The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3407 Sons of Midnight (6)

Chapter 3407 Son of Midnight (VI)

"Breathe! Take a deep breath! Tony!"

Seeing Stark's body shaking, Schiller rushed forward and turned back to shout at the sky: "Jarvis! Oxygen mask!"

Stark shook his head, holding the glass curtain wall with one hand, turned around, and said, "I'm fine. I might just..."

"Just what?"

Stark took a deep breath and said, "A man with a face exactly like yours killed me. You can't ask me to accept this so quickly."

Then he turned half a circle again, spread his hands and said, "You're going to laugh at me again, just like Steve. He doesn't feel anything about this at all."

"I killed the other one too?"

"No, he jumped down himself to save me."

"Okay, Tony. That's something I didn't know. Watching a guy who looks exactly like your friend kill you, and then another friend also dies trying to save you. That's a bit much. I can hold off on laughing at you for once."

Stark smiled, but it seemed forced.

"You feel so involved," Schiller said. "Of course, it may also be because the game is so real that you feel like you are living another life. But this is not a bad thing. Your role-playing ability will be better than most people."

Stark walked over to the chair and sat down, his fingertips still trembling a little. He said, "Let's talk about your business. This will help distract some people."

"It's nothing serious." Schiller walked over to sit opposite him, then said, "I thought you guys weren't back yet, so I went to the Avengers base first and wanted to leave you a note. But I didn't expect to meet Steve, and he said you weren't in good condition. So I came here."

"He said I was not in good shape?" Stark sneered, then said, "He meant that I want to settle accounts with you, right?"

"You really came to settle accounts with me." Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Your opinion today gave me a wake-up call."

"what?"

"We are not as divided as we appear," Schiller said. "Our memories are shared, and what we learn is shared. It's just that for some reason we have divided ourselves into different schools."

"What do you mean?" Stark asked, leaning forward, resting his forearms on the table, staring at Schiller.

"I'm a psychiatrist, right? I can treat people, but not all Schillers can. Don't you think that's strange?"

Stark was stunned for a moment, then asked, "How did you learn to heal? Did you study it in college?"

"Professional theoretical knowledge, of course. But it was mainly based on imitating my attending physician," Schiller said.

"You all have a common memory, so you must also have the theoretical knowledge. Can't others imitate it? Or can't they imitate you?"

“Yes, but they don’t usually do that.”

"why?"

"Emphasizing your uniqueness helps maintain division." Schiller also put his arms on the table and said, "Now that you know that personality traits can be integrated, you will know that we become so individualistic in order to prevent passive integration."

"Passive fusion?"

“Humans have only one brain, one processing center. The physical form of existence dictates that the human spirit is aggregated. The spiritual world and personality should be complete and unified, not divided.”

"The human spirit is self-healing. Psychological trauma will fade over time. Even patients with dissociative identity disorder tend to merge their personalities after leaving the original stressful environment."

"So you also have fusion tendencies?"

"In the beginning, yes. When I first decided to exist in this way, the work was not so easy. I had to choose carefully, arrange carefully, and prevent all kinds of chaos."

"The biggest problem is not that we are too fragmented, but that some traits cannot be separated. The way we choose is to separate only those necessary traits and emphasize the personality of the traits, trying to make sure that abilities and personalities do not overlap. This makes it difficult to integrate them together."

"Won't this be messy?" Stark's facial features wrinkled together.

"Normally, there's only one personality controlling the body, so it's not that confusing. You think it's confusing because we're separated in the fighting world. You can see two of me at the same time, so it feels weird."

"But in fact, when I control the body, many personalities are on vacation. The so-called vacation is dormancy. Their characteristics will completely disappear so as not to interfere with the control of the body. This is very important and can also avoid passive fusion."

Stark had a bewildered expression throughout the whole process. Apparently Schiller was a subject he could not understand.

"You said I gave you a reminder, what was that?" Stark decided to get the topic back on track. He was not curious about the principle now, he just wanted to know what would happen in reality.

"There is no need to maintain this separation now," Schiller said, "because we have our own bodies in the fighting world."

"Why is this again?"

"Usually, most personality traits are not able to control the body because they are not healthy enough."

"What do you mean?"

"For example, the me you met is part of a pathological group, and pathological people usually cannot control their bodies. Because they will ignore the state of their bodies in order to obtain pleasure or achieve their goals as quickly as possible."

Stark seemed to understand a little bit, and he said: "You are indeed like a madman. He took four darts from Batman, but there was no reaction."

"That's it. In the past, the body was very precious to us. If we let them take full control, it could bring disastrous consequences. So basically, we would only let them out for a short while when we needed their special features."

