keep anything down. Today was a rare day when she had an appetite, and she’d been craving the celtuce chicken soup her mother used to make. Mrs. White had immediately rushed to the kitchen to cook it for her personally.

Watching Joanne White finish the entire bowl of soup, spoonful by spoonful, Mrs. White gave a relieved smile. "As long as you’re eating, that’s what matters," she said, fussing. "Eat a little more. You’ve lost weight since getting pregnant. That won’t do. You need to eat more meat."

Joanne White set down the empty bowl, and her mother immediately moved to refill it. "Have another bowl. I made a whole chicken’s worth."

But Joanne White shook her head, a wry smile on her lips. "No more, Mom. I’m afraid if I eat any more, I’ll just throw it all up again."

Mrs. White sighed at her daughter’s words, her face clouding with worry. She glanced at the maid cleaning outside the door, then turned back to Joanne White and whispered, "My child, you’re suffering... If you’re really this miserable..."

Mrs. White trailed off, unable to finish.

’She wanted to say that if Joanne White was truly this miserable, she should just terminate the pregnancy with medication while it was still in the early stages.’

’In these years since the catastrophe, with unrest everywhere and medical resources stretched thin, it was a terrible time to have a baby.’

’On top of that, Joanne White had been frail since she was a child, and her last delivery had been a brush with death.’

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