Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 267

Chapter 267

“What happened?” Gu Huaiwei was curious about just how lucky he had been.

Leaning against the hospital bed, Zhang Wenwu kept prodding his own wound to make it worse as he explained to Gu Huaiwei. “After Ou Doudou saw the homeroom teacher kill someone, he wet his pants on the spot. His face went bright red, and he started bawling.

“Everyone thought he was dead for sure after acting that cowardly. But not only was he not killed, the homeroom teacher even comforted him and had some of the other male students escort him back to the Boys’ Dormitory ahead of everyone else.”

Once he returned to the Boys’ Dormitory and got away from the teaching building, he was also away from the Rules in this area.

“Hm?” Gu Huaiwei frowned in confusion. Since when had an Anomaly become so easy to talk to?

Zhang Wenwu sighed, his tone tinged with envy. “On my way to the Infirmary, I saw the reason on the school bulletin board. It turns out that homeroom teacher’s son used to attend this school too. He had urinary incontinence because he got nervous during an exam, then the teachers and students mocked him for it. After that, he jumped off a building and killed himself.”

“I see.” Gu Huaiwei nodded thoughtfully.

She had to admit, Ou Doudou really was lucky.

Just then, Xiao Xu walked in with the doctor.

Zhang Wenwu immediately lay back down on the bed, closed his eyes, and said nothing.

The doctor in the white coat came in holding a bloodstained scalpel.

There were no eyeballs in his sockets. They were hollow, with no eyelids either; only dark-red sunken pits remained, exposing the tissue and flesh inside.

Xiao Xu went into the Pharmacy to get medicine.

The doctor first bandaged Zhang Wenwu’s wound.

After finishing that, the doctor walked toward Gu Huaiwei. He took two eyeballs out from inside his coat, held them in his hand, and looked in Gu Huaiwei’s direction.

Those two eyeballs could still move.

Gu Huaiwei dodged nimbly.

After Xiao Xu came out of the Pharmacy, they fed Zhang Wenwu an unknown solution.

They pretended not to see Gu Huaiwei.

The doctor held the eyeballs in his hand and searched the room. After failing to find Gu Huaiwei, he left the Infirmary.

“You aren’t a student of this school, are you? Only injured students are allowed to come here. Please leave immediately.” Xiao Xu’s attitude was much colder than the girl in the mask’s.

Gu Huaiwei sat leisurely beside the hospital bed. “Why didn’t you just point out my location to the doctor earlier?”

Xiao Xu’s face darkened. “I don’t want to meddle in other people’s business.”

With that, Xiao Xu picked up a mop and began cleaning. They cleaned up the bloodstains on the floor, but did not touch the rotting corpse on the hospital bed.

Gu Huaiwei glanced at Zhang Wenwu, who was pretending to sleep on the bed. His brows were furrowed, and faint groans of pain leaked from the corners of his mouth. He was putting on a pretty convincing act.

Xiao Xu treated Gu Huaiwei like she was invisible.

They focused on the cleaning task at hand and revealed no clues related to the Instance.

Gu Huaiwei found the “School Doctor’s Work Manual” in the Infirmary. Inside were the Rules for school doctors.

Three of the Rules drew Gu Huaiwei’s particular attention.

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3. School doctors at this school must undergo a pre-employment physical examination. For doctors whose eyesight does not meet the standard, the campus can provide free surgery to correct their vision.

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6. School doctors should treat injured students, but if a student’s body parts are found to be swollen, please send the student to the Laboratory immediately.

7. A Good Doctor has no mouth.

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The school doctor just now had a mouth.

The other clauses in the Rules all referred to school doctors.

Only the seventh clause mentioned a Good Doctor.

The opposite of good was bad.

But the school doctor had indeed bandaged Zhang Wenwu’s wound properly.

So where, exactly, did his “bad” side show itself?
Could it be that the “bad” wasn’t aimed at the students, but at the school?

For now, the many suspicious points about the Infirmary were impossible to sort out.

Gu Huaiwei stuffed the Rules she had found into Zhang Wenwu’s hand and whispered by his ear, “These are the Rules I found. You should be able to use them. Investigate what happened in the Infirmary. I’m going to check the Laboratory first.”

Zhang Wenwu didn’t open his eyes. He merely tapped the hospital bed twice with his finger to show that he had heard her.

After that, Gu Huaiwei left the Infirmary.

Looking out from the railing along the second-floor Corridor, she could see Ou Doudou being helped by his classmates toward the Boys’ Dormitory.

The walls around Gray Crystal University were extremely high, with a ring of high-voltage wires running along the top. There was no way for students to leave by climbing over them.

The iron gate at the university entrance, however, was relatively low.

When Gu Huaiwei had arrived, she hadn’t seen any gate guard.

On her way to the Laboratory, Gu Huaiwei passed the main gate and saw a red light glowing in the guard booth. Two security guards were inside.

One of them was staring at the surveillance monitors.

The other had a newspaper over his head, his chest rising and falling violently as if he were asleep.

Gu Huaiwei had just found the Laboratory Building and had yet to step inside when she heard fierce arguing and screams coming from nearby.

She instinctively looked up. A person was falling from high above like a kite with its string cut. His swollen body twisted into a grotesque posture. With a dull, heavy thud, his head slammed hard into the concrete, splattering into a flower of blood and flesh.

Gu Huaiwei glanced at the person who had jumped.

He seemed to be a male student from this university. Half his head had already been smashed away. There was a large black mole on his lip, and he was wearing Gray Crystal University’s uniform.

His blood sprayed out like a ruptured fountain, dyeing the surrounding concrete red.

Very soon, a group of people in white walked out of the Laboratory. In perfect unison, they lifted the male student’s body onto a stretcher, then rushed back into the Laboratory.

The cleaner arrived just as quickly.

She used a high-pressure water hose to wash the blood off the ground.

Before leaving, she even sprayed air freshener.

“Lin She, follow them.” Gu Huaiwei quickly followed the people in white, wanting to see where they were going.

Those people were clearly walking on two feet, yet their strides were impossibly long.

Gu Huaiwei had to run at full speed just to keep up with them.

They carried the body into the elevator.

“Wait.”

Just as the elevator doors were about to close, Gu Huaiwei reached out with her fair, slender hand and blocked them.

“Please make some room. Two more people.”

She pulled Lin She with her and forced her way inside.

The elevator sounded an overload warning.

The white-clad people carrying the body all turned in unison to stare at Gu Huaiwei, who had been the last to enter. Every one of them wore the same standard smile.

That smile was extremely stiff, as if it had been painted onto their faces.

According to social etiquette, whoever caused the elevator to overload by entering last should be the one to get out.

At a time like this, Gu Huaiwei had no intention of being a civilized person.

She smiled at those Anomalies.

Then she casually threw two of them out.

This time, those Anomalies stopped smiling.

The elevator doors closed successfully.

They descended all the way to Basement Level 4.

The elevator doors opened.

Basement Level 4 was the Mortuary.

The people in white swiftly threw the student who had jumped into the incinerator. Along with his personal belongings, they burned everything clean.

Before they burned the body, Gu Huaiwei had stolen the male student’s student ID and phone.

At that moment, the phone chimed with a text message notification.