Hospital 444
Chapter 703 - 14: 2D Lifeforms and Cyber Cursed Spirits

Chapter 703: Chapter 14: 2D Lifeforms and Cyber Cursed Spirits

Xia Li felt as if something was tugging at his ankle at any moment.

He glanced down at his palm — that silver dimensional curse pattern was slightly heating up, warning him that the space nearby was distorting.

Hospital 444 had always been in a research quandary regarding spatial curse items, until Xia Li voluntarily became the experimental subject for spatial curse items.

The difficulty in developing spatial curse items didn’t lie in the difficulty of creating them, but in creating ones that could still guarantee the doctor’s survival. For so many years, only Fang Zhou was a successful example.

And Xia Li was a two-dimensional being, making him the perfect experimental subject.

Thus, he also possessed this powerful spatial curse item.

Xia Li was supposed to act together with Gao Menghua and Ying Ziye, but the chaotic space currents during the collapse of Eden Hotel scattered them all. Now, he stood alone in a strange forest, with tree trunks covered in eye-like nodules that were slowly rotating as he moved.

"Target acquired."

Two identical voices came from ahead.

Xia Li looked up, seeing two men in dark green surgical gowns standing in the mist. They had identical faces — skin pale as paper, light golden pupils, and cold smiles at the corners of their mouths.

George Meroll and Mike Meroll, twin heads of the Abyss Department at 666 Hospital, and sons-in-law of Klein Faust.

"Dr. Xia Li, correct?" The man on the left spoke, his voice as gentle as a scalpel slicing through skin, "We’ve read your file — a two-dimensional life, truly fascinating."

The man on the right continued: "Unfortunately, that file will soon be marked as ’deceased’ today."

Xia Li’s palm curse pattern suddenly lit up, and a semi-transparent rhombic barrier unfolded in front of him: "Are you here to kill Dai Lin?"

The twins laughed simultaneously: "No, we’re here to kill all the doctors of Hospital 444."

The next second, George’s figure suddenly blurred —

"Swoosh!"

Xia Li’s barrier was torn open by some invisible force, and he quickly sidestepped, still getting a cut on his cheek. He stared intently at George, only to find him still standing in place as if he had never moved.

Mike gently stroked his scalpel: "We share everything — memories, thoughts, senses. What you see, hear, and feel... we can synchronize it all."

George added: "What’s more fascinating is that we share the same curse object."

Xia Li’s pupils contracted.

Twin curse objects — extremely rare in the realm of Mysterious Medicine, indicating that their curse object abilities were completely bound together, even capable of mutual transformation.

"You guessed right." Mike seemed to read his mind, his smile widening, "My brother can fully unleash the level four Abyss Invasion Curse, enough to turn him into... what you would call a Cursed Spirit. And I... can turn him back."

George’s body suddenly started to contort, dark lines emerged under his skin, and his pupils transformed into abyssal black.

"Now, behold..."

"Abyss Invasion Phase Four."

George’s body elongated as if being pulled by invisible hands, his bones twisting and deforming, his skin surface cracking into numerous tiny fissures, from which ebony mist seeped out. His head tilted back to its limit, his cervical vertebrae emitting a teeth-gritting cracking sound, yet it kept extending—

In the end, he turned into a constantly writhing black shadow, humanoid in shape but devoid of details, with only two blood-red pupils floating in the head position, staring fixedly at Xia Li.

Mike stood still, fingers lightly tapping his scalpel: "Go, brother."

The shadow vanished instantly.

Xia Li’s dimensional curse pattern flickered madly, and he raised his hand sharply, unfolding a silver two-dimensional plane in front of him—

"Bang!"

The shadow collided with the plane, causing the space to tremble violently. Xia Li was forced back several steps, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

"It’s useless." Mike’s voice came from behind, "In George’s current state, he can pierce through any three-dimensional defense."

Xia Li whirled around, finding that Mike had somehow appeared behind him, the scalpel pressed against his back.

"Because now he..."

"Is already a four-dimensional being."

Xia Li’s body suddenly flattened, merging into his dimensional barrier like ink pressed into a sheet of paper. Mike’s scalpel stabbed into empty space, and the shadow claw of George also passed through the phantom.

"Two-dimensionalization?" Mike raised an eyebrow, "Clever."

Xia Li’s figure emerged from another side of the tree bark, his palm curse pattern reassembled. He was a character from a comic, a true two-dimensional being, able to move freely within any surface, thanks to the curse item on his palm—this was his advantage, and also his greatest weakness.

Because in George’s current state, he could touch the rules of higher dimensions.

The shadow lunged again, and Xia Li quickly melded into the ground, swiftly darting between tree shadows. He had to find a way to separate these twins, or there was no chance of victory.

"You can’t escape." Mike’s voice echoed from all directions, "We can see your every move."

Xia Li suddenly leapt out from a rock surface, his palm curse pattern blazing, grabbing for Mike’s throat!

Mike didn’t dodge, only smiled.

Xia Li’s hand stopped an inch from his throat — George’s shadow had risen from the ground, firmly gripping Xia Li’s wrist.

"Got you."

Xia Li’s pupils contracted sharply.

The next second, excruciating pain —

George’s hand pierced through his chest.

Blood gushed from Xia Li’s mouth, but his eyes remained eerily calm.

"You made a mistake." He said softly.

Mike frowned, "What?"

Xia Li’s palm curse pattern suddenly burst into dazzling silver light—