Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 269

Chapter 269

As more and more students at Gray Crystal University fell ill, the matter became increasingly difficult to cover up.

Gray Crystal University simply announced to the outside world that, in order to improve students’ grades, the campus would be placed under closed management.

Meanwhile, the Infirmary, which had originally provided treatment for students infected with Mist Lung Disease, began to adopt increasingly aggressive surgical methods. It progressed from simply prescribing medication, to cutting away swollen limbs, and then to sending students directly to the Laboratory’s special chemotherapy room… What happened after that had nothing to do with the doctors at the Infirmary anymore.

Zhang Wenwu hurriedly finished explaining all this, then his voice grew tense. “Shopkeeper Gu, I have to go… I think someone just came into the bathroom…”

With that, the call was abruptly disconnected.

Gu Huaiwei lowered her head and looked at the Anomaly whose wrist she was gripping.

The Anomaly was bald, with only three hairs on his head.

“I should apologize to you in advance,” Gu Huaiwei said, stuffing a sum of compensation money into the Anomaly’s hand.

Then Gu Huaiwei looked at the solid wall in front of her, patted the Anomaly on the head, and without the slightest hesitation, slammed the Anomaly’s head hard into the wall.

A hole was smashed through the wall.

The three hairs on the Anomaly’s head drifted lightly to the floor.

Now Gu Huaiwei and Lin She could successfully get to the first floor.

They headed all the way toward the Laboratory.

Gu Huaiwei discovered that students with different stages of illness lived on each floor.

Their condition worsened from bottom to top. The students on the lower floors were less severely ill, while the students on the higher floors were in more serious condition.

Some doors were closed.

When Gu Huaiwei reached the second floor, she saw the words Psychological Counseling Room written on the door.

Inside sat a student undergoing psychological counseling. Her hand was swollen, and she was describing her symptoms to the doctor in a white coat sitting across from her. No matter what the student said, the doctor in the white coat told her it was only a hallucination and that there was absolutely nothing wrong with her hand.

Gu Huaiwei was eavesdropping at the door when a voice suddenly sounded behind her.

“Student, what class are you in?”

Gu Huaiwei turned around and saw a nurse covered in blood, holding a notebook. At some point, she had appeared behind her.

She was not an Anomaly. She seemed more like a heavily contaminated human.

The bloodstains on her body had probably been there for a long time, giving off a foul odor. Gu Huaiwei’s sense of smell was already sharp, and the smell irritated her enough that she couldn’t help wrinkling her nose.

Gu Huaiwei answered, “I’m in Class Six of the nursing program.”

The nurse leaned in close to examine Gu Huaiwei, her eyes swiveling in a disturbingly direct way. “Why aren’t you wearing your uniform?”

Without blushing or missing a beat, Gu Huaiwei said, “I am wearing my uniform.”

A homemade version, that was all.

“Not wearing your uniform means demerit points!” The nurse immediately took out a registration form, wanting to write down Gu Huaiwei’s name. “Heehee, I caught you, didn’t I? I used to be the discipline monitor. Deducting points was my specialty.”

The pen in her hand was connected to her own blood vessels.

The pen tip hovered over the paper.

But the nurse did not know Gu Huaiwei’s name.

Like a program that had suddenly bugged out, she dragged the pen wildly across the page, writing a heap of garbled symbols.

“And who is this beside you? Our school is under closed management. Outsiders from other schools are not allowed in.” The nurse immediately took out her phone and, with a crazed expression, dialed a number. “How dare you get into a premature romance with someone from outside the school! I’m going to report your violation to your homeroom teacher. The homeroom teacher will definitely reward me.”

These students had obtained a bit of power from their homeroom teachers, and so they had truly begun to think of themselves as officials, trying to wield that power to its absolute limit.

Lin She was about to reach out and snatch the nurse’s phone away, but Gu Huaiwei raised a hand to stop him.
“Sure,” Gu Huaiwei said, letting her do it.

If the homeroom teacher came, there would be no one left to watch the classroom. It made no difference to Gu Huaiwei either way, and the danger Fang Zhao and Bai Yuzhen were facing back in the classroom would be reduced.

It was a simple favor. If the teacher came, then so be it.

The nurse was just about to make the call when a group of nurses suddenly came over, seized her by the arms and legs, and carried her into the treatment room next door.

“My apologies. The patient has developed some delusions after electroshock therapy.” The man in the lead pushed up his black-rimmed glasses, then ordered the other nurses to restrain the female nurse at once.

“I’m not sick! Let go of me! This person isn’t a student at our school! She’s a suspicious individual who snuck in! Maybe she’s here to steal our experimental data!” The female nurse’s eyes were nearly splitting with rage. She clung tightly to the hem of Gu Huaiwei’s clothes. “Hurry and explain to them! I’m not sick! You’re the one who violated campus rules! I was just following the regulations!”

She had tried to report Gu Huaiwei to the homeroom teacher, and now she expected Gu Huaiwei to speak up for her? How was that possible?

Gu Huaiwei: Hah. As if.

She watched with her own eyes as the nurse was dragged away.

The man in the lead said in a cold, hard voice, “This is the laboratory building. Healthy students are forbidden from entering. Please leave immediately, or security will forcibly remove you.”

Gu Huaiwei had only searched up to the second floor, so of course she wasn’t going to leave just like that.

She smiled and agreed to the man’s demand. Once he left, she ignored his warning and continued upstairs.

All along the way, she could hear sobbing coming from the various rooms.

The cries rose and fell, sharp and grating, like a cat’s claws scraping over her heart. It made goosebumps prickle across her skin.

Higher up, the treatment method had changed to cutting open the swollen parts of the students’ bodies with knives.

The rooms looked more like slaughterhouses.

The windows in many rooms had been sealed shut.

Wooden boards were nailed over them so tightly there wasn’t the slightest gap.

In a few rooms, however, the nails in the boards had been pried loose. Some students, unable to endure the pain of treatment, would jump from there.

Farther up, the rooms were no longer treatment rooms.

The floor above was labeled Experimental Equipment Room.

Strangely, many vacant-eyed students were sitting inside the equipment rooms.

These students were not ill.

After searching the entire building, Gu Huaiwei still did not find where the experimental data was stored.

Then she saw the masked girl from the Infirmary walking over from not far away.

Behind her was the Class Monitor, Fang Zhao.

Gu Huaiwei quietly followed them.

They arrived at an equipment room deeper inside the Corridor.

The masked girl chatted and laughed with Fang Zhao all the way there, but the moment they entered the experimental equipment room, she suddenly shoved Fang Zhao inside. A look of stunned disbelief flashed across Fang Zhao’s face, and the masked girl immediately locked the door from the outside.

“Don’t blame me. This is just my job,” the masked girl muttered to herself, placing a hand against the glass panel in the door.

After the masked girl left, Gu Huaiwei stepped forward and opened the door to the experimental equipment room.

The lock was very tight.

Gu Huaiwei had no choice but to apply a little force and break it.

The experimental equipment room was very quiet. Aside from the dim lighting, there was nothing else frightening inside. Fang Zhao, however, looked as if his soul had been stolen. He sat blankly on the floor, mumbling to himself.

“Those are all phantom limbs. They’re fake. I’m not sick… I have to stay in school. I can’t tell anyone and make my sick mom and dad worry about me… The school would never hurt me…”

He had been contaminated, and his mind was no longer clear.