The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2531: Xiao Xiao Down (5)

Chapter 2531: Xiao Xiao Down (XV)

The lights in the house were turned on. Under the light, the decoration inside the house looked more simple and elegant, with a kind of warmth that the empty large manor did not have. When the fireplace was lit, it added a breath of life.

Schiller couldn't be more pleased with the house, so while Raven and Zatanna were explaining the details, he paced back and forth between the living room and the dining room, admiring the details of the furniture and electronic equipment.

In fact, Schiller knew what was going on without Raven telling him. He had a deep impression of the father and daughter Sangong and Raven. The main reason was that in the later story line of the comics, it was revealed that Sangong had more than one daughter, Raven, he also had other children, and these children were the "original sins".

Coincidentally, the raven represents "arrogance".

In the subsequent Sin War, the raven, who represented arrogance, showed a powerful strength far beyond her father and herself, which made Schiller suspect that her power did not actually come from the Three Palaces, nor from herself, but most likely from the concept of arrogance.

Don't forget that the only designated spokesperson for the concept of arrogance in this universe is Lucifer.

Schiller and Lucifer have a good relationship because they share the same arrogance, but Schiller never figured out what the relationship was between this little girl named Raven and arrogance when he read the comics.

Because in the comic plot, especially in the first fight against the Three Palaces Demon, Raven cannot be said to be arrogant, but can only be said to be the most humble and rational one in the audience.

Her life story is also very simple. Her mother was bewitched by a cult and gave birth to her with the Three Palaces Demon. She was taken to a place called Azeroth since she was a child, where she was protected by the goddess Aze and taught by the high priestess of Aze's granddaughter.

As a result, after the death of Goddess Aze, because the protective power weakened, Raven resumed contact with her father and learned of her father's evil plan to invade and conquer the earth, so she came to Earth to ask for help.

To be precise, it was to remind the people on Earth to save themselves, but when Zatanna saw so much evil power in her, she thought she must be a pawn of the devil, so she warned the Justice League at the time not to believe her. The Justice League really didn't believe her and didn't even make any preparations.

Later, the Three Palaces Demon really arrived and confirmed what Raven said was true. As a result, the Justice League attacked their friendly forces because they completely distrusted Raven and directly defeated the sage who was resisting the Three Palaces Demon at the time. Even after the Three Palaces showed up, they were still stubborn and refused to believe that Raven was a good person.

From this perspective, no matter who is Arrogant Raven, he cannot be arrogant. Even if Lucifer comes, the Best Liar Award should be given to the three giants of the Justice League.

This story left a deep impression on Pride, because it's not that the Justice League hasn't suffered setbacks before, but it's relatively rare to see the Joker act as purely as in this story.

Someone gave him an advance warning, but Batman, who was good at planning and preparation, pretended not to hear it. When the crisis really came, he did nothing but attack his friendly forces. He discovered his mistake, but refused to admit it. In the end, he was unable to clean up the mess. It was only in the Teen Titans plot that the Trinita was brought back. This series of operations can really be regarded as the legacy of Zhongzheng.

Because the plot was particularly irritating, Schiller had a deep impression of him. However, Trinita was a typical character in DC comics whose combat power fluctuated and whose strength depended entirely on the needs of the plot. For this reason, Schiller had never thought of dealing with him before.

Judging from the comics alone, his first invasion was quite intense, at least causing chaos for the entire Justice League. If he hadn't been killed later in the plot's finale, the Teen Titans alone would have been unable to do anything to him.

However, since the raven has appeared, the Three Palaces Demon will come sooner or later. After Schiller thought about it for a while, he made some arrangements in his mind, but there is no rush for it so far, as he still has to solve the problem of the house first.

"You have to find a way to give her a new place to live." Schiller looked at Zatanna and said, "I want to buy this house."

Zatanna seemed a little embarrassed. She said, "If we could let her into the inner world, we would definitely let her in. The problem is that she carries too much energy. Once she enters, it will significantly affect the stability of the inner world."

"Gotham is so big, and there are densely populated areas everywhere. It's not easy to find a sparsely populated area. Besides, there's such a large area behind this house. If there is an explosion, going into the forest can reduce some casualties. What do you think, Professor?"

Zatanna looked outside and said, "There are quite a few houses in this neighborhood. Why don't you buy the one next to it? Is there any difference between these two?"

“There’s a big difference in price,” Schiller replied. “I only have enough money for this one.”

Zatanna was a little stunned by his straightforwardness. She was about to ask if Schiller would also worry about money, but then she thought, who in the world wouldn't worry about money? She and Constantine would too.

Some time ago, she and Constantine had been living upstairs in a bookstore. They had finally made some money through business and were preparing to rent a house, but then the economic crisis came and the bookstore's business became worse and worse. Now it was barely enough to make a living, and they still had to squeeze into a room upstairs.

Fortunately, both of them are magicians, and they can make money by taking orders, and their life is barely bearable. However, there is no hope for buying a house or opening a branch as they had talked about before the economic crisis.

When Zatanna thought of this, she remembered that she had an important job tomorrow morning. If she couldn't get up or was sleepy and couldn't concentrate, she would have to do it again.

