The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3406 Sons of Midnight (5)

Chapter 3406: Son of Midnight (V)

"Knock, knock, knock." Schiller knocked on the door.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he and Stark stared at each other.

With a whoosh, a pillow flew past Schiller's ear. Schiller rolled his eyes, picked up the pillow and said, "What are you crazy about? We agreed at the beginning that it was 80 yuan and there was no bargaining. Now you want to regret it, isn't it too late?"

"What a mess!" Stark pounded the table and said, "The other you killed me directly and prevented me from completing the mission. You bastard!"

Schiller opened his mouth and used all his strength to suppress the corners of his mouth that wanted to rise, making a regretful expression.

"So the mission failed." Schiller coughed twice, put his fingertips together and said, "You should know that I can't control their actions..."

"But you should at least remind us how dangerous they are!" Stark said with a grin, "He even tried to tear the reactor off my chest. If I hadn't retreated quickly, I would have died of pain on the spot!"

"I reminded you." Schiller frowned and said, "What did I say before I left? Don't trust any of me, and don't turn your back on anyone. You didn't do any of it, did you?!"

Stark opened his mouth and said, "That's called a reminder?"

"And I've already said that the thing you embedded in your chest is totally unreliable. It has no effect other than adding a weakness to you. And you kept it just to see the shocked expressions of Iron Man in other universes. You deserve it!"

"Aren't you just putting the blame on someone else?!" Stark was shocked. He said, "Even if you can't control the actions of your other personality traits, you should at least tell us enough information..."

"I told you," Schiller stressed again, "Don't trust them, and don't turn your back on them. Why do you think I know more about them than you do?"

Stark was even more surprised and said, "But they are all Schiller."

"Iron Man in other universes is also Iron Man. Do you dare to say how much you know about the Mechanical Overlord?"

Stark was speechless. After a while, he turned his head and said, "I thought you did it on purpose."

"what?"

"You would want your other self to win. Would you?"

Schiller looked at him helplessly and said, "Then would you want your other self to win? At the cost of killing me?"

"Of course not!" Stark said in a raised voice, "What does their winning or losing have to do with me? But you are my friend... You are different. At least you have known each other for a longer time."

"Then why do you have a bad relationship with your father?"

Stark choked again.

Schiller sighed and said, "I completely understand your fear of sudden death and your resentment about losing the game. I can't say that I didn't expect this result at all. But it's definitely not what I expected."

"Even if I hope you fail, it's never because I want others to succeed, but just because I want to see you unlucky. My attitude towards all my friends will not depend on other people, or another me."

"I didn't tell you the information about the other me you met. It's not that I'm trying to take sides and make him win and you lose. I've already told you the most important information. I don't know much about the rest."

"If you use your most brilliant brain in the world to think about it, you will know that I have no motive to conceal information. Because we play different roles in the game. The position of the character is our ultimate position. Letting the real position affect our game position will lead to the failure of the game. I will never make such a stupid choice."

“No matter who you are, if you are my enemy in the game, I will kill you; if you are my ally in the game, I will try my best to help you. This is the right way to win the game.”

"What if one day I play the role of your enemy?" Stark asked with his eyes wide open, "Will you choose to pull out the reactor in my chest?"

Schiller was helpless. Stark was a typical high-demand friend who needed to be confirmed all the time and was also very childish. In his eyes, the world was a big "You can't play with him if you want to play with me."

"I wouldn't do that, Tony," Schiller said. "I wouldn't do that to any Iron Man."

"why?"

"Because it is a very cruel thing to do." Schiller did not seem to understand why he asked this question. He said, "In order to win, I need to defeat you, and maybe even kill you. But no matter what, I have no need to torture you cruelly. It will not bring me any benefits, so why should I do it?"

"Really?" Stark asked doubtfully.

"You have dealt with many other versions of me. Don't you realize that I am far less cruel than them, nor as cold-blooded as they are?"

Schiller admitted that he was flattering himself and that he was also suspected of flattering others. But who cares? Who hasn't lied to fool others? Let's clear ourselves of all this first.

Stark turned his head to look at him, then rolled his eyes back, but quickly turned around and said, "You were one person before... I mean, when you weren't split, which side was dominant?"

