Chapter 944: The Three Detectives (Part 1)

"This is indeed a question worth thinking about." Constantine touched the bottom of his nose and said, "According to the diary you found, he has been trying to imitate ordinary people, but always failed, so he changed his method, which is to design a tower, which is the palace of thought we saw in his soul before."

"The diary does not clearly state whether this method is successful, but from our interactions with Schiller, compared to his teenage years when he was almost completely unable to live a normal life, at least now, he can live in the society of ordinary people, which proves that this method is likely to succeed."

Batman nodded and said, "And from the conversation you heard, we know that Schiller suffered from autism in his childhood, and it is possible that he was a student. "If he really solves his mental problems, it is not surprising that he can become a top psychologist through learning. I think that's probably the case." "When Schiller was young, he suffered from savant autism. Because of his extraordinary talent, he could not communicate with others, so he began to build a tower of building blocks in his brain." "But one day, the people from the mysterious organization broke into the orphanage and killed everyone there. This stimulation caused the tower of building blocks built by Schiller to collapse, and his spirit was also stimulated to a certain extent, showing aphasia, loss of thinking ability, and only instinctive reactions." "The mysterious organization took him away, or Maybe they went to Germany, or maybe they went to other places, and conducted experiments on him. Let's assume that this experiment uses mental stimulation to enable ordinary people to remove the restrictions of the brain on the muscles, thereby gaining powerful strength and becoming a powerful killer with special abilities. "

"Schiller spent his youth in the mysterious organization, and as the mysterious organization expected, he became an extremely powerful and indifferent killer, so they planned to use Schiller to go to a certain country to do something we can all think of. "

"But when they sent Schiller back to this country, Schiller suddenly got rid of their control and killed all these people. "

"The noise he made was discovered by some official organizations in this country, so they subdued Schiller. And took him in, took him to the so-called Ninth Management Center, and wanted to restore his mind to normal.

"Because the building block tower collapsed and he was not treated during the golden treatment period, Schiller could not return to the life of an ordinary person by simply disguising his behavior, so he had to change his method and pieced together the collapsed building block fragments to form a thinking tower.

"After owning the Palace of Thought, Schiller's mind gradually returned to normal, and because he had extraordinary talents and suffered psychological trauma, he chose the path of psychology and achieved good results. Finally, he came to Gotham University and became a professor.

Constantine also agreed with this conclusion. He nodded and said, "It seems that Schiller's growth process is still very inspiring."

But Batman said in a low voice: "What I care most about is the mysterious organization that took Schiller away, the British agent..."

Seeing Batman's eyes on him, Constantine looked him up and down and said, "Why are you looking at me? Not every British person is an agent. "

But at this point, Constantine seemed to remember something and said, "But I saw that the tower drawn on the second diary you took out had many patterns, but Schiller's current thinking tower is very smooth and has no traces. What's going on?"

Batman took out the diary again, and the three of them gathered together and looked at a picture on it. Batman said, "This may just be a design drawing. These patterns are to show where each piece is put together..."

Constantine shook his head slightly and said, "Even if it can be put together, will there really be no traces left? The thinking tower we see now is simply perfect, without any traces of splicing. ·

"Perhaps you don't know, Batman, that the human soul is a very fragile thing. You can see scars on the souls of mental patients. Even if they have recovered through treatment and drugs, these scars will not disappear."

"I prefer to regard the collapse of Schiller's thinking tower as the collapse of the soul. His state of not being able to speak or act independently is like an empty shell without the control of the soul."

"And if he uses some method to piece his soul back together, it will definitely not leave any traces." Constantine said very confidently, and Zatanna also echoed: "Yes, although I have never seen a person whose soul has completely collapsed, many people's souls have collapsed a small piece."

"The collapsed part may be reassembled later, and some people can even glue all the fragments together to restore them to their original shape, but this does not mean that there are no traces of gluing. If you look at it from the spiritual world, their souls are full of holes."

Zatanna turned her eyes to Constantine, who hesitated, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, okay, I'm using a sleight of hand. After all, no one wants to move around with scars all over their bodies, right?"

After that, his body emitted a faint glow, and Batman squinted his eyes. He saw that cracks suddenly appeared on Constantine's body, and some parts even looked like they were burnt.

