Chapter 529: Schiller

Looking at Schiller, who appeared very irritable, Loki was not angry. He smiled, sat down, and then put the briefcase on his lap and said, "Did the two plans I gave you before not succeed?"

"Not only the two plans you gave, but yesterday the Sanctum Sanctorum held two meetings and came up with more than a dozen sales plans. Only two showed interest, and in the end, it still didn't work out."

Schiller covered one eye with his palm and sighed, saying, "This is truly the most difficult client I have ever encountered."

Loki sat down, patted Schiller on the shoulder, and said, "Persist a little longer. Anyway, it's just this one order. After it's done, I'll treat you to a hot spring under the World Tree."

Schiller took a deep breath and said, "Fortunately, they provided me with a ready-made reason, allowing me to live here and sleep every day. Otherwise, if I went to work at the S. H. I. E. L. D. during the day and did sales in my dreams at night, I would be exhausted to death."

"But it seems they misunderstood something..." Loki looked up at the door that Shi Difen had left through. Schiller shook his head to get rid of the sleepiness of just waking up from a dream, and then said, "Forget it. Once I finish this order of Death, after I am discharged from the hospital, they will forget about this in a few days..."

Loki opened his mouth, looking like he wanted to say something but stopped. He wanted to say that the serious expression on Shi Difen's face before he left didn't look like something that would be forgotten in a few days. But seeing Schiller's irritable mood because his sales were frequently rejected, he ultimately said nothing.

"... Are you really okay?" After hesitating for a long time, Loki still asked.

Because Schiller's expression now couldn't be called peaceful and serene; it could also be called gnashing his teeth.

Schiller took a deep breath and exhaled, then took another deep breath. After breathing slowly for a few times, he showed a fake smile that didn't reach his eyes and said, "I'm fine, just a little bit wanting to kill someone."

"Honestly, I understand the so-called concept of Death you told me about. It sounds quite interesting, but I don't think you need to be so concerned. After all, at the current stage, her contribution to human civilization is not too great, and there is no need to be so anxious..."

Schiller hugged his arms and gritted his teeth, saying, "Do you think I care now whether she can bring benefits to human civilization?"

Loki patted Schiller on the shoulder again and said, "Don't say it, I understand, I understand everything."

That's right, the reason Schiller had symptoms of narcolepsy was that he was indeed narcoleptic, or rather, addicted to dreaming.

After Schiller obtained the Scale of Judgment that could make harassing calls to Death, he almost dialed Death's phone number non-stop to sell to her.

At first, Death didn't respond at all, but later, probably annoyed by Schiller, she began to convey some information implicitly, such as expressing affirmation or negation of certain cooperation methods proposed by Schiller.

But the reason Schiller was so irritable was that 99% of the methods were rejected by Death.

Schiller was not a simple liar who wouldn't consider time costs. Things had developed to this point, and benefits and such were no longer important. Between Schiller and Death, it was not just a matter of winning or losing, but a matter of life and death.

In addition, Schiller also wanted to explore why Death wouldn't let him die?

If the deal between Death and Odin and Osiris was to allow them to bring more death, the premise was that Odin and Osiris both held a relatively pious attitude. It was better to say they were working for her than to say they were trading with Death. Thanos was the same.

It could be said that if Odin and Osiris made harassing calls to Death day and night like Schiller, it was hard to say whether the Asgard and Egyptian pantheons could still exist now.

The concept of time for long-lived species was completely different from that of short-lived species. The Hippo Goddess would feel that her child calling her once a week was already extremely frequent, and the Hippo Goddess was not completely immortal, just long-lived, and her child only called once a week.

Death was an abstract concept. She was truly immortal. As long as the universe existed, she would always exist. And Schiller didn't call once a week; he called more than a dozen times a day.

Even so, Death wasn't annoyed enough by him to kill him directly. There must be some reason Schiller didn't know. For this reason, Schiller wanted to figure out the secret of why the Kingdom of Death wouldn't accept him.

And to figure out this secret, naturally, he had to call Death. Therefore, Schiller hadn't done anything else these few days. As long as he was free, he would sleep and dream, and then take that scale to make harassing calls to Death.

Of course, looking at his performance now, it was clear that neither of these two things was going smoothly. Death would answer the phone, but most of the time it was Schiller talking alone. She occasionally gave a response, and most of the time she was silent.

Now, Schiller finally understood why Death could fascinate Thanos to the point of dizziness. If she had no reaction at all and was always silent, Schiller would probably have given up. But now, Death was clearly telling Schiller that she not only possessed personality and wisdom but also analyzed gains and losses.

