The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3577 Edge of Tomorrow (23)

Chapter 3577 Edge of Tomorrow (Twenty-three)

"How do you know someone is trying to sow discord?"

A message like this appeared on Schiller's phone. Schiller knew it was from Brainiac.

"Based on the facts I have. At the same time, I see that he is hiding something."

"You obviously know better."

"Yes, but he is a child. He doesn't have a strong psychological endurance. There are some things you don't need to tell him."

"Then you can tell me."

"tell you what?"

"What did you see?"

"You mean, you want me to tell you: Old Shazam is worried about the recent situation of Mount Olympus, and at the same time he finds that his successor is gradually slipping out of his control. The two anxieties that are happening at the same time have made him gradually lose his mind. He is eager to use Shazam to do something to prove that he still has power and that his previous choice was correct."

"I also want to tell you: he is dissatisfied with the current state of the human world that he learned about through Billy. Because an overly strict order is not conducive to the survival of a mouse like him who hides behind the scenes. So he wants to use the same old trick again. After Billy breaks up with his new family, he will use his brief but intense negative emotions to make a big fuss and let people see the disadvantages of this order."

"And let me tell you: his target is most likely the construction base of Brainiac Center. The time of action is tomorrow night. He will use his superpowers to push down the wreckage of the half-demolished DeVoe Building, kill more than 10 workers who are working overnight, and take advantage of your weak control over the peripheral network to contact their families and form a resistance against Brainiac?"

Brainiac was silent for a long time and replied with a string of ellipsis.

"I think I can finally confirm that psychoanalysis is not magic," Brainiac replied, "because according to my research on magic, magic is not that strong."

"I'm just speculating," Schiller said.

"After you told me this speculation, I conducted some investigation and analysis and found that the possibility of what you said happening is as high as 90%. Congratulations, professor, your computing speed exceeds 100% of the super artificial intelligence in the world."

"This is not calculation." Schiller looked up at the heated discussion at the consultation site. However, most of the discussion was about some professional knowledge in orthopedics, and he, a psychologist, could not get a word in.

Schiller began to analyze Brainiac, saying: "From the fact that his successor chose a child who knows nothing, it can be seen that old Shazam is a bully."

"Many people think that in the jungle survival rules, such people have a greater chance of survival, so he is right to do so. But in fact, it is the opposite."

"Bullying the weak will make people lazy. In the end, they will be more inclined to make the weak under their control weaker than to make themselves stronger."

"For example, many parents do not feel completely happy when their children grow up and achieve new achievements. They are more likely to be angry than happy, and even stop their children's growth at all costs and resolutely prevent them from becoming stronger."

"It's because they themselves don't want to work hard to grow up. If they want to continue to control their children, they will only make them weaker. For them, being obedient is more important than being strong."

"But there is a significant disadvantage. When children become weaker, parents succeed and become even more lazy. Instead of progressing and developing, they regress. Parents become weaker, and if they want to control their children, they have to make their children weaker. The two sides will continue in an endless cycle, and in the end, they will mess up their families and lives."

"That's how old Shazam is. Something happened to Olympus, and his own abilities became weaker, so he had to find a way to make Billy weaker, otherwise he wouldn't be able to control him."

"The way to make Billy weaker is to prevent him from having a stable growth environment, to make him feel that every host family is bad and to try every possible way to escape."

"If you spend all your energy on fighting your family and your own negative emotions every day, you naturally won't have the energy to improve your vision and abilities. If you only grow taller but not more knowledgeable, you will naturally become weaker and weaker."

"Moreover, it's impossible for Old Shazam not to know that this power will affect Billy's growth and development. Not only did he not intervene, he also tried his best to paralyze Billy, telling him that it was no big deal and that he could use it without worry. This is endangering Billy's health and will make Billy weaker."

"Also, he constantly stirs up Billy's emotions, making him feel that this is not good, that is not good, and finally makes his heart full of negative emotions. It's as if the whole world is against him. This will make his personality unstable during the critical period of personality formation. An unstable personality will lead to an unstable spirit, which is also one of the means to weaken Billy."

"He did this consciously in order to make Billy weaker and easier to control. Some parents do this unconsciously, and their purpose is naturally to control their children."

"Don't they know this is the worst possible outcome?" Brainiac asked. "The child is their hope for the future. What good will it do them to have their child mess up their lives?"

