Chapter 1,294 Interstellar Stage (I)
In the wealthy town of New York, the sky is always exceptionally blue. Without the light pollution of glass buildings, the low-rise villas with rich colors complement each other with lush shrubs and brilliant blooming flowers.
The activity room of Arkham Sanatorium is an independent building. The first floor is an entire hall, and the second floor is connected to the first floor. There is only a glass floor loft on the far right side, where two streamlined single-person weapons are placed. chair and coffee table in modernist style.
Schiller, who was sitting on a chair on one side, looked at the record document in his hand and said: "Mr. Bullock, please forgive me for calling you with such an unfamiliar title. It's just that we are talking about mental health-related topics now. I Personal relationships should be avoided as much as possible.”
"It is very regrettable that the most basic psychological examination done by Dr. Owen and the comprehensive mental state assessment report written by Miss Lord show that your current state is indeed not good. Can you tell me what's wrong with you? ?”
Eddie Brock, who was sitting in another chair, did look very haggard. He was wearing a grayish dark blue plaid shirt and a black leather jacket. His hair was messy and his beard was not clean. He was almost tired. Spread to the neck.
Although he looked like a tramp, the black-rimmed glasses on his face reminded others that he was a journalist engaged in civilian work, but his tanned complexion became inexplicable.
"Mr. Bullock, I don't think the ultraviolet amplification effect of the windows of the newspaper office would be so obvious, or what happened to you when you went to the beach for vacation?" Seeing that Eddie was silent and did not answer, Schiller asked further.
"I resigned."
Eddie's voice was very hoarse when he spoke. He closed his eyes, swallowed again, swallowed the nauseating taste of alcohol in his mouth, and said: "I had a little conflict with my immediate boss. In order to prevent The venom hurt him and I resigned."
Schiller raised his eyebrows slightly, showed a clear expression, nodded and said: "It seems that you have not completely lost your mind. What I mean is that your immediate boss's head should still be on your head." Bar?"
"The venom wanted to eat him." Eddie showed pain and continued in a trembling tone: "I tried my best to stop him. This is why I am so exhausted."
"Venom believes that the editor-in-chief of the newspaper is an evil villain because he described the people at the bottom who protested against the shuttle operation as brainless idiots and said that their violent protests were terrorist attacks."
“The community I live in is not a middle-class community. There are too many unemployed people, homeless people, and out-of-towners. They used to rely on the bus transportation system to eat, but now their jobs are gone. They can only take to the streets to protest. But No one paid attention to them, so they tried every means to destroy the shuttle transportation route.”
"Venom felt that the editor-in-chief wanted to cover the people's mouths, prevent them from speaking, and wanted to oppress them, so his solution was to eat the editor-in-chief, and I stopped him. He felt that I had betrayed him."
Eddie covered his eyes with his hands and said: "But the editor-in-chief was actually right. Because I lived among them, I knew that someone was deliberately leading them to vent their emotions, leading them to smash, smash, and rob, and even let fly The shuttle crashed, killing the people on the shuttle.”
"Some people want to provoke conflicts, let the two sides fight bloody battles, and then take advantage of the opportunity to profit. Whether it is the protesting grassroots people or the editor-in-chief who accuses them, they are just intensifying the conflicts. I can't let them do what they want, but Venom doesn't understand this, he's as childish as a child."
"We have been quarreling for the past few days, whether sleeping or working, and those terrible thoughts of cannibalism are swirling in my heart."
"In the past, although Venom would feel hungry, he would not convey these thoughts to me, but now those terrible negative emotions keep pouring into my mind, and I can't control it at all."
"Eddie, Eddie..." Schiller called softly, pulling Eddie out of that terrible fantasy. As soon as Eddie turned his head, he saw the calm and gentle face of the psychiatrist.
But this didn't make Eddie feel better at all. He shook his head in despair, exhaled and said, "Venom also thinks I should do this. He feels that the whole world stands with Stark, and I must also stand with Stark." These desperate poor people stand together."
"You may find it hard to believe that a creature that looks so evil could have a heart as pure as a child's. I saw a pure white heart in the middle of the black slime. He looked like Peter Parker. ”
"Maybe he is Peter Parker. Peter used to be his host, but this originally reckless boy has moved on, but Venom, Venom is because of me, because I am not a genius, I am just an ordinary person, and he is still trapped in situ.”
Eddie's eyes were red, and he was obviously trapped in his own hallucination again. He said: "I couldn't give him anything good at all. There was no wisdom, no kindness, only entanglement, contradiction and pain."
"I went deep into the lives of the poor. I saw unemployed bus drivers, vendors and conductors living on the streets in despair because they couldn't pay off their credit cards. I saw that their family's quality of life plummeted, and even their children had to pay their bills. Transfer school."
"But I also saw that the technical staff of the Stark Group were running around on various lines, maintaining the shuttle equipment, collecting experimental data, and constantly improving the line planning. The cargo volume of the skytrain was increasing day by day, and the new The bridge and port bring new homes to life.”
"Faced with these very different situations, I don't have the talent and inspiration to come up with a perfect solution that will satisfy everyone. I can only suffer myself, and Venom is also suffering. I made him suffer."
