Chapter 38
The facilities in this ward were very simple. There was no toilet; there were no wardrobes; everything that were hung on the wall, were bolted to it.
The hospital bed was of a thin iron frame bed and the mattress could only half block a person’s line of sight. There were some cardboard boxes stacked underneath.
There wasn’t much time for Si Chen to think.
Sensing the danger approaching, he chose to heed Xiao Zhou’s words and hunkered down under the bed to hide.
The cardboard boxes were full of things. Si Chen saw a severed hand protruding from one box.
He didn’t really want to know what were in these.
There wasn’t much space under the bed and with several cardboard boxes piled up, only one person could fit.
Yu Lian also hid. He stretched himself into a thin sheet and stuck himself to the ceiling.
Of course, if his face had only been thick enough, he would have wanted to squeeze in together with Si Chen. But had he done that, they would easily have been caught.
You can’t put all your eggs in one basket. You have to spread them out to distribute the risk.
The clacking sound of the high-heeled shoes was fast approaching, like a drum beat, or the urgings of a debt collector.
The nurse, when she arrived, was like a large mobile refrigerator. Before she even went through the door, Si Chen could already feel himself starting to freeze.
The High-Dimensional Creature at the door had energy fluctuations of around 300.
Si Chen’s colleague Xin Xiaocao, a Tier 3 Evolutionary, in non-combat state, had energy fluctuations of 270.
Tier 3 Xin Xiaocao’s energy fluctuations peak in combat state at 2000. The nurse outside was undoubtedly high level.
Since consuming the Evolved Eyeworm, Si Chen had yet to fire at full power.
He pulled out the energy gun and loaded the bullet very quietly.
Physical weapons do not have a high rate of success against spiritual entities but this gun was currently his only long-range weapon.
The door opened.
Si Chen’s nostrils caught a bitter and cold scent, with a faint underlying stink.
Because he was pasted on the ceiling, Yu Lian had already caught sight of the woman walking in from the door.
This is a strange-looking sutured monster.
Her upper body was bruised blue and black; livor mortis spots all over. Her white nurse’s uniform was covered in blood. Her lower body was made up of eight human legs arranged like that of a spider.
The nurse’s abdomen was opened wide. All the internal organs had been dug out and replaced with metal bones and brackets.
Her arms had no flesh or blood; they were basically metal and her biceps were bulging, full of strength.
Although he didn’t know much about supernatural disasters, even Yu Lian could tell that you couldn’t simply sum her up as a “Spiritual High-Dimensional Creature”.
Although most of the psionic High-Dimensional Creatures were human-like, they rarely have flesh and blood. Compared with physical combat, they used “domains” and “rules” to deal with outsiders.
For example, the suicide ghost, if encountered, it could twist and distort your body. For another example, the food cart ghost, after trading with it, you could become part of her food on offer… They don’t kill people directly with force.
But this nurse seemed fully capable of tearing ghosts apart.
Yu Lian held his breath and huddled in the corner, minimizing his sense of existence.
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The nurse moved her eight legs and walked towards the hospital bed.
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This Spider Lady looked like a tough customer. He could fight it but there was no need to.
The female nurse came to the bedside and felt the patient’s pulse. He was still alive.
She turned around again. She looked at the half-transformed doll in the glass box, a satisfied smile on her face.
She was the only nurse on this floor and at night, she was always very busy.
She walked slowly towards the door.
Si Chen held his breath. He saw the door open a crack.
The nurse stepped out of the room. The gap was slowly narrowing; the door was about to close…
And then the phone in Si Chen’s pocket rang and vibrated.
“Ding ding ding—”
The phone’s own ringtone rang in the room, high-pitched and piercing.
Even with his eyes closed, Si Chen knew that it must be from Doctor.
He cursed inwardly and pre-emptively shot the spider lady’s knee.
The bullet shot out and was deeply embedded in one of the nurse’s knees, exploding inside.
