Chapter 3669

Shiler received Mephisto in his office at the new sanitarium. But this time he wasn't in Shiler's appearance, but Danny's appearance. Although the two looked the same, Mephisto looked more handsome than Danny. No matter what his appearance turned into, Mephisto always revealed a classical temperament, which made him look more mysterious and charming.

The two could be considered to be chatting happily. Because it was clear that the craze on the Internet changes very quickly. Shiler couldn't say he wasn't popular, it's just that his fan base had basically stabilized. And what the media is scrambling to report now is the Danny brothers who became popular with the mockumentary.

Shiler was just an ordinary person after all, at least in the eyes of the media and fans, he had no superpowers. Some of his performances in magic movies should also be special effects added later. But the Danny brothers were real Ghost Riders, flaming skeletons who could drive flaming motorcycles, simply cool to death!

In this world, psychopathic fans are a minority after all. Under the public aesthetic, of course, the Ghost Rider is more explosive. The limelight of Danny and Johnny soon covered Shiler and became the new target for reporters and fans to watch.

Mephisto also became popular because of this. This was what he and Shiler agreed on—in the last scene of the movie, when Danny exorcised Mephisto, Shiler had already reached an agreement with Mephisto. That is to say, his being exorcised was actually acted out.

Because Johnny was using Mephisto's power, he had expected it by the end. The part where Mephisto attacked him was acted out by the two. It can be said that by the last scene, the only one kept in the dark was Danny.

The movie becoming a hit was a good thing for everyone. Even Danny, who was kept in the dark from beginning to end, earned a lot of money, improved his tight living conditions, and also received psychological treatment gifted by Shiler.

The Ghost Rider needs to have faith in his heart to better cooperate with the Spirit of Vengeance. This faith can have many directions, such as firmly executing justice, firmly wanting to protect someone, angrily wanting revenge, etc. And because Danny was always confused about the situation and never had a firm faith, he was always unable to cooperate with the Spirit of Vengeance.

He didn't know how to meditate at all, couldn't communicate with the power in his body, couldn't figure out where the problem was, and could only call the Spirit of Vengeance by instinct in a daze. But the Spirit of Vengeance couldn't hear him at any time, and his Ghost Rider ability was invalid for a long time.

However, with this cooperation, Danny could already use the power of the Spirit of Vengeance relatively smoothly. As long as he goes to learn the meditation of mages and communicates more with the Spirit of Vengeance, Kael, in his body, he will soon become a real Ghost Rider.

And his brother Johnny also earned a lot of money, at least he didn't have to deliver food in the wind and rain to maintain the operation of the motorcycle gang. And because of cooperating with Mephisto's promotion, he obtained 16 days of annual leave from Mephisto, and now he is already in Hawaii.

Mephisto went to rub Shiler's heat because Shiler was popular. And now that there are people more popular than Shiler, he naturally chose to rub the big popular person. And this film also promoted Mephisto very well, even if he played a villain, at least it gave him a certain degree of popularity. Combined with his own self-gilding in various media interviews as Danny, he really harvested a lot of fans who study Mephisto.

And at the end of the film, the director deliberately left a suspense, which also triggered a lot of people's speculation. Some people say that the Mephisto who was exorcised was just a fake body, the real Mephisto was not exorcised, and the Dr. Rodriguez who appeared at the end was still Mephisto.

Some people also say that Mephisto might have been exorcised, but the Dr. Rodriguez who appeared later might be a more terrifying devil, otherwise there is no way to explain Mephisto's shocked expression.

Some people also say that Mephisto was indeed not exorcised, but he was attached to Johnny's body, and the flames burning in Johnny's eyes were proof that Mephisto's power returned to his body.

There are many interpretations of the ending, and in fact, any one of them can make sense. Even without considering leaving suspense for the second part, it can be considered a good open ending.

Shiler finally got rid of the harassment of the media and fans. Many people's information is lagging, and they don't know that Shiler has moved. Even if some people know, they don't know where the new sanitarium address is. Even if they can find the new sanitarium, the police force near Central Park is much more sufficient than in the suburbs. And it is more crowded here, and there is not so much space for them to park and watch—as soon as the car stops, the patrol officer comes over waving a ticket. Even if there are occasional scattered fans, it doesn't affect Shiler's normal life.

What he has a headache about now is another thing, that is, Pikachu and Goose fight every day.

Goose's owner, Captain Marvel, seems to have been invited by Lilandra to mediate the war between the three major empires and won't be back for a while. In fact, Goose itself has no aggressiveness and is usually quite gentle. But Pikachu seems to be out of the instinct of a mouse and has always looked at this orange cat unpleasantly, and the two can fight three or four times a day.

The patients in the sanitarium all know Pikachu. This yellow-haired mouse is either playing games every day or chatting with patients in the sanitarium, and even organized a band in the patient activity center, which is said to be releasing a new album next year.

After Peter came, Pikachu became even more arrogant, relying on having someone behind him, and went to find trouble with Goose when he had nothing to do. Now the sanitarium is also divided into two factions, one is the cat faction and the other is the mouse faction, constantly cheering for the two of them, and some people even opened a gambling pool to bet on who would beat whom today.

