Chapter 1772: Summer in Fool's Village (21)

Talia's expression was very calm. She just blinked lightly and said: "Yes, just like when I was a child. If I hadn't crawled out of the tomb passage with my last breath, the monsters there would have torn me into pieces."

"And many other times, if I hadn't killed the other party, or if I hadn't run away, they could dispose of me at will. No one would come to save me."

"Maybe you thought he didn't love you a long time ago. You admitted and accepted this fact, but what is more cruel than this is that he loves the value you provide."

"But actually, it's not that valuable," Talia smiled and said: "No single killer can complete his great ideal, so they are equally important to him, and I am included."

Talia relaxed, nestling in the single sofa with an unprecedented relaxed posture and said: "You might feel that I have his bloodline, at least this bloodline has some value, but in fact, the demon's blood cannot provide any strength. I am just an ordinary person, and all abilities come from acquired practice."

"Ra's al Ghul only has me as a descendant, not because my mother had anything special, just that he is clear that descendants won't add any help to his great ideals, and might even be trouble. I am just an accident. If I hadn't inherited my mother's beauty and could help him open up the situation in the upper class, he wouldn't have admitted that I was his daughter."

"When children pay the real price in childhood, there is one more orphan in this world, and the biggest tragedy of their lives comes from them not realizing that they are orphans, or not willing to admit that they are orphans."

"Then what about you?" Talia still couldn't help asking: "Why would I regard you as the Feathered Serpent God related to death? Was that just a hallucination?"

"I don't want to lie, so I will tell you it's not entirely." Shiler reached out to add tea to Talia and said: "But my secret is not a problem you need to solve urgently. If you firmly believe that some drug has affected you, then drink more water and go to sleep. Everything will be fine."

"Is this how you dispose of me? Do you think tolerance and forbearance can please me?"

"I didn't intend to please you," Shiler walked back behind the office desk and organized the books piled on the desk and said: "Gaining your favor is meaningless to me. You can regard my kindness as out of social morality..."

"Come on, who do you think I am? A little girl who encounters trouble in university life? I am a female killer who kills people like hemp!"

"Please listen to me, miss. Whether you kill people like hemp has nothing to do with whether you will encounter trouble and whether you are a little girl."

Talia was speechless. She had been very confused about Shiler's attitude from beginning to end. And what made her most unaccustomed was that Shiler didn't seem to care about her at all.

Whether it was her breaking into the garden, overturning red wine and kidnapping the butler, or her deciding to talk to Shiler to probe his attitude, the other party performed very indifferently, a bit like finding a casual job to pass the time when bored.

But is the situation not exciting enough now? The leader of the League of Assassins needs his response, and the dangerous female killer is in his house. The relationship between him, Ra's al Ghul, and Talia is in a subtle balance, in which Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor are also involved. All this is still absent-minded, so what on earth will make him care?

"It seems you are a bit tired, miss. A female colleague once stayed in my manor. The dedicated guest room is the second room on the right of the corridor after turning left at the stairs on the third floor. You can go there to rest..."

Talia interrupted him: "Why should I go there to rest?"

Shiler showed that kind of surprised and confused expression again. He was stunned for a moment and said: "There is no reason. This is just a polite invitation. You can completely refuse and leave."

"You mean I can go?"

"Why not? This is just a manor, not a prison. No guards will stop you."

Talia was choked back again, but in the end, she chose to go upstairs to rest.

After all, there is no safe place in all of Cat Getan. Those two unlucky guys, Bruce and Lex, might be waiting for her somewhere. It's better to rest first, metabolize the drugs, and adjust her state before making plans.

After Talia left, Shiler came to the balcony. Pamela stood downstairs looking up at him. When the two of them met eyes, a green ladder woven from vines was placed on the balcony railing and spread to Shiler's feet.

Shiler stepped along the solid ladder and walked down, came to the door of the back hall, and invited Pamela into the office.

Pamela stared closely at Shiler's back. She felt very, very, very wrong.

"Did Bruce ask you to come?" Shiler asked.

