"Sit down." Schiller, who was sitting in the main seat, turned his head and pointed to the seat on the left with his eyes, although Bruce walked over, his body language still seemed a little stiff, but he was not the only one who was nervous, greedy Schiller sat on the chair on the right and stared at Bruce tightly.

"What are you doing here?" Greed asked.

"He's here to sue."

"I'm not here to sue." Both voices rang out at the same time, and then Schiller's low laugh came.

Bruce turned his head to look at Schiller, who was seated in the main seat, the most recognizable feature was the colorful suit and tie, this sick Schiller seemed to like to dress himself, but this was not surprising.

Bruce has read in books about criminal psychology that the vast majority of serial killers have a certain narcissistic complex, they appreciate themselves, they love themselves, they think they have unparalleled beauty, and they will dress themselves with bright feathers like birds during courtship, regardless of gender, regardless of age.

But in essence, they are not dressing themselves, but camouflage traps, waiting for their prey to be attracted to bright colors and jump into their mouths unsuspectingly.

All living beings have an instinct to appreciate beauty, and beautiful things can easily make people let their guard down, and the thought of appreciating beauty can also squeeze the reason, making it easier for people to ignore the traps.

Even though Bruce had sounded the alarm bell 10,000 times in his heart, he sighed in his heart at the first sight of sick Schiller, a dark blue suit suited him well, as did his white sideburns.

"Well, you're not here to sue." Pathological agreed with Bruce almost without any rebuttal, but it made Bruce's hair stand on end, as Pathology continued, "But why don't you feel anger when you hear others complain about your teacher?" Bruce lowered his head slowly, but quickly looked up again, looked at the sickly face, and bared his teeth.

He laughed sickly and said in a low voice, "Well, I didn't mean to suppress you...... But you're still feeling guilty, right? ”

"Let's get down to business." Greed looked impatient, he stared at Bruce's face and said, "I'm the same person with Hubris, what's wrong with me complaining about him?" It's you, you're in the same league with arrogance, and if it weren't for you, his routine would be half as normal! "Huh

"Lucifer called me last night." Bruce readjusted his emotions and said, "He said that Schiller's routine was completely disrupted, or rather, he couldn't talk about it anymore because he didn't sleep at all." ”

"I know that when the professor was in Gotham, he didn't have a normal routine, he slept late and never took a nap, but it was acceptable, but now it's a bit too much."

"Victor also called me and said that Schiller had gone to treat Konstantin again, causing him to almost become a vegetarian, and that his condition was not getting any better, and that it might have worsened." There was a hint of concern in Bruce's tone, and he sickly slipped through the food on the plate and asked, "Why do you think that?" Bruce tapped his fingertips to his chin and said, "I suspect that the change in life circumstances may have caused him to fall into anxiety again." ”

"I know that most people with autism follow a regular life, and they have an almost obsessive-compulsive attachment to the regular things in their lives, from what they do every day to what time they brush their teeth in the morning, and it is best to have a certain routine, which is the source of their sense of security."

"But after the broccoli came to Gotham, Schiller's life changed a lot, he went from Gotham University to Arkham Asylum, then to Denver's Florence Prison, and then to Seaside City, such frequent life changes may easily make him nervous." Bruce made as rigorous an inference as he could, but Pathology did not affirm or deny him, but only asked, "So, 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, you always have to deal with short-term anxiety first, right?"

"The thing is, it's not a short-term anxiety." Greed said: "It is true that his mental state is unstable because of the change of life rules, but it is not because of the change of environment, we are not as fragile as you think. Bruce frowned, and he asked with some confusion, "What's the reason for that?" ”

"Because of you." Sickly raised his eyelids, looked at Bruce from above his eyes, and then withdrew 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, and arrogance as your teacher can certainly feel it." "Huh

"When a young bird, which has been a toddler and repeatedly falls off a cliff, is finally leaving the nest, it not only means that you will fly to new skies, but also that Schiller's life stage will change." Bruce's Adam's apple moved, he didn't know what the expression on his face was, but for some reason, looking at the two familiar faces in front of him, he felt very unfamiliar, he didn't know that he had such a detailed observation, and he could see hundreds of differences from these completely identical facial features.

