Bloody Hospital (11): Castle

Forcing himself to calm down, David asked cautiously:

“Lord Duowei, I don’t know what you mean. The tributes we have handed in recently are all in full according to the agreement…”

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other and realized that they had found the right target. David’s performance showed that he was aware of the existence of these phantoms.

The “phantoms” controlled by Xia Ruize did not respond to David’s flattery, but began to circle around David.

The female assistant screamed and fainted. David couldn’t figure out how he became the target of the phantom’s attack. He began to reflect on whether he had done something wrong to displease Lord Duowei. He quickly defended himself:

“Lord Duowei, calm down, calm down! I have been providing you with hundreds of delicious souls every month, and I have never dared to slack off. But if you want more, it is really difficult to operate…

Otherwise, your precious energy should not be wasted too much on those damn short-lived ghosts. Just inject them with energy that can maintain their health for one or two years. With those who have recovered as living signs, more people will be willing to come to the hospital.

I promise that I will start expanding the hospital as soon as possible, and then I can provide you with more souls, what do you think? “

“That’s a lot of information.” Cheng Huaiqian sneered, then he swung the long sword in his hand at David’s neck twice. “He cooperated with that weird thing called ‘Duowei’, providing human lives to feed the other party. I really don’t know what kind of horrible monster he fed.”

Xia Ruize looked at David with a very cold look. Even if most terminally ill patients would not live long, it does not mean that someone can use the patients’ instinct for survival to maliciously send them to death early. This was no different from an execution.

The “Phantoms” seemed dissatisfied with David’s explanation and launched a sonic attack at him.

David felt as if his brain was hit hard by a heavy hammer. He immediately felt dizzy, nauseous and wanted to vomit. This was the first time he was attacked by “Duowei”. He couldn’t help but curse in his heart: The damn devil was getting more and more arrogant!

David fell to the ground holding his head and rolled over twice in pain. With the corner of his eye, he saw a shadow approaching him. He was terrified and said in a tough and cowardly tone:

“Lord Duo, Lord Duowei, we really cannot donate more souls at this stage. If more people die in the hospital, no one will be willing to come to the hospital…” In that case, the Aardman family will not be able to collect huge wealth from the patients who are eager to survive”

In fear, David’s mind raced, and he even threatened “Duowei”:

“You, you and our Aardman family have signed a letter of commitment, and you also promised not to harm anyone in our family, otherwise we have the right to deal with the letter of commitment…

We know you don’t want to stay in the dark underground forever. Only our Aardman family can help you. You can’t hurt me!”

“ha”

In the darkness, someone was sneering.

David, who was howling like a ghost, noticed something was wrong and turned his head to look in the direction of the sound. However, he looked into a pair of deep eyes and fell into an endless vortex. He could only hear a voice coming from somewhere:

“Where is Duowei?

“Where is Duowei… in the dungeon…”

“How do I enter the dungeon?”

“The entrance to the dungeon is in the kitchen warehouse…”

“What code do you need to open the door?”

“Opening the door requires… the blood of a member of the Aardman family…”

“What kind of handle do you have over Duowei?”

“Duowei…Handle…If the golden commitment written by Duowei himself is destroyed, it will also be hurt…”

After just a few questions and answers, David rolled his eyes and fainted.

The skill of [Divine Messenger] is also a means of attack to a certain extent. David’s mental attributes were very ordinary and he could not withstand being controlled for a long time.

Fortunately, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had already obtained the key information from David. Cheng Huaiqian kicked David, who was paralyzed on the ground, several times without any hesitation, then grabbed the back of David’s collar with one hand and dragged him away like a corpse.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian left the dean’s office and dragged David downstairs. The stairs left David’s carefully maintained face bruised and purple, and his brows were furrowed in coma.

In the garden, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian met up with Gao Hexuan who had arrived, and the three of them went to the cafeteria, which they had not paid much attention to before.

The cafeteria was the only place with a kitchen in the entire hospital. When Xia Ruize briefly searched the kitchen before, he noticed that the area inside the kitchen was far less spacious than the entire building looked from the outside. He also discovered a warehouse behind the side door, which contained piles of wood and food ingredients.

Now it seemed that this underestimated warehouse was the real core of Aardman Hospital and the entrance to the so-called dungeon mentioned by David.

The three men dragged David and walked past the employees who were cleaning the kitchen under the illusion, and walked into the warehouse door that was controlled and opened by Xia Ruize.

The warehouse was actually very large. Not only was it large, but the roof was also very high, estimated to be more than four meters high. There was an empty passage in the middle of the rectangular warehouse, and both sides were neatly stacked with wood, emitting a faint fragrance. Walking along the aisle in the middle of the wood to the end of the warehouse, in front of them was a metal wall similar to the surroundings.

