"Feel your own waist." Schiller said: "There is a raised bone on the left and right sides, which is the anterior superior iliac crest."
Clark couldn't help but touch the front of his waist, and he could feel a hard bone protruding forward just above his leg and a little further up.
The term was a bit complicated and Clark had never heard it before, but he knew that it might have something to do with this bone.
"The injured location is right here." Schiller said: "This is lower than the spinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra. There is no spinal cord, only the cauda equina nerve."
There were too many professional terms. Clark seemed to understand them, but he didn't. He asked, "What's the difference?"
"The spinal cord is one piece," Schiller said. "The texture is similar to unbaked pudding, while the cauda equina is loose, like weeds pinched together."
"If the bullet directly hits the spinal cord, it is indeed possible to cause paralysis, but if it only hits the cauda equina nerve, the nerves that can be affected are limited. From the perspective of the bullet's entry, the harm is not very great. It may cause damage to the right leg.
It is difficult to move, but it is impossible to be directly paralyzed."
Clark's open mouth never closed, and he said: "Does this mean that Professor Xavier was not paralyzed because of this?"
"He's not paralyzed."
After Schiller finished saying this, his expression gradually became more vivid. He looked at Clark and said, "How is it? Did you find any clues?"
Clark hesitated to speak, he said: "What on earth is going on? If Professor X is not paralyzed because of this incident, then why?"
"Maybe he has never been paralyzed." Schiller smiled and said a ridiculous possibility. He said: "He will sit in a wheelchair for decades, just because Eric thought he would not come.
."
"ah??????"
The expression on Clark's face can no longer be described as complicated. There is a sign of a collapse of the worldview. It seems that he is desperately trying to prevent Schiller from saying some mentally polluting words, and at the same time he is very curious to hear them.
"No, stop talking." Clark's strong willpower defeated his curiosity, and he said: "I will ask him personally, and I will ask Eric."
Clark went up, and Clark came down with a dull look on his face.
"How's it going?" Schiller asked, blowing on the coffee in his hand.
"He said he knew." Clark sat down on the sofa blankly and said, "He said he knew Professor X had never been paralyzed."
"Then what?"
"He said something that I couldn't call a human sentence."
"What exactly?"
"I don't know, I really don't know." Clark shook his head, looked at Schiller as if grasping a life-saving straw and said, "It's not what I thought, is it?"
"If you continue to search, you will also find that Charles lost control of his abilities earlier." Schillermo picked up the handle of the cup and recalled what Charles said when they went ice fishing together.
"That can be said to be the starting point of their bad relationship, but in fact it was not a loss of control at all, it was Charles's intention."
"Because only by showing his strength and making Eric feel threatened, he will focus on Charles. And only by always involving the other person's attention can he possibly manipulate the other person."
"So it's not Eric who's crazy, but Charles???" Clark said in disbelief.
"I said there are only two consequences for studying psychology. Since Charles is not dead yet, he must be crazy."
Clark couldn't understand it at all. Whether it was from the information he checked or what he saw with his own eyes, Eric was the one who took the initiative in the relationship between the two, and was even the one who violated it, because he was always very irritable.
Don't listen to others' advice.
This is true from a factual point of view. The whole world feels that Magneto is causing trouble for mutants, while Professor X is constantly wiping his ass and cleaning up the mess.
But the truth is very likely not to be the case. The real manipulator is Charles, who has been the mastermind from the beginning.
"If you investigate the early life of Charles Xavier, you will find that Charles and Professor
"
Clark really didn't know this. He recalled the image of the old man in the wheelchair in his mind and said: "He doesn't look like that. He looks gentle, steady and kind. He is a good teacher and a good elder."
."
"He is not this kind of person."
"But maybe he has grown? Maybe some major accidents have changed him..." Clark couldn't go on at this point, because if there was a major accident, it would be paralysis, but if he had never been paralyzed
, then is it really possible for him to undergo such a complete transformation?
"Charles has never been a good man, or he is the sicker of the two of them. It's just that his talent allows him to weave a very perfect human skin, just like me."
"Just like you..." Clark couldn't help but sit a little further away. He still remembered what happened between Schiller and Batman.
In essence, the biggest reason why Schiller and Batman tortured each other for four years without anyone stopping them is that Schiller seems to be a good teacher, a world-renowned psychologist, and he has a very perfect human skin.
