Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - chapter 75

The apartment is now unoccupied.

Only those who have been watching from across the street and have illegally broken in could possibly have touched those Gold Coins.

Previously, Gu Huaiwei and Mu Lingxi had noticed an alarm going off once.

But that time, the police came up empty-handed.

Originally, Gu Huaiwei suspected that those people might have been sent by the Jiang Family to keep watch.

Now, even Jiang Xingyi has been injured.

So, the people across the street are most likely those mysterious buyers.

They are not doing these things for money.

But for the goods from the Other World.

Gu Huaiwei looked at the surveillance video on her phone.

Someone dressed in a black hoodie, wearing a hat, mask, sunglasses, gloves, and shoe covers, was completely covered from head to toe.

He directly used a key to open the apartment door and then took the Gold Coins from the counter.

A key?

Who could that person be?

The landlord? Gu Huaiwei remembered the landlord as a middle-aged woman with many properties, straightforward and easy to talk to.

But the person in the video looked more like an experienced thief.

Because of the gloves, the person was not poisoned immediately.

He picked up the Gold Coins and cautiously sniffed them under his nose.

As for the rest, Gu Huaiwei could only wait and see.

The Oasis Hotel was once again upgraded and expanded.

When Gu Huaiwei returned this time, she found that the entire Wasteland Street had been swallowed up by the hotel.

The Three-star hotel, originally two connected eight-story buildings on the east and west, had now become a vast hotel estate.

The hotel was surrounded by walls, with an arched main gate at the entrance. In front of the gate was a fountain plaza, and even in the dim winter of the Wasteland, the mist from the fountain shimmered with colorful light.

Gu Huaiwei walked through the main gate. The main building was like a resplendent palace; what used to be a luxurious lobby was now a realm of opulence.

The marble floor was so polished it reflected people’s images. The wide floor-to-ceiling windows kept the desolation of the Wasteland World outside. The transparent lobby ceiling soared dozens of meters high, with giant crystal chandeliers hanging down, dazzling and brilliant.

The oil painting of the Ferris wheel in the lobby had become even larger, occupying the entire wall behind the front desk.

To the east was a row of high-end guest rooms.

Bai Niao and Qian Xia were surrounded by a group of confused customers asking questions.

The interior layout had changed, and they were at a complete loss.

The ordinary rooms on the west side had become several separate buildings.

From the original 160 rooms, it had exploded into a thirty-story building. King Rooms, Twin Rooms, Triple Rooms, and Family Rooms were now separated into individual buildings.

Each floor had twenty rooms, the corridors formed a square loop, and the number of rooms had multiplied. Despite the rapid expansion, it did not feel cramped.

Theme rooms and Presidential Suites were built separately on the east side, with fewer floors but even more luxurious supporting facilities nearby.

The yet-to-be-unlocked golf course and children’s playground were all around the high-end accommodations.

The only things that hadn’t changed were the Childhood Dream Paradise Theme Room and the staff rest area.

“Sister Gu.”

Qian Xia struggled out of the crowd and ran over.

She had lived in the hotel for a long time. Her once gaunt face had filled out, her stutter had improved greatly through social interaction, and her eyes now sparkled with light.

“The hotel changed in an instant,” Qian Xia pointed at the surroundings, unable to describe the magical feeling. “It was like magic-it just changed all of a sudden. How should I explain this to the guests?”

Gu Huaiwei rubbed Qian Xia’s head. “You don’t need to explain anything. Let them guess for themselves.”
According to the records in the Employee Handbook, as long as the hotel upgrades from Four-Star to Five-Star, the business mission in this dimension will be considered complete.

Gu Huaiwei was now focused on unlocking all the areas as quickly as possible and then upgrading to Five-Star.

Bai Niao was dealing with those guests.

As the hotel upgraded, he grew increasingly uneasy.

He was very worried that the ever-expanding scale would attract the attention of the Black Spiral Research Institute.

Li Niang sometimes rested directly at the post station.

She, too, woke up one day to find earth-shattering changes at the door. Not daring to ask much, her first priority was to find her daughter and make sure she was safe and sound.

Faced with people’s gazes-whether astonished, probing, or fearful-Gu Huaiwei had long since gotten used to it.

There was no better explanation.

Gu Huaiwei simply let them imagine whatever they wanted.

Whether they saw her as a god or an alien, it didn’t matter.

In the eyes of these guests, Gu Huaiwei was no longer human anyway.

Winter in the Wasteland was hard to endure for the people here. Lin She forwarded the latest news from the Underground City website: due to food shortages, the Lower District no longer allowed new residents to enter the Underground City.

Gu Huaiwei sighed as she looked at the rooms in the Oasis Hotel that remained vacant every day.

“The spending power is right here, but no matter how much the hotel environment improves, without new sources of guests, it’s still a headache.”

Lin She flipped through the account book Gu Huaiwei had just organized: “Recently, the income from the bus station has doubled compared to before. There are more passengers traveling between Black Tower Fortress and Foul Marsh.”

Gu Huaiwei nodded. “It’s probably because more people are buying guns and heading to Foul Marsh to hunt mutant plants and animals.”

The main ingredients of Nutrient Solution were those mutated plants and animals.

Powerful hunters would take on hunting missions from the Underground City, go to places with high radiation concentrations, hunt those mutant plants and animals, and then bring them back to the food processing plant in the Underground City to exchange for city credits.

Mutant plants and animals were processed in the food factory through special procedures, mixed with various industrial colorings, and became the Nutrient Solution people drank daily.

“The vending machines installed on the driverless buses are also generating good revenue.”

“After upgrading the bus station advertisements, some hunters come to the Oasis Hotel for short-term stays.”

“Oasis Hotel has completely opened up the market in the Lower District. Unfortunately, customers from the Lower District can only afford ordinary rooms, and they only stay for short periods, so the revenue isn’t high enough.”

Gu Huaiwei counted on her fingers, analyzing the current business difficulties of Oasis Hotel one by one.

Lin She scrolled the mouse, checking the unlocking status of Oasis Hotel’s special areas.

The mouse stopped at the high-speed rail station.

“If we save up the revenue for a while longer and unlock the high-speed rail station, these problems can be solved.” Lin She’s features were delicate and soft. He turned his head, his gaze sweeping toward Gu Huaiwei. “I’ve already uploaded the new promotional video online as you requested, and the app has launched a new winter membership card promotion. We’ll try to get the advertisements out before the high-speed rail station opens.”

“Mm, I’ll leave the advertising to you.”

Lu Ziyi publicly promoted Oasis Hotel on the forum, bringing in some guest flow from the Middle District.

However, because the Fifth District Chief had “disappeared without reason,” the Fifth District was now in chaos. Lu Ziyi had just returned to the Fifth District when she was ambushed and is now missing. It’s said she escaped to the Lower District with Lu Hao.