Chapter 805: How Schiller Cracked at the Beginning (Part 2)

If you use slightly ridiculous language to explain all this, you can only say that shoddy engineering is harmful, and not plastering when laying bricks has serious consequences.

Victor wrinkled his face hard. He touched his forehead and said: "Shattered... what does that mean?"

"It means exactly what it says." Schiller's fingers had been tapping the guardrail of the hospital bed lightly. He said: "The tower I built wasn't strong enough, and people stood too high, so the overall personality shattered, shattered into many pieces. For a long time afterward, I was trying to stick it back together."

"This..." Victor originally wanted to say this was too absurd, but he felt it might be because this metaphor was a bit too grounded.

In the original explanation, there should have been many professional terms he didn't understand, so Schiller specifically expressed it relatively straightforwardly.

Otherwise, this would be too childish. Can personality shatter? Even more ridiculously, can it be stuck back together after shattering???

"During this period, I was not in a normal social environment, but I knew I had to go back because I had things to do." Schiller continued.

"I must find a way to make myself look like an ordinary person, for example, find a way to piece the fragments back together, then find something to stick them, or apply some beauty seam in the middle, pretend to be a postmodern art piece or something..."

Schiller sighed and said: "And the reason I chose the psychology major was that the psychologist who treated me was really too professional."

"Of course, it's also possible that my technique for sticking vases at the time was wrong, and I was seen through every time, so I had too many meaningless expectations for this major, to the point that now, I can't even find a suitable student..."

Schiller shook his head helplessly, but Victor didn't feel funny about Schiller's way of explaining it like a joke, because he heard more heavy truths behind it.

"Because there was no way to stick the vase together, I had to find other ways. I thought, rather than putting out a vase stuck in a twisted way, it's better to take out a broken porcelain piece and say this is an ancient porcelain fragment."

"But achieving this is actually not easy. After thinking about it, I decided to build another house. As long as this house can leave enough space for every fragment to move in, and then let them play their respective roles at different times and in different situations, that might be easier."

"So, you built a new tower?" Victor asked.

"Yes, things went very smoothly. My plan was correct. I stuffed the shattered personality into the new house and then called them up in parts, which made me look much more normal."

"But soon, problems appeared. If you want to use these fragments according to a plan, someone must manage them."

"Even if it's a newly built house, it must be maintained. There need to be front desk receptionists, repairmen, security guards, cleaners, transporters, lobby managers, etc. I must create a complete system in my brain to ensure that it won't be so easy to be chaotic and collapse."

"Sounds like a fantasy." Victor sighed.

"That's right. Soon, I discovered that the fragments were not enough." Schiller sighed and said: "In an apartment building, you can't have all property employees. There have to be some owners, right?"

"So, besides functional personality fragments, I broke the memory part even more, turning every personality trait generated in memory into a separate fragment. They became the main residents in the tower, while those functional personalities were property personnel."

Victor shook his head, feeling that all this was too crazy, but after Schiller paused, he continued: "I will explain these because you must first understand where these things came from to know what happened on the day I met Bruce."

"Normally speaking, every personality fragment in my Tower of Thought represents 0.00 something, and these numbers added together must be a complete 'one', because all fragments are shattered from a complete personality."

"If you cut a pizza into eight pieces, no matter whether you separate these eight pieces of pizza or put them together, they should eventually be able to piece together a complete pizza." Schiller gave a very simple and easy-to-understand metaphor: "If you take out one piece alone, it is one-eighth, and eight one-eighths added together is 'one'. Before that day, the situation in my Palace of Thought was like this."

"When I came to this city of Cat Getan, I realized that I needed a more vicious employee to handle the various dangerous situations here." Schiller touched his eyes and said: "But the Palace of Thought cannot conjure employees out of thin air. All personality traits are actually fragments after the whole personality is shattered."

"If you want one more employee, you must find one that already exists, and then break it into two halves. In this way, on the basis that he can still maintain his original job, he can also be responsible for another new job."

"Out of rigid need, the property manager of the Palace of Thought split a fragment belonging to a very special department in half. In general, it can be considered a branch department under the emotion department. The trait represented by this personality is called 'arrogance'."

"On a very ordinary day, that morning, it was neither sunny nor warm. Anna told me that the person at the freshman registration office asked for leave and asked me to replace him for a day, so I went, and then met Bruce Wei En at the registration office."

"It was precisely because the personality trait represented was arrogance that he made some judgments about Bruce Wei En based on things outside of reality, and based on these judgments, he made some behaviors, leading Bruce Wei En to have extra interest in an ordinary university psychology professor."

"All this happened too suddenly. All the owners and property managers in the tower didn't realize what had happened, just that the personality heard a series of light laughter."

