A typical British manor is usually divided into a front hall and a back hall. When you walk in from the symmetrical main entrance of the building, you can see the front hall used for reception and reception. The same symmetrical stairs are either arranged on both sides of the front hall or in the front hall.
The center behind the front hall extends to both sides, and Rodriguez Manor is the latter.
The door on the left under the stairs leads to the dining room, which is also where the garden floor-to-ceiling windows are located. The structure on the right is symmetrical to the left, except that after opening the door there is a corridor. On the right side of the corridor is the middle area of the back courtyard, where there is a butler's room.
, pantry, laundry room and kitchen, etc.
The room on the left side of the corridor is a reception room with a small fireplace, sofa, piano and mirror cabinet. If you go straight ahead, you can come to an office that also has floor-to-ceiling windows. This is the entire structure of the manor hall.
The structural design of the manor building pays great attention to separating the reception area from the private area. In Rodriguez Manor, the active area is the first floor, while the quiet area is the second and third floors.
Although there are offices and study rooms on the second floor of the manor, they are private areas and usually do not receive any guests. Schiller usually does leisure time reading activities there, while the office in the back hall on the first floor is more suitable for communicating with colleagues and
Friends engage in academic discussions.
The flow of guests when they arrive at Rodriguez Manor is roughly as follows: after being introduced into the manor gate by the butler, they walk through the square in the front yard, walk into the main building, and wait in the front hall.
If the manor owner is on the second floor at this time, the butler will choose to make a call. After getting the permission of the manor owner, the butler will take the guest to the reception room in the back hall.
When the manor owner comes down from the second floor, he will go to the reception room to greet the guests, and together with the butler, lead the guests to the office in the back hall, or to the restaurant through the corridor in the middle of the partition area.
Of course, not every guest will go through the front door. Batman's movement route is to first land on the roof of the manor, walk towards the back hall, jump off and fall directly into the back garden, and then walk forward through the back door of the back garden.
However, since Merkel's butler's room is in the middle area of the back hall, even if he is lucky enough not to get hung up by a branch, Merkel will find him on the way to the front hall.
Thalia also chose this route, so when she jumped from the roof of the back courtyard, she was facing the floor-to-ceiling window of the office on the right. Schiller was standing in front of the bookshelf behind the floor-to-ceiling window to check that she was missing.
Wine cabinet for a bottle of wine.
There is also a huge wine cabinet in the front hall of the manor. When Constantine broke into Rodriguez Manor for the first time, it was there that he was drunk by crazy wine. But since more and more children came in and out of the manor, Schiller
He moved all the dangerous goods to the wine cabinet in the back hall and asked Merkel to keep strict supervision and not let children enter this room easily.
No matter how broad the scope of children is, it does not include Batman. In order to deal with Talia, Bruce took a bottle of Crazy Wine directly from the back office, and Schiller was standing in front of the wine rack at this time, thinking about what to do from the underground wine cellar.
Which bottle of wine is brought out to fill the void.
When Thalia saw the figure standing in front of the wine cabinet, her killer instinct made her hair stand on end almost instantly, and the open hair follicles on her back turned into a blower of cold air.
It reminded her of the gorgeous and dangerous Quetzalcoatl painted by the Mayans that she had seen in her father's collection.
When the man turned his head, his scattered gray eyes were slightly focused. At that moment, Thalia felt like a prey that had been injected with venom.
Something is very, very, very wrong!
Thalia clenched her fists tightly, and her instinctive alarm made her almost unable to think rationally. The most terrifying thing happened. She met a man whose weakness she could not see at a glance.
It is not unreasonable for this powerful female killer to ignore all members of the opposite sex. She has an extremely powerful killing instinct against the opposite sex. Even if she is as powerful and perfect as Batman, Thalia can still find his weaknesses when she meets him face to face for the first time.
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This makes Thalia the most beautiful and deadly poisonous scorpion in the world. She believes that no man can escape her poisonous tail sting.
Until today, until this moment, Thalia found herself in the territory of another dangerous creature. There were no weak points anywhere, only perfect human skin woven with endless gorgeous silk threads, the colors were dazzling.
fan.
Don't listen, don't look, don't be attracted! Just when Thalia warned herself in her heart, she saw that figure walking to the window at some point,
When they looked at each other closely through only a layer of glass, Thalia couldn't help but look at the gray eyes hidden behind the frost-filled glass, as if they were some kind of poisonous antidote spread by Schiller.
medicine.
Something is wrong, something is wrong, something is wrong! Thalia roared in her heart like crazy.
The door opened with a creak, and Schiller only leaned half of his body out of the door. Thalia heard him say: "Please come in."
The killer-style infiltration was a stupid decision, Thalia took a deep breath and thought in her heart. This made her not know where the garden door was even if she wanted to turn around and run away. Returning the same way was more like a joke. She felt it.
Legs are weak.
Schiller seemed to have guessed what she was thinking. He turned his head slightly and looked at the big tree in the center of the garden. He smiled to himself and said, "You are lucky. You don't want to know about that tree."
How many people have you hung up on?"
What he said was true! Thalia roared in her heart again, because she couldn't hear a hint of lies, and at the same time she thought sarcastically in her heart, is it only on the trees? She bet that there are things buried under the soil in this garden.