Pathology did not shy away from it, he said directly: "Since Schiller came to this world, he has been trying to teach and treat you, although at first it was only because of some special curse in the universe, but it is this semi-forced binding that has changed the laws of life that he recognizes. ”

"In the years that followed, teaching to heal and trying to change you became a part of his life, yes, it can be painful, but you both feel safe from it, don't you?" Sickly sighed softly and said: "But now, the end of a stable life is just around the corner, as if you are walking on a road, but someone keeps reminding you that there is a cliff in front of you, and you know that you will definitely fall, but you don't know which step you will fall." Bruce pursed his lips, just the morbid description of the scene made him feel anxious, and the most terrible thing was not

The fact that "it will definitely fall" is the so-called tug-of-war between the hope brought by luck and the self-abandonment brought by the doomed bad ending when the next step is taken

"Mental internal friction".

"The overwork that you see with arrogance is going on, including having nothing to do, not stopping, staying up late every day, is actually forcing himself to adapt to the changes that are coming."

"He felt that he had to find something to do to cope with the upcoming missing corner of his life, which we often call retirement syndrome." There was a smile in his morbid tone: "Human beings are so strange, they want to take a vacation when they are busy, and they want to retire completely, but they want to keep themselves busy." ”

"In essence, when you realize social value, you want to find yourself, and when you have time to find yourself, you feel that you have not realized social value." Greed commented: "I want social identity and I want self-identity, so I say that the essence of human beings is greed. ”

"And have you ever wondered why other people don't seem to understand you very well and don't care much about Schiller's mental illness over the past few years?" Sickly looked at Bruce and asked.

Bruce's eyebrows furrowed slightly, for the first time since he came to this room, he looked directly at the sickly, as if he wanted to get an answer, and the sickly took a sip of red wine and said, "Huh."

"When you weren't cured, he put all his energy on you, but now that you're about to be cured, he can't destroy the fruits of his labor, so he can only be tortured by substitution."

"So Victor, Constantine, and Lucifer all became victims, and the essence of this is that Schiller scattered his energy to torture you to other people, so they suddenly realized at the same time that Schiller was a psychopath." Bruce had a complicated expression, and he didn't even know what to say, marveling at the power of Schiller, wanting to gloat, and thinking that he was the unlucky of all the unlucky ones, and he couldn't laugh.

"Everyone thought that it was me and Schiller's mutual torment that caused his mental state to be so unstable, but now it seems that the opposite is true." Bruce said thoughtfully.

"The term 'torturing each other' is also debatable." Greed rolled his eyes and said, "Arrogance didn't let us fill in the hole in the ground on the first floor of the tower, just so that you could go to the dream world to sleep." ”

"So, what are you going to do?" Sickly asked with interest.

"Originally, we had a plan, but it was more traditional." Bruce gently touched his cheek with his hand, then supported his temples with his fingers and said, "To put it simply, it is to control him first, and then find a place for him to rest and heal, which is the kind of method for treating the average mentally ill." Before the other two could speak, Bruce explained: "The others don't know much about psychology, and both Clark and Diana think that finding a good place to recuperate is the solution to all mental illnesses." ”

"In a sense, that's right." Greed said: "But the premise is that the environment is not only good for the natural environment, but also for the human environment that makes the patient feel comfortable and relaxed, and the environment can bring the patient a sense of security, and the recuperation can be effective." ”

"The sense of arrogance comes from a regular life, but it is inevitable that the rules will be broken, so I am afraid that the recuperation ......"

"Wait." Bruce suddenly said up: "Is it inevitable that the law will be broken? Is it really inevitable? ”

"What do you want to say?" Greed narrowed his eyes and looked at Bruce and said, "Do you want to go back to the days when you tortured each other with him?" But with all due respect, if you want to play crazy in front of arrogance, I'm afraid it's not realistic, he knows Batman too well. But Bruce's eyes slowly widened, and with a look that shone a little in the dim room, he looked at greed and said, "But...... There's more to Batman than just that. Then a low laugh rang out in the empty room, and when Bruce woke up from his dream, the sickly words of Schiller echoed in his ears: "It seems that you have indeed been cured." Bruce sat up from the bed, and Clarke, 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 rolled over and got out of bed at great speed, rushed out of the room, strode into the only room in the village with a telephone, dialed the number, picked up the receiver, and said to the other side, "Hello? Professor Victor, I've found a cure for Schiller, but I'll have to ask you to find someone for me. ”

"Looking for someone? Who? ”

"Pamela Eisley." Whoa