Then Eddie saw that Schiller had put four fingers inside the four small umbrellas and began to move the origami toy.

Looking at the shape of the origami toy, Eddie paused, then suddenly realized, and said to Venom in his heart:

"Do you remember, I asked you before, why did the psychiatrist hired by S.H.I.E.L.D. carry an umbrella even when it rains?"

Venom recalled, then said, "Isn't that because S.H.I.E.L.D.'s smoke alarms often fail?"

Eddie touched his chin and said, "Maybe there's a reason......

"But before, in the special children's education institution, their teachers told me that when faced with autistic children whose sensory integration training is not very effective, they often take a special way to help him build up his spiritual support, that is, to give him a familiar object."

"I don't know much about the specific principle, but it seems to mean that if a child with autism builds his sense of security on a certain object, as long as he gets this object, he can feel his mind relax and reduce the probability of him losing control."

"A series of experiments have proved that when these children have familiar objects, their communication efficiency with teachers and emotional expression efficiency are improved."

"As long as he is trained and treated when he is in possession of familiar objects, the effect will be multiplied, and when he gradually walks out of the autistic world, he will gradually get rid of his dependence on objects and return to normal life."

Eddie, a good journalist with a very strong memory, frowned and repeated what his teacher had said to him at the time:

「…… It's amazing how these ignorant children, like children who are not in the same world as us, often knock on the door of this world, as if they are asking us for help."

"There are a lot of children who find something they know by themselves, it's like pushing open a door for us to reach them."

"They reached out to us, and what we had to do was hold their hand and lead them to a new and wonderful world."

Venom also fell silent, and what seemed to be the sensual part he had inherited from other hosts began to work, and he spoke:

"Maybe that's really the case? Maybe they really have a world that we don't know about, and in that world, they are normal people living their own lives......

"And one day, they came across a door, so they knocked on it curiously, and they met us......

Eddie looked at the origami toy in Schiller's hand and said:

"The umbrella is Schiller's familiar object, no, maybe this thing is, the umbrella just kind of resembles it."

Eddie leaned closer, looked at the origami toy and said, "I've never seen this way of origami, when I was a kid, my dad would teach me to fold rabbits or frogs, but the most folded paper airplanes were, and we would throw them farther than anyone else."

Eddie stared at Schiller's rather regular movements and said, "The articulation of this origami toy is obviously much higher than that of a frog or a rabbit, and the play is also very peculiar, and it looks very regular."

"I remember being told by a teacher at a special school that repetitive and regular exercise would be more popular with children with autism."

"The most common exercise that the teachers lead these children to do is the step squat, which is to take a step, squat, take another step, squat again......

"Some children are not only able to walk around the playground one lap, but even squat at the same distance with each step, they are very talented......

Eddie looked up at Schiller again and said, "...... And so he is."

"So what do we do? Just watch him play here? …… Hey, I said, why don't you find a piece of paper, I think it's fun." Venom said in Eddie's head.

"Don't make a fuss, we have to think about how we can help Dr. Schiller, I've heard he's a very good doctor......

Schiller stood still, opening and closing his hands from east to west, north and south, and although he stood motionless, it was observable that the tremor of his arms had lessened, and his breathing rate had recovered slightly.

As a journalist, Eddie is also very observant, and can keenly sense the changes in the emotions of the interviewees, and then adopt different strategies to force the answers he wants.

Seeing that Schiller's condition had improved, Eddie did not touch the toy in his hand, but reached out and grabbed the corner of Schiller's coat and slowly dragged him forward, saying as he walked, "Yes, come here, Schiller, come here...... Go this way......

Schiller's attention was only on the origami toy, and he followed Eddie to the couch and sat down.

Then, Schiller was there to play with origami toys for three hours, and looking behind him, Eddie came over with a dirty laundry basket, Venom pushed the mop and walked over, Venom walked over with a slime tugging Eddie's neck, and Eddie dragging a large ball of slime.

As night fell, the room became quieter, and Schiller's movements slowed down, and he began to touch his eyes frequently, inhaling constantly.

After finishing his chores, Eddie went over to the couch and sat down, and said, "Are you hungry? I ordered a takeout ......."

As soon as he said this, the doorbell rang, and when the "ding dong" sounded, Eddie could clearly feel that Schiller was shaking.

He immediately stretched out his hand to reassure Schiller, then walked slowly, moved sideways to the door, and went to take the takeaway.

It was at this point that Schiller began to disassemble the origami toys until he restored them to a piece of candy wrapper, which he put in the pocket of his pants.

As he ate, Schiller looked at Edwin as if he had suddenly returned to normal, "Why didn't you move back to Manhattan? If you're still here, you're not short of money, right?"

Eddie opened his portion of Chinese fried noodles and said, "I quit my job and don't plan to work as editor-in-chief anymore."

"Why?" Schiller asked.

