The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 1572 People Who Chase the Sun (Forty)
In the combat conference room of the main ship belonging to the Nine Kingdoms at the outpost on the edge of the Shi'ar Empire's large portal star area, Charles tapped the armrest lightly with his fingers, while everyone else was staring at him closely.

The only ones present here are human superheroes and mutant leaders. They came here to discuss how the earth should fight for its rightful place in this war.

In the middle of the meeting, Charles suddenly showed a shocked expression, hurriedly left a sentence "Something happened to Schiller's thinking tower", and fell into a state of trance.

How does this not shock and worry others?

In the next few minutes, Stark, Strange, Steve and other human superheroes who are close to Schiller are going crazy. Even mutants like Magneto and Beast, who have little contact with Schiller, frowned deeply. No one here knows the importance of Schiller.

But fortunately, everyone present trusted Professor X's ability, and believed that as long as he was in the mental space, there would be nothing that couldn't be solved, so they didn't explode this kind of anxiety. If the gangsters in Asgard were here at this time, they might have killed Schiller by now.

As Charles' eyes gradually focused, Stark, who was sitting in the first seat on the right, finally couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? Professor Charles, is Schiller okay?"

"It's just a misunderstanding." Charles replied gently: "Schiller got the soul of a Zerg into his own thinking tower. I thought his spiritual world was invaded, but everything is under his control, and there is no danger."

Suddenly there was a series of breaths of relief in the room. Stark almost lay down on the table regardless of his appearance. Charles smiled very apologetically and said, "This is the first time I know that Schiller has the habit of picking up monsters and keeping them as pets. He took back the soul of the Zerg just to feed his pets."

"In my opinion, this is a bit shocking, but it is within the scope of understanding, so I have no position to ask him not to do it... However, there may be something more shocking than this, you should listen to it."

The human beings in the room did not quickly focus their attention. They were still feeling scared, and there were all kinds of terrible scenes in their minds that Schiller's spiritual world was polluted.

In the end, Stark, who had the worst temper, still couldn't help complaining: "Anyway, it's too dangerous for Schiller to deal with that group of bugs, but don't say stupid things like 'bugs are always dangerous'. Bugs have a thousand or ten thousand chances to make mistakes, so what's the point of being unlucky, but if Schiller has a problem, the entire universe will only have one chance."

Magneto looked at Stark with some dissatisfaction. Of course, he heard that Stark was secretly accusing Professor X of being too dangerous in treatment. Strange coughed twice, trying to resolve the tense atmosphere between the two, but in fact he was still helping Stark.

But at this time, Charles, the protagonist of the controversy, said something amazing: "Do you know that Schiller was abused in his childhood?"

When his voice fell, a quiet needle drop could be heard in the entire room, and all the smart people present only looked at Charles but did not speak, because they could hear some subtle condemnation in Charles' tone.

It wasn't a question that required an answer, because Charles obviously knew the answer already, and the usually mild-mannered good man was already resentful enough to express his emotions in public.

"We have speculated." Stark's answer was quite conservative.

He wanted to avoid explaining this matter as if he was shirking responsibility as much as possible, so he can be said to have exhausted all his emotional intelligence and explained it extremely cautiously.

"We've looked at some of his memories showing that he had an accident in his childhood, but for some reason we didn't go into that, did he mention it to you?"

"He told me in detail about his childhood and growing up." Charles took a pen and a notebook from the table next to him, as if he wanted to write down some key information.

But Stark and Strange, who was sitting next to him, looked at each other, they didn't say anything, but Steve, who was sitting opposite them, spoke first.

"We don't ask these things, not because we don't care about him, including those other special things about him. The reason we are completely silent about it is that we don't know how to ask a person about a painful experience without re-traumatizing him in the process of remembering. For us, this is an impossible task."

"Your attitude towards Schiller is very contradictory." Charles adjusted his emotions, quickly found the key point, and continued.

"On the one hand, you are infinitely overestimating his abilities, and your expectations of his level in all aspects far exceed the reasonable range of your relationship with him. It is not like friends and friends, but more like gods and believers."

"On the other hand, you underestimated his ability to bear, believed that his mental stability was inversely proportional to his genius, and regarded all aspects related to his spirit as too fragile, so you treated them with extra care in order to maintain the status quo."

"Maybe it's because you don't have very professional psychological knowledge, but it's more because your own understanding of emotions is not sound enough. You have experienced mental problems yourself, and you feel that Schiller can't bear it if you judge others by yourself."

Charles put down his pen and glanced at several people in the room, and said: "But in fact, Schiller has endured more than you have experienced. He has passed through the broken period of mental instability as early as his youth. He is more stable and healthy than any of you."

