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Chapter 4 Snail Girl

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Huang Dongbo woke up in the morning and hurried to look at the flour sprinkled in the corridor. There were many messy footprints on the flour. Did anyone really come last night? Then he found that there were also flour marks in the bedroom until the bedside. When he lowered his head, his slippers were covered with flour. - Could it be that he was sleepwalking? So he called Feng Junzi, but Feng Junzi didn't answer, and Taomuling heard about it all.

Taomuling's first reaction was that Huang Dongbo was sleepwalking. Feng Junzi asked him to sprinkle flour before going to bed. It seemed that he had known about this a long time ago. However, Feng Junzi said that Huang Dongbo was not sleepwalking. Taomuling asked strangely: "Why did you say he was not sleepwalking?"

Feng Junzi yawned and answered the question irrelevantly: "Ling, have you heard of the story of the snail girl?"

Taomu Ling is puzzled: "This is a Chinese folk legend. I heard it when I was a child. It was said that a girl who became a snail and helped a young farmer with housework every day. Later, the young man discovered the snail girl and they lived together."

Feng Junzi: "Why is this story telling you from your mouth no longer smells? Do you know? Once I listened to a psychology lecture, a psychology expert, your colleague, told this story. Do you guess what he said?"

Taomuling: "Is this young man sleepwalking?"

Feng Junzi: "It's good. According to that gentleman, this young man has sleepwalking. He gets up every night to carry water and wash clothes. After waking up in the morning, he doesn't know who did it. He searches and finds a snail in the water tank, so he suspects the snails that the snails do for him."

Taomuling smiled: "Why did the snail girl appear again later?"

Feng Junzi also smiled: "It depends on how you psychologists continue to compile it. What will you say from your perspective and follow the gentleman's thoughts?"

Taomuling: "It seems that in addition to sleepwalking, this person later suffered from hysteria. Is that true?"

Feng Junzi: "Yes, that's what I said at the lecture. I really wish I could rush up and slap that guy twice."

Taomuling: "Why?"

Feng Junzi: "This is simply a waste of culture. I don't like people who think they are intellectual elites playing with knowledge the most."

Taomuling: "Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's talk about Huang Dongbo. You said he was not sleepwalking, did he have a snail girl in his family?"

Feng Junzi: "Then I ask you, do you know what sleepwalking is?"

Taomuling: "So far, there is still insufficient research on sudden sleepwalking in adults, and it cannot be determined by the pathology of sleepwalking. All studies are based on the judgment of phenomena."

Feng Junzi nodded: "Okay, you're very good."

Taomuling: "What did you praise me well? I didn't say anything, what's the good thing?"

Feng Junzi: "You are not as proud as the so-called expert leaders I usually come into contact with. You have a theory of plagiarism, just like you have mastered ten-thousand truths, you dare to say anything and do anything. Let's do this, I'll ask you three questions."

Taomuling: "You ask."

Feng Junzi: "The first question is whether sleepwalking is dreaming?"

Taomuling: "Sleepwalking is not dreaming, sleepwalking is a sleep disorder, and dreaming is a normal sleep phenomenon. To be precise, sleepwalking should be an activity during sleep. It may be that the motor nerves are not suppressed during sleep and are still excited."

Feng Junzi: "The second question is, do people have any memories of sleepwalking?"

Taomuling: "No, no matter whether you wake up the next day or be awakened during sleepwalking, people will not remember what happened during sleepwalking. Sleepwalking is an unconscious activity. There is no dream to recall. At least the cases that have been studied around the world, the process of sleepwalking is memoryless."

Feng Junzi: "The third question is, is Huang Dongbo sleepwalking?"

Taomuling: "From the perspective of phenomenon, he seems to be sleepwalking, but at the same time he still has a memory of awakeness. His consciousness stayed in bed and heard his sleepwalking sounds, and even a dream that was carried out simultaneously, which was indeed inconsistent with the sleepwalking phenomenon. What's going on? I'm really interested now. This case is worth studying. If it doesn't work out, it will be a major academic discovery."

