Hospital No. 444.

Chapter 684: Two-Dimensional Life and Cyber ​​Curse Spirit

Xia Li felt as if something was pulling on his ankle at any time.

He glanced down at his palm—the silver dimensional rune was glowing slightly, warning him that the space nearby was distorting.

Hospital No. 444 has always been in a difficult situation in its research on space curses, until Xia Li spontaneously became the experimental subject of space curses.

Space spells are difficult to develop. It's not that it's hard to make spells involving space, but that there are very few spells that can guarantee the doctor's immortality after making them. For so many years, only one Ark has been a successful example.

Xia Li is a two-dimensional life, and is the best experimental subject.

And he also possessed this powerful space spell.

Xia Li was supposed to act with Gao Menghua and Ying Ziye, but the spatial turbulence when the Eden Hotel collapsed dispersed them all. Now, he was standing alone in a strange forest, with eye-shaped tumors on the tree trunks, which were slowly turning as he moved.

“Find a purpose.”

Two completely identical voices came from the front.

Xia Li looked up and saw two men in dark green surgical gowns standing in the mist. They had exactly the same face - skin as pale as paper, light golden pupils, and the same cold smile on their lips.

George and Mike Mellor, the twin directors of the Abyss Department of Hospital 666 and sons-in-law of Klein Faust.

"Doctor Xia Li, right?" The man on the left spoke, his voice as gentle as a scalpel cutting through the skin. "We have seen your file - a two-dimensional life, it's really interesting."

The man on the right answered, "Unfortunately, today he will be recorded as 'deceased'."

The spell pattern on Xia Li's palm suddenly lit up, and a translucent diamond-shaped barrier unfolded in front of him: "Are you here to kill Dai Lin?"

The twins laughed at the same time, "No, we are here to kill all the doctors at Hospital 444."

The next second, George's figure suddenly became blurred——

"Shh!"

Xia Li's barrier was torn by some invisible force, and he turned sideways suddenly, leaving a bloody mark on his cheek. He stared at George, but found that he was still standing there, as if he had never moved.

Mike gently stroked his scalpel: "We share everything - memory, thinking, five senses. What you see, hear, and feel... we can all be synchronized."

George added: "And what's even better is that we share the same spell."

Xia Li's pupils shrank slightly.

Twin cursed objects - this is extremely rare in the world of supernatural medicine, meaning that the cursed objects of two people have completely bound abilities and can even transform into each other.

"You guessed it right." Mike seemed to have read his thoughts, and his smile widened. "Brother can be completely liberated. The fourth-level abyss invasion curse is completely liberated, enough to turn him into... according to your terms, it's called a cursed spirit. And I... can turn him back."

George's body suddenly began to twist, dark lines appeared under his skin, and his pupils turned completely black like the abyss.

"Now, let me show you..."

"The fourth phase of the abyss invasion."

George's body was stretched as if being torn by invisible hands, his bones twisted and deformed, his skin cracked into countless tiny cracks, and dark mist seeped out. His head tilted back to the limit, his cervical vertebrae made a teeth-grinding cracking sound, but it continued to stretch -

In the end, he turned into a constantly wriggling black shadow, shaped like a human but without any details, with only two blood-red pupils floating above his head, staring at Xia Li.

Mike stood there, tapping the scalpel with his fingers: "Go ahead, brother."

The black shadow disappeared instantly.

Xia Li's dimensional runes flickered wildly, and he suddenly raised his hand, and a silver two-dimensional plane unfolded in front of him -

"boom!"

The shadow hit the plane, and the space shook violently. Xia Li was forced back several steps by the impact, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"It's useless." Mike's voice came from behind, "George's current state can penetrate any three-dimensional defense."

Xia Li turned around suddenly and found that Mike had been standing behind him with a scalpel against his back.

"Because he is now..."

"It's already a four-dimensional existence."

Xia Li's body suddenly flattened, blending into his own dimensional barrier like ink pressed into paper. Mike's scalpel stabbed into the air, and the black shadow George's claws also pierced through the phantom.

"Two-dimensional?" Mike raised an eyebrow. "Smart."

Xia Li's figure emerged from the bark on the other side, and the spell pattern on his palm was reorganized. He was a character in the comics, a real two-dimensional life. Combined with the spell on his palm, he could move freely in any plane - this was his advantage, but also his biggest weakness.

Because of George's current state, he can already touch the rules of higher dimensions.

The shadow pounced again, and Xia Li quickly merged into the ground, shuttling quickly between the shadows of the trees. He had to find a way to separate the twins, otherwise he would not be able to win.

"You can't escape." Mike's voice came from all directions, "We can see everything you do."

Xia Li suddenly jumped out from a rock, with spell patterns on his palms, and he grabbed Mike's throat!

Mike didn't shy away, he just smiled.

The palm stopped an inch away from his throat - George's dark shadow rose from the ground and grabbed Xia Li's wrist tightly.

"caught you."

Xia Li's pupils suddenly shrank.

