Chapter 2520: Rustling Down (15)

The lights in the house were turned on. Under the reflection of the lights, the decoration in the house looked more simple and elegant, with a warmth that a vast manor didn't possess. When the fireplace was also lit, it added a touch of life.

Shiler couldn't be more satisfied with this house. So, while Raven and Zatanna were introducing the specific situation, he kept pacing back and forth between the living room and the dining room, admiring the details of the furniture and electronic equipment.

Actually, Schiller knew what was going on without Raven saying a word. He had quite a deep impression of that pair of ill-fated father and daughter, Trigon and Raven. The main reason was that the story lines later in the comics revealed that Trigon had more than one daughter; he had other children, and these children were the "Seven Deadly Sins".

Very coincidentally, Raven represented "Pride."

In the later War of the Seven Deadly Sins, Raven, representing Pride, showed power far beyond her father and her original self, which made Shiler suspect that her power actually didn't come from Trigon, nor from herself, but very likely came from the concept of Pride.

Don't forget, the only designated spokesperson for the concept of Pride in this universe was Lucifer.

Shiler had a good relationship with Lucifer, precisely because of their identical pride. But what this little girl named Raven had to do with pride, Shiler hadn't figured out when he was reading the comics.

Because in the comic plot, especially in the plot of fighting Trigon for the first time, Raven couldn't be called Pride; she could only be called the most humble and rational one in the whole scene.

Her background was also very simple. Her mother was bewitched by a cult and gave birth to her with Trigon. She was taken to a place called Azarath since she was a child, protected by the Goddess Azar and taught by the High Priestess, the granddaughter of the Goddess Azar.

As a result, after the Goddess Azar died, because the protective power weakened, Raven restored contact with her father and learned of his evil plan to invade and conquer Earth, so she came to Earth to bring reinforcements.

To be precise, it was to remind Earthlings to save themselves. But as a result, as soon as Zatanna saw so much evil power on her, she felt that she must be a pawn of the demon, so she warned the Justice League at the time not to trust her. The Justice League really didn't believe her, and didn't even make preparations.

Later, Trigon really descended, confirming that what Raven said was true. As a result, the Justice League, because they completely distrusted Raven, attacked their allies, directly knocking down the sages who were resisting Trigon at the time. Even after Trigon appeared, they were still stubborn and just wouldn't believe Raven was a good person.

From this perspective, whoever was Pride, Raven couldn't be Pride. If Lucifer came, he would have to award the Best Stubborn Award to the Big Three of the Justice League.

This story left a deep impression on Pride because it wasn't that the Justice League didn't have times when they were humiliated, but it was relatively rare to be such a pure clown as in this story.

Someone gave an early warning, but Batman, who was originally good at making plans and preparations, acted as if he hadn't heard it. When the crisis really came, apart from attacking allies, he did nothing. He discovered his mistake but stubbornly refused to admit it. In the end, he didn't have the ability to clean up the mess, and it was the Teen Titans' plot kill that sent Trigon back. This series of operations could really be called the legacy of the Justice League.

Because the plot was particularly infuriating, Shiler's impression was relatively deep. However, Trigon was a typical character in DC comics whose combat power fluctuated high and low, and his strength completely depended on the needs of the plot. Precisely because of this, Shiler hadn't thought about dealing with him before.

Just looking at the comics, the intensity of his first invasion was still relatively high. At the very least, he made the entire full-body Justice League jump around. If it weren't for the plot kill to end the story later, it would have been impossible for the Teen Titans alone to do anything to him.

However, since Raven had already appeared, Trigon would come sooner or later. After Shiler thought about it slightly, he had some arrangements in his heart, but for now, there was no rush. He still had to solve the house problem first.

"You have to find a way to change her residence," Shiler looked at Zatanna and said. "I want to buy this house."

Zatanna looked a bit embarrassed. She said, "If we could let her enter the Inner World, we would definitely have let her in. The problem is that she carries too much energy. After entering, it will significantly affect the stability of the Inner World."

"Cat Getan is so big, and there are densely populated areas everywhere. It's not easy to find a sparse residential area. Moreover, there is such a large place behind this house. In case it really explodes, going into the forest can reduce some casualties. Don't you think so, Professor?"

Zatanna looked outside and said, "There are quite a few houses in this community. Why don't you buy the one next door? Is there any difference between these two?"

"There is a significant difference in price," Shiler replied. "My money is only enough to buy this one."

Zatanna was a bit stunned by his straightforwardness. She just wanted to say, could Shiler still worry about money? But after thinking about it, who in this world wouldn't worry about money? She and Constantine would too.

Some time ago, she and Constantine had been living upstairs in the bookstore. It was hard to earn some money through business and prepare to rent a house, but the economic crisis came. The bookstore's business situation was getting worse and worse, and now it was barely enough to make ends meet, and they could only squeeze into a room upstairs.

Fortunately, both of them were mages and could earn money by accepting orders, so life was barely getting by. However, the talk of buying a house and opening a branch before the economic crisis was hopeless.

Thinking of this, Zatanna thought again that she had a big job tomorrow morning. If she couldn't get up or felt sleepy, and couldn't concentrate, she would have to fail again.

So she simply said, "I know this house must have lowered its price because of paranormal events. If you drive Raven away, the paranormal events will be gone, and maybe the real estate agent will go back on his word."

