Bloody Hospital (13): Fusion

Xia Ruize closed his eyes and felt it carefully, but he could only feel a large amount of free life energy dissipating in the illusion, and did not notice the existence of Duowei.

“It escaped.”

After searching again and again without success, Xia Ruize came to this regrettable conclusion.

Xia Ruize controlled the illusion to shrink continuously until it shrank around the three people. Immediately, the life energy around the three people doubled in concentration, and even Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan could clearly feel the process of life energy entering their bodies.

“As expected of the boss of the Silver Page Area mission world, it’s quite powerful. However, it didn’t get any good results. I wonder if the energy it lost today will damage its foundation.”

Cheng Huaiqian comfortably enjoyed the process of life energy rushing into his body, and realized that Duowei had cut off his tail to survive, and at the cost of consuming a large amount of his own energy, he escaped from the confinement of the illusion.

After the regret, Cheng Huaiqian was not overly disappointed. He just thought it was a halftime break. He looked outside the castle and called out to his two teammates:

“The big one ran away, but the little one can’t. There are still many targets waiting for us to deal with outside. We will take the opportunity to collect a few more pets.”

Xia Ruize also looked outside the castle. Yes, there were large areas of White phantoms and Blood phantoms outside the castle, all in a mess, waiting for them to harvest the treasure chests.

The phantoms only knew that something strange had happened in the castle, but due to long-term suppression and restrictions, they dared not enter the castle without the phantom king’s order and could only circle around in confusion.

So Xia Ruize and the other two stayed in the castle to rest. The life energy that filled the entire illusion allowed them to quickly recover to a state of complete victory. Then the three of them stood at the castle gate and began to attack the phantoms at the gate.

The three of them coordinated tacitly and attacked the same Blood phantoms at the same time. Although the other two could not see the phantoms accurately, under Xia Ruize’s precise command, they could kill a Blood phantom in two rounds of attacks at most, and Xia Ruize was consciously allowed to make the final blow.

The attacked Blood phantom couldn’t find the three humans holding up the illusion at all, and became even more at a loss. So it rushed around in the group of phantoms, making the already chaotic group of phantoms even more chaotic.

At this moment, Xia Ruize noticed that the phantoms were devouring each other, and the pet White phantom in the spiritual pet space kept telling him that he wanted to come out to fight.

Xia Ruize immediately realized that in addition to consuming human energy, phantoms could also consume energy of the same kind. Thinking this way, these phantoms outside the castle might be the reserve food accumulated by Duowei for himself.

Thinking of this, Xia Ruize released his White phantom and casually grabbed a dazed white phantom from a distance. He attacked it half to death and then threw it to his Xiao Bai¹ to see how Xiao Bai would devour the opponent.

Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan, who were still fighting, were also curious to see how the white phantom in their camp ate. They saw the white phantom, named “Xiao Bai” by Xia Ruize, ferociously pounce on the food thrown to it by its owner, stretching its body to completely wrap the opponent.

After a silent surge, Xiao Bai conveyed a wave of joy to Xia Ruize, then stretched his body into a long strip, swirling around Xia Ruize and dancing like a phantom ribbon.

Xia Ruize was amused by Xiao Bai’s coquettish begging for food. While cooperating with his teammates’ attacks, he occasionally grabbed white phantoms from afar to feed his own Xiao Bai.

After devouring five white phantoms, Xiao Bai’s body shook for a while, conveying a sense of satisfaction after eating a full meal, then he curled up into a small ball, stuck to Xia Ruize’s shoulder and began to rest quietly.

Xia Ruize noticed that traces of blood-red began to appear in Xiao Bai’s originally white and transparent body. The red was very intense and pure, and the red was getting more and more, spreading all over the body.

“Interesting. If the White phantoms can evolve into the Blood phantoms by devouring humans and its own kind, then does the Blood phantom also have a chance to evolve into the phantom king?”

Xiao Bai’s change made Xia Ruize see another possibility.

The three of them no longer focused on attacking the Blood phantoms, but left the castle under the illusion and returned to the area around the elevator. This area was full of White phantoms. The three of them began to kill White phantoms quickly. After killing a large number of White phantoms, they accumulated 20 pieces of White phantom fragments and merged them into new White phantoms. As a result, Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan also had pet White phantom by their side.

“The chance of getting fragments from killing a White phantom here is much higher than the chance of getting fragments from killing a White phantom in the Bloody World two nights ago. Is it possible that some of the phantoms we killed in the Bloody World don’t actually exist?”

Xia Ruize knew best how lucky he was in opening treasure chests. He had always felt that the number of treasure chests that dropped after killing a large number of phantoms every night was too few. He originally thought that the drop rate of treasure chests in the Silver Page area’s mission world was low.

But now that he was in the dungeon, he found that the probability of getting a treasure chest by killing a phantom was much higher than before. Xia Ruize naturally began to wonder whether the phantoms he encountered in the bloody world two nights ago were not real phantoms, but false targets similar to hallucinations.

Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan also fed their own white voids with enough food, and the three freshly-made phantoms of their own began to rest. Among them, the one on Xia Ruize’s shoulder had completely turned blood red, and the concentration of blood was comparable to the thickest blood phantom around the castle.

The three of them fought until 7:30 in the evening, returning to the castle several times to rest and recover, until they finally absorbed all the life energy that escaped from the illusion. Xia Ruize also used the Blood phantom fragments obtained from the treasure chest to fuse a new Blood phantom. Only then did the three of them finally leave the dungeon.

After fighting for an entire afternoon, in addition to various phantom fragments, the three of them also obtained a lot of special medicines, multiple weapons and defensive equipment for fighting spirits. Xia Ruize even developed skills for fighting spirit creatures. It can be said that he made a lot of money.

In stark contrast to their cheerful mood, the Aardman Hospital above the dungeon was in complete chaos.

The dean’s office was found in chaos, the female assistant fell to the ground unconscious, the dean was nowhere to be found, and even worse, the security team found that all the surveillance videos of the relevant period were missing, and there were suspicious bloodstains on the floor of the administrative building.

All the staff in the hospital were mobilized to search for their missing dean. When Xia Ruize and the other two appeared on the ground, the whole hospital was still in chaos.

Gao Hexuan was very satisfied with this. Because of the chaos in the hospital, someone brought the external network into the hospital and was caught by him. He began to invade the external network with all his strength.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian once again sneaked into the meeting room of the administrative building, observed the staff’s meeting, and obtained some unexpected information.

Aardman Hospital was located in a lawless and chaotic area at the junction of several countries, so they have been able to build a small society with its own rules inside the hospital. The downside was that if something happened now, they could not seek official assistance from any country and could only rely on the hospital’s own security team.

It had to be said that the security team, composed entirely of retired special forces soldiers, had very good professional qualities and had dug up all the scattered clues.

Unfortunately, the methods used by Xia Ruize and his two companions were not understandable to ordinary people. No matter how hard the security team racked their brains, they could not come up with the correct conclusion.

“Captain, it will be 8pm in 20 minutes. According to the hospital’s regulations, all work must stop before 8pm… Should we continue the search?”

In the conference room, a member of the security team suddenly raised a difficult question.

According to the mandatory regulations of Aardman Hospital, before 8 o’clock every night, both medical staff and administrative and logistical staff must complete their work and stop all work.

This rule had been strictly enforced until today when it finally encountered difficulties. Should they ignore the rules and continue searching for the dean who made the rules, or should they strictly follow the rules set by the dean and evacuate the hospital first and continue the search tomorrow?

The security captain, who was in a dilemma, watched the time pass by anxiously, and finally gritted his teeth and gave an order: “Retreat!”

The captain of the security team, who was trusted by Dean David, knew some in-depth information, such as that there was actually a more mysterious and powerful force around the dean that was protecting his safety, allowing the dean to be in charge of the hospital for decades without any problems.

The truth of what happened during the day was still unknown. If something went wrong and ruined the dean’s business, his job as the captain of the security team would be completely over.

With the captain’s order, the busy staff quickly disappeared, some went home, some went back to the dormitory, and the hospital soon became completely quiet, as if nothing had happened.

With nothing exciting to watch, Xia Ruize and the other two returned to the ward. From the camera left in the ward, they learned that all the patients had been fed medicine by the medical staff since 2pm and had been sleeping ever since. It looked like they would sleep until tomorrow morning.

The three of them lay back on their beds and waited quietly.

After eight o’clock in the evening it was Duowei’s home court. The angry Duowei would definitely not miss the opportunity to attack them, so the three of them were on high alert.

Xia Ruize constructed a mental defense ball to wrap up the three of them. In addition, the three of them also arranged various defensive facilities around them in reality to prevent Duowei from attacking their bodies in reality.

When eight o’clock arrived, the three of them didn’t feel anything obvious at first, but the inexplicable drowsiness became stronger and stronger. They persisted for more than ten minutes, and finally everything went black in front of their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, it was nine o’clock in the evening again.

Xia Ruize stood up and walked to the bed. Seeing the phantoms in the garden downstairs, he immediately realized that they had arrived in Duower’s bloody world.

“Hehehe…hahahahaha…” A wild laugh came from somewhere, followed by a familiar voice: “Three of you, we meet again.”

At the same time, all the phantoms in the entire garden turned to the ward where Xia Ruize and the other two were. Although they had no eyes, their attention still made people feel like thorns in the back.

“Hehe, I hope you don’t run too fast this time.” Cheng Huaiqian snorted coldly and started to mock.

“Damn you humans, it’s no use being stubborn. I hope you guys enjoy the gifts I prepared for you, hahahaha!”

Duowei’s voice dissipated, and all the phantoms rushed towards the ward where the three people were.

At this time, there was a knock on the ward door. At the signal of his teammates, Gao Hexuan opened the door and saw Wang Huan and Zhao Tonggang standing outside the door, as well as a bald boy with a troubled expression behind them.

“I wonder what you two mean…”

Wang Huan smiled gracefully, but her tone was urgent.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other and almost forgot that there were other trialers.

Notes

1. Little white ↩︎