Chapter 1024: Shocking the Mundane (II)

"Listen to me, Stark. I feel there's no need to set up an inter-space train station next to the nursing home. On one hand, the transport demand here isn't that high. On the other hand, do you expect me to endure the sound of inter-space trains coming and going? I have neurasthenia..."

Schiller switched the phone to his other hand, sighed, and then said, "I know you're eager to connect the sky transport lines across New York, and that naturally includes here. But you don't have to be in such a hurry to have all the stations land within a few weeks, do you?"

"Yes, I know. According to our current productivity, it's not difficult to finish building all the train stations in the New York area within a month. After all, the production lines are all ready-made, just downgraded versions. With mages cooperating to open portals, material transport isn't a problem, so there are no difficulties. But you also have to consider the problems in the actual landing process..."

"If the time is compressed too short, many problems cannot be discovered. When they are put into actual application and problems arise, it may cause even more serious consequences."

"What? This is the pressure Congress gave you? Why would they give you pressure?... It has to do with me? What does it have to do with me? Oh, could it be that they are afraid they aren't bright enough, so they want to make some achievements first??"

Schiller frowned, curled his lips, and said, "I knew it, it must have something to do with the general election. Forget it, build it if you want to, but you must ensure that it's far away from my bedroom. I really have neurasthenia..."

Putting down the phone, Schiller sighed. Just as he wanted to pick up the phone again to continue dialing, the head nurse walked in and said, "Dr. Schiller, the patient in Bed 3 just broke free from his restraints again. Do you want to go over and take a look?"

Schiller put down the phone immediately, frowned, and walked out the door while asking, "What's going on? Did he self-harm again? Didn't we replace the restraints? How could he still break free?"

The head nurse hesitated, wanting to speak, but before she could make a sound, Schiller continued, "Forget it, it's not your fault. He has special abilities and can control kinetic energy. Ordinary restraints definitely won't work."

The two walked downstairs all the way and came to the inpatient department. Just as they took the elevator to the 7th floor, they saw outside the only open door on the 7th floor, several female nurses and male nursing assistants were untying a tangled mess of restraints, and there were bloodstains on them. Schiller walked up quickly and asked, "How is it? Is the patient's condition stable?"

"The medication has already taken effect, Doctor. But the restraints were broken by him again. We can only prepare new ones..."

"You all go out first. Take these bloody things far away. Don't stimulate him. I'll go talk to him." Schiller waved his hand, letting the nurses and nursing assistants go out.

As soon as he walked in, he saw a blond youth lying on the ground, wearing a hospital gown, curled up, and still shivering. Schiller walked up, squatted down, looked at him, and called out in a low voice, "Luo Bote? Luo Bote? Are you okay?"

"Don't come over... don't come over..." The youth lying on the ground had his limbs twitching. He slowly floated into mid-air, and then with a "bang," hit the ceiling. Wall dust drifted down. Schiller reached out his hand, gray mist permeated, penetrated into the kinetic energy field, and pulled the youth down.

"Listen, Luo Bote, you have to control yourself as much as possible. Don't be deceived by the hallucinations in your brain. Everything is in the past. No one will blame you..."

However, Luo Bote lying on the ground was still shivering continuously. There was a very long wound on his arm, which looked like he had made it himself. Although he was pressed to the ground by the gray mist, he still tried hard to lift his other arm, stuck his fingers into the wound, and continuously enlarged the wound. Fresh blood flowed out, and the smell of blood permeated the room.

Seeing his actions, Schiller frowned. The current situation of Speedball Luo Bote also had something to do with him.

Previously, in order to force some politicians who intended to interfere with the solar system construction plan to show their true colors, Schiller personally concocted a farce where all superheroes sacrificed themselves and the Iron Curtain was about to descend.

In order to kill Captain America, Schiller colluded with Baron Strucker, asking him to send the twins under his command, the Tri-Fen twins, to ambush Captain America on his way to investigate the truth of Spider-Man's death and use their special abilities to kill him.

The plan was formulated this way, but Schiller underestimated the uncontrollability of mutants. When fighting, they often followed their instincts more, and when using abilities, they wouldn't consider the current situation, nor would they remember the original arrangements.

At the time, when ambushing Captain America, it was originally arranged for the sister and brother to join forces, using shockwaves to ambush from behind and kill Captain America.

However, the younger brother of the Tri-Fen twins was born with the ability to briefly control human consciousness. When interfering, he instinctively activated this ability. Originally, he wanted to control Speedball to attract Captain America's attention so they could ambush from behind.

But they underestimated Speedball's ability. The completely unprepared Captain America was pierced through the heart by Speedball with one punch and died on the spot.

Among Spider-Man, Captain America, and Iron Man, only Spider-Man's death was public. Now, Peter was also active as the third-generation Spider-Man. And because the deaths of Captain America and Iron Man were not disclosed to the public, there was no such thing as resurrection.

However, Speedball, who personally killed Captain America, knew what was going on. Although Captain America later appeared in the public eye, his death was definitely not fake. He knew that he had personally killed his idol.

On the surface, Speedball was a very rebellious youth, but at the same time, he was also a military enthusiast and war buff, so he admired Captain America very much and felt that he was the spiritual banner of this country.