Xia Ruize could see an enclosed space similar to an elevator compartment behind the wall, but he couldn’t find the switch to open the elevator door, so he waved his hand to signal.

Cheng Huaiqian swung the sword in his hand, and a bloody wound immediately appeared on David’s neck. A large amount of blood spurted out, quickly staining the entire wall in front of him.

The wall stained with the blood of the Aardman family members opened automatically, rotating from a vertical state to a state parallel to the ground. Because the wall itself was very high, there was a walking space of more than two meters under the flat wall.

The three men dragged the bloody man into the carriage, leaving a bloodstain on the ground. The wall rotated and closed again, and then the elevator automatically went down.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian both raised their vigilance to the highest level. Gao Hexuan’s fingers had already begun tapping codes in the air, ready to fight at any time.

The elevator went down for dozens of seconds before stopping dozens of meters underground. As the elevator door opened, an underground castle appeared before the three people.

The castle was very small, only more than ten meters high. The wall behind the castle could be seen at a glance. The castle was very simple in style. The dark bricks were engraved with traces of the passing of time, and the corners of the brick edges were rounded.

There was nothing around and above the castle. If they hadn’t known that they came from the ground, they would probably have thought that the castle was built in the wilderness.

Dim candles were lit in the castle, creating a blur of light and shadow.

While Xia Ruize and the other two were still observing the surrounding environment, the castle’s originally tightly closed gate suddenly opened in front of them, as if the owner had been waiting for a long time.

In the eyes of Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan, there was nothing in front of them except the castle.

But a tiny golden light flashed around Xia Ruize’s pupils, and he saw thousands of densely packed phantoms floating outside the castle.

The periphery was all white, and the closer the phantom was to the castle, the darker the blood color on its body. However, no phantom entered the castle, and they all floated silently around the castle.

Although the phantoms had no eyes, Xia Ruize could feel that all the phantoms’ attention was focused on the three of them, but they stayed where they were and did not rush up to attack.

Passing the situation to his teammates in the mind network, Xia Ruize made a gesture and the three of them suddenly attacked the white phantom closest to them at the same time. Caught off guard, more than ten white phantoms disappeared one after another.

The other phantoms around reacted with some riot and wanted to rush up to attack, but at this time a low shout came from the castle, and all the phantoms immediately stayed where they were.

Xia Ruize and the other two did not continue their attack because Xia Ruize had achieved his goal.

The fragments of white phantoms that he had accumulated previously added up to nine. At this moment, he attacked the white phantoms to try and see if he could successfully fuse all ten fragments.

Fortunately, when the ten fragments of the White phantom were put together, a faint light flashed, and the fragments really merged into a half-human-high White phantom, which was transferred directly from the system space to the pet space.

The fused White phantom was considered a pet. As the pet’s owner, Xia Ruize naturally obtained relevant information about it and immediately understood more about the creature “Phantom”.

“This kind of spirit’s attack method is to act directly on the mental power. Their talent is to build a ‘bloody world’, pull the target’s spirit into their own bloody world, torture and imprison it to death, and then absorb the target’s mental energy.

The combat talent of the phantom is terrifying. The white phantom and the blood phantom can completely crush ordinary people. The one in the castle should be the highest level Phantom King, who might be the “Duowei”. In the previous two nights, our mental power was pulled into its exclusive bloody world by the Duowei.

However, the restrictions on the phantom are also not small. During the day, the white phantom and the blood phantom basically lose their attack capabilities. Now I don’t know to what extent the restrictions on the phantom king will be.”

Xia Ruize shared his new knowledge with his two teammates.

The three of them were not in a hurry to act. They just stood at the gate of their opponent’s house and discussed their opponent’s weaknesses. Finally, they concluded that it was daytime and the Phantom King in the castle would be easier to deal with than at night. Now was a good opportunity to test their opponent’s strength. So the three of them boldly walked into the open gate of the castle.

The castle was desolate. The room opposite the gate was the living room. White candles were burning on the candlesticks. The flickering flames illuminated a yellow misty human-shaped phantom on the lounge chair in the center.

“Welcome three friends who have come from afar.” The sound of a jar echoed directly in the soul. The human-shaped phantom on the recliner shook, motioning the three people to sit down, and then sighed: “Poor little David, he doesn’t look very well.”

“I think he’s in good condition. He just lost some blood. It’s better than losing his soul.”

Cheng Huaiqian sat first on the high-back chair closest to Duowei and retorted without any hesitation.

“Hahaha… Please don’t mind it too much, my friend. You are angry because you are ignorant. You don’t know how wonderful and fascinating the energy from life is. You don’t know how normal it is to be willing to give everything to get more life energy.”

Duowei replied with a smile, and his voice became noticeably louder when he mentioned “life energy”.