Feng Junzi: "If you want to study, you should go to the scene to take a look. Only when you get there can you understand what's going on. If you want to go, I can accompany you."

Taomuling: "Looking at how you looked yesterday, you don't seem to want to help him."

Feng Junzi smiled: "I really don't want to help him, but I can help you."

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After experiencing strange things for three consecutive nights, Huang Dongbo never dared to live at home again. He moved to the Peninsula Hotel, which was very close to his unit. Feng Junzi asked him for the key to the house, but he couldn't ask for it, so he quickly gave it to him.

After work that day, Feng Junzi and Taomuling arrived at Huang Dongbo's home. The two carefully observed the footprints in the corridor. The more they looked at Taomuling, the more confused they became, because the footprints left on the flour were all in one direction, that is, they repeatedly walked from the corridor to the front of the bedroom door. Could it be that Huang Dongbo first walked from the living room to the bedroom when he was sleepwalking, then drifted back from the air, and then walked to the front of the bedroom door?

After watching for a long time, I didn't notice anything. At this time, the sky was already dark. Feng Junzi suddenly said to Taomuling: "Don't look at it for now, let's go out for a walk."

The two walked around the community. The community was very lively and met many children and elderly people walking. Feng Junzi said to Taomuling while walking: "What day is today?"

Taomuling: "Today is August 22, 2005, what's wrong?"

Feng Junzi: "It's midsummer, it's so hot."

The two of them found nothing in the community. They both sweated all over and returned to Huang Dongbo's home. When they entered the door, Feng Junzi suddenly said, "Do you feel anything?"

Taomuling also realized at this time: "This room is so cool, it's not hot at all. His house has no air conditioning."

Feng Junzi: "You finally felt that the windows were always open, but the temperature in the room was significantly lower than outside. What do you think is the reason?"

Taomuling suddenly felt chills on her body and couldn't help asking: "Do you think this room is really haunted?"

Feng Junzi: "I don't know, isn't this what you want to know? What are you going to do?"

Taomuling: "I plan to stay here tonight."

"What? Are you going to spend the night here?"

"Yes, don't you dare?"

Feng Junzi shook his head and said, "I am very brave, of course I don't dare."

Taomuling: "I really can't see that you claim to have experienced so many supernatural events, why are you still afraid of things like ghosts and gods? Since you are afraid, why do you still have to participate in these things?"

Feng Junzi: "I think the reason is very simple. People should be full of awe of the unknown world in order to find true wisdom and philosophy. Instead, they cannot be like some so-called elites who think they have the right to speak and randomly misinterpret and design the world. The so-called reform and innovation are actually plundering and trampling..."

Before Feng Junzi finished speaking, Taomuling interrupted him: "You seem to be off topic. What's wrong with the stock market recently? Is it so turbulent? Where do you feel so much emotion?"

Feng Junzi felt a little embarrassed: "It's just a moment of feeling. Do you really want to stay here overnight? I tell you, it's dangerous to do this, and I don't want to see any accidents happen to you."

Taomuling: "You don't have to worry about this. I have done this kind of training abroad many times. There is a professional term called "haunted house experience". Have you heard of it? My tutor often takes students to find some haunted houses with haunted rumors, so that everyone can stay in the house for spiritual experience. In a state of self-hypnosis, most people can see the so-called ghosts. In fact, this is just a psychological "empathy". If I see too many ghosts, there will be no danger. And if I want to stay here alone, you will disturb me here."

Seeing that she had a firm opinion and was very confident in her attitude, Feng Junzi did not object. He took a jade ring from his right ring finger, pulled up Taomuling's hand and looked at it. He found that her finger was thinner than him, so he put it on the thumb of her left hand, and the ring looked like a ring. Taomuling asked strangely: "What are you doing?"

Feng Junzi: "You must not take off this ring when you wear it on your hands. If there is any unexpected situation, it will be very useful."
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