When Merkel placed the wine glass and the plate with wine and cheese on the coffee table, Thalia's arms trembled obviously, and then she unnaturally withdrew her gaze, covering up her embarrassed look without any trace.
In fact, Thalia has no idea what she is doing now. She has weathered many storms and waves, and she can think calmly when faced with life-and-death crises, seize a glimmer of hope in thousands of fatal situations, and even turn defeat into victory.
Then why on earth did she look surprised when she was alone with a man?
Thalia was distracted and looked at the surrounding environment. This was a room with a dark brown tone as a whole. The smooth herringbone floor reflected the refracted light of the gorgeous chandelier crystal. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows were separated by cherry wood window lattice.
Medium-sized squares and thick curtains are hung neatly by the window.
The wine cabinet on the wall opposite the window contains a variety of famous wines and some strange sculptures. On the desk is a thin bone china vase with a camellia in it.
Of course, there are also many traces of the life left by the owner of the manor, such as the almost invisible footprints on the carpet, which show that Schiele once paced back and forth in front of his desk. One of the footprints was particularly heavy, and it seemed that Schiele had been standing there for a long time.
There were also hidden fingerprints on the metal picture frame hanging on the door. It looked like the picture frame was crooked, and Schiller reached out to hold it up. The black ash on the edge of the fireplace was still fresh. The flames had been lit last night, and now
It had long since been extinguished.
Thalia is very good at observing these details. She can always find enough clues to outline a person's life trajectory in various details. She can also piece together a person's personality and personality through the scattered life trajectories.
Habit.
But what confused Thalia was that all the life trajectories presented in the room were pieced together into a completely chaotic picture. Some of them conflicted with each other, and some could be pieced together briefly, but soon there was evidence to prove them.
They should have been separated.
This makes Talia more and more confused. How can someone live such a separated life? Or is this just a trap intentionally left by Schiller?
Why go to all the trouble of setting up a maze to confuse her judgment? What's the point?
The first words Schiller said to her made Thalia hear the sound of her own mind breaking.
"I called your father and told him the truth about your behavior in Gotham."
"……What?!"
Schiller didn't seem to hear the shock and confusion in Thalia's tone at all. He just poured wine into two red wine glasses and said: "Your father is Lei Xiaogu, the leader of the Assassin League.
, I once left his contact information for a mercenary I knew, and I contacted him by phone. Just before you came, I called and talked to him."
Thalia took almost a minute to digest this fact, but soon more questions came to her mind. She stared at Schiller and asked: "Why did you call him?"
"Why can't I call him?"
A trace of confusion flashed through Thalia's eyes again. She took the wine glass stiffly and said, "But there is no contact between the two of you. How could you even think of calling him?"
"Your father is a public figure." Schiller said naturally after taking a sip of red wine: "At least in a certain circle, his identity is public, and his commitment to recruiting a certain type of people is valid for a long time. So because of that, I
If you are interested, call him for consultation, what’s wrong?”
"Are you interested in his recruitment? But you are not..."
Thalia immediately realized her gaffe. Before she left, Lei Xiaogu told her that Schiller was in the light and they were in the dark. Schiller could not be aware that the Assassin League was targeting him, otherwise
All plans for this professor may come to nothing.
Thalia almost revealed the Assassin's League's knowledge of Schiller, which would inevitably arouse Schiller's suspicion. Thalia felt even more frightened because she was not sure whether this was a deliberate trick by Schiller.
Her words.
If Thalia knew something about the theoretical knowledge of psychology, she should have understood that she was not such an imprudent person. Years of training as a killer had made her more strict than anyone else, and in this situation just now, in
In psychological theory, it is called "forced error".
"I talked to him about you."
Schiller pulled Thalia out of the river of thinking with just one sentence, and his actions were quite rough. He didn't bait carefully or wait patiently. It was like using a huge net to trap all the fish in the river.
All the fish were caught, and she was just one of them.
The information revealed in Schiller's words forced Thalia to return her attention to reality again. She asked: "What did you say to him?"
"About what you did in Gotham." Schiller repeated the facts he had already said, but gave some additional information: "But your father's attitude makes me feel a little strange."
Thalia had to start to weigh again. When Schiller brought the topic to Lei Xiaogu, did he want her to reveal more information? She didn't know how far she should answer to get more information from Schiller.
More information, but at the same time not exposing yourself.
Just as Thalia was thinking about the wording of her answer, Schiller interrupted her thinking again and said: "I'm surprised that your father doesn't seem to understand what you are doing."
Thalia's heart tightened instantly.
Although she did come under Lei Xiaogu's order this time, she has never been obedient, and Lei Xiaogu also knew this very well. If it was revealed during the phone call between Xiele and Lei Xiaogu that she had her own plans,
What would Lei Xiaogu think now and what would he do?
