Chapter 525: Schiller's Hospital Daily Life (Part 1)

Rich emerald green swayed in the fine rain, mist rose between the trees, as if growing into towering trees overnight, inserting directly into the ethereal clouds. Raindrops tapped on the glass like a slightly dissolved painting.

"Tick, tick, tick..."

The metronome on the bedside table made a regular sound. Breathing gradually got rid of this rhythm, and the chest began to heave faster and faster. With a "zeng," Schiller sat up from the hospital bed.

He pressed his dizzy head with the base of his palm, turned his body, sat toward the edge of the bed, and saw his face reflected on the clean floor tiles.

He exhaled a breath, feeling a bit dry-mouthed, so he habitually reached out to press the call button by the bed. After he finished this action, he was stunned, seemingly remembering something.

The call button on the bedside table lit up, but the person who walked in was Stark wearing an iron battle suit. After seeing him, Schiller shook his head, throwing some past memories out of his mind.

Fortunately, it wasn't someone like an attending physician walking in to tell him that he was a delusional patient and all previous experiences were his fantasies, and he was actually just a mental patient who had been hospitalized all along. This kind of development would be too cliché.

But Schiller still didn't understand why he appeared here. He looked up and looked around the ward, and then found that this was a high-end ward in a hospital.

The clean floor tiles were spotless, the flowers on the bedside table had no irritating smell, all the corners of the hospital bed had protective measures. Schiller, who had worked at the Presbyterian Hospital, knew that this should be the best kind of ward in a mental hospital, and all kinds of equipment were available.

"Zhi-la—", the sound of mechanical friction of the iron battle suit came. The battle suit opened, and Stark walked out of it. He walked to Schiller's side, sat down, and looked at Schiller with his eyes.

That look was basically hovering between "you can tell me whatever happens" and "if you don't tell me, you don't treat me as a friend."

Schiller felt a bit of a headache. Of course, he knew that Stark and Steve must have supplemented something in their brains, but the problem was, when he returned to the Mind Palace, he didn't find any clues. He didn't know at all what these two people saw in his Mind Palace.

At this time, Schiller had already reacted. He was definitely pitted by one of the personalities in his Mind Palace, and as for which one, did he even need to ask?

"Fairy Wood Origin"

At the beginning, he even left an abacus for him, and he actually returned evil for good. Schiller thought indignantly, next time he must pick all the abacus beads off and throw them away.

Now, there was an information gap between Schiller and Stark. Stark learned some things in Schiller's Mind Palace, but because of a petty person playing tricks, Schiller himself didn't know what Stark and Steve had learned in the Mind Palace.

This is like a policeman arresting a criminal because of a case. The policeman knows the details of the case, but the criminal doesn't.

At this time, the policeman asks the criminal to confess, and this criminal is actually not an ordinary criminal; he is a serial killer who has committed many cases. He also doesn't know which case the policeman wants him to confess to. If he speaks rashly, it is easy to slip out more.

Schiller is now in this state. He knows Stark must have supplemented something, but he doesn't know what Stark supplemented. If he were to tell all the pits that might exist in his Mind Palace, he might have to talk until next year, and after talking, he would never have to be discharged again.

Schiller reasoned based on the details he knew now. It is known that the biggest change he made this time was actually releasing a personality that had never floated to the surface since he came to this world, which was the Moonlight Schiller, also the young Schiller.

At the same time, Khonshu chose this personality as his power carrier. When Schiller took this personality out to deal with the Egyptian gods, Khonshu should still be in the mental ward of the asylum.

Although Schiller only treated Khonshu as a tool man, he also gave him certain permissions, allowing him to move freely within the 10th floor.

And there were not many people below the 10th floor of the Mind Palace to begin with. After Stark and Steve entered the Mind Palace, they didn't take the elevator and walked up from the first floor. The first existence they encountered might be Khonshu.

If Stark and Steve expressed their purpose to Khonshu in order to track Schiller's whereabouts, Khonshu might take them to the ward where young Schiller once lived.

With Stark's intelligence, he should be able to find some clues there, thereby deducing Schiller's experiences during his youth.

Since that's the case, Schiller thought, then what he exposed to Stark might be some memory fragments from his youth.

From Shiler's perspective, this speculation is sound; after all, he could not have imagined that the DC Shiler had colluded with the Ego to put on a show for Stark and Steve.

After repeatedly pushing and pulling this deduction, Schiller felt that the logic had no problems.

Since things have come to this, it's better to follow the plan. Schiller opened his mouth and said:

"Do you want to judge me?"