"So is this the case?" Clark frowned deeply and said, "So whether it's the burst of ability or paralysis, it's all a trick played by Charles to manipulate Eric? Then why doesn't Eric... Oh, I
Understand, he actually can't..."
??????55.??????
After saying that, Clark stood up and rushed upstairs again. After a while, he came down again with a dull look on his face.
"what did he say?"
"He said he knew, he said he knew this was all Charles' trick, and he said he knew how the two of them got to where they are today, and how he became what he is today."
Clark sat upright on the sofa again. His super brain was almost fuming, and he didn't understand what was going on.
"You could compare him to me and Batman, I mean my other personality and Batman."
"The only difference is that Charles didn't want to save Eric, he just wanted to drag him down so that the two of them would always be close friends and never be alone. He did it."
"If I hadn't pushed Bruce to another path, then maybe the two of us would have been like this, manipulating and being manipulated, owed and being owed, until there were countless old bad debts that couldn't be reckoned, and in the eyes of the world
If you can never be talked about alone, how can you not be considered a lifelong confidant?"
Clark fell silent and said, "This is too morbid."
"Then do you think Eric is completely innocent? Didn't he enjoy any tenderness by indulging in it? Didn't he indulge in this tenderness so much that he didn't struggle even though he knew he might drown?"
"Is it really worth it?"
"It's hard for outsiders to judge whether it's worth it, because you haven't lost and gained, you haven't had your desires satisfied, you haven't been abandoned and found again. You don't have that much pressure, so you can never understand that there are many people in this world who don't care about health.
They just want to have fun."
“They also know in their hearts the damage that certain pathological relationships will do to them, like smoking and drinking that they can never quit, but it gives them comfort and allows them to spend at least a while and a half in a long life without hope.
Have a moment of relaxation, why not?”
Schiller looked into Clark's eyes and said: "Since you can understand their basic need to eat, you also have to understand that they are not low-level creatures who just want to eat. Humans' emotional needs are much higher than those of beasts. They even
You can give up the last ear of wheat you are holding for the sake of love."
"They are fragile and crazy. They are crazy because of their vulnerability. Their vulnerability makes them lose too much, so they desperately want to get it back and make up for it. It is not surprising that they risk their lives for this."
"Then why did you push Bruce down another path again, Professor?"
"I'm not a professor, but from the perspective of a bystander, maybe it's because someone once pushed me to another path."
"Who?...your parents?"
"No, my doctor."
Schiller smiled and looked at Clark and said: "You see, the world is like this. It treats people the way they treat it, and people treat others the way society treats them."
"You are not the only one in this world who is like a mirror. We also reflect all the education we have experienced to the surrounding society and other people. This kind of connection is the strongest pillar in the ant nest."
"But good will reflect good, and bad will reflect bad." Clark said: "If Charles can do what you do, then Magneto won't..."
"Good or bad is not important." Schiller said: "What is important is the connection brought by this reflection. As long as a person has such a connection with this society and other people in it, he will never be able to break away from this world.
In this small world, even if he has become so powerful that he has completely escaped the category of ants, he will eventually come back here."
"Some people are born lonely, more like a missing star among the stars. Because of the huge difference between themselves and weak creatures like humans, they are simply unable to establish a solid connection."
"But as long as there is a person who reflects him, whether it is good or bad, whether it is pushing him to another road or pulling him into the water, as long as there is this connection, then this person can become him and the world.
channel of communication.”
"He will no longer be alone, no longer floating in the sky above the ant nest quietly watching the stars rotate, but will be able to participate in it and experience the excitement of this civilization from his own place."
Clark saw Magneto walking out of the room and standing by the door, quietly listening to Schiller's words.
"For such powerful people, it doesn't matter how they live. As long as they have a strong enough connection with the people who reflect them, they will inevitably deepen their connection with this society step by step until they are no longer alone."
"It's not so much for the excitement, but rather for the people who have worked hard for him. For the connection itself, it doesn't matter how they live."
"So they don't feel sorry for themselves or feel pain, and they don't need others to bother correcting them."
"At the end of the day, all the sails have passed, all the grand goals and ideals are forgotten, and all the efforts made are just to be like the people who have been connected with me, and to have the same connection with others to reflect others
, make new connections of your own.”
"From the answerer to the question maker, this is how the world works. We have relied on these connections to get to where we are today. I think most of the other me's papers have been written, but some people... seem to have not conceived it yet.
What a good topic.”
Schiller and Clark turned their heads together, only to see the back of Magneto turning away.