Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 283

Chapter 283

Bai Yuzhen suddenly ran to the corner of the room, crouched down in the dust, clutched her head, and called out Gu Huaiwei’s name.

“Shopkeeper Gu, things are getting chaotic on my side! Quick! Get me out of here!”

“I’m here.” Gu Huaiwei crouched down, trying to use pain to force Bai Yuzhen back to her senses.

She kept responding to Bai Yuzhen’s cries.

But Bai Yuzhen still couldn’t hear her voice.

“The principal… the principal is wearing a gas mask. Something’s wrong with this room. Gray Crystal ore is everywhere, and that stone painting on the wall, and that little landscape ornament on the desk…”

“The research results for the Mist Lung Disease cure are on the desk. The principal wants to keep all of this for himself. He released poison gas into the room. He wants to kill all the researchers on this floor…”

But in the present Principal’s Office, there was nothing Bai Yuzhen described.

The frame on the wall was empty.

There was no ornament on the desk, and no research results either.

Gu Huaiwei tried to communicate with Bai Yuzhen, but an invisible boundary separated them. Gu Huaiwei’s voice couldn’t pass into the world of mild Contamination, and Bai Yuzhen couldn’t see Gu Huaiwei at all.

“I got it, but how am I supposed to bring it to you?”

“This is a hallucination. It’s only a hallucination. It’s only mild Contamination. I can still wake up.”

Bai Yuzhen kept muttering to herself with her head lowered.

She was trying to hypnotize herself.

She began to hurt herself, slamming her head against the wall, her forehead soon covered in blood as she tried to force herself awake.

“The principal… the principal is coming to get me… save me! Save me, Shopkeeper Gu! You promised me!”

Bai Yuzhen’s voice grew more and more shrill.

“I’ve been by your side the whole time. Can you feel the pain?” Gu Huaiwei had already squeezed Bai Yuzhen’s hand until bruises bloomed purple across it. If she used any more force, that hand would be ruined.

Bai Yuzhen still couldn’t hear Gu Huaiwei calling to her.

If Bai Yuzhen failed, Gu Huaiwei would have to find another helper all over again.

She had to call Bai Yuzhen back.

At that thought, Gu Huaiwei hardened her heart. She pulled a dagger from her sleeve and cut out the rotten flesh on the back of Bai Yuzhen’s hand where the spider bite had festered.

Black, contaminated blood splattered across her pale face.

Bai Yuzhen’s breathing hitched.

It was as if she had heard Gu Huaiwei’s voice again.

And Gu Huaiwei conveyed only one command to her.

Run!

Struggling, Bai Yuzhen pushed herself up from the floor. She seemed to be clutching something tightly in her hand. Holding her breath, she charged toward the door and began pounding on it.

The door was shut tight.

No matter how hard she hit it, it wouldn’t open.

Gu Huaiwei kicked the door of the Principal’s Office open.

In the world of mild Contamination, Bai Yuzhen sensed the change from the other world. At the same time, she slammed open the door to the Principal’s Office and staggered out.

The principal was chasing her from behind.

As Bai Yuzhen ran, dodging and hiding, she also kept trying to wake herself up.

But when she passed Fang Zhao, trapped inside a glass container, her fleeing steps faltered. She looked back at the principal and security guards who were about to catch up, then looked at Fang Zhao. In the end, she couldn’t leave him behind.

She bent down, picked up a rock, and hurled it at the glass container with all her strength.

“Class Monitor, I’m getting you out right now! I’ve already gotten the Formula for the Mist Lung Disease Cure. As long as we wake up, we can leave this hellhole.”

“Can you still hear me? Can you please not die? I don’t want to lose any of you ever again.”

“When this is over, let’s go back to Oasis Sanatorium and retire for good. That ranking doesn’t matter anymore. The reward this time is more than enough for the few of us to live out the rest of our lives in peace.”

As she spoke, Bai Yuzhen, who had always been so strong, suddenly shed two silent streams of tears.
Scalding tears hit the ground.

“Please don’t be taken from me again. I don’t have any family left. You are my last family.”

Fighting on alone was too lonely.

Bai Yuzhen didn’t want to go through another separation of life and death.

She didn’t want the people important to her to be left behind in an Instance forever.

She had already lived through this scene too many times.

And no matter how many times she experienced it, she could never get used to that feeling of loss.

Losing too much didn’t make a person numb.

It only made them afraid of losing more.

Made them want to give everything they had just to keep something from slipping away.

But from Gu Huaiwei’s point of view, Bai Yuzhen was talking to thin air.

Then smashing thin air with a rock.

Fang Zhao’s body had already completely vanished from this world.

There was no way for him to escape that contaminated world anymore.

Even Bai Yuzhen’s body was beginning to flicker in and out.

If she didn’t come back soon, she’d be in danger too.

Lin She said in his shadowy voice, “Miss Gu, you can feed her some of your blood.”

Between the interests of the Oasis Sanatorium and Gu Huaiwei, Lin She still chose to put the Oasis Sanatorium first.

“Hm?” Gu Huaiwei looked up at him.

Lin She stood to the side, watching Bai Yuzhen gradually collapse emotionally. His voice was low, and those thin black lips of his revealed nothing at all as he explained to Gu Huaiwei, “The Contamination in small Dimensions can’t erode us because we carry Paradise’s blessing. You can share a little of that blessing with her. It won’t be enough to clear the Contamination from her body, but it should be enough to help her regain her senses.”

“Since all of us have Paradise’s blessing, would your blood work too?”

“Yours is safer.” Lin She only had the appearance of a human. That didn’t mean he was human.

His blood was cold.

Using his blood could easily trigger rejection.

And Gu Huaiwei was an Operator personally cultivated by Paradise. After being nourished by several Dimensions, her physique had long since been greatly improved.

She herself was like a pot of rich restorative soup that had simmered for ages. Even if she wasn’t as miraculous as Tang Monk’s flesh, a single bite would still bring enormous benefit.

Gu Huaiwei pressed her lips together, then cut her fingertip with a blade and dabbed the bright red blood onto Bai Yuzhen’s lips.

The principal reached out a hand toward Bai Yuzhen.

The hand gripping the rock was already bloody, but no matter how hard she smashed it, the glass in front of her refused to break, while Fang Zhao’s figure grew blurrier and blurrier before her eyes.

She knew with painful clarity that she was losing something.

Bai Yuzhen’s movements were frantic.

But with the rise of a sweet, metallic scent, her heart slowly calmed.

She saw Class Monitor Fang Zhao give her a faint, insubstantial smile.

He said to her, “This is as far as I go. Go back.”

After saying that, Class Monitor Fang Zhao twisted violently inside the experimental container, then with his last strength tore the tubes from his body and bit off his own tongue.

“Something happened to the test specimen!”

“This is bad! It’s the only successful sample!”

“Save it, now!”

The principal no longer cared about capturing Bai Yuzhen.

The scene before Bai Yuzhen blurred. She didn’t know whether it was because of her tears, or because she had finally escaped.

Then Gu Huaiwei’s concerned voice sounded in her ears once more.

“Classmate Bai, can you hear me now?” Gu Huaiwei waved a hand in front of her.

And in Bai Yuzhen’s arms was the Formula for the Mist Lung Disease Cure from the contaminated world.

Her whole body weak, she sat on the ground.

When she saw Gu Huaiwei, it was a long while before she finally said in a dry, hoarse voice, “Shopkeeper Gu, I brought back what you wanted.”