Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 222

Chapter 222

Blood loss had his vision going black.

Gu Huaiwei immediately took bandages, Inhibitor, and anti-inflammatory medicine out of the Jade Bracelet.

“Save him. Don’t let him die.” She tossed the supplies to Bai Miemie.

Bai Miemie first wiped Zhang Wenwu’s sweat with a tissue.

Her cutting technique just now had already ensured the wound was as neat as possible. The instant she sliced it off, she had sutured the blood vessels to keep him from dying of blood loss.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Miemie will sew it back on for you.”

Zhang Wenwu was in no state to cry. He was about to kick the bucket.

Bai Miemie removed stitches, sewed… and transformed from butcher back into toy repairman.

She came from Paradise. Beneath her human Skin Suit was the heart of a beast.

Zhang Wenwu had already passed out from the terrible pain.

Gu Huaiwei held a paintbrush in her hand, adding the final touches of color.

Her work was not confined to realism. It focused more on capturing the spirit.

As for what that artistic conception was, the viewer would have to comprehend it for themselves.

Han Zhusheng had already repaired the bookshelf. After he finished organizing the books scattered across the floor, Gu Huaiwei’s painting was also nearly complete.

He walked over, ready to appreciate Gu Huaiwei’s work. The instant he saw her painting, he fell silent.

“This is your work?”

“Yep.” Gu Huaiwei clapped her hands and looked at her masterpiece with great satisfaction.

Seeing Han Zhusheng’s silence, she immediately knitted her brows and warned him first, “Let me say the ugly part up front. You can criticize my character, but you are not allowed to criticize my artwork.”

Han Zhusheng stared at the enormous blob on the white paper, attempting to connect the contents of the painting with its subject.

He raised a hand, pointed at one abstract area, and asked, “Is this uneven circle the Library’s ceiling light? Are these black dots the shadows inside the light?”

“No, that circle is your handsome head.” Gu Huaiwei pointed at the tangled mass of lines beside it. “This is your hair, and these two black dots are your eyes…”

Gu Huaiwei began explaining her painting in detail.

After Bai Miemie finished sewing him up, she abandoned the unconscious Zhang Wenwu to one side. Her fluffy little head poked in under Gu Huaiwei’s elbow, like a curious bit of fleece peeking around.

“I thought this part was the belly, and the black dots were two little nippies,” Bai Miemie said, her eyes full of curiosity.

When Gu Huaiwei heard that, her eyes widened at once, and she said unhappily, “What belly is that small?”

Bai Miemie smiled sweetly. “But faces aren’t that round either.”

Han Zhusheng had not looked in a mirror for a very long time.

He even began to wonder whether, along with the Samsara of the Instance and the deepening pollution, he truly had twisted into the form shown in the painting.

“Tonight at midnight, bring this work of yours to me. Together, you and I will give this gift to my mother.”

After Gu Huaiwei agreed, Han Zhusheng and the Library staff left the second-floor Newspaper Reading Area.

When they withdrew, the cold, oppressive aura vanished along with them. The red flashing light at the entrance of the Newspaper Reading Area turned green.

Gu Huaiwei helped Zhang Wenwu up. She took a wheelchair out of the Jade Bracelet and lifted the big man into it. While she was at it, she applied anti-inflammatory medicine to the stump of his lost left hand and wrapped it in bandages.

His other hand and both feet had only just been sewn back on. The bones, meridians, and skin had all been sutured, but Bai Miemie’s thread had limited durability. He still needed to recover and could not move violently for the time being.

The cross necklace around Qin Yuhuan’s neck was an Anomaly Artifact that concealed her presence.

However, Anomaly Artifacts were useless against Gu Huaiwei. She was not an Anomaly, after all.
Bai Miemie pushed the wheelchair, jogging along behind Gu Huaiwei. Following Qin Yuhuan’s scent in the air, Gu Huaiwei crossed the lobby and arrived at the women’s restroom on the first floor.

She pushed the door open. Inside, the faucet was running with red liquid. The light overhead flickered on and off. There were five toilet stalls in total; the doors of the first four were all left slightly ajar, their interiors pitch-black.

Only the fifth stall was tightly shut.

Qin Yuhuan was hiding in the last stall.

When Gu Huaiwei kicked the door open, Qin Yuhuan’s face was pale, and she was clutching a toilet plunger nervously. The red cross emitted a faint glow, concealing the human aura on her body.

“Don’t be nervous. I’m here to return your husband.”

Gu Huaiwei stepped aside, and Qin Yuhuan saw the unconscious Zhang Wenwu in the wheelchair.

“Wenwu.” She grew agitated and tried to rush over to check on her husband.

Gu Huaiwei immediately held Qin Yuhuan back, stopping her from getting close. “Careful. You’re pregnant. You can’t get too worked up.”

“Your hand… it’s warm…” Qin Yuhuan looked at Gu Huaiwei in disbelief.

Just now, Qin Yuhuan had clearly seen the young woman before her chatting and laughing with an Anomaly.

She should have been on the same side as the Anomaly. Why would she help Trial-taker participants like them?

“Here’s the situation. Before your husband passed out, he owed us one condition. Now it’s time for him to repay it…” Gu Huaiwei briefly explained what had happened upstairs, then took out two main contracts and one supplementary contract.

The supplementary contract contained the clauses for the baby.

Qin Yuhuan mistook the contracts for invitations to a new Instance.

Zhang Wenwu was in Gu Huaiwei’s hands, so for the sake of her husband’s safety, she signed without hesitation.

Gu Huaiwei no longer explained the nature of Oasis Sanatorium to Trial-taker participants.

Anyone who bore the title of Trial-taker was always wary.

They would not believe that Gu Huaiwei, whose origins were unknown, had no intention of harming them and was even willing to help them.

In that case, she might as well let the misunderstanding stand. They accepted Gu Huaiwei’s help while paying the “price” of going to a new Instance. It was reasonable, and easier for them to accept.

When she left the women’s restroom, Gu Huaiwei held the contracts in her hand and ignored the sweet, post-disaster tenderness of the two people behind her. She was in a very good mood.

The first stall door in the women’s restroom slowly opened.

A pair of blood-red eyes peered out.

“What are you looking at? Use the toilet. Don’t be so nosy.” Gu Huaiwei casually shut the door for the Anomaly.

Another stall stretched out a pale hand, as if asking to borrow something.

Gu Huaiwei placed a piece of Lifespan Yellow Paper into the Anomaly’s hand, and the hand slowly withdrew.

The chill in the women’s restroom grew even stronger.

Sensing that something was wrong, Gu Huaiwei reminded the two behind her, who were in the middle of their tearful reunion.

“Miss Qin, you’d better push your husband out of here first.”

“Okay… We’ll leave right now.” Qin Yuhuan also knew this place was dangerous. She wiped away her tears and hurriedly pushed Zhang Wenwu away.

Only after they had left did Gu Huaiwei walk out of the women’s restroom.

Before leaving, she glanced at the mirror above the sink.

Reflected in the mirror was the third stall door. Looking at it directly, the wooden door was merely left ajar.

But in the sink mirror, the wooden door stood wide open. At the entrance stood a woman in red with disheveled hair, holding a pair of scissors.

The red water in the sink spread outward.

The woman’s hair was very long, hanging down into the water.

Just now, when the woman in red inside the mirror appeared, the temperature in the women’s restroom dropped, and the other Anomaly presences began to stir.