Chapter 1807: Summer in Fool Village (Twenty-One)

Talia was very calm. She just blinked and said, "Yes, just like when I was a child, if I hadn't crawled out of the tomb with my last breath, the monsters there would have torn me to pieces."

"There were many times when if I hadn't killed the other party or I hadn't run away, they could have disposed of me at will and no one would have come to save me."

"Maybe you thought he didn't love you a long time ago, and you admitted and accepted this fact, but what's more cruel than this is that he loves the value you provide."

"But in fact, it's not that valuable." Talia smiled and said, "No single killer can accomplish his great ideal, so they are equally important to him, I am included. "

Talia relaxed, nestled in the single sofa in an unprecedented relaxed posture and said: "You may think that I have his blood, at least this blood has some value, but in fact, the blood of the devil can not provide any power, I am just an ordinary person, all my abilities come from acquired practice. "

"Lei Xiaogu has only me as a descendant, not because my mother is special, but he knows that his descendants will not add any help to his great ideals, but may still be troublesome. I am just an accident. If I hadn't inherited my mother's beauty and could help him open up the situation in the upper class, he would not recognize me as his daughter. "

"When the children are in childhood When they pay the real price in their time, there will be another orphan in the world, and the greatest tragedy in their lives comes from the fact that they don't realize they are orphans, or they are unwilling to admit that they are orphans. "

"What about you?" Talia couldn't help asking: "Why do I regard you as a feathered serpent related to death? Is it just an illusion?"

"I don't want to lie, so I'll tell you it's not entirely true." Schiller reached out to add tea to Talia and said, "But my secret is not your urgent problem. If you firmly believe that some drug has affected you, then drink more water and go to sleep, and everything will be fine. "

"Is this how you deal with me? What do you think Can tolerance please me? "

"I don't intend to please you." Schiller walked back to his desk, sorted out the books piled on the table and said, "It's meaningless for me to get your favor. You can regard my kindness as out of social morality..."

"Come on, who do you think I am? A little girl who is troubled in college life? I am a female killer who kills people like crazy!"

"Please listen to me, miss, whether you kill people like crazy has nothing to do with whether you will encounter troubles or whether you are a little girl."

Talia was speechless. She felt confused about Schiller's attitude from beginning to end, and what made her most uncomfortable was that Schiller seemed to really not care about her at all.

Whether she broke into the garden, knocked over the red wine and kidnapped the housekeeper, or she decided to talk to Schiller to test his attitude, the other party acted very indifferent, a bit like finding a leisure job to kill time when bored.

But the current situation is not exciting enough? The leader of the Assassin's League needs his response, and the dangerous female assassin is in his home. The relationship between him, Lei Xiaogu, and Talia is in a delicate balance, and Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor are also involved. He is still absent-minded, so what on earth would make him care?

"You look a little tired, Miss. A female colleague once stayed in my manor. The dedicated guest room is the second room on the right side of the corridor at the left turn of the stairs on the third floor. You can go there to rest..."

Talia interrupted him and said, "Why should I go there to rest?"

Schiller showed that kind of surprised and confused expression again. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "There is no reason. This is just a courtesy invitation. You can refuse and leave."

"Are you saying I can leave?"

"Why not? This is just a manor, not a prison. No guard will stop you."

Talia was choked back again, but in the end she chose to go upstairs to rest.

After all, there is no safe place in the whole Gotham. Bruce and Lex, those two unlucky guys, might be waiting for her there. It is better to rest first, metabolize the drugs, and adjust your condition before making plans.

After Talia left, Schiller came to the balcony. Pamela stood downstairs and looked up at him. When the two of them looked at each other, a green staircase woven by vines was placed on the balcony railing and spread to Schiller's feet.

Schiller walked down the solid stairs, came to the door of the back hall, and invited Pamela into the office.

Pamela stared at Schiller's back closely. She felt something was very, very wrong.

"Did Bruce ask you to come?" Schiller asked.

