Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 280

Chapter 280: Chapter 280: False Dawn

The next morning, Melody Summers was awakened by a commotion.

Outside her window, she could hear the excited shouts of the other residents in the complex:

"The sun’s up! The sun’s up!!"

"Look! The sun!! It’s the sun!!"

"It really is the sun! The sun is out!!"

"Everyone, come out! The sun’s up! It’s all over! This godforsaken period is finally over!!"

"Oh, thank God! The sun’s finally out! I haven’t seen the sun in half a year!"

"..."

These shouts were like a beam of light, piercing through the heavy cloud cover and instantly illuminating the entire residential complex.

The residents in the complex, ignoring the bitter cold, bundled up in thick clothes, stepped out of their homes, and gathered below their apartment buildings to gaze up at the sky.

Having not seen the sun for so long, the residents shielded their eyes, which were unaccustomed to the light.

They squinted, admiring the golden sun on the horizon, unable to hold back their excited cries.

Melody woke up amidst this chorus of excited shouts.

She raised a hand to rub her drowsy eyes, climbed out of bed, and opened the window to look outside.

The sun was just rising in the east. The gentle morning light spilled down, warm and dazzling, breathing life into a world that had long been shrouded in darkness.

After half a year of endless night, the volcanic ash in the atmosphere had finally settled to the ground with the snow, and Terra welcomed a long-awaited dawn.

Melody looked over at the complex’s public square in the distance and saw that quite a few people had gathered there as well.

Elated by the sun’s appearance, the residents began to voluntarily help the property management clean up the black snow on the ground.

It was as if this black snow was the final stumbling block to a return to normalcy. If they could just clear it away, Terra could go back to how it was before the cataclysm.

...

After getting up, Melody quickly washed up and went to the living room, carrying Albus.

In the living room, the thick, light-blocking curtains had been pulled back to create a wide gap, allowing sunlight to stream through the window and cast a faint golden glow on the dining table.

Her grandma, Miss Lowell, and her aunt were in the kitchen preparing breakfast, their laughter and chatter drifting out from time to time.

Before long, a hearty breakfast was ready. The Summers family sat down together and began to eat around the dining table.

Melody picked up a pan-fried beef bun. It was steaming hot. She took a bite, the crispy skin and the tender, juicy filling a perfect combination.

Seeing the long-lost sunlight had put the whole family in a good mood.

Grace Sutton sighed with emotion. "The sun is finally out. It’s been almost half a year since we last saw it. I’m actually not used to it!"

Colin Summers nodded in agreement. "Yeah, when I got up and saw the sun, I felt like I was dreaming, like we were back before the cataclysm ever happened."

Her grandma swallowed a bite of her egg pancake and sighed. "If only this disaster would just end like this... that would be wonderful..."

It was now October. The cataclysm, which had started in April of last year, had been going on for nearly two years. For over a year, most people’s lives had been thrown into dire straits.

Everyone hoped that the cataclysm would end immediately.

Melody took a sip of sweet soy milk. ’It’s far too early for the cataclysm to be over,’ she thought. ’The sun’s appearance is the true beginning of this blizzard disaster!’

In her past life, Melody had also cheered when the sun came out, believing then that the disaster was about to end.

But to her surprise, over the next three months, massive blizzards swept the globe, plunging all of Terra directly into a period of extreme cold and ice.

At the time, experts had said that Terra had essentially entered an "ice age." Most of the planet’s surface was covered in ice and snow, and the oceans had frozen to a depth of hundreds of meters...

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