Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 571

Chapter 571: Chapter 571: Dead to Me

But before Clark could even touch the snow pear, Melody snatched it off the ground and put it back in the bag.

’What a joke. What right did Clark have to eat her things? She’d feed it to a dog before she’d give it to a gambling degenerate!’

Clark came up empty. He looked up at Melody, his face flushed with anger, no longer bothering to act pitiful. He said exasperatedly, "Give me that pear!"

Hearing this, Melody sneered, "Who do you think you are? Why should I give it to you? I’d throw it away before I’d let you eat it!"

"Listen up! In my heart, you two died during the blizzard. I’m not finding you a place to stay, I’m not giving you a single grain of rice, and I couldn’t care less if you live or die! Now get lost, and don’t ever pester me again!"

With that, she had no intention of tangling with the father and son any longer. She turned, walked around them, and left.

Seeing this, Clark immediately jumped up from the ground. He glared at Melody and said viciously, "I see you’d rather do this the hard way! You wouldn’t listen when we tried to be nice, so don’t blame us for what happens next!"

Seeing Clark puffing out his chest and glaring at her like a fighting cock, Melody didn’t indulge him. She strode up to him and kicked him hard—

Clark was skinny and caught off guard. Melody’s kick sent him flying. He let out a pained cry and collapsed on the ground, a wretched sight.

Seeing this, Cameron Summers’s face darkened. He looked at Melody, frowning. "Niece, are you really going to disown your family? H-how can you be so cold-blooded? ...When you were little, I used the money I saved from my part-time jobs to buy you candy and comic books. Have you forgotten all that?"

"Now your cousin and I can’t go on, and you can’t bear to help us? ...You-you really don’t care about family ties at all?"

Melody looked up at Cameron, her expression blank. "What are you yelling about? You’re the one who doesn’t care about family! When you sat down at the gambling table again and again, hoping to get lucky, you should have expected this outcome—losing everything, your family torn apart."

"Besides, I doubt you were thinking about ’family ties’ when you were gambling. Now that you’ve lost, you want to talk about family? What are you pretending for!"

With every word Melody spoke, Cameron’s expression grew uglier. He was finally realizing that his niece really would disown her own family.

Knowing that Melody wouldn’t help, Cameron dropped the act. He rolled up his sleeves, gave Melody a sinister smile, and said, "Fine, fine... In that case, niece, don’t blame your Uncle Cam for what happens next!"

With that, he balled his fists and lunged at Melody.

Seeing this, Clark scrambled up from the ground in silent understanding, preparing to snatch the plastic bag of food from Melody’s hands.

But before they could even touch Melody, an angry shout came from behind them—

"Stop! What do you think you’re doing!"

Startled by the voice, Cameron and Clark both whipped around to see a police officer approaching with a baton.

Officer Tate hurried over to the three of them. Seeing the scene, he immediately drew the gun from his hip, pointed it at Cameron and Clark, and barked, "Don’t move! What do you think you’re doing?!"

With the dark muzzle of the gun pointed at them, Cameron and Clark’s faces paled in unison. The next second, they actually put their hands on their heads and quickly squatted on the ground.

Watching their practiced movements—hands up, head covered, squatting down, all in one fluid motion—Melody didn’t know whether to laugh or be angry. ’They must have been involved in plenty of illegal activities these past few months,’ she thought. ’Otherwise, they wouldn’t have reacted like this!’

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"This...! Is all of this for me?!"

Joanne White’s eyes widened in astonishment as she looked at the fruit, chocolate, bread, and a roast chicken wrapped in lotus leaves inside the bag.

Although she worked at Rhodes, she was only a temp. She could only eat one meal a day at the employee cafeteria—a fixed portion of rice and two vegetable dishes. An occasional bonus like an egg was strictly limited to one per person, no more.

She hadn’t eaten fruit or roast chicken in a very long time, let alone things like chocolate and bread. Food factories worldwide had shut down two years ago, and these kinds of packaged foods had vanished from the market.

With a trembling hand, Joanne caressed the elegantly wrapped chocolate. She looked at Melody in disbelief and asked again, "...Is this chocolate for me too?"

"Yes, it’s all for you." Melody said sincerely, "You’ve helped me more than once. You were the one who tipped me off when Mr. Caelus came to The Metropolis Residences, and this time you told me about my cousin’s disappearance. This is a thank-you gift. Thank you."

Delighted, Joanne unwrapped a piece of chocolate and popped it into her mouth. The rich aroma of cocoa butter filled her senses, satisfying a primal human craving for high-calorie food.

With the chocolate melting in her mouth, Joanne let out a blissful sigh and joked, "Senior, you’re too good to me. After all the bad things I did back then, you’re still feeding me... Ai, if only you were a guy, I’d definitely use every trick in the book to win you over!"

Melody was amused by her words. Just as she was about to say something, a bloodcurdling scream suddenly echoed from outside the door—

"AH—!"