Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 226

Chapter 226

If Han Zhusheng, the Library Director’s darling son, came over, he would feed him poison to help him die sooner and be reborn sooner.

Of course, the Library Director would not truly die.

He would only disappear from this Instance’s Samsara.

Then, when the Instance opened again, he would reappear.

“Don’t let him come… click, click, click… He is not my biological son.”

The Library Director began to recall the past.

“Back then, I came to the Library with a large sum of money. At the time, my painter wife was only one of the many patrons who came to borrow books from the Library.

She wore a pure white dress, like a lily. The moment she smiled at me, I fell in love with her.

She came to borrow books more and more often, and slowly, I managed to strike up a conversation with her.

She told me she had been married once before. Unfortunately, her husband had died of illness, leaving her and her son to live alone in this world.”

Very few Trial-takers before this had ever touched this story line.

Most of them chose to obtain the clues and then leave.

Because Gu Huaiwei did not have to obey the Rules, and because she had mentioned in front of the Library Director that Han Zhusheng was coming to feed him medicine, the Library Director had taken the initiative to tell the story between himself and the Female Painter.

“I did not mind that part of her past, and I treated her son as if he were my own.

Before I fell ill, we had a happy time together. Later, I contracted pneumoconiosis and knew I would not survive, so I drew up a will and left all my money and assets to the two of them.

But I never expected that after she got my will, she would suddenly turn cold. She stopped keeping me company and stopped taking care of me.

She shut herself away in the Painting Studio in the basement, saying she was going to start creating her final work.

Only later did I learn that she was actually mentally ill. Her former husband had not died from sickness-she had killed him!

What she pursued was not a happy life. Those moments of happiness were all part of her disguise! What she truly wanted to chase was pain!

She searched for inspiration for her paintings in broken families.

She tormented me, tormented her son, and tormented herself at the same time… click, click, click… And that son of hers was no good thing either. I left him all my money, yet all he wanted was for me to die sooner…”

Black fluid flowed from the Library Director’s eyes.

The fluid soaked through the blanket draped over his legs.

Gu Huaiwei saw an inescapable agony in the Anomaly.

Every time an Anomaly told a Trial-taker about these obsessions, they were also trapped deep in the Hell of those obsessions, unable to break free.

An Instance was a Samsara repeated over and over again.

For an Anomaly, it was also torment repeated over and over again.

Gu Huaiwei would not invest too much emotion in a small Dimension.

She would leave in the end. Too much empathy would only trip her up.

“Since it hurts this much, why not retire and go somewhere to recuperate?” Gu Huaiwei extended an olive branch to him. “Oasis Sanatorium welcomes you.”

“At midnight the day after tomorrow, Firefighters will come to the Library to inspect the fire safety equipment. You can hide me in the Fire Truck and take me away… click, click, click… In exchange, I can sign a Contract with you.”

Gu Huaiwei nodded repeatedly. “And?”

The Library Director looked up. “Click, click, click… And what else?”
“Last time, you said that as long as I hid you in the Fire Truck and got you out of here, you’d leave me your entire inheritance.” Gu Huaiwei always remembered things like this with perfect clarity.

“Kakaka… I never said that.”

A promise made in the previous Instance Samsara was something the Library Director refused to acknowledge in this Instance Samsara.

“Then I’ll bring your son over to have a talk with you.” Gu Huaiwei turned around and picked up the medicine pot Lu Xiaoxing had knocked over while fleeing.

If the Library Director wouldn’t honor his debt, then Gu Huaiwei would simply work with Han Zhusheng to send him off to the Pure Land a little sooner, then split the benefits with Han Zhusheng afterward.

“Don’t… kakaka… If you’re inviting me to the Sanatorium, I have to keep some Lifespan to pay for my hospital stay, don’t I?”

A mighty Anomaly, actually being manipulated by a human.

The Library Director felt like he had lost face for all Anomalies.

“That does make sense.” Gu Huaiwei’s eyes rolled as she weighed the Library Director’s words in her heart.

This was the difference between income going into the public account and income going into a private one.

If the Library Director left his inheritance to Gu Huaiwei, it would go straight into Gu Huaiwei’s personal pocket.

If the Library Director used his Lifespan to pay his hospital fees, then it would increase the revenue of Oasis Sanatorium.

In the end, in order to level up as quickly as possible and open Paradise Gate, Gu Huaiwei placed the interests of Oasis Sanatorium above her own personal gain.

Nothing in the world mattered more than opening Paradise Gate as soon as possible and finding her sister.

She gazed at the Library Director faintly. “Then you had better stay in our Sanatorium for a good, long time.”

Ideally, he would stay until not a single day of Lifespan from his inheritance remained.

When Zhang Wenwu woke up, he saw his wife, Qin Yuhuan, kneeling on the floor, asleep against his wheelchair.

He looked at his hands and feet, now stitched back together, and his eyes grew a little damp.

He wasn’t dead.

He was blessed with good fortune and a tough life. He had escaped disaster.

He woke Qin Yuhuan.

The two reunited after surviving calamity and held each other tightly.

Zhang Wenwu remembered what he had promised Gu Huaiwei and was just about to tell his wife about it.

But Qin Yuhuan took out three contracts from her arms first.

“Honey, while you were unconscious, I met a female Anomaly who helped us. She seemed very strange. She didn’t tempt us into violating the Rules. She only asked us to sign three contracts.”

“You already signed them?”

“Yes. I signed the baby’s copy too.” Qin Yuhuan stroked her swollen belly and placed the contracts on Zhang Wenwu’s lap. “Judging from the contents of the contracts, they’re invitations to a new Instance.”

Zhang Wenwu told Qin Yuhuan what he had encountered in the Newspaper Reading Area.

He clenched his fists. “Anomalies are sinister and cunning. You’re about to give birth. We can’t enter another new Instance.”

Qin Yuhuan nodded. She sighed and said, “All I want is a place where I can safely give birth to our baby. For that, I wouldn’t care how much Lifespan I had to pay… Sigh… Unfortunately, that’s nothing but a fantasy.”

Gu Huaiwei had pretty much abducted every person and Anomaly worth abducting from the Library Instance.

Next up, she had to chase away the other vehicles trying to pick up Trial-takers and take them to new Instances.

Fire Trucks, newspaper office vehicles… all of them could get lost.

Gu Huaiwei was going to drive her flashy Doomsday Armored Vehicle and haul every last one of those people straight into Oasis Sanatorium.