Roommate split personality how to do?
Chapter 1 Heard about Yu Xiaoyu's logic, but still felt speechless.
Is it really strange? "
Cheng Yan scratched his chin and replied, "Yes, it's really interesting that people in an office have the same dream together."
What he was thinking seemed to be different from what Li Dongxing was thinking.
Li Dongxing smiled helplessly: "It's not just that. As my brother said, Ms. Wu and her colleagues have complicated feelings towards Ms. Meng. They feel fear, and the fear most likely comes from guilt. This was originally just a speculation , even Wang Shasha gave up on investigating the cause of Meng Min's death—"
Cheng Yan understood: "But at this juncture, Wu Xiaojing told us to leave it alone."
Li Dongxing nodded: "Yes. Brother, don't you think it's strange? Even if Ms. Wu didn't expect us to help her, she just put on a show to appease her colleagues and leaders, so why did she go back on what she said and suddenly didn't want us to help her?" Intervene?"
Cheng Yan sneered, "Because of a guilty conscience."
Wu Xiaojing must have been told that Wang Shasha had come to the company the day before to investigate the cause of Meng Min's death after returning to work.
The people in the department had nightmares, and the reason to ask psychoanalysts to help them was to comfort them, but to provoke the police was to add fuel to the flames, and the people in their department must have become more nervous.
Wu Xiaojing must have been in a hurry too, so anxious that even the tight-knit person made a foolish move.Wang Shasha didn't find out anything at first, so Li Dongxing and Cheng Yan would at most help them consult about the nightmare, and she had the final say on whether it worked or not.But at this time, it was called to stop. Isn't it that there is no silver 300 taels here? Isn't it so simple to tell them Meng Min's death?
What was originally just a guess, was finally pushed into a real suspicion by herself.
"Senior brother, I want to know the truth." Li Dongxing clenched his hand hanging by his side slightly, "If Ms. Meng really didn't die by accident, she should be treated more fairly."
Cheng Yan raised his eyebrows and said flatly, "You really want to avenge Meng Min?"
Li Dongxing was stunned, let go of his hands, and said in a low voice, "...isn't that kind of stupid?"
"En." Cheng Yan stood up and patted Li Dongxing on the shoulder, "So cute."
Li Dongxing watched him pick up his coat and walk to the door, he was startled before he could feel depressed: "Senior brother?"
"Didn't you say you don't want to let go?" Cheng Yan pushed the door open while putting on his clothes, "Let's go and find Wu Xiaojing."
On the way to Wu Xiaojing's company, Cheng Yan replied a WeChat message.
The general meaning is that they deeply sympathize with Wu Xiaojing's experience, but they have already figured out why they had nightmares. They don't need to bother Wu Xiaojing and her colleagues in the department for consultation. They just need to do a few more field investigations, and they should be able Use scientific means to help solve this trouble, so that the people in their company can work better.
In short, there was no mention of police involvement in the speech, and even implied that they had no interest in Meng Min's death, and only wanted to figure out the nightmare from a scientific point of view.
These words were used as leverage, no matter whether Wu Xiaojing approached them just for show or not, now she has no way to say that she doesn't believe that science can solve this problem, so as to refuse Cheng Yan's and the others' help, otherwise she will be slapped in the face.
After hearing Cheng Yan's words, Li Dongxing's big eyes were filled with naked admiration: "Brother, you found a good reason for this."
Cheng Yan: "Who told you that I was looking for a reason? The nightmare is the most interesting point. Whether out of nostalgia or guilt, it is understandable for a person to dream of Meng Min repeatedly. A group of people , and they all dreamed of the same person during their lunch break, what is the reason?"
Li Dongxing: "... Collective guilt?"
Cheng Yan: "..."
Seeing Cheng Yan's black face, Li Dongxing quickly went online and offline: "But they didn't say that they would also dream of Meng Min at home."
Cheng Yan couldn't help being relieved that his junior hadn't been dazzled by the chicken blood of justice.
"This matter seems to be one problem, but it is actually two problems." He stretched out two fingers and shook them lightly, "I was a little confused before, and I was taken away by Wu Xiaojing's reaction. It’s all about their relationship with Meng Min, and their psychology of having nightmares. In fact, there is still a first-level problem. Why do they have this dream? It’s still at the same time and at the same place. As I said before, dreams are also brain neural activity For this phenomenon to occur, there must be a neural mechanism behind it. This is what I am most concerned about. Now Wu Xiaojing wants to avoid the second layer, so we might as well start from the first layer.”
Cheng Yan withdrew his finger and put it in his pocket.
Li Dongxing is a good man who is very persistent in justice.Cheng Yan thought to himself that he didn't have that awareness, but at least he was also a scientist himself.
If science and morality have anything in common, it is that they both point to the pursuit of truth.
When they arrived downstairs in the office building, Wu Xiaojing came down to greet her as usual, but her attitude was not as enthusiastic as last time.When they walked through the hall, they still saw Xue Zhan, but today the little security guard didn't dare to poke their heads at them anymore, so they kept their eyes on neither Wu Xiaojing nor Li Dongxing.
After getting out of the elevator, Wu Xiaojing said, "I'm sorry, both of you. Our department is planning a new project. Everyone is very busy today. There are still a few meetings in the afternoon. I'm afraid I won't be able to spare time to chat with you for a long time."
This could be called cold, but Cheng Yan didn't care, and cut straight to the point: "Miss Wu, when we first met, my junior also introduced you. I'm not a psychiatrist, and I don't know anything about conversation and consultation. I'm a neuroscience researcher. I only care about some scientific issues. So I came here today not to chat with you, but to study how your dreams come from."
Wu Xiaojing tried to put on a curious look, and asked, "Does Teacher Cheng have any guesses?"
Cheng Yan walked into the office and looked around, saying, "Obviously, something is playing tricks."
Wu Xiaojing's expression changed, and she paused for a few seconds before forcing out a smile: "I didn't expect Teacher Cheng to believe this."
Cheng Yan put one hand behind his back, and waved the other hand like a pedant: "The things I'm talking about are just things."
Wu Xiaojing was startled, and glanced at Li Dongxing, obviously not understanding Cheng Yan's meaning.
Li Dongxing showed a standard smile: "Brother, what you mean is that we are all scientists and don't believe in ghosts."
He seemed to be sincere in his explanation, but it was very straightforward, and seemed to imply a deep meaning of irony, which made Wu Xiaojing's face even uglier.
But after all, she has a face that has been cultivated in strong winds and waves, and she kept her shaky smile, half surprised and half relieved, and said: "I also always believe that this matter can be explained by science. If you need my help, Cheng Even if the teacher says, I will definitely cooperate."
Cheng Yan only said that he planned to do an experiment, and the first step was to borrow their lounge.
Wu Xiaojing naturally nodded in agreement.
"It's the same as your usual lunch break, isn't it?" Cheng Yan walked around the room, "Have you touched any of the arrangements?"
Wu Xiaojing: "Well. After that problem...no one of my colleagues dared to come over for a lunch break."
Cheng Yan sat down on the sofa and looked at his watch: "At this point, it's also time for your lunch break."
Wu Xiaojing: "Yes."
Cheng Yan lay down on his back, lifted his legs up to the armrest of the sofa, took off his glasses and closed his eyes: "I'll borrow a place to sleep for an hour."
Wu Xiaojing backed out after hearing the words, closed the door behind her, and told other colleagues not to come in and disturb her.
Li Dongxing wanted to follow her out of the lounge, but Cheng Yan stopped him after taking a step.
"Where are you going?" Cheng Yan didn't open his eyes, but seemed to be paying attention to Li Dongxing's movements all the time.
Li Dongxing: "I...try to talk to other employees again."
That being said, he was actually just a little afraid to stay.
"Frightening the snake." Cheng Yan frowned slightly, "Wu Xiaojing is temporarily wary, and must have issued a gag order. If they are determined to conceal or lie, how do you get them out? Is it Han Zhengjiao's method again? "
Li Dongxing said in a swearing tone: "No, brother, I promise not to mess around with other personalities."