Pamela nodded. Just as she was about to ask something, Schiller walked to the desk and picked up the vase with camellia, took the camellia out of the vase, and handed it to Pamela.

Pamela took it without knowing why, and the moment she touched the plant, her brows furrowed deeply.

Something is wrong, something is wrong, something is wrong!

Pamela's intuition began to alarm wildly. Her hands shook instinctively and she threw the camellia out.

"What's on it?" Pamela asked, staring at the flowers on the floor.

"Did you feel it?" Schiller said calmly, "You are indeed a very talented botanist."

"So..." Pamela swallowed her saliva, she covered her chest, felt her throbbing heart, frowned in pain and said, "What is that?"

"Fear gas."

Schiller turned his head to look out the window, his eyes fell on the remains of the camellia in the soil outside the window, he shook his head and said, "Bruce has told you about him and Talia, right?"

"I know he drugged Talia, maybe he wanted to take this opportunity to modify her memory, but he was interrupted and failed." Pamela repeated what Bruce told her on the phone.

"Your expression tells me that you think this is despicable."

"It is despicable."

"Then who do you think he learned this from?"

Pamela was stunned for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth and looked at Schiller's face.

"To be precise, it's not me, but the Schiller you know, Miss. I assume you have never heard that your professor Schiller hypnotized all the professors in college to obtain graduation qualifications?"

Pamela froze like a stone statue.

Schiller bent down and picked up the camellia, smiled and said, "They both seem to be complaining that they have never walked the same path, but that is just because the authorities are confused."

"As soon as Professor Schiller, whom you know, learned that Talia might come to visit him at the manor, he asked his butler to find two fragrant flowers and spray them with fear gas. This is an extremely time-saving method to shake the other party's mind. He has used it before."

"It's not because he can only use this method, but because he does not enjoy the process of mental manipulation and abuse, just to achieve his goal. If possible, he will choose to skip the process directly, but I am different from him."

"So after I floated up, I wanted to get rid of the two flowers as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I just threw the one on the coffee table out of the window, and Miss Talia who fell from the roof just stepped on the flower bud."

"I can only say that this lady's luck is not very good." Schiller twisted the flower bud and turned it, then put it under his nose and smelled it, shaking his head.

Pamela swallowed her saliva again, observing the new Schiller cautiously. She had known for a long time that Schiller had dissociative identity disorder, but she had never seen him in person. The Schiller in front of her gave her a completely different feeling from the previous Professor Schiller.

Although the Professor Schiller that Pamela knew was very serious and had strict requirements for students, it was mostly due to the professional outlook and sense of responsibility of a teacher. His anger and tolerance had their sources, and his behavior pattern was understandable.

But the scene that Pamela just witnessed upstairs, Talia's mental state that was on the verge of collapse was obviously from the Schiller in front of her, but he seemed to have no purpose at all, as if he was doing it just for fun.

"Wait, Talia changed rooms and stayed for so long, the effect of this poison gas should not be very strong, right? Then why is she still..."

Pamela couldn't help asking out loud, Schiller pulled out the single sofa and asked her to sit down, and Pamela, like every Gotham person, stepped on the accelerator without hesitation at the fork in the road between life safety and curiosity and went straight to curiosity.

She stared at Schiller intently, waiting for her to give an answer, and Schiller seemed to find the process of revealing the secrets interesting, so he patiently explained it to Pamela.

In general, the general principle is as follows:

Talia was unlucky and came too early. Schiller did not properly dispose of the flowers, causing the fear gas sprayed on the camellia by Pride to affect her, leaving a first impression of fear.

After discovering Talia's reaction, Schiller did not correct similar impressions, causing Talia to continue to feel danger from Schiller, which stimulated her sense of crisis and survival instinct, and also caused her to always overreact in a state of stress.

But Schiller acted as if he did nothing, creating an ordinary daily environment, causing Talia's stress state to look clumsy and embarrassing in this environment, completely like going crazy, inappropriate will stimulate social instincts, and social instincts will make people want to be sociable.

