Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - chapter 70

He raised both hands, shouting in panic, “Gu Huaiwei, it’s me, Jiang Xingyi! Don’t wave that knife around, what if you actually cut someone?”

Gu Huaiwei’s hand paused slightly, her gaze coldly sizing him up, but she didn’t lower the dagger immediately.

She said irritably, “What are you doing hiding in the bushes of our neighborhood?”

“I…” Jiang Xingyi awkwardly rubbed his nose, then stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes, his tone growing self-righteous. “You have the nerve to ask me what I’m doing? Let me ask you, why did you run away a few months ago? Do you know how embarrassed Mom and Dad were that night?”

“Your parents were embarrassed, what does that have to do with me?” Gu Huaiwei glanced at Jiang Xingyi, feeling that his intentions were far from pure.

Sure enough, Jiang Xingyi seized the opportunity: “If you want the Jiang Family not to pursue what happened before, that’s possible, but you have to do me a favor first.”

It wasn’t that the Jiang Family didn’t want to pursue it, but rather that they had no ability to do so.

At that auction, after Gu Huaiwei paid with the Black Card herself, the Jiang Family tried everywhere to trace the origin of the Black Card, but found nothing.

It seemed as if a special force was protecting Gu Huaiwei’s secret, making it impossible for them to investigate.

Not only that, but Gu Huaiwei would also disappear for periods of time.

She was like a dragon whose head could be seen but not its tail.

They couldn’t even catch a glimpse of Gu Huaiwei.

Seeing Gu Huaiwei remain silent, Jiang Xingyi changed his approach, revealing his true purpose, his tone growing urgent: “Tell me, do you still have those Gold Coins you used to sell outside?

If you can give me another hundred, I guarantee Mom and Dad will forgive your previous rudeness.”

At that moment, Mu Lingxi walked over, sounding a bit impatient: “Don’t give him anything!”

She looked at Jiang Xingyi without any courtesy: “Figure out your own gambling debts, don’t come extort my Huaiwei! Don’t think I don’t know-you have no say at all in the Jiang Family!”

“Gambling debts?” Gu Huaiwei’s eyes flashed.

She remembered that although Jiang Xingyi was idle and undisciplined, he didn’t seem to have a gambling habit.

Mu Lingxi had always helped Gu Huaiwei handle matters in the Real World, and paid extra attention to anything related to her.

“That’s right, lately he’s been borrowing money from everyone he knows. According to insiders, he lost money gambling and can’t pay it back. Because of these rumors, the Jiang Family’s stock price has plummeted.”

Mu Lingxi felt the Jiang Family deserved it.

Jiang Xingyi’s face changed slightly at her words, and he groaned in frustration: “I was set up!”

“I don’t have what you want. Deal with your own problems.” Gu Huaiwei’s attitude was rather cold.

She felt this had nothing to do with her and didn’t intend to get further involved, preparing to leave with Mu Lingxi.

“Don’t go!” Jiang Xingyi suddenly raised his hand to stop her, sounding a bit desperate: “If a hundred is too much, fifty! No, even twenty will do. I won’t take them for free, I’ll pay market price!”

Gu Huaiwei sensed something was off. She stopped and scrutinized the unusually anxious Jiang Xingyi, asking sharply, “Did the person who set you up demand Gold Coins to pay off your gambling debt?”

Jiang Xingyi grew flustered, explaining incoherently.

“Not exactly… I lost about six hundred million, and those people are forcing me to pay up soon, saying they’ll cut off six of my fingers if I don’t.”

“I don’t have enough cash, but then a man in black approached me. He showed me those Gold Coins you used to sell, and also some kind of strange liquid… um… I think he called it Nutrient Solution, I’ve never seen it before.”

“He said if I could get him those things, he’d help me clear my debt.”

“I really had no other choice, so I came to ask you for help.”
“Well, your sister is also the Jiang Family’s fiancée. Technically, that makes me half your brother. You can’t just stand by and watch me die, right?”

“I can.” Gu Huaiwei replied to Jiang Xingyi almost instantly.

“Huh?”

Jiang Xingyi’s messy golden hair and slightly parted lips showed his discomfort at Gu Huaiwei’s unhesitating and rather merciless words.

Seeing that he hadn’t quite heard her, Gu Huaiwei repeated expressionlessly, “I can stand by and watch you die. If you plan to hold a funeral, there’s no need to notify me.”

Gu Huaiwei disliked people trying to force a family connection with her.

She found it extremely annoying.

Besides, this was a law-abiding society now. Who goes around cutting off fingers at the drop of a hat? It’s not the Wasteland.

Leaving the unreasonable Jiang Xingyi behind, Gu Huaiwei and Mu Lingxi walked away.

What Gu Huaiwei didn’t know was that Sister Jin’s business had also run into trouble.

Not long ago, someone reported Sister Jin’s shop for selling fake gold.

Because of selling counterfeits, Sister Jin was fined a huge sum by the Market Supervision Bureau.

Just as that matter was settled, Sister Jin was reported again for purchasing stolen goods and helping criminals launder money.

This time, the amount involved was enormous.

Sister Jin ended up in the station, and was released on bail by her lawyer.

To get a lighter sentence, she needed to hand over all her illegal earnings-a total of 800 million.

But the key issue was, Sister Jin had been set up and tricked without knowing it. That money had already flowed overseas, and she simply couldn’t gather it all.

It was when Sister Jin was at her wit’s end that the mysterious customer who had previously bought Gold Coins from her appeared again, offering an even higher price…

Faced with such a huge temptation, Sister Jin kept a clear head, sensing that things weren’t so simple.

Gu Huaiwei was Gu Changge’s younger sister.

Thinking of her old friendship with Sister Changge, Sister Jin decided to try and raise the money herself.

She would rather go to jail herself than drag Gu Huaiwei into this mess.

After returning to the apartment, Mu Lingxi took off her red headband and went to the bathroom to shower first.

Gu Huaiwei sat on the living room sofa, organizing the list of items she needed to bring to the Wasteland World this time.

Mu Lingxi’s phone, left on the coffee table, kept vibrating.

Hearing the sound of running water from the bathroom, Gu Huaiwei picked up Mu Lingxi’s phone, intending to bring it to her.

New messages from the hacker senior kept popping up on the screen.

“Baby, school’s out for the holidays. I’ve booked tickets for a trip to Europe. Let’s go have fun together.”

“I want to go to the Champs-Élysées in Paris and order a pair of couple rings.”

“Send me your ID card. The tickets are a bit expensive, and we’ll need to transfer flights midway, which might be a hassle, but it’s okay. I’ll be with you the whole time, baby.”

…

Since it involved her friend’s privacy, Gu Huaiwei only glanced at the screen and didn’t read the messages in detail.

She remembered that Mu Lingxi hadn’t accepted the hacker senior’s confession yet.

But now, that hacker senior was already calling her “baby.”

He was being a bit too attentive.

“Lingxi, you have new messages.”

“Coming, coming, I’m not done showering yet.”

The bathroom door opened a crack, and Gu Huaiwei handed the phone to Mu Lingxi, who was still showering.

Mu Lingxi wiped her wet hands and looked at the messages, muttering, “That’s weird. Why do we have to transfer flights in Southeast Asia to get to France?”

Meanwhile, on the other end of the phone, the so-called hacker senior was holed up in a rental apartment piled high with trash.

He frantically tapped away at his phone, his face showing not love, but overwhelming panic.”