Chapter 3666
Originally, Shiler's routine was very normal, and it suddenly became abnormal after filming the movie because he wanted to avoid fans and reporters. Most normal people came over to look around during the day, and basically, no one had to guard here at night. To avoid them, Shiler could only be active at night, forced to sleep during the day and be active at night.
And the various abnormal behaviors of Shiler witnessed by the nurses and caregivers later were actually because Shiler at that time was already Mephisto.
Still the same saying, psychology is a category that you might not be able to do even if you study it, but you definitely can't do it if you don't study it. Although Mephisto could judge the most basic emotions, he clearly didn't understand mental illness, and of course, he couldn't handle the various mental patients, so it was inevitable that he wouldn't be able to handle it so freely.
Moreover, Shiler had always lived in the sanitarium, and he didn't maintain his disguise every moment in life, occasionally revealing his true nature. Just like Pride and his students, those who were afraid or couldn't stand it had already run away, and those who remained were not ordinary people.
They accepted Shiler's occasionally abnormal behavior well, even feeling that that was normal. So the Shiler played by Mephisto was too normal, which instead made them feel abnormal.
Eddie dragged a piece of footage from another folder and said: "I've watched all these short videos you sent me, and I think this one is quite good, it has that eerie and thrilling atmosphere. But you have to be sure that you've already obtained her consent, otherwise, you might be sued after the movie is released."
"Don't worry." Shiler nodded and looked at the screen.
"I don't know how to say this, friends... yes, I won't be updating content related to psychological first aid today. What I want to talk about is something that happened in my life recently. You all know I work in a sanitarium, right? In the suburbs of a big city, the environment is beautiful, the work isn't tiring, and the salary is good. I know many of you envy me..."
In a vertical short video, a blonde woman is sitting in a car, holding a phone and filming herself.
"But it hasn't been good lately, I really feel it's very strange, so I must share this with you." She turned her head and glanced out the car window.
"Our director is a good person, kind to others, very professional, always able to get along with patients, and has a good relationship with the nurses. There are two people in our department who like him, of course, I think those two little bitches are just lustful..."
"Getting off track. Yes, our director is indeed handsome, but that's not the point. The point is that he's been very strange lately, he's basically made the whole sanitarium a mess. He can't even sit in a room with a patient for ten minutes, can you imagine? That patient will become manic, and several of us couldn't hold him down even if we went up. It wasn't like this at all before..."
"If it was just an increased workload, that would be one thing, the key is that there are some strange rumors starting in the hospital. You know, every mental hospital has them, rumors about hauntings or something... that's completely nonsense, I really can't believe a professional psychologist would believe this." The woman glanced out the window again.
"Alright, anyway, I just want to tell you, my life isn't as good as you imagine. Dealing with a group of mental patients isn't that easy, the salary I earn is what I deserve. But considering the current situation, I think I might..."
The car window was suddenly knocked on, and the woman took the phone down with some confusion. Immediately after, a familiar face appeared outside the car window—it was Shiler, his gray eyes staring straight into the car.
"Oh, God!"
The video ended here. Peter, who was resting his chin on the seat back in front, was hit on the nose by Steve, who suddenly leaned back, and the pain made tears come down.
"Ah... my nose..."
"My god, sorry, Peter." Steve said quickly, "I didn't mean to, I was just startled."
He was clearly still a bit restless, sighed, and said to Shiler: "You were right to act in a horror movie, Doctor, this is really a bit scary."
"You... you're really quite cowardly." Although Stark's speech was still a bit slurred, he still didn't forget to show off in this regard.
Natasha covered her forehead and said: "This one is much more intense than the jump-scare before. Doctor, you really should reflect on yourself, after all, this scene was in the daytime, and it wasn't that bloody, and there wasn't any screaming or wailing, but I felt scared just by seeing your face."
"Isn't the scariest thing getting caught by your boss while filming a short video during work hours?" Shiler asked.
"That clearly wasn't work hours, right?" Strange frowned and said, "She wasn't wearing a uniform, and her hair was loose, which nurse would dress like this during work hours?"
Shiler didn't speak, and Strange smiled triumphantly, saying: "You can't fool me, this is clearly after work hours."
And the film critics on the other side also began to whisper, but their focus was clearly a bit different.
"Isn't that Rania? She's an influencer with over 600,000 followers on TikTok, I didn't expect her to participate in this show too."
"Let me see... my god, she really has an account. She's a nurse herself, or did she update some nurse content for the sake of acting?"
"She's a nurse herself, and seems to work in this sanitarium, maybe the director found her to film a video to highlight the realism of the mockumentary."
"That's quite creative, the last bit was really quite scary, at least in terms of thrill, it was enough."