The bones of at least twenty people.
This was the result of being carried away by anger. Thalia scolded Bruce ten thousand times in her heart, but she also knew that the matter had come to this, and she could only take one step at a time.
If she first rushed in without permission and then turned around and left regardless of the manor owner's invitation, then even if Schiller was an ordinary Gothamite, the possibility of her being hung from a tree a few minutes later was not zero, and now
Not only is Schiller not an ordinary Gothamite, he may not even be Schiller.
Thalia walked toward the door while thinking in a turbulent flow of anger and panic. He was not Schiller. The psychology professor who appeared before the FBI to be investigated for malfeasance was not like this. He was not like this...
…Perfect.
Thalia can only use such a word to describe the current Schiller, but it is not a complimentary word, but more like a symbol of terror. The figure in front of him looks like a human, but he is not - he is too perfect.
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His appearance, clothes, expressions, words and deeds all emphasize that he is a perfect person. The key point is that he is a human being, but people will not emphasize that they are human. Only monsters will carefully weave a human skin for themselves.
The toe of Thalia's shoe still touched the threshold of the manor, and the slight "click" sound seemed to frighten her. Thalia shrank without a trace.
Schiller stood close to the door that opened outwards, leaving just enough space for Thalia to pass by. But now Thalia faced a problem - if she walked in with her head held high, her shoulders would inevitably brush against the mat.
Her chest was tightened, and if she didn't want to have physical contact with this man, she had to retract her arms, buckle her shoulders inward, and slip through the crack in the door in a contracted posture.
Thalia has never felt distressed about having physical contact with anyone of the opposite sex. No, it is not distress, more like fear, similar to touching corrosive liquid with hands, every part of Thalia's body
The cells are clamoring for rejection.
He retracted his arms and held them in front of him, contracted his chest slightly and passed through the crack of the door. This gesture was not considered ungraceful, but Thalia vaguely felt that Schiller seemed to be forcing her to do this. He just
She was given this choice.
What's the point of this? Thalia hasn't figured it out yet.
Thalia, who was immersed in thinking, didn't realize that she had been standing there for a long time.
Her right foot had already landed, the toe of the shoe was touching the threshold, and the heel of her left foot had just been raised. The whole person was in a state of exchanging the center of gravity, so not surprisingly, Schiller reached out to support her left arm.
, and with a little force, she took the last step, and the two stood in the office together.
When Thalia came back to her senses, the door had been closed. She felt that the only oxygen she had left disappeared with the closed door. Her body entered the prison, and her soul remained outside the door.
The temperature in the room was lower than Thalia imagined. She keenly felt that the air flow was exchanged somewhere. The air conditioner was turned on in this room, and the moisture that had just been caught in the humid garden soon disappeared.
It becomes comfortable and dry.
Thalia took a breath, and she saw Schiller turning his back to her and walking towards the sofa next to the floor-to-ceiling window, then came to the single sofa on one side, pulled the sofa away and looked at Thalia.
This was an obvious social cue, and Thalia knew that there was no chance that she wouldn't be able to read it. She had no hope that Schiller would think of her as a silly girl who didn't understand any etiquette, and her intuition was telling her,
The only consequence of being disrespectful and acting stupid is to become a living sacrifice on Quetzalcoatl's table.
Thalia walked over, came to the gap between the sofa and the coffee table, stretched out her hand to gather the long skirt of her lower body, and sat down on the sofa.
And she herself didn't realize that when she squeezed in through the small crack in the door with her arms and chest in her arms, this posture had been fixed on her body, even now she was sitting on a soft and comfortable sofa.
On top of it, the shoulders have not been opened, and the entire chest has been contracted inward.
This kind of posture cannot be called elegant. At banquets for various celebrities, everyone will stretch out their chests and stretch their necks, like swans swimming on the lake, except because it can better show their faces.
In addition to wearing jewelry and neck accessories, it also conveys a social signal to others that "I am confident and confident."
On the contrary, when people are tired, they are more inclined to relax the muscles of the shoulders and neck and let the whole person slump. This is a relaxing posture of the body based on self-protection, and when people are not confident or
When you want to escape, your body language will instinctively imitate this posture, lowering your head and holding your chest, and holding your hands in front of you.
Psychological activities will shape body posture, and in turn, changing body posture may also affect psychology and emotions. When people stretch their limbs to their heart's content, their emotions will also relax. However, if they maintain a curled up posture for a long time, they may become irritable, nervous, anxious, etc.
Emotions will follow.
This is one of the application methods of psychology, that is, shaping posture through the environment, and then using posture to influence psychology.
The usual way of use is to create a relaxing and comfortable environment so that people can put down their guard and receive psychological treatment.
But on the other hand, you can also create an uncomfortable small space, force people to curl up their limbs, and create anxiety for them without them realizing it. By limiting their limbs, they can make them feel irritable.
Nervous, avoidant.
More importantly, when the other person does not realize where their anxiety comes from, they will gradually lose confidence in their ability to manage their emotions, resulting in confusion in consciousness and perception, and becoming more susceptible to guidance and control.