"What? Kama Taj has already created a large portal? How big is it? Can it be as big as the moon?...Okay, I understand, just wait."
Stark hung up the phone and said angrily: "These mages must have jumped the gun. They actually solved the problem of material transportation first. Doesn't that mean my research speed is too slow?"
Banner was still writing information slowly, but Stark got angry when he saw him. He said: "This is a competition, understand? We can't lose to those magicians! I have to prove to them,
Mechanical technology is the best way out for mankind!"
Banner yawned and said: "I have finished the part about the universality and utilization plan of vibranium materials. The data analysis report of 69 available alloys is placed there. The issue of the utilization rate of Mercury's global magnetic field has been
The transmission has passed, and the last bit of the crater’s geological exploration report and structural reorganization project is left..."
"Stark, you have time to complain. Can you finish the work on the exploration robot in your hands quickly? We are all waiting for you..."
The man next to him pushed Banner's arm with his elbow and whispered to him: "Don't put too much pressure on him. After all, people have their limits..."
With a "whoosh" sound, the mecha flew over from the window, smashed through the glass with a "click" sound, and was instantly armed on Stark.
Stark pulled down the visor and said to Jarvis: "Turn on the power of the life support device to the maximum! I don't want to waste any time on solving physiological needs next!"
"The limit? Stark was born to define the limit!"
As he turned around, he gave the two people sitting in front of the experimental table a middle finger.
Banner looked at the back of him leaving and said with some hesitation: "Would it be a bit too much for you to ask me to stimulate him like this? He wouldn't really die suddenly after staying up late, right?"
"Ignore him, how do you feel? Is the medicine working?"
Banner turned his head back, sighed, and said, "Before coming here, I was taking medicine according to the doctor's instructions, but the effect was not great."
"Hulk is immune to all stabilizing drugs. If I take the medicine one second and he comes out the next, he won't be sluggish at all."
Schiller shook his head and said: "Your situation is really troublesome. Gamma rays strengthen your body, but it is your other personality that can control this power."
Banner also sighed, obviously he has been troubled by this for a long time. Schiller continued: "Last night, I dug out all your medical records and psychological consultation reports and read them. Now I have some inspiration."
"Is it the new treatment you mentioned before?"
"Yes, I have also brought in an expert who is very good at this. If you are willing, we will have a consultation tonight. Even if we cannot fundamentally solve the problem, we may be able to improve your situation."
"That would be great." Banner took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and said, "I really hope I can end this terrible life as soon as possible, but he is like a lingering devil, no matter where I go
No matter where you are, you must always worry about the damage he may cause..."
"Because you are a good person, you have this kind of psychological burden. Don't worry. Even if the problem cannot be solved from the psychological level, we can also solve the problem from the physical level."…
"Physical level? What do you mean?"
"It's not the Hulk that's bothering you, it's the destruction that the Hulk has caused, right?"
"Yes, in fact, I know that Hulk is a personality of mine. I have mentioned it before during diagnosis and treatment..."
"Okay, I know, you don't need to repeat it again, Hulk is the product of your childhood trauma. You have come out of it, but he has not, so it is normal for you to sympathize with him."
"I know this is a bit irresponsible. He is so good at destruction, but I don't want to eliminate him because he has shouldered the shadow of my childhood."
"But I have always lived in fear that he would cause harm to others. As you said, I don't hate him, but I hate the destruction he brings."
"I've shown you before that there is magic in this world, isn't it?"
Banner looked at Schiller and said, "Actually, I'm surprised that you are actually a magician, but that's right. No normal psychologist would insist on giving me sex after knowing that there is a monster inside me."
Psychotherapy.”
"It will take a few seconds for you to transform into the Hulk, right? In fact, as long as you carry a mage with you to teleport you to a corner of the galaxy during your transformation, anyway, as long as you are invisible
Just stay in the Human Zone, wait until Hulk's anger subsides, and then teleport you back."
