"I was pranked by other patients and sewn into this painting. It hurts so much! Please, Doctor, save me!"
The painted face wept bitterly, its distorted features twisted in agony as it pleaded with Ji Yan.
Ji Yan asked instead, "How am I supposed to save you?"
"It's simple. Help me take me down from the wall. After that, I can break free on my own."
Watching the painted face cry tears of joy, Ji Yan remained calm. "Sorry, I'm only responsible for treating my own patients."
The painted face pleaded several more times, but to no avail.
Before long, it revealed a hideous, ferocious expression. "Doctors are all sanctimonious hypocrites! You talk about healing the sick and saving lives, but you're all cold-blooded beasts!"
"If it weren't for you damn doctors, how would I have ended up here?"
"Just because I explored your so-called medical achievements, you took away everything valuable from my body. You didn't even spare my face, sewing it here to serve as one of your oil paintings."
"Damn it, all of you deserve to die!!"
The oil painting shook violently as bright red pigment flowed from beneath its frame.
The painted face tore at its stitches, ripping apart the flesh and blood vessels fused with the frame. Blood sprayed everywhere.
It looked ready to devour Ji Yan alive!
Ji Yan's eyelid twitched.
Instinctively, he reached for the Spike Hammer.
But the next second, a hand wearing a bloodstained surgical glove seized the hideous painted face.
Amid a shrill scream, it forcibly tore the face out of the frame.
Ji Yan abruptly turned around and saw a tall, slender doctor in a white coat standing behind him at some unknown point.
The terrifying part was that the figure had a human body, but the head of