In addition to the sofa that can sleep in the lounge, there is also an armchair facing the sofa.Looking left and right, there is only one place Li Dongxing can go to.
At the thought of sitting on this chair for an hour and watching Cheng Yan sleep from a distance of less than two meters, Li Dongxing had two thoughts at the same time, one wanted him to run away, the other wanted him to be nailed. In situ, it even brought a hint of secret joy.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Yan offered another option.
The moment he lay down, he pulled out the cushions and pillows that were originally placed at the end of the sofa bed, and threw those colorful fabrics on the coffee table.Cheng Yan has always had a cleanliness obsession with the things he uses. These furniture items look clean, but they have been used by at least a dozen strangers, and he definitely doesn't want to touch them.But it was absolutely uncomfortable to lie flat like this. He turned over a few times, tried to put one arm under his head, and pulled it out after a few seconds.
He opened his eyes slightly frustrated, stared at the ceiling for a while, and saw Li Dongxing who was about to sit down in the armchair.
"Come here." Cheng Yan sat up, beckoned to Li Dongxing, patted the place where his head lay, "Lend me a pillow."
Li Dongxing was dumbfounded, his body preceded his will, and obediently sat down on the sofa bed.
Cheng Yan put his head on his knees, moved a few times to find the most comfortable position, let out a sigh of satisfaction, folded his hands, and closed his eyes again.
His logic is very simple, when Li Dongxing's little personality comes out, he often uses him as a pillow.It was not easy to have a chance to get even, and he didn't feel sorry for letting his junior brother contribute appropriately.
As Cheng Yan lay down, he was very frank in his heart, but it made Li Dongxing choked up.
Since having that dream, this was the first time Li Dongxing was so close to Cheng Yan.
His knees were close together, everything from his toes to his hair was tense, and there was no cell in his body that was not tense.There was obviously a soft sofa cushion under him, and Cheng Yan's head didn't weigh much, but it was like a hot iron on both sides, clamping his legs in between, making him unable to move, hot and smoking.
His eyes wandered around the room, studying everything from a crack in the plaster on the ceiling to a small round spot on the wooden coffee table.However, time passed so slowly, it only took him 5 minutes to finish watching all the boring things in this space.
Li Dongxing didn't dare to look at Cheng Yan.
But the existence of the person on the knee is so strong.Every rise and fall of Cheng Yan's chest, every blink of eyelashes seemed to be magnified by the silence of the room, and could always be captured by Li Dongxing's perception.Through a layer of fabric, Li Dongxing could even analyze and judge the shape of each strand of Cheng Yan's hair through the weight on his knees.His legs were itchy from being pierced, and the itchiness flowed through his gurgling blood straight to his heart.His whole body was itchy.
The voice that persuaded him to stay just now sounded again, saying to him, just take a look, just a look.
Li Dongxing was bewitched.
He moved his neck, which was as stiff as an axle that hadn't been oiled for a long time, let it lower down with difficulty, and secretly glanced at Cheng Yan.
With just this one glance, he found that he couldn't take his eyes away.
The shutters were closed, but it was inevitable that some fragments of light came in.Most of what might fall on Cheng Yan's face was blocked by Li Dongxing.However, there was still a strand of Cheng Yan's hair that caught on to it, changing its width and narrowing with the rhythm of the wind blowing against the window, as if a speck of gold was dancing on the tip of his hair.
Li Dongxing seemed to have discovered the most interesting thing in the world.
He focused on the golden spot, and when it moved closer to Cheng Yan's face, his peripheral vision could move out a little bit freely, and he could see at most one of Cheng Yan's eyes and half of the bridge of the nose.If the golden color was any further in, he could only stare at Cheng Yan's ear.But he discovered something he didn't know before.
Behind Cheng Yan's ear was a mark that looked a little like a scar. It must have been a long time ago, and it was already very inconspicuous. It was slightly darker than the skin on his neck.The scar snaked towards the back of the head, most of which was blocked by the hair, so it was impossible to tell how long it was.
"Teacher Cheng was injured before." Zheng Heping muttered, "I didn't notice it before, but it was quite heavy. I don't know if it hurt at that time."
Li Dongxing's heart twitched.
Lili came out furtively: "Do you really want to kiss me?"
Li Dongxing almost shivered.
Lili: "But this is not a routine. You were clearly thinking just now, whether the brother is in pain or not, I feel so distressed. And then many TV dramas act like that, kissing can relieve the pain..."
Li Dongxing really wanted to hold Lili's mouth down in his mind to prevent her from speaking.
Zheng Heping said very understandingly: "I have said that some things should not be exposed, let Dongxing do it by himself, by himself. We don't know anything, we haven't seen anything!"
Li Dongxing: "..."
He knew that these personalities held back before speaking, but it definitely didn't mean that they really stopped.
At this moment, the person on the knee moved.
"How long has it been?" Cheng Yan frowned and blinked, his voice still a little hoarse.The ray of light shot into his eyes following his movements, he turned his head instinctively, and rubbed against Li Dongxing's leg.
"Almost an hour." Li Dongxing tried his best to ignore the increasingly strange feeling on his legs, and quickly glanced at his watch.
He himself was a little surprised that the time after that... actually passed so quickly.
Cheng Yan sat up.
He grabbed his glasses on the coffee table and put them on, his eyes turned around in the lounge again, and then fixed on a certain position.
"I probably know how dreams come about." Cheng Yan raised the corners of his mouth slightly as if he had a plan in mind.
☆, strange dream ([-])
After Cheng Yan finished speaking, he stood up in a hurry, nodded hurriedly to Wu Xiaojing who was sitting in the office outside, chatted and said hello, and then flashed outside the room.
Li Dong did not walk so fast.
"Are your legs numb?" Before entering the elevator, Cheng Yan saw that he was barely moving, and said with a half-smile, "I'm not up to it."
That being said, he still remembered who was the instigator who harmed Li Dongxing, so he slowed down and waited until his junior and junior had stood firm enough to keep up, and then they went downstairs together.
Cheng Yan didn't explain along the way. Although Li Dongxing was full of doubts, he also understood Cheng Yan's temperament and knew that his brother knew what he was thinking, but he would not easily express his conjecture until he was sure, so he tacitly kept quiet and just said nothing. follow along.
On the way, Cheng Yan suddenly asked, "Does Zheng Heping know where the Small Commodity Market is?"
Li Dongxing was startled, and asked reflexively, "Gossip?"
Cheng Yan turned his head suspiciously: "What gossip?"
Li Dongxing realized that he took what Zheng Heping wrote in his diary seriously, and quickly shook his head, saying, "Yes, brother, Zheng Heping is very familiar with that area. Do you want to buy anything?"
Cheng Yan gestured at him and roughly said what he needed.
The two parted ways temporarily, Li Dongxing went to the wholesale market, and Cheng Yan returned to Xiaohonglou.
When Li Dongxing went back after shopping, he saw Cheng Yan leaning next to Mu Mu, holding a mobile phone in his hand, frowning while browsing the screen, looking like he was studying something painstakingly.
"You really look like an antique living in the twentieth century." Mu Mu said contemptuously, "Isn't it just to install a mobile game, you don't even know how to do this, how did you get through this wonderful youth?"
Cheng Yan: "Playing with things and losing one's ambition."
Mu Mubai glanced at him, turned to see Li Dongxing, waved and said, "Come on, Dongxing, I'll teach you, brother Mumu, how to install game apps in your phone."
Li Dongxing smiled in embarrassment, took out his brick Nokia, and shook it in front of Mu Mu.
Mu Mu: "..."
Li Dongxing added in a timely manner: "The teacher also uses Nokia."
Mu Mu twisted his waist angrily: "Well, you three descendants of the Ancient Tomb Sect."