The bone in the spider lady nurse’s knee deformed and dark black motor oil flowed from the wound.
She roared and rushed forward. Her mechanical arm suddenly transformed, turning into a steel blade. Without any hesitation, she brought it down and sliced the bed where Si Chen was hiding clean in half!
The person lying on the bed was chopped off at the waist and split in two. No blood flowed out of the cut, only a mass of gray mud.
Si Chen rolled out from under the bed, dodging the sharp blade.
“Gangzi!” Yu Lian’s eyes were flashing daggers
He raised the kitchen knife and jumped from the ceiling onto the Spider Lady’s back. He brought the kitchen knife down towards the nurse’s neck.
This kitchen knife imbued with supernatural properties unexpectedly broke, its tip rolling up.
A crack on the nurse’s neck appeared and a few scattered sparks burst out.
The nurse was in pain and let out angry growls. It turned around and slashed at Yu Lian.
Yu Lian twisted his body to avoid it but it still hit his shoulder. The steel blade nearly cut off his entire arm.
The nurse lowered her head, bit Yu Lian’s arm and forcibly tore off the wounded arm. Blood spurt from the tear.
What came out of Yu Lian’s wound was no longer latex but warm blood.
Si Chen grasped the butcher’s knife. He put all his strength behind this knife and astonishingly, a layer of blood-red mist came out of the knife.
During his intense training at Ji Chuyao’s house, the move he practiced the most was how to kill him with one blow.
He grabbed the Spider Lady’s hair tightly and struck with the butcher’s knife cleanly cut off her head.
After completing this move, the bloody mist on the butcher’s knife dissipated. It became an ordinary steel knife.
Si Chen had used too much force and the nurse’s head was separated from her body. Due to the force of inertia, she almost turned in a circle in his grip.
However, the monster held in his arms did not die. Her blade hand hummed like a chainsaw and was ruthlessly thrust into Si Chen’s abdomen.
Fortunately, his abdomen had been covered in a layer of black scales; one of the abilities he’d gained after fusing with the Eternal Life Abyss.
In its world, this was the fully matured Eternal Life Abyss’ most indestructible armor.
But the Eternal Life Abyss in Si Chen’s body was just a juvenile.
Therefore, after a short pause, the steel knife penetrated the scales and pierced into his body, like a rusty kitchen knife cutting through the frozen bacon with difficulty.
Black blood flowed out slowly from the wound. It was abnormally thick. like syrup.
If it weren’t for this layer of scales, Si Chen would have been cut in half like that person who’d been lying on the hospital bed.
Si Chen caught the faint smell of motor oil from her broken neck.
What Ji Chuyao said flashed through his mind, “The way to kill the mechanical Evolutionaries is to destroy their energy core.”
But why was there a mechanical Evolutionary in a supernatural disaster? !
Before he had time to think too much, Si Chen reached into her open abdomen with his hand.
Through the layers of metal bones, he felt a familiar heat.
If Si Chen could only see it, he would find in that place covered by layers of metal bones was not a heart, but a burning hot black stone.
This was the Spider Lady’s energy core; all mechanically transformation Evolutionaries have something similar.
The Spider Lady’s supernatural property activated and Si Chen could feel his body growing cold, as if he was standing in a blizzard.
The monster in his arms struggled violently and the two fell back on the empty bed.
The hospital bed, which was not very strong in the first place, collapsed in an instant.
The nurse wasn’t all that big; about 1.9 meters tall. Without her head, she was 1.7 meters.
However, Si Chen felt his whole body being crushed under her weight.
Si Chen yelled at Yu Lian, “Pull her off! Use the iron chains!”
Yu Lian took a deep breath and put the iron chain around the nurse’s arm.
Spider Lady’s metal skeleton was extremely hard. Blood spilled from Si Chen’s fingertips and his finger bones even broke.
Using all his strength, he plunged through the nurse’s ribcage on both sides. The metal skeleton bent and electric light burst out the surface.
