Chapter 1846

"Dark history—a secret weapon to quickly narrow the relationship with others, but at the same time, it is also a dangerous double-edged sword. Most people disclosing their real dark history to others will only have the opposite effect, but if used well, it is a killer move for initial mental manipulation."

Everyone's eyes looked at Nick. It wasn't that everyone wanted to mentally manipulate others, but no one wanted to be mentally manipulated. Listening to this lesson to improve some awareness of prevention was also good.

"Forming your dominant position in others' hearts, letting the other party unconsciously develop a dependency, the key lies in letting him accept you from the heart, but it cannot be just accepting your advantages and powerful aspects."

"Admiration for the strong is a natural emotion of humans. People will like others' advantages more, and accepting shortcomings is just because they are willing to produce tolerance because of advantages."

"Usually, people can realize where the other party's shortcomings are. Shortcomings are either inconsistent with morality or inconsistent with their own personality. In most cases, they know but can tolerate it."

"But what mental manipulation wants to do is not to let the other party accept your shortcomings, but to let the other party think you have no shortcomings, letting them feel from the heart that it is an advantage, not a shortcoming."

"To do this, the way of introducing shortcomings becomes especially important. If you let the other party produce extreme disgust for this shortcoming the first time, then the subsequent cognitive reversal will not go very smoothly."

"I said before that disguising advantages as shortcomings is a way, but it is not brilliant, especially when facing smart people. They easily judge that you are actually just disguising a shortcoming to boast."

"Dealing with this kind of person can only use real shortcomings, and they must be sufficiently surprising, even the kind they cannot accept at all. This means that once they accept it, they can never escape the trap again."

"So Shiler said he is a serial killer?" Eddie thought and asked: "This is obviously a shortcoming that Tony or any normal person cannot accept."

"Yes, but the way he informed was quite skillful." Nick raised one corner of his mouth and continued: "He linked this unacceptable shortcoming with dark history."

"Summarized in the most concise language, it is: Although I am a serial killer, there is a reason for this. Although I am a bad person in the traditional sense, someone is worse than me. Although I kill without blinking, I still have pitiful aspects."

"Finding reasons for one's own evil can simply establish a discipline, especially in the mouths of that group of shrewd psychopaths. Even if they are the kind of little bastards who would be happy because of pinching sparrows to death since birth, they would tell the other party that everything is because they were abused and discriminated against because they want to manipulate others."

"Let's assume." Nick extended a hand and spread his fingers in front of him: "Is the past Shiler said true? Then do you think this experience shaped him?"

"It's not impossible." Stark spread his hands and said: "If the human experimentation part is also true, then how can it not be said that abuse made his temperament change drastically?"

"So I said, Tony, he is cheating someone like you." Nick extended a finger and pointed at Tony, looking at him from the upper left of his eyes and saying: "Never complain about your psychological consultation fee of 300 million USD per quarter again. This is what you deserve."

"No one shaped Shiler. He shaped himself." Nick spread his hands and said: "His powerful talent made him originally able to get rid of the vast majority of tragedies. He had a choice, but he didn't choose."

"The environment will indeed have a certain impact on a person's personality, and long-term abuse is also very likely to reshape a person's character. Psychopaths may indeed have their tragic first half of life, but this cannot change the fact that they don't get on the right track when they have a choice, but choose to be a perpetrator."

"And the way they choose targets is precisely to use others' sympathy, choosing those who can resonate with them, understand them, and take the initiative to excuse them."

Nick's finger pointed around at the people present and said: "Just like you, ladies and gentlemen, super heroes, your extensive sympathy is an excellent hotbed that makes all mental abusers laugh when they dream."

"This world is too crazy." Stark spoke up: "So either you be a victim, or you be a perpetrator. Is there nothing else to choose?"

"The only thing you can do is to run away immediately without looking back after discovering that the other party might be a psychopath."

"Unfortunately..." Nick sighed lightly and said: "Tony in this universe ran late. He reflected on what happened to this country the first time he heard about Shiler's tragic life experience. From this moment on, he couldn't run away."

"Speaking of which, Erik seems to want to disclose his dark history, right?" Natasha recalled and said: "He mentioned Wakanda on the fleeing car. This must be a past he couldn't bear to look back on."

"Just like I said, he let Tony pour his strong emotions onto Pepper, so how can he ask Tony to have extra sympathy to listen to his story?"

T'Challa, who finally walked out from behind the bar, sat opposite Eddie, placed a glass of wine in front of him, and drank a non-alcoholic beverage himself, saying: "In my impression, Erik is a somewhat contradictory person. He is quite ambitious, but he always can't let go of his face."

"He hopes that everyone else revolves around him, responding to him according to the reactions he envisioned in his brain, and if the other party doesn't do that, he will feel resentment."

"This time is also the same." Nick snapped his fingers and said: "Erik obviously hopes that Tony can take the initiative to pursue his life experience, express concern for him, and spare no effort to help him solve the trouble."

