Time passed slowly.
Soon, ten minutes had passed.
Ryan was sitting in front of the chair, still vigorously dropping eye drops into his eyes.
However, compared to before, his movements were obviously more agitated. It could be clearly seen that a large amount of eye drops were flowing down his cheeks.
Black Skull said hoarsely, "I can see that you're in a very bad state."
Ryan lowered his raised head. His eyes were bloodshot from his rubbing and the application of the eye drops, and two clear streams of the medicine flowed down his face, yet he had a huge, grinning smile on his face.
"I feel like I'm sick. I'm extremely sleepy and very agitated."
He stretched out his right hand with a clicking sound and grabbed his forehead.
Black Skull said hoarsely, "What are you agitated about?"
Ryan rubbed his eye sockets vigorously and said, "There are too many unhealthy patients. I feel that staying here is a waste of my time. I should let more people know that they're sick."
"If you're sick, you need to be treated. They need to find a doctor, and you're a doctor too. You can definitely cure your own diseases, but others can't."
Ryan's movements of rubbing his eyes became more and more intense and agitated.
"I seem to be sick too."
"It feels like something is crawling in my brain."
"I think..."
Squeak—
Suddenly, a sound of something piercing into flesh came.
[Ding! Black Skull's Sanity value -10]
Under Black Skull's shocked gaze.
He actually reached out and gouged out one of his own eyeballs.
But he acted as if nothing had happened and poured the eye drops into his empty eye socket.
"It's useless."
He shook his head vigorously, looking even more dazed.
"I think I need to diagnose myself too."
Ryan forcefully pushed the eyeball back in, gasped for breath with a wheezing sound, trembled and lay on the table, reaching out towards his neck.
"Wait!" Black Skull immediately said in a deep voice, "If you feel uncomfortable, I can diagnose you."
"No! I can do it myself."
Ryan grinned.
In an instant.
The halo of the Random Diagnosis Technique flashed and disappeared.
[Ding! You've discovered your own diseases: Crying Clown (Confusion)]
[Ding! You've discovered your own diseases: Crying Clown (Out of Control)]
[Ding! You've discovered your own diseases: Crying Clown (Performance)]
[Ding! You've discovered your own diseases: Crying Clown (Self)]
Ding ding ding—
A series of system prompts rang in his ears.
And almost at that moment, in the lenses on Black Skull's beak mask, he suddenly saw the pitch-black human-shaped silhouette that the Executor had mentioned, overlapping with Ryan.
His gaze suddenly became sharp.
Because at the moment when he diagnosed himself.
That human-shaped silhouette suddenly became a bit more obvious, like a heartbeat.
"Ugh, ah, ah—I'm really seriously ill—"
His pupils were bleeding. He raised his head, grabbed his cheeks, and the bones in his body made clicking sounds.
"It doesn't matter. But it doesn't matter. My illness will heal on its own. I don't need to worry about myself."
The curse!
It had become serious again!
Black Skull stared at him and said, "Our people will be here soon. You'll have more chances to diagnose them. Do you hear me?"
But Ryan seemed to completely ignore his words.
"I seem to have changed a lot. I'm a bit delirious..."
He suddenly grinned, looking a bit sickly, and vaguely opened his panel.
[Name]: Clown/Ryan/???
[Level]: Clown
[Race]: Old... (Flickering and Unstable)
[Alignment]: Chaotic Evil
[Strength]: Confused · Unable to Display
[Dexterity]: Confused · Unable to Display
[Intelligence]: Confused · [Obscured]
[Constitution]: (Jumping Garbled Code)
[Introduction]: Blood and Flesh... Past and Present (Garbled) Apprentice of the Bloodsaw Pharmacy... Of the Abyss of Disorder (Garbled) Kind and Chaotic Human Apprentice... Eternal Silence... Confused · Unable to Display...
"Sure enough! I've really changed—"
"I shouldn't waste my time here anymore—There are more people who need my diagnosis—I can't waste any more time—"
A low, surging sound came from his throat.
Suddenly.
Crash—
He suddenly pushed the table and stood up.
He suddenly turned around and looked at the stunned townspeople watching from a distance on the square, with a very uncomfortable smile on his face.
"I think everyone needs... my diagnosis..."
Black Skull's eyes suddenly burned with fierce soul fire.
He said hoarsely, "But I think it's better for you to stay here."
At that instant.
One bone hand after another suddenly grew out from under his feet, grabbing his legs like vines with a clattering sound.
All of a sudden, his body was bound in place.
Ryan suddenly tilted his head and looked at Black Skull, asking,
"What do you mean by this?"
Black Skull said hoarsely, "Your diagnosis ability is cursed, and that curse has also affected your mental state. You're in a very unstable state now. Can't you see that?"
Ryan stood there as if he had frozen.
Black Skull narrowed his eyes and said, "That curse has been subtly influencing you for a long time, and every time you use your diagnosis ability, the curse will intensify a bit."
"Like boiling a frog in warm water, it's slowly eroding you."
Ryan stood there motionless like a statue.
As if his words.
Had touched him.
But suddenly.
The corner of his mouth curled up.
"Are you joking?"
Buzz—
Almost instantly.
His legs suddenly swelled and directly burst the bone hands that were binding his legs.
Scarlet tentacles suddenly grew out from his shoulders, spreading out with a clattering sound and tightly winding around Black Skull's body.
His body leaped up and easily landed on a nearby house.
His smile was crazy and sickly.
"You're really annoying. I'm starting to dislike you again!"
Whoosh—
A gust of wind blew by.
From the body of Black Skull, who was wearing a leather coat and a beak mask, a soul spirit with blue flames burning all over its body walked out slowly, ignoring the restraints of his tentacles.
He looked up at Ryan indifferently and said,
"The curse in your body is deepening, and your perception has become seriously distorted. I originally wanted to subdue you when our people arrived, but now it seems I have to take action."
Ryan smiled sickly and said, "Sorry~ I don't have time to play games with you now. There are many patients who need my diagnosis."
In an instant.
Ryan withdrew his tentacles, leaped up nimbly, and jumped towards another building.
His gaze suddenly locked onto those townspeople on the square, and countless tentacles rushed towards those people in his wild smile.
"This is the end!"
Almost without giving him any chance.
Black Skull's undead suddenly opened its mouth and let out a series of terrifying soul shrieks in Ryan's direction.
Bang—
Bang—
The tentacles that Ryan had shot out exploded instantly.
And Ryan's body also suddenly fell from under the eaves, twisting and grabbing his own head, letting out a series of screams.
It was a powerful mental interference and a psychic shriek.
Black Skull looked on coldly and said, "It seems I can only imprison you first and then thoroughly check the curse in your body after Mr. Raven wakes up!"
Without any hesitation, he quickly stepped forward and suddenly reached out his hand, about to subdue Ryan.
But almost instantly.
An urgent voice suddenly rang in his mind.
"He took a mental enhancement potion. He's not afraid of your attacks at all!"
"He's plotting against you, ah ah!!"
Black Skull's pupils suddenly shrank.
But it was already too late.
Ryan, who was rolling on the ground in pain, suddenly turned his head, with an elegant smile on his face, without any sign of pain.
And terrifyingly, his right eye was bleeding profusely.
And that eyeball was no longer a human eye but an evil spirit's pupil as dark as the abyss.
[Cursed Pupil ]
Buzz—
The moment he was seen by that eye, he immediately felt something was wrong.
"A curse for you, a gift for you, you annoying guy."
Ryan smiled and gently tapped his temple.