Chapter 259: I, Joker (Part 3)

"Dr. Rodriguez! Have some mercy! That friend of yours has already called more than 60 times this week, the office receptionist is about to be driven crazy by him..."

"Mrs. Miller! Please also have some mercy! This friend of mine has already come for treatment 10 times this week, and I'm about to be driven crazy by him..." Shiler stood in front of the table, covering his forehead and said to Mrs. Miller.

Mrs. Miller sighed and said, "Then can't you refuse him?"

"I want to refuse, but he is a mental patient."

"So what?" Mrs. Miller stared at Shiler. Shiler was stunned by her attitude, then said, "... Isn't this a mental hospital?"

Mrs. Miller was also stunned, lowered her head and said, "Oh, right, this is a mental hospital, then can't he be hospitalized?"

"My God, his commuting back and forth is already so annoying, if he were hospitalized..."

"Didn't he be hospitalized before? I remember seeing him in the inpatient department."

"This time is different. Before he was just a lunatic, but now he is a drunk lunatic."

Shiler also sighed long, gestured to Mrs. Miller to wait a moment, then walked to the table, picked up the phone, and asked Brand, "Didn't you say last week that a new attending physician was coming? Where is he?"

"... What? He only submitted a resume... The resume didn't pass? Why didn't it pass?... Alright, I'll call him and ask."

Shiler hung up the phone, then continued to dial in circles, then picked up the receiver, and said to the other end of the receiver, "Hello? Bruce, did someone apply for the attending physician position at Arkham Mental Hospital last week? Did the resume go to you?"

Bruce on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then said, "The Wayne family indeed has equity in Arkham Mental Hospital. I rejected it directly after receiving the job application..."

"Why did you reject it?"

Bruce was silent again. He didn't quite understand Shiler's attitude. There is only one attending physician position. Someone applied for a job, isn't that grabbing your rice bowl?

"... Alright, Bruce, I know you are kind, but there is absolutely no need for this. I was originally a university professor. I serve as an attending physician here just because Brand is too busy. I wish I could transfer a new doctor..."

"Really?" Bruce was skeptical. After all, Shiler looked like he was enjoying it no matter how you looked at it before.

Shiler held the receiver and said righteously, "If you feel I have any passion for this job, that must be your illusion. At least now I just want to leave here..."

"Alright, then I..."

Before Bruce finished speaking, Shiler hung up the phone, because Shiler heard another series of crazy laughter.

Seeing Jack clumsily climbing in from the balcony, Shiler pushed Mrs. Miller out first, closed the door, then pulled the curtains around, and finally, walked to the balcony. Jack saw him come over, waved at him and said, "Good morning, my friend!"

At this time, he was halfway through climbing the balcony, one leg stepped in, and the other leg was still on the balcony next to it. Shiler hugged his arms and said, "Do you know what I want to do?"

"Do what? Give me a punch? Hey! Wait, you can't do that. Haven't we been chatting very happily recently? My friend! Where did we chat to yesterday... Oh, Baroque art style, you shouldn't be busy this afternoon, right? My noodles are surging up in my stomach. What did you eat for lunch? The patterns in naturalistic decoration remind me of bats... Bat! Bat? Bat?..."

Shiler took a deep breath and recited in his heart: "I am a doctor, I am a doctor, a doctor cannot beat a patient..."

The occurrence of this situation has to start from that night when Shiler and Joker got drunk together.

Whether it was Shiler or Joker, alcohol didn't have much effect on their brains. No matter how high the degree of alcohol, no matter how much they drank, the two wouldn't have any problems, but that was just ordinary alcohol.

Shiler had discovered a problem before. The fear toxin concentrate in his hand and the high-purity brain-active agent extracted from fear venom, lizard serum treatment injection, and pure version of immortality factor, these things all existed in a liquid state, which gave him a very bold idea, and with the help of Connors, he turned it into reality.

He let Connors mix these liquids together.

Shiler called it "Crazy Wine".

It possessed all the effects of these agents, and it was inclusive, absorbing strengths and making up for weaknesses. It transformed the fear brought by the fear toxin concentrate into a kind of excitement and madness, and this kind of excitement and madness had reached the point of causing physical lesions to the brain, but at the same time, because of the existence of lizard serum, the brain could be continuously repaired.

For ordinary people, taking this agent is the most terrible torture in the world, because although you didn't suffer any harm, the brain that controls all feelings simulated everything, but at the same time, for some people, this is a very delicious high-degree wine.

Shiler had always wanted to drink it, but he was also afraid that he would get drunk after drinking it, so he had to pull a drinking buddy, which was Jack. That night, the two finished a whole bottle.

Facts proved that Shiler's drinking capacity was better, or rather, the Gray Mist's drinking capacity was better. After all, it was an old drunkard.

Although Shiler was very high when drinking, he was fine after sleeping for a night. Jack was also very high when drinking, but he couldn't be fine after sleeping for a night. After all, there was no symbiote to share that kind of madness and excitement for him, so he was a bit too excited now.

Theoretically, a crazy Joker who is excited should be looking for Batman, but very unluckily, Batman was going to invest in Catwoman to make a movie, and the two went to invest in investigation and travel, not in Cat Getan.

So Shiler ate his own bitter fruit.

