The rich emerald green swayed in the sound of rain, and mist rose from the trees, as if they had grown into towering trees overnight, directly inserted into the misty cloud waves, and the raindrops slapped on the glass, like a slightly dissolved painting.
"Da da da……"
The metronome on the bedside made regular sounds. His breathing gradually broke away from this rhythm, and his chest began to rise and fall faster and faster. With a "pop", Schiller sat up from the hospital bed.
He put the bottom of his palm against his drowsy head, turned his body, sat next to the bed, and saw his face reflected on the white floor tiles.
He exhaled and felt a little dry, so he reached out to ring the call bell beside the bed out of habit. After he finished this action, he was stunned for a moment, as if he remembered something.
The call bell on the bedside table lit up, and it was Stark who walked in wearing a steel suit. After seeing him, Schiller shook his head and shook some memories out of his mind.
Fortunately, someone other than the attending doctor walked in and told him that he was a delusional patient and that all his previous experiences were his imagination. In fact, he was just a mental patient who had been hospitalized. This kind of development was too old.
Got it.
But Schiller still didn't understand why he was here. He looked up and looked around the ward, and then discovered that this was a high-end ward of a hospital.
The smooth tiles on the floor are spotless, the flowers placed by the bed do not have any pungent smell, and all corners of the hospital bed have protective measures. Schiller, who once worked in the Presbyterian Hospital, knows that this should be the best place in the psychiatric hospital.
Kind of ward.
"Zila——", the mechanical friction sound of the steel suit came, the suit opened, and Stark walked out of it. He walked to sit next to Schiller, and then looked at Schiller with his eyes.
That look basically hovers between "You can tell me anything no matter what" and "If you don't tell me, you don't treat me as a friend."
Schiller felt a little headache. Of course he knew that Stark and Steve must have made up something in his own mind. But the problem was that when he returned to the palace of thinking, he did not find any clues. In the end, these two people were in his mind.
He had no idea what he saw in the palace of thought.
At this time, Schiller had already realized that he had definitely been deceived by a certain personality in his own mind. Which one was it? Do you need to ask?
At first, he had left an abacus for him, but he actually repaid him with kindness. Schiller thought angrily that next time he must take off all the abacus beads and throw them away.
Now, there is an information gap between Schiller and Stark. Stark learned something in Schiller's mind palace, but due to some careful person's mischief, Schiller himself did not know about Stark and Steve.
What exactly did you learn in the palace of thought?
This is like the police arresting a prisoner for a case. The police know the details of the case, but the prisoner does not.
At this time, the police asked the prisoner to confess. In fact, this prisoner was not an ordinary prisoner. He was a serial murderer and had committed many crimes. He did not know which case the police asked him to confess to. If he spoke rashly,
It’s easy to go out more bald…
Schiller is in this state now. He knows that Stark must be thinking about something, but he doesn't know what Stark is thinking about. If he tells all the possible pitfalls in his thinking palace,
, it may take until next year to talk about it, and after the talk is over, you will never have to leave the hospital again.
Schiller reasoned based on the details he now knew. It was known that the biggest change he had made this time was actually letting go of a personality that had never surfaced since he came to this world. That was Moonlight Schiller, also the young Xi Le.
le.
At the same time, Kongsu chose this personality as the carrier of his power. When Schiller took this personality out to deal with the Egyptian gods, Kongsu should still be in the mental ward of the lunatic asylum.
Although Schiller only regarded Kongsu as a tool man, he also gave him certain permissions to move freely among the 10th floor.
There were no people below the 10th floor of the Hall of Thought. After Stark and Steve entered the Hall of Thought, they walked up from the first floor without taking the elevator. The first existence they encountered might be Kong Su.
.
If Stark and Steve were trying to track down Schiller, after they expressed their intention to Consu, Consu might have taken them to the ward where the young Schiller once lived.
With Stark's intelligence, he should be able to find some clues there to deduce Teller's experiences as a boy.
In this case, Schiller thought, then what he exposed to Stark might be some memory fragments from his youth.
From Schiller's point of view, there is no problem with this speculation. After all, he could not have imagined that DC Schiller colluded with himself to put on a show for Stark and Steve.
The so-called ego is actually the most instinctive side of human beings, that is, the real self. This part is actually very difficult to do things in a planned way. The ego will cooperate with this matter, even the DC who makes the decision.
Even Schiller was surprised, and Marvel Schiller was even more unlikely to have imagined it.
