Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 285

Chapter 285

“Gu Huaiwei is back… Yeah… She showed up at Mu Lingxi’s graduation ceremony…” the hacker senior said over the phone in the men’s restroom. “I didn’t do anything rash. I haven’t met her that many times, so she probably didn’t notice me.”

There was no one else in the restroom. Gu Huaiwei walked in slowly and turned on the faucet. Hearing the sound of running water, the hacker senior inside the stall instantly stopped talking.

She was deliberately messing with him.

Then Gu Huaiwei walked over to the stall the hacker senior was in.

Highly unethical of her, she knocked on the door.

“Who’s there? Someone’s in here.” The hacker senior sounded nervous.

Gu Huaiwei said nothing.

The hacker senior’s voice suddenly rose. “Cut out the creepy act!”

He’d done too many guilty things, so of course he was afraid of a ghost knocking at the door.

“If you want to see me that badly, then stop watching me from the shadows behind my back.”

That single sentence nearly scared the man in the stall half to death.

The hacker senior pulled open the door in disbelief. When he saw Gu Huaiwei, his lips trembled as he said, “Y-you… this is the men’s restroom. How did you follow me in here?”

Gu Huaiwei glanced at the phone that was still connected.

Then she snatched it away.

“Hey. Stop hiding in the dark like sewer rats and staring at the people around me. If you want something, come out and tell me directly. Maybe if I’m in a good mood, I’ll satisfy you.”

The other end remained silent.

Only after Gu Huaiwei finished speaking did the man on the line let out a short laugh and hang up.

“Tch.” Gu Huaiwei tossed the phone back to the hacker senior, then warned, “Don’t let me catch you trying any tricks, or I’ll send you to prison.”

Before leaving, Gu Huaiwei turned off the faucet.

The hacker senior, caught red-handed, was left standing there, embarrassed and furious.

After Mu Lingxi’s graduation ceremony ended, the two of them went to a cha chaan teng for afternoon tea.

Gu Huaiwei ordered a small slice of tiramisu and scooped at it with a dainty silver spoon.

Mu Lingxi stirred her coffee.

“Just now, I saw your ex-boyfriend acting suspiciously at the graduation ceremony, so I followed him. I found him making a phone call, and the person on the other end was very likely the one who’s been causing us trouble all this time.”

When Gu Huaiwei snatched the phone, it looked like she was just venting, but she’d actually memorized the number while she was at it.

“Look into where this number came from.”

Gu Huaiwei wrote the number on a napkin and handed it to Mu Lingxi.

Mu Lingxi slipped the napkin into her pocket.

Gu Huaiwei also warned Mu Lingxi a few times about the shady business inside Xiyuan Group, telling her not to be dazzled by the high salary and to be careful of the traps hidden there.

“All my companies in the Real World were run with your help.

You’ve poured your own effort into those businesses. If you’re unhappy working there, you can come back and focus on managing the company.

I’ll give you half the shares in everything I own.”

Gu Huaiwei had always been generous with Mu Lingxi.

With one hand propping up her cheek, Mu Lingxi looked especially gentle under the dim yellow lighting of the cha chaan teng. “Huaiwei, let’s not talk about that. You hardly ever come back, so go shopping with me later.”

Gu Huaiwei had long since achieved financial freedom.

The only reason she ran companies was to buy supplies from this world and move them into small worlds in other Dimensions.

“Okay.” Seeing that Mu Lingxi didn’t want to keep talking about it, Gu Huaiwei let the matter drop.

As a friend, she should respect the other person’s thoughts and choices.

Mu Lingxi wanted to prove herself inside Xiyuan Group, so Gu Huaiwei supported her.

If one day she no longer wanted to stay and decided to quit, then Gu Huaiwei would be her strongest backup.

Mu Lingxi clearly had something on her mind. Gu Huaiwei had known her for many years, and every time Mu Lingxi had something weighing on her, she would pretend to be relaxed, then drag Gu Huaiwei out to eat, drink, and shop for a bunch of useless little trinkets to relieve the pressure.

Gu Huaiwei puffed out her cheeks as she sucked up the tapioca pearls in her milk tea.

The straw jabbed around inside, but the last two pearls just refused to come up.

Ever since her constitution had changed, she no longer had to worry about gaining weight or breaking out from drinking milk tea or eating hot pot, and her appetite had become bigger than before. The tiramisu she’d eaten at the cha chaan teng hadn’t filled her up, so before leaving, she’d even ordered a bowl of egg fried rice.
“Huaiwei, have you ever thought about trying to find your biological parents?” Mu Lingxi carried a cup of milk tea the whole way without taking a single sip.

