Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 429

Chapter 429: Chapter 429: The Heating Stopped

Melody Summers took off her hat the moment she stepped inside, rubbing her cheeks, which were numb and stinging from the cold.

But the next second, she was shocked to discover the temperature inside was almost the same as it was outside!

’This can’t be right!’

A chill shot straight to her head, seeming to travel up each strand of hair to her brain. Melody Summers quickly put her hat back on.

With a puzzled look, she asked Noelle Quillan, "Why is it so cold in here?!"

Even though the heating hadn’t been very strong lately, the indoor temperature should have at least hovered around freezing.

But now, Melody Summers felt the living room was as cold as the hallway, at least forty or fifty degrees below zero.

Noelle Quillan, wrapped in a thick quilt, exhaled a dense white fog with every breath. Her voice trembled as she answered, "...The... the heating went out... the day before yesterday..."

The heating had been intermittent for a while, shutting off from time to time, but it usually only stopped for a few hours at a time. This was the first time it had been off for more than 48 hours straight.

Melody Summers was stunned. "The heating is out?!"

The Summers Family had always used natural gas for their own heating. With the power out now too, no one was talking in the homeowners’ group chat, so Melody Summers hadn’t known the heating had failed.

After a moment of shock, Melody Summers realized what was happening. She remembered from her past life that during the extreme cold, the government’s heating had also been sporadic. By the end of 2026, it had shut down completely.

There wasn’t enough energy, with shortages of coal and fuel, so the government had no other options. In her past life, many people had died during the cold disaster. Many who had survived the extreme heat and the long night couldn’t escape this deep freeze and ended up freezing to death in their own homes.

Thinking of this, Melody Summers felt a sense of helplessness. It was currently December 2026, and the weather wouldn’t warm up until March of next year at the earliest. That meant they still had nearly three more months to endure...

Noelle Quillan looked at Melody Summers’s crimson cheeks and said with a trembling voice, "...It’s too cold out here. Let’s go to the bedroom! I have a charcoal fire burning in there, so it’s a bit warmer than the living room!"

Just from being out in the living room for this short time, Noelle Quillan felt like her eyes were about to freeze shut.

Melody Summers nodded and followed Noelle Quillan into the bedroom.

The moment they stepped into the bedroom, Melody Summers was hit by a thick, foul stench!

The smell was so overpowering that Melody Summers staggered back two steps, bumping right into the wall behind her.

She pinched her nose in surprise and asked Noelle Quillan, "Wh-what is that smell?!..."

’Could it be that Gene Young and his wife are dead?! Is this the smell of rotting corpses?’

Hearing this, Noelle Quillan rubbed her hands together awkwardly and answered in a small voice, "...I dried our feces and burned it as fuel, so it smells a bit... I thought it would be a way to save some coal."

Gene Young and his wife had hoarded a decent amount of supplies, and there was enough coal for the time being, but Noelle Quillan was a thrifty person. To save coal, she had dried her own feces and that of the couple to use as fuel.

So, while the room was warm, it was filled with a lingering, foul odor.

After hearing Noelle Quillan’s explanation, Melody Summers didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She could only hold her breath for the moment and scan the room.

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