"How about this: you buy the house first, let Raven pay you rent, and let her rent here for a period of time. This way, in case something happens to her, you can solve it in time, so she won't blow up the whole city."

Shiler also saw that Zatanna was indeed at her wit's end. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "I have no problem, but this lady..."

Zatanna poked Raven hard with her elbow and found that the other party had no special reaction, so she knew she must be a bumpkin who hadn't participated in the Battle World and didn't know Shiler's great reputation.

So she had to say, "This professor is quite famous, and in the society of ordinary people, he is a very powerful psychologist. He can completely teach you how to channel your emotions without having to hold them in all the time. Maybe if your emotions are smooth, you can control this power yourself. Don't you think?"

Raven had no reaction. She nodded, but soon opened her mouth again and said, "I have no money and can't pay rent."

"Then go out to work!" Zatanna raised her voice and said, "Go work in my bookstore. We turned the first floor of the bookstore into a coffee shop, selling English breakfast and coffee. The business is not bad, but we lack a porter who is strong enough. I think you are competent."

Raven still wanted to say something, but Zatanna said helplessly, "It's not bad to have a job in this day and age. Do you know how many people came to apply when I posted the recruitment notice? The first one who came yesterday was even a crocodile!"

Raven seemed not to know how to refute, so she could only nod. Zatanna said, "The bookstore is in the turntable area, not too far from here. I'll leave the address with you, and give you Constantine's old car. You drive to work. Don't take the subway or bus, otherwise it will be over if it explodes on the road."

"If she drives to work and it explodes on the road, won't it be over just the same?" Shiler said. "Do you expect there to be fewer people on the road than on the ground?"

Zatanna sighed and said, "Then we can only open a portal. Damn it, I'm almost out of money to buy materials."

Zatanna left in a hurry, leaving only Shiler and Raven. Soon Shiler was also ready to leave. Before leaving, he said to Raven, "Don't move the paranormal props arranged in the room. I will go sign the contract tomorrow morning and bring some daily necessities in the afternoon."

Raven sat straight in place and nodded. Shiler found that her joints were stiff, as if she were really a statue. This was a severe symptom of somatization.

But thinking about it, it was also true. A child born knowing nothing had always been taught to suppress emotions and not have any emotional fluctuations, which meant that her emotional processing organs had never worked, so she wouldn't know how to process emotions even more.

That is to say, she wouldn't laugh when happy, wouldn't cry when sad. She didn't know what the instinctive actions represented by these emotions were, so there was no vent.

Now it's good. The matter of moving and opening a psychological clinic is settled, but the first patient welcomed is really too tricky. From the current situation, I am afraid that the whole personality needs to be reshaped to have hope of cure.

On the way back, Shiler kept thinking that he originally thought that curing Batman was the end, but he didn't expect that there was always a mountain higher than another.

However, Shiler admitted that he had indeed not been a psychologist for a long time. Greed was Greed's business. Since he came to Cat Getan, he hadn't conducted normal psychological counseling. Most of the time, he was engaged in theoretical psychology. Regarding applied psychology, he had to go back and check more information.

The next day, Shiler arrived as promised. The landlord had clearly sent someone to check the house and found that the paranormal events hadn't decreased, so he finally had to resign himself to fate and sell the house to Shiler at a very low price.

However, Shiler knew that the trouble wasn't over yet. The real estate agent had lost a large sum of money, a large sum that would make even the rich feel pain. If the paranormal phenomena disappeared one day, he was afraid he would have other ideas.

But Shiler couldn't care about so much. He had also met many neighbors in the manor area in the West District before, most of whom were old-school wealthy people, but they had moved to the South District one after another. Shiler was basically the last batch to leave.

If he wanted to open a private psychological clinic, besides going through the formalities, the customer base was also very important. So Shiler still had to draw up a list for the housewarming party and make the party look decent, so that he could attract customers later.

But holding a party wasn't that simple. The previous parties were basically held by pathology. On one hand, Pride's obsessive-compulsive disorder and cleanliness would make him too serious when dealing with certain details, wasting time. On the other hand, Pride also liked to be alone, and he would rather not hold gatherings if he could.

But in fact, parties and gatherings were the most common form of social interaction here in Europe and America. They would hold a gathering for any small thing. Neighborhood gatherings didn't even need any reason. It might be that my family changed a lawnmower and invited the surrounding neighbors to come over for a party, nothing more than getting together to find something to do for themselves.

But Shiler's housewarming party obviously couldn't be held like this. He needed to invite quite a few people. The party needed to be exquisite and decent, but at the same time, it couldn't be too extravagant and wasteful. It needed a sense of privacy to strengthen the connection with the guests.

Pride felt for the first time that he was being pushed by this society. In the life of ordinary people, it wasn't that you could not contact others if you didn't want to. Social interaction was both their emotional need and their survival need.

In this incomparably complicated and noisy big pot of the mundane world, no one should think of being a rose that thinks highly of itself. No matter how beautiful the flower is, after being rolled three times in boiling water, it is no different from boiled rotten vegetable leaves.

The best way for a lonely person to swim freely here is to be that piece of ginger that no one can distinguish the original appearance of. ===== CHAPTER 2521 =====