After a lot of trouble, Cheng Yan, the only one who didn't use a Nokia, finally learned how to install games on his phone.He stared at the extra pink icon on the phone screen, frowned, and spit out a word of evaluation: "Ugly."
Mu Mu sneered: "You don't know Huahua World well. Let me tell you, this game is very popular now. Half of the students in my class are playing it. The plot is exciting, the story is full of novelty, and the soundtrack It sounds pretty good too. Look, my protagonist has reached level 32. Cheng Xiaobai, do you want the old driver to take you?"
Cheng Yanli ignored her, and walked towards his office with his legs up, holding the phone in both hands, with a swipe of his thumb, he had already clicked on the game.
"What's the deal? Don't play with things? You're still at work!" Mu Mu stared, turned his head and picked up his mobile phone with a pink cherry blossom shell, put his left foot on his right foot, and twisted on the chair. "Hmph, the teacher takes the lead, then I will play too."
Click on the icon, the screen flashes, and the icon of the game company appears briefly.
Before Li Dongxing walked away, he was stunned when he saw the pattern.
This is Wu Xiaojing's company's game.
Throughout the afternoon and one night, Cheng Yan carried his mobile phone everywhere, and when he got up early the next morning, Li Dongxing saw Cheng Yan pouring three times the usual amount of tea into the cup wearing yesterday's clothes.
"Morning." Cheng Yan raised his glass to Li Dongxing with red eyes, took a gulp down his throat, and wrinkled his face for two seconds in pain.
He threw the phone on the dining table, the screen was black, and finally it was no longer the interface of the game.
Li Dong walked over, and while heating up two white-cut steamed buns in the microwave, he asked Cheng Yan, "Senior brother, have you found out the information in the game?"
Cheng Yan grinned and sipped his tea while saying, "Open it in two minutes and you'll find it."
Li Dongxing was astonished: "Then all night?"
Cheng Yan glanced at him quietly: "Clear the customs."
When he arrived at school, the first thing Cheng Yan did when he saw Mu Mu was to hold the phone up in front of her. Without saying a word, he just deliberately clicked on the clearance page, held it with two fingers, and swaggered it a few times, waiting for him to be satisfied. After hearing Mu Mu's unwilling growl, he put away his phone, deleted the game completely, and strode into the office with his head held high.
Mu Mu went crazy: "How old is he?"
Li Dongxing blinked: "27?"
Mu Mu: "..."
One will get revenge, and the other pretends to be stupid. She really wants to pack up and get rid of these two juniors today.
Fortunately, those two who were disliked gave her a clean ear.In the morning, Cheng Yan took Li Dongxing to do experiments in the biology building. The consequences of not sleeping all night were obvious. No matter how strong the tea was, Cheng Yan couldn't cheer up Cheng Yan. field.
Li Dongxing couldn't hold back, and asked him if he needed to go back to rest, but Cheng Yan waved his hand and refused.
"Okay, just don't work." He pressed the center of his eyebrows, "Go and call Wu Xiaojing and ask her to come over when she is free at noon. We will end this matter today."
The laboratory on this floor of the biology building often conducts research on human subjects, so there is also a dressing room next to the MRI scanning room.The locker room is connected to the office, and there is a narrow bed in it, which is common in hospital consulting rooms, for the subjects who usually come to the laboratory to rest.When there are no subjects, this locker room and the office outside will be temporarily owned by the teachers who rent the laboratory. Occasionally, some teachers will come to the locker room to take a nap.
Cheng Yan walked into the dressing room and changed into a clean and sterilized bed sheet, but he didn't intend to lie down on it.
He stretched out his hand to Li Dongxing: "Bring me the thing I asked you to buy last time."
Li Dongxing ran to Xiaohonglou as he said.
Cheng Yan took out something from the bag his junior brother brought, and hung it on the hook he had just fixed on the door beam of the dressing room.
The door of the locker room was slightly open, and when Li Dongxing came in, the door of the outside office was not closed properly.The air was convective, and the indoor breeze was blowing, and after a while, there was a series of rustling metal clashing sounds in my ears.
The sound was soft and delicate, extremely crisp, like the chirping of insects in the autumn wind, if you don't distinguish it carefully, it may not be able to attract attention.
This is from the string of wind chimes that Cheng Yan hung up.
The wind chime is made up of seven silver metal rods of chopsticks with different thicknesses and lengths. The overall size is only the size of a palm. It is unobtrusively hung on the door beam of the dressing room. It is swaying slightly in the wind at this moment.
"It's a little different from the one in Wu Xiaojing's lounge." Cheng Yan took a step back and stroked his chin for comparison, "But it should be able to make up the numbers."
Li Dongxing said in a daze: "There are also wind chimes there?"
"Didn't you notice? It's hanging by the curtain." Cheng Yan frowned and gave him a strange look, but his eyes quickly returned to the wind chime, "That one is much more unique, it must not be a small commodity market. High street goods that can be bought."
Cheng Yan didn't mean to blame, but Li Dongxing was still a little ashamed when he heard it, and silently lowered his head.
It is often heard that certain moods can make people blind, but now that I think about it, maybe I can still block my ears.He was in the lounge yesterday, patronizing the man lying on his lap, and he was simply out of his mind. Not to mention the thin sound of wind chimes, even if there was an orchestra in his ear, it might not wake him up.
He was the one who found the matter, but he actually deserted at a crucial point, and his thoughts went into heresy ways, he was really sorry to the senior brother in a double sense.
Cheng Yan didn't have the ability to read minds, so he couldn't hear Li Dongxing's heartache, so he stroked his palm, thinking that everything was ready and only owed Dongfeng, he beckoned Li Dongxing out, and went downstairs to wait for Wu Xiaojing.
Even if Wu Xiaojing didn't take it too seriously, she still agreed to come.Even Li Dongxing could see that her attitude was much more perfunctory than before, and her spirit was also worse.Although she was still well dressed and wearing makeup, the thick layer of powder on her face could not cover her haggardness.Especially those eyes, you don't need to look carefully to find that they are full of red blood, which is worse than Cheng Yan who didn't sleep all night, probably because he hasn't slept well in the past few days.
Seeing this, Li Dongxing still couldn't bear it. He hesitated to speak a few words of persuasion first, but Cheng Yan secretly waved his hand.
Cheng Yan directly explained his intention, invited Wu Xiaojing into the lounge, and told her, please try to sleep here as much as possible.
Facing this unexpected request, Wu Xiaojing looked puzzled.
"Miss Wu, you promised me to finish this experiment." Cheng Yan said with a smile, "This is the last part of the experiment. By the way, this place is far enough from your company. You don't have to worry...that, you can Have a good night's sleep."
After he finished speaking, he helped to turn off the lights in the dressing room, closed the door but did not lock it, and retreated to the office to wait silently.
Li Dongxing stood beside him and asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, can she sleep?"
Cheng Yan: "I haven't slept all night, and now I want to close my eyes when I stand up. How many nights has she been up? This place can theoretically stay away from Meng Min's harassment. Once the strings in my heart are loosened, it's not easy to hold back." .”
He stood with his arms folded, his heels pointing slightly, and he lowered his head a little while talking.
Li Dongxing thought that Cheng Yan would really fall asleep standing up, and the battle between heaven and man began again in his mind. There was always a voice urging him, if Cheng Yan was really too sleepy to stand still, he should step forward and hug him in advance...
Brother's waist looks really thin.
"What an idol drama." Suddenly, Lili said.
Li Dongxing imagined her watching a video while eating potato chips.
It is really beneficial to have a commentary audio track in your head, at least you can always stop Li Dongxing's whims in a timely manner.
Cheng Yan obviously wasn't really asleep, about 10 minutes later, he raised his left hand and snapped his fingers lightly at Li Dongxing.
Li Dong obeyed orders, and according to the discussed plan, he tiptoed to the door of the office and pushed the door open.
A gust of wind passed through the hall, even they could feel it.
