Chapter 2386: Battle of the Bats (Part 5)

The three of them fell silent.

This is not a truth that will make people feel happy. A group of children encountered danger in a summer camp. Here they can be said to be calling heaven and earth, and heaven and earth are not responding. Let alone three children, even if 30 more came, it would be impossible to pose any threat to a strong instructor.

Children's fear comes too easily. If the other party is a repeat offender and understands this, he has ten thousand ways to make children not dare to say what happened here. The vast majority of child sex offenders who are not caught in the first time escape legal sanctions through such means.

It may sound ridiculous, but they only need to make up a childish lie like if you say what happened today, a devil will crawl under your bed and eat you. Under the impact of common sense and in a stress state, the children will believe it to be true, and then dare not say anything.

This is not because they are stupid, but because the child's brain development is incomplete. According to surveys, 90% of children have had experiences of confusing fantasy and reality during their growth, which is a necessary process that the brain will experience during growth.

Once stimulated, fantasy and reality will be more easily confused. Some repeat offenders will use this to distort children's common sense, making them think that perhaps this is nothing, or use some non-existent illusions to intimidate them, and through repeated emphasis, make them believe it to be true, thereby achieving the goal of threatening them and making them dare not speak.

"Fortunately David is here." Charles said, "If it were an ordinary person, then no matter how he fantasized, I'm afraid he would be hard to escape the poisonous hands."

Batwoman turned to look at the poisonous plant trapped in the bubble. Looking at it from a close distance, his appearance was even more funny. He didn't even have legs. His lower body was coiled plants, his arms were very long and big, and his clown hat was crooked.

He didn't have very concrete eyes and nose, but he had a big mouth that was opening and closing at this time, seemingly wanting to say something.

"Let me go!!" He shouted.

"Do you know anything?" Batman asked, "I think you should be able to see that we are here to help David."

"No, I don't know."

Batwoman narrowed her eyes.

The poisonous plant was clearly deliberately hiding something, but perhaps because he appeared in David's childhood, his performance was also slightly childish. When lying, he would unconsciously look away. This, of course, couldn't deceive the two great detectives.

"You must tell us." Batman said, "David's situation is very dangerous now. If we don't stop him, he will definitely do something he will regret."

Batman didn't choose to say any big principles like endangering the world, but started from David himself. This sentence seemed to touch the poisonous plant deeply, and he said intermittently in a muffled voice, "I am not the first."

Batwoman and Batman looked at each other. Very good, they now got a more important piece of information. David awakened his mutant ability before he was 7 years old.

"No one can understand him." The poisonous plant said, "No one has ever understood him."

"Has anyone misunderstood him?" Charles said, "Or has anyone excluded him? Anyone discriminated against him? Because he is a mutant?"

"We often say that if you have a position, don't be a detective." Batman opened his mouth and said, "Any character appearing in the testimony should not be pre-set with a position, especially using your position to contrast friend and foe. This is biased. Besides explaining your terrible judgment, it explains nothing."

Charles widened his eyes. He had never heard such a derogatory evaluation from anyone's ears.

"Have you ever been discriminated against?" Batwoman pointed out very sharply, "If you are, then you pre-setting others' positions is doing the same thing as those who discriminate against you. To take a step back, you are letting yourself become as stupid as them."

Charles was very angry, but couldn't find a reason to refute for a while. He felt he was too tired. If he were in good condition, he would have the energy to tell these two Batmans what mutants had encountered.

"I think this might have two meanings." Batman analyzed, "From the beginning, the probability of David's original personality appearing was not high. People mistook others for him, which made him unable to feel his own existence."

"Or David has always been there, but he has always been misunderstood in various ways because of his abilities, which made him feel that he was not understood, made him feel marginalized by society, and made him feel lonely."

"Does he hope others understand him?" Batwoman muttered to herself, "Will this be the answer?"

"Our clues are too few. People who hope others pay attention and understand them usually have some shocking actions. Perhaps we can also figure out what kind of person David is by inferring the origins of other personalities like this."

"What kind of person do you think David is? Lady." Schiller asked.

"He is a very silent child, somewhat detached. We suspect he might be suffering from Asperger's syndrome, but because he was too old when he came here, to avoid stimulating him, we didn't perform pathological testing on him." Moira replied.

"In general, he is not naughty. Except when his superpowers are out of control, he is very quiet and will show some panic towards people's excessive attention, and there is a certain social barrier."

"Then it seems he is not a performance personality."