These scars did not seem to be caused by the same thing, some were deep, some were shallow, some were large, and some were small, but from a distance, there was no good place on his body.

"This is the price of using magic." Constantine shrugged indifferently and said, "I have cut my soul more than once and used it as bait. It is not impossible to completely eliminate these scars, but it requires too much power."

"Even if my reputation is much better than it is now, no one will be willing to lend me so much power at once, not even Lucifer, because it is very likely to cause instability in the world and cause very serious consequences."

After speaking, the scars on Constantine's body gradually disappeared. He looked down at himself and said, "Anyway, it can be disguised, which is not bad, right?"

"If the memories we see in Schiller's memory space are real, and his soul has collapsed, it is impossible not to leave scars." After Constantine said this, Batman's eyebrows were twisted together again, and he began to doubt what he saw again.

"I say, have you forgotten why we are here?" Zatanna said, "We are not here to explore the professor's past, our goal is to find the curse medium."

After that, she looked down at the building blocks in her hand, her face showed a trace of hesitation, but then she said as if talking to herself: "This is also for his good. No matter who it is, even a powerful magician, mastering such a powerful curse medium means that he will be doomed."

"The more powerful, the more costly." Zatanna shook her head and said, "Those greedy black magicians will never understand this truth. It's not that they are using the curse. , but the curse is controlling them. "

Then, she firmed her expression, looked at Batman and Constantine and said: "One weak item can support a scene, and three items are three scenes. I think this is enough. When I used this trick before, one was enough. After all, fake memories are extremely deceptive, and it has nothing to do with willpower. "

Zatanna looked at Batman and said: "Will you doubt your memory? Will you doubt that something you remember is made up by others?"

Batman was silent, but Zatanna said: "Most people will feel that their memories are reliable, and the mind magician is using This point, weaving dreams and fictitious memories to achieve the goal. "

Looking at Batman's increasingly gloomy face, Constantine coughed twice and said: "But now we are trapped in this memory space, we must find a way out."

"If these three separated memory spaces have a common road, then there must be other roads connected to the more peaceful memory space." Zatanna said while thinking: "Generally speaking, the way out will be in the place where the other party is least willing to face..."

"If the follow-up room is not the correct answer, then where is it?" Batman said: "From the clues we know now Search. I can only infer that he had encountered several failures in the follow-up room, so he was unwilling to face it. "

Zatanna shook her head and said: "No, the logic of the real world may not be used in the memory space, and failure does not mean unwillingness to face it. Don't forget that at this time, he is still a mental patient, and the things he likes and hates may not be logical. "

Batman paused for a moment while touching his wrist, and felt that what Zatanna said made sense. He had studied psychology, so he knew that mental patients had different perceptions of the world from ordinary people. Adults would be depressed when they encountered setbacks and would be happy when they succeeded, but mental patients might not be like this.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the failure of the plans made again and again may leave a psychological shadow on people, and they are unwilling to go to the place where they encounter failure again, but in the eyes of mental patients, this may be a game.

After all, Schiller's diary only mechanically recorded the development of some things, and did not express emotions, so it is indeed impossible to be sure that the follow-up room is the place he is most reluctant to go.

"Besides the consultation room, where else is more likely?" Constantine also began to think, but Zatanna said directly: "The clues we have now are definitely not enough to infer a specific answer, but there is another way."

"Another way?" Batman looked at her and asked, "What is it?"

Zatanna waved to him, then walked to the door, opened it, and found that Schiller was not here, so she walked out of the door with confidence and said, "Follow me."

Constantine and Batman didn't figure out what method she was talking about, but they followed her out the door. Zatanna walked to the door of the room next to the tool room, stretched out her hand to push the door open, looked inside, shook her head, and closed the door.

Then, she walked to the room opposite, opened the door and looked inside, shook her head, and closed the door.

Then she walked forward to the room in the middle of the corridor, opened the door, closed the door, and just as she was about to continue walking forward, she turned around and found that Constantine and Batman had stopped where they were.

Zatanna stood a few meters away and looked at them, asking in confusion: "What are you doing? Why don't you come over?"

Batman also stared at her, and after a few seconds, he slowly said:

"Is the method you mentioned not the exhaustive method?"

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