Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 263

Chapter 263

Lin She made a drone to take aerial shots for the Gray Mist Town Map.

He could always cobble together surprisingly useful machines out of spare parts.

Because Gray Mist Town was shrouded in heavy fog year-round, the drone couldn’t capture a complete map. For the areas it couldn’t photograph, they had to go there in person to survey and take pictures.

Gray Mist Town was bigger than they had imagined.

Fortunately, Gu Huaiwei and her several Assistant staff members could enter and leave the Instance freely, so taking photos wasn’t much of a problem.

While they were drawing the map, Gu Huaiwei never forgot to paste advertisements for Oasis Sanatorium in every little corner of the Instance.

Their group hauled around piles of equipment as if no one else existed, going in and out at will.

They even slapped random little ads all over the Instance. The Anomaly tore them down, she pasted them back up; she pasted them up, the Anomaly tore them down again. Gu Huaiwei became the hottest topic in the Anomaly circles of the Gray Mist Town Instance.

At the same time, Gu Huaiwei was spotted by Trial-taker participants still struggling inside the Instance, and the rumor that Oasis Sanatorium was the ultimate Instance of the polluted world spread in increasingly outrageous ways.

People started saying Gu Huaiwei was an existence above both Anomaly and humans.

Some people outside even spread rumors that Gu Huaiwei was a child born between a human and an Anomaly, which was why she could enter and leave the Instance as she pleased, and why neither humans nor Anomaly could do anything to her.

Gu Huaiwei knew absolutely nothing about any of this.

It wasn’t realistic for Gu Huaiwei to summarize all the clearance guides for every Instance in Gray Mist Town by herself.

The clearance guides included the locations of the Instance Rules, as well as the contents of those Rules.

She posted bounty notices near the Safe House and at Oasis Sanatorium, asking those who had survived the Instance to help collect this information.

As for the Formula for the Mist Lung Disease Cure, Gu Huaiwei would have to go get it herself.

Inside Oasis Sanatorium.

Gu Huaiwei was organizing the Instance clearance Rules collected through the bounties together with Mu Lanwo. Although Mu Lanwo worked slowly, she was exceptionally meticulous and had immense patience for this kind of tedious sorting work.

At that moment, a fashionably dressed, heavily made-up older woman strode in wearing fur, an expensive designer bag hanging from her arm.

She slammed the bag onto the front desk, planted one hand on her hip, and demanded aggressively, “What room is that bastard Ou Doudou staying in?”

Gu Huaiwei calmly looked up at her and replied, “I’m sorry, but that falls under customer privacy. We can’t provide that information.”

The older woman very generously slapped down a stack of Lifespan Yellow Paper.

Looking at the one-year denomination on the top sheet, as well as the impressive thickness of the stack, Gu Huaiwei’s eyes lit up. Silently, she opened Ou Doudou’s customer registration page.

Then Gu Huaiwei pulled two napkins from the front desk, clutched her stomach, and cried out, “Ow, ow,” a couple of times without much feeling.

“I haven’t even touched you. Don’t try to scam me with a fake injury.” The older woman took a step back.

Gu Huaiwei pointed at the computer and stressed, “I need to go to the restroom now. You absolutely must not peek at my computer. Absolutely, absolutely do not peek, okay?”

With that, Gu Huaiwei covered the stack of Yellow Paper with the napkins, scooped it up, stuffed it into her waist pouch, and ran toward the restroom.

She sat by the restroom door for twenty minutes.

The rich older woman who had come looking for a fight had seen everything she should have seen-and everything she shouldn’t have.

Hearing the sound of an argument in the lobby, Gu Huaiwei strolled back at a leisurely pace.

She saw Ou Doudou being yanked by the collar by that rich older woman. His originally fair, handsome face had been slapped into a pig’s head, covered in red, swollen palm prints.

“I spent so much Lifespan supporting you and letting you stay in such a nice Sanatorium, and this is how you repay me? Sneaking around behind my back, chasing women outside?!”

Ou Doudou had been beaten until he was seeing stars, blood spraying from his nostrils, but he didn’t dare say a single word.