Pamela nodded. She just wanted to open her mouth to ask something, but Shiler walked to the desk and picked up the vase with the camellia, took the camellia out of the vase, and handed it to Pamela.

Pamela didn't understand, so she took it, and the moment she touched this plant, her brows frowned deeply.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Pamela's intuition began to alarm wildly. She instinctively shook her hand and threw the camellia out directly.

"What's on that?" Pamela stared at the flower on the floor and asked.

"You felt it?" Shiler said calmly: "You are indeed a very talented botanist."

"So..." Pamela swallowed a mouthful of saliva. She covered her chest, felt her heart beating, frowned somewhat painfully and said: "What is that?"

"Fear gas."

Shiler turned to look out the window, his gaze falling on the camellia remains in the mud outside the window. He shook his head and then said: "Bruce has already told you about him and Talia, right?"

"I know he drugged Talia. It might be to take this opportunity to modify her memory, but it was interrupted halfway and didn't succeed." Pamela repeated what Bruce told her on the phone.

"Your expression tells me you think this is very despicable."

"This is very despicable."

"Then guess who he learned it from?"

Pamela was stunned for a moment, and then her gaze fell on Shiler's face.

"To be precise, it's not me, but the Shiler you are familiar with, miss. I assume you haven't heard that your Professor Shiler hypnotized all the professors to get his graduation qualification during his university years?"

Pamela froze into a stone statue.

Shiler bent down to pick up the camellia, showed a smile and said: "The two of them seem to be complaining that they haven't walked on the same path, but that's just the bystander's confusion."

"The Professor Shiler you know, the first time he learned that Talia might come to the manor to visit him, he asked his butler to find two flowers with fragrance, and sprayed fear gas on them. This is an extremely time-saving method to make the other party's heart shake. He used it before."

"It's not because he can only adopt such means, but because he doesn't enjoy the process of mental manipulation and abuse, just to achieve the goal. If possible, he will choose to skip the process directly, but I am different from him."

"So after I surfaced, I wanted to deal with these two flowers for the first time. Unfortunately, I just threw the one on the coffee table out of the window, and Miss Talia, who fell from the roof, happened to step on the flower bud."

"I can only say that this lady's luck is not very good." Shiler twisted the flower bud and turned it, smelled it under his nose, and shook his head.

Pamela swallowed again, observing this new Shiler somewhat cautiously. She had long known that Shiler had dissociative identity disorder, just hadn't seen it with her own eyes. And the Shiler in front of her felt completely different from the previous Professor Shiler.

The Professor Shiler that Pamela knew, although very serious and had very strict requirements for students, most of that was out of the professional ethics and sense of responsibility of a teacher. His anger and tolerance had sources, and his behavior pattern could be understood.

But the scene Pamela just witnessed upstairs, Talia's mental state hovering on the edge of collapse, clearly came from the Shiler in front of her. But he looked like he had no purpose at all, as if he did this just because it was interesting.

"Wait, Talia changed rooms and stayed for so long. The effect of this kind of gas shouldn't be very strong, right? Then how is she still..."

Pamela couldn't help asking. Shiler pulled open the single sofa and invited her to sit down. Pamela also acted like every Gothamite, stepping on the accelerator and running straight to curiosity at the crossroads of life safety and curiosity.

She stared intently at Shiler, waiting for her to give an answer. And Shiler also seemed to feel that the revealing process was very interesting, so he explained to Pamela patiently.

In general, the principle is as follows:

Talia was unlucky and came too early. Shiler didn't properly deal with the flowers, causing the fear gas sprayed by Arrogance on the camellia to affect her, leaving the first impression of fear.

After Shiler discovered Talia's reaction, he didn't correct similar impressions, causing Talia to constantly feel danger from Shiler, which stimulated her crisis consciousness and survival instinct, which led her to always make excessive reactions in a stressed state.

But Shiler acted as if he had done nothing, creating a normal daily environment, causing Talia's stressed state to look clumsy and embarrassing in this environment, completely like going crazy. Inappropriate timing will stimulate social instinct, and social instinct will make people want to be gregarious.

