[Comprehensive] Uncle Ba's food paradise

[Hi, it's an honor to receive your invitation.But since I have worked as a counselor before, it is not convenient to meet with you directly.Although I am only a professor now, I still need to abide by the patient confidentiality principle of my former profession, please forgive me.I will ask one of my friends to go to interview you on your behalf. If you need urgent communication, you can also use this number to contact me directly. XXXXXXX Yours faithfully, Hannibal. 】

Hannibal wrote the card and asked Alice to pass it to Clark.Both he and Clark now feel that it is better not to communicate directly face-to-face, and neither of them wants to evolve into a professor fighting Superman with kryptonite.Alice didn't know the way to do it, she just thought the man was so childish, they wouldn't see each other after arguing, and passed notes like elementary school students.She gave the card to Clark - just outside her door, shouted Superman Clark came!But she resolutely refused to enter the door. After receiving the card, she casually stuffed her with something like an invitation and flew away—are you naive?Who are you two kidding yourself?

However, Alice still gave the invitation to Grandpa with black lines, advising him to end this childish quarrel as soon as possible.

Hannibal frowned again, he didn't expect Alice to value Clark so much.

"Alice, if I say..."

He thought for a while, and asked in a very euphemistic way;

"Leave here one day, live elsewhere, and may never see Clark again, do you agree?"

Alice's expression was indescribable: "Grandpa, are you dreaming? Don't tell me you want to move to an alien planet? Where in the world do you think he can't go?"

Hannibal: "..."

Alice: "It seems that your quarrel this time is indeed quite serious. If you say this, he must have made you angry. Well, well, I won't persuade you, anyway, you don't really hate him. Don't want to see him again, or I'll pass some notes back and forth. Even if you really hate him, it doesn't matter, the most important thing to me is of course grandpa, who is he? Hmph!"

Hearing what Alice said, Hannibal was satisfied.It made the little girl giggle and even eat Clark's jealousy. Grandpa really loves me the most, I'm the real one hahaha!

Hannibal opened the invitation, with the time and place written on it, and told him not to prepare too much, and someone would be sent to pick him up.

... As expected of Batman, how much gas does it cost to drive in another city?

Hannibal, who had been cherishing his wallet recently, couldn't help but think so.

Only later did he realize that he still underestimated Batman's super power - rich!

I was sent to a building by car, and then took the elevator to the top of the building, and there was a helicopter!After boarding the helicopter, he landed in Bruce Wayne's mansion in Gotham not long after.

Hannibal raised his head. It was the first time he actually set foot on the land of Gotham. He didn't expect it to be such a chance.Although there are only green grass and trimmed flower branches on the lawn of the mansion, it can smell the rotten smell of sulfur and rust besides the rotting soil.

Ordinary people may not be able to smell it, but the hunter who observes the environment with his sense of smell and eyesight has not degenerated. He knows that this seemingly peaceful mansion has cruelty and danger that are different from its simple appearance.

Batman doesn't kill people.

But no one knows better than Hannibal that the most painful thing in the world is not death.

Hannibal greeted the butler who greeted him, and under his leadership, he saw Bruce who was fully prepared.

Bruce greeted him with a nod, then pressed a button that lowered the lead panels on the living room windows, sealing the entrance, and then a globe-sized instrument was opened by the housekeeper who was in the same room as them.

"Sorry, in order to meet the negotiation conditions you put forward, it must be done to this extent. There is a bathroom in the room, and there are desserts and tea on the table, please take them as you like."

Hannibal nodded his thanks and sat down at what looked like a dining table, a normal safe distance beside Bruce.

He saw a slight twinkle in Bruce's eyes, and he understood that this seemingly casual young man was actually proficient in psychology. He deliberately chose the long table because he wanted to see the position he chose and infer his psychological state.It's a pity that my choice is just like the choice of any stranger facing a hospitable host. There is no hostility or too close, it is just the right distance for normal people to communicate.The reason why he didn't sit on the opposite side was because the opposite side was the farthest away, the easiest place to negotiate and the easiest to turn into a hostile situation, which was exactly what he wanted to avoid.