"Eddie, you don't realize that you are also a genius." Schiller spoke slowly, and his voice sounded a little unreal to Eddie. Eddie heard the psychologist say: "Your pain and contradictions are precisely the manifestation of your natural spirituality. You are a natural philosopher and psychologist, and you are talented in this area."
"Venom feels pain, not because you didn't give him anything, but because you gave him these natural melancholy philosophies and your pessimistic and contradictory psychology, so he will feel Feel the pain. "
"But this doesn't make any sense." Eddie closed his eyes and shook his head, licked his dry lips and said: "Look, Peter Parker gave Venom a kind and firm heart, Tony Stark gave Venom genius wisdom, these are all weapons that make him stronger and more perfect, and what about me? What's the use of those contradictions and philosophies?"
Schiller looked at Eddie helplessly and said: "Obviously, you can't calm down and look at the relationship between you and Venom objectively now. You should all calm down and think about your influence on each other."
Schiller flipped through the documents in his hand, and then said: "I will contact Lan Ling and others who are staying on Klintar. In a sense, Lan Ling is also the guardian of Venom. You should talk to the more experienced cosmic symbiotes about this issue. "
"I don't talk to them." Venom's deep voice burst out from Eddie's mouth, almost like a gunshot, and he said: "Those idiots only suggested that I obey the host and treat it as a job, but I never want to do that."
"But in fact, this is a job." Schiller still said in a calm tone: "The relationship between the symbiote and the host should be viewed more rationally. Excessive possessiveness will make both of you very painful."
"Ha, of course you can say that!" Venom's voice revealed anger: "There are hundreds of you in your soul, and someone accompanies your symbiote every day, and I just want Eddie to understand me better. I only have him!"
"But this kind of exchange of ideas between you has brought pain to both him and you." Schiller shook his head, obviously somewhat disapproving. He said, "No one wants to break you up, but there is obviously something wrong with the way you are combining and communicating now."
"You are constantly moving forward, constantly outputting emotions, and wanting to use a straightforward and rude way to make Eddie listen to you. Eddie is afraid and retreats for this, but at the same time he doesn't want to hurt you. He feels ashamed of your rudeness because he thinks he has led you astray."
"I am like this!" Venom shouted loudly: "I am an evil symbiote who wants to eat human brains, and I will always be like this!"
Schiller sighed. He felt that Eddie was right. Venom always acted like a child, but he really couldn't be blamed.
Venom is a bit like an autistic child among the race of cosmic symbiotes. In some ways, he has an unparalleled and powerful talent, but the price is that in some ways, he is always stuck in the same place and can't make any progress.
He absorbed countless energies, and his symbiote factor was healthy and vigorous. He also inherited the wisdom of Peter Bruce and Stark. Even if the colorful symbiotes were tied together, they might not be his opponents.
But only in terms of emotions, whether it is how to deal with his own emotions or how to accept and understand the emotions of others, Venom always cannot grasp the scale well.
But this requirement is indeed a bit high. After all, humans with rich emotions may not be able to master this skill in their lifetime. It is normal for Venom, who is completely a blank sheet of paper, to be unable to handle emotions freely.
When he absorbs emotions, he demands excessively, constantly asking Eddie to pay attention to him, recognize him, and love him, just like a crying child. But when he outputs emotions, because the emotions are too abundant and the expression is not good, it seems like groundless accusations and brainless outpouring.
But Eddie and Schiller are exactly the same kind of people. Their thinking is more inclined to philosophical thinking rather than rational calculation. Pessimism is the label of every natural philosopher. Venom's tidal emotions make him very painful, and because they are inseparable, he cannot escape and breathe.
Schiller stared at the series of conclusions on the report and felt helpless. He was very tactful in expressing his feelings to Eddie. In fact, the evaluation report given by the professionals in Arkham Sanatorium was not optimistic.
Long-term unhealthy mental conditions may induce mental disorders and harm the body. Schiller is a psychologist, so he must solve this problem.
Schiller just opened his mouth and planned to give Venom and Eddie some advice, which was probably to let them build an independent space for each other in their hearts with the help of psychology, but Venom said directly at this time:
"Okay, you said he was suffering from this, and I felt it too. His suffering is all my fault, okay?"
"As his good buddy, oh, that's what he thinks. I should be like his bad friend, appearing when he needs me and disappearing when he doesn't need me. Obviously, he doesn't need me now. I'll leave now and will never pester him again!"
After saying that, Eddie stood up, and Schiller followed suit. He walked quickly in front of Eddie, moved sideways to block his action, and said: "Calm down, Venom, don't be like this, this matter is not that difficult to solve, as long as you listen to professional advice..."
"Get out of the way." With a swish, countless black symbiote factors wrapped Eddie's body, and Venom's face appeared. He bared his fangs and said to Schiller: "Don't use your tricks with Gray Mist to control Eddie and me. This is our own business. Get out of the way."
"Don't worry about him, Schiller." Gray Mist's voice sounded in Schiller's heart: "Come to the rooftop to read a book. I want to finish calculus today, and then we can understand it together. You can understand it now."
"I'll come."
While Schiller answered Gray Mist, he watched Venom jump onto the roof of the New York Skyline Building. Suddenly, he had a bad premonition, because Venom turned in a direction and went to Stark Tower.
And Stark Tower is not the only one now.
Looking at Venom's back, Schiller whispered.
"Wish him good luck. Maybe he can help me figure out what those two damn geniuses are trying to do."