Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 274

Chapter 274

Zhang Guoqing’s clouded eyes moved.

Then two trails of bloody tears flowed out. Their scorching heat landed on the back of Gu Huaiwei’s hand.

Just like before, he stared out of the classroom with unfocused eyes, waving both hands as he kept crying for help.

“Student, please, save me… ka-ka-ka…”

Clearly, nothing had changed.

And yet those two falling tears carried his reluctance to leave the human world behind.

Gu Huaiwei tried to let him rest in peace.

But even after she snapped his neck, he still kept his mouth open, repeating those same words inside the Instance.

Like a machine that had been smashed apart but was still running.

His body could not be separated from the desk.

As long as the Contamination did not disappear, he would have to remain in the Instance forever in this agonized posture, carrying out the role the Instance had assigned him.

He too had become one of Gray Crystal University’s corresponding Rules.

“If you pass by the teaching building at night and hear someone calling for help, or see someone waving at you, report it to the homeroom teacher immediately. Do not attempt a rescue on your own.”

“Yesterday, Snail Girl sent me a message. She told me your granddaughter’s heart bypass surgery had already been completed the day before yesterday,” Gu Huaiwei said, showing Zhang Guoqing the message on her phone.

Mu Lanwo was always slow when it came to getting things done, but fortunately she was thorough.

She had also sent over a short video of Zhang Guoqing’s granddaughter happily running around in the garden of the Sanatorium.

In the video, the little girl wore two pigtails. Her small face was still thin and pointed, but at last there was some color in it.

She kept calling out, “Grandpa,” in the video.

He Xueyi patiently played with the little girl beside her.

In that video, all was peaceful and serene.

“Whatever lodging fees you have left at Oasis Sanatorium will be transferred to your granddaughter, so you don’t need to worry about her. She can continue staying at the Sanatorium for a long time, until she fully recovers.”

“Your granddaughter can stay at the Sanatorium for another six months and seven days,” Lin She added with even greater precision.

He knew exactly how long each person in the establishment could continue staying there, how much money they had left, and how much they would have to pay if they damaged anything.

Whenever someone’s lodging fees were running low, Lin She would always take the initiative to remind them.

Because of that, the Sanatorium’s guests weren’t especially happy to see him.

“Once your granddaughter fully recovers, I can let her work as a doorman at the Sanatorium.”

Zhang Guoqing gave no obvious reaction.

But Gu Huaiwei could feel that the endless pain shrouding him had become calm at that moment.

He was trapped deep within the curse of the Instance.

But the person he loved most had escaped that horror.

Gu Huaiwei left the classroom.

Lin She handed her the leave slips he had just stolen.

Written on them were the reasons students in the class had requested leave over the past few months.

The Trial-takers’ reasons for taking leave were mostly fake.

As for the school’s own students, most of their reasons were bodily swelling-in other words, Mist Lung Disease.

“It’s night right now. The Infirmary is empty.”

“Not necessarily.” Gu Huaiwei waved the stack of leave slips in her hand. “Sick students stay overnight in the Infirmary, which means there must still be someone on duty there.”

She was preparing to go take a look.

“Miss Gu, aren’t you sleepy?” Lin She looked at Gu Huaiwei with those dark green eyes of his. In the dim fog, they clearly held concern.

“Not sleepy!” She was even a little excited.

As a human, Gu Huaiwei really did have an overabundance of energy.

But as the Shop Manager, Gu Huaiwei suddenly realized that not only was she staying up without sleeping, she was also dragging her employees into staying up with her.

That really was a bit too over-the-top.
“If you’re sleepy, you can find a tree and rest first. I can go to the Infirmary by myself, and after I’m done there, I’ll come find you,” Gu Huaiwei said. In her mind, snakes all slept coiled around trees.

Lin She stood there in silence.

“Don’t worry, I can handle it myself.” Gu Huaiwei was showing signs of being a bit of a workaholic.

Even though Gray Mist Town was shrouded in fog, the temperature wasn’t all that low, so Lin She didn’t need to go into hibernation.

If it were He Xueyi, he’d definitely be delighted to slack off.

Lin She, on the other hand, had a stronger sense of responsibility.

“I’ll go with you,” Lin She said, gently declining Gu Huaiwei’s suggestion that he go rest.

“Let’s check the Infirmary first. There are beds there anyway, so if nothing happens, we’ll just rest in the Infirmary tonight. Tomorrow we’ll go to the Laboratory and look for Fang Zhao.”

Lin She nodded. His reply was brief and cool. “Okay.”

The two of them arrived at the Infirmary.

The lights were on inside.

Sure enough, the male and female students from before were still on duty there.

It seemed they’d gotten into an argument.

The Masked Girl had completely lost the gentle demeanor she’d shown earlier. Holding a scalpel, she shouted at the boy, “Quit acting noble in front of me! If I hadn’t desperately kept sending materials into the Lab Equipment Room, do you think you’d have survived until now?!”

The boy called Xiao Xu kept his head lowered. “Even if more people die, we still have no way to leave the Instance. I’m too tired. I don’t want to keep doing this anymore.”

“What are you tired from? I’m the one delivering the materials. You’ve been hiding in the Infirmary this whole time like a coward, so what right do you have to say that to me?” The Masked Girl was unusually agitated. She pointed the scalpel at Xiao Xu. “If the neighbor auntie hadn’t asked me to take care of you before she died, I wouldn’t have bothered with useless trash like you! You’re the one who goes soft on those students, and in the end I’m the one left to answer to those Anomaly!”

“You don’t have to care about me… and you don’t need to take her last words so seriously. We were just neighbors before. We weren’t really childhood sweethearts or anything.” Xiao Xu looked bleak, as though he didn’t really want to accept the Masked Girl’s concern.

It was as if he had already had enough of living.

He no longer wanted to keep struggling inside the Instance.

The Masked Girl let out a cold laugh. “You think once your Contamination gets serious enough, you’ll finally be free? Don’t be naive. Look at those Trial-takers who got contaminated later. They’re still alive in the Instance, trapped in all kinds of miserable forms.”

As for this so-called childhood-sweetheart bond, those feelings had long since been worn away by the struggle to survive in the Instance.

The only reason the Masked Girl was helping Xiao Xu was because she still remembered the care and help the neighbor auntie had given her when she was young.

“I won’t let you end up living like them. If you really want to die, you might as well die by my hand. That way, you can at least serve as experimental equipment, so your death won’t be completely meaningless.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the Masked Girl plunged the knife into Xiao Xu’s thigh, stabbing him several times in quick succession. Xiao Xu collapsed in disbelief and looked up at her, clearly not expecting her to actually do it.

“Don’t look at me like that. This is what you wanted. You’ve told me that countless times, and I’m tired too. So this time, I’ll grant your wish!”

With that, the Masked Girl dragged the dying Xiao Xu into the Pharmacy.

At that moment, Gu Huaiwei happened to push the door open and walk in.

The Masked Girl came out of the Pharmacy. The blood on her hands hadn’t been washed off yet. When she saw Gu Huaiwei, she immediately hid the hand holding the scalpel behind her back and said with a smile, “Hm? You’re the girl from last time, aren’t you? You left without saying goodbye last time. I was so worried about you!”

“I saw everything just now,” Gu Huaiwei said, mercilessly tearing through her disguise.