What a mistake, Thalia gritted her teeth and thought to herself, why did Schiller call his father directly? No matter how you look at it, this call makes no sense, right?
But another doubt arose in Thalia's mind. When she was under the Gotham Cathedral, Thalia was sure that she had appeased Schiller. Thalia was very confident in her judgment. She was making sure that Schiller
After accepting her conditions and not causing trouble for a while, I took the next step.
Otherwise, Thalia would not have rashly accepted Bruce's invitation to go to the Wayne Hotel for a date. Of course, she also knew very well that it would be difficult to deal with being attacked from both sides, so she must have thought that she had already solved one.
to deal with another.
If Schiller didn't accept her conditions at all, then it would actually be a better choice not to let her go at that time. Pamela's magical ability to control plants, the home field advantage of the priest of Gotham Cathedral, combined with Schiller's magical changes
With her unpredictable fighting style, Thalia has no chance of winning.
If Schiller still planned to deal with Talia, then he should make a decisive decision and capture Talia directly under the Gotham Cathedral.
This is one of the reasons why Talia judged that Schiller still didn't know the Assassin's League's plan. If Schiller had known that the Assassin's League wanted to deal with him, then he should have caught Talia when he blocked him.
She came to negotiate with the League of Assassins.
But he didn't do this, which proved two points. Schiller didn't intend to deal with Thalia, and he didn't know that the Assassin League was already targeting him.
But regardless of whether Schiller planned to deal with Talia or not, or whether he knew that the League of Assassins was already targeting him, calling Lei Xiaogu was completely unreasonable.
If Schiller is not hostile to the Assassin's League, then he should leave it alone. Making phone calls is redundant. If he wants to deal with the Assassin's League, then instead of arresting the opponent's important figures, he calls the opponent's boss. Isn't that just to alert the enemy?
Thalia was puzzled. The only answer she could think of was that Schiller didn't call and was just trying to scare her, so she asked, "What did my father say?"
But at this moment, Schiller shook his head and said: "I talked to him unilaterally about you, but he didn't respond at all. Regarding the part about your deeds that I told him, he only replied with a slightly confused reply.
'Hmm?', and then started discussing with me the philosophy and way of doing things of the League of Assassins."
Thalia's fingers tightened on her arm. This description was too similar to her father. The only thing Lei Xiaogu valued most was his ideal. Apart from that, no one or anything was his priority.
Thalia had already accepted this fact and had no feelings about it, but at this moment, she felt a sense of humiliation from Schiller's doubts, because she could see that Schiller's doubts were sincere.
It was as if Schiller acquiesced that a father should care for his daughter and treat his blood descendants as the apple of his eye, but Lei Xiaogu's complete lack of concern for Thalia greatly exceeded his expectations.
Thalia didn't feel humiliated that Lei Xiaogu didn't care about her, but felt ashamed that it was not her but her father who had exceeded Schiller's expectations so far.
She broke into Gotham University's laboratory and affected the school's normal teaching, but she was let go with just a verbal promise. She jumped off the roof inexplicably and appeared in this man's garden, but the other man was like
He let her into the house without caring about her purpose and even invited her to drink.
The other party's only way to deal with these matters is to call his father, and only responds to certain attitudes of her father.
Why is this so like a young child getting into trouble in kindergarten? The teacher understands that he is ignorant, so he doesn't scold him and just chooses to communicate with his parents?
Thalia was so angry that she was trembling with rage.
But at this moment, Schiller showed a trace of doubt again, and Thalia clearly felt that this doubt was directed at her, as if he had chosen a perfectly normal course of action, and Thalia's anger was completely
It's unprovoked.
This angered Thalia even more, and even made her temporarily forget the instinct that continued to call the police in her heart. She placed the red wine glass heavily on the table, making a "pop" sound, and the wine in the glass splashed out.
On the table, a few drops even splashed onto the cheese on the plate.
Merkel, who had already left, poked her head in from the door and asked with concern: "What's wrong, sir? Did something fall on the ground? Do you need me to come in and take care of it?"
But at this time, Schiller stood up. He took out the neatly folded handkerchief from his suit pocket, leaned forward slightly, and handed the handkerchief to Thalia.
Thalia shivered and followed Schiller's gaze to her hand, only to find that the red wine she had just spilled had gotten onto the back of her hand.
The inexplicable anger drove Thalia to go crazy desperately, because she knew that all this was obviously Schiller's fault, and she was angry because of his ignorance. Why is he pretending to be a gentleman now?
The furious Thalia opened Schiller's hand with her other hand, and the handkerchief fell on the edge of the table. After a pause, Schiller calmly bent down to pick up his handkerchief, and then stood up straight.
While folding the handkerchief neatly again, he said:
"If my words just now are offensive, please understand. Miss, you came too suddenly. I didn't think of a corresponding topic for this meeting. I hope you will forgive me."
