In the battle conference room of the main ship belonging to the nine kingdoms at the outpost on the edge of the Shi'ar Empire's Grand Portal Sector, Charles tapped the armrest with his fingers, while everyone else stared at him closely.
The only people present now are human superheroes and mutant leaders. They came here originally to discuss how the earth should gain its due status in this war.
Halfway through the meeting, Charles suddenly showed a shocked expression, hurriedly left a sentence, "Something happened to Schiller's thinking tower," and fell into a state of confusion.
How does this not shock and worry others?
In the next few minutes, Stark, Strange, Steve and other human superheroes who were close to Schiller went crazy. Even Magneto and Beast rarely dealt with Schiller like this.
The mutants also frowned deeply. No one here knew the importance of Schiller.
But fortunately, everyone present trusted Professor
If the gangster was here, he might have killed him by now.
As Charles's eyes gradually focused, Stark, who was sitting in the first seat on the right, finally couldn't help but ask: "What's going on? Professor Charles, is Schiller okay?"
"It's just a misunderstanding." Charles replied gently: "Schiller brought the soul of a Zerg into his thinking tower. I thought his spiritual world was invaded, but everything is under his control.
There is no danger.”
Suddenly there was a series of sighs of relief in the room. Stark almost leaned on the table regardless of his manners. Charles smiled very apologetically and said: "This is also the first time I know that Schiller has something."
He has a habit of picking up monsters and keeping them as pets. He took the soul of the Zerg back just to feed it to his pets."
"In my opinion, this is a bit shocking, but it is within the scope of understanding, so I have no position to ask him not to do it... However, there may be something more shocking than this, and you should listen to it.
"
The humans in the room did not focus their attention quickly. They were still feeling scared, and various terrifying scenes of Schiller's spiritual world being polluted appeared in their minds.
In the end, Stark, who had the worst temper, couldn't help complaining: "No matter what, it's too dangerous for Schiller to deal with those bugs, but don't say silly things like 'bugs are always dangerous', bugs
There are a thousand or ten thousand chances to make a mistake, so it doesn’t matter how many times you are unlucky, but if something goes wrong with Schiller, there is only one chance in the entire universe.”
Magneto looked at Stark with some dissatisfaction. Of course, he could hear that Stark was accusing Professor
, but in fact it is still helping Starkla to deflect.
But at this time, the protagonist of the controversy, Charles, made a shocking statement: "Did you know that Schiller was abused as a child?"
When his voice fell, the whole room could be heard in silence. All the smart people present only looked at Charles but did not speak, because they could hear some subtle condemnation in Charles' tone.
This is not a question that needs to be answered, because Charles obviously already knows the answer, and this good old man who has always been gentle is already dissatisfied enough to express his emotions in public.
"We have speculated." Stark's answer was quite conservative.
He wanted to try his best to avoid explaining this matter as if he were shirking responsibility, so he could be said to be scratching his head and using up all his emotional intelligence to explain it very carefully.
"We once saw part of his memory, which showed that he had an accident in his childhood, but for some reason, we did not delve into it. Did he mention this to you?"
"He told me in detail about his childhood and growing up experiences." Charles took a pen and notebook from the table next to him, as if he wanted to write down some key information.
But Stark looked at each other and Strange, who was sitting next to him, said nothing. Instead, Steve, who was sitting opposite them, spoke first.
"We don't ask these things, not because we don't care about him, including other special features about him. The reason why we remain completely silent on this is that we don't know how to ask a person about his painful experience, but we don't know how to ask about it.
It is an impossible task for us to have him suffer a second trauma in the process of recalling."
"Your attitude towards Schiller is very contradictory." Charles adjusted his emotions, quickly found the key point, and continued.
"On the one hand, you are infinitely overestimating his abilities, and your expectations for his level in all aspects are far beyond the reasonable range of your relationship with him. He is not like a friend, but more like a god and a believer."
"On the other hand, you underestimated his endurance, believed that his mental stability was inversely proportional to his genius, and viewed all aspects related to his spirit as too fragile, so you treated him with extra caution.
Please maintain the status quo."
"Perhaps this is because you do not have very professional psychological knowledge, but it is more because your own understanding of emotions is not sound enough. You have experienced mental problems yourself, and you judge others by yourself, so you feel that Schiller
I can’t bear it either.”
Charles put down his pen and scanned the people in the room, and said: "But in fact, Schiller has endured more than you have experienced. He has already passed through the broken period of mental instability as early as his teenage years.
He is more stable and sound than any of you."
Next, Charles began to tell Schiller's own experience to others in the room, but his focus was not on the content of the story itself, nor on his judgment from a professional perspective, but on Schiller's state when telling these things.
