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Chapter 216: Loki is given psychological treatment by Harley Quinn
"Director Jeremiah has made some renovation plans for Arkham Asylum. Although it took several months, it also expanded the scale of Arkham."

Alfred said to Zu and Loki behind him.

Peter asked the two to follow Alfred to Arkham to receive solitary confinement punishment and youth psychological counseling.

The purpose is to punish the two men for the robbery of the Gotham gang yesterday.

"It looks good here."

A-Zu looked at Arkham standing before him and said to Alfred, "Except for the Victorian-style corridors which are a bit outdated, everything else looks like a normal mental hospital."

Loki had now returned to his teenage appearance. He looked at the antique vases placed in the corridor of Arkham and said, "This thing should be able to sell for a lot of money in the antique market."

Alfred looked at Loki in surprise and said to him, "You can't sell the things here as antiques."

"is it?"

Loki sighed in mock manner, "One of the most common mistakes humans make is to cling to the past that has long lost its value."

Alfred: “.”

He suddenly became curious about Peter.

What kind of father could have two children like Loki and A-Zu who speak so well?
He didn't know whether he should sympathize with Peter or envy his luck.

Alfred thought as he led the two into Arkham.

"Your father asked me to bring you here, but his purpose is not to punish you, but to let you see the situation here. Sometimes, when you get stuck in a dead end or have some dangerous thoughts, you do need some psychological counseling."

Alfred said to the two of them, "Just like Bruce who just lost his parents, he often behaves in an extreme way, so I sent him in."

"Well, Mr. Alfred, we all know that you sent Bruce to a mental hospital, you don't have to repeat yourself."

Loki said something that almost made Alfred blush.

"where is this place?"

A-Zu suddenly pointed to another corridor around the corner and asked Alfred.

"It is a heavy-duty surveillance area, where some dangerous mentally ill patients are detained."

Alfred adjusted his mood and explained to Zu.

A-Zu nodded and activated his X-ray vision to look inside.

Inside a ward, doctors and guards were surrounding a patient.

"Sir, you must take medication."

"No, don't come over!" The thin patient raised his fist to fight against the guards.

The guards walked towards the patient step by step, holding sticks in their hands.

"I'm warning you, I'm not a violent person."

The patient raised his fist and threatened the other person.

But the guards turned a deaf ear and with a "bang", the sticks hit the patient's abdomen directly.

The staggering patient was quickly held down by the guards.

When A Zu saw this scene, his brows frowned, and then he continued to look towards other wards.

As a result, in a ward, a guy dressed as a scarecrow was seen talking to the doctor outside the ward, "You can't do this, Arkham, this is inhumane, locking a normal person in a ward."

The doctor, who was called "Arkham" by the Scarecrow, said expressionlessly: "This is my insane asylum. If I think I can help you, I can even lock you in a matchbox. You are a dangerous person. I must keep an eye on you all the time to prevent you from playing tricks."

"scarecrow?"

A-Zu turned his gaze away from the intensive care unit and muttered to himself.

It doesn't look like there's anything special here.

He thought that Arkham, where many talented people were born, was something special.

It now doesn't look much different from an ordinary mental hospital.

Alfred didn't know that A-Zu had already used his X-ray vision to look around the place. He took the two to the Youth Psychological Treatment Center and said to them, "You only need to stay here for two days and then you will be out, so don't worry."

He thought the two would have some resistance, so he whispered to comfort them.

But what he didn't know was that A-Zu and Loki didn't have any resistance. Instead, they were full of excitement and curiosity, and felt like they were home.

After handing the two men over to the person in charge and giving them some instructions, Alfred drove back to Wayne Manor.

The director of Arkham Asylum is a middle-aged white man with a strong build.

"I'm Martin, the person in charge here. I will arrange your treatment process in the next two days."

Although Martin is a big man, he speaks softly.

"If you have any difficulties, you can talk to me, actually"

He handed two sticks of gum to Zu and Rocky as he spoke, "I'm also a psychotherapist."

"is it?"

Loki took the gum and looked at him in surprise. "Do you often use your fists to treat those unlucky children?"

Martin smiled awkwardly, "No, Arkham never advocates violence." Loki shrugged, "I don't like violence either. Dad always taught me to have a peaceful mindset."

