Chapter 1599: The Sun Chaser (Forty)

In the combat conference room of the main ship of the nine kingdoms at the outpost on the edge of the Great Portal Star Zone of the Shi'ar Empire, Charles tapped the armrest with his fingers, and everyone else stared at him closely.

Now only human superheroes and mutant leaders were present. They came here to discuss how the Earth should fight for its deserved position in this war.

Halfway through the meeting, Charles suddenly showed a shocked expression, hurriedly left a sentence "Something happened to Schiller's Thinking Tower", and fell into a state of absent-mindedness.

How could this not shock and worry others?

In the next few minutes, Stark, Strange, Steve and other human superheroes who were close to Schiller were almost crazy, even Magneto and Beast, who had little contact with Schiller, frowned deeply, and no one here was unaware of Schiller's importance.

But fortunately, everyone present trusted Professor X's ability and believed that as long as he was in the spiritual space, there was nothing that could not be solved, so they did not burst out in such anxiety. If the group of reckless men in Asgard were here at this time, they might have already killed Schiller.

As Charles' eyes gradually focused, Stark, who was sitting in the first seat on the right, finally couldn't help asking: "What happened? Professor Charles, is Schiller okay?"

"It's just a misunderstanding." Charles replied gently: "Schiller brought a Zerg soul into his mind tower. I thought his spiritual world was invaded, but everything was under his control and there was no danger."

Suddenly, a series of relieved exhalations appeared in the room. Stark almost lay on the table without caring about his manners. Charles smiled very apologetically and said: "This is also the first time I know that Schiller has the habit of picking up monsters and raising them as pets. He took the soul of the Zerg back just to feed his pet."

"In my opinion, this is a bit shocking, but it is also within the scope of understanding, so I have no right to ask him not to do this... However, there may be something more shocking than this, you should listen to it."

The humans in the room did not focus their attention quickly. They were still feeling scared, and various terrible scenes of Schiller's spiritual world being polluted appeared in their minds.

In the end, Stark, who had the worst temper, couldn't help but complain: "Anyway, it's too dangerous to let Schiller deal with that group of bugs. Don't say the stupid words 'bugs are always dangerous'. Bugs have a thousand or ten thousand chances to make mistakes. What does it matter if they are unlucky many times? But if Schiller has a problem, the entire universe will only have one chance."

Magneto looked at Stark with some dissatisfaction. Of course, he heard that Stark was openly and secretly accusing Professor X of being too dangerous. Strange coughed twice, trying to defuse the tense atmosphere between the two, but in fact he was still helping Stark to take sides.

But at this time, the controversial protagonist Charles said something shocking: "Do you know that Schiller was abused in his childhood?"

When his voice fell, the whole room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. All the smart people present only looked at Charles but didn't speak, because they could hear some subtle condemnation in Charles' tone.

This is not a question that needs to be answered, because Charles obviously already knows the answer, and this gentle old man is already dissatisfied enough to express his emotions in public.

"We have speculated." Stark's answer is quite conservative.

He wants to avoid explaining this matter as if he is shirking responsibility, so he can be said to be scratching his head and using all his emotional intelligence to explain it very carefully.

"We have seen part of his memory, which shows that he had an accident in his childhood, but for some reason, we did not investigate it deeply. Did he mention this to you?"

"He told me in detail about his childhood and growing up experiences." Charles took a pen and a notebook from the table next to him, as if he wanted to write down some key information.

Stark and Strange, who was sitting next to him, looked at each other, and they didn't say anything. Instead, Steve, who was sitting opposite them, spoke first.

"We don't ask these questions, not because we don't care about him, including his other special features. The reason we remain silent is that we don't know how to ask a person about his painful experience without causing him to suffer secondary trauma in the process of recalling. For us, this is an impossible task."

"Your attitude towards Schiller is very contradictory." Charles adjusted his emotions, quickly found the key point, and continued.

"On the one hand, you infinitely overestimate his ability, and your expectations of his level in all aspects far exceed the reasonable range of your relationship with him. It's not like friends and friends, but more like gods and believers."

"On the other hand, you underestimate his ability to bear, believing that his mental stability is inversely proportional to his genius, and regard all aspects related to his spirit as too fragile, so you treat him with extra caution in order to maintain the status quo."

"Perhaps this is because you don't have too much professional knowledge of psychology, but more because your own understanding of emotions is not sound enough. You have experienced mental problems yourself, and you think Schiller can't bear it."

Charles put down his pen and glanced at the people in the room, and said: "But in fact, Schiller has endured more than you have experienced. He has already gone through the mental instability and broken period in his youth. He is more stable and sound than any of you."