"You have already ruled over humanity, haven't you discovered yet? Human society is a huge mental illness. If everyone can arrange their lives with the goal of gaining benefits, then humans can still be regarded as a backward race, and it is your turn to rule?"

"I've been thinking about this recently," Brainiac said. "When I came into contact with your race in a comprehensive way, I found that you are completely different from what I imagined. You are chaotic, random, and unreasonable."

"I am just an artificial intelligence. Although I have intelligence, I have no emotions. But if I had, I think I would feel extremely painful to rule you."

"Because I discovered that everything you have developed since your birth seems to exist for the purpose of destroying your own civilization. This includes your body, spirit, logical thinking, and emotions. Everything leads to destruction."

"Rather than saying I'm ruling humanity, I'd say I'm saving humanity. I don't expect you to thank me, but you don't even thank yourself for being saved, and just keep repeating the same mistakes. It's as if I'm harming you by not letting you destroy yourselves."

"Welcome to human society," Schiller said with a smile.

The consultation lasted for more than four hours. After the joint diagnosis of the doctor and the magician, some results were finally obtained.

First, the power Billy was using was indeed some kind of radiation that affected his growth and development, but that was only because he was a child and didn't have better control over it.

In other words, if the person who gains this power is an adult, there will be no negative effects. Or if the person who controls this power is smart enough, there will be no problem.

At present, the effects of radiation have already occurred, but they can be dispelled. The first step is to deal with the magical effects, and then with growth hormones and drugs, Billy's growth curve will return to normal.

And if you want to use this power in the future, you must either wait until adulthood or you must control this power better and more deeply.

Looking at Billy's expression, Schiller knew that he must have understood. Sure enough, on the way out of the hospital, Billy wanted to take a car with Schiller.

Schiller did not refuse. He opened the door for Billy, let him sit in the passenger seat, and sat in the driver's seat himself.

"I don't understand it," Billy said. "They say there's something wrong with my use of power. I don't understand what the problem is."

"Do you really know what the problem is?"

Billy looked at him in confusion. Schiller sighed and said, "What did your teacher tell you? That you only need to raise your hands to the sky and yell 'Shazam!' to use this power?"

"Yes," Billy said. "That's the only way he told me to use it."

"Then how did he explain the last time your powers failed?"

"He said the gods don't always answer calls. If they're busy or something, I can't use my powers."

"And you accepted it?"

Billy was a little confused and stammered, "Then...can I not accept it?"

"Suppose you are in a life-or-death crisis, and the gods suddenly stop responding to your calls, what are you going to do?"

"Then, can I run?"

"What do you run on? Your two legs?"

"I have no idea……"

"Didn't you ask your teacher about this?"

"He said the gods would protect me. I suppose they won't let that happen?"

"Wasn't it dangerous last time?"

Billy didn't know what to say.

"So the real problem is that you don't understand this power. Everything you know about it comes from your teacher, but your teacher also has problems that he can't solve."

"then what do I do?"

"Of course you have to find out for yourself. Aren't you curious about who gave you the power, why they gave you the power, and how you can better use it?"

"I... I'm not always curious... because no one would tell me even if I asked." Billy rubbed his nose and said, "No one would research with me. They would just think I'm a troublemaker."

Schiller sighed and thought to himself: Maybe this is why old Shazam chose you.

At that time, Sivana touched the Seven Deadly Sins out of curiosity, and was scolded and thrown out by Old Shazam, saying that he was not a suitable successor. So what else could be the standard of being suitable?

Isn't it just timid, ignorant and incurious?

Sivana's family is much better than Shazam's. Although his father is strict with him, he did teach him carefully and provided him with the best conditions before the accident.

This gives him knowledge and abilities beyond his age, and also makes him fully curious and full of desire to learn about the world.

Even though such a big change happened later, he was still able to get into a prestigious school with his own ability, and even got up where he fell. He was not allowed to touch the seven deadly sins, but he insisted on collecting them. He was even almost successful.

It is not difficult to imagine that if he inherited the power of old Shazam, he would definitely abandon old Shazam and play alone, and it is not impossible for him to go directly to the heads of the gods of Mount Olympus.

Old Shazam was looking for a successor, not because he really wanted to retire. If he had found a successor like Sivana, he would definitely be kicked out. That's why he kicked Sivana out.

Because of his family situation and his own personality, Billy is not as smart and independent, and is easier to control than Sivana, so he naturally becomes Shazam's first choice.