"I think you understand that what I want to talk to you about is Clark."

Bruce sighed: "Of course, otherwise you wouldn't have made such a strict request. So what do you want to tell me?"

Hannibal was silent for a moment, lowered his eyes, and made a slightly tired body.

"It's actually a bit difficult to say. I think Clark may need therapy. I suggest you find a psychiatrist for your friend."

Holding a small biscuit and throwing it into his mouth, Bruce, who was acting as the relaxed rich second generation, stopped, and looked at Hannibal in a little surprise, obviously this direction was not what he expected.

"what happened?"

Hannibal took a deep breath, seemed to adjust his emotions, and finally spoke.

"It's my problem. As a good friend of Clark, you also know that he is actually Superman. In fact, when he was young, he was troubled by his own abilities. I was his teacher and gave him and his family some advice. Initially I just hope he doesn’t suffer so much, you know, when he was a child he had low self-esteem, he thought he was different from others, and was even bullied, obviously he has great power, in order to avoid hurting others, he had to be beaten passively.”

Bruce didn't know these things before. Although his relationship with Superman was not bad, he didn't even tell each other about this kind of thing, and even if he investigated Clark before, he didn't get this kind of information.The Clark he investigated was the Clark who knew how to communicate with others after meeting Professor Hopkins, and everyone liked him.

Bruce was a little moved. He never thought that Clark had been bullied by ordinary children and never fought back. He even felt inferior because he was different from ordinary people.From the current optimistic and cheerful Clark, there is no shadow of the stories described by Hannibal at all.

"I had psychotherapy for him, I was his therapist for a while, but obviously it wasn't good enough. I thought everything was going well, until recently I found out that I made a huge mistake. .Clark is too dependent on me, it may be the sequelae of me often listening to his troubles and giving him advice to help him solve."

"You mean empathy?"

It immediately occurred to Bruce that he had heard before when patients received treatment from doctors, especially hypnotherapy and free association methods where there was a great deal of patient-physician interaction that resulted in strong feelings toward a doctor who analyzed or 'understood' them.Of course, this is due to the "recognition" and "relaxation" atmosphere deliberately created by the psychoanalyst in order to solve the patient's troubles and obtain the patient's approval, but long-term treatment is likely to cause the patient's over-reliance on the doctor.

This is like, drug addicts generally need to take specific drugs in order to quit drugs, but in fact, the drug also has addiction, so the patient will eventually have to quit the dependence on the drug.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't catch the problem early on. After all, Clark is a very special child and a friend of our family. Alice likes him very much, so they often see each other. I didn't notice this problem, and even put him Be another child in my family."

Bruce finally got serious. He sat down and looked directly at the person he suspected to be the 'doctor'. If he wasn't pretending too well, he was really worried about Clark and hoped to seek help from Clark's friends.

"Then what do you want me to do?"

Hannibal looked at Bruce, whether it was true or not, Bruce Wayne really cared about Clark's mental state, at least he didn't let him go for nothing.

"I hope to keep a distance from him, to be precise, let him get rid of my dependence. He is in a serious condition now, and even uses his special ability to monitor and monitor me all the time. It makes me feel scared, if he is just an ordinary patient , I may be able to persuade him with my own strength, but I think, maybe you can provide him with more help."

Bruce: ...Okay, you don't let me monitor the surveillance, is it for the convenience of monitoring the surveillance yourself?Even Batman felt that Superman's action logic was too confusing, and he didn't know how to react for a while.

"And sometimes his thoughts are a bit extreme, as if, how to describe it..."

Hannibal looked at Bruce with a slightly sad expression.

