Hospital 444
Chapter 57 - 29: Life and Death

Chapter 57: Chapter 29: Life and Death

More terrifying than vengeful ghosts, just below the evil spirits of the damned...

Malevolent Ghost!

Dai Lin’s left eye, once again, made him feel as though he were enduring the torments of purgatory.

Then, as the image of the female ghost revealed by Mei Quzhen displayed a hideous smile, the area assailed by the curse seemed to warp and cave in.

Dai Lin even began to doubt his own eyes.

Yes... it caved in!

This sensation was as if three-dimensional space had become a flat curtain, with a giant crease appearing, and then completely collapsing inward at a certain point!

The warping of space, like a tight band constricting the source of the curse!

There was only fifty seconds left until nine o’clock...

Forty-eight seconds...

Forty-five seconds...

The phrase ’every second feels like a year’ wasn’t an exaggeration at all!

But from beginning to end, Dai Lin could never see what exactly the source of the curse was!

Yet because of the caved-in space, he couldn’t get any closer!

The Malevolent Ghost curse unleashed by Mei Quzhen was indeed terrifying.

At this moment, Tang Li began to reinforce, biting her right index finger hard, then clenching it fiercely! As a result, the surrounding gravestones started to release new spirits one by one!

She manipulated these ghosts, surging toward the distorted space, desperately blocking their path!

But, these ghosts merely touched the affected area and were instantaneously annihilated, vanishing!

Thirty seconds...

Twenty seconds...

Dai Lin gradually felt he was reaching his limit.

The collapsed space began to slowly restore, bit by bit.

Fifteen seconds... fourteen seconds...

Dai Lin started to feel the pain in his left eye intensify along with a sensation that his brain and body were about to be torn apart.

But it was at this moment that he had another chance to absorb the devilish part of the body in his right eye! Because at this time, the Devil’s resistance to being devoured weakened!

But the biggest problem was...

There wasn’t enough time!

The caved-in space continued to advance relentlessly, utterly ignoring Dai Lin, as the incorporeal entity lunged straight towards Mei Quzhen and Lin Sen at the back!

"No!"

With a roar from Dai Lin, he lunged backwards again!

The surrounding space continued to warp and cave in, trying to stop the invisible force, but... it was too late!

It was too slow!

Ten seconds...

Nine seconds...

The speed of the spatial collapse couldn’t keep up with the advance of the incorporeal entity, making it very difficult to stop its progress.

"Mr. Lin! Quick, run for your life!" Dai Lin shouted.

But Tang Li shook her head, saying, "No! Mr. Lin, don’t run! If you flee from Director Mei’s side, you’re as good as dead! Stay by Director Mei! Don’t escape!"

Tang Li knew that Director Mei’s biggest weakness in her Malevolent Ghost state was that she couldn’t move!

Six seconds...

Five seconds...

When there were only five seconds left, Dai Lin realized... his left eye had suddenly gone completely blind!

And the ghosts that Tang Li had forcefully controlled to intercept were all extinguished!

Tang Li actually had more tricks up her sleeve, but the problem was, there wasn’t enough time! Even if used, they’d be too late to stop it!

Lin Sen was doomed!

Unless...

Lin Sen couldn’t see anything at all, but he could sense that the threat of death was imminent.

"No! No! I don’t want to die; I don’t want to die!"

He was completely unaware that these were the very words he had hallucinated hearing the night before!

Only three seconds remained.

He had no choice left.

Lin Sen opened the box in his hand!

And the moment the box was opened, Dai Lin’s consciousness instantly froze.

Immediately after, his entire eye socket began to concave at an alarming rate!

Then, centering on his right eye’s pupil, an area about two and a half centimeters in radius began rapidly sinking in!

In just one second, a huge pit with a radius of two and a half centimeters and a depth of three centimeters appeared on Dai Lin’s right cheek! Inside this vast pit, there was no blood, no nerves, no bones, only profound darkness!

At this moment, Dai Lin had completely lost his self-awareness.

His left eye revealed an extremely indifferent expression, looking at the invisible object in front of him as if he were looking at a dead person.

Then the huge pit on his face suddenly began to expand again, and inside it was like a deep black hole!

Yes, a black hole!

The next second, Dai Lin took another step forward!

Through the area of the spatial concavity, Tang Li clearly saw that the invisible object surged entirely towards Dai Lin!

Then...

The concavity in space was completely eliminated, gradually returning to its original state.

This proved that the invisible object was no longer there!

The entire process took just two seconds!

Meanwhile...

In a remote, dark room.

This room was very strange, appearing antique, lined with countless cabinets.

On the cabinets, there were rows upon rows of exquisite dolls.

At this moment, all the dolls suddenly emitted a terrifying red light from their eyes in that instant!

On the other side of the doll cabinet, within a mirror.

(What is that... Why do all the dolls...?)

...

Haishan Cemetery.

Everything had finally settled down.

But at this moment, Dai Lin suddenly looked towards Tang Li again!

At this instant, Tang Li, seeing the terrifying pit on Dai Lin’s right cheek and the horrifying eye on the left, yelled in panic, "Mr. Lin, close that box! Now! Now!"

But at this moment, Tang Li herself was already lifted off her feet, being dragged with a terrifying force towards Dai Lin!

Fortunately, at this moment, Lin Sen finally closed the box!

The instant the box was closed, Tang Li’s entire body slammed into Dai Lin, knocking him hard to the ground.

Tang Li quickly stood up and sprinted away from Dai Lin at the speed of a hundred-meter dash!

The pit on the left side of his face was still there, however, it was gradually shrinking.

But Tang Li was still full of fear, she noticed that her left hand had started to decay at an alarming rate when Dai Lin’s right eye changed.

"What... What exactly is that thing?" Tang Li’s body began to shake violently, it had definitely been the moment when she was closest to death since entering Hospital 444!

She was a deputy chief physician, no less!

She had been so close to death!

So much so she didn’t even notice that it was already nine o’clock.

At this time, Tang Li realized something: Could it be that the invisible entity had been... devoured by Dai Lin?

Now, Tang Li finally understood.

The ancient bronze box was an item from the Cursed Object Department! Opening the box meant that the seal that the Cursed Object Department had placed on the Devil’s Eye was completely broken!

Undoubtedly, if Dai Lin continued to remain in this state, his own soul would be completely consumed by the curse, annihilated, and his body would become a host for the demon!

At this time, Mei Quzhen’s hair fell down. She then turned her head back, rearranged her hair, and her face returned to normal.

Seeing the scene before her, and noticing Lin Sen trembling beside her, she immediately checked the time.

It was past nine o’clock!

Everything was over!

Mei Quzhen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It’s all right now, Mr. Lin. Didn’t I tell you? We are professionals."

And at this time, Dai Lin regained consciousness.

He stood up from the ground, and by now, his right eye had returned to normal, and his left eye had regained sight.

"What happened... just now?"

He turned his head to look at Tang Li, but found that she was backing away in terror, shouting, "Don’t come any closer! Keep that distance, Dr. Dai, don’t come any closer!"

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