Thalia's expression was very calm. She just blinked slightly and said: "Yes, just like when I was a child, if I hadn't crawled out of the tomb with my last breath, the monsters there would have killed me."
I tore it into pieces."
"There were many times that if I didn't kill the other person or I didn't run away, they could do whatever they wanted with me and no one would come to save me."
"Maybe you thought he didn't love you a long time ago, and you acknowledged and accepted this fact, but what's more cruel than this is that what he loves is the value you provide."
"But it's actually not that valuable." Talia smiled and said: "No single killer can complete his great ideal, so they are equally important to him, including me."
Thalia relaxed, nestled on the single sofa in an unprecedented relaxed posture and said: "You may think that I have his bloodline, at least this bloodline is of some value, but in fact, the devil's blood cannot provide any
As for strength, I am just an ordinary person, and all abilities come from acquired practice."
"Lei Xiaogu only has one descendant. It's not because there is anything special about my mother. It's just that he knows that the descendants will not add any help to his great ideals, but may still be troublesome. I am just an accident. If I hadn't inherited
My mother's beauty can help him open up a career in the upper class, but he will not admit that I am his daughter."
"When children pay the real price during childhood, there is another orphan in the world, and the greatest tragedy in their lives comes from their failure to realize that they are orphans, or their unwillingness to admit that they are orphans."
"What about you?" Thalia couldn't help but ask: "Why do I think of you as Quetzalcoatl, who is related to death? Is that just an illusion?"
"I don't want to lie, so I'm going to tell you not exactly." Schiller reached for Thalia's tea and said: "But my secret is not your urgent problem, if you firmly believe that there is some kind of drug influence
If I miss you, drink more water and go to sleep, everything will be fine."
"This is how you deal with me? Do you think tolerance and tolerance will please me?"
"I didn't intend to please you." Schiller walked back to the desk, sorted out the books piled on the table and said: "Winning your favor is meaningless to me. You can regard my kindness as
It’s out of social morality…”
"Come on, who do you think I am? A little girl who encounters troubles in college life? I am a murderous female killer!"
"Please listen to me, Miss, whether you are murderous or not has nothing to do with whether you will encounter troubles or whether you are a little girl."
Thalia was speechless. She was confused by Schiller's attitude from beginning to end, and what made her most uncomfortable was that Schiller seemed to really not care about her at all.
Whether she broke into the garden, overturned the red wine and kidnapped the housekeeper, or she decided to have a conversation with Schiller to test her attitude, the other party acted very indifferently, a bit like finding a leisure job to pass the time when she was bored.
But isn't the current situation exciting enough? The leader of the Assassin's League needs his response, and a dangerous female killer is in his home. The relationship between him, Lei Xiaogu, and Thalia is in a delicate balance.
, and Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor are also mixed in. This is still absent-minded, so what on earth would make him care?
"It looks like you are a little tired, miss. A female colleague once stayed in my manor. The dedicated guest room is the second room on the right side of the corridor to the left at the staircase on the third floor. You can go there to rest..."
Thalia interrupted: "Why should I rest there?"
Schiller showed that expression of surprise and confusion again. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "There is no reason. This is just a courtesy invitation. You can refuse and leave."
"You mean I can leave?"
"Why not? This is just a manor, not a prison. There are no guards to stop you."
Thalia choked again, but finally chose to go upstairs to rest.
After all, there is no safe place in Gotham. Those two unlucky things, Bruce and Lex, might be waiting for her somewhere. She might as well rest first, metabolize the drugs, and adjust her condition before making any plans.
After Thalia left, Schiller came to the balcony. Pamela stood downstairs and looked up at him. When the two of them met their eyes, a green ladder made of vines was set up on the balcony railing.
above, and then spread to Schiller's feet.
Schiller walked down the solid stairs, came to the door of the back hall, and invited Pamela into the office.
Pamela stared at Schiller's back closely, she felt that something was very, very, very wrong.