"It's like, he's a god on earth, and he can put me and my family in glass beads and throw them in a goldfish bowl, so no one can touch them. It's scary, Bruce, especially since he can do it. I hope he can break free from his dependence on me and my family, through your help as a friend. He is sick, Bruce, and it will only get worse if left alone. He needs your help, and I can't."

Bruce understood what Hannibal meant. If Hannibal tried to help Clark again, it would only aggravate his empathy and dependence.At this point Bruce is even a little convinced that Hannibal is not the 'doctor' behind Gotham's Arkham but an ordinary professor, a self-taught psychiatrist.A badass villain would just take advantage of the situation instead of discussing it with him like Hannibal and hoping he'd help figure it out.

As for the problem Hannibal said, Bruce has already noticed the clues, but he has not thought about it, and even later thought that the "doctor" deliberately made Superman close to him to create such a situation in order to control Superman.Unexpectedly, it turned out that Clark had psychological problems when he was a child, and the long-term hidden dangers left after he was treated by a self-taught psychologist who knew little about it.

"I understand, and I'll do my best. But you know, it's probably not realistic to send him to a psychiatrist. I'll try to figure it out."

If Bruce wasn't sensitive, if Hannibal hadn't brought it up, who would have thought there was something wrong with Clark?So Bruce is sure that Clark, as the person involved, has no self-awareness at all.But if you really want to find a psychiatrist, where can you find a trustworthy person?Can't let others know that Clark is a superman, can the treatment really be successful in this case?And in case it leaks out, if the world knows that Superman goes to a psychiatrist, oh, then the Justice League will be finished without Luthor.

Bruce finally remembered someone.

A trustworthy person, a woman he had hoped to invite earlier but was turned down, with integrity and kindness, and a special weapon that makes people unable to lie, is obviously the right person to solve this problem.

"Thank you for telling me this, Professor Hopkins. Clark will be very touched if he knows that you have paid so much for him."

Hannibal shook his head. "That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Let me be blunt, Mr. Bruce, I'm honored to be his friend, but it's because I'm a friend that I realize that he's a horrible man. I don't think talking to him It's better for me and my family to keep a distance. I hope you tell him not to get close to me and my family, to monitor or listen to us. This may be cruel, but short-term pain is worse than long-term pain You should understand."

Bruce paused when he picked up the teacup. He didn't expect Professor Hopkins to be so decisive. It seemed that Clark was frightening or offending people.

Bruce wanted to keep Clark away from the doctor's suspicion before, but now that it has turned into this, Bruce can fully imagine what kind of misunderstanding it will cause if he wants to pass this news to Superman himself.

He also suspected that this person was a doctor, and this action was to sow discord, so that he would have a hard time with Superman.

Hannibal also picked up a cookie and tasted it: "By the way, Mr. Bruce, burning yourself doesn't prove that you are brave or fearless, it only proves that you are suffering even pain. A great pain to relieve. My personal experience is, don’t miss out on the important things around you because of the pain of the past, it will only create more pain for yourself.”

Hannibal pointed to the position near the palm of his hand, and Bruce looked at his hand in amazement. There was no scar in the palm of the hand, but it was slightly whiter than the rest of it. Even so, the sensitive professor noticed it.

"I have nothing else to lose."

Bruce froze for a moment, realizing that he had accidentally spoken the truth, but it was hard to take back the words.

"This is just an illusion that most people often have." Hannibal rubbed the biscuit crumbs in his hand, sniffed lightly, trying to distinguish the main components, "As long as you are not a worthless person, you will continue to create value. From From the perspective of economics, it can be understood with the concept of replacing value. Existence itself is a kind of wealth. The greater the value, the greater the wealth. How many people do you think you know, how much wealth do you have, and how much can you afford to lose? "

Hannibal looked at Bruce, and said gently to this man who had suffered so much;

"In view of the fact that you may get more in the future, you can still lose more. Don't underestimate the value of the people around you. Having nothing is not the most terrible thing. What is terrible is that in addition to zero property, a person can also incur debts .Only dead people have nothing else to lose, this is my experience."