Gu Huaiwei thought of the middle-aged couple in her sister’s diary.

They were standing at the entrance to Paradise, taking a picture.

In their arms were two baby girls.

As soon as Gu Huaiwei saw that middle-aged couple in the photo, she felt an intense sense of familiarity.

She felt that they might be their biological parents.

“I have.” In fact, after finding her sister, Gu Huaiwei had wanted to ask why her sister had that photo.

Mu Lingxi smiled and lightly bit down on her straw.

Since Gu Huaiwei wanted to find them, Mu Lingxi would help her.

When Gu Huaiwei returned to the Oasis Sanatorium this time, she brought four truckloads of New Year’s supplies with her.

All the Assistants in the lobby were helping prepare the New Year’s gifts.

Lin She had designed the outer packaging for the New Year’s gifts in a black-and-red color scheme, stylish and minimalist.

Using the Formula for the Mist Lung Disease Cure, He Xueyi developed the cure and completed mass production.

The Gray Mist Town Map had been drawn by Mu Lanwo. Though she moved slowly, she was meticulous in cartography, sketching out every corner of the town and pairing it with a thick Map Instruction Manual.

Bai Yuzhen returned on the day before New Year.

When she came back, she did not bring back the Class Monitor, Fang Zhao. Instead, she limped in while supporting the heavily injured Zhang Wenwu.

Zhang Wenwu’s wife, Qin Yuhuan, was cradling their hungry, wailing infant. The moment she saw her husband return safely, the strength she had held onto for days instantly collapsed, and she burst into tears as she threw herself into Zhang Wenwu’s arms.

“I thought… I thought…” Qin Yuhuan sobbed so hard she could barely speak.

She had thought Zhang Wenwu would never come back.

“Miss Bai saved me,” Zhang Wenwu said. He had received the reward from this Instance. He and his wife and child would now be able to live safely in the Sanatorium for a long time without having to worry about room fees.

Qin Yuhuan immediately turned to Bai Yuzhen with gratitude, clasped her hand, and thanked her again and again. “Thank you for reuniting our family of three!”

Bai Yuzhen only waved her hand silently.

No one had made it out of this Instance unscathed.

Both Bai Yuzhen and Zhang Wenwu had suffered mild Contamination from the Instance.

If this had happened before, Bai Yuzhen would never have wasted extra time saving Zhang Wenwu inside the Instance. But having just lost Fang Zhao, she thought again of the wife and child Zhang Wenwu had back at the Sanatorium.

She couldn’t make things right for herself.

So she did what she could to help someone else.

At that moment, Bai Yuzhen suddenly no longer wanted to be the smart one.

Call it a sudden burst of sentimentality, if you like-she wanted to do some good and accumulate some virtue for the sake of her dead companion.

Xia Wenxin, the Sports Committee Member who had been working at the Sanatorium all this time, heard that Bai Yuzhen had returned and dropped her work as a caregiver as she rushed out.

The moment Xia Wenxin saw Bai Yuzhen, Bai Yuzhen shook her head at her. “The Class Monitor isn’t coming back.”

Xia Wenxin’s eyes gradually reddened with tears. “I saw your name at the bottom of the Heavenly Ranking.”

A single Five-Star clear had sent Bai Yuzhen’s ranking soaring.

She had gained that honor.

And lost an important companion.

“I’m tired. I won’t be leaving anymore.” Bai Yuzhen walked over to Xia Wenxin and, exhausted, wrapped her in a hug. “Now there are only the two of us left in the whole class.”

“It’s okay. From now on, the two of us will live well here in the Sanatorium,” Xia Wenxin said, gripping Bai Yuzhen’s icy hand tightly. She had always been optimistic, believing that all the misfortune was already behind them and that they would have a good life from now on.

But that very night, Bai Yuzhen’s mild Contamination flared up, and she began hallucinating. By the time Xia Wenxin heard the commotion and rushed into her room, Bai Yuzhen had already hanged herself.

A stool lay knocked over on the floor, and the body hanging from the beam swayed back and forth.

She remained in the old year.

Accompanied by the sound of firecrackers at the Sanatorium, the new year arrived.

[Oasis Sanatorium: Five-Star]

A new email arrived on the computer.