Immediately afterwards, the wind chime rang.
"It's time...it's about time." Cheng Yan stared at the half-closed locker room door and whispered.
Even though he had vaguely guessed the intention of this experiment, Li Dongxing still felt a chill on the back of his neck, as if something had really slipped in through the door they opened.
Crisp voices echoed in the locker room and office.
When you really start paying attention to something, you will find that it becomes more and more obvious.Li Dongxing opened his eyes wide and thought to himself, the sound of the wind chime is so loud, how slow must he be to not even hear the sound?
At this moment, a scream came from the locker room.
The person inside seemed to wake up suddenly, and scrambled and got out of the bed. After several bangs, he touched the doorknob and staggered to push the door open.
"She's here...she's here again!" Wu Xiaojing yelled hoarsely, and almost fell to the ground, but she kept crawling out, as if she had great fear of something hidden in the small piece of darkness in the dressing room .
Cheng Yan quickly stepped forward and helped her up from the ground.
"No, don't come to me!" Wu Xiaojing covered her ears with her hands, shaking her head vigorously, her eyes were red, her face was not sure whether it was sweat or tears, her makeup was smeared, and her dark eyeliner lined her already blue eyes. The eye sockets are extremely terrifying.
Cheng Yan held her arm tightly, and asked in a deep voice, "Is it Meng Min? Did you dream about Meng Min again?"
Upon hearing the name Meng Min, Wu Xiaojing seemed to come back to her senses for a while, and let out a sharp cry from her throat, digging deeply into Cheng Yan's forearm with her nails painted with pink nail polish, and hissed, "It's you...it's you The one who brought her here...you tortured me on purpose...it was you! It was you, right?"
She screamed and shook Cheng Yan's hand, she didn't have the slightest demeanor in the past.Just as Cheng Yan was about to say something, Li Dongxing rushed up and pressed Wu Xiaojing's shoulders, forcing her to let go of Cheng Yan. Like an eagle lifting a chick, he abruptly dragged him to the side seat.
"Miss Wu, wake up." Li Dongxing half-kneeled in front of her, and said in a soft tone that didn't match his movements, "Miss Meng is not here. This is just a dream, a nightmare. You are already awake."
He firmly pressed Wu Xiaojing's hands with both hands, and looked up at her eyes at the same time, his eyes were deep, as if they had the magic power to calm people's hearts.
Wu Xiaojing finally stopped trembling.
Her gaze gradually gained focus, she glanced first at Li Dongxing, then at Cheng Yan, and pulled out her trembling hands from under Li Dongxing's palms, covering her mottled face.
"I'm sorry..." She said after a long time, "I shouldn't have done this."
Cheng Yan handed her a pack of tissues, frowned and said, "I am also responsible. You are right, this dream is part of the experiment."
It's just that he didn't expect Wu Xiaojing to have such a big reaction.
Wu Xiaojing took the tissue and wiped her cheeks quietly. Except for the dizzy makeup that couldn't be fixed, she finally regained her former elegance and composure.
"So, Teacher Cheng made me dream of Amin?" Her voice was still slightly hoarse, but she tried to smile, "Can you tell me, how did you do it?"
Cheng Yan leaned against the door of the dressing room, pushed the half-closed door open, and pointed to the wind chime on the door beam.
He said, "It's not a dream I made you have, it's it."
Wu Xiaojing opened her eyes slightly, and murmured, "Wind chime...Amin's wind chime? No, it's not, this one is different."
"Yes, it's different from the one hanging in your lounge." Cheng Yan interjected, "The wind chime is the incentive for all of you to dream about Meng Min. People often think that they are unconscious when they are dreaming, but they are not. Many studies have shown that when people enter rapid eye movement sleep, the sensory cortex is still quite active. That is to say, people who are asleep can still hear most of the external sounds at least. If the sound is soft enough, although not so much Wake up, but it will still stimulate the human brain and further affect the content of dreams."
Li Dongxing seems to have realized something: "Just like people who go out to sea, they often dream of the ocean in their dreams."
Cheng Yan nodded and said, "Yes. In the sleep state, people can easily associate some familiar sounds with familiar pictures, which is equivalent to subconsciously calling out part of the associative memory and broadcasting it on the stage of your dreams. Just like what my junior brother said, when people are at sea, they often have the sea in their dreams. This is because the shaking of the boat and the sound of waves in their ears jointly create a perceptual environment, which guides the content of the dream. And here, the wind chimes are the key to reminding you of Meng Min."
Wu Xiaojing also seemed to remember something, subconsciously repeated: "Fengling..."
Cheng Yan: "Yes, Feng Ling. When I heard for the first time that you all had dreams with similar content at the same time and at the same place, I guessed that something in your lounge might have played a role. "
Wu Xiaojing murmured, "So you said you would come to our lounge to do experiments."
"To verify this conjecture. I slept in your lounge for an hour yesterday, but I hardly fell asleep because the sound was too loud." Cheng Yan glanced at the wind chimes that he had hung up himself, complaining. , "But I guess, the sound of wind chimes can just play a role in starting. First of all, for those who are familiar with it, they may not feel as noisy as I do. And superficial ignorance does not mean that they really did not hear. You all Hearing the sound of wind chimes, the subconscious mind will think of Meng Min. And the wind chimes you hang in the lounge will be affected by the airflow every day at noon to make a sound. It is this thing that activates your dreams and makes you dream of Meng Min during your lunch break. Min. The power of the subconscious mind is too strong for each of you to resist, even if you don’t want to dream about her anymore, she will still appear on time.”
Wu Xiaojing was stunned for a long time.
"I... I can't say that I understand everything." She raised her head and looked directly at the swaying silver light for the first time, "However, Amin really liked the sound of wind chimes when he was alive."
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"I like it so much that the background music of the planned mobile game uses wind chimes?" Cheng Yan asked.
Wu Xiaojing was taken aback, her expression went blank for a moment, then she nodded and asked in a shy voice, "Have you... played our game?"
"En." Cheng Yan nodded, "I guessed that the wind chime might have something to do with Meng Min, so I played a new game released by your company when I came back. If the sound of the wind chime makes your colleagues in all departments think of Meng Min at the same time, it must be because of it." Because of a non-personal reason, and it must have been repeatedly strengthened. Counting the time, Meng Min resigned after you completed the planning of the new game, so the most logical explanation is that she used the element of wind chimes in her work project."
Wu Xiaojing showed a weak smile: "Yes, the choice of wind chimes as background music was exactly Amin's suggestion. Because she said...it gave her inspiration."
Cheng Yan: "Good inspiration."
Wu Xiaojing stared straight at him: "Really?"
Cheng Yan rested his chin on one hand, took out the phone with the other hand, and twirled it between his fingers: "It's indeed an interesting game."
Although the art style and title of the game are quite girly, the plot is sci-fi and suspenseful. The heroine strays into multiple spaces in order to save her missing friend. The storyline advances with the nested spatial relationships. The logic is in Cheng Yan’s eyes. It can be said that it is meticulous.He played the game all night, of course it was impossible for such a naive reason as to get a high score and annoy Mu Mu.
Wu Xiaojing frowned slightly, but the corners of her mouth were still curled up, a little like crying and a little like laughing, and it took a while before she could say, "Thank you."
This is really not like the proud expression that one should have after being praised for his hard work.
Cheng Yan noticed that her hands were resting on her knees, and the index finger and thumb of her right hand kept rubbing against each other.This action is very familiar.He searched carefully in his mind, and remembered that when Wu Xiaojing went to Xiaohonglou to find them on the first day, when she mentioned that Meng Min was her friend and she was not afraid of dreaming about him, she was doing the same thing.
When people are nervous, they often do some compulsive behaviors unconsciously.For example, someone will frequently adjust their glasses during a speech, or repeatedly brush their hair.They often don't notice these small movements themselves, or they find it difficult to control them.And these details are revealing their hearts that they tried their best to hide.
