In the wealthy town of New York, the sky is always exceptionally blue, without the light pollution of glass buildings, and the low-rise villas with rich colors are complemented by luxuriant shrubs and brilliant blooming flowers.

The activity room of Arkham Sanatorium is a separate building, with a whole hall on the first floor and a second floor on the first floor, except for a glass-floored attic on the far right, with two streamlined single chairs and a modernist coffee table.

Schiller, who was sitting on one side of the chair, looked at the transcript in his hand and said, "Mr. Bullock, please forgive me for calling you by such an unfamiliar name, but we are talking about mental health now, and I want to avoid personal relationships as much as possible." ”

"It's a pity that Dr. Owen did the most basic psychological examination for you, and Miss Lorde's comprehensive psychological state assessment report shows that your current state is indeed not good, can you tell me what's wrong with you?"

Eddie Bullock, who sat in the other chair, did look haggard, he was wearing a somewhat gray dark blue plaid shirt and a black leather jacket, his hair was messy, and his face was full of uncleaned beard, which was almost spreading to his neck.

Although he looked like a homeless man, the black-rimmed glasses on his face reminded others that he was a journalist who worked as a clerical worker, but his tanned complexion became inexplicable again.

"Mr. Bullock, I don't think the ultraviolet magnification effect of the newspaper windows is so obvious, or is it something that happened to you when you went on a beach vacation?" Seeing that Eddie was silent and did not answer, Schiller asked again.

"I resigned."

Eddie's voice was hoarse when he spoke, he closed his eyes, swallowed again, swallowed the disgusting taste of alcohol in his mouth, and said, "I had a little conflict with my immediate boss, and I quit my job to prevent Venom from hurting him." ”

Schiller raised his eyebrows slightly, showed a clear expression, nodded and said, "It seems that you haven't completely lost your mind, I mean, your immediate boss's head should still be on his head, right?" ”

"Venom wants to eat him." Eddie's face was pained, and he continued in a somewhat trembling tone, "I tried my best to stop him, which is why I am so tired. ”

"Venom believes that the editor-in-chief of the newspaper is an evil bad guy because he describes the people at the bottom who protest against the shuttle operation as fools with no brains, and that their violent protests are terrorist attacks."

"The neighborhood where I live is not a middle-class community, there are too many unemployed, displaced people and out-of-towners, who used to eat by the bus system, but now they have no jobs, they have to take to the streets to protest, but no one pays attention to them, they are trying to destroy the shuttle transport line."

"Venom felt that the editor-in-chief wanted to cover the people's mouths, to prevent them from speaking out, and wanted to oppress them, so his solution was to eat the editor-in-chief, and I stopped him, and he felt that I had betrayed him."

Eddie covered his eyes with his hand and said, "But the editor-in-chief is not wrong, it is precisely because I live among them that I know that someone is deliberately leading them to vent their emotions, leading them to smash and rob, and even to make the shuttle fall and kill the person riding the shuttle." ”

"Some people want to provoke contradictions, let the two sides fight for blood, and then take the opportunity to profit, whether it is these protesting low-level people, or the editor-in-chief who accuses them, they are just intensifying the contradictions, I can't let them get their wish, but Venom doesn't understand this, he is naïve like a child."

"We've been arguing for the past few days, whether it's sleeping or working, and those horrible cannibalistic thoughts are hovering in my heart."

"Before, Venom would not communicate these thoughts to me, although he would also feel hunger, but now those terrible negative emotions keep pouring into my mind, and I can't control them at all."

"Eddie, Eddie......" Schiller called softly, pulling Eddie out of that terrible fantasy, and Eddie turned his head to see the psychiatrist's calm and gentle face.

But this didn't make Eddie feel any better, he shook his head in despair, exhaled a breath and said, "Venom thinks I should do the same, he feels that the whole world stands with Stark, and I must stand with these desperate poor people." ”

"You might have a hard time believing that such an evil-looking creature could have a simple child-like heart, and I saw a pure white heart in the middle of those black slimes, and he looked like Peter Parker."

"Maybe he's Peter Parker, Peter used to be his host, but this reckless kid has gone forward, but Venom, Venom is because of me, because I'm not a genius, I'm just an ordinary person, and he's still trapped in place."

Eddie's eyes were red, and he was clearly caught up in his hallucinations again, saying, "I didn't give him anything good at all, no wisdom, no kindness, only entanglement, contradictions, and pain." ”

"I went deep into the lives of the poor, saw unemployed bus drivers, vendors and conductors living on the streets in despair because they couldn't afford to pay their credit cards, and saw their family's quality of life plummet, even their children had to change schools."

"But I also saw that the technicians of the Stark Group were running around the various lines, maintaining the equipment of the shuttle, collecting experimental data, and constantly improving the planning of the routes, the volume of cargo transported by the inter-airport train was increasing day by day, and the new bridge and port made the new family shine."

"Faced with these very different situations, I don't have that kind of genius and inspiration to come up with a perfect solution to everyone's satisfaction, I can only suffer myself, Venom is also painful, I am the one who makes him suffer."

