Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 176

Chapter 176

Gu Huaiwei pushed open the door and entered. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary inside the room.

Lu Beijiu was sitting on the sofa, surrounded by a bloody aura invisible to ordinary people.

A viscous, metallic scent of rust hung in the air, thick enough to be nauseating.

That stench of blood was emanating directly from him.

Lu Beijiu’s gaze locked onto Gu Huaiwei, but the light couldn’t seem to penetrate his pitch-black pupils.

His posture was somewhat stiff. Upon closer inspection, one could see that his pinky and ring fingers appeared to be fused together.

“Is the Baptism Ritual complete?”

He didn’t ask why Lin She had left the room.

Lu Beijiu loved to drink, but he had barely touched the newly opened bottle of liquor on the table.

Gu Huaiwei felt that something was wrong with the man in front of her. Instead of answering, she countered with a question: “Why didn’t you wait for me in Sister Yu’s office?”

Lu Beijiu’s tone was flat, his expression devoid of any anxiety. “I heard the alarm, so I came back to my room first to stay out of the maintenance crew’s way.”

The logic was flawed.

As a core member of the Dawn Alliance, Lu Beijiu should have immediately gone to verify the situation and meet with Sister Yu after hearing the alarm, rather than returning to his room as if nothing had happened.

Gu Huaiwei was still considering how to test him further.

Lin She, however, couldn’t be bothered with games. He turned his head and spoke to Gu Huaiwei with absolute certainty: “He isn’t Lu Beijiu. He’s that Half-finished Product that appeared at the entrance of the Oasis Matchmaking Agency before.”

He exposed the person’s disguise directly.

Bluntly.

Leaving no room for excuses.

Gu Huaiwei immediately pulled a mirror from her pocket and aimed it at the “Lu Beijiu” before her.

Reflected in the mirror was a massive monster.

It possessed a warped, Alien body. Its limbs grew like festering vines, and various Worms swarmed within its flesh, each one bloated and glistening with grease.

A dozen heads hung from its tentacles. Gu Huaiwei recognized several familiar faces among them: Chen Liuxiang, Zhou Chuanning, and the most recent addition-Lu Beijiu…

Those heads all had their eyes wide open, grinning at Gu Huaiwei.

“Give me your body!”

Countless tentacles erupted from the “Lu Beijiu’s” body, lashing out at Gu Huaiwei. The heads let out cackling laughs, their mouths hanging open as they called out in unison.

“Come, join us!”

“Let us become one!”

“I am in you! You are in me! We are one happy whole!”

“Get that ugly thing away from me!” Gu Huaiwei used her dagger to sever several tentacles, but they seemed to possess a life of their own, continuously regenerating from the Half-finished Product’s body.

She dodged every attack with agile movements.

Lin She watched the Half-finished Product before him with a hint of pity for its lost nutritional value.

This was the price of turning one’s back on Paradise and falling into depravity.

Gu Huaiwei noticed Lin She standing still, apparently having no intention of helping.

Meanwhile, this damn creature was only targeting her.

It was completely unfair.

She immediately performed a roll and ducked behind Lin She.

If there was going to be a fight, they were in it together.

Gu Huaiwei dragged Lin She into the fray.

“Lin She, hit him! Rip every single one of those tentacles off him!”

“Turn around and close your eyes,” Lin She requested, making the exact same demand He Xueyi once had.

It was a request that went against every one of Gu Huaiwei’s instincts.
She only felt at ease when the knife was in her own hand.

“How about we team up?” Gu Huaiwei gripped her dagger, her eyes fixed on the enemy.

Lin She did not move; he was unwilling to let Gu Huaiwei see his true form.

“You can trust me. I will handle this Half-finished Product.”

The person in front of her wore the face of Lu Beijiu. Gu Huaiwei hacked off several more of the opponent’s tentacles, but new ones quickly grew back from the severed stumps, seemingly endless.

Countless Black Flying Insects swarmed toward Gu Huaiwei.

They were so dense that they blocked out the light in the room.

The entire room plunged into darkness in an instant.

Gu Huaiwei launched several proactive attacks, using her feet to crush the Black Flying Insects that tried to devour her.

It wasn’t working. Her physical attacks couldn’t kill the thing in front of her.

“Fine, I’ll trust you this time.” Gu Huaiwei plucked a few Worms out of her hair, then turned around and closed her eyes.

She was nervous.

Every muscle in her body was taut.

The knife in her hand remained firmly gripped.

The moment Gu Huaiwei closed her eyes, her other four senses-which had recently been enhanced-were magnified to the extreme.

She heard a faint rustling sound, like scales scraping against the cracks in the floorboards.

In the air, besides the original stench of blood, Gu Huaiwei caught a damp, fishy smell coming from the darkness. It was a unique scent, like moist soil mixed with rotting leaves-pungent, bitter, and cold, the kind of smell only found in a swamp.

Worms began falling from the air one after another.

The sound of shattering glass came from behind her.

It wasn’t until those Worms had fallen to the ground like black rain and the light in the room was restored that Gu Huaiwei spoke. “Is it settled?”

“Most of it is. He shouldn’t have any extra energy to harass you again,” Lin She said, his voice sounding displeased.

Gu Huaiwei turned back and saw that the sleeve of Lin She’s black shirt had been torn open. There was a viscous green liquid on his hand that was currently corroding his skin.

He seemed unable to feel the pain.

“You’re injured?” Gu Huaiwei frowned. The Half-finished Product they spoke of was much more powerful than she had imagined.

A Fallen Operator who had traveled through different Dimensions possessed an extremely powerful, mutated body. They were not so easily dealt with.

“A minor injury. Please don’t mind it.” Lin She felt apologetic for his lapse in performance; he hadn’t been able to completely kill the Half-finished Product, allowing a portion of it to escape.

Gu Huaiwei unscrewed a bottle of Mineral Water and helped him wash the corrosive slime off his hand.

“He should still be in the base. I’ll find him and clean him up thoroughly before we leave.”

Lin She’s dark green eyes shimmered with a ghostly light. He would not allow any flaws in his work.

“We’ll see. If he shows himself, then you can act. If he stays hidden, there’s no need for us to go looking for trouble.”

Gu Huaiwei’s primary goal was to obtain the information regarding her sister from the Dawn Alliance.

Now that the task was complete, she only wanted to leave this wretched place.

In the filthy room, a single living Black Flying Insect hid stealthily among a pile of Worm corpses.

The countless dead bodies of the Worms masked its presence.

After Gu Huaiwei and Lin She left the room, the Black Flying Insect flew up from the pile of corpses.

With its wings vibrating, it followed them.