Jack wasn't interested in anyone except Batman, but this lack of interest also had categories. Obviously, he felt that Shiler had a common language with him, so he dragged him to talk at length every day, making appointments for treatment more than 10 times a week. Not only did they see each other every day, but they saw each other in the morning and afternoon, seeing each other every day.

Shiler touched his conscience and said that Jack was a good drinking buddy, and could even be said to be a good chat object. Although he didn't know where his broad knowledge and profound learning came from, if it was just talking about these, Shiler was also a bit interested. After all, this also belonged to fishing during working hours.

The only problem was that Jack could pull every topic to Batman.

He was like a... pervert with incredibly broad knowledge, unparalleled depth of knowledge, and a lot of talk.

Shiler had no interest in Batman at all, so he was really about to be annoyed to death by Joker.

But Jack neither liked nor hated anyone except Batman. Simply put, it was ignoring. So although he entered and exited the mental hospital so many times, he didn't destroy the environment here much, so Shiler didn't have a legitimate reason to expel him.

Since he couldn't expel him, let's expel himself.

Shiler took the resume from Brand and said, "How is your future new colleague? Working in a mental hospital in Cat Getan, the work resume should be very amazing, right?"

"No matter how amazing, can it be more amazing than you?" Brand asked back, then he touched his chin and hesitated for a moment, saying, "His resume is pretty good, but it's just..."

"What's wrong?"

"I heard some bad rumors about him from previous colleagues..."

"Bad rumors? What are they?"

"The reason why he came to Cat Getan is because he was previously in the school where he taught..." Brand hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to tell Shiler, but he still continued, "He seems to be conducting illegal human experiments."

"Human experiments? Interesting..."

Shiler lowered his head and looked at the resume in his hand. Sure enough, the name written on it was—"Hugo Strange".

Hugo Strange's resume was indeed pretty good, but it wasn't as amazing as Shiler's. His academic qualifications and work experience could only be considered mediocre, not even as good as Strange in another world, and couldn't be called world-class.

Of course, it might also be because the timeline now is too early, and Hugo hasn't had time to shine in his most proficient field.

Just as Shiler was looking at Hugo's resume, Hugo was also looking at Shiler's resume.

On the train to Cat Getan, while reading the Cat Getan Daily, he was looking at a piece of news. That was an old case that happened in Metropolis. The protagonist and most supporting characters of this case Hugo didn't know, but only one figure made him feel somewhat familiar, and that was Shiler Rodriguez.

To say that Hugo had never heard of Shiler's name, that was impossible, because there were only a few top psychologists in the world. As a professional, Hugo knew this person.

And the reason why he chose to come to Cat Getan this time, on one hand, was because after his illegal experiments were discovered before, he provoked an enemy, so he came to Cat Getan to avoid disaster. On the other hand, it was also because he wanted to meet Shiler.

Since ancient times, it is not strange that peers repel each other and scholars belittle each other, especially Hugo, who prides himself on being a genius in psychology and psychiatry. He had his own unique theories in these two disciplines, but because there were few opportunities before, he failed to perfect his theory, and just as he wanted to do so, his experiment was discovered.

The city he was in before and the university he worked at couldn't tolerate his behavior, but he knew there was a place that might be able to, and that was Cat Getan.

There was an experimental environment suitable for him here, and there were also people he was interested in. Hugo naturally submitted a job application.

Originally, he felt there was little hope, because wanting to squeeze Shiler out of this position, with his current resume, was impossible. But unexpectedly, not long after he submitted his resume, Arkham Mental Hospital called him and very enthusiastically invited him to come and take office.

Thus, Hugo, who came to the attending physician's office of Arkham Mental Hospital, received Shiler's warm welcome.

Shiler shook Hugo's hand forcefully and said, "Thank God, you finally came."

"Uh..." Hugo was choked. He didn't quite understand Shiler's meaning. After all, he and Shiler didn't know each other, and with their status, Shiler didn't need to be so enthusiastic about him at all.

In the subsequent conversation, Shiler spoke bluntly about this: "There are too many difficult patients here. In my many years of career, I never thought there would be patients I couldn't cure, but the fact is just that..."

"Mr. Strange, I know you might be troubled by your poor resume, but it doesn't matter. There are quite a few rare cases here, and some of them are even completely beyond my reach."

Because Shiler acted too much like an unscrupulous quack who couldn't handle tough cases and was eager to pass the buck, this made Hugo's impression of him drop a bit. He said indifferently, "Yes, Dr. Rodriguez, actually I have always been troubled by not having good experimental subjects. Actually, I am very interested in some difficult cases. If the situation is like this, then it couldn't be better..."

Shiler heard the arrogance in Hugo's tone, and he could also see that Hugo seemed to treat him as that kind of hype scholar who didn't live up to his name, but he still smiled and held Hugo's hand and said to him, "Then you must be the doctor most suitable for this position... Then that's it, I'll leave first."

Watching Shiler leave quickly with his things, Hugo looked at his back somewhat puzzled.

What exactly could make this world-renowned master of psychology run faster than being chased by a dog?

---Author's Note---

Shiler: The Joker is actually myself (Climbing stairs, do not disturb...)

Jack: The Joker is actually myself (Batman didn't take me on his honeymoon!)

Hugo: The Joker is actually myself (?)

Batman who returned from travel: What happened? ===== CHAPTER 260 =====