Chapter 3565

Facing Brainiac's call, Wei En directly muted his phone, then walked to the door of Prince Yashan's office and knocked on the door.

"Ah, Wei En, you're here. I must explain, it wasn't me who wanted to wake you up today..."

"It doesn't matter, I just wanted to ask if you are free this afternoon. Hali Lake and Grand Mage invited me to play cards."

"Sorry, I'm not free this afternoon. Little Billy has an expert consultation. Besides doctors, I also called Zatanna and John, we need to study his bone development problem together..."

"Oh, right," Prince Yashan got up from the desk and said, "Billy seems a bit anxious recently. You can tell he doesn't want to go to the hospital, but he doesn't dare to say it. When are you free recently? Can you give him some psychological counseling?"

"Just this afternoon, can I participate in the consultation?"

"Of course, but didn't you make an appointment to play cards with someone?"

"Forget it, I have never won even one game against them," Wei En shook his head and said, "Besides, our newly appointed human leader has been urging me to do some serious work. Compared to holding group meetings and reading papers, I would rather go to the consultation."

"Then it's settled," Prince Yashan rubbed his hands, smiled and said, "See you at the Zhongxinyi Academy at 4:30."

"No problem," Wei En nodded and said.

After leaving Prince Yashan's office, Wei En didn't intend to go to the activity building either. He picked up his mobile phone and sent a group email to the students, canceling the group meeting in the afternoon.

The email was edited, but it couldn't be sent. Wei En had to knock on the phone screen and said: "Don't play these little tricks with me, Brainiac. I'm going to do serious work."

"No Professor, if you hold a group meeting this afternoon, it will be very beneficial to promote the progress of their papers..."

"Forget it," Wei En gave up sending the email.

"Professor, if you don't go, you might let your students wait there in vain, do you really have the heart?"

"Heh," Wei En sneered and said, "Do you believe that if I go, the one waiting there in vain will be me."

Brainiac was silent, obviously still not approving of Wei En's approach. But obviously, Wei En's previous "reverse consideration" argument had an impact on him. To avoid stimulating Wei En, he gave up further persuasion.

Wei En also knew that Brainiac probably wanted to wait for the students to arrive, and then come to moral-kidnap him.

But he wouldn't have thought that the students would never arrive. To be precise, it is estimated that none of them will go this afternoon.

Wei En wrote his own paper in the office for a while, then finished the press release for a celebrity magazine interview later, and incidentally looked at the rugby team's promotional information on the Cat Getan University official website.

When the time was almost up, he went out again, drove his car, and arrived at the Cat Getan Zhongxinyi Academy.

This hospital is not far from the activity base of the Alliance, all near the Tan He. If you go east, it is the city center, and further east is Huaerjie and Wei En's shop.

Wei En asked the front desk for the consultation room, and was then taken to the conference room by the receptionist. People had already arrived, but Wei En just went in and took a look, then waited at the door.

Soon, Prince Yashan and Nora brought Billy over.

"Oh, you're here. We were thinking of going to greet you later."

"No need. Give me five minutes, I'll do an emergency psychological counseling first, this should help him better answer the doctors' questions..."

Wei En took Billy to the room next door. Billy sat on the stool, Wei En squatted down, looked into Billy's eyes and said: "Did the person who gave you the Shazam power say anything to you?"

The slightly nervous expression on Billy's face collapsed instantly. He became fearful, his body kept hiding backward. Wei En pressed his knees and said: "Don't be afraid, he can't do anything to you. Now tell me, what did he say to you."

"He... he said this power is harmless and won't cause damage to my body. He said don't listen to Professor Fuxin..."

Billy said stutteringly. Wei En still stared into his eyes: "I'm afraid it's more than that, right?"

Billy's two hands pinched tightly, his nose twitched hard, and the muscles in his arms were also shaking. Wei En sighed, moved a stool and sat beside him, turned his head to look at him and said:

"You shouldn't call him Professor Fuxin. You used to call him Prince Yashan, and you even looked forward to being able to call him father. Why did you change so much after talking to Old Shazam?"

"I don't know." Billy's eye sockets were a little red, he said, "The wizard told me they didn't want me to be Shazam, because if I didn't have superpowers, they could control me. So I should use my power to get rid of them."

"What did he tell you to do? Kill them?"

"Of course not!" Billy looked terrified, "He said I never thought about it! Not at all! I would never use this power to do bad things!"

"Did you really not notice the impact this power has on your body at all, Billy? Or is it that you just like this specialness, like this feeling of being above other peers?"

Billy's face turned red, and he mumbled without speaking.

"I'm not saying this is wrong. Everyone hopes they are special. Not just children, adults are the same. What humans pursue is never equality, but privilege."

"You enjoy this happiness of having a secret identity while studying the same courses in the same school. But what you like is this psychological superiority of 'I am very different', or the sense of achievement you get from helping many others through Shazam's identity and saving others?"