Then Charles began to tell the others in the room about Schiller's own experience, but his focus was not the content of the story itself, nor his professional perspective, but Schiller's state when he told these things.

At the end of the story, Charles concluded: "For Schiller, this memory has no special meaning. He no longer feels pain from it, nor does he gain strength from it. There is nothing to avoid talking about, and there is nothing to write about."

"It can be said that if you inadvertently ask Schiller what your past is like, you should have known this story a long time ago."

Now, only Charles' voice is echoing in the huge conference room. Everyone else is immersed in their own thoughts, most of them are thinking about the story of Schiller's past told by Charles.

After finally understanding and digesting this information, Schiller's closer friends began to be surprised by one thing, but before they really asked, Charles had already answered their doubts, but he started from the beginning like every good teacher.

"People always say, 'Suffering makes people stronger', and this is not just their fantasy. There is research evidence that people with more difficult life experiences will show a more stable external performance, which is the so-called 'maturity'."

"But some people question whether suffering is really a catalyst for strength - does suffering really give birth to maturity? Perhaps I would rather call that calm external performance 'numbness'."

Charles glanced at Magneto sitting on the other side calmly, and then said: "Different from the intuition of most ordinary people, mental trauma is more difficult to heal than physical wounds. Time will not heal everything, but will only make some suffering forgotten, and what cannot be forgotten will make people get used to it."

"Just like all pain, once you get used to it, you will become numb. The pain still exists, but from a subjective point of view, it is no longer as painful as it was at the beginning."

Charles flipped the paper in his hand, He narrated calmly: "Those parts of the mental trauma that are too serious can be forgotten. Most of them are in constant pain, which makes people more and more numb."

"The most serious consequence of this numbness is that people show an overly calm appearance, as if they have seen through everything and let go of everything in the world. Ordinary people who don't know why call this the clarity and indifference after experiencing suffering."

"But in fact, this is a permanent scar of mental trauma. Its biggest harm is that it makes people gradually lose the ability to explore the outside world, which manifests as lack of curiosity, lack of desire, and lack of care."

"People always regard not fighting or competing as a manifestation of kindness and gentleness, and don't pay attention to why they don't want it. For people with permanent mental trauma, they are not able to ask for it, and they are gradually losing interest in everything."

Stark frowned slowly, as if he thought of something, and Charles quickly responded to his doubts.

"Yes, this doesn't sound like Schiller. Schiller is always interested in everything and wants everything, but have you ever thought that it may be precisely to fight against this state that his greed becomes more extreme?"

"The way human spirit and thinking work means that they cannot completely eliminate the scars left by major mental trauma, so they must find a way to fight against this state of vitality loss. Most patients with good prognosis of traumatic disorders force themselves to shift their attention to something that can be invested in unlimited interest, such as faith."

"Because only by infinitely stimulating interest and always maintaining a state of seeking outside can we fight against the numbness and nothingness brought about by trauma."

"In other words, the Schiller personality you know The greedy trait is not pathological, but on the contrary, it is healthy, even the healthiest of all traits, because it ensures that Schiller always has the curiosity and vitality to explore the outside world. "

After a moment of silence, Strange said: "Because he suffered serious mental damage and faced powerful enemies, he naturally had to forge more powerful weapons, so greed would be so extreme, right?"

"In a sense, that's right." Charles' fingertips stroked the paper, he turned his head slightly to look at Magneto, sighed softly and said: "Schiller is extremely lucky. During the best recovery period after trauma, he met a good doctor, a good doctor who is more patient and has better medical skills than me. "

Magneto just lowered his eyelids, and his deep eyes with ravines in his eye sockets always looked cold and indifferent. Only when he looked up and saw Charles's shining blue eyes, he looked like a reef illuminated by the glimmer of light through the ripples on the sea surface, revealing a little of the glory of the past waves from the cold and deep.

"And there is one more thing." Charles lowered his head again and looked at the paper he wrote on, and then said: "Because of autism, some of Schiller's emotions and behaviors are still abnormal, not very obvious, and no one except me can see it. This is obviously also the credit of the doctor."

"These remaining abnormalities also show that the doctor is an ordinary person and does not have the mind-reading ability like me, but it also means that I can help Schiller further and thoroughly eliminate these abnormalities."

All the humans present turned their heads and stared at Charles, and Charles still spoke in a plain but quite confident tone.

"Next, I will treat Schiller according to my treatment process for autistic patients, and I have persuaded him to accept my treatment. As Schiller's friends and now his family members, all you have to do is to cooperate with the treatment as much as possible, so as to achieve the best results."

"Well, okay, professor, I understand." Stark nodded, clenched his hands on the table, and looked a little nervous. He looked into Charles' eyes and said, "So where do we start?"