"It's true that the editor-in-chief is quite relaxed, the salary is high, and there are no performance requirements." Eddie shook his head and said, "But that's not what I want to do."

"When I was studying, I dreamed of becoming the best journalist in the world, but when I entered the workplace, I realized that a journalist is not a messenger of justice who exposes evil.

Eddie gulped down the noodles and said vaguely, "On my way to becoming a well-known journalist, there are a lot of unconscionable things."

"I admit it. This is just to make money, and I admit that I made a lot of black money, but later, when facing the case of the Life Foundation, I realized that there is some money that I still can't earn."

"I didn't expect that my momentary hot-headedness would change my life, and I met this black parasite, and there were many interesting people......

Eddie's body suddenly trembled, and it looked like Venom was fighting him for control of his body.

"I changed to a more casual job, saved a lot of money, and even saved up for a down payment on a house in New York because of the platform for certain properties."

"But the Life Foundation case made me realize one thing......" Eddie wiped his mouth, took a sip of his wine, and said, "I don't know, you don't remember. At that time, the Life Foundation caught homeless people for experiments......

"What makes me very puzzled is that this is not a big deal? With so many missing people, not many people are aware that they are missing?!"

Eddie shook his head, as if he was very helpless, and said, "No newspaper pays attention to this, because these homeless people have nothing to photograph, and everyone knows what these neighborhoods are like, and people in other neighborhoods will only feel bad when they see it......

"At the time, I had to move here because I didn't have any money, but after living here for a while, I found that the news here is also quite interesting."

"There are no superheroes, no grand and dreamy technological developments, just a bunch of laypeople like me."

Eddie took a sip of a cold beer and said, "I quit my job as editor-in-chief because I still had a lot of savings, and I started digging up news from these poor communities here."

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Di smiled wryly and said, "I don't think anyone will be willing to accept the news unless I open my own TV station, so I should just have fun with myself."

When his voice fell, he found out. Schiller had finished the remaining two bottles of cold beer, and Eddie shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, doctor. I didn't expect you to be so drinkable, but I didn't order too much wine, and the drinks in Chinese restaurants are too expensive to be cost-effective."

After that, Eddie began to clean up the takeaway box on the table, and as he cleaned up, he talked about the situation here, saying, "Although I used to like to eat Chinese food occasionally, it was always going to high-end restaurants, and I almost never ate fried rice or fried noodles."

"Here, however, the cheap food in Chinese restaurants is widely welcomed, because only this group of restaurant owners dare to deliver food to poor neighborhoods after 9 o'clock, not afraid of the hermits who roam the streets and may get out of control at any time, and the gangsters who may rob their homes...... They want money, not their lives."

"Plus, although their drinks are a bit more expensive, the staple food is a lot of food and tastes good, and the food without cheese is cold and tastes good, if the pizza is at this temperature, it won't be able to eat."

Eddie took out a toothpick, shaved his teeth, and then expertly stacked the takeout boxes together, stuffed them into the bag, tied them in a dead knot, and placed them on the table at the door.

"How long can I stay here?" Schiller asked.

"You can stay as long as you want." Eddie said nonchalantly, "Anyway, you're much better than Thor, when Thor lived next door to me, Venom shouted that he was allergic every day, and when you came, Venom was much quieter."

As soon as he said this, Eddie heard a "bang" knock on his door, and he immediately showed a wary look, walked to the door, found a pistol in the corner of the shoe cabinet, leaned sideways against the door, and looked into the cat's eye.

He was stunned for a moment when he saw the face in the cat's eyes, then put away his pistol, opened the door, looked at the blonde man outside the door and said, "Thor, why are you here?"

Outside the door, Thor was dressed in human clothes, wearing a watch, and even carrying a couple of gift bags, rubbing his hands together in some embarrassment, and said, "That...... Well...... Eddie, long time no see, it's ...... Can I borrow it from you for a while?"

Before Eddie could speak, venom burst out of his body, and a black head poked out of Eddie's back, grinning, and said to Thor, "Get out! The mentally handicapped are not welcome here!"

Unexpectedly, as if he had expected such a situation, Thor raised the gift bag in his hand and said, "Really? If I'm gone, I'll have to take this special dessert from Asgard back and give it to the goddesses."

Venom's head slowly poked out again, staring at the bag and saying, "Asgard has a specialty dessert? Don't you only have steaks and grilled fish?"

Torin snorted and said, "Narrow-minded! It's too narrow!"

"Asgard has a long history, so how can it not have a unique dessert? …… Well, don't look at me like that, it's a Norwegian specialty, apple pie and syrup biscuits, I just flew to Norway and bought them, if you don't eat them, I'll leave."

Thor turned around and wanted to leave, and in the next second, black slime gushed out, swallowing all the gift bags in one gulp, Thor and Eddie exclaimed at the same time, and Venom burped and said:

"It tastes good...... Come in."