Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - chapter 66

With the guidance of Bai Niao and Qian Xia, there were fewer people parking chaotically at the entrance of the hotel, the usage rate of the underground parking lot increased, and the Oasis Hotel’s account received more parking fees.

Li Niang, having not been assigned any specific work, was always anxious and uneasy, worried that she would be driven away.

Seeing her excessive anxiety, Gu Huaiwei arranged for her to help customers find and send express deliveries at the station.

The Fifth District Chief arrived as scheduled.

Lu Ziyi and Lu Hao, the siblings, greeted their father with respectful attitudes.

The Fifth District Chief sat in a wheelchair, accompanied by a nurse in white. The nurse held an IV drip; the needle pierced his bark-like wrist, continuously delivering the inhibitor into his body.

When he saw Gu Huaiwei, his cloudy eyes suddenly shone with light.

“It’s you… It really is you… The female clerk with glasses… I’ve been to your shop!”

The Fifth District Chief was so excited to see Gu Huaiwei that he hadn’t yet realized his two children had deceived him.

There were other guests in the hotel.

It hadn’t been booked out entirely.

“Sir, please calm down.”

Gu Huaiwei didn’t want to lose out on room fees, only for this old man, who looked like a withered tree, to die suddenly of a heart attack from overexcitement.

The Fifth District Chief did not calm down. His gaze locked tightly onto Gu Huaiwei, his tone filled with barely restrained excitement: “I have something to say to you alone. Let everyone around you leave.”

By “everyone around you,” he meant Lin She, who was playing on the computer nearby.

“Would you like to check in first?” Gu Huaiwei, maintaining a businesslike attitude, did not respond to his enthusiasm.

“Stay! As long as it’s your hotel, I will do my utmost to support it.” The Fifth District Chief signaled to his security guards behind him, then spoke to Gu Huaiwei in an almost flattering tone: “I want to stay in your most expensive room.”

That would be the Presidential Suite.

Gu Huaiwei’s eyes lit up-finally, this room type could be booked.

Since the Fifth District Chief was willing to spend lavishly, Gu Huaiwei naturally offered a smiling service.

She led the Fifth District Chief, along with his security and medical team, to the Presidential Suite on the fourth floor.

Pushing open the door to the suite, the entrance corridor revealed a lush bamboo grove. A gentle breeze rustled the bamboo leaves.

Everyone present was stunned by the scene before them.

Even Lu Ziyi and Lu Hao, who had been following behind, were shocked by the luxury of the room.

They had thought the themed rooms were already high-end enough.

But after arriving at the Presidential Suite, they realized the room they’d been staying in was child’s play in comparison.

This was the true earthly paradise.

Following the winding path into the living room, the pale blue dome was illuminated by natural sunlight. The surrounding walls were covered in lush trees and vines, making everyone feel as if they were in a forest.

Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, one could see a meticulously designed garden balcony outside, with distant mountains faintly visible, layer upon layer.

“Isn’t this the fourth floor?” The nurse holding the IV rubbed her eyes, even suspecting that everything before her was a projection.

It had been over two hundred years since the Nuclear Explosion-these mountains, these waters, this stone bridge, these woods… none of it looked like something that could truly exist.

The Fifth District Chief looked at the room, not with any doubt, but with his head lowered, emitting a strange laugh from his throat.
“Everyone out! Anyone not involved, leave this room immediately!”

The Fifth District Chief began waving people away.

The bodyguards and nursing team left.

Only Lu Ziyi and Lu Hao remained.

As the others departed, the Fifth District Chief’s laughter grew louder and louder, making the syringe on his arm tremble slightly. It was as if all the pain and madness in his body were being released along with his laughter.

“Hahaha, I knew you had this ability! Do you know, you have always been my faith!”

The Fifth District Chief’s laughter had not yet stopped, but his voice grew more agitated, tinged with a kind of manic excitement. “You were able to build this hotel, to move freely in the radiation… You must have mastered the secret to purifying radiation!”

His eyes gleamed with greed and fanaticism as he began to reminisce about the past.

“Back then, you gave me a handful of Gold Coins and had me pretend to be a customer, booking a room here.

Clearly, you spent the money, but let me stay here for free.” His clouded eyes held nostalgia and gratitude. “You truly are a kind-hearted angel.”

Gu Huaiwei silently complained in her heart: her sister was just using him to boost the numbers.

Don’t overthink it, don’t flatter yourself.

The Fifth District Chief paused, craning his neck forward as he looked at Gu Huaiwei, pouring out his thoughts: “I don’t know if you still remember me, but I will never forget you.

After I left the hotel, I developed myself in the Fifth District. Finally, I gained power and influence, and I wanted to come back to find you and thank you in person.”

“Oh, that’s quite thoughtful of you.” Gu Huaiwei decided to play along for now, guiding the fanatical Fifth District Chief to finish what he had to say.

“I went to the original address of your shop, but it had long been abandoned, with only a dilapidated three-story building left.” At this point, the Fifth District Chief’s expression darkened, and a trace of regret flashed in his eyes. “You were no longer there, and that building had lost its ability to resist radiation.”

A glimmer flashed in Gu Huaiwei’s eyes behind her glasses.

She keenly caught onto a detail.

Her sister’s previous hotel address was actually not here?

From the Fifth District Chief’s words, what he saw was just a three-story hotel building-the most basic, unupgraded form of the Oasis Hotel.

No wonder, during the public trial, those Shareholders criticized her for not managing the hotel seriously before.

It seemed her sister had only raised the hotel’s basic level, and as soon as it was maxed out, she abandoned it without unlocking any additional facilities.

The Fifth District Chief continued.

“I made inquiries everywhere and finally learned that you had gone to the Upper District.

You shouldn’t be in a place like that; the scheming and intrigue of the Upper District don’t suit you.

You should keep running this miraculous hotel, just like you are now.

Heal me, cure my illness.

Once I recover, we can join forces!

The Fifth District will give you its full support and help you open this hotel in every corner of the world!”

Gu Huaiwei looked helplessly at the Fifth District Chief. This man actually believed she had the ability to make someone severely contaminated by radiation healthy again.

He had come all this way, only to make a wish to her sister.

“Sorry, I…” Gu Huaiwei was just about to say she was powerless to help.

The next second, a dagger pierced through the Fifth District Chief’s throat.