Banner raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect this method. He touched his chin and said, "It seems to be possible. Although Hulk can be very destructive when he is angry, he can't last too long."
."
"You should know better than me how vast the universe is, and what's unique about No Man's Land is that as long as you can first use this method to avoid the damage caused by Hulk, alleviate your inner guilt, stabilize your mental state, and then supplement it with long-term
Treatment may be able to completely solve the problem.”
Banner nodded and said, "The treatment will start tonight?"
His tone was obviously more lively than before, and then he asked with some confusion: "Why is it at night? I have basically finished all my work, can't I start now?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "Noon is not a good time to drink."
"Drink?...What kind of wine?"
The light outside the window began to gradually weaken, changing from the dazzling white light to the warm afterglow of the sunset. Schiller walked to the window of the Arkham Sanatorium office and closed the curtains. Banner sat on the sofa and looked at the
The glass of wine in front of him made him feel a little dizzy.
"God, what kind of wine is this? Just by smelling it, I feel a little..."
He shook his head hard and put his hand on his glasses. Before he could push them up, he felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes, followed by hazy darkness.
Banner felt himself falling in the darkness. As he fell faster and faster, the wind whistled in his ears. After the light flashed again, Banner sat up from the sofa. He turned his head to look for Schiller, but saw him.
Sitting opposite was an old man with a bald head.
Schiller bent down and put away the wine glass in front of him. He introduced to Charles: "This is the patient I mentioned to you before. His problem is quite big."...
Then he introduced to Banner: "Now, we are in your consciousness space. To put it simply, in your dream, the wine just now can make people fall asleep."
"In a dream?" Banner asked doubtfully: "How is it possible? Isn't this reality reality? Then why is it so real?"
"Real? Are you sure you have 7 fingers?"
When Banner heard this, he looked down at his hand. He found that there were indeed seven fingers on his hand, but he didn't feel anything wrong.
"this……"
Generally speaking, Bruce Banner is still an ordinary person. Even if he has superior intelligence, his world view still remains within the scope of ordinary people. He touched his shoulders and chest and found that the touch was extremely real, and then he
He looked up at Schiller and asked: "Is this the new therapy you are talking about? This should not belong to the category of psychology, but to the category of mysticism, right?"
"No, this is all rigorous and logical. You have to believe me, I am not a quack."
Charles said: "Can you give me part of your memory permissions? I need to find the lesion first before I can think about how to solve it."
"...Okay, what should I do?"
As soon as Banner finished asking, Schiller snapped his fingers, and Banner's figure disappeared. Schiller explained to Charles: "I blocked his consciousness first, because the root of his psychological problems comes from childhood trauma.
If he experiences it again in his dream, I'm afraid he will have a mental breakdown."
Charles nodded and said: "It is good to be cautious. This is also for the safety of the patient."
As the two talked, the surrounding scene slowly changed. The exquisite wooden floors faded layer by layer and turned into gray tiles. The walls of the room also moved forward little by little, the space became smaller, and the floor-to-ceiling windows turned into gray tiles.
Through the narrow and small gray window, a little boy squatted in front of the cupboard, and a bearded man was beating him.
Schiller and Charles were standing at the door of this small and dilapidated kitchen, looking at little Banner who was suffering domestic violence inside. Charles sighed and said, "I knew it would be like this."
"Most patients with multiple personality disorder have created a virtual personality because they have experienced strong mental stimulation, and because their own personality cannot withstand the damage caused by this stimulation." Schiller looked at Banner and said.
And the moment he finished speaking, the little Banner who was squatting on the ground and crying suddenly turned into a green giant. He roared angrily, cried helplessly, and vented his anger to everything around him.
anger.
"Fear." Charles said very firmly: "His anger comes from fear. I can clearly feel that he is very afraid of violence, but only violence can vent the anger caused by this fear."
Schiller and Charles are completely unaffected by the mad Hulk because they are in the conscious space.
