"This is indeed a question worth thinking about." Constantine touched the bottom of his nose and said: "According to the diary you found, he has been trying to imitate ordinary people, but always failed, so he
Another way is to design a high tower, which is the palace of thought we saw in his soul before."
"The diary does not clearly state whether this method was successful, but according to our interactions with Schiller, compared to his teenage years when he was almost completely unable to live a normal life, at least now he has been able to function as an ordinary person.
It has been living in society, which proves that this method is likely to be successful."
Batman nodded and said: "From the conversation you heard, we know that young Schiller suffered from autism, and it may be savant autism. This disease may cause people to have certain symptoms.
Super memory and special talent on the one hand.”
"If he really solves his mental problems, it is not surprising that he can become a top psychologist through study. I think that is probably the case."
"Schiller suffered from savant autism at a young age. Because of his extraordinary talent, he was unable to communicate with other people. He began to build a tower of building blocks in the world inside his head."
"However, people from that mysterious organization broke into the orphanage one day and killed everyone there. This stimulation caused the tower of blocks built by Schiller to collapse, and his spirit was also affected to a certain extent.
Stimulation manifests as aphasia, loss of thinking ability, and only instinctive reactions."
"People from the mysterious organization took him away, perhaps to Germany, or perhaps to other places, and conducted experiments on him. Let us temporarily identify this experiment as using mental stimulation to enable ordinary people to relieve the brain's control
Muscle limitations, thereby gaining great strength and becoming a powerful killer with special abilities."
"Schiller spent his teenage years in the mysterious organization, and as the mysterious organization expected, he became an extremely powerful and cold killer. So, they planned to use Schiller to go to a certain country to do what we all
Everything you can think of."
"But when they returned Schiller to this country, Schiller suddenly broke free from their control and killed all these people."
"The noise he made was discovered by some official organizations in this country, so they subdued Schiller and took him into custody. They took him to the so-called Ninth Management Center and tried to restore his mental state to normal."
"Because the tower of building blocks collapsed and he was not treated during the golden treatment period, Schiller was unable to return to ordinary life by simply pretending, so he had to change his method and piece together the fragments of the collapsed building blocks.
Get up and become a tower of thinking."
"After possessing the Palace of Thought, Schiller's spirit gradually returned to normal. Because he had extraordinary talents and suffered psychological trauma, he chose the path of psychology and achieved good results.
Finally came to Gotham University and became a professor."
Constantine also agreed with this conclusion. He nodded and said: "From this point of view, Schiller's growth process is still very inspiring."
But Batman said in a low tone: "What concerns me most is the mysterious organization that once took Schiller away, the British agent..."
Seeing Batman's eyes falling on him, Constantine looked him up and down and said, "Why are you looking at me? Not every British person is an agent."
But at this point, Constantine seemed to have remembered something and said: "But I saw that the towers painted on the second diary you took out had many patterns, but Schiller's current
The tower of thought is very smooth without any traces, what’s going on?”
Batman took out the diary again, and the three of them came together and looked at a picture on it. Batman said: "This may just be a design. These patterns are to show what each piece is put together."
Location……"
Constantine shook his head slightly and said: "Even if it can be put together, will it really not leave any traces? The thinking tower we see now is simply perfect, without any trace of splicing.·
"Perhaps you don't know, Batman, that the human soul is a very fragile thing. You can see scars one after another on the souls of mental patients, even if they have been cured with treatment and drugs. Such traces
It won’t disappear either.”
"I prefer to regard the collapse of Schiller's tower of thought as the collapse of his soul. His state of being unable to speak or act independently is like an empty shell without the control of his soul."
"And if he uses a certain method to piece his soul back together, it will never be possible without leaving any traces." Constantine said very firmly, and Zatanna also supported: "Yes, although I didn't
I have seen people whose souls have completely collapsed, but many people have had a small piece of their soul collapse."
"The collapsed parts may be able to be reassembled later, and some people can even glue all the fragments together and restore them to their original shape, but this does not mean that there are no traces of the bonding. If viewed from the spiritual world, their
The soul is riddled with holes.”
Zatanna turned her attention to Constantine. Constantine hesitated, waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I'm using a blindfold. After all, no one wants to move around with scars, right?"
After saying that, his body emitted a faint shimmer. Batman squinted his eyes and saw that cracks suddenly appeared one after another on Constantine's body, and even some places seemed to be burnt.
