Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 276

Chapter 276

“Ka-ka-ka… Are you going to give me your eyes? I need a pair of eyes. Yours… or your companion’s… ka-ka-ka… either will do.”

The eyeless School Doctor tried to tempt Gu Huaiwei into betraying her human companion.

“Why make it so troublesome?” Where was Gu Huaiwei supposed to find a human for him right now?

Too much trouble. She’d have to walk more, too.

Gu Huaiwei believed in efficiency.

A whole crowd of doctors with eyes had just been driven away from the doorway.

Ready-made eyeballs. As many as she wanted.

Let the Anomalies use their own kind’s eyeballs.

Gu Huaiwei opened the door, picked out one lucky target from the tightly packed group of Anomaly doctors, grabbed him by the collar, dug out the pair of eyes bulging the widest from his sockets, and handed them to the eyeless doctor.

The doctors with eyes who had been crowding around the door all stretched their heads forward to watch Gu Huaiwei gouge out the eyeballs. The same shocked, stiff expression appeared across those eerily identical faces, and then they scattered in all directions.

The doorway became much quieter in an instant.

Gu Huaiwei handed the Anomaly eyeballs to the School Doctor.

The School Doctor reached out with pale fingers, snatched the eyeballs, and held them under his nose to sniff them. Maybe he had realized they weren’t human eyes. After sniffing them, he still seemed uncertain, so he lifted them to his hollow eye sockets to compare the size. He didn’t put them in. Instead, he took them back down and licked them.

“Ka-ka-ka… These aren’t fresh…”

He didn’t want them.

Once dug out, Anomaly eyeballs were like wood. They didn’t even bleed, making them very different from human ones.

Gu Huaiwei frowned slightly. She pushed up her glasses with one finger and said with some dissatisfaction, “How are they not fresh? I just dug them out.”

“Ka-ka-ka…”

“Don’t be so picky.” Gu Huaiwei snatched the pair of eyes back from the School Doctor with a mouth but no eyes, then stuffed them into his sockets.

They really were a bit mismatched.

When she forced them in, she could feel that the sockets were a little too small.

But there was nothing that couldn’t be solved with a little more force.

Gu Huaiwei pressed harder with her thumb. Since the eyeballs didn’t fit very well, a cracking sound came from the School Doctor’s eye socket, and a thin split opened up.

“They do seem a little off… How about I switch them out and try two more for you…” Gu Huaiwei leaned closer to inspect the School Doctor’s new eyes. “There are plenty of spare eyes. One of them is bound to fit you.”

The new eyeballs rolled around in his sockets twice. They sat a little crooked, but they were barely usable.

“They fit… they fit perfectly… ka-ka-ka…” After seeing Gu Huaiwei’s combat strength, the School Doctor covered his eyes with his hand, afraid she would dig them out again and make him suffer twice.

“As long as they fit.” Gu Huaiwei released the School Doctor’s resisting hand, then gave his slightly trembling shoulder a friendly pat. “Now, can you take me to secretly see what great treasure the principal hatched?”

“Ka-ka-ka… Follow me…” The School Doctor turned and walked outside. Because the eyeballs were crooked, he staggered as he walked and even bumped into the doorframe.

The fog on campus had grown even thicker. A damp, icy wind rushed at them, carrying the stench of rot.

Lin She seemed to enjoy this humid, cold environment.

At Gray Crystal University, he had never deliberately shown any sign of liking it, but the increasingly visible scale patterns beneath the half of his forehead hidden by his hair, along with the nostalgic expression that appeared whenever he looked into the deeper parts of the fog, all showed that he loved this kind of environment.
“Stay close to me… crack, crack, crack…”

Once they entered the thick fog, the School Doctor moved at a blistering pace, far beyond what any normal person could keep up with.

The temporary worker guide for the Infirmary mentioned a new Rule: while working, you had to stay close to the doctor supervising you and not get lost.

If you did get lost, follow the light.

The School Doctor was cunning. He slipped out of sight after just a few steps.

Gu Huaiwei looked up and realized the School Doctor’s voice was coming from every direction, all around her, saying, “Come with me.”

The dense fog and darkness had fused together, wrapping the entire campus in a layer of damp gauze.

There seemed to be the School Doctor’s shadow up ahead.

Gu Huaiwei quickly followed it, only to discover it was just a tattered piece of clothing hanging from a tree branch.

Narrowing her eyes, Gu Huaiwei searched the surroundings for light.

Every streetlamp on campus had gone out.

Only outside the Laboratory Building, a few dim red lights hung by the entrance, flickering faintly. Their glow was swallowed by the fog, like candles on the verge of going out.

At the entrance were several figures causing a disturbance.

They were blurry, melting into the mist.

It looked like a group of students’ parents making a scene at the door.

Gu Huaiwei wanted to move closer for a better look, but found she couldn’t approach.

No matter how many steps she took forward, the scene remained fixed twenty meters away.

No one’s face could be seen clearly.

Ou Doudou barged in somewhat recklessly. The moment he saw Gu Huaiwei, that handsome pretty-boy face of his flushed red with excitement. Waving as he ran toward her, he shouted, “Shopkeeper Gu, why are you here too? What luck! I thought I was going to get lost!”

He really did look like a sunny, cheerful young man.

Gu Huaiwei took a step to the side with some disdain.

Ou Doudou scratched his head in distress, then deliberately put on a cute expression. “Shopkeeper Gu, did you happen to see a little dog run this way? It had a red lamp hanging around its neck.

“I was originally heading to the classroom building for class, but the fog on the way kept getting thicker and thicker. I walked for a long time and still couldn’t get out of the fog. I was just about to think I’d gotten lost when I spotted a little dog with a red lamp hanging from its neck, so I followed it all the way here.”

Gu Huaiwei glanced at the time on her phone.

It should have been class time by now.

According to the Rules, if Ou Doudou was late to class, he would definitely be punished by the Anomaly Homeroom Teacher.

But Ou Doudou had somehow made his way to the Laboratory Building.

It had to be said, his luck really was quite good.

Ou Doudou winked at Gu Huaiwei. Since this was his stock in trade, that pair of bedroom eyes of his practically sparkled when he did it. “Shopkeeper Gu, seeing you here is just too wonderful! This must be the fate we cultivated in a past life!”

“Oh.” Gu Huaiwei was especially cold toward customers with little spending potential. “Then I must’ve done a lot of bad things in my past life.”

“Your room fee is about to expire,” Lin She abruptly cut in, interrupting Ou Doudou’s fawning.

Ou Doudou immediately pulled a miserable face. “If I’m not at the institute and the room is just sitting empty, does it still count against my Lifespan?”

“Yes. You have less than forty-eight hours left. Please cherish your time.” Lin She stared at Ou Doudou expressionlessly, making him feel chilled all over.

He was rather afraid of Lin She.

From Lin She, Ou Doudou could always sense a deeper cold than even the Instance itself.

“Quiet. I want to hear what that group up ahead is saying.”

Ou Doudou and Lin She fell silent.

The three of them looked together at the blurry faces in the distance.

Those people seemed to be arguing.

Several students’ parents were holding white signs with blood-red writing.

They read: Give us back our son’s life!