Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 295

Chapter 295

Mu Lingxi was Gu Huaiwei’s best helper in the Real World. With Mu Lingxi there, Gu Huaiwei was able to focus her attention on the Dimension World.

Later, she lit one lamp after another in that Ferris Wheel Oil Painting.

She had gone to an ancient Dimension ravaged by famine and war, where she ran the Oasis Charity Hall. The local residents built temples for her and offered up their faith.

She gained the power of faith, and from then on, accumulated merit aided her cultivation.

She had gone to a dark Dimension where the sun never rose and humans were kept and enslaved by vampires, where she ran the Oasis Milk Tea Shop selling artificial blood.

Dark monsters ran rampant there. She collected magic power points, learned to wield magical elements, and could fly through the skies and tunnel through the earth, change her appearance with ease, and turn stone into gold.

She had gone to a future water world completely submerged by the sea, where soil was more precious than gold. There, Gu Huaiwei ran Oasis Island and continuously expanded it into a new continent.

She collected the “Seed of Hope,” a unique treasure of that small Dimension. Once planted, it could grow new soil anywhere devoid of life, giving her the creative power to transform decay into life.

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The more Gu Huaiwei experienced, the greater the power she possessed.

And as her own strength grew, Gu Huaiwei also learned to refuse any Assistant Paradise assigned to her in the later stages.

Why refuse them?

Because Gu Huaiwei discovered that no matter how much stronger she became, the Assistant Paradise sent her always remained utterly at ease when facing her.

Unless He Xueyi deliberately cooperated, her spiritual energy sword could not cut through He Xueyi’s trees.

Even if she erased every trace of her presence, Gu Huaiwei still could not see Lin She’s hibernating form.

When Bai Miemie helped her teach someone a lesson, she turned her back and used her sea of consciousness to probe what was happening behind her, only for it to vanish like a clay ox entering the sea; she could sense nothing at all.

Likewise, she could not see what kind of scene lay behind the mist Mu Lanwo raised.

The stronger she became, the more keenly she felt that all those Assistant were like time bombs.

They were all trying to curry favor with her, trying to leave her with a good impression.

With how attentive they were, Gu Huaiwei absolutely did not believe they had no ulterior motive.

And within the small Dimensions, many people had tried to make Gu Huaiwei stay.

Some of them were indeed beautiful memories.

There was a noble emperor in the mortal world who was willing to empty out his entire harem just to make her stay. Even after she left, he became obsessed with witchcraft and sorcery, all to summon her soul back.

There was a cold-blooded monster who put away his claws and fangs, stayed by her side without feeding, and after learning that she would leave no matter what, shed tears he himself did not understand.

There were also four sworn sisters who had vowed to roam the jianghu together. In the end, each of them met ruin in the fate she had chosen with her own hands.

The eldest sister was left blind and crippled in the legs because of revenge. The second sister was trapped in the scheming of the inner household until she was nearly witless. The third sister suffered qi deviation while practicing her martial arts. The fourth spent her life with only a lonely lamp and Buddha for company.

Gu Huaiwei could heal their damaged bodies, but she could not interfere with their fates.

Even though each of them ultimately walked a different road, they all saw Gu Huaiwei off one last time when she said her farewell.

Gu Huaiwei’s steps would not stop for anyone.

Her eyes were always fixed forward.

Even He Xueyi had once remarked that Gu Huaiwei truly was the best Operator selected by Paradise.

She was never lost. In every Dimension, she worked diligently, made decisions with swift resolve, and saved even the people acting as Assistant from having to offer warnings or guidance.

The small Dimensions had given her absolute power and wealth.

The more she gained, the farther she moved away from ordinary people.
Lin She stood behind Gu Huaiwei year-round, dressed in dark clothing. He was the first Assistant to appear at her side, and after spending so long together, the two of them had developed a wordless understanding.

“Congratulations in advance, Miss Gu. The last lamp is about to be lit,” Lin She said in a low, husky, magnetic voice.

Gu Huaiwei stood in the hall, her gentle gaze fixed on the enormous Ferris Wheel Oil Painting.

No matter which small Dimension she moved to, that painting always followed her.

If she had been uneasy at first about disguising herself as her sister, now that she possessed power, Gu Huaiwei had already calmed down and made her final preparations.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for a very long time,” Gu Huaiwei said, her eyes calm and still.

Yet that calm carried a repressed weight to it, like the silence before a storm.

During the time she had spent operating in the small Dimensions, Gu Huaiwei had cooperated with the few little Assistants around her to their mutual benefit, and they had gotten along very well.

But that false, pleasant life could not conceal the fact that they all had their own motives.

After the Paradise Gate opened, they would become untrustworthy.

Bai Miemie came bouncing over with freshly made cotton candy in her hand. She stuffed a soft, fluffy piece into Gu Huaiwei’s hand and said sweetly, “After the Paradise Gate opens, Sister Gu, you have to come visit my home. My brothers and sisters will definitely welcome you.”

Lin She’s voice turned especially cold, like ice condensed from mist. “Bai Miemie, let Miss Gu make her own choice.”

“Bleh.” Bai Miemie stuffed the rest of the cotton candy into her mouth and chewed, then pulled her cheeks out to the sides and stuck out her tongue at Lin She. “I’m truly sincere toward Sister Gu. I say exactly what I mean. Unlike you, keeping everything buried in your heart while you harbor bad intentions.”

He Xueyi held a small red fruit between his fingers, dressed in white as pure as snow. “My, how lively the hall is. The Paradise Gate is about to open, and everyone seems to be getting restless.”

“Everyone wants to make sure Sister Gu notices them,” Bai Miemie said as she ran to He Xueyi’s side.

Even Mu Lanwo, who normally could never keep up with everyone’s conversations, had appeared on the second floor, both hands resting on the railing as she looked down at them.

“If you’re this enthusiastic, you’ll scare Shop Manager Miss,” He Xueyi said. He opened his feather fan with one hand, covering his pale pink lips. He understood the human heart better. “Shop Manager Miss will think the few of us are up to no good.”

Weren’t they?

That was exactly what Gu Huaiwei thought.

She had also tried to investigate what, exactly, they wanted to do after Paradise opened.

But these few Assistants kept their mouths tightly shut.

Even the most innocent Bai Miemie had not revealed any key information to her.

Since they refused to talk, Gu Huaiwei would go see for herself.

Three months later, the last lamp in the painting lit up.

The Ferris wheel began to turn.

The final Dimension Jump arrived.

The scenery before her changed. Gu Huaiwei fell out of the spacetime passage, adjusted her posture in midair, and landed steadily.

The spacetime passage was nearly twenty stories above the ground.

If not for the Baptism she had gone through in the small Dimensions, she would have fallen to her death here.

This time, the Assistants by Gu Huaiwei’s side had not followed her.

Gu Huaiwei brushed the dust from her clothes. Before her stood a black iron gate, and through its rust-mottled bars, she looked into the fairy-tale-like Paradise beyond.

With a creak, the Paradise Gate opened.