Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 277

Chapter 277

The people who had come to demand justice were Tiantian’s uncles, aunts, and other relatives-not the boy’s biological parents.

That male student was named Tiantian.

On the day Gu Huaiwei came to the Laboratory for the first time, Tiantian’s body had happened to come crashing down miserably right in front of her. Then people in white clothes quickly loaded him onto a stretcher and carried him into the incineration furnace, where he was burned.

At the time, Tiantian’s phone had also received a text message.

The sender knew Tiantian was sick, knew he needed to earn money from part-time work, and wanted to recommend that he go sell alcohol at Hot Spring Mansion.

Back then, Gu Huaiwei had used her phone to send over a photo of Tiantian’s half-burned corpse.

Presumably, it was that action back then that had led to the scene now unfolding in front of them.

“Our Tiantian was such an outstanding kid before this! A handsome young man, six feet tall, could eat three bowls of rice in one meal, paid his college tuition by collecting Mineral Water bottles, and then he came here to study perfectly fine. But now he’s suddenly gone! You have to give us an explanation! If you don’t, our whole family is spending the New Year right here at the school!”

“Don’t think you can hide this from us. Tiantian’s classmates already told us. We saw Tiantian’s body on campus with our own eyes!”

“That’s right! That’s a human life we’re talking about. There are eight of us here in total, and we came from all kinds of cities by long-distance bus to demand justice. We’re exhausted. No matter what, you should at least compensate us eight million!”

“Eight million… Eight million is too little, you idiot! This school’s crafty. They’ll try to bargain us down later!”

…

This dark mass of people looked like they had come to seek justice for Tiantian, but in truth, they’d only caught the scent of death compensation and come to carve up the last scraps of benefit.

The school’s security guards wore uniforms. In their left hands they held black batons, and in their right they carried catch poles.

They surrounded those people tightly, then dragged them away from beneath the Laboratory Building.

Only after those people were hauled out of the dense fog did Gu Huaiwei get a clear look at their faces. They weren’t human faces at all, but one furry monkey face after another.

Because they were too calculating, too eager to profit from the dead, those relatives had been tainted by Contamination. Their once-normal human faces were now covered in brown-black fur, and when they opened their mouths, only shrill cries came out. They had turned into things that were neither human nor monkey.

The security guards’ catch poles looped around the monkeys’ necks, and once caught, the monkeys couldn’t struggle free. They could only leap and screech sharply, while the guards brought their batons crashing down on the monkeys’ heads again and again, until brains splattered everywhere.

After the monkeys were beaten unconscious, they were dragged away.

Then the dense fog leading to the Laboratory Building dispersed a little, opening up a path toward the main entrance. The doctor fitted with eyes stood there in the doorway, smiling as he beckoned to them.

And the Little White Dog with the red light hanging from its neck was also at the School Doctor’s feet, happily wagging its tail at them.

Ou Doudou pointed excitedly at the Little White Dog and said, “That’s the dog! I got lost in the fog just now, and it was this little dog that led me out and helped me find this place!”

Gu Huaiwei was just about to walk forward.

Ou Doudou wanted to reach out and stop her, but Lin She swiftly blocked him. “If you’ve got something to say, say it.”

Gu Huaiwei turned to look at Ou Doudou. He scratched his head awkwardly and said, “Uh… I just wanted to say, I think it’s a little dangerous over there. We’d better not go.”

He was very afraid.

So many people had entered the Instance together, and ever since they got separated, Ou Doudou had been in a constant state of nerves, afraid of danger in front of him and behind him, terrified that he’d die inside the Instance.

As a result, he was the biggest coward in the whole group.
And he was the luckiest of them all.

He’d made it this far without a scratch.

He was still wandering all over the Instance.

Sure enough, no amount of clever analysis and deduction could beat the person blessed with the most absurd dumb luck.

“If we don’t go over there, can you find your way back?” Gu Huaiwei glanced at the pitch-black fog surrounding them. “If you can, then find your own way to the teaching building. I need to go upstairs and take a look. See yourself out.”

Gu Huaiwei couldn’t be bothered dragging around a loudmouthed burden.

If it were Bai Yuzhen, she could at least persuade her to accept mild Contamination, then enter the Laboratory that only those with mild Contamination could see.

But with Ou Doudou, even if he really did accept it, he still wouldn’t be able to produce the effect Gu Huaiwei wanted inside the Laboratory.

“Let’s go together!” Seeing that Gu Huaiwei had no intention of leaving, Ou Doudou’s handsome face instantly turned anxious. But he quickly calmed down and brought out his unique advantage. Thinking he looked very cool, he ran a hand through his hair, tugged his shirt collar open a little lower, and gave Gu Huaiwei a plaintive look. “Don’t you want to be with me?”

Gu Huaiwei looked at him like she’d seen a ghost and said without hesitation, “No.”

He wasn’t her type.

Ou Doudou was instantly crushed. He’d always been good at sweet-talking rich women before.

But Gu Huaiwei wasn’t some rich lady. She was a worn-out working stiff.

Not only did that routine not work on her, it just annoyed her and got in the way of her work.

Seeing that there was absolutely no chance of changing Gu Huaiwei’s mind, Ou Doudou simply went all in. Working up his courage, he looked at Lin She, put on that pitiful expression again, and said, “Then what about you, handsome? Do you want to head back to the teaching building? We can team up!

Even though we’re both guys, there can still be unbreakable friendship between men! We can try building that friendship-form a boys-only alliance unique to this Instance…”

“Not interested,” Lin She cut him off before he could finish. His attitude was even colder than Gu Huaiwei’s. “Unless you have a way to get the shop’s VIP service, I won’t provide you with personal protection.”

“…” Ou Doudou felt like his heart had already been stabbed full of holes.

The two people in front of him were one more brutally practical than the other.

No feelings, only Lifespan.

They were colder and more heartless than the Anomaly.

Gu Huaiwei stopped paying attention to Ou Doudou’s muttering at the side. She entered the Laboratory Building and headed toward the School Doctor.

The School Doctor had already called the elevator.

The Little White Dog with the red light hanging from its neck circled around Gu Huaiwei’s feet, letting out cute “Wangwang” sounds.

Gu Huaiwei bent down and picked the Little White Dog up into her arms.

Only when she held it did Gu Huaiwei realize the dog had also contracted Mist Lung Disease.

Its belly was already slightly swollen.

Cradled in her arms, the Little White Dog rubbed itself against the crook of Gu Huaiwei’s arm, then obediently rested its little head against her and looked up at her with wet puppy eyes. It yawned, kicked its little legs twice, and fell asleep in her embrace.

The swollen part of the dog’s belly was slowly getting bigger.

And the red light around its neck was growing dimmer and dimmer.

Gu Huaiwei followed the School Doctor into the elevator.

The School Doctor took Gu Huaiwei to the Lab Equipment Room.

Earlier, when Gu Huaiwei and Bai Yuzhen had rushed back to the girls’ dorm, they hadn’t been able to bring Fang Zhao with them. They had tied him up and stuffed him into a cabinet to hide him, and now there was no telling whether he was safe.

While the School Doctor searched for something in the Lab Equipment Room, Gu Huaiwei opened the cabinet where they had hidden him.