Just like Li Dongxing said, he could feel that Wu Xiaojing was lying at that time.
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Cheng Yan scratched his chin and replied, "Yes, it's really interesting that people in an office have the same dream together."
What he was thinking seemed to be different from what Li Dongxing was thinking.
Li Dongxing smiled helplessly: "It's not just that. As my brother said, Ms. Wu and her colleagues have complicated feelings towards Ms. Meng. They feel fear, and the fear most likely comes from guilt. This was originally just a speculation , even Wang Shasha gave up on investigating the cause of Meng Min's death—"
Cheng Yan understood: "But at this juncture, Wu Xiaojing told us to leave it alone."
Li Dongxing nodded: "Yes. Brother, don't you think it's strange? Even if Ms. Wu didn't expect us to help her, she just put on a show to appease her colleagues and leaders, so why did she go back on what she said and suddenly didn't want us to help her?" Intervene?"
Cheng Yan sneered, "Because of a guilty conscience."
Wu Xiaojing must have been told that Wang Shasha had come to the company the day before to investigate the cause of Meng Min's death after returning to work.
The people in the department had nightmares, and the reason to ask psychoanalysts to help them was to comfort them, but to provoke the police was to add fuel to the flames, and the people in their department must have become more nervous.
Wu Xiaojing must have been in a hurry too, so anxious that even the tight-knit person made a foolish move.Wang Shasha didn't find out anything at first, so Li Dongxing and Cheng Yan would at most help them consult about the nightmare, and she had the final say on whether it worked or not.But at this time, it was called to stop. Isn't it that there is no silver 300 taels here? Isn't it so simple to tell them Meng Min's death?
What was originally just a guess, was finally pushed into a real suspicion by herself.
"Senior brother, I want to know the truth." Li Dongxing clenched his hand hanging by his side slightly, "If Ms. Meng really didn't die by accident, she should be treated more fairly."
Cheng Yan raised his eyebrows and said flatly, "You really want to avenge Meng Min?"
Li Dongxing was stunned, let go of his hands, and said in a low voice, "...isn't that kind of stupid?"
"En." Cheng Yan stood up and patted Li Dongxing on the shoulder, "So cute."
Li Dongxing watched him pick up his coat and walk to the door, he was startled before he could feel depressed: "Senior brother?"
"Didn't you say you don't want to let go?" Cheng Yan pushed the door open while putting on his clothes, "Let's go and find Wu Xiaojing."
On the way to Wu Xiaojing's company, Cheng Yan replied a WeChat message.
The general meaning is that they deeply sympathize with Wu Xiaojing's experience, but they have already figured out why they had nightmares. They don't need to bother Wu Xiaojing and her colleagues in the department for consultation. They just need to do a few more field investigations, and they should be able Use scientific means to help solve this trouble, so that the people in their company can work better.
In short, there was no mention of police involvement in the speech, and even implied that they had no interest in Meng Min's death, and only wanted to figure out the nightmare from a scientific point of view.
These words were used as leverage, no matter whether Wu Xiaojing approached them just for show or not, now she has no way to say that she doesn't believe that science can solve this problem, so as to refuse Cheng Yan's and the others' help, otherwise she will be slapped in the face.
After hearing Cheng Yan's words, Li Dongxing's big eyes were filled with naked admiration: "Brother, you found a good reason for this."
Cheng Yan: "Who told you that I was looking for a reason? The nightmare is the most interesting point. Whether out of nostalgia or guilt, it is understandable for a person to dream of Meng Min repeatedly. A group of people , and they all dreamed of the same person during their lunch break, what is the reason?"
Li Dongxing: "... Collective guilt?"
Cheng Yan: "..."
Seeing Cheng Yan's black face, Li Dongxing quickly went online and offline: "But they didn't say that they would also dream of Meng Min at home."
Cheng Yan couldn't help being relieved that his junior hadn't been dazzled by the chicken blood of justice.
"This matter seems to be one problem, but it is actually two problems." He stretched out two fingers and shook them lightly, "I was a little confused before, and I was taken away by Wu Xiaojing's reaction. It’s all about their relationship with Meng Min, and their psychology of having nightmares. In fact, there is still a first-level problem. Why do they have this dream? It’s still at the same time and at the same place. As I said before, dreams are also brain neural activity For this phenomenon to occur, there must be a neural mechanism behind it. This is what I am most concerned about. Now Wu Xiaojing wants to avoid the second layer, so we might as well start from the first layer.”
Cheng Yan withdrew his finger and put it in his pocket.
Li Dongxing is a good man who is very persistent in justice.Cheng Yan thought to himself that he didn't have that awareness, but at least he was also a scientist himself.
If science and morality have anything in common, it is that they both point to the pursuit of truth.
When they arrived downstairs in the office building, Wu Xiaojing came down to greet her as usual, but her attitude was not as enthusiastic as last time.When they walked through the hall, they still saw Xue Zhan, but today the little security guard didn't dare to poke their heads at them anymore, so they kept their eyes on neither Wu Xiaojing nor Li Dongxing.
After getting out of the elevator, Wu Xiaojing said, "I'm sorry, both of you. Our department is planning a new project. Everyone is very busy today. There are still a few meetings in the afternoon. I'm afraid I won't be able to spare time to chat with you for a long time."
This could be called cold, but Cheng Yan didn't care, and cut straight to the point: "Miss Wu, when we first met, my junior also introduced you. I'm not a psychiatrist, and I don't know anything about conversation and consultation. I'm a neuroscience researcher. I only care about some scientific issues. So I came here today not to chat with you, but to study how your dreams come from."
Wu Xiaojing tried to put on a curious look, and asked, "Does Teacher Cheng have any guesses?"
Cheng Yan walked into the office and looked around, saying, "Obviously, something is playing tricks."
Wu Xiaojing's expression changed, and she paused for a few seconds before forcing out a smile: "I didn't expect Teacher Cheng to believe this."
Cheng Yan put one hand behind his back, and waved the other hand like a pedant: "The things I'm talking about are just things."
Wu Xiaojing was startled, and glanced at Li Dongxing, obviously not understanding Cheng Yan's meaning.
Li Dongxing showed a standard smile: "Brother, what you mean is that we are all scientists and don't believe in ghosts."
He seemed to be sincere in his explanation, but it was very straightforward, and seemed to imply a deep meaning of irony, which made Wu Xiaojing's face even uglier.
But after all, she has a face that has been cultivated in strong winds and waves, and she kept her shaky smile, half surprised and half relieved, and said: "I also always believe that this matter can be explained by science. If you need my help, Cheng Even if the teacher says, I will definitely cooperate."
Cheng Yan only said that he planned to do an experiment, and the first step was to borrow their lounge.
Wu Xiaojing naturally nodded in agreement.
"It's the same as your usual lunch break, isn't it?" Cheng Yan walked around the room, "Have you touched any of the arrangements?"
Wu Xiaojing: "Well. After that problem...no one of my colleagues dared to come over for a lunch break."
Cheng Yan sat down on the sofa and looked at his watch: "At this point, it's also time for your lunch break."
Wu Xiaojing: "Yes."
Cheng Yan lay down on his back, lifted his legs up to the armrest of the sofa, took off his glasses and closed his eyes: "I'll borrow a place to sleep for an hour."
Wu Xiaojing backed out after hearing the words, closed the door behind her, and told other colleagues not to come in and disturb her.
Li Dongxing wanted to follow her out of the lounge, but Cheng Yan stopped him after taking a step.
"Where are you going?" Cheng Yan didn't open his eyes, but seemed to be paying attention to Li Dongxing's movements all the time.
Li Dongxing: "I...try to talk to other employees again."
That being said, he was actually just a little afraid to stay.
"Frightening the snake." Cheng Yan frowned slightly, "Wu Xiaojing is temporarily wary, and must have issued a gag order. If they are determined to conceal or lie, how do you get them out? Is it Han Zhengjiao's method again? "
Li Dongxing said in a swearing tone: "No, brother, I promise not to mess around with other personalities."
