Chapter 520 Schiller's Daily Life in the Hospital (Part 1)

The rich green swayed in the sound of fine rain, and mist rose between the trees, as if they had grown into towering trees overnight, piercing into the misty waves of clouds. The raindrops hit the glass like a slightly dissolved painting.

"Da, da, da..."

The metronome at the bedside made regular sounds, and his breathing gradually got rid of this rhythm. His chest began to rise and fall faster and faster. With a "swoosh", Schiller sat up from the bed.

He used the bottom of his palm to support his drowsy head, turned his body, sat on the bedside, and saw his face reflected on the white floor tiles.

He exhaled and felt a little dry in his mouth, so he habitually reached out to press the call bell at the bedside. After he did this, he was stunned for a moment, as if he remembered something.

The call bell on the bedside table lit up, and it was Stark in the iron suit who walked in. After seeing him, Schiller shook his head and threw some memories out of his mind.

Fortunately, it was not the attending doctor who came in and told him that he was a patient with delusional disorder, and all his previous experiences were his imagination. He was actually just a mental patient who had been hospitalized. This development was too cliché.

But Schiller still didn't understand why he was here. He looked up and looked around the ward, and then found that this was a high-end ward in a hospital.

The smooth tiles on the floor were spotless, the flowers placed on the bedside had no irritating smell, and all the corners of the bed had protective measures. Schiller, who had worked in the Presbyterian Hospital, knew that this should be the best ward in a mental hospital.

"Zila——", the mechanical friction sound of the steel suit came, the suit opened, Stark walked out, he walked to Schiller and sat down, and then looked at Schiller with his eyes.

That look was basically hovering between "you can tell me whatever you have" and "you don't treat me as a friend if you don't tell me."

Schiller felt a little headache. He certainly knew that Stark and Steve must have made up something in his mind, but the problem was that when he returned to the Mind Palace, he did not find any clues. He had no idea what the two people saw in his Mind Palace.

At this time, Schiller had reacted. He was sure that he was tricked by a personality in his Mind Palace. But which one was it? Is there any need to ask?

At the beginning, he left him an abacus, but he turned his kindness into hatred. Schiller thought angrily that he must take off all the abacus beads and throw them away next time.

Now, there is an information gap between Schiller and Stark. Stark learned some things in Schiller's Mind Palace, but because of a petty person, Schiller himself did not know what Stark and Steve learned in the Mind Palace.

It's like the police arrested a prisoner for a case. The police knew the details of the case, but the prisoner didn't know.

At this time, the police asked the prisoner to confess, but this prisoner was not an ordinary prisoner. He was a serial killer who had committed many crimes. He didn't know which case the police asked him to confess. If he spoke rashly, it would be easy to reveal more.

Schiller is in this state now. He knows that Stark must have made up something in his mind, but he doesn't know what Stark made up. If he tells all the possible pits in his mind, it may take until next year, and he will never be discharged from the hospital after that.

Schiller reasoned based on the details he knew now. It is known that the biggest change he made this time was actually to release a personality that had never surfaced since he came to this world, that is, Moonlight Schiller, also the young Schiller.

At the same time, Kong Su chose this personality as his power carrier. When Schiller took this personality out to deal with the Egyptian gods, Kong Su should still be in the psychiatric ward of the insane asylum.

Although Schiller only regarded Kong Su as a tool, he also gave him certain authority to allow him to move freely on the 10th floor.

There were no people below the 10th floor of the Mind Hall. After Stark and Steve entered the Mind Hall, they walked up from the first floor without taking the elevator. The first person they met might be Kong Su.

If Stark and Steve were to track down Schiller, they would probably take them to the ward where the young Schiller lived after they told Kong Su their intentions.

With Stark's intelligence, he should be able to find some clues there to speculate about Schiller's experience as a teenager.

In this case, Schiller thought, what he exposed to Stark might be some fragments of his memories from his youth.