"I will arrange for a psychologist to talk to you. I hope you can enjoy your stay here."

After Martin said a few words, he went to arrange a psychologist for the two.

"He's lying."

After the other party left, Loki said to A Zu: "I can feel his subtle movements."

"I know."

A Zu pointed to his ears and said, "I'm stronger, and my ears can hear things that you can't catch, so I can tell that he's lying."

"Very good, we all came to the same conclusion: this guy's psychotherapist is probably not worthy of the title."

Loki spits out the gum in his mouth.

After half an hour.

Azu and Rocky were arranged to talk to different psychiatrists.

At this moment, in the corridor, Harleen Quinzel, an intern who had just joined Arkham Asylum, covered her aching forehead.

Harleen Quinzel, the future famous Joker girl, had not yet changed her name to "Harley Quinn" and had not gone completely crazy. She was just an intern at Arkham Asylum.

Although she holds professional certificates as a psychologist and psychiatrist, she still had to start as an intern.

“Today is such a bad day”

She grumbled under her breath.

I was late for work because of a traffic jam on the way to work, and after entering Arkham, I was harassed by the hateful Martin.

After taking a deep breath to adjust her mood, she looked through the list of patients she would treat today.

"Loki?"

When she saw the name, she was stunned for a moment.

"To be exact, it's Peter Padrick."

In a dimly lit room, Loki spoke to psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel, who was sitting across from her.

At this moment, Loki's spirit of mischief burned again, and the moment Harleen Quinzel pushed open the door and came in, he transformed himself into the image of Peter.

Wearing the image of a father, Loki imitated Peter's way of speaking, "It's nice to meet you."

He glanced at the other person's name tag, "Ms. Quinzel."

“I remember the patient I was going to see was a teenager.”

Harleen Quinzel looked at Loki, who was disguised as Peter, in confusion, "You look like you've reached adulthood."

"No, actually, I just developed faster."

Loki said to him nonsense: "There are always some special circumstances in this world, aren't there?"

"Maybe, let's get started then."

Harleen Quinzel straightened her white coat, looked at Loki who gave her a strange feeling, and asked him: "I took a brief look at your information."

Before Harleen Quinzel could finish, Loki interrupted her, "Actually, I'm not sick."

"Everyone who has entered Arkham has said that spiritual perception can sometimes affect your judgment, or... sometimes our own spiritual perception can be wrong."

Harleen Quinzel looked into Rocky's eyes and said slowly, "Like 'sitting by the fire in your dressing gown', have you ever heard that phrase?"

"No."

Loki shook his head.

Harleen Quinzel nodded and said slowly, "One day, the great mathematician Descartes came up with the feeling of 'I am sitting by the fire in my dressing gown', but in fact, he was just lying in bed. Similar things happened to him many times. For example, one time, when he was counting the sides of a square or calculating the sum of 2 plus 3, 'somehow' - that's what he said - something went wrong."

"Do you know what happened? Do you know why Descartes' mind sometimes produces false perceptions?"

Harleen Quinzel paused and did not wait for Loki to answer: "Later, Descartes himself came to a conclusion that the human body is not important. What is important is 'I think'. If I think, I am. Our thoughts always develop uncontrollably, but sometimes they are separated from the body, so we have a cognitive bias between the two, and the mind cannot be consistent with the body."

Loki blinked, "Ms. Quinzel, Descartes is wrong. It's not 'I think, therefore I am', it's 'I think, therefore I am'."

Although Loki doesn't like going to school, his talent as a god is unparalleled.

He had read all the books on the farm when he was very young, and he also read all the books in the Smallville Library.

So he could discuss Descartes with Harleen Quinzel.

Harleen Quinzel looked at Loki in surprise. The answer of this mentally ill guy seemed a little different from that of others.

Rocky continued, "'Freedom' or 'I' is born in thought."

Harleen Quinzel exhaled and said to Loki: "But these thoughts and actions themselves are just by-products of the actions."

"Didn't Skinner say, 'Behavior itself is superficial compared to the magnificent comedy that is going on in the depths of the mind'?"

As he spoke, Loki looked up and met her gaze, "Sometimes, we often act crazy in our minds."

(End of this chapter)