Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 27

Gu Huaiwei asked, “When did this happen?”

Xiao Youqi tapped his fingertip on the computer screen. “It shows here that you’ve had an account for over half a year already. Where’s your account Chip?”

“Chip?” Gu Huaiwei made a fist with her right hand and struck it into her left palm, as if she suddenly remembered something.

“Wait a moment.”

She immediately returned to the staff lounge, found some belongings her sister had left behind, and took a broken Chip out of a small metal box.

Gu Huaiwei brought the Chip to Xiao Youqi and asked, “Look, is it this thing?”

She had thought it was just an old phone card her sister had discarded.

“That’s the one.” Xiao Youqi pressed the control panel on his wrist, and a card slot popped out beside him, with a similar Chip inserted inside.

He explained, “If you insert the corresponding Chip into the Identity Screen, you can use the Gold Coin in the account as normal.

But your Chip is broken. It can’t be used.”

This account belonged to her sister. There might be clues about her sister inside.

Gu Huaiwei pressed further, “Can it be repaired?”

“It’s a bit tricky.” Xiao Youqi played with the broken Chip in his hand. “This Chip is very tough. How did you manage to break it like this?”

Gu Huaiwei lowered her eyes. “I accidentally crushed it.”

“This thing can’t be crushed by accident.” Xiao Youqi chuckled. Gu Huaiwei had many secrets, so one more broken Chip didn’t matter. “How about this: I’ll take the Chip to the Underground City for repairs. Whether it works or not, the repair fee will be deducted from this settlement’s Gold Coin.”

“Alright.” Gu Huaiwei glanced at the computer again. “Can you see anything else on the computer?”

“You can check the balance and the transaction amount for the past two years.” Xiao Youqi scrolled the mouse.

“No Gold Coin remaining…”

As the page scrolled down, Xiao Youqi’s silvery-gray pupils widened slowly.

He sucked in a breath.

“Damn! This account had a transaction flow of 23,760,000 Gold Coin in just fourteen days.”

He looked Gu Huaiwei up and down. “Were you this rich before?”

Did she strike a gold mine?

Xiao Youqi found it unbelievable.

A woman who looked like such an ordinary shop assistant was hiding so many secrets.

Just when Xiao Youqi thought that nothing about Gu Huaiwei could surprise him anymore, she always managed to bring a new shock.

Gu Huaiwei also had no idea where her sister got that money.

Her sister’s blood- and tear-filled eyes were still vivid in her mind.

The warning from her dream echoed again in her mind.

Could her sister’s disappearance be related to this huge sum of money?

Gu Huaiwei pondered for a moment and said, “The dividend from the last transaction, keep it in your account for now. After you help me repair the Chip, transfer it to me.”

“Aren’t you afraid I’ll run off with the money?”

Gu Huaiwei glanced at him. “Would you really kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?”

Xiao Youqi looked at her, his smile not reaching his eyes. “As long as there’s Gold Coin to earn, of course not.”

After speaking, he subconsciously touched the festering wound on his abdomen, straightened his back, and walked upstairs.

Gu Huaiwei noticed that he had only one set of clothes from beginning to end. His worn shirt had new patches made from bandages, and his black military pants had faded from washing.

And on him, the aura of death was growing stronger.

He, like his clothes, was gradually falling apart.

After several days of acid rain, it finally stopped. The Rat People at the door continued to exchange metal scraps for daily necessities.

Two days had passed since Xiao Youqi left.

After the acid rain stopped, the moisture in the air quickly evaporated, and the streets outside returned to their original scorched and desolate state.
Outside the hotel, the roar of engines approached, like thunder rolling from the depths of the clouds.

A domineering Armored Vehicle Team emerged slowly through the dust and smoke, coming to a halt at the entrance of the Oasis Hotel.

According to the live broadcast progress on the forum, the newcomers should be the young master from the Fifth District.

With important guests arriving, Gu Huaiwei specially tied her hair into a high ponytail with a silk scarf to look more energetic for the livestream.

However, the people outside didn’t seem so friendly.

Gu Huaiwei’s hand had just touched the door handle when a massive black shell came whistling straight toward the door.

Her pupils contracted, and her body instinctively retreated.

With a deafening explosion, sand and dust billowed, thick smoke spread, and the hotel trembled at that moment.

Yet, when the smoke cleared-the hotel’s entrance remained perfectly intact.

“These damned lunatics!”

Gu Huaiwei’s heavy glasses concealed her cold gaze. Her face showed no expression, but her lips were pressed tight, her fingertips pale.

They had actually fired without any scruples.

If she had opened the door just now, that shell would have landed right on her.

Though she was within the hotel’s boundaries, Gu Huaiwei wasn’t sure if the hotel’s security system would work under such circumstances.

She still had so many things left unfinished.

If she died inexplicably in this world, she wouldn’t rest in peace even as a ghost.

Outside the door.

“Interesting, truly interesting!”

The first to step out of the vehicle was a stunning woman in a purple qipao.

She wasn’t wearing a Protective Suit; a transparent shield enveloped her, isolating her from external radiation.

After getting out, she gazed at the hotel with her fox-like, enchanting eyes.

“Brother, the shell couldn’t break through this door. This shabby hotel really has something to it!”

At the woman’s call, a man in a red Tang suit stepped down from the lead armored vehicle.

His features were ordinary, except for twelve piercings in his left ear, each adorned with a black ring from top to bottom-quite eye-catching.

A shield rose around him, and he complained, “Sis, can you not fire at random? This street is so narrow, it’d be bad if we hit our own people.”

The woman cupped her face, her tone tinged with madness: “But I wanted to try! When I see something strange, I always want to blow it open with a bang and see what’s inside.”

Four bodyguards got out of the other vehicles.

The bodyguards wore ordinary Protective Suits: one carried a sniper rifle, one had a pistol at his waist, one gripped a knife, and another hefted a camera.

Clearly, they were here for a fight.

The Fifth District siblings made quite the dramatic entrance.

Gu Huaiwei, however, was not in a good mood.

“Customers may be gods, but if you can’t help me reach my Phase Two sales target, even if you’re gods, I’ll bury you in a flowerpot and turn you into Christmas trees…”

Gu Huaiwei’s voice was barely audible.

That shell just now had already crossed her bottom line.

“There’s a living person! Waiter, what were you muttering just now?” The woman in the purple qipao walked up to the counter, reaching out to lift Gu Huaiwei’s chin.

Gu Huaiwei grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer: “I said, welcome to the Oasis Hotel.”

Raising her head, the anger on Gu Huaiwei’s face had already been replaced by a professional smile.

The woman in the purple qipao froze, her smile stiffening: “You hurt me.”

She tried to pull her hand back forcefully.

But it didn’t budge.

Only then did the woman realize that the female clerk before her was not to be trifled with, a hint of grievance appearing on her face.