When Captain America found them and asked them to go investigate the truth of Spider-Man's death together, although he felt annoyed on the surface, he was very excited inside. He had never dreamed that he could fight side-by-side with his idol, just like some military enthusiasts discovering that they could actually go to the battlefield with the divine generals in history.

But reality gave him a heavy blow. He was controlled by the Tri-Fen twins and killed Captain America. At the moment of regaining consciousness, Speedball's heart almost completely collapsed.

If one had to say who was to blame for this, it could only be said that it was caused by a series of coincidences. When Schiller formulated the combat plan for the Tri-Fen twins, it was almost detailed to every attack angle. After all, he knew Captain America very well and knew some of his combat habits, so naturally, he knew from what angle an ambush could hurt him.

The Tri-Fen twins originally just wanted to use the burdens Captain America brought to distract his attention. The punch they controlled Speedball to throw didn't use full force at all; it was just a feint.

But unexpectedly, because of Spider-Man's death, Captain America was a bit distracted, and Speedball's ability was very powerful, resulting in this tragedy.

Actually, except for Speedball, this wasn't a tragedy for anyone else. After all, Captain America had been resurrected, and the transaction between Schiller and Baron Strucker had ended. Both sides got what they wanted. But all the accidents in the plan accumulated and pressed on Speedball, causing his spirit to collapse completely.

Schiller looked at Luo Bote on the ground, walked over, helped him up, brought him to the bed, looked at Luo Bote's vacant eyes, and sighed again.

Schiller took a pair of gloves out of the nightstand. After putting on the gloves on his right hand, he reached out, pressed Luo Bote's arm, but didn't use bandages to bandage him. Instead, he stretched out his fingers and pressed them on Luo Bote's wound.

The intense pain made Luo Bote let out a scream, but there was gradually some spirit in his eyes. However, he didn't look at Schiller, but slowly turned his head to look out the window.

The inpatient department of the nursing home had high standards and a good view. At this time, shuttle after shuttle streaked across the blue skyline of New York. Luo Bote opened his mouth, but his voice was too hoarse, making him unable to spit out a single word. Schiller saw what he wanted to ask, so he said:

"That's a shuttle, a newly released means of transport. If you can be discharged from the hospital as early as possible, you can take it home."

But soon, the expression on Luo Bote's face returned to being dull. Schiller stimulated him with pain again, but this time, the time he stayed awake was shorter.

In the original comic, in the process of hunting down Nitro, Speedball caused a huge explosion, which led to the death or injury of 612 innocent people. Speedball went to prison. After coming out, he counted the deaths and injuries of these 612 people on his own head, so he built himself a suit of armor with 612 nails.

The nails of this armor faced inward. When worn on the body, it would scratch the skin until it was bloody and bring huge pain. Thus, he called himself the Penitent, believing that he would repent for the death of these innocent people for all eternity.

Schiller's layout left Nitro with no room to play. Spider-Man desperately protected the citizens around New York. The scale of the explosion was very small, and the losses caused were more of building collapses. Although there were also dozens of people injured, they were all minor injuries from being hit by buildings, and they had all been discharged from the hospital long ago.

However, the tragedy of the Penitent happened from another level. Luo Bote couldn't easily walk out of the shadow of personally killing Captain America and walked on the same path as the Penitent, only able to relieve his inner guilt through pain stimulation, just like Constantine.

Schiller sat in front of Luo Bote's hospital bed, looked at his still somewhat young face, and narrated in a low tone:

"Luo Bote, I know you can hear me now. I have already confessed to you that this was caused by my mistake. My plan was not meticulous enough and didn't consider the uncontrollability of mutants, so it led to your slip-up and harming Captain America."

"I must apologize to you. This kind of tragedy is not what I wanted to see. You feel guilty just because you follow the concept in common sense that the dead cannot be resurrected. But in fact, Captain America didn't die, and everything still has room for salvation."

"You don't have to feel so guilty about this, because this was neither your voluntary act nor did it cause any serious consequences. You should get rid of the common sense that keeps torturing you and face reality."

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Schiller lowered his head, supported his knees with his elbows, and said: "Perhaps you feel that I am just comforting you as a matter of routine, but I want to tell you that I have also had similar experiences and walked to the edge of a cliff more dangerous than yours."

"I also once lived in a psychiatric hospital, or a place similar to a psychiatric hospital, for a long time. At that time, I was still young, and because of congenital mental problems, my mental state was extremely unstable."

"When I was first hospitalized, professional doctors hadn't been transferred yet. The doctor who diagnosed me hadn't seen a case similar to mine and just prescribed medicine according to conventional methods."

"However, my mental problems were far more serious than he thought. The sedative effect brought by insufficient dosage was not enough, which led to... I lost control one day."

"I bit the nurse who had been taking care of me all along..." Schiller's fingertips trembled, and then he said:

"From the time I was hospitalized, that nurse took care of me meticulously. She made me, who was in a chaotic mental state, realize that normal humans have feelings. At the same time, it also made me realize that kind humans have more abundant feelings than others..."

"Thus, I also became like you... and started to have self-harm tendencies." ===== CHAPTER 1025 =====