mtl008 Chapter 3670 Evil Force (8)
Chapter 3670 Evil Force (8)
Chapter 3670: Evil Force (VIII)
After about half a day of internship, Mephisto neither understood Schiller's work content in the sanatorium nor learned how to handle it himself. He only understood the composition of the patients in the sanatorium, which can be roughly divided into three categories: lunatics, teenagers, and lunatic teenagers.
The former are usually mentally ill people from wealthy families. They are of all ages, but most are relatively young. They suffer from a variety of diseases, and most cannot take care of themselves. However, even if they get sick, they will not cause much harm.
The second type is the children of wealthy families, who are basically not sick, or have relatively mild psychological problems, and come here purely for recuperation. However, they are full of energy and have strong mobility, and can chase Schiller played by Mephisto for a whole day just to let him tell stories.
The third type is the young mentally ill patients who are admitted on a voluntary basis. This is the task of the local community. Every private medical institution with a psychiatric department must accept a portion of the community's young offenders who have criminal records and mental problems. This group of people is the most dangerous. Not only do they have mental problems, but they are also very active. And no one knows where they got the weapons. They are simply a walking source of danger.
In just half a day, Mephisto began to understand why Schiller had such a complicated mental state.
Mephisto came a little late. If he had come six months earlier, when the sanatorium had not been renovated, there wouldn't have been so many troubles. But now Arkham Sanatorium is like a regular mental hospital. As the dean, Schiller has to deal with a large number of emergencies every day. Mephisto came when Schiller was the busiest.
But Mephisto had to stay in the sanatorium because he had discovered that not only he, but also the media and fans knew that this sanatorium belonged to Schiller. They had been squatting around, and almost every time Schiller was photographed, he would become a hot topic. If you want to increase Schiller's popularity, staying in the sanatorium and walking around the area is the best choice.
On the contrary, if you go to SHIELD or the Avengers, such important bases are not allowed to allow outsiders to enter. Even the media dare not stay there, let alone fans. There are few people there, and Mephisto can't show his face no matter how much he goes out. So even though the situation in the sanatorium is complicated, he can only stay here.
There was no way to deal with these crazy teenagers with ordinary means, so Mephisto had to take some unconventional measures. Even if he couldn't use too much power within the magic defense network, a little trick was enough to scare these teenagers.
When they went out for a night stroll at night, Mephisto would use magic to conjure up a few ghosts to scare them back into their rooms. If someone shot randomly with a gun, Mephisto would deliberately make the bullet jam, or make the person they feared the most appear in their dreams to warn them to be honest.
This trick was quite useful at first, but it only lasted a day before they started to stir up trouble again. And this time they were not just guerrillas, but organized to explore the spirits.
The patients who had witnessed the abnormal phenomena firmly believed that the sanatorium was haunted, so they united and had to find the damn ghost. When they had no motivation, they were still crazy every day; now that they finally found a target, they were even more excited. Some people did not sleep for several days in a row, squatting at the stairs with a gun, and Mephisto was almost shot by him several times.
And it wasn't just the patients who saw the unusual phenomena, some nurses and caregivers also witnessed supernatural phenomena. The entire nursing home began to panic, and many employees found Mephisto and asked him to find a way to solve the problem of the haunting in the nursing home.
Mephisto also discovered: This is just like raising a cat. If you don't keep the cat busy during the day, the cat will keep you busy at night. If you don't give them something to do, they will still do their best to make trouble.
In order to let these crazy teenagers vent, Mephisto decided to make the haunting thing real, and then find a few exorcist experts to collect evidence from the excited teenagers, and then organize some exorcism rituals for them to participate in. This can consume their energy well, and by the way, it can also improve the reputation of the sanatorium, which may attract more onlookers and greatly increase Schiller's popularity.
It can be said that Mephisto has learned Internet hype by himself. He simply registered a small account and posted a message online asking for help, saying that his sanatorium had encountered supernatural events and urgently needed an exorcist. He did not have Schiller's media account, but the sanatorium was also well-known in the fan circle. As long as the address was made public, fans would naturally find out that Schiller was in trouble. They would take the initiative to help spread the post.
The effect was better than he imagined. Before long, the post was spread everywhere. Fans also helped to forward it: some suspected that the more famous you are, the more trouble you will have, and that those black fans deliberately went to the sanatorium to cause trouble; some said that it might be a mental patient who escaped and caused trouble; and some swore that the sanatorium was built in a bad place and many people had died there before.