So she simply said, "I know the price of this house must have dropped because of the paranormal incident. If you drive the raven out and the paranormal incident stops, maybe the real estate agent will regret it again."

"How about this, you buy the house first, let Raven pay you rent, and let her live here for a while. That way, if anything happens to her, you can solve it in time, and she won't blow up the whole city."

Schiller also saw that Zatanna was really at her wit's end. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "That's fine with me, but this lady..."

Zatanna poked Raven with her elbow and found that he had no special reaction. She knew that he must be a country bumpkin who had never participated in the fighting world and didn't know Schiller's great name.

So she had no choice but to say, "This professor is quite famous, and in the society of ordinary people, he is a very good psychologist. He can teach you how to channel your emotions without holding them back. Maybe if your emotions flow smoothly, you can control this power yourself. What do you think?"

Raven didn't respond. She nodded, but quickly said, "I don't have any money. I can't pay the rent."

"Then go out and work!" Zatanna raised her voice and said, "Go work in my bookstore. We changed the first floor of the bookstore into a coffee shop, selling English breakfast and coffee. Business is pretty good, but we're in need of a porter who's strong enough to carry the goods. I think you can do it."

Before Raven could speak, Zatanna said helplessly, "It's good to have a job these days. Do you know how many people applied when I posted the job posting? The first one who came yesterday was even a crocodile!"

Raven didn't seem to know how to refute, so he could only nod. Zatanna said, "The bookstore is in the roundabout area, not too far from here. I'll leave you the address and Constantine's old car. You drive to work, don't take the subway or bus, or you'll be finished if it explodes on the way."

"She was driving to work, and if it blew up on the road, wouldn't she be dead anyway?" Schiller said. "Are you expecting there to be fewer people on the road than on the ground?"

Zatanna sighed and said, "Then we'll have to open a portal. Damn it, we're running out of money to buy materials."

Zatanna left in a hurry, leaving only Schiller and Raven. Soon Schiller was ready to leave as well. Before leaving, he said to Raven, "Don't move the supernatural props in the room. I will go to sign the contract tomorrow morning and bring some daily necessities in the afternoon."

Raven sat upright and nodded. Schiller noticed that her joints were stiff, as if she was really a sculpture. This was a serious symptom of somatization.

But think about it, a child who is born knowing nothing has always been taught to suppress her emotions and not have any emotional fluctuations, which means that her emotion processing organs have never worked, so she will not be able to process emotions.

In other words, she doesn't laugh when she's happy and doesn't cry when she's sad. She doesn't know what the instinctive actions these emotions represent, and she has no outlet for venting.

Now, the matter of moving and opening a psychological clinic has been settled, but the first patient is too difficult to deal with. Judging from the current situation, I am afraid that he will have to reshape his entire personality before there is any hope of recovery.

Schiller kept thinking on the way back. He originally thought that curing Batman was the end, but he didn't expect that there is always someone better.

However, Schiller admitted that he had not worked as a psychologist for a long time. Greed is greed. Since he came to Gotham, he has not conducted normal psychological counseling. Most of his time was spent on theoretical psychology. He also had to go back and look up more information on applied psychology.

The next day, Schiller arrived as promised. The landlord had obviously sent someone to check the house and found that the supernatural events had not decreased. In the end, he had to accept his fate and sold the house to Schiller at a very low price.

However, Schiller knew that the trouble was not over yet. The real estate agent had lost a large sum of money, the kind that would hurt even a rich man. If the supernatural phenomena disappeared one day, he would probably come up with other ideas.

But Schiller didn't care about so much. He had known many neighbors in the manor area of ​​the West District before. Most of them were old-school rich people. However, they all moved to the South District one after another, and Schiller was basically the last batch to leave.

If you want to open a private psychological clinic, in addition to completing the formalities, the customer base is also very important, so Schiller also has to draw up a list of guests for the housewarming party and make the party very decent so as to attract future customers.

But hosting a banquet is not that simple. Previous banquets were basically hosted in a pathological way. On the one hand, Arrogant's obsessive-compulsive disorder and mysophobia would make him too serious when dealing with certain details, wasting time. On the other hand, Arrogant also prefers to be alone and would not host parties if possible.

But in fact, banquets and gatherings are the most common forms of social interaction in Europe and the United States. A party is held for any small event, and neighborhood gatherings do not require any reason. It is possible that my family has replaced a lawn mower and I will invite the neighbors to come over for a party. It's nothing more than getting together to find something to do.

But this obviously couldn't be done for Schiller's housewarming party. He needed to invite a lot of people, and the party needed to be exquisite and decent, but at the same time not too extravagant and lavish. It needed to have a sense of privacy to strengthen the connection with the guests.

For the first time, Arrogance felt that he was being pushed by this society. In the lives of ordinary people, you can't stop contacting others just because you want to. Socializing is both their emotional need and their survival need.

In this extremely complicated and noisy pot of the secular world, no one should think of being a self-righteous rose. No matter how beautiful a flower is, after being boiled in boiling water three times, it will be no different from boiled vegetable leaves.

The best way for a lonely person to roam freely here is to be a piece of ginger whose true appearance no one can tell.

Schiller Jiang

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(End of this chapter)