Schiller turned his head, looked at Stark's eyes and said: "Without someone's consent, peeking into his inner world, finding some evidence that he is abnormal, and then taking despicable means to lock him in a mental hospital..."

"Tony Stark, do you also want to say that this is for my own good?"

Stark was stunned. He didn't expect Schiller, who had just woken up, to have such strong aggressiveness. He spread his hands and explained: "It's not like that, actually we just..."

"Then why do I appear here?"

Schiller stood up, looked down at the hospital gown on his body, and then turned around, looking at Stark who was still sitting on the hospital bed and asked:

"Do you support Khonshu or Ammit?"

"... What?" Stark was a bit confused.

"Do you know why the two of them fought?"

"Why?"

"Khonshu believes that only after a crime has occurred does he have the power of judgment and ruling."

"What's the problem with this?" Stark asked.

"And Ammit believes that crimes that have already occurred cannot be remedied, so criminals should be killed before the crime occurs."

"Absurd." Stark evaluated, and he said: "If you follow this theory, everyone in this world is a criminal."

"Then what on earth are you doing?" Schiller looked at Stark and asked.

"You dug out some old things in my Mind Palace, so you concluded that I should be locked in a mental hospital, so I appeared here."

"But have I harmed anyone because of my mental abnormality? Have I committed a crime because of it? Aren't those abnormalities just existing in my mind?"

"Essentially, you are doing the same thing as Ammit." Schiller stared into Stark's eyes and said: "Even though he just killed me."

Stark took a deep breath and said: "We didn't want to judge you, and we didn't lock you here..."

"Well, now I'm going to leave this..." After saying that, Schiller turned and left. A black shadow flashed past him. Stark walked in front of him and blocked him. Schiller stopped, shrugged his shoulders and said:

"If you would let me leave here, you wouldn't have worn a battle suit today."

After saying that, he glanced at the battle suit parked in the center of the ward, showing a somewhat mocking smile, and said: "The cigarette I handed you back then has become the weapon you use against me now."

"When you used it to kill Ammit, did you feel that you were very righteous? And when you use it to stop me now, do you think so too?"

"Even though I haven't done anything, because of my potentially dangerous and powerful uncontrollable power, you treat me as a criminal to monitor, and even, when necessary, don't hesitate to threaten with force..."

Schiller walked to the opposite of Stark, looked directly into his eyes and said: "One day, you will pay the price for this idea of yours."

Just when Stark thought Schiller would leave the ward directly, Schiller turned and returned to the hospital bed, lying down with his back to Stark, and stopped making a sound.

At the moment before Schiller turned his head, Stark was sure that he saw thick disappointment in his eyes, which made Stark start to waver.

Schiller didn't blame him, but just repeated the internal logic of his behavior. And when this logic was brought to the table and analyzed clearly, it sounded as ridiculous as Ammit's concept.

This made Stark start to doubt whether he had really done something wrong. After all, as Schiller said, Schiller actually hadn't done anything to harm society because of his mental abnormality. On the contrary, his current behavioral performance and speech were very normal, and even before, he used his wisdom to benefit human civilization.

If a person is born with a bomb, no one knows whether it will explode and hurt others, so should he be permanently imprisoned and not be able to do anything?

Between individual freedom and public safety, which one should be chosen?

Before, Stark had always leaned toward the latter, but now, he started to think about the essence of this problem. Is it this person's fault to be born with a bomb? If not, why should he pay the price of being imprisoned for it?

Even if it is Schiller, after being treated like this, he will still feel deep disappointment. So, how many people in this world will have noble thoughts and be willing to sacrifice themselves to maintain public safety?

"Do you know? At the moment he questioned me, I was really thinking, are we letting him go to the hospital really to treat him, or are we afraid that he will lose control and threaten us?"

"Do I really have the power to do this? When he hasn't done anything yet, I look at him with the eyes of a potential criminal?"

In the Avengers base, Stark sat at one end of the table, and Steve sat at the other end. Steve heard his question and said with some confusion: "Why did you wear a battle suit to visit the patient?"

"If I don't wear a battle suit, how can I go there? Drive? Do you know how congested the morning peak in New York is?!" Stark asked back.

"Then why don't you explain to him?"

"I..."

Steve covered his forehead and said: "You wouldn't have been led into the ditch by him again, would you?"

Stark sighed and said: "I would rather he be deliberately stimulating me like in the past, rather than really feeling sad and disappointed for this." ===== CHAPTER 526 =====

Stark sighed and said, "I would rather he were deliberately provoking me as he used to, instead of truly feeling sad and disappointed because of this."