The next second, severe pain hits——

George's hand went through his chest.

Blood gushed out of Xia Li's mouth, but his eyes were unusually calm.

"You made a mistake," he whispered.

Mike frowned: "What?"

The spell pattern on Xia Li's palm suddenly burst into dazzling silver light——

"You shouldn't have let me touch your shadow."

Mike suddenly lowered his head and found that his shadow had been infected by Xia Li's curse and turned into two-dimensional silver lines!

"What--?!"

Xia Li's body completely turned into two-dimensional and directly invaded Mike's body along the shadow!

“Ahhh——!” Mike screamed and countless silver lines appeared on the surface of his skin, as if it was being forcibly flattened by some force.

George's shadow let out a piercing scream and tried to rescue him, but it was too late.

Xia Li's curse pattern completely exploded, and Mike's body flattened like torn paper, and finally turned into a silver two-dimensional portrait, floating on the ground. George's golden pupils shrank violently: "Mike...?!"

Xia Li's figure emerged from the portrait, with a piercing wound on his chest, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Now, you are the only one left."

Without Mike's "human anchor", George's cursed state began to get out of control. His shadow twisted violently, and his body kept switching between three and four dimensions, as if it would collapse at any time.

"No... Impossible..." George's voice broke, "We... are perfect..."

Xia Li stood up panting, and the spell pattern on his palm lit up again: "Perfect? ​​No, you are just defective products that rely on each other. From the perspective of science and engineering, everything can only be better, and there is no such thing as perfection. The so-called perfection, for science researchers, is despair."

He raised his hand, and the silver light turned into countless thin threads, entwining George's shadow——

"Now, let me take you back to the abyss."

The silver wire tightened, and George's screaming stopped abruptly.

The black shadow was forcibly compressed into a pitch-black sphere, and finally shattered with a "pop" sound, turning into countless black ashes and dissipating in the mist.

Xia Li fell to his knees, the wound on his chest still bleeding. He trembled as he picked up the silver portrait that Mike had turned into, and gently squeezed it.

The portrait shattered and turned into points of light and dissipated.

He stood up with difficulty and looked into the depths of Suyuan Mountain.

"Dai Lin... Miss Ying... where are you..."

Xia Li's breath condensed into white frost in the cold mountain fog. He lowered his head and stared at the silver curse pattern on his palm that was gradually extinguishing.

The fragments of the two-dimensional portrait of Mike Mellor were floating between his fingers, turning to ashes like the original manuscript of a burned comic.

The black ashes of George Mellor's collapse outlined a distorted human figure on the wet ground.

"It's over..." Xia Li pressed the wound on his chest that was eroded by the abyss-invading curse, and blood was oozing out from between his fingers.

The ashes on the ground suddenly trembled.

Xia Li's dimensional perception sounded an alarm within a thousandth of a second, and he instinctively jumped back. A two-meter-diameter pit exploded where he was standing, and five bone fingers wrapped in black mist stretched out from the soil. The moment that hand grabbed the edge of the pit, the mist of the entire Suyuan Mountain began to rotate clockwise.

"The cognitive filter has been loaded." Mike's voice came from all directions, "The cursed object has been restarted."

Xia Li watched in amazement as the scattered fragments of the portrait flowed back together and reassembled into a three-dimensional projection-like phantom above the deep pit.

What's even more terrifying is that George's dissipated ashes are weaving black threads like nerve veins in the air, connecting with Mike's gradually solidifying body to form a strange symbiotic network.

"Three-dimensional creatures always like to use life and death to divide states, because life and death can never be converted into each other in three-dimensional space." Mike's index finger recondensed and pushed his non-existent glasses. This habitual action seemed creepy at the moment. "But the doctors in the Abyss Department have long been free from such low-level concepts."

George's body, which had crawled out of the pit, was covered with thick mosaics, like a holographic image with poor signal. When he stood up completely, Xia Li saw the twins' new form of existence clearly -

Mike maintained his human form, but black nerve cords extended from his temples to connect to George's translucent body; while George was completely transformed into a pile of pixels, with their symbiotic cursed object suspended in his chest: a pixelated heart.

"The cognitive filter is the latest research result of the Curse Science." Mike used a scalpel to cut open his left arm. What flowed out of the wound was not blood but constantly changing digital codes. "Upload the self-consciousness to the backup server in the hospital. The body is just a replaceable peripheral device. Our cursed object was originally a cyber undead that existed on the Internet and was invaded by the abyss. By continuously spreading the video of its death, it contaminated more viewers and turned them into patients invaded by the abyss. Later, this cyber undead, through the technology of the Curse Science, implanted its heart into our body. Cyber ​​undead originally existed through the Internet, so naturally they had more than one heart and could be backed up countless times, so they were implanted in our brothers' bodies. Compared with the three-dimensional space where matter is constant, the cyberspace where data can be infinitely backed up is a high-dimensional space!"