Si Chen pulled the black energy core out of the monster’s chest, dragging long bloody threads with it.
Several main wires were still connected to this energy core and Si Chen’s arm had been scorched black from the electricity.
The monster, now bereft of its power source, was completely motionless.
An overwhelming sense of exhaustion surged through Si Chen and he stumbled. He took out the gene medicine he was carrying from his pocket and drank it down.
Yu Lian was seriously injured so Si Chen poured the medicine into his mouth.
Yu Lian coughed violently. With a tired smile on his face, he said, “What a good… good father.”
He saw the label on the medicine bottle. This was a level five gene repair medicine, several grades higher than the gene medicine he’d prepared himself.
Although there was no way to immediately restore his body to its original state, it could at least reduce most of the side effects.
The iron chain was broken and the kitchen knife had rusted. The mobile phone Si Chen had stolen from the old granny had completely run out of juice.
Si Chen’s hands were still trembling.
He sat on the ground, his tone full of doubts, “Why is there a mechanically transformed Evolved Creature here?”
Yu Lian breathlessly said, “I don’t know.”
“There are two possibilities. The first is that this High-Dimensional world has also experienced a high-dimensional invasion.” Si Chen paused, “Or, the high-dimensional worlds were originally interconnected. In this plane, after their world was destroyed by a spiritual disaster, other High-Dimensional Creatures invaded and transformed the supernatural creatures here.”
Yu Lian’s eyes were blank. “What are you talking about, why can’t I understand…?”
Si Chen gave up trying to link up with him.
After lying down for a few minutes, Yu Lian felt his strength return a little.
He braced his body to stand up. Amidst the chaos, he found his teammate who had been cut in half. He felt for his pulse, not holding onto much hope.
“…….”
In silence, he put the two parts of his teammate together and then covered him with a sheet.
Si Chen looked at the glass box next to the bed.
The glass case was intact and undamaged by the fighting.
However, the semi-finished doll inside had broken in two. Where it had torn was exactly where the nurse had cut the person.
Xiao Zhou crawled out from under the bed and looked at the other two people in the room, no expression on his face.
After a brief silence, Yu Lian asked, “Does it seem like it’s almost dawn outside?”
Outside the window, the originally pitch-black sky had lightened. A faint white could be spotted off into the horizon.
This meant that this Space Fold was coming to an end. Soon, they would be back in their original world.
Probably because of this reason, Xiao Zhou’s aura was now much weaker than when they first met.
When the Space Fold is over, the soul attached to this merman doll will disappear completely.
Si Chen didn’t speak. He was sitting by the corner with his hands on his knees, playing with the energy gun with three bullets left in his blood-stained hands.
Yu Lian asked in a low voice, “Are we…still heading to the third floor?”
They had suffered heavy losses from this battle. No matter how one looked at it, going to the third floor to fight the final boss, their gains would not outweigh their losses.
Xiao Zhou said nothing, quietly clenching the trident in his hand.
He made no insistence but around the cotton doll’s eye sockets were traces of wetness.
Si Chen lowered his head, wrapped himself up with a hemostatic bandage and said calmly, “We are. Why wouldn’t we?”
If they didn’t go, how could they exact their rightful vengeance in blood?
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The Eternal Life Abyss: I still haven’t eaten enough today.
OMGGG THIS FIGHT SCENE IS SO COOL!!! thanks for the update!!
Oh no Xiao Zhou is crying 😭 Wuwuwuwu, I developed an awful lot of emotional attachment for this little doll, but there’s nothing I can do… Si Chen, you have to get revenge! That sh+tty Doctor, I bet White Dress can tear that thing apart!!!
Thank you for the chapter!
Time to balance the score and maybe even feed baby…. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
I can’t wait to see how Ji Chuyao will run to find Si Chen once this Space Fold is over. I also wonder when our main male character will appear again.
Thanks for the chapter 🌹
I wonder what ELA meant by ‘not eat yet’?
He kills machine, but babe is hungry
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