At the end of the story, Charles concluded: "For Schiller, this memory has no special meaning. He no longer feels pain from it, and he no longer gains strength from it. There is nothing to avoid talking about, and nothing to write about.
Specially written.”
"It can be said that if you casually asked Schiller about your past, you would have learned about this story long ago."
Now the voice of only Charles was echoing in the huge conference room. Everyone else was immersed in their own thoughts, and most of them were thinking about the story of Schiller's past that Charles told.
After finally understanding and digesting this information, friends who were closer to Schiller began to be surprised by one thing, but before they really asked, Charles had already answered their doubts, but he always answered them.
A good teacher also starts from the beginning.
"People always say, 'Suffering makes people stronger.' This is not their imagination. Research evidence shows that people with more difficult life experiences will show a more stable
External performance is what is called 'maturity'."
"But some people question whether suffering is really a catalyst for strength - is what suffering really brings about maturity? Perhaps I prefer to call that calm external expression 'numbness'."
Charles glanced at Magneto sitting on the other side calmly, and then said: "Unlike most ordinary people's intuition, mental wounds are more difficult to heal than physical wounds. Time will not heal everything.
Only part of the suffering will be forgotten, and what cannot be forgotten will make people get used to it."
"Like all pain, once you get used to it, it will become numb. The pain still exists, but from a subjective perspective, it is no longer as painful as it was at the beginning."
Charles turned over the paper in his hand and calmly narrated: "Very few parts of those mental traumas that are too serious can be forgotten. Most of them are in constant pain, making people more and more numb."
"The most serious consequence of this kind of numbness is that people present an excessively calm external appearance, as if they have already seen through everything and everything in the world, and ordinary people who don't know why just put it aside
This is called transparency and calmness after experiencing suffering.”
"But in fact, this is a permanent scar of mental trauma. Its most harmful effect is that it makes people gradually lose the ability to explore outside, which manifests itself as not being curious, not wanting, and not caring."
"People always regard non-fighting as a sign of kindness and gentleness, and do not pay attention to why they don't want it. For people who are left with permanent mental trauma, they are neither able to ask for it, but also gradually become interested in everything.
Not even interested."
Stark frowned slowly, as if he had thought of something, and Charles quickly responded to his doubts.
"Yes, this doesn't sound like Schiller. Schiller is always interested in everything and wants everything, but have you ever thought about it that maybe it is to fight against this state that his greed will
Behaving more and more extreme?"
"The way the human spirit and thinking works means that they cannot completely eliminate the scars left by major mental trauma, so they must find ways to fight against this state of loss of vitality. Most patients with good prognosis of trauma disorders force themselves to pay attention.
Transfer your energy to something that you can devote unlimited interest to, such as faith."
"Because only by infinitely stimulating interest and always maintaining a state of outward exploration can we fight against the numbness and emptiness caused by trauma."
"In other words, the greedy trait in Schiller's personality that you know is not pathological, but on the contrary, it is healthy, even the healthiest of all traits, because it ensures that Schiller always has the ability to explore outwards.
Curiosity and energy.”
Strange was silent for a while and then said: "Because he suffered severe mental damage and the enemies he faced were powerful, he naturally had to forge more powerful weapons. That's why greed is so extreme, right?
?”
"In a sense, that's true." Charles rubbed the paper with his fingertips. He turned his head slightly and glanced at Magneto. He sighed softly and said: "Schiller is extremely lucky. After suffering trauma,
During the best recovery period, he met a good doctor, a good doctor who was more patient than me and had better medical skills than me."
Magneto just lowered his eyes. Those eyes with deep grooves in their sockets always had the indifference of not being near strangers. Only when he raised his eyes and saw Charles's shining blue eyes, did he seem to
The rocks, illuminated by the faint light that penetrates the ripples of the sea surface, reveal a bit of the brilliance of the past when the waves stopped the flying boats from the coldness and depth.
"And there's one more thing." Charles lowered his head again and looked at the paper full of words, and continued: "Because of autism, some of Schiller's emotional and behavioral manifestations are still abnormal, which is not very obvious, except for me.
No one outside can see it, and this is obviously the result of the doctor."
"These remaining abnormalities also just show that the doctor is an ordinary person and does not have the ability to read minds like me, but it also means that I can help Schiller further and completely eliminate these abnormalities."
Immediately, all the humans present turned to stare at Charles, while Charles still spoke in a calm but quite confident tone.
"Next, I will treat Schiller according to my treatment process for autistic patients, and I have convinced him to accept my treatment. As Schiller's friends and now his family members, what you have to do is
It’s about cooperating with the treatment as much as possible, so as to achieve the best results.”
"Well, okay, professor, I understand." Stark nodded, clenched his hands on the table tightly, looking a little nervous. He looked into Charles' eyes and said, "Then where do we start?"