George's shadow suddenly appeared behind Xia Li, and his pixelated palm pierced through his shoulder. The indescribable pain made Xia Li stumble and hit the cedar tree covered with eye tumors.

"The first round is just a warm-up. We are the strongest psychic doctors in Hospital 666, except for the members of the Faust family." Mike's real body was still standing there, but the voice came from all directions at the same time, "Now let me show you the real medical plan of the Abyss Department."

The surroundings suddenly twisted into a huge biological CT machine structure, and George's virtual pixel body split into a large number of projections in the scanning ring. Each projection held a different surgical instrument, and those tools between matter and energy made Xia Li shudder.

The projection of George on the far left holds up a rotating bone saw, and the densely packed barbs on the saw blade are actually miniature ghost faces.

"The patient, Xia Li, has been initially diagnosed with dimensional cognitive dissonance caused by abyss contamination, which is a typical symptom of alien abyss invasion." Mike's voice turned into a standard electronic synthesized sound, "It is recommended that an inter-dimensional lobotomy be performed immediately."

Xia Li was two-dimensionally integrated into the bark the moment the bone saw chopped him down, but George's quantum scalpel was already waiting inside the trunk.

When his body was reassembled on the surface of another tree, three piercing needles pierced his body at the same time. The severe pain made the dimensional runes flash wildly, and Xia Li found himself nailed in the folds of space, existing at five different coordinates at the same time.

"Abnormal data flow detected." Mike flipped through the electronic medical records that appeared out of thin air. "So you are a character from Qiao Chuyi's comic book "Evil Kingdom"? No wonder you are resistant to dimensionality reduction attacks."

George's projections simultaneously raised surgical instruments, and a dark golden data stream lit up at the tip of the instrument: "Downloading patch, version number 4.4.4."

Xia Li suddenly realized the most terrifying fact - the twins were treating him, a two-dimensional being, as data that could be tampered with. When the first stream of data pierced his retina, countless unfamiliar memories flooded in like a virus:

He saw himself transformed into an illustrated character on the inside pages of a comic magazine;

He saw himself falling in front of the male and female protagonists of the comic he was in, Xiao Tianyi and Gu Wenyan;

He found himself kneeling in a ruin filled with the sound of children crying, and the scene around him was exactly the same as the one he had seen in the previous divination!

"stop!"

Xia Li's roar turned into distorted electronic sound in the torrent of data.

The spell pattern on his palm suddenly overheated, and the silver light burned through the folds of space. At the critical moment, he forced his existence to be compressed into one dimension - turning it into an absolute straight line that ran through all of George's projections.

Mike's body finally moved. He severed the neural connection with George and pulled out a micro projector from his white coat.

When the instrument lit up, Xia Li saw that the battle scene he had just experienced was being played back at 256 times the speed, with each movement marked with the trajectory of energy flow.

"It's useless, Doctor Xia." Mike called up an interface similar to a game skill tree. "We have analyzed all your attack modes. Our essence is the cursed spirit that can exist in cyberspace!"

Xia Li suddenly noticed the abnormal fluctuations in George's energy body. The projections pierced by the one-dimensional line were devouring each other, and tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the pixelated heart. A crazy conjecture formed in his core - the twins' symbiotic system had a fatal flaw.

"Analysis complete does not mean defense is possible." Xia Li suddenly dispersed his one-dimensional form and took the initiative to embrace the data stream that was eroding him. His body suddenly collapsed into millions of pixels, each pixel carrying a fragment of the dimensional curse. "Do you know why the protagonist of the comic can never be killed?"

Countless error windows suddenly popped up on Mike's operating interface, and George's energy body began to expand uncontrollably.

When Xia Li's pixel torrent penetrated the pixelated heart, the entire space structure of Suyuan Mountain trembled. The space screens transformed by the twins exploded one after another, and the flying debris formed ancient comic storyboards in the air.

This is his counterattack as a two-dimensional life. His spell can reversely transform the enemy into a two-dimensional life like himself!

"Because the readers' memories..." Countless Xia Li's voices came from different dimensions, "They are the true carriers of comic characters!"

The pixelated heart exploded, and George's energy body collapsed into a singularity while screaming. Mike's body fell to the ground, and the ink for drawing comics was no longer blood.

He reached out his hand tremblingly to restart the system, but found that his fingers were turning into a collection of printing dots.

"Impossible!" Mike's vocal cords made a noise like an electronic failure, "How could this be..."

"You made a fatal mistake." Xia Li's reassembled figure stood among the falling comic manuscript fragments, "You shouldn't use a two-dimensional perspective to read my existence."

When the last piece of the manuscript fell on Mike's forehead, his body completely solidified into a black and white comic-style corpse.

Xia Li wiped the data residue from the corner of his mouth and staggered in the opposite direction of the sound. His body would suddenly turn into a flat state every few minutes, which was the sequelae of excessive use of dimension jumping.

No one could have imagined that Xia Li...actually killed the most famous Merrol twins in Hospital 666!