"Afterward, he made a series of behaviors, but he felt it was completely normal, and all the other owners and property managers in the tower didn't realize the seriousness of the problem."

"They should have stopped him when the employee who heard the laughter made the crazy move of entering the Cat Getan streets at night. But because they had never experienced such a thing before, the emergency response department didn't give any warning, leading to a delay in everyone's reaction."

"And then?" Victor listened very carefully. He felt this was a quite interesting story, very likely part of Schiller's dark history.

"During a night out, I met Batman who was investigating a case at the time..." Schiller rubbed the guardrail of the hospital bed with his fingers. He paused for another while, and then said:

"You should know that a professor who has some research in psychology, a personality trait that originally represents arrogance, met a mental patient who was paranoid to the point of deceiving himself..."

"We had some slightly intense discussions on some issues of jurisprudence, criminology, and behavioral science." Schiller put that hand on the side of his neck again. Victor looked at him and said: "So, this wound was left by a Batarang?"

Schiller nodded and said: "When my nerves transmitted the pain to the brain, the Tower of Thought started to alarm."

"The personality trait of the logic department finally realized that something was wrong. They discovered that the things done by that personality trait neither conformed to my own style of doing things nor conformed to the needs of interests and safety..."

"What happened to the personality trait that was working?" Victor asked.

"He was polluted." Schiller lowered his head and glanced at Bruce again, saying: "Because of some very mysterious reasons, at the moment Batman cast his attention on me, this personality was polluted by some kind of virus."

"The goal orientation of that personality trait changed completely and no longer conformed to the needs of normal work. So, the me you see now became the me you know." Schiller looked at Victor and said: "And the me now is the other half of the arrogance personality fragment that was split before, and it also represents arrogance."

"Are you very arrogant?" Victor recalled a bit confusedly and said: "I don't feel so?"

Schiller shook his head and said: "Personality trait is arrogance, which doesn't mean the personality I show is arrogant, nor does it mean I will be arrogant to anyone or anything..."

"So, what does this have to do with Bruce's current situation?" Victor asked.

"The problem is here. We were originally a personality fragment, just split into two. Although he was polluted, after all, it was transformed from my personality fragment, still retaining the personality trait of arrogance."

Schiller looked at Bruce and said: "And the object that polluted him has some special obsession with Batman. These two behavioral motives added together will lead to some very serious consequences. For example, this personality very firmly believes that Batman will make the choice he wants."

Schiller sighed and said: "Arrogance is a very special emotion, containing traits such as generalization, paranoia, stubbornness, etc. Under strong driving force, it may produce various dangerous consequences."

Victor also set his gaze on Bruce and said: "So, this is the consequence produced?"

"That's right. That polluted personality believes that Batman is always a god, a god high above."

"He will occasionally fall into the mortal world, just because he wants to see how miserable the lambs he pities are, so as to provide material for his dream of saving the world."

"This personality trait very stubbornly believes that by using some methods to completely exhaust Batman's physical strength and energy, making Batman incomparably weak and painful, and then making him realize that if he wants to live well at the bottom, he must abandon his bottom line and collude with them, proving to him that these people who are very pathetic in his eyes are actually the criminals he hates most, will make him mentally traumatized and mentally collapsed."

"In this way, Batman will definitely hide back in his nest to lick his wounds, just like he did on several nights."

"So. Batman came to the hospital to heal?" Victor asked.

Schiller shook his head and said in a very complex tone: "But he never expected that Batman decided to become one of these people."

Victor understood Schiller's implication, but he still asked: "... Did he really let go?"

Schiller closed his eyes and said: "I don't know, but if a person hasn't really let go of hatred, I'm afraid he wouldn't laugh out loud from the heart, right?" ===== CHAPTER 806 =====

"This personality trait stubbornly believes that after using certain methods to thoroughly exhaust Batman's physical strength and energy, leaving Batman incomparably weak and in pain, and then making him realize that to live well in the bottom layer, one must abandon their bottom line and collude with others—proving to him that these people he considers pathetic are actually the criminals he hates most—it will cause him trauma and a mental breakdown."

"In this way, Batman will surely hide back in his nest to lick his wounds, just as he has done on countless nights."

"So, Batman came to the hospital to heal?" Victor asked.

Shiler shook his head and said in a very complex tone, "But he never expected that Batman would decide to become one of these people."

Shiler paused, his emotions seemingly still churning, and said, "This also means he admits that he is no different from these criminals."

Victor understood the implication of Shiler's words, but he still asked, "... Has he really let go?"

Shiler closed his eyes and said, "I don't know, but if a person hasn't truly let go of their hatred, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to laugh from the bottom of their heart, right?"