The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2989: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (23)

Chapter 2989: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Twenty-three)

Cobbert didn't understand why she suddenly brought this up, but the woman seemed to have a lot to say, and Cobbert was careful not to interrupt her.

"We got married 15 years ago and had a good relationship and two lovely children. But one day about 10 years ago, he came home soaking wet and looked absent-minded. I asked him something, but he wouldn't say anything."

"Since then, he started drinking heavily. Although he was always not sober, he never hurt me and the children. I heard him talking in his sleep, but I couldn't hear it clearly... Until one day four years ago, he left the house and never came back."

"Is he dead?"

"I don't know. No one could find his body. Maybe he just disappeared."

"So why did you come here? And why did you target Edward?"

The nurse named Helis pursed her lips, raised her eyes and stared at Cobert and asked, "Can I trust you?"

"Yes, ma'am." Cobblepot nodded and said, "And I believe in you too, because you have taken good care of Edward all along. Without you, he would not have recovered so quickly."

Cobert was not making up stories to gain her trust, it was the truth. Both he and his mother suffered from hereditary mental illness, so he understood more clearly that in the treatment of mental illness, although scientific treatment is important, humanistic care is the key to recovery. Care and concern are especially important for patients with mental illness. Otherwise, he would not have put down most of his work and come here to accompany his mother in person.

When Edward first came here, he had severe mental problems and was almost completely unable to take care of himself. For a patient in this situation, he was able to recover to be almost the same as an ordinary person in just four years. This can be said to be a medical miracle. The doctor's treatment plan is certainly important, but the nurses' careful care is also indispensable."

Helisi glanced at Edward next to her, she sighed and said, "He is very similar to my son. My eldest son is always addicted to reading. He is so engrossed in reading that he can't even hear me calling him to eat."

"So can you tell me what's going on?"

Helice glanced outside the door, and Cobert immediately signaled his subordinates with his eyes to close the door and keep it under guard. Helice sighed and said, "Someone has been keeping an eye on Edward because he knows an unbearable secret. Someone deliberately drove him crazy and sent him to a mental hospital because a jury will never accept the testimony of a mentally ill person, and no one will believe what a madman says."

"How did you know?"

"It was my husband. The night he passed away four years ago, he told me a lot. He said that ten years ago, he saw evidence of crimes in a demolition project he participated in, but he knew that he had no way to bring them to justice."

Cobblepot thought about it and felt that ten years was a long time. Gotham had hardly improved at all ten years ago. In addition to rampant gangs, all kinds of dangerous people also emerged one after another. Everyone could not protect themselves. At that time, pursuing justice and the rule of law was a complete joke.

"Did he keep any evidence?" asked Cobblepot.

Helis shook her head and said, "He didn't say much about the specific situation, but I guess he couldn't get access to the evidence. He just saw it, and along with the demolition project, all the evidence was destroyed."

"And four years ago..."

"I guess he might have gone there again." Helis clenched her hands tightly and said in a trembling voice, "For the past six years, he has been tortured by his inner guilt. In addition to getting drunk, he also tried to investigate. It was from the investigation that he learned about Edward's existence."

"What's so special about Edward?" When Cobert asked this question, he actually already had the answer in his heart.

"He might also be one of the witnesses." Helis didn't say it very firmly. She said, "At least my husband thinks so. My husband didn't show that he knew the truth, but Edward must have been exposed, so they put him in a mental hospital."

"Why not kill him?"

Helis shook her head slightly and said, "I don't know either. Maybe there is some special reason. They can't kill him. They can only let him live in the mental hospital."

Cobert nodded, accepting this statement, and then he asked: "Did your husband tell you who the real murderer is?"

"No, he was probably worried about our safety, so he never said it out loud. If he hadn't finally broken down that night, I might never have known so much."

"Then you should at least know where he went."

Helice seemed a little hesitant. She glanced at Edward and said nothing.

Soon, the time they agreed with Schiller came. Cobert pulled Edward up and said, "I'll have my subordinates take you there. You must listen to Professor Schiller, okay?"

Edward nodded.

After Edward left, Cobblepot looked at Harris and said, "That place has something to do with Edward, right?"

"Yes, that's the high school that Edward attends, a boarding high school in the Polokin community."

Helen, who was blocking the door, made room for Edward. Edward walked in. Schiller smiled at him and said, "Cobolt should have told you, don't worry too much. Come, lie down here."

Edward remained silent. He first sat on the bed, then lay down, staring blankly at the ceiling. Schiller turned off almost all the lights in the room, leaving only a small table lamp behind Edward.

He brought the recorder over, pressed the record button, and began to guide.

Following Schiller's guidance, Edward slowly relaxed and closed his eyes unconsciously, letting his consciousness sink into darkness. Soon, tiny stars appeared before his eyes. Following the light, a wisp of consciousness returned to the depths of his memory.

