Chapter 2850: The Great Battle of the Lego Minifigures! (Part 15)

Batman seemed to have a hard time accepting this, but suddenly he remembered that dark figure and asked, "Is he doing this? I mean the Batman from another universe."

"He is perfect," Shiler evaluated. "You might think he is a machine without feelings, dark to the point of being unbearable, but he is actually not without feelings. He just understands that revealing his feelings to certain people is just handing them a knife, which is completely unnecessary and will only hurt others and himself."

"He even restrains himself from showing too much emotion to those closest to him, because the damage his cold-bloodedness causes to these people is far lower than the damage caused by him revealing his emotions, causing the other party to waver and leading to a disaster."

"Is this something taught in books?"

"Obviously not, it's a lesson learned in blood and tears."

"Alright." Batman appeared a bit helpless. He said, "I don't want to become such a monster, but I will try my best to balance towards normal. Any other suggestions for me?"

"Of course, I'll continue." Shiler took another sip of grape juice to moisten his throat and then said, "In general, after doing these points, you can basically socialize like a normal person. All in all, you become less annoying."

"But if you want to become likable, to be precise, to use others' real good feelings for you to satisfy your inner loneliness that is always felt, you need some more special techniques."

"Can I be likable?"

"Of course, not even just on the surface," Shiler said. "Generally speaking, there are different countermeasures for people of different identities, but I can tell you a few general ones, and they correspond to the behavioral countermeasures above, which can be said to be an advanced version of the above behavioral countermeasures."

"Alright, I will try my best to remember them, write them in... uh, the Bat-Social Manual."

"First, guide others to confide their troubles to you, instead of sharing joy. Refuse anyone who reports good news but not bad news to you."

"The operation method is also very simple. After you ask how they are recently, if the other party says not bad, you say they have lost weight, and you thought they had some worries recently."

"If they obviously haven't lost weight or deny that they have, then say you heard their voice is a bit hoarse, did they talk too much recently? If they say no, then say they blink too much, look like their eyes are a bit dry, did they not sleep well?"

"If this doesn't work, then walk over and pat their shoulder, with an 'I understand you' expression. If they still don't open their mouth at the very end, then you can only throw a brick to attract jade."

"Generally start with a sigh and 'I'm not as lucky as you', and end with 'I really envy you for being so lucky'. As long as the other party is not a social idiot, they will generally be polite to you about their recent troubles."

"Why do this?" Batman obviously didn't quite understand.

"Because for smart people, hiding clumsiness is a basic skill. Most people are not particularly willing to attract attention, and some even hope that others think they are not doing well. Your guidance is just fulfilling their wish, giving them a reason to establish their own persona in front of the public, which will make them feel fluent and relaxed at the social level, similar to coming to a pillow when sleepy."

"And most importantly, not everyone has happy events, but everyone has troubles. Once the topic is completely biased towards happy events, only those few people who love to brag will talk about it, and the entire social occasion will become their world, while others remain silent, or jealous but not revealing it."

"Jealousy is not an emotion that can be hidden well. Once someone can't stand it, it's hard to avoid cold words, splashing a basin of cold water on others, and the originally good social occasion will become a quarrel, and the atmosphere will be hard to control again."

"But if you lead people to start talking about some of their own worries, the vast majority of people who don't want to expose themselves as heartless will offer a few words of comfort. Even if it's just a verbal expression, some very perfunctory words of comfort, at least they won't commit taboos, and might even give people strength."

"But some people want to take this opportunity to express their achievements? For example, comforting others for two sentences, and then talking about their past..."

"Are you talking about yourself?"

"Uh..."

Batman began to frantically recall whether he had done this. He swore it might be twice, or maybe three times, but absolutely no more than five times.

"This depends on your ability to control the field. If you feel that you have done your best here, then don't open your mouth again. Anyway, the one who offends people is him, not you. But if you have some business to talk about next and don't want him to talk eloquently here, then you can slightly moral kidnap him."

"Moral kidnapping?"

"Yes, similar to 'So-and-so is already like this, so don't mention those things'. If the other party is sensible, generally they will say 'I am also for his good', and this matter will pass."

"Then what if they are not sensible?"

"Then you have to take some extreme means. If your conscience can pass, then praise him wildly to attract hatred. You must praise him until those who are not satisfied hate him completely."

"If you don't have such a big vendetta with him, then you can praise him on the surface but criticize him in secret, making him ask for trouble. For example, 'You really did this thing powerfully back then, the scene was too big, and I and so-and-so cleaned up the mess for you for several months!'."

Batman nodded vigorously. He can do this. What he is best at is flipping old accounts. There is no old account in the Justice League that he cannot flip.

