Talia behaved calmly, she just blinked softly and said, "Yes, just like when I was a child, if I hadn't crawled out of the graveyard with my last breath, the monsters there would have torn me to shreds." ”

"There are many times when if I don't kill the other person, or if I don't run away, they can do whatever they want with me, and no one will come to save me."

"Maybe you thought a long time ago that he didn't love you, and you admitted and accepted that fact, but what is more cruel than that is that he loves the value you provide."

"But it's not really that valuable." Talia smiled and said, "No single killer can accomplish his great ideals, so they are equally important to him, and I am included." ”

Talia relaxed, snuggled up in the single sofa in an unprecedentedly relaxed posture and said, "You may think that I have his bloodline in me, at least this bloodline has some value, but in reality, demonic blood does not provide any power, I am just an ordinary person, and all my abilities come from acquired practice." ”

"Lei Xiaogu only has one descendant of me, and it's not because my mother has anything special, it's just that he knows that the offspring won't add anything to his great ideals, but it may still be troublesome, and I'm just an accident, if it weren't for the fact that I inherited my mother's beauty and was able to help him open up the situation in high society, he wouldn't recognize me as his daughter."

"When children pay the real price in childhood, there is one more orphan in the world, and the greatest tragedy of their lives comes from not realizing that they are an orphan, or not wanting to admit that they are an orphan."

"What about you?" Talia still couldn't help but ask, "Why do I see you as the god Quetzalcoatl, which is associated with death?" Is that just an illusion? ”

"I don't want to lie, so I'll tell you not exactly." Schiller reached out to refill Talia's tea and said, "But my secret is not something you need to solve, if you are convinced that some kind of drug is affecting you, drink more water, and go to sleep, and everything will be fine." ”

"That's how you dispose of me? Do you think leniency will please me? ”

"I didn't intend to please you." Schiller walked back to his desk, sorted out the stacked books on the table, and said: "It doesn't mean anything to me to gain your favor, you can take my kindness as a social moral ......"

"Come on, who am you and I? A little girl who is having trouble in her college life? I'm a murderous female killer! ”

"Listen to me, miss, whether you are murderous or not has nothing to do with whether or not you are troubled or not, and whether you are a little girl or not."

Talia was speechless, she had been confused by Schiller's attitude all along, and the thing that made her most uncomfortable was that Schiller really didn't seem to care about her at all.

Whether it's her breaking into the garden, knocking over red wine and kidnapping the butler, or her decision to talk to Schiller to test her attitude, the other party is very indifferent, a bit like finding a leisure job to pass the time when she is bored.

But isn't the current situation exciting enough? The leader of the Assassin League needs his response, and the dangerous female killer is in his house, and the relationship between him, Lei Xiaogu, and Talia is in a delicate balance, and Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor are still distracted, so what does he care about?

"It looks like you're a little tired, miss, there used to be a female colleague staying in my manor, the dedicated room is in the second room on the right side of the left turn corridor at the staircase on the third floor, you can go there to rest......"

Talia interrupted him and said, "Why should I go there to rest?" ”

Schiller showed that look of surprise and bewilderment again, and after a moment of pause, he said, "There is no reason, this is just a courtesy invitation, you can completely refuse and leave." ”

"You mean I can go?"

"Why not? It's just a manor, not a prison, and no guards are going to stop you. ”

Talia choked back again, but eventually she chose to go upstairs to rest.

After all, there is no safe place in the whole of Gotham, and those two unlucky things of Bruce and Lex may be waiting for her somewhere, so it is better to rest first, metabolize the drugs, and adjust their state before making plans.

After Talia left, Schiller came to the balcony, and Pamela stood downstairs looking up at him, and when the two of them looked at each other, a green staircase made of vines was placed on the balustrade of the balcony, and spread to Schiller's feet.

Schiller strode down the solid staircase to the door of the back hall and invited Pamela into the office.

Pamela stared closely at Schiller's back, and she sensed very, very, very wrong.

"Did Bruce ask you to come?" Schiller asked.