Shiler is a bit like the hostess in "Tom and Jerry", the cat and mouse fight and he suffers. Chasing Pikachu around the sanitarium every day, and from time to time he has to go into Goose's belly to fish out the yellow-haired mouse that lost the fight.

After the warm early summer, the midsummer of New York gradually arrived. The outer wall of the new sanitarium was completely covered by bright red roses. There are also various flowers in the backyard that have grown for more than ten years. Thanks to the careful care of the gardener, each one grows very well, looking not like a sanitarium, but like a European-style garden lost in time.

Shiler sat in his office blowing a fan. Compared to air conditioning, he still prefers fans, a habit he developed when he was a child. Unless it was too hot to stand, he would rather sit in the office and blow the fan.

Although his new office doesn't have floor-to-ceiling windows, there are four or five windows behind him, with Victorian arched domes. If all are opened, the air circulation is still good.

Just writing a medical record report, Shiler heard a sound from behind, and when he turned his head, he saw Pikachu jump in from the window. Judging from the long hair stuck to him, he should have just lost half a move of Goose's zero-nine punch.

He wiped his face with his short hands and reached out to tidy up the fur on his tail. The moment a cat's meow came from behind, Shiler closed the window with quick eyes and hands—the tentacles in Goose's mouth were only two centimeters away from rolling Pikachu in.

Pikachu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Consider you have a bit of conscience!"

"I've already let Nick contact Captain Marvel." Shiler took another document to sign and said, "The good news is that Goose will leave soon. The bad news is that it has passed all its skills to its son, which is the little cat Torik I adopted."

"Oh, shit." Pikachu cursed.

Peter knocked on the door and walked in and said: "Doctor, Tony and I have come up with a new flying car. We plan to go to Central Park to test it later, want to go together?"

"Came up with it so fast?" Shiler was a bit surprised, he put the document aside and said, "It just so happens that I plan to go to Central Park for a stroll this afternoon, I haven't been there yet. Let's go."

Peter also brought Pikachu, they left the sanitarium together and walked to the park. Finding an open space in the southeast corner of the park, Stark soon brought the car over.

Shiler felt a bit confused when he saw the shape of this car. He had seen flying cars from China on the Internet, each one looking like a concept car of a top sports car, the streamline of the car body is very smooth, and it looks like a future product at a glance. But how did Stark get an old car?

Descending slowly from mid-air carried by a mecha, was a classic Mercedes-Benz old car, the kind of classic car with two round headlights, looking like a product around 1950, and it didn't have anything to do with words like "sci-fi future".

Stark also said triumphantly: "It's no skill to let that kind of car that looks like a spaceship fly in the sky. I must challenge something difficult, I don't want others to say I plagiarized."

Shiler walked around the car, frowned and said: "First of all, this thing doesn't really conform to aerodynamics when driving on the ground, are you sure it's a good idea to let it fly in the sky?"

Stark waved his hand and said: "You don't understand, this is what gives it a sci-fi feel. And this is completely different from the principles of those flying cars in China, it's the old craft of the Stark family—hover cars."

Shiler slapped his forehead, how could he forget this. Stark Industries started by relying on hover cars, the era when Howard studied flying cars, didn't he use such old cars? This can be considered not forgetting the original intention.

"I've already studied it, China's hover cars should have used technology from a part of the gravity system on the Atrium starship, that is, letting the car fly through anti-gravity plus normal propulsion. But what we use is not this technology, the Stark family's hover technology uses magnetic levitation, accurately speaking, magnetic field technology."

"Which one is more reliable?" Shiler only cares about this question.

"Both are quite reliable, basically there is no flight safety problem. Even if they collide in mid-air, they won't fall down." Peter said, "Also, the technology on the starship is very advanced. They should have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to crack a part of the anti-gravity technology, then miniaturized and commercialized it, and then large-scale commercialization. Most of the costs were borne by the government, so their flying cars are very cheap, and they are almost about to drop to the same price as ordinary cars."

"But we can't take this path here, because traffic control is too weak, if we let everyone go to the sky, we can't manage it at all. And we are private investment, and we definitely have to recover R&D costs later. So we take the high-end route, which is to create 'air luxury cars'. It just so happens that we can borrow the history of Stark Group's R&D of hover cars to create high-end brands like Mercedes-Benz or Ferrari, and let those rich people buy them. This way, the number of people going to the sky won't be too many, it's easier to manage, and it can free up some ground space to alleviate traffic jams in big cities."

"Sounds not bad," Shiler said, "But are you sure people know the history of the Stark family's R&D of hover cars?"

"I don't know if Americans are clear, but Chinese are quite clear." Stark patted the car window and said, "When their country first launched flying cars, someone found the history of Stark Industries' R&D of hover cars back then, and even said that their domestic companies plagiarized us."

"Also, someone even dug up the black history footage of Howard's car show flipping over, which made Howard half-dead with anger. He called the embassy early this morning, saying that the other party maliciously smeared the brand image of Stark Group and demanded that the other party delete the relevant videos. It's really funny, hahahahaha."

?? Alive, yeah

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