Schiller continued his analysis: "While he was deeply hurt by violence, he also longed for the authority brought by violence. This is also what most manic personalities have in common. They have been subjected to violence.
It hurts too much, but it brings violence to more people."
"The reason why they can't control themselves is that fear and anger make them lose all sense of security, so they want to find a measure that can bring them a sense of security."…
Charles went on to say: “…and this measure is a resort to violence.”
"Let's put this aside, how to solve this problem? With all due respect, it is unlikely that this personality will be eliminated with ordinary psychotherapy, and Banner is not willing to eliminate this personality that represents his childhood trauma."
"I can forcefully delete it, but that's meaningless." Charles sighed. Seeing Schiller's somewhat interested gaze, he explained: "I can modify people's memory at will. This kind of thing is very important to me."
For me, it’s as simple as eating and drinking.”
"I can even delete all the memories of his domestic violence without leaving any traces."
"But human thinking and consciousness are not that simple. Everyone's thinking has inertia, and when I modify their memory, it is like pulling out a brick from the bottom of a pile of very high blocks."
"Perhaps the entire tower of blocks can remain stable the moment the block is pulled out, but if you try to build it higher, there is a risk of it falling over. The higher you build it, the more dangerous it is."
"Violent deletion and modification of memories may not only cause memory confusion, but may also lead to personality breakdown. People who have had their memories forcibly deleted will feel that their behavior patterns do not match their memories at all, and their way of thinking about problems has no root.
This can lead to their mental breakdown."
"It seems that we can only start with him. My idea is to guide him to build a thinking palace of his own. This can help him control when Hulk comes out."
Schiller snapped his fingers, and he and Charles returned to his palace of thought. The two walked out of the room and came to the corridor of the tower. Looking down, Schiller introduced: "Actually, I also have some very dangerous personalities.
, once it takes over my body, it may do some crazy things."
"But in the palace of my mind, there are traps and checkpoints specifically for them. You have to climb up layer by layer before you can reach the surface of your consciousness."
"The activity level of the personality is also related to the mental intensity. The part of the intensity allocated to them is consumed by him in the battle of wits and courage with traps and levels, so he will naturally be more at ease and not interfere with my actions."
Charles stared at the bottomless inside of the tower and said, "I have never thought of this method, so I'm not sure if it will work, but I think I can try it."
"If, as you said, his personality is a monster that can cause great damage, then even if it can be controlled a little bit, it will be a great improvement, and the situation will not be worse."
Soon, Banner's consciousness appeared again in Schiller's mind palace, but this time, the three of them came to the floor.
Schiller explained his ideas to Banner and said: "Next, I will take you to visit my palace of thinking. You can draw some inspiration from it to construct your own."
"As you can see, this is the first floor. This black floor represents the bottom of my consciousness. I have reinforced this place countless times to prevent certain personalities from falling, which will never be found again."
"Well..." Banner made a somewhat confused nasal sound, and Schiller turned to him and asked: "What's wrong? Is there something you don't understand?"
"That's not true. I understand everything, including the thought palace theory you just mentioned. I'm just a little bit curious. What's going on with that pit in the middle?"
"Uh...this is a problem left over from before. Wait a minute..." Schiller took out the phone from his pocket and said, "Hello?...What's the matter with you? Didn't you tell me last time? You have to do it.
Fill in the hole dug last time, what if someone falls in?...What? Are you on vacation? You go on vacation before you finish the work, you...Hello? Hello???"
Schiller hung up the phone, curled his lips helplessly, and said, "Don't worry, it's just a temporary passage. It should have been sealed, but the person who made this thing went on vacation. When he comes back, it should be
It will be filled in."
"Let's go up. Pay attention to the stairs. Also, don't touch the handrail. There may be traps on it. Next we come to the first floor. This is also an earlier building. Look to the left. There are two
A room…”
This chapter has been completed!