The survival instinct requires desperate and radical resistance, while the social instinct requires suppression of emotions, silence and stability. These two instincts have been fighting constantly, creating extreme mental consumption, which is called the "dog whistle effect" in psychology.

This type of reaction means that the abuser finds the victim's weaknesses in a long-term intimate relationship, deliberately pokes the victim's pain, makes him crazy in public, and makes the victim's survival instinct and social instinct completely conflict, thereby achieving the purpose of mental abuse.

The most common example is that in front of friends, you reveal your most concerned shortcomings in a joking tone, and you get angry and say "It's just a joke, why do you care so much?"

In front of colleagues, he makes a proposal that completely harms your personality and dignity and asks you to implement it. When you get angry, he says, "I just made a suggestion, and I didn't force you to do it."

In front of relatives, he or she may or may not point out one of your shortcomings. When you express dissatisfaction, he or she says, "I am also afraid that you will take a detour in the future. I won't say anything if you can't listen to other people's opinions."

When this behavior occurs for the first time, it is mostly the abuser with a tendency to mental abuse who is screening victims.

The first rule to avoid becoming a victim is not to get angry. Don't rush up to argue in anger. Then be careful not to refute any point in their words and avoid getting into an argument.

For example, in the first situation, you must never say angrily, "Is this a joke? This is obviously you...", and you must not refute coldly, "I don't think this is a joke."

This is the reaction that mental abusers are most looking forward to seeing. Similar angry reactions will directly tell them that you have been poked by them, and then they will continue to poke endlessly. Seeing others feel pain for their words and deeds is their source of pleasure.

At this time, the best way is to attack directly. Note that it is not counterattack but attack. Give up the existing topic and scold back from another angle.

For example, in the first case, you can directly say "Are you kidding? Then you really have no sense of humor", in the second case, you can say "Your suggestion is too bad. If you are not good enough, don't give suggestions", in the third case, you can say "You have taken so many detours, and you still have the nerve to give others advice?".

The attitude must be calm, and the tone must be calm, as if what you said is common sense, as if you have always looked at him this way.

Let the other party understand that you are a predator like him, not a prey, and the other party will naturally lose interest in you.

Going further, if you can create an atmosphere that everyone around you has always looked at him this way, the other party will easily get angry and be defeated by you.

Just like facing pyramid schemes, the best way is not to argue whether this method can make money, but to directly attack it personally. No matter how good the model is, you can't make money by following a bad person like you. Let the other party get angry and argue with you whether he is bad or not.

The same is true for dealing with persistent insurance salesmen and salespeople. The product is great, but the reason I don’t buy it is just because I think you are bad. The same is true for borrowing money. I can lend you money even if I have it, but I just don’t want to lend it to you.

Once the other party starts asking “why” and “why”, it is easy to stir up the other party’s emotions, and you will be the one who holds the initiative.

After spreading the above behavior patterns to the entire social circle, you can basically completely prevent bad people with mental abuse tendencies from approaching, but you must be careful to grasp the scale, otherwise it is easy to become a bad person who abuses you mentally.

"What do you think is the most correct thing for Miss Talia to do?" Schiller asked. Pamela just frowned and thought, and he added: "I'm not a professor, so don't feel pressured. You can say whatever you want, such as she should beat me up as soon as she jumps down."

Pamela opened her eyes wide and said, "Really?"

"Although I don't like to use special abilities, I still have some experience fighting humanoid creatures." Schiller poured Pamela a glass of wine and said, "It's one of the correct answers, but the risk is quite high, so it's not a full score."

"What should the standard answer be?"

Schiller smiled and said:

"She should have directly scolded me for not learning well, otherwise how could she teach students to be hooligans who date the opposite sex but drug people?"

Pamela was stunned.

At this moment, she realized that Talia was actually a victim who was right from beginning to end.

Hehehehe