"He feels that since he risked saving Tony, then whatever Tony does is what he should do, so he relaxed his vigilance, feeling that he occupied an absolute dominant advantage in this relationship, and was relaxed and scattered, not paying attention to details. This will eventually bring him huge trouble."

In the office of the Stark Group, Obadiah looked gloomily at Erik who had just turned and left. He picked up the phone receiver and said to Pepper: "Dismiss the security supervisor. We are going to parachute a new supervisor over."

Pepper's angry roar came from the other end of the phone, but Obadiah said calmly and even coldly: "I know that's a ten-year veteran employee, but he is Tony's savior. How could he not be worthy of the supervisor position?"

"Tell that group of stunned youths in the security department that it's best to respect him. His backer is our most genius scientist, Tony Stark."

Pepper on the other side hung up the phone somewhat sullenly. She was angry and worried, not understanding why Obadiah and Tony had reconciled after that time he went to see Tony.

After thinking in the office for a while, she decided to ask Stark, but at this time, a security guard wearing a security uniform ran in hurriedly from the door. He shouted at Pepper: "Miss Pepper, a serious quarrel occurred in the security supervisor's office. It seems like an unknown person rushed in."

Pepper clutched her forehead with a headache. She was delayed for a while and didn't go to notify the security department that there was a newcomer. Erik actually caused trouble in the supervisor's office.

Pepper rushed to deal with the trouble and didn't have time to ask for Stark's opinion. She was full of suspicion about Obadiah in her heart and was also very dissatisfied with his arrangement.

She even suspected that Erik might be Obadiah's person, and Obadiah wanted to slowly erode Tony's power in this way. But Tony himself had no opinion on this, and Pepper couldn't act on her own.

But Little Pepper wasn't easy to mess with either. She had worked in the Stark Group for so many years and knew the entire company's personnel system very well.

Unwilling to replace the old supervisor of the security department, Pepper waved her hand directly and arranged Erik to the supervision department.

The supervision department, also known as the supervisory department, basically every large company would have such a department. The main work is to urge personnel of various departments to do things according to rules and regulations, and also responsible for solving internal company contradictions.

It sounds like the power is very great, but in fact, no one is willing to do it. As everyone knows, it is impossible for any large company to do things completely according to rules and regulations. That way, the company simply wouldn't be able to open. The larger the company, the more people reach out. As long as the company is generally good, most real-power leaders also turn a blind eye.

But this doesn't hinder the guilty conscience of the people who do things. They get annoyed when they see people from the supervisory department. This department is the most squeezed out inside the company.

And the boss of the supervisory department must be slick and flattering everywhere, so that when adjusting factional struggles, everyone can give him face, turn big things into small things, and then the days can be mixed.

So anyone who parachutes into this kind of position simply can't do it. Let alone adjusting internal company struggles, even the size and strength of factions and interest entanglements can't be figured out. They offend people without knowing it, and they have to roll away in a few days.

About three days later, Stark completed the prototype of the first-generation armor in his laboratory. To distinguish it from the unmanned robot made before, he didn't name his armor, but just called it Mark 2.

Just when he was doing the finishing work on the armor, Pepper dragged him out of the laboratory with a headache, and what awaited Stark was a meeting room full of scolding shareholders.

Originally, Stark had already been dizzy after staying up for two nights. After he went in, he listened for more than ten minutes before he understood. It turned out that the original copy of an important commercial agreement of the company was lost. Several departments pushed each other, no one went to look for it, and no one could find it.

The day for the project to land was approaching, but the legal documents were gone. Seeing that it would affect a series of subsequent commercial arrangements, the investors and directors involved were all anxious. Obadiah pressed the gourd and the ladle rose. There was no way, so he had to call Stark over.

Stark simply didn't have the patience to deal with these things and wanted to send these directors away, but after asking carefully, he learned that the reason was precisely that the supervisory department and the security department had a conflict, and both sides stopped working, so the documents hadn't been found yet.

After further questioning, it turned out that the security department found the head of the supervisory department and said they wanted to retrieve the report documents. The two sides quarreled for some reason. Erik was furious and beat up the supervisor of the security department. Now the person was still lying in the hospital, and the entire department was headless. No matter who urged them, it was useless.

Little Pepper scolded the people who fought in the security department and the supervisory department in front of Stark. Obadiah helped to appease the shareholders on the side. A group of people made a mess for a whole day, and Stark wasn't let back until the evening.

But things always had to be solved. Stark was also the kind of person who spoke his mind. He called Erik to his office, but Erik complained to him for more than half an hour about how unreasonable the supervisor of the security department was. Stark's head grew big from listening.

But he still appeased him as much as possible: "Don't be anxious first. It is inevitable that you will be unfamiliar when contacting a new post. The work of the security and supervisory departments is too much and too messy, so it might not be very suitable for you."

"Obadiah told me before that we have launched resource cooperation with some African countries. Why don't you join this project? The personnel relationship is not so complicated, which is more helpful for you to adapt to the environment."