Stark, who was standing by the door, was stunned for a moment, and for a moment, he didn't realize what the logic of Schiller's behavior was.

Hiding in the closet for fear of outsiders? But when the two of them came in, the young Schiller did not stop him, and if he was afraid, he could not have opened the door to them at all.

Stark paused, and then walked into the bedroom, which was a very small bedroom, and the bed in the bedroom was a crib, and it seemed that the young Schiller had not been sleeping alone in this room for a long time, and he should have just slept on his own from his mother.

Stark walked around the cot to the front of the closet, and he gently pushed the door, finding that it was completely still.

He put his finger in the crack of the cabinet door and tried to pull it open, but the door still didn't move, Stark took a few steps back again, and looked at the closet.

It was a huge solid wood wardrobe, which looked like a handicraft product of the previous era, and some cartoon stickers were pasted on the doors, and the height should have been pasted by the young Schiller.

Stark looked left and right, and found that the gap in the cabinet door was actually very small, and it was pitch black in the cabinet, if it wasn't for standing at a certain angle and under a specific light, he couldn't see Schiller in the cabinet at all, plus Schiller didn't move at all, it was difficult to find that there was a child in the cabinet.

After observing for a long time, there was no other clue Stark could only crouch down and align his gaze with Schiller in the cabinet, and the two looked at each other through the narrow gap in the middle of the cabinet door.

At this time, Stark noticed that Schiller's eyes were not looking at him, but had been staring at the place where he had been standing, Stark stood up, took two steps back, turned around and walked to the bedroom door, and looked at the place where he was standing, there was nothing unusual there.

Steve also walked over, and the two of them stood by the bedroom door, and they could see Schiller's eyes, and Steve looked back at the living room and said, "He may be looking through the door into the living room." ”

Hearing this, Stark walked quickly to the living room, looked back to confirm the direction of Schiller's gaze, and then took a step forward and stood next to the sofa.

He found that Schiller's eyes seemed to fall on the sofa, Stark rummaged through the sofa, and found nothing unusual, just as he moved the sofa, the carpet in front of the sofa was wrinkled, and Steve, who came over, shrugged his nose and said:

"Do you smell it? It smells of blood......"

Stark stood up, looked around him, and then his gaze fell on the folds of the curved carpet, he took a deep breath, as if he had some premonition, and after Steve moved the coffee table, Stark lifted the carpet.

There's blood down there.

The carpet, which looked completely unproblematic on the surface, was lifted to reveal a large round dark stain of blood underneath, which looked like it had dried up for a long time, but still smelled.

In an instant, Stark turned his head and landed his gaze on the group photo of a family of three that he casually put aside.

He picked up the frame, pressed his fingers against the photograph, his knuckles slightly white, and it was obvious that the answer he had deduced made him feel a little suffocated.

Steve looked down at the bloodstain, then turned to Schiller, who was hiding in the cabinet, he turned and walked back to the bedroom, then crouched in front of the cabinet, looked at the young Schiller through the gap, and said:

"Don't be afraid, we're not bad guys, can you open the door? We'll protect your ......."

Young Schiller didn't answer, and didn't put his eyes on his face, just kept staring at that point, as if he was looking at something intently, Steve took a deep breath, he heard footsteps behind him turn his head, and a somewhat pale Stark appeared behind him.

The two of them came to the bedroom door, and Stark held the picture frame in his hand, and said:

"This is Schiller's world of consciousness, and everything that exists here is actually an 'image', that is, they all represent a certain memory of Schiller.

"After I first entered the temple of the mind and toured here, I tried to develop my consciousness space, so I understood that something that exists in the consciousness space is not what it seems on the surface, but symbolic."

Steve turned his head to look at the pool of blood under the carpet, and said, "I'm pretty sure it's human blood, but the blood that comes out of any human doesn't show such a regular circle, and it happens to be blocked by the carpet, which may indicate ......"

Steve's tone was low: "...... There was a tragedy here. ”

"In the psychology books I have read, it has been mentioned that when people remember something, they will instinctively grasp the stimulus, perhaps, Schiller, who once witnessed a tragedy, was stimulated by the blood and the smell of blood, so the image of this tragedy in his memory is the blood under the carpet."

Stark sighed and said, "Based on the existing clues, we can probably deduce what happened to Schiller's childhood......"

