"Sit down." Schiller, who was sitting in the main seat, tilted his head and pointed to the seat on the left with his eyes. Although Bruce walked over, his body language still seemed a bit stiff, but he was not the only one who was nervous. Greedy Schiller sat in the chair on the right and stared at Bruce closely.
"What are you doing here?" Greedy asked.
"He came to complain."
"I'm not here to complain." Two voices sounded at the same time, and then Schiller's deep laughter came.
Bruce turned his head and looked at Schiller, who was sitting in the main seat. The colorful suit and tie were the most recognizable features. This sick Schiller seemed to like dressing up, but this was not surprising.
Bruce has read in books about criminal psychology that the vast majority of serial killers have a certain degree of narcissism. They appreciate themselves, love themselves, and think that they have unparalleled beauty. They use it like birds in the courtship period. Dressing oneself up with bright feathers is a behavior that does not distinguish between men and women, nor does it distinguish between ages.
But in essence, they are not dressing up, but camouflaging traps, waiting for prey to be attracted by the bright colors and jump into their mouths unsuspectingly.
All living things have the instinct to appreciate beauty. Beautiful things tend to make people relax their vigilance. The idea of appreciating beauty can also squeeze their reason, making it easier for people to ignore traps.
Although Bruce had sounded the alarm in his heart ten thousand times, when he saw Sick Schiller for the first time, he still sighed in his heart that the dark blue suit suited him very well, and so did the white sideburns.
"Well, you're not here to complain." Illness agreed with Bruce's words without any rebuttal, but this made Bruce's hair stand on end, because Illness continued: "But when you hear other people complaining about your teacher , why don't you feel angry?" Bruce lowered his head slowly, but quickly raised his head again, looked at the sick face, and bared his teeth.
He laughed sickly and lowly and said, "Okay, I didn't mean to suppress you...but you still felt guilty just now, right?"
"Let's get down to business." Greed looked very impatient. He stared at Bruce's face and said, "Arrogance and I are the same person. What's wrong with me complaining about him? But you, you and Arrogance are also the same. If not You, his work and rest can be half normal!"
"Lucifer called me last night." Bruce readjusted his emotions and said, "He said that Schiller's schedule has been completely messed up, or in other words, he can no longer talk about his schedule because he No sleep at all.”
"I know that this professor's schedule was not normal when he was in Gotham. He slept very late and never took a nap, but this was still within the acceptable range, but now it is a bit too much."
"Victor also called me and said that Schiller went to treat Constantine again, causing him to almost become a vegetarian. His condition has not improved at all, and may have gotten worse." Bruce's tone revealed With a trace of worry, Ill asked while cutting the food on the plate: "Why do you think this is?" Bruce pointed his chin with his fingertips and said: "I suspect that the change in living environment may have caused him to fall into this trap again. anxiety."
"I know that most autistic patients follow a regular life. They have an almost obsessive-compulsive obsession with regular things in life, ranging from what they do every day to what time they brush their teeth in the morning. It is best to have them. There is a certain pattern, which is the source of their sense of security.”
"But after the incident of Broccoli Coming to Gotham, Schiller's life pattern changed a lot. He went from Gotham University to Arkham Asylum, then to Florence Prison in Denver, and then to Beach City. Such frequent life changes may easily make him nervous." Bruce made as rigorous an inference as possible, but Illness did not confirm or deny him. He just asked: "So, do you think this is just a temporary Anxiety?"
"I know that in addition to anxiety, his long-term mental condition is not optimistic, but if you want to alleviate this situation, you have to solve the short-term anxiety first, right?"
"The problem is, this is not a short-term anxiety." Greedy said: "He is indeed mentally unstable because his life routine has been changed, but it is not because of a change of living environment. We are not as fragile as you think." Bruce frowned and asked in confusion, "What's that for?"
"Because of you." Illness raised his eyelids, looked at Bruce from above his eyes, then retracted his gaze and continued to look at the food on the plate and said: "We and you can see that you are about to be cured, Arrogant As your teacher, of course I can feel it."
"A baby bird that has been toddling and falling off the cliff many times is finally leaving the nest successfully. This not only means that you will fly to a new sky, but also means that Schiller's life stage has changed." Bruce's Adam's apple moved. For a moment, he didn't know what the expression was on his face, but for some reason, looking at the two familiar faces in front of him, he felt very strange. He didn't know that he had such meticulous observation skills, and he could actually see these completely consistent faces. There are hundreds of differences among the five senses.
Illness did not shy away from anything. He said directly: "Since Schiller came to this world, he has been trying to teach and treat you. Although it was only because of a special curse in the universe at first, it is this semi-forced The binding has changed the rules of life he recognized."