What would it be like for an abstract concept to possess personality? How was her personality formed? Would it be affected by external environmental factors like humans? What was the difference in the psychological state between God-made creations and naturally born creations? After an abstract concept that mastered near-infinite omnipotence had likes, dislikes, and analyzed gains and losses, what kind of changes would it bring to the universe?

These questions made Schiller curious. Essentially, Schiller, who represented the greedy trait of personality, urgently wanted to use Death as a research object and gain power from analyzing her personality and emotional characteristics.

And a half-dead research object that rarely gave responses would make any researcher feel angry. Schiller was now in a very angry state.

Loki keenly felt this point. Therefore, he hurriedly threw down the plan and ran back to Asgard without looking back. On the way to run away, he was still thinking, which unlucky guy would happen to run into Schiller's muzzle? He must be squatting on the Rainbow Bridge on time to watch the fun.

Another person who knew this truth was the Supreme Mage Shi Difen, and at this time, he was in the Avengers base, participating in a meeting hosted by Shi Difen.

"... In summary, I think Schiller may have been stimulated, leading to the onset of mental illness, and the situation is not optimistic now."

Shi Difen sighed, his expression unprecedentedly serious. He said, "In addition to considering the pain he may be suffering, we must also consider the destruction that may be caused if he suddenly loses his mind..."

As he spoke, he glanced at Stark. Stark pressed his fist against his lips, then coughed and said, "I admit, I shouldn't have stimulated him yesterday, but I didn't expect it to deteriorate so quickly."

"Can't we find a doctor?" Peter raised his hand and asked.

"The problem is right here." Ma Te tapped the table with his finger and said, "We can't find a doctor who can treat him now, and he may not cooperate with the treatment."

"Since yesterday, he has shown extremely strong aggression in his communication with me. By today, he has developed symptoms of narcolepsy, and he appears to be quite irritable, as well as having some symptoms of depression..."

"If it continues to develop like this, his mental state may deteriorate step by step. No one knows what it will develop into in the end."

Stark sighed and continued, "More importantly, mental problems are different from physical trauma. There is no way to use magic power to treat them..."

"Indeed, we basically have no way to affect a person's mental state now, and even if we did, it might not be effective for Schiller."

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"Ahem..." Shi Difen cleared his throat. He touched his face and then said, "Are you really sure he has a mental problem?"

Ma Te and Shi Difen looked at him together. Subsequently, Shi Difen said, "Oh, I forgot, you weren't there when we described the situation in Schiller's Mind Palace."

Shi Difen opened his mouth and repeated to Shi Difen what they had seen in Schiller's Mind Palace, his childhood and teenage experiences.

Hearing this, Shi Difen showed an expression of sudden realization.

Shi Difen suddenly proposed, "Have you noticed that there is a contradiction here?"

Stark and Shi Difen looked at each other, both frowned, and then looked at Shi Difen together.

"If, as you said, Schiller may have suffered mental trauma in his childhood, and this trauma caused him to become an antisocial personality in his teenage years..."

"However, the Schiller we saw before was a normal person. You wouldn't be saying that at that time, all his normal expressions were the disguise of a maniac, right?"

"Impossible." Peter denied this point first. He said, "I lived with Dr. Schiller for a long time, and I have Spider-Sense. If he were disguising, I would definitely have discovered it."

"I also don't think so." Ma Te also echoed. He said, "If he were really a maniac, there would be no need to save me at that time."

"The mental problem he faced at that time was much more serious than it is now. So how did he get better?" Shi Difen asked.

Several people looked at each other, and then looked at Shi Difen together. Shi Difen continued, "Or rather, if someone could cure Schiller, who had such a serious mental problem at that time, then can't they cure him now?"

Stark touched his chin. He thought for a moment and then said, "Makes sense. It looks like he may have bipolar disorder now, but his mental problem might have been more serious before. Who cured him?"

At this time, Shi Difen suddenly spoke, "Do you remember when I first met Schiller, I told you that he wore a ring?"

Everyone's eyes fell on Shi Difen's face again, and Shi Difen cleared his throat and said, "And that kind of freezing technology that shouldn't belong to this era, as well as the huge salary of unknown origin that Nick mentioned before..."

"But I remember Dr. Schiller explained it." Peter scratched his head, recalled for a moment, and then said, "I remember he told Dr. Connors that freezing his wife was a story about a friend of his. That friend was a cryobiologist who invented such powerful low-temperature technology precisely to freeze his wife who suffered from a degenerative disease..."

At this time, Stark stood up, summoned his battle suit, and then said, "Jarvis, help me query the global cryobiologist database and filter according to the conditions Peter just said."

"Querying... Query completed..."

"No such person found." ===== CHAPTER 530 =====