Schiller was stunned by his question. He said, "...there is no split yet?"

"I mean, if you had never split apart, what kind of person would you be? Would it be more like you or more like them?"

“You’re like a philosopher,” Schiller said. “I don’t see the point in presupposing things that won’t happen.”

"I'm just curious," Stark said. "Is this possible?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "That happened when I was very young..."

Before Schiller finished speaking, Stark said, "What if you had a different upbringing? Like, a normal family. What would you become?"

"I'm afraid nothing will change." Schiller thought for a moment and said, "My mental problems are innate and cannot be corrected by external forces. When I was very young, my living environment was not as bad as you think. In fact, it was not bad. But in the end, it became like this."

Stark was silent for a few seconds, then said, "So this is inevitable?"

"I think so," Schiller nodded, then he laughed again. "I'm not in pain, so there's no need for treatment. You're not thinking about..."

"I have another worry." Stark pointed to his temple and said, "When you appear in front of me one day, you will no longer be yourself."

"What do you mean?"

"You just disappeared suddenly."

"Why did I suddenly disappear?"

"Because you are just a fragment." Stark looked into Schiller's eyes and said, "Can you be called a complete soul? I don't know. If it is incomplete, can it exist forever?"

"Or like some diseases, they suddenly heal themselves. In my case, my friends suddenly disappeared."

"You're getting anxious again, Tony." Schiller frowned slightly and said, "I'm not a parasite that lives on someone. I won't disappear because of the immune system or the effects of medicine."

"What if someone killed you?"

"Are you worried that my other personality traits will kill me?" Schiller looked at him helplessly and said, "What good is that?"

"They can control the body and do whatever cruel things they like."

"Do you think I'm a superhero among Schillers?"

Stark was completely bewildered. It was clear that Schiller's complex situation was beyond his comprehension.

"In your understanding, we have a society. Each personality trait has its own role. Some are responsible for being superheroes, and some are responsible for being super criminals. The two sides are always in confrontation, and sooner or later one side will destroy the other."

"But in fact, it is not. There is no such society. We will not fight against each other, let alone destroy each other..."

“Have any personality traits ever disappeared?”

Schiller was silent.

"So there is. Why is that?"

"Because that wasn't entirely our personality," Schiller said. "It was the Joker. And he didn't completely disappear, he just merged with another personality."

"Will you merge with the others as well?"

“I won’t,” Schiller denied again. “Because it doesn’t make sense.”

"Then why was the missing personality trait integrated?"

Schiller discovered that Stark was trapped in a vicious circle. He could not understand the way he existed, so he used the social structure he knew to impose on himself.

In the human society he knew, people would be killed, so he thought that personality traits might be killed. In the human society he knew, there were good and evil, so Schiller's personality traits had camps.

And in human society, if something has happened before, it can happen again. So he felt that if a personality trait disappeared, then sooner or later he would disappear too.

Schiller tried hard to think about how to explain it to him. After a long time, he felt that there was no solution at all, so he might as well make up a lie.

"Well, maybe one day we will merge," Schiller said. "All the personality traits you have seen of me will merge into one complete Schiller."

"and then?"

"Nothing will happen. We won't take out your reactor. It's just garbage to us."

Stark seemed to have learned his lesson and was not changed by him. He just turned around and said worriedly: "Maybe one day you will really merge, but as long as you remain the same, none of us will know."

"As long as I remain the same, isn't that the same as not changing?"

"No, it's totally different."

Schiller couldn't help rubbing his brows and couldn't help saying, "Who of us is the psychopath? ... Tony, Tony!"

Stark suddenly came back to his senses, as if nothing had happened, turned to Schiller and said, "What did you come to see me for?"

"Don't change the subject, Tony." Schiller still wanted to clarify things with him today. He said, "If one day we merge, but the merged Schiller still has the same memories and treats you in the same way, then what's wrong with that?"

"Of course not!" Stark said irritably, "That would be the same as you being dead, wouldn't it?"

"No!" Schiller also raised his voice and said, "We are one person. When you were trying to cure my autism, didn't you consider that if I was cured, I would be like an ordinary person, with only an independent personality?"

Stark was at a loss again.