These scars do not seem to be caused by the same thing. They are deep and shallow, large and small, but from a distance, there is no good spot on the whole body.
"This is the price of using magic." Constantine shrugged indifferently and said: "I have cut my soul more than once and used it as bait. It is not impossible to completely eliminate these scars, but it requires strength.
There are just too many.”
"Even if my credibility is much better than it is now, no one is willing to lend me so much power at once, not even Lucifer, because this is very likely to cause instability in the world and will have very serious consequences."
After saying that, the scars on Constantine's body gradually disappeared. He lowered his head and glanced at himself, and then said: "Anyway, you can disguise it. That's not bad, right?"
"If the memory we see in Schiller's memory space is real, and his soul has collapsed, it will never leave scars." After Constantine finished these words, Batman's
His eyebrows knitted together again, and he began to doubt what he saw again.
"I said, have you forgotten what we are here for?" Zatanna said loudly: "We are not here to explore this professor's past, our goal is to curse the medium."
After saying that, she lowered her head and glanced at the building blocks in her hand. Her face showed a trace of hesitation, but then she said as if talking to herself: "This is also for his own good. No matter who it is, even a powerful magician,
Mastering such a powerful curse medium means that he will be doomed."
"The more powerful you are, the more expensive you are." Zatanna shook her head and said, "Those greedy black magicians will never understand this truth. They are not using curses, but the curses are controlling them."
Then, she looked firm, looked at Batman and Constantine and said: "A weak item can become the support of a scene. Three items are three scenes. I think this is completely enough. I used to use
When using this trick, one piece is enough. After all, forged memories are extremely deceptive and have nothing to do with willpower."
Zatanna looked at Batman and said, "Would you doubt your memory? Would you doubt that something you remember was made up by someone else?"
Batman was silent, but Zatanna said: "Most people think that their memories are reliable, and mind magicians use this to weave dreams and fabricate memories to achieve their goals."
Seeing Batman's increasingly darker expression, Constantine coughed twice and said, "But now we are trapped in this memory space, and we must find a way out."
"If these three separated memory spaces have a common road, then there must be other roads connecting to the calmer memory space." Zatanna said while thinking: "Generally speaking, people who go out
The road will be at the place the other party least wants to face..."
"If the review room is not the right answer, then where is it?" Batman said: "From the clues we know now, we can only deduce that he has suffered several failures in the review room, so he is unwilling to face it.
"
Zatanna shook her head and said: "No, the logic of the real world may not be used in the memory space. Moreover, encountering failure does not mean that you are unwilling to face it. Don't forget that at this time, he is still a mental patient. What he
Things you like and dislike may not necessarily have logic."
Batman paused while touching his wrist, feeling that what Zatanna said made sense. He had studied psychology, so he knew that mental patients have a different perception of the world than ordinary people. Adults will be depressed when they encounter a blow, but they have succeeded.
They will be happy, but that may not be the case for mentally ill people.
From the perspective of ordinary people, the failure of the plans made again and again may leave a psychological shadow on people and make them unwilling to encounter failures again. However, from the perspective of mental patients, this may be a game.
After all, Schiller's diary only mechanically recorded the development of some events without expressing emotions, so it was indeed not certain that the review room was the last place he wanted to go.
"Besides the follow-up room, where else is more likely?" Constantine also began to think about it, but Zatanna said directly: "The clues we have now are definitely not enough to deduce the specific answer, but
But there is another way."
"Another way?" Batman looked at her and asked, "What is it?"
Zatanna waved to him, then walked to the door, opened the door, and found that Schiller was not here, so she walked out of the door with relief and said, "Follow me."
Neither Constantine nor Batman could figure out what method she was talking about, but they followed her out of the door. Zatanna walked to the door of the room next to the tool room, reached out and pushed the door open, and looked inside.
He glanced at it, shook his head, and closed the door.
Then, she walked to the opposite room, opened the door and looked inside, shook her head, and closed the door.
Then she walked forward to the room in the middle of the corridor, opened the door, and closed the door. Just when she was about to continue walking forward, she turned around and found that Constantine and Batman had stopped in place.
Zatanna stood a few meters away and looked at them, asking with some confusion: "What are you doing? Why don't you come over?"
Batman also stared at her, and after a few seconds he slowly said:
"The method you mentioned is not the exhaustive method, right?"