Schiller saw a huge maze, a school as big as a town, with countless corridors, classrooms, and offices stacked up one after another, and lonely ghosts wandering around.

Schiller saw Edward fleeing in panic. Behind him, a monster like a mountain of flesh was chasing him. It was a horrible monster made up of various human organs arranged and stacked in a disorderly manner. Its hair, teeth, and genitals were not where they were supposed to be.

"Answer...my...riddle..."

Schiller heard Edward answer.

"Tell me, what is your riddle?"

"Who is that?"

Schiller thought about it and felt that Edward was referring to the monster. Did he need to answer the monster's true identity himself?

"It's the principal." Schiller replied, which was obviously the information that Edward had once revealed.

But why is it so coincidental? Or did he know this day would come, so he revealed the topic in advance?

The scene changed and turned into an office, but only the floor, ceiling and furniture were normal. The four walls had become the bars of an iron cage.

Edward was in an iron cage office, and the meat mountain monster was outside the cage. This time, on the side of the meat mountain monster facing Edward, there was a child with the upper half of his body exposed, struggling helplessly and asking Edward for help.

But in the end he was swallowed by the meat mountain monster.

"Answer...my...riddle..."

"What is it doing?"

Schiller paused.

"It's foraging."

The scene quickly changed again, this time turning into a pitch-black space where you couldn't see your hand in front of you and nothing could be seen.

Edward walked forward, and suddenly, he reached out and picked up something - it was a piece of bone. The experienced Schiller immediately judged that this bone was not fully developed and did not belong to an adult, but should be a child's bone.

Suddenly, a hole appeared under Edward's feet. He fell down and suddenly woke up from the bed.

Their eyes met, and Schiller uttered a word.

"flowerpot?"

Yes, he suspected that the last dark space was a flower pot, because the hole where Edward fell was almost exactly the same as the hole under the flower pot for drainage.

Edward laughed brilliantly, but he didn't seem to know what he was laughing at. He took out a piece of candy from his pocket and handed it to Schiller, as if to reward him for answering the riddle correctly.

Schiller was not in the mood for candy, but he took it anyway, and soon Edward was sent away, leaving Schiller sitting alone in the dim room.

Helen pushed the door open and ran to Schiller. Schiller handed her the candy. Helen didn't understand why, but she took it anyway.

Unexpectedly, when she was peeling off the candy wrapper, Schiller snatched the candy back, looked at Helen seriously and said, "Don't eat things given by others casually."

"You're not someone else." Helen snatched the candy back, stuffed it into her mouth, chewed it, and said, "And come on, I'm Doomsday, how are you going to poison the candy? Put a neutron star in it?"

Schiller was in a trance, and it seemed that he and Helen were not on the same wavelength at all. It was only after Helen pushed him that he came to his senses.

"Why on earth did you ask me to come here today? Isn't having Squirrel Girl enough? She's amazing."

"The original plan was indeed for only Squirrel Girl." Schiller nodded and said, "In fact, she is enough to guard the door and window by herself. The main reason for bringing you along is that we are afraid that you will provoke Williams again."

Helen was a little confused, but Schiller shook his head and said nothing. He would not tell Helen what he saw when he observed Williams.

Schiller stood up, picked up the phone beside him, called Pamela and said, "You accompany me to the forest tonight."

Then he looked at Helen and said, "Take everyone to Wayne Manor and don't go anywhere tonight."

Helen seemed to realize the seriousness of the matter. She nodded, and the two of them walked downstairs together. However, as soon as they reached the first floor, they encountered a mentally ill person going crazy. Helen immediately stood in front of Schiller.

Schiller's attention was not on the crazy mental patient. Through the crowd of people, he saw a pair of eyes staring at him coldly.

The moment the man's hand touched his lower back, Schiller pulled Helen and took a step back behind the pillar of the hall, then opened the door of the registration office and walked in.

Feeling that the attention on him had not yet dissipated, Schiller said to Helen: "Are your Doomsday spores still usable?"

"Okay, what are you going to do?"

"Control the mentally ill person to hit a young man with red hair in the crowd. He is about 1.8 meters tall and has a mole on the left side of his jaw."

A faint light flashed in Helen's eyes, and soon the commotion in the hall became louder, with screams coming from time to time. Schiller stood at the side of the registration window and looked out. He saw the red-haired young man who was staring at him being pinned down and beaten by a mentally ill person.

Soon Brand rushed out from the stairs and shouted to everyone, "Scatter! Scatter! Caregiver! Put on a straitjacket for him quickly!!!"

Then he paused and turned his head abruptly to look at another figure in the crowd. Helen, who was leaning on the registration window and looking out, suddenly gasped and quickly retracted her head.

"Am I seeing this right?!" Helen looked at Schiller in disbelief and said in horror, "What is that black thing?!"

"You read that right." Schiller said without turning his head, "The doctor here eats children. If you come back later, he will eat you too."