Pamela nodded, and as soon as she was about to ask something, Schiller went to the desk and picked up the vase with the camellia, took the camellia out of the vase, and handed it to Pamela.

Pamela took it for some unknown reason, and the moment she touched the plant, her brow furrowed deeply.

Something is wrong, something is wrong, something is wrong!

Pamela's instincts began to call the police frantically, and with a shake of her instinctive hand, she threw the camellia out directly.

"What's up there?" Pamela asked, staring at the flowers on the floor.

"You feel it?" Schiller said calmly, "You are indeed a very gifted botanist. ”

"So......" Pamela swallowed, she covered her chest, felt her pounding heart, frowned in some pain, and said, "What's that?" ”

"Fear gassing."

Schiller turned his head to look out the window, his eyes fell on the remains of the clay camellia outside the window, he shook his head and said, "Bruce has already told you about him and Talia, right?" ”

"I know he drugged Talia, probably trying to take the opportunity to modify her memories, but was interrupted halfway through and didn't work out." Pamela recounted what Bruce had told her on the phone.

"Your expression tells me you think it's despicable."

"It's despicable."

"And who do you guess he studied with?"

Pamela was stunned for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth wide and her eyes fell on Schiller's face.

"Not me, to be exact, but the Schiller you know, miss, and I'm assuming you haven't heard that your professor Schiller hypnotized all the professors in college?"

Pamela stiffened into a stone statue.

Schiller stooped down to pick up the camellia, smiled and said, "Both of them seem to be complaining that they have not gone down the same path, but that's just a mystery from the authorities." ”

"Professor Schiller, whom you know, as soon as he learned that Thalia might come to visit him at the manor, asked his butler to find two scented flowers and spray them with fear gas, an extremely time-saving method that can shake the other person's mind, and he has used it before."

"It's not because he's the only way to do it, it's because he doesn't enjoy the process of mental manipulation and abuse, it's just to achieve the end, and if he can, he chooses to skip the process directly, but I'm different from him."

"So as soon as I ascended, I wanted to dispose of these two flowers, but unfortunately, as soon as I threw the one on the coffee table out of the window, Miss Talia fell from the roof and stepped on the bud."

"All I can say is that this young lady's luck is not very good." Schiller twisted the bud and turned it, put it under his nose and sniffed it, shaking his head.

Pamela swallowed again, and observed the new Schiller with some caution, she had long known that Schiller had dissociative identity disorder, but she had not seen it with her own eyes, and the Schiller in front of her gave her a completely different feeling from the previous Schiller professor.

Although Professor Schiller, whom Pamela knew, was serious and strict with his students, most of that was due to the teacher's professional outlook and sense of responsibility, his anger and tolerance had their source, and his behavior patterns were understandable.

But the scene that Pamela had just witnessed upstairs, Taglia's mental state teetering on the verge of collapse was clearly coming from the Schiller in front of him, but he didn't seem to have a purpose at all, as if he was doing it just for fun.

"Wait, Talia has been in a different room for so long, the effect of this poison gas shouldn't be very strong, right? Then why is she still ......?"

Pamela couldn't help but ask, Schiller pulled out the single sofa and invited her to sit down, and Pamela, like every Gotham, stepped on the gas pedal and went straight to curiosity without looking back at the fork in the road of life safety and curiosity.

She stared intently at Schiller, waiting for her to give an answer, and Schiller seemed to find the process interesting, so he patiently explained it to Pamela.

In general, the general principle is as follows:

Bad luck, Talia came too early, and Schiller didn't dispose of the flowers properly, causing the fear gas sprayed on the camellia by arrogance to affect her, leaving the first impression of fear.

Schiller did not correct a similar impression after discovering Talia's reaction, causing Thalia to constantly feel danger from Schiller, which stimulated her sense of crisis and survival instinct, which led to her always overreacting in a state of stress.

But Schiller acted as if he had done nothing, creating an ordinary, everyday environment in which Thalia's stress state looked clumsy and embarrassing, as if she were going crazy, and that inopportune social instincts would make people want to fit in.

