The Pier Mansion Market opened its doors not long ago. Due to its extremely special geographical location and the huge flow of people on Green Street, it welcomed its first wave of customers just a few days after its opening.
At this time, the whole market was crowded with people, and the queues of pedestrians were on the edge of the queues, jostling each other endlessly.
Bruce came to the seat with two glasses of coconut juice and sat down. Selina fiddled with the wallet in her hand, took a sip of coconut juice through a straw, and suddenly said, "It turns out she is Thalia."
"What's wrong?"
"I just remembered when I saw her face. I seemed to have seen her before. To be honest, she is quite beautiful. No wonder Xiaopa fell in love with her." Selena turned the wallet in her hand with her long fingers, attracting the attention of the audience.
Bruce kept his eyes on her.
"You wait here for a while, I'll go meet her." Selena showed a sly smile, put her wallet in her bag, and disappeared into the crowd as soon as she turned around.
Thalia was taking advantage of her height to scan the crowd, and soon saw a slightly familiar figure flashing past. Her eyes were like a hawk, her movements were like lightning, and she immediately chased after her.
Because this place is not far from the beach, many women wear relatively cool clothes. Selena's midriff-baring short-sleeved dress is not out of the ordinary. Thalia shuttled among the crowd and quickly lost her target.
Suddenly, she saw a dark shadow flashing from her side. She instinctively touched her pocket. OK, her phone was also lost.
Thalia is not very good at dealing with such an environment, because killers are premeditated murders and can wait at the target location for months or even a year until their target is found.
Being alone is very important. In addition to insufficient defense power, it will be easier to attack and kill. If you want to kill with one blow, you must be quick and accurate, so you need room to display. No killer will choose to kill in the morning rush hour subway.
, even if you want to poison, you have to be able to lift your arms first, which is not enough as a member of the lunch meat.
Thalia wanted to take big steps to catch up, but there were always people and crowds blocking her way. She wanted to throw darts, but as soon as she raised her arm, someone bumped into her, causing her to stumble and lose her center of gravity.
But Thalia was not a reckless or entangled person. She chose to break away from the crowd first, ran towards the nearest door, and followed around the road outside the market.
There were eight gates in four directions of the entire market. Thalia silently calculated Selena's direction in her mind. After a while, she saw the figure of the damn thief from the door in front.
"Stop! Don't run!!"
Thalia rushed in, and Selena was standing behind a food truck, shaking her purse in her hand and giving her a big smile.
Thalia rushed over and grabbed Selena with one hand, but Selina used a flexibility that did not suit her body and grabbed the railing on one side of the food truck and wandered to the other side, hiding.
Opened Thalia's arm.
Thalia attacked from another direction, and Selina turned to the other side. Thalia threw a dagger, and Selina went directly over the top of the food cart. As soon as Thalia went around to chase, she
Something hit me straight in the face.
The thing fell into her arms. She looked down and saw that it was her wallet and mobile phone. In just a few seconds, Selena passed through the beams of the market ceiling, like a cat.
, put his hands together on the ground between his feet, and bared his teeth at Thalia.
"Stop fucking messing with my man, bitch."
With a whoosh, Selena jumped into the crowd and disappeared like a fish.
When Pamela found Thalia again, she was so angry that she had no choice but to pull her to sit down on the nearest table and chair and hand her the iced coffee in her hand.
"When you covet someone else's boyfriend, you know that this day will come and what it takes to be a third party..."
"The problem is that I didn't take it as a third party!" Thalia was angry about this. She said: "What did I do? Go on a date with Bruce Wayne? But it was him who fucked me during the date.
I drugged you!! And that damn bitch scratched my face before!"
Pamela sighed and said: "Have you not noticed that your professionalism has been weakened since you came to this city? What killer would be angry about such a thing?"
Thalia was stunned for a moment, then she pressed her forehead with her fingers and took a deep breath. She thought what Pamela said made sense.
Since arriving in this city, she has become a little emotional, and things should not be like this.
From a professional perspective, Thalia's impression was that from the very beginning she could do anything to complete the task, and it was clear that her purpose in doing these things was just to complete the goal.
If something doesn't go well, she will give up doing it out of efficiency considerations, or change her strategy. During this period, emotional factors are not her criterion for judging anything. Thalia is usually a person without
Mood person.
This may sound strange, but the fact is that Thalia never feels happy or unhappy about her tasks, she does it, completes it, then moves on to the next one, and so on and so on, which is what makes up her life.
But since coming to Gotham, she has often been unhappy, thinking about many things in her free time, and even developed a very obvious resistance to some things. This has undoubtedly seriously affected her professionalism and cannot catch up with cats.
Women's strength has obviously declined.
"What do you think is going on?" Thalia asked with a frown.