Survival instinct requires excessive resistance regardless of everything, and social instinct requires suppressing emotions and being silent and stable. These two instincts have been constantly fighting, creating extreme mental exhaustion. This is called the "dog whistle effect" in psychology.

This kind of reaction refers to the abuser finding the victim's weakness in a long-term intimate relationship, deliberately poking the victim's pain point, making them go crazy in public, making the victim's survival instinct and social instinct completely conflict, so as to achieve the purpose of mental abuse.

The most common example is revealing your most concerned shortcoming in the tone of a joke in front of friends. After you get angry, they say "it's just a joke, why care so much?"

Proposing a proposal that completely endangers personality and dignity in front of colleagues for you to implement. When you get angry, they say "I just made a suggestion, and didn't force you to do it".

Mentioning one of your shortcomings in front of relatives. You express dissatisfaction, and they say "I'm also afraid you will take a detour in the future. If you don't listen to other people's opinions, I won't say it".

This kind of behavior appears for the first time, mostly because abusers with mental abuse tendencies are screening victims.

And the first rule to avoid becoming a victim is not to get angry, never let your anger go to your head and go up to theorize, followed by paying attention not to refute any point in their words, avoiding falling into arguments.

For example, facing the first situation, never angrily say "is this a joke? This is clearly you...", and never coldly refute "I don't think this is a joke".

This is the reaction that mental abusers most look forward to seeing. Similar angry reactions will directly tell them that you have been poked by them, and then they will poke endlessly, seeing others feel pain for their words is their source of pleasure.

The best method at this time is to attack directly. Note, it is not counterattack but attack, abandon the existing topic, and scold back from another angle.

For example, facing the first situation, you can directly say "you don't want to make a joke, do you? Then you are really not humorous enough". Facing the second situation, you can say "your suggestion is too bad, don't make suggestions if your level is not good". Facing the third situation, just say "you have taken so many detours, how can you have the face to make suggestions to others?".

The attitude must be calm, the tone must be calm, as if what you said is common sense, as if you have always looked at him like this.

Let the other party understand that you are the same predator as him, not prey, and the other party will naturally lose interest in you.

And further, if you can shape an atmosphere that everyone around has always looked at him like this, the other party will easily be ashamed and angry, and be turned around by you.

Just like facing MLM, the best way is not to argue whether this method can make money, but to carry out personal attacks directly. No matter how good the model is, you can't make money by following a rotten person like you. Let the other party be ashamed and angry first and argue with you whether he is rotten or not.

It is the same for dealing with insurance sellers and promoters who are pestering. The product is good, and the reason why I don't buy it is just because I think you are rotten. Borrowing money is the same. You can borrow money if you have money, but I just don't want to lend it to you.

Once the other party starts to ask "why" and "by what", it is very easy to stir up the other party's emotions, and the one who masters the initiative is you.

After spreading the above behavior patterns to the entire social circle, you can basically completely eliminate the approach of rotten people with mental abuse tendencies, but pay attention to grasping the scale, otherwise it is easy to become a rotten person with mental abuse.

"What do you think is Miss Talia's most correct approach?" Shiler asked. Pamela just frowned and thought, and he added: "I am not a professor, so don't feel pressured. You can say whatever you want, for example, she should have beaten me up the first time she jumped down."

Pamela opened her eyes wide and said: "Is it really okay?"

"Although I don't like using special abilities, I still have some experience in fighting with humanoid creatures," Shiler poured a glass of wine for Pamela and said: "It counts as one of the correct answers, but the risk is quite high, so it doesn't count as a full score."

"Then what should be the standard answer?"

Shiler smiled and said:

"She should have scolded me directly for being unskilled, otherwise how could she have taught a student to be a hooligan who drugs people while dating?"

Pamela was dumbfounded.

At this moment, she realized that Talia was actually a victim who was reasonable from beginning to end. ===== CHAPTER 1773 =====