Batwoman held up the water god's gun and took the trapped poisonous plants with her, and the group set off towards the big tree in the center.
"You want to know the secret of each personality, and do you think the solution to this situation is hidden in it?" Charles asked.
"This is a very reasonable inference." Batman replied: "It is a simple and simple inference that an ordinary person, a person without psychic ability, can make."
"What's so easy about this?" Charles muttered in a low voice.
"Everything in this world appears for a reason. Even if they do not follow the physical rules of the real world, they must follow the law of cause and effect." Batman said: "There is a cause before there is an effect. This is the most essential rule in the universe."
"A lot of things happened before they happened. You think of these personalities as the cause of a certain disaster, but in fact they were the result of many earlier disasters."
"If you treat them as causes and nip them in the bud in order to prevent disaster from happening, then the real causes that ultimately create these personalities will continue to create them without end."
Charles frowned deeply. Batman hit the nail on the head. The most troublesome situation facing the Psychic Assault Team now is that it is very difficult to kill these terrifying superpower personalities, but according to David himself
, these superpowers are still being produced in his heart.
No one knows where they come from and where they are going, no one knows how to completely eliminate them, and no one knows how to prevent David from having these personalities that may bring disaster anymore.
But Batman provides an enlightening perspective. What they want to solve is not these personalities, but the deeper things that lead to these personalities.
After the poisonous cloud was dispersed, traveling became easier. After arriving under the big tree, they found a small tree house on the tree with a row of spiral stairs close to the tree trunk, like the one in a Boy Scout summer camp.
facilities that will appear.
As soon as Batman reached the stairs, he stopped and said, "It looks like this has something to do with his childhood. This thing is not designed for adults."
Batwoman also stepped up and stepped on it and nodded. Her reasoning was the same as Batman's. There was no very profound reason, but the steps were not only narrow, but also very dense, with almost no gaps.
For adults, when one foot steps up, half of the sole of the foot is exposed. The front step is very close, and the heel of the upper foot will touch the back leg. If you step up step by step, it will be very uncomfortable.
awkward.
But for younger children, it is easy to walk and very safe.
After walking up two more levels, about one meter high, there were wooden crossbars nailed to the trees to serve as handrails. Every detail showed that this place was actually an amusement facility, not really used for it.
Survival treehouse.
They walked to the top, where there were two small rooms facing each other and a platform in the middle. Batman bent down slightly and observed the traces here before officially standing on the platform where the room was located.
Batwoman was also observing, and Charles was observing the two of them, because he really didn't know what they were observing.
This place is really ordinary. The platform is made of boards fixed with nails and wires. The walls of the house are made of tree trunks, weeds and mud. It seems that every time a group of children comes, the place will be rebuilt. It seems to be a summer camp.
one of the activities.
"There are footprints." Batman pointed to the marks on the floor and said, "There are about three children and one adult standing here. A fatter child is standing at the top of the stairs, and two thinner and smaller children are standing in the room.
in front of the door, while the lord stood at the edge of the platform."
"What happened..." Batwoman said with a certain tone: "Something must have happened here."
"So what do you think happened at that time? Ms. Mark Taggart." Schiller gently tapped the end of his pen on the table and looked at the woman sitting opposite.
This lady has brown hair neatly tied back, wears a white coat, and looks like she has just left her job.
"I don't know, David never told me." The woman named Mark Taggart looked a little tired. She said: "When this happened, he was still living with his parents. I struggled to
It took a lot of effort to find out the general story of what happened, but I don’t know what exactly happened, and he never told me.”
"Then tell me what David told you, ma'am," Schiller said.
"Just call me Maura."
"Ms. Harrell, when the large group of mothers dropped him off on Muir Island, he seemed very taciturn and we all thought he might have childhood anxiety disorder," Mora said.
"Although I have been studying his mutant abilities during that time, I have not forgotten to protect his mental health. I think it is very inhumane for him to stay in the ward every day, so I applied to take him to the yard at noon.
It’s breathable.”
"There is a big plane tree in the yard, which comes from France. I used to like to go under that tree to enjoy the shade, so I also took David there, but he didn't want to touch the tree, even if the weather was so hot that it was too hot.
He was covered in sweat and he didn't want to stand in the shade."
"So I started to ask what was going on, and he just kept shaking his head. After my persistent questioning and investigation, I found out that when he was 7 years old, his mother and stepfather sent him to the summer camp.
There was an accident."
"No one knows exactly what happened. In short, one of the projects in the summer camp is to lead the Boy Scouts to fight in the jungle, learn about plants, learn to make fires, and build tree houses."