Then Charles began to tell other people in the room about Schiller's own experience, but his focus was not on the content of the story itself, nor on his professional judgment, but on Schiller's state when he told these things.

At the end of the story, Charles concluded: "For Schiller, this memory has no special meaning. He no longer feels pain from it, nor does he draw strength from it. There is nothing to avoid talking about, and nothing to write about."

"It can be said that if you inadvertently asked Schiller what your past was like, you should have known this story long ago."

Now in the huge conference room, the voice of only Charles is echoing, and everyone else is immersed in their own thoughts, most of them are thinking about the story of Schiller's past told by Charles.

After finally understanding and digesting the information, friends who were closer to Schiller began to be surprised by one thing, but before they actually asked, Charles had already answered their doubts, but he started from the beginning like every good teacher.

"People always say, 'Suffering makes people stronger', and this is not their fantasy. Research evidence shows that people who have experienced more hardships in life will show a more stable external performance, which is the so-called 'maturity'."

"But some people question whether suffering is really a catalyst for strength—is it really maturity that affliction produces? Maybe I prefer to call that calm external expression 'numbness'."

Charles glanced calmly at Magneto sitting on the other side, and continued: "Contrary to the intuition of most ordinary people, mental wounds are more difficult to heal than physical wounds. Time will not heal everything, it will only make part of the suffering forgotten, and what cannot be forgotten will make people get used to it."

"Like all pain, once you get used to it, it will become numb, and the pain still exists, but subjectively speaking, it is no longer as painful as it was at the beginning."

Charles flipped through the paper in his hand, and said calmly: "There are very few parts of those overly severe traumas that can be forgotten, and most of them are continuous pain, which makes people more and more numb."

"The most serious consequence of this kind of numbness is that it makes people present an overly calm external expression, as if they have already seen everything and everything in the world, and those ordinary people who don't know why call this transparency and indifference after experiencing suffering."

"But in fact, this is a permanent scar of mental trauma. Its greatest harm is that it makes people gradually lose the ability to explore outside, showing that they are not curious, do not want, and do not care."

"People always see not fighting or grabbing as kindness and gentleness, and they don't pay attention to why they don't want it. For people who are left with permanent mental trauma, they are neither able to want nor interested in everything."

Stark frowned slowly, he seemed to think of something, and Charles quickly responded to his doubts.

"Yes, this doesn't sound like Schiller. Schiller is always interested in everything and wants everything, but have you ever thought that maybe it is to fight against this state that his greed will become more and more extreme?"

"The way the human spirit and mind work is doomed that they cannot completely undo the scars left by major trauma, so they must find a way to combat this state of loss of vitality. Most patients with good prognosis of trauma disorders force themselves to divert their attention to something that can be invested with unlimited interest, such as faith."

"Because only by infinitely stimulating interest and always maintaining a state of exploring outside can we fight against the numbness and emptiness brought about by trauma."

"That is to say, the greedy trait in Schiller's personality as you know it is not pathological, but on the contrary, it is healthy, even the most healthy of all traits, because it ensures that Schiller always has curiosity and energy to explore outwards."

After being silent for a while, Strange said: "Because of the serious mental damage he has suffered, and the enemies he faces are powerful, he will naturally have to forge even more powerful weapons. That's why greed is so extreme, right?"

"In a sense, that's true." Charles rubbed the paper with his fingertips. He turned his head slightly to look at Magneto, sighed softly and said, "Schiller is very lucky. During the best recovery period after suffering from trauma, he met a good doctor, a good doctor who is more patient than me and has better medical skills than me."

Magneto just lowered his eyelids, his deep and ravine eyes were always indifferent, and only when he looked up and saw Charles' shining blue eyes, it was like a reef illuminated by the faint light through the ripples of the sea, revealing a little brilliance from the coldness and depth of the old flying boat.

"And one more thing." Charles lowered his head again and looked at the paper covered with words, and continued: "Because of autism, some of Schiller's emotions and behaviors are still abnormal. It's not obvious. No one can see it except me. This is obviously also due to the doctor."

"These surviving anomalies also just show that the doctor is an ordinary person and does not have my mind-reading ability, but it also means that I can help Schiller further and completely eliminate these anomalies."

All the humans present immediately turned their heads to stare at Charles, and Charles still spoke in a flat but quite sure tone.

"Next, I will treat Schiller according to my treatment process for autistic patients, and I have persuaded him to accept my treatment. As Schiller's friends and now his family members, all you have to do is to cooperate with the treatment as much as possible, so as to achieve the best results."

"Well, okay, professor, I understand." Stark nodded, clenched his hands on the table, and looked a little nervous. He looked into Charles' eyes and said, "So where do we start?"

(End of this chapter)