Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse Chapter 175: Keeping the Appointment

By the ti lody Sumrs got ho from the hospital, it was already lunchti.

Even though it was just the three of them eating lunch at ho now, her grandmother and Miss Lowell had still prepared a lavish al.

A fragrant lotus root and pork rib soup, with peanuts added, was steaming on the table. The stir-fried preserved vegetables with at and chili fried rice were also incredibly appetizing.

Just as she finished eating and returned to her room to rest, her phone suddenly buzzed with a new ssage.

lody casually opened the text. It was from an unknown number and contained a video.

lody swiped her finger and played the video. After a slight shake, Nina Walsh’s face appeared abruptly on the screen.

lody’s eyes widened slightly in surprise—

The lighting in the video was dim. The faint glow from a wall sconce behind her barely illuminated the area where Nina was.

The collar of Nina’s shirt looked damp, and her temples were soaked. A bead of water trickled from her hairline down her forehead, but she seed completely unaware of it.

Nina stared blankly at the cara for two seconds, then seed to snap out of it, her eyes darting upward in a panic.

Then she began to speak, her voice slightly hoarse. "C-Cousin, lody! It’s Nina... I’m... I’ve run away from ho. Can you co to The Crestview Hotel?"

Nina seed nervous, stamring as she spoke. "lody, whatever you do, don’t contact my dad... We had a fight, and I don’t want him to know where I am. I’m at the hotel all by myself, and I’m a little scared... lody, can you co see ? I just want soone to talk to!"

The video ended there.

lody was completely baffled after watching the video. ’What on earth is going on!?’

While lody was still puzzling over it, another text ssage ca through.

It was also from Nina. She said she was in Room 1108 at The Crestview Hotel and included a location pin.

lody frowned as she read the ssage. ’What is all this nonsense?’

Her family and her second uncle’s family barely had any contact. After the matchmaking incident, the two families had practically cut off all ties. Why on earth would Nina inexplicably ask her to a hotel?

Unable to make heads or tails of it, lody decided to call the number the text had co from.

The phone rang and rang—BEEP... BEEP...—but Nina didn’t pick up.

lody tried calling persistently a few more tis, but Nina never answered. Eventually, she got an automated ssage: "The number you have dialed is currently unavailable."

lody frowned at her phone. ’Did Nina block ?’

lody found it even more bizarre. ’If she blocked , then why ask to co over in the first place?’

After hanging up, lody watched the video from Nina again.

In the video, Nina’s face was pale, her lips completely colorless. Her expression as she looked at the cara seed guilty, mixed with a barely perceptible hint of panic.

She kept glancing away from the cara, as if she was afraid of sothing.

The more lody watched, the less it looked like soone who had "run away from ho and needed comforting."

Besides, Nina had been doted on by Caleb Sumrs and Mindy Walsh her entire life. How could she have fought with her parents to the point of running away?

lody rembered when they had to move the ancestral graves back in their hotown. Caleb Sumrs and Mindy Walsh had brought Nina back to Anworth Village for a two-day stay.

Nina was young at the ti, and it was her first visit to the countryside. She wasn’t used to the food or living conditions. Unaccustod to the simple rural fare, she threw a tantrum, demanding a specific brand of cream cookies.

The small village store didn’t sell them, so Nina started crying.

Seeing how upset Nina was, even though it was already late and the last bus had gone, Caleb Sumrs walked dozens of miles along mountain roads just to buy them for her.

lody, also young at the ti, had never had cream cookies and watched curiously from the doorway. She saw Caleb Sumrs and Mindy Walsh gently holding Nina, one feeding her the cookies, the other giving her sips of water.

Back then, lody had been incredibly envious of Nina.

How could Caleb Sumrs and Mindy Walsh let a precious daughter they had spoiled since birth run away from ho?

lody was filled with doubt. After exiting the video, she glanced at Nina’s ssage again, and her gaze locked onto the three words: "The Crestview Hotel"...

The Crestview Hotel again!

lody suddenly rembered that Ethan Sutton had also ntioned this hotel when he called her before.

Ethan had said that if she didn’t behave, he would send her to The Crestview Hotel, adding that the hotel was very good at "disciplining" people.

lody’s grip on her phone slowly tightened...

’If I’m not mistaken, there must be so shady business going on at The Crestview Hotel!’

lody racked her brain but found she had no mory of this hotel. She hadn’t even heard anyone ntion it in her past life.

lody had no choice but to open a business lookup app and search for The Crestview Hotel’s na.

Following the keywords, she found the corporate page for the Anworth Grand Isle Hotel. In the company’s equity structure, she saw the na "Kenneth Adler."

lody then searched for businesses associated with Kenneth Adler and, sure enough, found Flynn Adler’s na among them.

’It’s all connected...’

lody thought to herself, ’No wonder I didn’t find anything unusual at the Oceanus Hotel before. My reports to the police most likely tipped them off.’

The Adler and Hayes Families must have gotten wind of it ahead of ti and moved so of their illicit business from the Oceanus Hotel to The Crestview Hotel.

As for how the Adler and Hayes Families could have heard about it in advance... lody had no idea. She figured they probably had a mole inside the authorities.

lody watched Nina’s video again, fra by fra. She felt that Nina’s expression in the video definitely wasn’t that of a "runaway little sister seeking comfort from her older cousin." It was more like...

...like she was cooperating with criminals to lure her out.

lody scoffed. Nina had worked with Clara and Hugh Hayes before to try and lure her into an alley for a "lesson." This ti, Nina was most likely using the "running away" excuse to trick her into going out again.

lody recalled her chance encounter with Clara Hayes at the Oceanus Hotel. It seed her ntioning Hugh Hayes back then had provoked Clara, which was why Clara was trying to pull the sa trick again.

lody imdiately opened her phone’s dialer and typed in 110.

But just as she was about to press the call button, she hesitated.

She had told the police about the Oceanus Hotel before, but right after that, the Adler and Hayes Families had imdiately moved their operations to The Crestview Hotel... If she called the police again this ti, would it just give Flynn Adler a heads-up and allow him to escape again?

lody sighed. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust the police; it was that these two families had mastered the art of having multiple hideouts. Combined with the lesson from last ti, she was afraid that reporting it now would just tip them off again.

lody quickly ran through all the problems in her mind. In the end, she decided to go to The Crestview Hotel and et them.

*

lody took stock of the weapons in her storage space. Besides the crossbow, Molotov cocktails, and smoke bombs, she also pulled out a chainsaw.

Then, following the directions from her navigation app, she drove to The Crestview Hotel.