If we use slightly funny language to explain all this, we can only say that shabby construction is harmful to people, and the consequences of laying bricks without plastering are very serious.
Victor frowned hard, touched his forehead with his hand and said, "Broken...what does it mean?"
"That's the literal meaning." Schiller kept tapping the guardrail of the hospital bed with his fingers. He said: "The tower I built was not strong enough, and the person stood too high, so the whole personality fell into pieces.
I took a lot of pieces, and for a long time after that, I tried to glue him back."
"This..." Victor originally wanted to say that this was too ridiculous, but he felt that it might be because this metaphor was a bit too down-to-earth.
The original explanation contained many technical terms that he did not understand, so Schiller deliberately expressed it more straightforwardly.
Otherwise, this is too childish. How can one’s personality be shattered? What’s even more outrageous is that one can still stick it back together after being shattered???
"During this time, I was not in a normal social environment, but I knew I had to go back because I still had things to do," Schiller continued.
"I have to find a way to make me look like an ordinary person. For example, find a way to put the pieces back together, and then find something to glue them on, or paint some beautiful seams in the middle to pretend to be postmodern.
Artwork or something..."
Schiller sighed and said, "The reason I chose psychology is because the psychiatrist who treated me was so professional."
"Of course, it's also possible that my technique of gluing vases was wrong at that time, and he would see through it every time. Therefore, I had too many unnecessary expectations for this major, so that now, I can't even find a suitable student...
"
Schiller shook his head helplessly, but Victor was not amused by Schiller's joking explanation method, because he heard more heavy truths behind his back.
"Because there was no way to glue the vase together, I had to find another way out. I thought, instead of putting up a sticky and twisted vase, I would just take out a piece of broken porcelain and say it is a fragment of ancient porcelain."
"But it is not easy to achieve this. After thinking about it, I decided to build another house, as long as this house can leave enough space for each fragment to live in, and then let them divide it.
It might be easier to play their respective roles at different times and under different circumstances."
"So, you built a new tower?" Victor asked.
"Yes, things went very smoothly. My plan was correct. I packed my broken personality into the new house and then used it part by part. This made me look a lot more normal."
"But soon, the problem arose. If these fragments are to be used in a planned way, someone must manage them."
"Even if it is a newly built house, it must be maintained by someone, including a receptionist, repairman, security guard, cleaner, transporter, lobby manager, etc. I have to work out a complete system in my mind to ensure that
It won’t be so easy to get confused and collapse.”
"Sounds like fantasy." Victor sighed.
"That's right, I soon discovered that the fragments were not enough." Schiller sighed and said, "An apartment building cannot be full of property employees, there must be some owners, right?"
"So, in addition to the functional personality fragments, I broke the memory part into even more fragments, turning each personality trait generated in the memory into a separate fragment. They became the characters in the tower.
The principal residents, and those functional personalities are the property personnel.”
Victor shook his head, thinking this was really crazy, but Schiller paused and continued: "I will explain this because you must first understand where these things come from.
Know what really happened the day I met Bruce."
"Normally speaking, each personality fragment in my thinking tower represents a few tenths and a few, and the sum of these numbers must be a complete "one", because all fragments are composed of a complete
My personality is shattered."
"If you cut a pizza into eight pieces
, whether you separate these eight pizzas or close them, they should eventually be able to form a complete pizza." Schiller gave a very simple and easy-to-understand metaphor: "If you take out a slice alone, then it will
It is one-eighth, and the eight eighths added together are "one". Before that day, the situation in my thinking palace was like this."
"When I came to the city of Gotham, I realized that I needed a more vicious employee to deal with the various dangerous situations here." Schiller touched his eyes and said, "But, the Palace of Thoughts
Employees cannot be created out of thin air. All personality traits are actually fragments of the entire personality that has been shattered."
"If you want to have one more employee, you have to find an existing fragment and break it in half. In this way, while he can still maintain his job, he can also take charge of another new job.
.”
"Out of necessity, the property manager of the Thinking Palace cut a certain fragment working in the emotional department into two, used half of it to create an employee again, and asked him to work."
Victor's mind told him that he understood the process Schiller was talking about, but his common sense told him that this was really crazy.
It is actually very simple to say, the size of personality characteristics remains unchanged, but after infinite subdivision, you can have infinite employees.
Schiller, who had just arrived in Gotham, needed a new employee to deal with the various situations here because his existing personality could not adapt to the situation here.
But the total amount of all employees and property management personnel cannot exceed one. Therefore, we can only break one ten thousandth of it into two and divide it into two ten thousandths. In this case, there will be an extra one out of thin air.
an employee.
