Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 252

Chapter 252

An Qiushui and Zhang Guoqing also came to this room in accordance with the requirements of the Rules.

Zhang Guoqing was still wrapped in bandages. He limped as he walked, panting heavily.

If he hadn’t run into Gu Huaiwei in time last time, and if Gu Huaiwei hadn’t had Bai Miemie bandage his wounds, he would have died from his current injuries long ago.

An Qiushui supported him.

She did not want her teammate to die.

Inside an Instance, the more companions who stayed alive, the better.

With more people, the danger could be spread out.

If everyone else died, the Anomaly would all single her out.

Originally, they had at least three taboo Rules concerning how to use the camera and how to speak with Lulu. In the end, Gu Huaiwei had arrived in this room one step ahead of them and done everything that needed to be done first.

An Qiushui was both shocked and delighted.

That saved them from having to do a whole pile of dangerous things.

Gu Huaiwei had promised them before that if she obtained any information about the Instance, she would share it promptly.

An Qiushui asked directly, “Shopkeeper Gu, what did Lulu say to you just now?”

Gu Huaiwei did not hide anything. She briefly told An Qiushui and the others what had happened earlier.

“The Rules say that if we destroy that videotape in front of Lulu, she will give each of us a School Bus Ticket to Gray Mist University.”

An Qiushui had already obtained a fake student ID from the convenience store.

With the School Bus Ticket on top of that, she would be able to leave this Instance.

“You can’t go to the Hospital Instance!” Zhang Guoqing had analyzed the Rules. When he heard that Gu Huaiwei wanted to make a trip to the Hospital Instance, he immediately warned her, “The School Instance is the one tied to the B-Rank Clear Rule. The hospital route is a trap and a dead end. You can’t go!”

As far as Gu Huaiwei was concerned, there was nothing she couldn’t go to.

An Qiushui’s eyes flicked. She held back Zhang Guoqing, who still wanted to advise her against it. “Uncle Zhang, calm down. Shopkeeper Gu has her own plans. This isn’t something we can interfere with.”

Zhang Guoqing had his own selfish motives as well. He was worried that if Gu Huaiwei died, there would be no one left to take him to Oasis Sanatorium and perform heart bypass surgery on his little granddaughter.

Gu Huaiwei tossed Lulu’s phone to them and told them to decorate Room 412 according to the pictures.

An Qiushui said with some difficulty, “Decorating this room is easy, but we’re still missing a cake.”

She lowered her long lashes, deliberately showing weakness.

Gu Huaiwei turned a blind eye to An Qiushui’s little thoughts and asked directly, “Where do we get the cake?”

“In the buffet restaurant on the third floor. There’s a counter there specifically for ordering cakes.” An Qiushui wanted to hand the Rules directly to Gu Huaiwei.

Gu Huaiwei looked at the sheet of paper packed densely with Rules and blocked it with her hand.

“No need. As long as I know the location, that’s enough.” Gu Huaiwei had her own way of handling things. “You two decorate the room first. I’ll be right back.”

When Gu Huaiwei got things done, she was clean and efficient, with very little unnecessary talk.

An Qiushui had originally wanted to perform a few lines of concern, but when she met Gu Huaiwei’s clear eyes behind her lenses, the words she had prepared suddenly would not come out.

In Gu Huaiwei’s eyes, they seemed no different from the tables, chairs, and benches in the room.

Gu Huaiwei headed straight to the buffet restaurant on the third floor.

At the dessert counter stood a Fat Cook, with a freshly made birthday cake placed beside her.

The Fat Cook demanded that Gu Huaiwei scrub the pig trotters in the back kitchen clean before she would give her the cake.
Gu Huaiwei glanced at the so-called pig trotters in the sink.

How could those be pig trotters?

They were clearly pale, bloodless human hands.

Gu Huaiwei perfunctorily aimed the faucet at the pile of hands and sprayed them a few times.

“Not qualified… ka-ka-ka… not qualified!”

The Fat Cook shrieked, her voice twisting.

She pulled a bone cleaver out from under the cake and hacked wildly at the hands in the sink.

“Wash them again… ka-ka-ka… You have to wash them clean, count the number of pig trotters, and deliver the pig trotters to Window 5.”

Window 5 was manned by a Pig-head Butcher.

He hated seeing pork more than anything.

Some lesser Anomaly beings had gone to Window 5 with trays to order pork, only to be pinned down by the Pig-head Butcher, have their hands chopped off, and get those hands thrown into the sink.

Gu Huaiwei simply tied up the Fat Cook and delivered her to Window 5.

The Pig-head Butcher recognized Gu Huaiwei.

He had seen the group chat.

Those Anomaly beings who outranked him were all deeply wary of this human standing before him.

Originally, the Pig-head Butcher had no intention of making things difficult for Gu Huaiwei.

But then he caught the scent of human flesh on her.

In all his many years working as a butcher in this Instance, he had never encountered such an aroma.

It made his mouth water.

“How can there be a smell like this? Ka-ka-ka… Like the essence of countless humans concentrated into one body. So fragrant… ka-ka-ka… I can’t take it anymore!”

The Pig-head Butcher’s drool dripped onto the stainless-steel counter, thick and reeking.

He couldn’t help reaching out toward Gu Huaiwei.

In the next second, his fat fingers landed in the sink.

The Fat Cook saw this and instantly stopped struggling and cursing.

She crouched there nice and still, like a plague-stricken quail.

The Pig-head Butcher stared at his severed fingers and gradually began to fall apart.

As for Gu Huaiwei, she took the chance to pick up the cake and leave the kitchen before they went completely mad.

She returned to Room 412.

An Qiushui and Zhang Guoqing had already worked together to decorate the room.

Gu Huaiwei placed the cake on the coffee table.

Together, they lit twenty candles.

“Shopkeeper Gu, we have to close our eyes before the Anomaly will appear to blow out the candles.

The Rules say we can’t open our eyes until the birthday song is over. You absolutely must not open your eyes halfway, or you’ll be in danger.”

An Qiushui wrapped a black cloth directly over her eyes. She felt this was more reliable and would stop her from accidentally opening them midway if something unexpected happened.

Zhang Guoqing did the same.

Gu Huaiwei cooperated for the moment and closed her eyes.

The instant the first gust of cold wind blew past, Gu Huaiwei keenly sensed something approaching. Ignoring the Trial-taker Rules, she opened her eyes outright.

She saw that every candle before her had already been blown out.

Lulu and her fiancé stood in front of her and Bai Miemie, their skin pale and bloodless, their fingers interlocked. They stared at her without blinking.

They were very close to Gu Huaiwei.

So close they could almost touch the tip of her nose.

Getting the Videotape through the Rules would be far too troublesome.

Better to ask for it directly.

With a half-smile, Gu Huaiwei held out a hand to the young man. “Give me the Videotape.”

Seeing no reaction from him, Gu Huaiwei raised her hand and waved it in front of his eyes. Her smile deepened, soft yet edged with thorns. “Be good. Otherwise…”