Stark suddenly realized, and he said: "It's not like that at all now. You have that magical symbiote, and you both have your own bodies in the fighting world. And the injuries incurred in the game will recover quickly after you exit."

Schiller nodded and said, "So it doesn't matter if I get hurt."

"But there's no need for fusion, right? Can you ensure that the rational side will dominate? If not, then it would be troublesome even if you can change your body, right?"

"I didn't say we need to merge them, and we can't do it. It's just that we don't need to deliberately not use certain skills in order to emphasize their characteristics."

Stark was confused again.

Schiller spread his hands on the table and said, "I am a psychiatrist, not a university professor. In order to emphasize my characteristics, I usually do not use teaching skills. Although the teaching level of arrogance is not necessarily very good, but out of habit, I will not become a teacher."

"Similarly, Arrogance rarely receives normal psychological treatment. Even when he does receive psychological counseling, he uses a different approach. This is of course his loss."

"But if there is no need to worry about the damage to the body that may be caused by fusion, then there is no need to avoid the opponent's skills."

"I still don't understand." Stark said, "You said you can't fuse, but you also said that you don't have to worry about the damage to the body caused by fusion. So is it fusion or not?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "Using these skills that represent characteristics will bring about a certain degree of integration, or at least influence each other. Let me give you a more distinctive example."

"You should be well aware of my fighting skills. Generally speaking, there isn't much. Why do you think that is?"

"Because of what? Because you're too lazy to learn?"

"No, because I lack the trait of violence."

"What do you mean?"

"You've met him, Moon Knight."

Stark suddenly realized, and he said, "That's your violent trait. Because you want to avoid using the same skills as him, so you don't fight."

"To be precise, it's because you don't have violent traits that it's hard to learn to fight," Schiller said after thinking for a moment. "We often say that some great boxers have violence in their blood. This may not be completely scientific, but it does make sense."

"Some people are born without violent traits. Not only do they dislike violence, but they also can't do something violent. To put it in a more scientific way, violent behavior and the idea of ​​violent behavior are not able to mobilize their adrenaline. It doesn't make them feel excited, so it's naturally difficult for them to complete violent behavior."

"On the contrary, some people will become very excited if they just imagine some violent behavior. This proves that their violent characteristics are more obvious."

Stark nodded. Now he finally understood. He said, "You deliberately avoid violent behavior in order to isolate the violent traits and prevent them from merging with you."

"There won't be complete integration, but it may affect me. Because we are one person after all, there is no real separation."

"Once the violent traits affect me, if I don't find out in time, I, as the personality that controls the body, will endanger the body with some extraordinary violent behavior, which will be a big problem."

"I understand." Stark said, "Now that you have the gray fog, even if it harms your body, it can be repaired. So even if the violent traits affect you, it doesn't matter."

"But..." Stark said worriedly, "If you can all freely use the special skills of other personality traits, won't they merge together?"

"I'm afraid it's difficult." Schiller said honestly, "If it was so easy to merge, we wouldn't have separated in the first place. But perhaps they will be affected by some other personality traits."

Stark was visibly getting nervous again. He turned his palms toward himself, clenched his fists slightly, and pursed his lips.

"Tony, do you think you have changed over the years?"

"Maybe," Stark said.

"Do you think I've changed?"

Stark tilted his head and looked at Schiller, somewhat confused about what he wanted to say.

"I haven't changed," Schiller said. "Change is very difficult for me. Because it's not just about the me you know. If you have to think of me as society, then social progress is always more difficult than individual progress."

"I don't like change either. Every major change in my life has been neither good nor bad. I don't look forward to change."

"Although you think I have compromised a lot for my friends, it still can't be called a change. And if one day I decide to change, will you stop me? Or will you support me?"

"I don't know." Stark clenched his fists so tightly that the edges of his palms began to turn white. "I know too little about you. I don't know if the change will be for the better or for the worse, or... I will lose a friend forever."

"You've changed a lot, Tony. But every time you change, I don't think you'll leave me."

"But we are not the same. You are... much more complicated than me. There may be many unexpected situations, and it may be much worse than imagined."

"It's the same for everyone. When you make a choice, you have to prepare for the worst. There are times when I don't want to but have to force myself to accept the worst possible outcome."

"but I……"

"That was the time for you, Tony. The only time. When you became the Iron Man, I was prepared for the possibility that you would rise to the level of Iron Man from all universes, and my friend would be drowned in it."

"Really?" Stark's eyes were almost filled with tears. When he looked over, it was as if he was looking at two shining stars in the distance. He said, "Are you really ready?"

"...Well, I didn't. But fortunately, you gave me a good result." Schiller smiled and said, "So I also promise you that it will definitely be a good result."

Some people questioned how Schiller could strengthen

Schiller hasn't synthesized the big watermelon yet.