“And you even dared to take out a loan from the Anomaly Bank in my name? Looks to me like you’re tired of living!” Still not satisfied after slapping him, the rich older woman lifted her foot and kicked Ou Doudou viciously between the legs.
Ou Doudou let out a miserable scream, his face turning green.

A young girl beside him panicked and waved her hands frantically as she explained, “Auntie-no, big sis, please listen to me. Ou Doudou and I are just ordinary friends. It’s not the kind of relationship you’re thinking of.”

The auntie pointed right at the girl’s nose. “No relationship? If there’s no relationship, why did he transfer the Contract of the Anomaly I Contracted to you?”

The young girl frowned. “I didn’t know that Anomaly was yours. He said his mom gave it to him…”

“His mom? I’m his great-grandmother!” the rich auntie declared with imposing confidence. “Listen here, little girl. I’m letting you off for now. You’d better stay far away from him, or I’ll slap you too!”

The young girl’s eyes reddened, tears spilling from her beautiful eyes. “Then I’ll go… sob… If you hit him, don’t come chasing after me too.”

Off to the side, Gu Huaiwei cheerfully counted the Lifespan Yellow Paper she had just received.

Once the rich auntie had vented her anger, she ordered her Anomaly to drag Ou Doudou out. Then she lifted her chin and strode over to Gu Huaiwei, propping one arm on the front desk as she said, “I want the most expensive room in your Sanatorium. Check off every service you have.”

“Right away.” Gu Huaiwei beamed as she welcomed this new major client upstairs.

Three days later.

“Let’s go, Lin She.”

Lin She, who was at his workstation drawing a map, lifted his dark-green eyes.

Only when Gu Huaiwei called for him would he put down the work in his hands.

Gray Crystal University Instance.

As the only public university in Gray Mist Town, it appeared exceedingly old-fashioned and low-key.

This Instance was Five-Star in difficulty and required five Trial-takers.

Gu Huaiwei needed someone to actively open the Instance.

Whether the Instance could be cleared, all the rewards obtained during the run, and any Anomalies that could potentially be Contracted-she wanted none of it.

Gu Huaiwei wanted only one thing: the Formula for the Mist Lung Disease Cure.

And for anyone willing to take part in this operation, Gu Huaiwei would pay each person an additional year of Lifespan.

At Oasis Sanatorium, those who had never witnessed Gu Huaiwei’s abilities inside an Instance still intended to wait and see for a while.

But once Gu Huaiwei laid out her conditions, people quickly signed up.

There were five slots, and they were filled immediately without any need for promotion.

The people at the front of the line were:

Ou Doudou, who had just been kicked by the rich woman, then had one ear cut off by the Anomaly she kept, and was nearly out of money for hospitalization.

Class Monitor Fang Zhao, and Learning Committee Member Bai Yuzhen.

Zhang Guoqing, a white-haired old man whose granddaughter had heart disease, was receiving care at the Sanatorium, and urgently needed Lifespan.

And Zhang Wenwu, a muscular man with one hand severed whose wife had just given birth in the Sanatorium.

Each of them had their own motives for volunteering.

The Gray Crystal University Instance opened.

The group held admission letters in their hands and changed into the school’s uniform.

Gu Huaiwei had also gotten herself a similar uniform: a white shirt with a thin dark-blue ribbon tied at the collar, setting off the snow-white skin at her collarbones. Below was a short skirt in the same color scheme, making her look even more youthful and lively.

Her black hair fell behind her shoulders, and in her hand, Gu Huaiwei held an admission letter with no name on it.

She turned to everyone and said, “Everyone, I’ve already paid you the one year of Lifespan. Let me say the unpleasant part first: this Instance is very dangerous. You need to be prepared to die.

“I came here mainly to get the Formula for the Mist Lung Disease Cure. I can’t guarantee the personal safety of every single one of you.

“I don’t need to clear the Instance. Once I obtain the formula, I’ll leave.

“If I get any information related to this Instance along the way, I’ll share it with you unconditionally. But whether you can clear it in the end will depend on yourselves.”