"Although it is a jungle battle, it is actually just taking the children to play in a small forest, letting them know several common poisonous plants, and teaching them how to use flint to make fire. Everything went smoothly and the children had fun.
Very happy too.”
"But something happened at the last step. The only instructor who was building the treehouse that day somehow fell off the platform of the treehouse."
"How high is it approximately?" Schiller asked.
"David said it was almost two meters." Maura frowned slightly and said, "But the instructor fell very seriously. I heard that there was a problem with the lumbar nerve and he will be bedridden for the rest of his life."
Schiller also frowned.
Standing on the edge of the platform, Batman looked down. Unsurprisingly, he saw humanoid traces on the wet soil below.
"Did someone fall?" Charles asked.
Batman turned around and nodded, saying, "Yes, the adult fell and fell to the ground here."
Charles walked over, took a look at the edge, and found that this place was actually not particularly high. He didn't dare to jump down, but if he did fall, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Batwoman suddenly shook her head and said, "She didn't fall because she lost her footing, she was pushed down."
The two Batmans stood in two positions respectively. Suddenly, Batman reached out to grab Batwoman. Batwoman shrank up and hid in the room behind her as if she was scared.
Batman rushed forward and came to the door to catch Batwoman. Charles understood some of Batman's emotions, so he immediately rushed over from the edge of the platform, grabbed Batman's cape and pulled him out.
The two of them pulled and pulled all the way to the edge of the platform. Batman used his strength to push Charles to the ground. But at this time, Charles kicked and turned over hard, and Batman stumbled and fell off the platform.
It fell completely on the traces of the human figure, exactly.
"This is unscientific." Charles said: "If the children here are only six or seven years old as you said, and the instructors leading the Boy Scouts are retired soldiers, then how could a six or seven-year-old child throw the retired soldiers?
?”
Batman had climbed back up and said, "Can't you do it?"
Charles was slightly startled.
"Are you saying that this was actually David's experience, that he used his mutant abilities to push the instructor off the platform?"
Batman nodded and said: "And he may have used a special ability to seriously injure the instructor, because if it falls normally, the soil underneath is very soft, and most adults will be fine if they fall.
.”
"But from the traces of soil underneath, it can be seen that the other party was completely unable to move and was lying here until the ambulance arrived."
Batwoman seemed to realize something. She turned to look at the poisonous plant trapped next to her and said, "I have heard that the split personalities of many patients with dissociative identity disorder exist to protect the main personality."
"If a 7-year-old child wants to make an adult unable to move instantly, the best way, besides controlling brain waves like you, is to start with the nerves. Even we use the same method." Batman said: "The nerves are.
The Achilles’ heel of human athleticism.”
"So this personality was born at this time." Charles looked at the poisonous plants in the bubble and said: "The thing is, David attended a summer camp when he was 7 years old. Unfortunately, they met
A terrible instructor."
"Judging from the actions just simulated, this instructor may want to harm or sexually assault another child. This is indeed a very good environment for committing crimes. If it is in a remote enough community, no one will notice what happened here.
What, the children don’t dare to say anything.”
"But David is not an ordinary child. He tried to stop the instructor. After being held down by the instructor, his self-protection mechanism was activated. A superpower who specifically targeted human nerves was born, subdued the instructor, and protected David.
.”
"I think he will show up in the form of a plant, maybe because this place is supposed to protect them." Batwoman speculated: "Maybe the instructor told them to use local materials to build a shelter with plants in the dangerous jungle.
This will be the best way for them to spend the long night."
"It is possible." Batman affirmed: "Children's thinking is very abstract and pays more attention to association than logic. They may not understand the necessity of building a shelter, but they will definitely realize it through such actions.
, trees and plants are their protectors.”
"When someone wants to harm them here, their first reaction may not be like calling the police or trying to find an adult for help, but they may think that a plant god will come to save them."
"This is why child psychology is classified as a separate subject. Because their brains are not fully developed, they receive insufficient education, and they lack common sense and rational thinking, so their way of thinking is completely different from adults."
Charles immediately drew inferences from one example and said: "So in David's spiritual world, the more inhuman, the more weird and ridiculous, the more likely they are to come from his childhood."
Batman nodded and said: "As for the clown, maybe I got it right at the time. This plant personality that looks like a tree man would dress up like a clown, and it wasn't because he had seen clowns in the circus or movies.
.”
"It's just that David first learned to play poker at Boy Scout camp, and the person who taught him told him that the trump card was the strongest of all poker cards."