After repeated scrutiny of this speculation, Schiller felt that there was nothing wrong with the logic.
Now that the matter has come to this, it is better to resort to the plan. Schiller said:
"Do you want to judge me?"
Schiller turned his head, looked into Zhang Stark's eyes and said: "Pry into other people's inner world without their consent, find out some evidence that others are abnormal, and then use despicable means to put him in a mental hospital...
"
"Tony Stark, do you still want to say that this is for my own good?"
Stark was stunned. He didn't expect that Schiller, who had just woken up, would be so aggressive. He spread his hands and explained: "That's not it. In fact, we just..."
"Then why am I here?"
Schiller stood up, looked down at the hospital gown on his body, then turned around and looked at Stark, who was still sitting on the hospital bed, and asked:
“Do you support Kongsu or Amit?”
"...What?" Stark was a little confused.
"Do you know why the two of them were fighting?"
"Why?"
"Kong Su believes that he only has the power to judge and rule after a crime has been committed."
"What's the problem?" Stark asked...
"And Amit believes that the crime that has occurred is irreversible, so the criminal should be killed before the crime occurs."
"Absurd." Stark commented, "If we follow this theory, everyone in the world is a sinner."
"Then what are you doing?" Schiller looked at Stark and asked.
"You dug up some old events in my mind palace, so you concluded that I should be sent to a mental hospital, so I appeared here."
"But have I hurt others because of my mental abnormality? Have I ever committed a crime because of it? Don't those abnormalities only exist in my mind?"
"Essentially, you are doing the same thing as Amit." Schiller stared into Stark's eyes and said, "Even though he just killed me."
Stark took a deep breath and said: "We are not trying you, and we are not locking you here..."
"Okay, now I'm leaving here..." After saying that, Schiller turned and left. A black shadow passed by him. Stark walked in front of him and stopped him. Schiller stopped and shrugged.
He shook his shoulders and said:
"If you would have let me out of here, you wouldn't be wearing a suit today."
After saying that, he glanced at the suit parked in the center of the ward, showed a somewhat sarcastic smile, and said, "The cigarette I handed you back then has become the weapon you use against me now."
"When you used it to kill Amit, did you feel that you were very righteous? And when you use it to stop me now, do you feel the same way?"
"Although I didn't do anything, you monitored me as a criminal because of my possible danger and uncontrollable power, and even used force to coerce me when necessary..."
Schiller walked across from Stark, looked him directly in the eyes and said: "One day, you will pay the price for this idea of yours."
Just when Stark thought Schiller would leave the ward directly, Schiller turned back to the hospital bed, lay down with his back to Stark, and stopped making any sound.
At the moment before Schiller turned his head, Stark was sure that he saw deep disappointment in his eyes, which made Stark begin to waver.
Schiller did not accuse him, but simply restated the internal logic of his behavior. When this logic was brought to the table and openly analyzed, it sounded as ridiculous as Amit's ideas.
This made Stark begin to doubt whether he had really done something wrong. After all, as Schiller said, Schiller did not actually do anything harmful to society because of his mental abnormality. On the contrary, he does not care about it now.
Both his behavior and speech are very normal. He even used his wisdom to benefit human civilization before.
If a person is born with a bomb and no one knows whether it will explode and hurt others, should he be imprisoned forever and be unable to do anything?
Between individual freedom and public safety, which one should you choose?
Before, Stark had always preferred the latter, but now, he began to think about the nature of the problem. Is it the person's fault that he was born with a bomb? If not, then why should he pay the price of being imprisoned for it?
Even Schiller would still feel deeply disappointed after being treated like this. So, how many people in this world have lofty ideas and are willing to sacrifice themselves to maintain public safety?
"You know what? The moment he questioned me, I was really thinking, are we really asking him to be hospitalized to treat him, or are we afraid that he will lose control and threaten us?"
"Do I really have the right to do this? To look at him like a potential criminal when he hasn't done anything?"
In the Avengers base, Stark sat at one end of the table and Steve sat at the other end. Steve heard his question and said with some confusion: "Why do you wear a suit to visit the sick?"
?”
"How am I going to get there without wearing a suit? Drive? Do you know how congested the morning rush hour is in New York?!" Stark asked.
"Then why don't you explain to him?"
"I……"
Steve covered his forehead and said, "You must have been taken into the ditch by him again, right?"
Stark sighed and said: "I would rather that he deliberately provoked me like he did in the past, rather than really feeling sad and disappointed about it."