"Did Bruce ask you to come?" Schiller asked.
Pamela nodded. Just as she was about to ask something, Schiller walked to the desk and picked up the vase with camellias. He took the camellias out of the vase and handed them to Pamela.
Pamela took it without knowing why, and the moment she touched the plant, her brows frowned deeply.
Pamela's instinct started to sound like crazy. She instinctively shook her hand and threw the camellia out.
"What's up there?" Pamela asked, staring at the flowers on the floor.
"You feel it?" Schiller said calmly: "You are indeed a very talented botanist."
"So..." Pamela swallowed. She covered her chest, feeling her beating heart. She frowned in pain and said, "What is that?"
"Fear gas."
Schiller turned to look out the window, and his eyes fell on the remains of the camellia in the soil outside the window. He shook his head and said, "Bruce has told you about him and Thalia, right?"
"I know that he drugged Thalia, maybe he wanted to take this opportunity to modify her memory, but he was interrupted midway and failed." Pamela recounted what Bruce told her on the phone.
"The look on your face tells me you think this is mean."
"That's just despicable."
"Then who do you think he learned it from?"
After Pamela was stunned for a moment, she slowly opened her mouth and her eyes fell on Schiller's face.
"To be precise, it's not me, but the Schiller you know well. Miss, I assume you haven't heard that your Professor Schiller hypnotized all the professors in college to obtain graduation qualifications?"
Pamela froze into a stone statue.
Schiller bent down and picked up the camellia, showed a smile and said: "Both of them seem to be complaining that they have never walked on the same road, but that is just the confusion of the authorities."
"The Professor Schiller 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 fear gas on them. This is
An extremely time-saving method to shake the opponent's mind, he has used it before."
"It's not because he can only use this method, but because he doesn't enjoy the process of mental manipulation and abuse, just to achieve his goal. If he can, he will choose to skip the process directly, but I am different from him.
"
"So after I surfaced, I immediately wanted to get rid of these two flowers. Unfortunately, as soon as I threw the one on the coffee table out of the window, Miss Thalia fell from the roof.
I stepped on the bud."
"I can only say that this lady's luck is not very good." Schiller twisted the flower bud, put it under his nose, smelled it, and shook 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 never seen it with her own eyes, and the Schiller in front of her gave her a different feeling.
The previous Professor Schiller was completely different.
Although Professor Schiller that Pamela knows is very serious and has strict requirements for students, most of it is due to the teacher's professional outlook and sense of responsibility. His anger and tolerance have their origins, and his behavior patterns are understandable.
of.
But in the scene that Pamela just witnessed upstairs, Thalia's mental state hovering on the edge of collapse obviously came from the Schiller in front of her, but he seemed to have no purpose at all, as if he was doing it just because
interesting.
"Wait a minute, Thalia changed rooms and stayed for so long. The effect of this poisonous gas should not be very strong, right? Then why is she still..."
Pamela couldn't help but asked. Schiller pulled out the single sofa and asked her to sit down. Pamela, like every Gothamite, didn't reply when she was on the crossroads between life safety and curiosity.
Put your foot on the gas and head straight for curiosity.
She stared at Schiller intently, waiting for her to give an answer, and Schiller seemed to find the process of revealing the secret interesting, so he patiently explained it to Pamela.
In general, the general principle is as follows:
Thalia was unlucky enough to arrive too early, and Schiller failed to dispose of the flowers properly, causing the fear poison that Pride sprayed on the camellias to affect her, leaving her first impression of fear.
After Schiller discovered Thalia's reaction, he did not correct similar impressions. As a result, Thalia continued to sense 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 a normal, everyday environment, causing Thalia's stress state to look awkward and embarrassing in this environment, completely like she was going crazy, and inappropriately stimulating social interactions.
Instinct, and social instinct makes people want to be gregarious.
