Chapter 529: Schiller

Looking at Schiller, who appeared very irritable, Loki was not angry either. 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 did the two plans you gave not succeed, but the Sanctum Sanctorum held two meetings yesterday 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 bit. 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 so that I can live here and sleep soundly every day. Otherwise, if I went to work at S. H. I. E. L. D. during the day and did sales in my dreams at night, I would be exhausted."

"However, it seems they have misunderstood something..." Loki looked up at the door Steve 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 get this order for Death done, after I'm discharged, they will forget about this matter in a few days..."

Loki opened his mouth, appearing to have more to say. He wanted to say that the serious expression Steve had before leaving didn't look like something that would be forgotten in a few days, but seeing Schiller's irritable mood due to being frequently rejected in sales, he ultimately said nothing.

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

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

Schiller took a deep breath and exhaled, then took another deep breath. After slowly breathing deeply several times, he revealed a fake smile and said, "I'm fine, I just want to kill someone."

"Honestly, I understand the concept of death you told me about. It sounds quite interesting, but I think you don't 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, he was addicted to dreaming.

After Schiller obtained the Judgment Scale 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 pass on 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 denied by Death.

Schiller was not a simple swindler who wouldn't consider time costs. Things had developed to this point, and benefits and the like were no longer important. Between Schiller and Death, there was not only a distinction between high and low but also a decision of life and death.

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

If it was said that the deal between Death, 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 was not 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 Death's kingdom wouldn't accept him.

And to figure out this secret, he naturally had to call Death. Therefore, Schiller hadn't done anything else these past 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 current performance, one could tell that these two things were not going smoothly. Death would answer the phone, but most of the time it was Schiller talking alone. She would occasionally give a response, but most of the time she was silent.

Now, Schiller finally understood why Death could make Thanos so infatuated. 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 the situation be like if an abstract concept possessed 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? What kind of changes would it bring to the universe if an abstract concept that mastered near-infinite omnipotence had likes and dislikes and analyzed gains and losses?

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

A research subject who is half-dead and rarely gives a response will make any researcher feel frustrated, and Schiller is currently in a state of extreme irritation.

Loki keenly sensed this, so he hurriedly threw down his files and ran back to Asgard without looking back. On his way, he was still wondering which unlucky bastard would happen to run into Schiller's line of fire. He would definitely be sitting on the Rainbow Bridge on time to watch the fun.

Another person who knows the truth is the Sorcerer Supreme, Strange, who is currently at the Avengers base, participating in a meeting hosted by Steve.

"... In summary, I believe Schiller may have been subjected to some stimulus, leading to the onset of a mental illness, and the situation is currently not optimistic."

Steve sighed, his expression more serious than ever, and said: "In addition to considering the pain he may be suffering, we must also consider the destruction he might cause if he suddenly has a mental breakdown..."

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

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

"That is the problem." Matt tapped the table with his finger and said: "We can't find a doctor who can treat him right now, and he may not necessarily cooperate with the treatment."

"Since yesterday, he has shown extreme aggression in his communication with me. By today, he has developed symptoms of lethargy, appears quite irritable, and also has some symptoms of depression..."

"If it continues to develop like this, his mental state may deteriorate step by step, and no one knows what it will eventually develop into."

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

"Indeed, we basically have no methods to influence a person's mental state right now, and even if we did, it might not necessarily be effective on Schiller."

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"Ahem..." Strange cleared his throat, touched his face, and said: "Are you really sure it's a mental problem?"

Matt and Steve looked at him together, and then Steve said: "Oh, I forgot, you weren't there when we described the situation in Schiller's Mind Palace."

Steve began to repeat to Strange what they had seen in Schiller's Mind Palace regarding his childhood and teenage experiences.

Hearing this, Strange revealed an expression of sudden realization.

Strange suddenly proposed: "Have you noticed that there is a contradiction here?"

Stark and Steve looked at each other, both frowning, and then looked at Strange together.

"If, according to what you said, Schiller may have suffered mental trauma in his childhood, and this trauma led to him becoming a sociopath in his teenage years..."

"But the Schiller we saw before was a normal person. You wouldn't be saying that all his normal behavior at that time was just the disguise of a serial killer, would you?"

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

"I don't think so either." Matt also chimed in, saying: "If he were really a serial killer, there would have been no need for him to save me back then."

"The mental problems he faced back then were much more severe than they are now, so how did he get better?" Strange asked.

The few looked at each other, then looked at Strange together. Strange continued: "Or rather, if someone was able to cure Schiller's severe mental problems back then, couldn't they be cured the same way now?"

Stark rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and said: "Makes sense. It looks like he might be having a bipolar episode now, but his mental problems might have been more severe in the past. Who cured him?"

At this moment, Strange suddenly spoke: "Do you remember when I first met Schiller, I told you he was wearing a ring?"

Everyone's gaze fell on Strange's face again. Strange cleared his throat and said: "And that cryogenic technology that shouldn't belong to this era, as well as the huge, unaccounted-for salary Schiller had that Nick mentioned before..."

"But I remember Dr. Schiller explained that." Peter scratched his head, recalled for a moment, and said: "I remember he told Dr. Connors that freezing his wife was a story about a friend of his. That friend was a cryogenics expert who invented such powerful cryogenic technology precisely to freeze his wife, who was suffering from a degenerative disease..."

At this, Stark stood up, summoned his armor, and said: "Jarvis, help me search the global database of cryogenics experts, filtering by the conditions Peter just mentioned."

"Searching... Search complete..."

"No such person found."