From Schiller's perspective, this speculation is not a problem. After all, he could not have thought that DC Schiller colluded with the ego and 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. It is actually difficult for this part to do anything in a planned way. The ego will cooperate with this matter, and even DC Schiller, who set up the bureau, feels surprised, let alone Marvel Schiller.

After repeatedly pondering this speculation, Schiller felt that there was nothing wrong with the logic.

Since things have come to this, it is better to play the game. Schiller said:

"Do you want to judge me?"

Schiller turned his head and looked into Zhang Stark's eyes and said: "Without the consent of others, you pry into his inner world, find some evidence of abnormality from others, and then take despicable means to put him in a mental hospital..."

"Tony Stark, do you still want to say that this is for my good?"

Stark was stunned. He did not expect Schiller, who had just woken up, to be so aggressive. He spread his hands and explained: "It's not like that. In fact, we are just..."

"Then why am I here?"

Schiller stood up, looked down at his hospital gown, then turned around and looked at Stark who was still sitting on the bed and asked:

"Do you support Kongsu or Amit?"

"...What?" Stark was a little puzzled.

"Do you know why the two of them are fighting?"

"Why?"

"Kongsu believes that he has the power to judge and judge only after the crime has been committed."

"What's the problem with this?" Stark asked.

"And Amit believes that the crimes that have already happened are irreversible, so the criminals should be killed before the crimes are committed."

"Ridiculous." Stark commented, he said: "If we follow this theory, everyone in the world is a criminal."

"Then what are you doing?" Schiller looked at Stark and asked.

"You dug up some old things in my mind palace, and concluded that I should be locked up in a mental hospital, so I appeared here."

"But have I hurt others because of my mental abnormality? Have I committed crimes because of it? Don't those abnormalities exist only in my mind?"

"In essence, 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 going to judge you, nor are we going to lock you up here..."

"Well, I'm leaving now..." After saying that, Schiller turned and left. A dark shadow passed by him. Stark walked in front of him and stopped him. Schiller stopped, shrugged and said:

"If you would let me leave here, you wouldn't come in a battle suit today."

After saying that, he glanced at the battle suit parked in the middle of the ward, showing a somewhat sarcastic smile, and said: "The cigarette I handed you at the beginning has become your weapon against me now."

"When you used it to kill Amit, did you feel very righteous? And when you use it to stop me now, do you think so too?"

"Although I didn't do anything, you monitored me as a criminal because of my possible danger and powerful uncontrollable power, and even used force to coerce me when necessary..."

Schiller walked to the opposite side of Stark, looked him straight in the eye and said: "One day, you will pay the price for your thoughts."

Just when Stark thought Schiller would leave the ward directly, Schiller turned back to the bed, lay down with his back to Stark, and stopped talking.

In 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 blame him, but just repeated the internal logic of his behavior. When this logic was brought to the table and analyzed openly, it sounded as ridiculous as Amit's concept.

This made Stark begin to doubt whether he had really done anything wrong. After all, as Schiller said, Schiller did not actually do anything harmful to society because of his mental abnormality. On the contrary, his behavior and speech were very normal now. Even before, he used his wisdom to benefit human civilization.

If a person is born with a bomb, no one knows whether it will explode and hurt others, so should he be imprisoned forever and can't do anything?

Between individual freedom and public safety, which one should be chosen?

Before, Stark always preferred the latter, but now, he began to think about the essence of this problem. Is it the person's fault to be born with a bomb? If not, why should he pay the price of imprisonment for it?

Even Schiller, after being treated like this, still feels deeply disappointed. Then, 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, did we let him go to the hospital for treatment, or were we afraid that he would lose control and threaten us?"

"Do I really have the power to do this? When he hasn't done anything yet, I look at him as a potential criminal?"

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 in confusion: "Why do you wear a battle suit to visit the patient?"

"How can I get there without my battle suit? Drive? Do you know how congested New York is during the morning rush hour?!" Stark asked.

"Why didn't you explain to him?"

"I..."

Steve covered his forehead and said, "Are you being led into a ditch by him again?"

Stark sighed and said, "I would rather he deliberately provoke me like he did before, rather than really feel sad and disappointed about it."

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