In addition to the sofa that can sleep in the lounge, there is also an armchair facing the sofa.Looking left and right, there is only one place Li Dongxing can go to.
At the thought of sitting on this chair for an hour and watching Cheng Yan sleep from a distance of less than two meters, Li Dongxing had two thoughts at the same time, one wanted him to run away, the other wanted him to be nailed. In situ, it even brought a hint of secret joy.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Yan offered another option.
The moment he lay down, he pulled out the cushions and pillows that were originally placed at the end of the sofa bed, and threw those colorful fabrics on the coffee table.Cheng Yan has always had a cleanliness obsession with the things he uses. These furniture items look clean, but they have been used by at least a dozen strangers, and he definitely doesn't want to touch them.But it was absolutely uncomfortable to lie flat like this. He turned over a few times, tried to put one arm under his head, and pulled it out after a few seconds.
He opened his eyes slightly frustrated, stared at the ceiling for a while, and saw Li Dongxing who was about to sit down in the armchair.
"Come here." Cheng Yan sat up, beckoned to Li Dongxing, patted the place where his head lay, "Lend me a pillow."
Li Dongxing was dumbfounded, his body preceded his will, and obediently sat down on the sofa bed.
Cheng Yan put his head on his knees, moved a few times to find the most comfortable position, let out a sigh of satisfaction, folded his hands, and closed his eyes again.
His logic is very simple, when Li Dongxing's little personality comes out, he often uses him as a pillow.It was not easy to have a chance to get even, and he didn't feel sorry for letting his junior brother contribute appropriately.
As Cheng Yan lay down, he was very frank in his heart, but it made Li Dongxing choked up.
Since having that dream, this was the first time Li Dongxing was so close to Cheng Yan.
His knees were close together, everything from his toes to his hair was tense, and there was no cell in his body that was not tense.There was obviously a soft sofa cushion under him, and Cheng Yan's head didn't weigh much, but it was like a hot iron on both sides, clamping his legs in between, making him unable to move, hot and smoking.
His eyes wandered around the room, studying everything from a crack in the plaster on the ceiling to a small round spot on the wooden coffee table.However, time passed so slowly, it only took him 5 minutes to finish watching all the boring things in this space.
Li Dongxing didn't dare to look at Cheng Yan.
But the existence of the person on the knee is so strong.Every rise and fall of Cheng Yan's chest, every blink of eyelashes seemed to be magnified by the silence of the room, and could always be captured by Li Dongxing's perception.Through a layer of fabric, Li Dongxing could even analyze and judge the shape of each strand of Cheng Yan's hair through the weight on his knees.His legs were itchy from being pierced, and the itchiness flowed through his gurgling blood straight to his heart.His whole body was itchy.
The voice that persuaded him to stay just now sounded again, saying to him, just take a look, just a look.
Li Dongxing was bewitched.
He moved his neck, which was as stiff as an axle that hadn't been oiled for a long time, let it lower down with difficulty, and secretly glanced at Cheng Yan.
With just this one glance, he found that he couldn't take his eyes away.
The shutters were closed, but it was inevitable that some fragments of light came in.Most of what might fall on Cheng Yan's face was blocked by Li Dongxing.However, there was still a strand of Cheng Yan's hair that caught on to it, changing its width and narrowing with the rhythm of the wind blowing against the window, as if a speck of gold was dancing on the tip of his hair.
Li Dongxing seemed to have discovered the most interesting thing in the world.
He focused on the golden spot, and when it moved closer to Cheng Yan's face, his peripheral vision could move out a little bit freely, and he could see at most one of Cheng Yan's eyes and half of the bridge of the nose.If the golden color was any further in, he could only stare at Cheng Yan's ear.But he discovered something he didn't know before.
Behind Cheng Yan's ear was a mark that looked a little like a scar. It must have been a long time ago, and it was already very inconspicuous. It was slightly darker than the skin on his neck.The scar snaked towards the back of the head, most of which was blocked by the hair, so it was impossible to tell how long it was.
"Teacher Cheng was injured before." Zheng Heping muttered, "I didn't notice it before, but it was quite heavy. I don't know if it hurt at that time."
Li Dongxing's heart twitched.
Lili came out furtively: "Do you really want to kiss me?"
Li Dongxing almost shivered.
Lili: "But this is not a routine. You were clearly thinking just now, whether the brother is in pain or not, I feel so distressed. And then many TV dramas act like that, kissing can relieve the pain..."
Li Dongxing really wanted to hold Lili's mouth down in his mind to prevent her from speaking.
Zheng Heping said very understandingly: "I have said that some things should not be exposed, let Dongxing do it by himself, by himself. We don't know anything, we haven't seen anything!"
Li Dongxing: "..."
He knew that these personalities held back before speaking, but it definitely didn't mean that they really stopped.
At this moment, the person on the knee moved.
"How long has it been?" Cheng Yan frowned and blinked, his voice still a little hoarse.The ray of light shot into his eyes following his movements, he turned his head instinctively, and rubbed against Li Dongxing's leg.
"Almost an hour." Li Dongxing tried his best to ignore the increasingly strange feeling on his legs, and quickly glanced at his watch.
He himself was a little surprised that the time after that... actually passed so quickly.
Cheng Yan sat up.
He grabbed his glasses on the coffee table and put them on, his eyes turned around in the lounge again, and then fixed on a certain position.
"I probably know how dreams come about." Cheng Yan raised the corners of his mouth slightly as if he had a plan in mind.
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After Cheng Yan finished speaking, he stood up in a hurry, nodded hurriedly to Wu Xiaojing who was sitting in the office outside, chatted and said hello, and then flashed outside the room.
Li Dong did not walk so fast.
"Are your legs numb?" Before entering the elevator, Cheng Yan saw that he was barely moving, and said with a half-smile, "I'm not up to it."
That being said, he still remembered who was the instigator who harmed Li Dongxing, so he slowed down and waited until his junior and junior had stood firm enough to keep up, and then they went downstairs together.
Cheng Yan didn't explain along the way. Although Li Dongxing was full of doubts, he also understood Cheng Yan's temperament and knew that his brother knew what he was thinking, but he would not easily express his conjecture until he was sure, so he tacitly kept quiet and just said nothing. follow along.
On the way, Cheng Yan suddenly asked, "Does Zheng Heping know where the Small Commodity Market is?"
Li Dongxing was startled, and asked reflexively, "Gossip?"
Cheng Yan turned his head suspiciously: "What gossip?"
Li Dongxing realized that he took what Zheng Heping wrote in his diary seriously, and quickly shook his head, saying, "Yes, brother, Zheng Heping is very familiar with that area. Do you want to buy anything?"
Cheng Yan gestured at him and roughly said what he needed.
The two parted ways temporarily, Li Dongxing went to the wholesale market, and Cheng Yan returned to Xiaohonglou.
When Li Dongxing went back after shopping, he saw Cheng Yan leaning next to Mu Mu, holding a mobile phone in his hand, frowning while browsing the screen, looking like he was studying something painstakingly.
"You really look like an antique living in the twentieth century." Mu Mu said contemptuously, "Isn't it just to install a mobile game, you don't even know how to do this, how did you get through this wonderful youth?"
Cheng Yan: "Playing with things and losing one's ambition."
Mu Mubai glanced at him, turned to see Li Dongxing, waved and said, "Come on, Dongxing, I'll teach you, brother Mumu, how to install game apps in your phone."
Li Dongxing smiled in embarrassment, took out his brick Nokia, and shook it in front of Mu Mu.
Mu Mu: "..."
Li Dongxing added in a timely manner: "The teacher also uses Nokia."
Mu Mu twisted his waist angrily: "Well, you three descendants of the Ancient Tomb Sect."