"In the following years, teaching, healing and trying to change you became a part of his life. Yes, this process may be painful, but in fact you both gained a sense of security from it, didn't you?" Ill sighed softly. He took a breath and said: "But now, the end of the stable life is just around the corner. It's like you are walking on a road, but someone keeps reminding you that there is a cliff in front of you. You know that you will definitely fall, but you don't know that you will fall. At which step will I fall?" Bruce pursed his lips. Just the scene described by Morbidity made him feel anxious. The most terrifying thing was not
The fact that "it will definitely fall" is the tug-of-war between the hope brought by luck and the self-destruction brought by the destined bad ending when taking the next step, which is the so-called
"Spiritual internal friction".
"The overwork you see Arrogant doing, including looking for things to do, working non-stop, and staying up late every day, are actually him forcing himself to adapt to the upcoming changes in advance."
"He feels that he must find more things to do for himself in order to cope with the upcoming situation of missing a corner of his life. We generally call this - retirement syndrome." There was a smile in the sick tone: "That's how human beings are. It’s strange, I want to take a vacation when I’m busy, and I want to keep myself busy even though I’m completely retired.”
"Essentially, when realizing social value, I want to find myself. I have time to find myself, but I feel that I have not realized social value." Greedy commented: "I want social recognition and self-identity at the same time, so I said, Human nature is greed."
"And, have you ever thought about why in the past few years, others don't seem to understand you very much, and don't care much about Schiller's mental illness?" Ill looked at Bruce and asked.
Bruce's eyebrows wrinkled slightly. For the first time since he came to this room, he looked directly at Illness. It seemed that he wanted to get an answer. Illness took a sip of red wine and said: Ao
"When you were not cured, he put all his energy on you, but now that you are about to be cured, he can't destroy the fruits of his own labor, so he can only torture someone else."
"So Victor, Constantine, and Lucifer all became victims. The essence is that Schiller spread the energy of torturing you to other people, so they suddenly realized at the same time that Schiller was a mental patient. ." Bruce showed a complicated expression. He didn't even know how to evaluate it. He was amazed at Schiller's power and wanted to take schadenfreude, but also thought that he was the most unlucky of all unlucky people, so he laughed. Not coming out.
"Everyone thought that it was the mutual torture between Schiller and I that caused his mental state to be so unstable, but now it seems that it is just the opposite." Bruce said thoughtfully.
"The description of 'mutual torture' is also open to question." Greedy rolled his eyes and said, "Arrogance didn't let us fill the hole in the ground on the first floor of the tower, just so that you can go to the dream world to sleep."
"So, what are you going to do?" Ill asked with interest.
"Originally we had a plan, but it was more traditional." Bruce gently touched his cheek with his hand, then supported his temple with his fingers and said: "To put it simply, control him first, and then find a place for him to rest and relax. Treatment is the method used to treat ordinary mental patients." Before the other two people could speak, Bruce explained: "Others don't know much about psychology. Clark and Diana both thought that it would be better to find a place Recuperation in a good environment is the solution to all mental illnesses.”
"In a sense, it is true." Greedy said: "But the premise is that a good environment not only refers to a good natural environment, but also a humanistic environment that makes patients feel comfortable and relaxed. The environment can bring benefits to patients. Only with a sense of security can therapy be effective.”
"The arrogant sense of security comes from a regular life, but it is inevitable that the rules will be broken, so I'm afraid I need to recuperate..."
"Wait a minute." Bruce suddenly said: "Is it inevitable that the rules will be broken? Is it really inevitable?"
"What do you want to say?" Greedy narrowed his eyes and looked at Bruce and said, "Do you still want to go back to the days when you and he tortured each other? But with all due respect, I'm afraid it's not realistic for you to pretend to be crazy in front of your arrogance. , He knows Batman too well." But Bruce slowly opened his eyes wide, looked at Greedy with a look that was a little bright in the dark room, and said: "But... there is more than one Batman." Then, a low laughter sounded in the empty room. When Bruce woke up from his dream, the words of sick Schiller were still echoing in his ears: "It seems that you have indeed been cured." Bruce sat up from the bed. When he got up, Clark, who was swinging the toolbox next to him, turned to look at him and said, "Are you awake? How did you sleep?" Bruce didn't answer, but just got out of bed at a very fast speed, rushed out of the room, and strode away. He entered the only room with a telephone in the village, dialed the number, picked up the receiver, and said to the other side: "Hello? Professor Victor, I have found a way to treat Schiller, but I have to ask you to help me find it." one person."
"Looking for someone? Who?"
"Pamela Eisley."