Then Shiler continued, "When you decline something and need an excuse, follow three principles. First, the subject of the difficulty is not you. Second, yielding to the difficulty is not your subjective intention. Third, you also feel very uncomfortable because of this."

"Specifically, never find an excuse like you are very busy, because the subject of this matter is still you. If there are too many times, people will think, why are you so busy?"

"Even if you are indeed very busy and have no way to be present, you have to change the way of saying this. For example, the boss is too unreasonable, you really can't get away, so the subject becomes the boss. Or the subordinate made a work error, making you have to stay to make up for it, so the subject becomes the subordinate."

"Then you have to emphasize that having things at your important moment is not my subjective intention, and it is not caused by me at all. Everything is blamed on God for being unfair and fate being bumpy."

"For example, when mentioning this later, you can directly lament that if you had studied hard in college back then, you could have entered a better company and wouldn't have to endure this exploitation, or that if you had seen through the character of your superiors and subordinates earlier and hadn't made these mistakes, you would never have missed those brilliant moments."

"In short, it is to express that not going is really not your wish."

"Then the next step is to carry out emotional progression, expressing that you are really sorry, very sad, very sad, not attending this matter has become a hole in your life forever, no matter how much you make up for it later, you will remember it for a lifetime."

"Won't this be too exaggerated?" Batman said.

"Don't be so straightforward," Shiler smiled and said. "You can polish it, or mix it in a lot of words. Think about it and mention it occasionally. This process can even last from a few months to a few years, or even as long as you see him, you start mentioning it, until he feels guilty."

"Too dark." Batman evaluated.

"Alright, say the last point." Shiler drank the wine in the cup and then said, "If someone mentions you and smears you in an occasion where you are not present, don't explain and refute, and don't smear him back, but help him explain."

Batman narrowed his eyes and said, "For example?"

"Assume A says you are too unsympathetic when you are not present, B is in trouble and you don't help, really misread you. And another person relayed these words to you."

"Then you absolutely don't go and say 'I am not such a person, I helped C, D, E very attentively before', and don't go and say 'A is talking nonsense', or 'A's words are not credible at all'."

"Then..."

"You want to say 'Actually, I always feel that excessive sympathy is not a good thing. A suffered a loss before. It wasn't a very clever scam, but because he was too sympathetic, he was deceived, and almost harmed C, D, E. Of course, this is my personal opinion. A is just too kind, he just wants to help others'."

Shiler spread his hands and said, "Based on the principle that whoever explains is at a disadvantage, although he is not present and you can't force him to explain, you can help him explain. And precisely because he is not present, the right of explanation is entirely in your hands."

"But I think the other party will hear it, right?"

"Whether they hear it or not is not important. What is important is your reaction. If you subconsciously defend yourself, the other party will only feel that you are weak and bullyable. If you subconsciously slander others, the other party also has the handle of your vicious language."

"But if you have an attitude of being good for others, even if the other party sees that you are ill-intentioned, he has no way to expose you."

"You just need to remember that this kind of person who spreads bad things about others everywhere is a failure who cannot achieve positive social suppression, so they stimulate you through others' mouths."

"If he had the courage to expose you directly, the words he used to smear you wouldn't start with 'I heard so-and-so say before'. A successful person has a thousand and ten thousand ways to make you even more speechless and in a difficult situation."

"For example, you?"

"I will cut in more gently." Shiler's gaze looked at the TV, and what he wanted to say was self-evident.

"Many times I feel I understand these." Batman leaned back on the sofa and said, "In the books I read, when I face those people in the business world, I actually know these."

"But when you become Batman, many things are not easy to say," Shiler nodded and said. "Or rather, when you become the real you and treat the members of the Justice League as your real friends, you will feel that if you use techniques, the friendship you get won't be sincere, right?"

"But I think that apart from maternal love promoted by human hormones, there is nothing in this world that does not need external force to maintain. Those earth-shattering love, sea-dry-rock-rotten friendship, and even kinship maintained by blood are all need techniques to manage."

"You feel that some people don't need techniques to get others' sincerity, maybe it's just because their techniques are more hidden, more natural, or the family and the environment they grew up in made the techniques of maintaining feelings their instinct, so they appear effortless and relaxed."

"But the so-called clumsy birds fly first, not everyone has such good luck. If you can't do it very naturally, at least you have to do it. If you can't get profound sincerity, it's not a loss to get shallow joy."

"As for the scale..." Shiler groped the cup and said, "If the satisfaction of your loneliness overcomes the fatigue of using techniques, then it proves it is worth it. If it is the other way around, you would rather enjoy loneliness than smile at someone, then take out your Batman's housekeeping skills."

"What is that?"

"Annoying."

"What?"

"I mean, if possible, turn him into the Joker." ===== CHAPTER 2851 =====