After a lot of trouble, Cheng Yan, the only one who didn't use a Nokia, finally learned how to install games on his phone.He stared at the extra pink icon on the phone screen, frowned, and spit out a word of evaluation: "Ugly."
Mu Mu sneered: "You don't know Huahua World well. Let me tell you, this game is very popular now. Half of the students in my class are playing it. The plot is exciting, the story is full of novelty, and the soundtrack It sounds pretty good too. Look, my protagonist has reached level 32. Cheng Xiaobai, do you want the old driver to take you?"
Cheng Yanli ignored her, and walked towards his office with his legs up, holding the phone in both hands, with a swipe of his thumb, he had already clicked on the game.
"What's the deal? Don't play with things? You're still at work!" Mu Mu stared, turned his head and picked up his mobile phone with a pink cherry blossom shell, put his left foot on his right foot, and twisted on the chair. "Hmph, the teacher takes the lead, then I will play too."
Click on the icon, the screen flashes, and the icon of the game company appears briefly.
Before Li Dongxing walked away, he was stunned when he saw the pattern.
This is Wu Xiaojing's company's game.
Throughout the afternoon and one night, Cheng Yan carried his mobile phone everywhere, and when he got up early the next morning, Li Dongxing saw Cheng Yan pouring three times the usual amount of tea into the cup wearing yesterday's clothes.
"Morning." Cheng Yan raised his glass to Li Dongxing with red eyes, took a gulp down his throat, and wrinkled his face for two seconds in pain.
He threw the phone on the dining table, the screen was black, and finally it was no longer the interface of the game.
Li Dong walked over, and while heating up two white-cut steamed buns in the microwave, he asked Cheng Yan, "Senior brother, have you found out the information in the game?"
Cheng Yan grinned and sipped his tea while saying, "Open it in two minutes and you'll find it."
Li Dongxing was astonished: "Then all night?"
Cheng Yan glanced at him quietly: "Clear the customs."
When he arrived at school, the first thing Cheng Yan did when he saw Mu Mu was to hold the phone up in front of her. Without saying a word, he just deliberately clicked on the clearance page, held it with two fingers, and swaggered it a few times, waiting for him to be satisfied. After hearing Mu Mu's unwilling growl, he put away his phone, deleted the game completely, and strode into the office with his head held high.
Mu Mu went crazy: "How old is he?"
Li Dongxing blinked: "27?"
Mu Mu: "..."
One will get revenge, and the other pretends to be stupid. She really wants to pack up and get rid of these two juniors today.
Fortunately, those two who were disliked gave her a clean ear.In the morning, Cheng Yan took Li Dongxing to do experiments in the biology building. The consequences of not sleeping all night were obvious. No matter how strong the tea was, Cheng Yan couldn't cheer up Cheng Yan. field.
Li Dongxing couldn't hold back, and asked him if he needed to go back to rest, but Cheng Yan waved his hand and refused.
"Okay, just don't work." He pressed the center of his eyebrows, "Go and call Wu Xiaojing and ask her to come over when she is free at noon. We will end this matter today."
The laboratory on this floor of the biology building often conducts research on human subjects, so there is also a dressing room next to the MRI scanning room.The locker room is connected to the office, and there is a narrow bed in it, which is common in hospital consulting rooms, for the subjects who usually come to the laboratory to rest.When there are no subjects, this locker room and the office outside will be temporarily owned by the teachers who rent the laboratory. Occasionally, some teachers will come to the locker room to take a nap.
Cheng Yan walked into the dressing room and changed into a clean and sterilized bed sheet, but he didn't intend to lie down on it.
He stretched out his hand to Li Dongxing: "Bring me the thing I asked you to buy last time."
Li Dongxing ran to Xiaohonglou as he said.
Cheng Yan took out something from the bag his junior brother brought, and hung it on the hook he had just fixed on the door beam of the dressing room.
The door of the locker room was slightly open, and when Li Dongxing came in, the door of the outside office was not closed properly.The air was convective, and the indoor breeze was blowing, and after a while, there was a series of rustling metal clashing sounds in my ears.
The sound was soft and delicate, extremely crisp, like the chirping of insects in the autumn wind, if you don't distinguish it carefully, it may not be able to attract attention.
This is from the string of wind chimes that Cheng Yan hung up.
The wind chime is made up of seven silver metal rods of chopsticks with different thicknesses and lengths. The overall size is only the size of a palm. It is unobtrusively hung on the door beam of the dressing room. It is swaying slightly in the wind at this moment.
"It's a little different from the one in Wu Xiaojing's lounge." Cheng Yan took a step back and stroked his chin for comparison, "But it should be able to make up the numbers."
Li Dongxing said in a daze: "There are also wind chimes there?"
"Didn't you notice? It's hanging by the curtain." Cheng Yan frowned and gave him a strange look, but his eyes quickly returned to the wind chime, "That one is much more unique, it must not be a small commodity market. High street goods that can be bought."
Cheng Yan didn't mean to blame, but Li Dongxing was still a little ashamed when he heard it, and silently lowered his head.
It is often heard that certain moods can make people blind, but now that I think about it, maybe I can still block my ears.He was in the lounge yesterday, patronizing the man lying on his lap, and he was simply out of his mind. Not to mention the thin sound of wind chimes, even if there was an orchestra in his ear, it might not wake him up.
He was the one who found the matter, but he actually deserted at a crucial point, and his thoughts went into heresy ways, he was really sorry to the senior brother in a double sense.
Cheng Yan didn't have the ability to read minds, so he couldn't hear Li Dongxing's heartache, so he stroked his palm, thinking that everything was ready and only owed Dongfeng, he beckoned Li Dongxing out, and went downstairs to wait for Wu Xiaojing.
Even if Wu Xiaojing didn't take it too seriously, she still agreed to come.Even Li Dongxing could see that her attitude was much more perfunctory than before, and her spirit was also worse.Although she was still well dressed and wearing makeup, the thick layer of powder on her face could not cover her haggardness.Especially those eyes, you don't need to look carefully to find that they are full of red blood, which is worse than Cheng Yan who didn't sleep all night, probably because he hasn't slept well in the past few days.
Seeing this, Li Dongxing still couldn't bear it. He hesitated to speak a few words of persuasion first, but Cheng Yan secretly waved his hand.
Cheng Yan directly explained his intention, invited Wu Xiaojing into the lounge, and told her, please try to sleep here as much as possible.
Facing this unexpected request, Wu Xiaojing looked puzzled.
"Miss Wu, you promised me to finish this experiment." Cheng Yan said with a smile, "This is the last part of the experiment. By the way, this place is far enough from your company. You don't have to worry...that, you can Have a good night's sleep."
After he finished speaking, he helped to turn off the lights in the dressing room, closed the door but did not lock it, and retreated to the office to wait silently.
Li Dongxing stood beside him and asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, can she sleep?"
Cheng Yan: "I haven't slept all night, and now I want to close my eyes when I stand up. How many nights has she been up? This place can theoretically stay away from Meng Min's harassment. Once the strings in my heart are loosened, it's not easy to hold back." .”
He stood with his arms folded, his heels pointing slightly, and he lowered his head a little while talking.
Li Dongxing thought that Cheng Yan would really fall asleep standing up, and the battle between heaven and man began again in his mind. There was always a voice urging him, if Cheng Yan was really too sleepy to stand still, he should step forward and hug him in advance...
Brother's waist looks really thin.
"What an idol drama." Suddenly, Lili said.
Li Dongxing imagined her watching a video while eating potato chips.
It is really beneficial to have a commentary audio track in your head, at least you can always stop Li Dongxing's whims in a timely manner.
Cheng Yan obviously wasn't really asleep, about 10 minutes later, he raised his left hand and snapped his fingers lightly at Li Dongxing.
Li Dong obeyed orders, and according to the discussed plan, he tiptoed to the door of the office and pushed the door open.
A gust of wind passed through the hall, even they could feel it.
Immediately afterwards, the wind chime rang.