The survival instinct requires desperate and excessive resistance, while the social instinct requires suppressing emotions, silence and stability. These two instincts are constantly fighting, creating extreme mental internal friction. This is called the "dog whistle effect" in psychology.
This type of reaction refers to the abuser finding the victim's weakness in a long-term intimate relationship, deliberately poking the victim's pain points, making him go crazy in public, causing the victim's survival instinct and social instinct to completely conflict, thus
To achieve the purpose of mental abuse.
The most common example is to jokingly expose the shortcomings you care about most in front of your friends. After you get angry, you say, "It was just a joke, so why do you care?"
In front of a colleague, he makes a proposal that completely endangers your personality and dignity and asks you to implement it. When you get angry, he will say, "I just made a suggestion and I didn't force you to do it."
If you bring up some of your shortcomings in front of relatives, whether they are present or not, and you express dissatisfaction, he will say, "I am also afraid that you will take detours in the future, so I won't talk about it if you don't want to listen to other people's opinions."
When this kind of behavior first appears, it is mostly when perpetrators with psychological sadistic tendencies screen for victims.
The first rule to avoid becoming a victim is not to get angry, never rush to argue in anger, and then be careful not to refute any point in their words to avoid getting into arguments.
For example, when faced with the first situation, never say angrily, "Is this a joke? It's obviously you...", and never retort coldly, "I don't think this is a joke."
This is the reaction that mental abusers are most looking forward to seeing. A similar angry reaction will directly tell them that you have been poked by them, and then they will keep poking at you endlessly. It is best to see others feeling pain for their words and deeds.
their source of pleasure.
At this time, the best way is to attack directly. Note that it is not a counterattack but an attack. Give up the current topic and scold him from another angle.
For example, when faced with the first situation, you can directly say, "You are not trying to make a joke, are you? You really have no sense of humor." When faced with the second situation, you can say, "Your suggestion is too bad and your level is not good."
Just don’t give advice." When faced with the third situation, just say, "You have taken so many detours, and you still have the nerve to give advice to others?".
Your attitude must be calm and your tone must be calm, as if what you are saying is common sense, as if this is how you have always viewed him.
Let the other person understand that you are the same predator as him, not the prey, and the other person will naturally lose interest in you.
Furthermore, if you can create an atmosphere in which everyone around you has always viewed him this way, the other party will easily become angry and be defeated by you.
Just like when dealing with pyramid schemes, the best way is not to argue about whether this method can make money, but to directly attack them personally. No matter how good the model is, you can't make money by following a rotten person like you, and let the other party get angry and argue with you first.
Is he bad?
The same goes for dealing with insurance sellers and salespeople who are obsessed with you. The products are great, but the reason why I don’t buy them is just because I think you suck. The same goes for borrowing money. I can borrow money if I have it, but I just don’t want to lend it to you.
That's all.
Once the other party starts asking "why" and "why", you can easily stir up the other party's emotions, and you are the one who takes the initiative.
By spreading the above behavioral patterns to the entire social circle, you can basically completely prevent the approach of mentally abusive people. However, you must pay attention to the scale, otherwise it will easily become a mentally abusive person.
"What do you think is the right thing for Miss Thalia to do?" Schiller asked. As soon as Pamela frowned and thought, he added: "I'm not a professor, so don't feel pressured.
You can say whatever you want, for example, she should beat me up as soon as she jumps off."
Pamela opened her eyes wide and said, "Is it really okay?"
"Although I don't like to use special abilities, I still have some experience fighting humanoid creatures." Schiller poured Pamela a glass of wine and said: "It is one of the correct answers, but the risk is quite high, so I won't
Full marks.”
"What should the standard answer be?"
Schiller smiled and said:
"She should just scold me for not being good at academics. Otherwise, how could she teach students to become gangsters who date people of the opposite sex but drug them?"
Pamela was stunned.
At this moment, she realized that Thalia was actually the victim of Zhanli from beginning to end.