Billy was stunned by this question. Before he could answer, Wei En said: "Old Shazam is always emphasizing the first point to you, emphasizing that you are different, emphasizing that you should try your best to maintain your difference. This makes you feel that the happiness brought by maintaining Shazam's identity is because of being different."

"But is it really like this? When you are happiest, is it when you imagine yourself transforming into Shazam while playing games with classmates, accepting their worshipful eyes? Or is it when you use this power to help others and receive their gratitude? Which one makes you happier?"

Billy sat blankly in place, thinking for a long time, and then said: "Sometimes I do fantasize about how much they would worship me if they found out I was the great hero Shazam. But I just think about it, I don't want them to know."

"Why?"

"Being an adult is too uncool," Billy shook his head and said, "If I became an adult, I wouldn't be able to play with them. They would definitely laugh at me."

He hesitated for a while and said: "But I did help many people, even the parents of my classmates. When they looked at me with grateful eyes, I felt very proud, but sometimes I felt a little depressed."

"Depressed about what?"

"Shazam is a great hero, but I am not," Billy pursed his lips and said, "They praised Shazam, not me. This makes me a little disappointed."

"Your grades are not very good," Wei En suddenly changed the topic and said, "It can even be said that you are a bit behind in the curriculum. Your sports are also mediocre, your personality is standard, and you are not that popular."

"You want to become popular, so you think if the praise Shazam received could fall on you, that would be great. Then you would definitely be popular. But this can't be done, because everyone knows Shazam is an adult. They would definitely not associate him with you. This makes you feel very disappointed, right?"

Billy nodded hard, turned his head to look at Wei En, his eyes full of surprise and some worship.

"I didn't dare to tell Prince Yashan, I was afraid he would think I was too vain. Should it be the word vain? The mother in the foster home used to say that about me. She said I was a vain child."

"My classmates do guess Shazam's true identity in their spare time, they say he might be a policeman, some say he is a porter working at the pier, and he might even be someone's father. But they would definitely not guess me."

"Every time this happens, I am happy and disappointed. If they didn't know, they wouldn't stop playing with me. But if they didn't know, I would always be the inconspicuous one."

"I can understand very well," Wei En nodded and said, "Adults are the same. If they have an amazing hobby, they worry about being labeled as maverick and being kicked out of the group. But they also want others to know how powerful they are in this regard. Always worrying about gains and losses."

"Then how do adults solve it?"

"That's not the point, Billy. I can't say if there is really a solution. Whether you can really solve it or not, that's your own business, can you understand what I mean?"

Billy turned his head back, lowered his head slightly and said: "The wizard said Prince Yashan doesn't want me to be Shazam. Is that what he thinks?"

"He knows you are Shazam. When you went to help others, he didn't stop you either. What do you think?"

"But they want to cure my illness. That would make me lose this power, right?"

"If they just wanted you to lose this power, they wouldn't need to spend so much effort," Wei En shook his head and said, "From the last time your power failed, you should understand that this power is not omnipotent. It comes from the gods of Mount Olympus, and those gods don't always work."

"So I can keep this power and then cure my illness?"

"Prince Yashan plans to do so. But whether it can be done depends on this consultation. So you need to answer the doctor's questions seriously, and cooperate with the examination and treatment. Okay?"

Billy nodded, but he still seemed hesitant. Wei En knew that this conversation alone was not enough to shake Old Shazam's position in his heart.

At that time, Wei En could directly analyze Old Shazam's despicable nature to Sivana, because Old Shazam himself had contributed to Sivana's tragic life. Sivana himself also knew who his enemy was. From an emotional standpoint, the two of them were consistent.

But for Billy, when he was unhappy in the previous foster homes, he relied on using Shazam's power to vent his stress. Old Shazam might have other motives, but he did indeed teach him a lot.

Compared to Wei En and Prince Yashan, these latecomers, Old Shazam is the elder who has always accompanied him. The position of Old Shazam in Billy's heart is not so easy to be shaken, it can only be done slowly.

However, since Old Shazam approached Billy at this time, it proves that Billy is indeed shaken. He likes this new family and also likes the new life in Cat Getan.

Shazam's power is no longer his only spiritual pillar, changing from a necessity to a non-necessity. The supplier will naturally be very anxious.

Old Shazam knows that as long as Billy can return to that isolated and helpless state, he will still be the only person he can trust, and naturally he can manipulate and play with him at will.

And his insidiousness lies in the fact that Billy is still a child, easily manipulated and instigated, but because he is young, everything he does looks like it comes from his own heart.

All the suspicion and rebellion he shows will become knives stabbing at his new family. Perhaps he was unhappy in his previous foster homes, and it wasn't just a family problem. Some despicable villains who painstakingly wanted to monopolize his feelings were the key.

(End of chapter)