Netizens love to watch this, especially when they like to gloat over other people's misfortunes: "You, Schiller, never accepted interviews or showed up before, now you are in trouble, right? You have to beg us for help?"
Some people who considered themselves professionals began to analyze some of the photos Mephisto had posted, claiming to have captured supernatural phenomena. Some said the photos were post-processed, while others vowed that the photos were completely real and that supernatural phenomena had indeed occurred in the sanatorium.
Anyway, it was discussed back and forth for a few days. Schiller happened to be in Italy at the time, and the incident was very popular in the English-speaking world, but not so famous in the minority language areas, so Schiller didn't know about it.
When he came back, Mephisto had already gathered a group of exorcists, but most of them were scared away by the supernatural phenomena Mephisto created.
Mephisto is the king of hell after all. Although the devils mostly seduce people with sweet words, they sometimes need to intimidate believers. They know what humans are afraid of, and the supernatural phenomena they create are also very scary. Those masters who swear solemnly will be scared to death after only a few hours.
However, those without real abilities have fled, and those who stayed and dared to come were basically those with real abilities. For example, the brothers Danny and Johnny, one has the real spirit of revenge in his body, and the other is simply the best worker under Mephisto.
It can be said that if this matter was not done by Mephisto, any demon that came would have to be captured by the two of them.
But unfortunately, the boss from Hell came this time. Under Mephisto's careful disguise, even his little brother Johnny didn't notice anything. At most, he felt that the power remaining in some places in the sanatorium was familiar, but he didn't recognize that the "Dr. Schiller" in front of him was a fake Mephisto.
But the good news is that Mephisto did not recognize that Niorg Sosip, Danny's mystic friend, was a fake. After all, the identity of "Honorary Researcher of All Souls College" was still worthy of his vigilance. He did not dare to look directly into the other party's soul, so naturally he did not recognize it.
Schiller walked up and shook hands with Mephisto, who was playing himself. He observed Mephisto's disguise from a close distance and found that there was indeed no flaw in his appearance, but his temperament was really different.
It can be said that if the people here today are not Danny and Johnny, two people with whom he has never had any dealings, but members of the Avengers or S.H.I.E.L.D., then Mephisto would be exposed.
Some people may suspect that this is one of Schiller's other personalities, but they will quickly rule out this possibility because the Schiller played by Mephisto is really too much like a normal person.
No matter which personality Schiller has, although he looks no different from an ordinary person and usually behaves kindly, once you get to know him for a long time, you will feel something strange, as if Schiller is just imitating humans. No matter which personality comes out, it will give people this feeling. It is difficult to hide the inhumanity of Schiller.
The character played by Mephisto is a completely ordinary person in both appearance and temperament, with absolutely no flaws. No one can tell that the devil is actually under this human skin.
Schiller really didn't want to admit that even the devil played him more like a human than he did. So the more he watched Mephisto play himself, the more he disliked him. It just shows that your acting is good, right?
Schiller stood under the shade of the tree, listening to Danny asking Mephisto about the situation in the sanatorium. Mephisto even made up a story:
"…The last time a paranormal phenomenon occurred was last night. It was probably in an empty room on the second floor. There was a very loud 'bang' and everyone in the building heard it. When a nurse went to check on the situation, she said that a dark shadow floated out of the window."
"Wait," Danny interrupted him, "a dark figure? Any more specific features? What did the security camera capture?"
"The surveillance camera didn't capture anything," Mephisto shook his head and said, "I wasn't there at the time, and I didn't find anything when I checked the surveillance camera afterwards. But the nurse is also a veteran employee of the hospital, and she assured me solemnly that she definitely saw something."
"Did she describe any other feelings? Like, did she feel hot or cold? Did she feel dizzy or uneasy?"
"I'm not sure about that. You can ask her later. By the way, Ellie and Nelson who live on the same floor also heard the noise. You can go ask them too."
"Okay," Danny nodded and said, "Since paranormal phenomena usually occur at night, let's spend the night here. You said that the sound was heard in an empty room last night, so let's go there. If there is anything unusual, we will be able to discover and resolve it immediately."
Mephisto nodded and led them into the sanatorium. Schiller breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the sanatorium's clean and new decoration.
Luckily, Mephisto was a decent man and blew up his house before he came up. Otherwise, he would not have been able to settle the score without leaving behind eight or ten Ghost Riders!