"Eddie, you didn't realize it, you're a genius too." Schiller spoke slowly, his voice was a little unreal to Eddie's ears, and Eddie heard the psychiatrist say: "These pains and contradictions of yours are precisely the manifestations of your innate spirituality, you are a natural philosopher, psychologist, and rich in this talent." ”

"Venom will feel pain, not because you didn't give him anything, but precisely because you gave him these naturally melancholy philosophies, and gave him your pessimistic ambivalence, that he will feel pain."

"But it doesn't make any sense." Eddie closed his eyes and shook his head, licked his somewhat dry lips and said, "Look, Peter Parker gave Venom kindness and firm heart, and Tony Stark gave Venom genius wisdom, these are all weapons that make him stronger and more perfect, and me?" What is the use of those contradictions and philosophies? ”

Schiller looked at Eddie helplessly and said, "Obviously, you can't calm down and look at the relationship between you and Venom objectively now, you should both calm down and think about your influence on each other." ”

Schiller flipped through the documents in his hand, and then said, "I will contact the Blue Spirits who stay on Klinta, in a sense, the Blue Spirits are also the guardians of Venom, and you should talk to the more experienced cosmic symbiotes about this matter." ”

"I don't talk to them." Venom's deep voice burst out of Eddie's mouth like a gunshot, and he said, "Those idiots would just advise me to submit to my host and make it a job, but I never wanted to do that." ”

"But in fact, it's a job." Still in a calm tone, Schiller said, "The symbiote-host relationship should be treated more rationally, and excess possessiveness will be painful for both of you." ”

"Ha, of course you can say that!" Venom's voice revealed anger: "There are hundreds of you in your soul, and there are symbiotes who accompany you every day, and I just want Eddie to understand me better, I am the only one!" ”

"But this exchange of ideas of yours has brought pain to both him and to you." Schiller shook his head, obviously a little disapproving, and said, "No one wants to break you up, but there is clearly something wrong with the way you are now combining and communicating. ”

"You are constantly moving forward, constantly outputting emotions, trying to make Eddie listen to you in a straightforward and rough way, Eddie is afraid and withdrawn from this, but at the same time he doesn't want to hurt you, he feels ashamed of you for being so rude, because he feels that he has brought you badly."

"That's what I am!" Venom shouted, "I'm an evil symbiote who wants to eat people's heads, and I will always be like this!" ”

Schiller sighed, he felt that Eddie was right, Venom always acted like a child, but it really couldn't blame him.

Venom is a bit of an autistic child of the cosmic symbiote race, in some ways, he has an unparalleled talent, but in some ways, he is always stuck in place.

He had absorbed countless energies, the symbiote factor was healthy and vigorous, and he had inherited the wisdom of Peter Bruce and Stark, and those few colored symbiotes tied together were not necessarily his opponents.

But only in terms of emotion, whether it is how to deal with one's own emotions, or how to accept and understand the emotions of others, Venom always can't grasp the scale well.

But this is indeed a bit demanding, after all, emotionally rich humans may not be able to master this skill for a lifetime, and it is normal for the venom of a blank piece of paper to be unable to deal with emotions freely.

When he absorbs emotions, he asks for too much, and constantly asks Eddie to pay attention to him, recognize him, and love him, like a crying child, but when he outputs emotions, because the emotions are too abundant and unfavorable, it seems like gratuitous accusations and brainless outpouring.

But it is precisely Eddie and Schiller who are the kind of people whose thinking is more philosophical than rational, pessimism is the label of every born philosopher, and the venom is like a tidal wave of emotions that makes him miserable, and because the two of them are inseparable from each other, they cannot escape and breathe.

Schiller stared at the series of conclusions on the report document and felt a little helpless, he was very tactful about Eddie's expression, in fact, the evaluation report given by the professionals in the Arkham nursing home can be said to be very unoptimistic.

Long-term unhealthy mental conditions can induce mental disorders and also harm the body, and Schiller is a psychiatrist, so he has to deal with this.

Schiller just opened his mouth, intending to give Venom and Eddie a little advice, probably to let them build an independent space for each other in their hearts with the help of psychology, but at this time Venom said directly:

"Okay, you say he's in pain for this, and I feel it, and it's all my fault, okay?"

"As his good buddy, oh, that's what he thinks, I should be like his bad friend, show up when he needs me, disappear when he doesn't need me, obviously he doesn't need me now, I'll leave right now, I will never pester him again!"

With that, Eddie stood up, and Schiller followed suit, and he walked quickly in front of Eddie, blocking his movement with one side, and said, "Calm down, Venom, don't do this, this matter is not so difficult to solve, as long as you listen to professional advice......"

"Get out of the way." Suddenly, countless black symbiote factors enveloped Eddie's body, Venom's face appeared, and he bared his fangs and said to Schiller, "Don't take that of you and Gray Mist to treat me and Eddie, it's our own business, get out of the way." ”

"Leave him alone, Schiller." The voice of the gray mist sounded in Schiller's heart: "Come to the top of the building and read the book, I want to finish calculus today, and then we can understand it together, you can understand it now." ”

"I'll come."

Schiller replied to the gray mist as he watched Venom jump onto the roof of the New York skyline building, and suddenly he had a bad feeling that Venom had turned around and headed towards Stark Tower.

And Stark is not the only one in Stark Mansion.

Looking at Venom's back, Schiller whispered.

"Good luck to him, maybe he'll help me figure out what those two goddamn geniuses are up to."

(End of chapter)