"Time is almost up, the climax of the plot should be next. Do you have any popcorn left? Share some with me..."
"I'm afraid we must subdue him." Danny said, "I had some dealings with him before, if we made a mistake, we could explain. But if it really is him, I'm afraid we must fight with all our might."
"I brought this back from the Vatican." Shiler took something out of his bag, which was a long nail wrapped in plastic wrap. He looked at Danny and Johnny and said: "Back then, a total of thirteen long nails were prepared to nail Jesus to the cross, and not all of them were used. This is one of them, the Vatican has kept it, and it can send any devil back to hell."
Danny took the long nail from his hand, and he immediately felt an extraordinary power, and flames even began to burn in his eyes. The Spirit of Vengeance had never been as cheerful as it was now.
"All we have to do is nail this nail into his body. Once he reveals the true face of the devil, you two can judge him."
Danny and Johnny looked at each other. Danny nodded and said: "My power is relatively sufficient, I will complete the final kill. You two deal with him head-on, try to drag it out until he reveals a flaw."
The group came to the door of the director's office together. Johnny pushed the door open and walked in, seeing Mephisto standing in front of the window. Seeing Mephisto turn around, Johnny looked at him and said: "We have some questions to ask you, Doctor."
"What's wrong? Any problems?"
Johnny stated all of Mephisto's suspicious points, and then said: "Sorry, Doctor, I'm afraid we have to use this method to confirm whether you are a devil or not."
"It's simply ridiculous." Mephisto straightened his face and said, "You two were invited by me, and now you suspect I'm a devil? If I were a devil, why would I invite you here?"
"No need to argue." Johnny shook his head and said, "The only way to prove your innocence is to touch that nail, don't you dare?"
"I don't have time to play these supernatural games with you, I have work to do, please get out immediately."
Before he finished speaking, flames rose in Johnny's eyes, chains appeared instantly, and shot toward Mephisto. Mephisto dodged to the side, but Danny had already jumped in through the window, holding the long nail, and stabbed toward his shoulder.
Mephisto dodged in a bit of a sorry state, but a cut had already been made on the side of his shoulder, but what flowed out of the wound wasn't blood, but scattered hell ash.
"You betrayed me, Ghost Rider." A terrible, low voice like one coming from the deep valley of hell sounded.
Mephisto's face began to change gradually, gradually turning into the appearance of the devil Shiler. He no longer disguised himself, and his arm covered with black patterns grabbed toward Danny.
But Johnny rushed up in one stride, slammed into him, and crashed him into the desk behind him. Mephisto let out a cry of pain, but soon turned into ashes and drifted behind the two.
"You must pay the price for this." Mephisto grabbed toward Johnny with one claw, and Johnny, who had fallen to the ground, couldn't dodge in time, was grabbed by an inexplicable force, and flew in front of Mephisto.
The arm pierced through the chest, and behind the splashing blood was Danny's expression of eyes splitting with rage.
"Brother!!!"
Danny roared and rushed up, the flames on his body burning fiercely. The power belonging to the Spirit of Vengeance burned brighter and brighter in Danny's unrivaled rage. He knocked Mephisto down with one punch and then pierced his chest with the nail.
Mephisto let out a painful roar, and his whole body began to gradually turn into the ashes of hell. But just as he was about to disappear, he turned his head and looked in one direction, his eyes full of shock.
Shiler was standing there, not Neog Sothip, but Shiler Rodriguez.
He opened his mouth to say something, but his body had completely turned into the ashes of hell, disappearing completely from the room.
"Well done, Danny." The voice belonging to Shiler sounded in the room. Danny, holding the nail, turned his head to look, and froze in place the moment he saw Shiler.
"You... you..." He was too shocked to speak.
"It's me." Shiler smiled with his original appearance and said, "You really want to know what's going on, right? This all starts from the beginning. Two years ago, I visited the previous Ghost Rider, Carter Slade, and he told me that the Spirit of Vengeance had chosen a new master, and that is you, Danny."
"But your thoughts were too complex, and you never knew what you wanted, so you couldn't fully exert the power of the Spirit of Vengeance. The Spirit of Vengeance needed my help, so I found you..."
Shiler's voice began to fade gradually. A sentence Carter had once said in the caretaker's hut sounded like a narration:
"The Ghost Rider is the nemesis of sin, as long as sin exists, the Ghost Rider's flames will never go out."
Johnny's figure was reflected in the eyes of Johnny, who had fallen to the ground, and the faint flames in his pupils suddenly burned fiercely again.
?? Sorry, ran into some annoying things today, anxiety disorder relapsed a bit, panic attack made it hard to talk, wrote three chapters in six hours, a bit late, sorry.
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