Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 379

Chapter 379: Chapter 379: Conspiracy Theories

Just as the steamed seafood was ready, Colin Summers and Winnie Summers happened to get home.

"Wow!" Colin Summers smelled the fragrant seafood the moment he walked in. He strode to the dining table, looked at the feast of seafood covering it, and couldn’t help but exclaim, "So much seafood! These mantis shrimp are huge!"

Winnie Summers followed him over. Seeing the seafood on the table, she also sighed in appreciation, "It smells amazing!"

Grace Sutton brought over the various dipping sauces she had prepared and said to the two, "Why are you back so late? It must be freezing outside, right? Go change your clothes and wash your hands. We can start eating!"

After they had washed up, the family sat around the table and began to enjoy the sumptuous seafood feast.

Melody Summers eagerly picked up a mantis shrimp, peeled off the shell, and revealed the tender meat inside.

She took the small saucer next to her, spooned a bit of the special sauce, drizzled it evenly over the shrimp, and popped it into her mouth. An intense seafood flavor instantly flooded her senses, the taste of the shrimp and the sauce blending together perfectly.

Melody Summers’s eyes lit up. ’Mmm, delicious!’

’The meat is succulent, the texture is perfectly springy. This is amazing!’

Colin Summers cracked open a crab and praised it as he ate, "This crab is delicious. It’s so full of roe!"

Grace Sutton peeled a shrimp, dipped it in sauce, and put it in her mouth. "They are," she said while chewing. "This seafood was all still fresh when it arrived, so of course it tastes good!"

Colin Summers was a little surprised to hear that. "Fresh? Our city isn’t coastal... Besides, with all this snow outside, how did it get delivered?!"

Winnie Summers, who was peeling shrimp for Melody Summers, looked up when she heard their conversation and answered, "Apparently, it was delivered by drone."

Winnie Summers had been shocked when she first got the call from Sophie Thorne, too. When Sophie told her that Roman Rhodes had bought some seafood for her, she had assumed someone was delivering it in person and immediately refused—the snow outside was too heavy to drive in, and a person would freeze solid after just a short while.

She only relaxed after Sophie Thorne explained it was a drone delivery.

Grace Sutton was puzzled by this. She asked, "A drone?... How did a drone fly all the way to our door?"

Colin Summers was completely clueless as well. He frowned and said, "Yeah, when we came back, we saw that the snow had blocked the entrance to the apartment building. How did the drone get in?"

Listening to her family’s discussion, Melody Summers felt her scalp tingle.

She quickly changed the subject. "Mom, Uncle, did things go smoothly for you today? How are the arrangements for the complex’s heating coming along?"

At this, Winnie Summers shook her head helplessly and replied, "The situation isn’t looking good. We ran tests all day, and if we want to reach the standard temperature for central heating, this batch of coal will be used up very quickly..."

The nationally regulated standard for heating requires an indoor temperature of no less than 18 degrees Celsius, but it’s too cold outside right now, around minus 40 or 50 degrees. That’s a temperature difference of 60 to 70 degrees.

Colin Summers added, "The emergency management office discussed it and decided to temporarily keep the heating temperature at around three or four degrees above zero. That way, the coal supply will last a bit longer."

Speaking of which, Colin Summers couldn’t help but sigh. "Sigh, luckily our complex is newly built with good insulation. For those older communities without proper insulation, this cold disaster is going to be incredibly difficult to get through..."

Melody Summers nodded. Being able to keep the indoor temperature around three or four degrees was already pretty good. While it was still cold, as long as you bundled up, you wouldn’t freeze to death.

After dinner, Melody Summers took out her phone and continued scrolling through the residents’ group chat. She saw that everyone was still talking about the blizzard and the heating:

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