"The medical records in his parents' bedroom show that Schiller suffers from autism, and although the specific type of autism spectrum is not written on those sheets of paper, his parents detected his condition early on and actively treated him."

"Schiller had been trained for a long period of time, for at least two years, and by the end of the training he had almost recovered, at least regaining most of his language skills."

"But, perhaps, in the month that the medical records were interrupted......" Stark pursed his lips, his tone slowing down, sounding like he didn't want to continue:

"His parents may have been killed."

Stark turned his head and glanced at the young Schiller, who was still hiding in the cabinet and peering through the cracks in the cabinet door, and said: "His parents are professionally trained, and they can't wait for the other party to rush into the house to find out about the anomaly, and they may already know that there is no way back when the other party comes downstairs or rushes into the hallway." ”

"What would you do if you were Schiller's parents?" Stark looked at Steve and asked, Steve's face was also very gloomy, and he said:

"I will definitely protect my children as soon as possible."

"Perhaps, his parents did the same......" Stark lowered his head, the voice that could not be lower echoed through the room like a dull twilight drum.

"They'll let him hide, hide in the biggest closet in the house, and more importantly, ......"

Stark said this, his tone was already mixed with a trace of empathy and painful gasp, he and Steve were both staring at the gap in the closet, and between the changes in the light of the approaching night, they seemed to see the mother who appeared in the photo of the three of them squatting outside the cabinet, looking at his child through the gap, and let out a near-death cry:

"Don't speak! Don't be silent! Don't make any noise, don't respond to whatever you hear......"

And the children who have just received language enlightenment and can express their magnificent inner world through words have returned to the silent world that has no door to the outside world.

Steve covered his face and sat down against the doorframe of his bedroom wall, as before, when such details were presented to him, it was far more brutal than listening to a story.

"Dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality disorder, often splits into the first personality to escape some reality that they don't want to face, and I think that's probably why Schiller splits another personality to escape the trauma of childhood......"

Stark's tone became calmer instead, he reached out and pulled Steve up, and said, "Don't stop here, we have to find Schiller, whatever happened to him, I think we can treat him, like ...... He used to treat us the same. ”

Stark was in front and Steve was behind, and the two walked out of the room, and after returning to the hallway, the two of them still couldn't calm down for a long time.

In their impression, although Schiller has a poisonous tongue, asks for money, is a riddler, is not a big deal to watch the excitement, and has a bottomless moral bottom line, he is still a relatively cheerful person, and in the process of getting along with them, everyone talks and laughs together, and they don't feel anything special.

But many times, there is a comparison before it hurts, Stark's parents suffered an accidental death, he felt very miserable, when he learned that his parents were killed by Steve's old teammate The Winter Soldier, he felt even more miserable, but he now feels that Howard has been with him for a while, although he often drinks heavily, but when he is sober, he is still a good father.

And the young Schiller they just met was very young, and he could barely speak because of autism, which means that he probably didn't even say a few words to his parents, who were already murdered.

Moreover, Stark felt that he had not faced the scene of his parents' deaths, otherwise, he didn't know if he would have used a split personality to escape reality like Schiller.

Thinking of this, Stark quickened his pace, he came to the stairs, and then looked up, the floor above was still quiet.

Stark and Steve went to the second floor, where there were very few rooms, and none of them could be opened, Stark looked at one of the doorknobs and said, "Did you find out?" If the door handle and lock are special, then there may be someone inside, and this ......"

Stark looked at the doorknob, it was a very ordinary spherical doorknob, exactly the same as the handles of the two doors they had seen before, Stark shook his head and said, "There may not be Schiller's personality in this, it may be a place where he stored other things." ”

"In other words, we have to find a special place for the doorknob to possibly find the rest of his personality?"

"That's right, you go up to the third floor, I'll go up to the fourth floor, and we won't meet until we find a special doorknob."

After speaking, the two began to act separately, Steve was in charge of the odd floor, Stark was in charge of the even floor, the two searched like this for a long time, and finally, Stark found a special place on the tenth floor, he stood next to the railing of the patio and beckoned to Steve downstairs:

"Come here! There's a very special place here, come here,

Steve hurried up to Stark, and together they looked up at the sign on the door, which read three large letters:

"Madhouse".