"It's time...it's about time." Cheng Yan stared at the half-closed locker room door and whispered.
Even though he had vaguely guessed the intention of this experiment, Li Dongxing still felt a chill on the back of his neck, as if something had really slipped in through the door they opened.
Crisp voices echoed in the locker room and office.
When you really start paying attention to something, you will find that it becomes more and more obvious.Li Dongxing opened his eyes wide and thought to himself, the sound of the wind chime is so loud, how slow must he be to not even hear the sound?
At this moment, a scream came from the locker room.
The person inside seemed to wake up suddenly, and scrambled and got out of the bed. After several bangs, he touched the doorknob and staggered to push the door open.
"She's here...she's here again!" Wu Xiaojing yelled hoarsely, and almost fell to the ground, but she kept crawling out, as if she had great fear of something hidden in the small piece of darkness in the dressing room .
Cheng Yan quickly stepped forward and helped her up from the ground.
"No, don't come to me!" Wu Xiaojing covered her ears with her hands, shaking her head vigorously, her eyes were red, her face was not sure whether it was sweat or tears, her makeup was smeared, and her dark eyeliner lined her already blue eyes. The eye sockets are extremely terrifying.
Cheng Yan held her arm tightly, and asked in a deep voice, "Is it Meng Min? Did you dream about Meng Min again?"
Upon hearing the name Meng Min, Wu Xiaojing seemed to come back to her senses for a while, and let out a sharp cry from her throat, digging deeply into Cheng Yan's forearm with her nails painted with pink nail polish, and hissed, "It's you...it's you The one who brought her here...you tortured me on purpose...it was you! It was you, right?"
She screamed and shook Cheng Yan's hand, she didn't have the slightest demeanor in the past.Just as Cheng Yan was about to say something, Li Dongxing rushed up and pressed Wu Xiaojing's shoulders, forcing her to let go of Cheng Yan. Like an eagle lifting a chick, he abruptly dragged him to the side seat.
"Miss Wu, wake up." Li Dongxing half-kneeled in front of her, and said in a soft tone that didn't match his movements, "Miss Meng is not here. This is just a dream, a nightmare. You are already awake."
He firmly pressed Wu Xiaojing's hands with both hands, and looked up at her eyes at the same time, his eyes were deep, as if they had the magic power to calm people's hearts.
Wu Xiaojing finally stopped trembling.
Her gaze gradually gained focus, she glanced first at Li Dongxing, then at Cheng Yan, and pulled out her trembling hands from under Li Dongxing's palms, covering her mottled face.
"I'm sorry..." She said after a long time, "I shouldn't have done this."
Cheng Yan handed her a pack of tissues, frowned and said, "I am also responsible. You are right, this dream is part of the experiment."
It's just that he didn't expect Wu Xiaojing to have such a big reaction.
Wu Xiaojing took the tissue and wiped her cheeks quietly. Except for the dizzy makeup that couldn't be fixed, she finally regained her former elegance and composure.
"So, Teacher Cheng made me dream of Amin?" Her voice was still slightly hoarse, but she tried to smile, "Can you tell me, how did you do it?"
Cheng Yan leaned against the door of the dressing room, pushed the half-closed door open, and pointed to the wind chime on the door beam.
He said, "It's not a dream I made you have, it's it."
Wu Xiaojing opened her eyes slightly, and murmured, "Wind chime...Amin's wind chime? No, it's not, this one is different."
"Yes, it's different from the one hanging in your lounge." Cheng Yan interjected, "The wind chime is the incentive for all of you to dream about Meng Min. People often think that they are unconscious when they are dreaming, but they are not. Many studies have shown that when people enter rapid eye movement sleep, the sensory cortex is still quite active. That is to say, people who are asleep can still hear most of the external sounds at least. If the sound is soft enough, although not so much Wake up, but it will still stimulate the human brain and further affect the content of dreams."
Li Dongxing seems to have realized something: "Just like people who go out to sea, they often dream of the ocean in their dreams."
Cheng Yan nodded and said, "Yes. In the sleep state, people can easily associate some familiar sounds with familiar pictures, which is equivalent to subconsciously calling out part of the associative memory and broadcasting it on the stage of your dreams. Just like what my junior brother said, when people are at sea, they often have the sea in their dreams. This is because the shaking of the boat and the sound of waves in their ears jointly create a perceptual environment, which guides the content of the dream. And here, the wind chimes are the key to reminding you of Meng Min."
Wu Xiaojing also seemed to remember something, subconsciously repeated: "Fengling..."
Cheng Yan: "Yes, Feng Ling. When I heard for the first time that you all had dreams with similar content at the same time and at the same place, I guessed that something in your lounge might have played a role. "
Wu Xiaojing murmured, "So you said you would come to our lounge to do experiments."
"To verify this conjecture. I slept in your lounge for an hour yesterday, but I hardly fell asleep because the sound was too loud." Cheng Yan glanced at the wind chimes that he had hung up himself, complaining. , "But I guess, the sound of wind chimes can just play a role in starting. First of all, for those who are familiar with it, they may not feel as noisy as I do. And superficial ignorance does not mean that they really did not hear. You all Hearing the sound of wind chimes, the subconscious mind will think of Meng Min. And the wind chimes you hang in the lounge will be affected by the airflow every day at noon to make a sound. It is this thing that activates your dreams and makes you dream of Meng Min during your lunch break. Min. The power of the subconscious mind is too strong for each of you to resist, even if you don’t want to dream about her anymore, she will still appear on time.”
Wu Xiaojing was stunned for a long time.
"I... I can't say that I understand everything." She raised her head and looked directly at the swaying silver light for the first time, "However, Amin really liked the sound of wind chimes when he was alive."
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"I like it so much that the background music of the planned mobile game uses wind chimes?" Cheng Yan asked.
Wu Xiaojing was taken aback, her expression went blank for a moment, then she nodded and asked in a shy voice, "Have you... played our game?"
"En." Cheng Yan nodded, "I guessed that the wind chime might have something to do with Meng Min, so I played a new game released by your company when I came back. If the sound of the wind chime makes your colleagues in all departments think of Meng Min at the same time, it must be because of it." Because of a non-personal reason, and it must have been repeatedly strengthened. Counting the time, Meng Min resigned after you completed the planning of the new game, so the most logical explanation is that she used the element of wind chimes in her work project."
Wu Xiaojing showed a weak smile: "Yes, the choice of wind chimes as background music was exactly Amin's suggestion. Because she said...it gave her inspiration."
Cheng Yan: "Good inspiration."
Wu Xiaojing stared straight at him: "Really?"
Cheng Yan rested his chin on one hand, took out the phone with the other hand, and twirled it between his fingers: "It's indeed an interesting game."
Although the art style and title of the game are quite girly, the plot is sci-fi and suspenseful. The heroine strays into multiple spaces in order to save her missing friend. The storyline advances with the nested spatial relationships. The logic is in Cheng Yan’s eyes. It can be said that it is meticulous.He played the game all night, of course it was impossible for such a naive reason as to get a high score and annoy Mu Mu.
Wu Xiaojing frowned slightly, but the corners of her mouth were still curled up, a little like crying and a little like laughing, and it took a while before she could say, "Thank you."
This is really not like the proud expression that one should have after being praised for his hard work.
Cheng Yan noticed that her hands were resting on her knees, and the index finger and thumb of her right hand kept rubbing against each other.This action is very familiar.He searched carefully in his mind, and remembered that when Wu Xiaojing went to Xiaohonglou to find them on the first day, when she mentioned that Meng Min was her friend and she was not afraid of dreaming about him, she was doing the same thing.
When people are nervous, they often do some compulsive behaviors unconsciously.For example, someone will frequently adjust their glasses during a speech, or repeatedly brush their hair.They often don't notice these small movements themselves, or they find it difficult to control them.And these details are revealing their hearts that they tried their best to hide.
Just like Li Dongxing said, he could feel that Wu Xiaojing was lying at that time.
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