"Perhaps this is the real thing, and you may not know it yourself. Don't look at me with that look. I'm not a psychiatrist. If you really feel uncomfortable, then go make an appointment for psychological consultation."
"What a terrible suggestion." Thalia sighed sincerely: "If a killer wants to see a psychiatrist, it means he is finished."
"But it's not because you are afraid of killing or feeling guilty." Pamela shrugged and said, "The mood swings have become more obvious, and it may be a special manifestation of the excitement period. It will not make you fall into depression and pain.
But it will always affect you, like a shadow."
Pamela drank the last sip of coffee, sipped hard through the straw, made a frowning noise, and then said: "You are always trying to avoid being manipulated by anyone, even your father, but the emotions in you may be more generally manipulated.
It’s touching you, but it’s more subtle so that you can’t feel it.”
"Now for some reason, its manipulation of you has surfaced. I guess, just a guess, that your decision to reproduce may have affected your body more seriously than you imagined."
"People often say that opportunities always come to those who are prepared. This is also true in terms of human physiology. Our psychology always affects the body in various ways. When you decide to have a child, your
Hormones prepare you for it much earlier than your mind does."
Thalia frowned deeper, not because she was dissatisfied, but precisely because she felt that what Pamela said was reasonable. All these abnormalities did happen after she started executing the plan against Bruce Wayne.
, there were signs even before she came to Gotham.
General research believes that women are more affected by hormone fluctuations, so the vast majority of women behave more emotionally; some research also shows that hormones affect both psychological and physiological aspects. When it continues to change, you will also
There are various differences in these two aspects.
"Then how do you make it stop?"
Pamela shook her head and said: "If you don't change your decision, I'm afraid this will continue forever. When you get pregnant, progesterone will have a more obvious impact, and you will always have to face it."
Thalia seemed a little upset. She kept poking the ice in the cup with a straw and sipping her coffee. After a while, she sighed and said, "Do you think I should see a psychiatrist?"
"I didn't expect you to ask that."
"I have no experience dealing with this at all. For the first 20 years of my life, what you call hormones were like dead. But when it suddenly appeared, I couldn't fully adapt to it. It was very dangerous for me.
of."
"Because of your father."
Thalia glanced at Pamela in surprise, but then looked away and nodded solemnly.
"He's a man, and it's often hard for them to understand what happens to a person physically and psychologically if they decide to become a mother, but I've seen it happen."
Pamela also lowered her hands, poked the ice in the cup with a straw and said: "My mother once wanted a second child, but it was not in a stable family environment. At that time, I was about to have an extremely rich stepfather, and the child was
To make him my stepfather."
"After she made this decision, she began to change, but it was these changes that the man did not understand and did not intend to understand, so they finally parted ways."
"This behavior is not noble, but it illustrates the point that forming a stable family first and then breeding offspring is indeed one of the few survival wisdoms of human beings, because this is the time when mothers are most vulnerable."
"And if you're going to skip the step of starting a family and getting asylum, you have to be strong enough, especially if you're not going to have Bruce Wayne's child, and you're not going to go back to your father and accept his help, then this is
It must be much harder than you think."
"So you suggest I go?"
"Although you skipped a lot of steps, there are still rules to follow. Go to the hospital for a physical check-up first, and then if you feel that your emotions are bothering you, see a psychiatrist regularly."
Thalia covered her eyes and said: "This shouldn't happen in my life, it's so ridiculous."
"It's too ordinary and ordinary, and your life in the past twenty years was too magnificent."
Thalia sighed deeply, looked into Pamela's eyes and said, "You must have a very bold suggestion regarding the choice of a psychiatrist."
Pamela laughed and said: "In fact, according to the convention, you should find an older female doctor who has had childbirth experience. She can empathize with what you are going through now."
"But considering the magnificent life in the first 20 years of your life, if I want to say who can combine such experiences to make the most appropriate diagnosis for you, it is probably the only world-renowned psychology expert we have.
Professor Le."
"And he is also one of the culprits for my current situation, him and his students." Thalia said almost through gritted teeth.
"You know how he will answer you. It all started with the decision you made to become a mother. It is not him who controls you, but your own emotions."
"And you plan to help him clear up the relationship?"
"I'm just trying to help you see the facts, because if you're really going to have him as your shrink, you can't spend all your therapy time attacking him, but rather focus on yourself - and your wallet.
consider."
"Is his consultation fee expensive?"
Pamela rarely hesitated.
"Maybe I shouldn't make this suggestion so hastily." She suddenly changed the subject and said, "I'm not sure you can afford it."
Thalia seemed to be insulted and said: "I am not a newly graduated female college student. In the industry, my fees are very expensive, and I don't accept all jobs."
"Then let's go to the dinner together. After the dinner, you can stay and talk to him."