Moira shook her head and said, "No, he doesn't have a special addiction to people's eyes. He neither avoids them very fearfully nor exhausts all means to seek attention. In this regard, he performs relatively normally."

"Then what about the ability to establish long-term feelings? How is your relationship with him? Doctor." Schiller asked.

Moira sighed slightly and said, "I'm sorry, I am a geneticist. I only obtained degrees in sociology and psychology during my graduate studies. I don't have a license, and I am not professional."

"I provide him with a certain amount of companionship, and perhaps also educated him, but I didn't establish any long-term relationship with him. I am more like the one he is most familiar with among a bunch of strangers."

Schiller shook his head slightly and said, "Psychological intervention came too late. Then what about his parents? How do you think his relationship with his parents is?"

"I rarely hear David mention them." Moira said, "But once, when I was doing an experiment, I received an alarm and came to the reception hall of the research center, only to know that a family member of a child we received here just came to make trouble."

"The other party's reaction was very intense. He believed that his child had completely recovered and should leave. As a result, his child showed mutant abilities in front of him, so he frantically accused us, saying that we didn't fulfill our promise and didn't turn his child into a normal person."

"The security guard told me that David was also beside him just now. At first, he still performed very normally, but after that lady started going crazy, he performed a bit strangely."

"Where is it strange?"

Moira shook her head and said, "We can't query surveillance at will, but later when I went to find David, he looked a bit scared, and kept muttering some... I don't know, it didn't sound like what he should say at all."

"What is that?"

"World War II, the Holocaust, some things that happened in Germany." Moira pursed her lips and said, "I guess it might be what his mother told him."

"What happened to his mother?"

"David's mother was a German Jew. David's maternal grandfather died in the Holocaust of World War II. At that time, he was still young, but witnessed the whole process. I guess he might have left some psychological shadows."

"Then she told David all this?"

"Perhaps it wasn't that she deliberately revealed it. I think no mother who loves her child would describe these things to her child, but after experiencing such severe stimulation, I'm afraid some things are beyond her control."

Schiller shook his pen and fell into thought.

The background story of Legion does mention that when Professor X met Legion's mother, it was Professor X who helped Legion's mother dispel the shadows of the past, and the two fell in love.

Schiller guessed that it might be the mistake Professor X made when he was young. The mistake didn't refer to falling in love with Legion's mother, but helping Legion's mother dispel the shadows.

From this young Charles, it can be seen that the method Professor X used to solve such problems when he was young was very rough. Anyway, it was deleting memories, compiling new memories, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and patching wherever it leaked.

Supporting this for a while might not be a problem, but as the saying goes, human memory is not building blocks. Anyone who treats a tightly constructed mind as a child's play will pay a heavy price. Schiller had deep experience.

If Charles could always accompany David's mother and keep patching, perhaps he could really dispel the shadows of the past after decades, but the problem is that these two talked for a few months, and then parted ways. It would be strange if this didn't cause problems.

Even worse, if Charles didn't intervene at that time, then this lady might choose to see a doctor when the problem got worse and worse later, but Charles deleted her memory. She felt pain but couldn't find the reason, so naturally, she couldn't see a doctor, and the doctor couldn't solve the problem, which might lead to the problem getting worse and worse.

This might be one of the roots of David's problem, Schiller speculated. More terrible than bad character and irritable temper is a parent with unstable spirit, which will stimulate the child's self-protection mechanism too early and too much, and once the self-protection mechanism is over-stimulated, it may lead to mental or personality splitting, used for self-protection.

Over Paris in the mental world, Gwen Spider-Man was fleeing for her life.

She reached out and shot a spider silk. The fibers shone brightly under the sun, rushing through the ripples of the air, and stuck firmly to the glass curtain wall of the building.

But the next second, that white beach firmly stuck on the glass curtain wall began to shrink, gradually turning into a point, and the fibers also began to shrink, as if swallowed by something, and the spider silk returned to the origin.

Gwen Spider-Man's expression also gradually retreated from shock to the previous panic.

When she appeared again, she found that her feet were still standing on the ground, and in front of her, the taciturn black-haired man appeared again.

"What the hell?!!" Gwen Spider-Man raised her voice, looking at the person opposite with some horror and saying, "What's going on? How could he possibly..."

"He can control time." A low voice came from behind Gwen Spider-Man.

Gwen Spider-Man turned her head and saw a red figure with pointed ears. ===== CHAPTER 2387 =====