The survival instinct requires desperate and excessive resistance, and the social instinct requires repressed emotions to be silent and stable, and these two instincts have been constantly fighting, creating extreme mental internal friction, which is called the "dog whistle effect" in psychology.

This type of reaction refers to the fact that the abuser finds the victim's weakness in a long-term intimate relationship, deliberately pokes the victim in the sore spot, and makes him go crazy in public, so that the victim's survival instinct and social instinct completely conflict, so as to achieve the goal of psychological abuse.

The most common example is when you jokingly expose your shortcomings in front of your friends, and then you get angry and say, "It's just a joke, so why do you care?" ”

When you make a proposal in front of a colleague that is completely harmful to your personality and dignity, and when you get angry, he says, "I'm just making a suggestion, and I'm not forcing you to do it."

When you put forward a certain shortcoming of yours in front of your relatives, and you express your dissatisfaction, he will say, "I'm also afraid that you will make a detour in the future, and I won't talk about it if I can't listen to other people's opinions."

The first occurrence of such behaviour is mostly by perpetrators with a tendency to be mentally abusive in screening victims.

The first rule to avoid becoming a victim is not to get angry, not to rush into the theory, and then to be careful not to refute any point in their words to avoid getting bogged down in arguments.

For example, in the first case, never angrily say, "Is this a joke?" This is obviously your ......", and you must not coldly retort "I don't think it's a joke".

This is the reaction that the mental abuser is most looking forward to seeing, and a similar angry reaction will directly tell them that you have been poked by them, then they will continue to poke endlessly, and seeing others feel pain for their words and actions is their source of pleasure.

At this time, the best way is to attack directly, pay attention, not to fight back but to attack, to abandon the existing topic, and to scold back from another angle.

For example, in the first case, you can just say, "You don't mean to be joking, are you?" Then you really don't have a sense of humor", in the face of the second situation, you can say "your advice is too bad, don't make suggestions if the level is not good", and in the face of the third situation, you can say "You have taken so many detours, and you are embarrassed to give advice to others?" ”。

The attitude must be calm, the tone must be calm, as if what you say is common sense, as if you have always seen him this way.

Let the other person know that you are the same predator and not the prey as him, and the other person will naturally lose interest in you.

And further, if you can create an atmosphere where everyone around you has always looked at him this way, the other party will easily become angry and be in turn by you.

It's like facing a pyramid scheme, the best way is not to argue about whether this way can make money, but to directly carry out personal attacks, no matter how good the model is, you can't make money with a rotten person like you, so that the other party will first be annoyed and angry and argue with you whether he is rotten or not.

It's the same for dealing with stalkers selling insurance and selling, the products are so good, the reason why I don't buy them is just that I think you're rotten, and it's the same for borrowing money, I can borrow money if I have money, I just don't want to lend it to you.

Once the other party starts asking "why" and "why", it is easy to provoke the other party's emotions, and you are the one who has the initiative.

After spreading the above behavior patterns to the entire social circle, it is basically possible to completely eliminate the approach of bad people with mental abuse tendencies, but we must pay attention to grasp the scale, otherwise it is easy to become a bad person with mental abuse.

"What do you think is the right thing for Miss Talia to do?" Schiller asked, and Pamela frowned in thought before he added, "I'm not a professor, so don't feel pressured, you can say whatever you want, like she should beat me up the first time I jump." ”

Pamela's eyes widened and she said, "Is it really okay?" ”

"Although I don't like to use special abilities, I still have some experience fighting humanoids." Schiller poured Pamela a glass of wine and said, "It's one of the correct answers, but it's a lot of risk, so it's not a perfect score." ”

"What should be the standard answer?"

Schiller smiled and said:

"She should directly scold me for not being good at learning, otherwise how can she teach students to be hooligans who date people of the opposite sex but drug people?"

Pamela was dumbfounded.

At this moment, she realized that Talia was actually a victim of Occupy Li from beginning to end.

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