"Then what?" Victor asked.
"The personality fragment that was broken in half belongs to a very special department. Generally speaking, it can be regarded as a branch department under the Emotional Department. The trait represented by this personality is called "arrogance."
"On a very ordinary day, that morning, it was neither sunny nor warm. Anna told me that the person at the freshman registration office asked for leave and asked me to take over for a day, so I went and saw her at the registration office.
Bruce Wayne.”
"It is precisely because this personality trait represents arrogance that he has some judgments about Bruce Wayne based on reality, and based on these judgments, he made some actions that caused Bruce Wayne to treat a person
Regular college psychology professors generated additional interest."
"It all happened so suddenly. All the owners and property managers in the tower didn't realize what was happening. It was just that the personality heard a series of chuckles."
"After that, he performed a series of behaviors, but he thought it was completely normal, and other owners and property managers in the tower did not realize the seriousness of the problem."
"They should have stopped the employee who heard the laughter when he made this crazy move of entering the streets of Gotham at night, but because they had never experienced anything like this before, the emergency response department did not give any instructions.
Any warning would delay everyone’s response.”
"Then what?" Victor listened very carefully. He felt that this was a quite interesting story, and it was likely to be part of Schiller's history.
"While going out one night, I met Batman who was investigating a certain case at the time..." Schiller's fingers rubbed the side rails of the hospital bed, and he paused for a while before saying:
"You should know that a professor with considerable research in psychology, a personality that is inherently arrogant, met a paranoid mental patient who deceived himself..."
"We had some somewhat heated discussions on some issues in law, criminology and behavior." Schiller put his hand on the side of his neck again, and Victor looked at him and said: "So
,This injury was caused by the batarang?"
Schiller nodded and said, "When my nerves transmit pain to my brain, the alarm starts in the tower of thought."
"The personality traits in the logic department finally realized something was wrong. They discovered that that personality
What I do is not in line with my own style of doing things, nor is it in line with the needs of interests and safety..."
"What happened to that personality trait at work?" Victor asked.
"He was contaminated." Schiller glanced down at Bruce again and said, "For some very mysterious reasons, the moment Batman directed his attention to me, this personality was contaminated by some kind of virus.
.”
"The goal orientation of that personality trait has completely changed and is no longer in line with the needs of normal work. Therefore, the me you see now has become the me you know." Schiller looked at Victor and said: "
And this me now is the other half of the personality fragment that was broken apart before, representing arrogance, and also represents arrogance.”
"Are you arrogant?" Victor recalled with some confusion and said, "I didn't think so?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "The personality trait is arrogance, but it does not mean that the character I display is arrogant, nor does it mean that I will be arrogant about anyone or anything..."
"So, what does this have to do with Bruce's current situation?" Victor asked.
"Here's the problem. We were originally a personality fragment, but it was split into two. Although it was contaminated, it was transformed from my personality fragment after all, and it still retains the arrogant personality traits."
Schiller looked at Bruce and said: "The person who pollutes him has some special obsession with Batman. These two behavioral motives added together will lead to some very serious consequences. For example, this personality has a very firm belief that
, Batman will make the choice he wants."
Schiller sighed and said: "Pride is a very special emotion, including overgeneralization, paranoia, stubbornness and other traits. When the driving force is very strong, it may have various dangerous consequences.
.”
Victor also set his sights on Bruce and said, "So, this is the consequence?"
"Yes, that tainted personality believes that Batman is always a god, a superior god."
"He would occasionally fall into the mortal world just because he wanted to see how miserable the lambs he pitied were, so that he could provide material for his dream of saving the world."
"This personality trait is very stubborn. After using some methods to completely drain Batman's physical strength and energy, making Batman extremely weak and painful, he then made him realize that if he wants to live well at the bottom, he must
Abandoning the bottom line, collaborating, and proving to him that these people he thinks are pathetic are actually the criminals he hates most will cause him physical and mental trauma and mental breakdown."
"Then Batman will retreat to his lair and lick his wounds, as he has done for several nights."
"So. Batman came to the hospital to recover?" Victor asked.
Schiller shook his head and said in a very complicated tone: "But he never expected that Batman would decide to become one of these people."
Schiller paused, as if his mind was still churning, and said: "This also means that he admits that there is no difference between himself and these criminals."
Victor understood the implication of Schiller's words, but he still asked: "...Has he really given up?"
Schiller closed his eyes and said: "I don't know, but if a person doesn't really let go of his hatred, then I'm afraid he won't laugh from the bottom of his heart, right?"