fear of intimacy

The performance of "Beautiful Frozen Man" on the day of the audition really caused the sequelae of a cold, and Chen Shu spent the whole week under the quilt reading novels while blowing his nose.Xiao Peng boiled ginger soup 24 hours a day in the kitchen and insisted on fumigation and disinfection, which caused Chen Shu to reflexively want to vomit whenever he ate vinegar-smelling dishes recently.

"Brother Chen," Xiao Peng pushed open the bedroom door with a mask on, "come and take the medicine."

The air conditioner in the room was turned on to 28 degrees, and it was so hot that people just wanted to be shirtless, but Chen Shu was wrapped in a thick cashmere quilt, with only a pair of eyes exposed. : "Peng Bushuai, what's the matter with you, I have a common cold, not influenza, why do you dislike it!"

"My name is Peng Shuai, and I'm very handsome." Xiao Peng stood two meters away and handed over a tin foil tablet with a pick-up folder that looked like a garbage tong. Divorce letter—hey bro, hold on tight, take two pills at a time, is there still water in the glass?"

Chen Shu lifted a corner of the quilt to reveal a small study room with all internal organs inside - a bed table was placed under the quilt, a laptop, a half-palm-thick novel and a thermos cup were placed on the table.

Just after taking the medicine, the computer beeped an email notification, and Chen Shu opened it with trembling fingers.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Xiao Peng clamped back the pills with long-handled pliers, keeping a distance of one meter: "What's wrong, brother?"

"It's the biographies that director Huang asked me to write. There are three drafts, and he has been dissatisfied." Chen Shu was extremely depressed.Thinking about his debut as a child star, he has been in the theater for more than 15 years, has never played any role, and is a talented actor praised by the industry, how can there be a type of character that cannot be figured out!

Xiao Peng asked, "Did the director say something was wrong?"

"That's right, it's because we have different understandings of roles." Chen Shu was puzzled, "What is the difference between Xu Nanzhu in the novel, who uses her beauty and social skills to lure others to do things for him, and an emotional liar? But Director Huang said that what Xu Nanzhu cheated was not feelings, but other people's brains. Tell me, what does it mean to cheat the brain?"

Xiao Peng: "..."

Xiao Peng said loudly behind the mask: "Brother Chen, I'd better make dinner, keep going! Yay!"

Director Huang euphemistically pointed out in his letter that Chen Shu's understanding of Xu Nanzhu was superficial and that he underestimated the difficulty of latent work during the War of Resistance.

For example, one time Xu Nanzhu sneaked into Zhang Bosi's office to look for the list of arrests. When he came out, he was bumped into by the captain of the first action team.

The description in the original text is - "Xu Nanzhu stared closely at Pei Jue's eyes, and said in a low and decisive tone: "Captain Pei, I just came out of the corner of the corridor and ran into you head-on. The door of Zhang Chu has been closed tightly." ,Right.'"

According to the idea of ​​the statement, if Pei Jue didn't intend to protect him, such a blatant lie would be worthless at all.

But Huang Dao thought that what Xu Nanzhu did was meaningful.

"Have you ever heard of hypnosis?" Director Huang asked Chen Shu in the email, "Looking closely at the other person's eyes, using the sense of oppression to make the brain fatigue, leading people into a state similar to half-sleep, in this case , no matter what truth you tell him, he will unswervingly believe it."

Hypnosis again.

Chen Shu recalled that the last time he was asked to accompany Ding Lan to see a doctor, it was because Ding Lan was estranged from hypnotherapy and thought it was a forbidden technique that could manipulate people's hearts without anyone noticing.

Chen Shu also knew little about hypnotism, and after accompanying Ding Lan to the counseling center, he was not interested in learning more about it.I didn't expect to receive a character who is good at using hypnosis to socialize one day. There are really foreshadowings everywhere in life.

If Chen Shu didn't understand hypnosis, his understanding of Xu Nanzhu would always be superficial, and he might even be unable to restore Xu Nanzhu's special temperament in the end.

Director Huang decided to give him a little treat—to take Chen Shu to attend a small hypnotism performance recently held in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical University.Originally, it was free for idlers, but because the speaker was an old friend of Director Huang, he opened a back door.

It wasn't until that day that Director Huang led Chen Shu into the Mental Health Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical University carefully avoiding the crowd, and pushed open the door of the director's office. Only then did he know how small the so-called small performance was - except for the one who was doing the scene layout. Three people, only seven people in the office.

As soon as the door was opened, the old experts with gray hair and pedantic temperament, who were solemnly observing the arrangement of the scene, came over with their reading glasses.

Chen Shu, who covered most of his face with a mask and his hat was so low that his eyes could barely see: "..." Sudden, sudden intrusion?

One of the three who set up the scene saw Director Huang at the door and said hello: "Sit down first, we'll start right away, and keep absolutely quiet during the process." It was a middle-aged man with protruding browbones. Faint scars, downturned eyes, prominent cheekbones, slightly tapered chin, and thin lips.Director Huang's old friend, psychologist, Xiang Dong.

Next to the middle-aged man were two young men, who were working together to lift a heavy small cabinet that looked like a bedside table to a position about one meter away from the other and put it down.

One of them had a cropped cropped cut and was working with his sweater sleeves rolled up.

The other person was probably wearing only a shirt because the heating in the office was sufficient, and he had a handsome but indifferent face.Chen Shu recognized him—it was Zhou Xu.

Zhou Xu focused on comparing the relative positions of the cabinets with his companions, without looking up.

Director Huang tiptoedly led Chen Shu past the three of them and walked into the office, but there were no chairs anywhere—the sofas and office chairs were all occupied.

The person sitting on the office chair whispered to Director Huang, "Why don't you find a chair next door?"

At this moment, the two young men who moved the cabinet retreated to the door, leaving only Xiang Dong in the middle of the office.Xiang Dong snapped his fingers to attract everyone's attention, and then said to the person on the office chair: "Please come to me."

The man did as he was told.

Xiang Dong, who started the hypnotic performance, seemed to have a different temperament. Because of the high cheekbones and drooping corners of the eyes, he was originally somewhat unpredictable. At this time, his eyes have less wandering, and everyone looks directly at each other's pupils, which makes people feel oppressed. and awe.

Director Huang patted Chen Shu on the shoulder, signaling him to watch carefully.At this time, Chen Shu felt that a beam of eyes fell on him from the opposite side, probably because he finally saw his Zhou Xu.

Xiang Dong stared at the man's eyes, and suddenly shouted: "Stand at attention!"

Before the brief echo of the voice in the office had time to settle, I saw that the naturally drooping hand on the side of the man suddenly tightened, sticking straight to the seam of his trousers, his legs stiffened instantly, and the whole person froze into a pillar.

Everyone was shocked!

Chen Shu raised the brim of his hat in surprise, trying to see better.

"Your whole body has become stiff!" Xiang Dong commanded, "Your body stiffened and fell backwards!"

The man actually fell backwards upright, and was caught by two young men who quietly walked behind him.

Zhou Xu and the inch-cut youth raised their heads and the other lifted their feet, and placed the subject's waist in the air on two cabinets to lie down.

An observing expert gasped slightly—this subject was not as old as the experts and professors present, but he was not a young man either. It was unbelievably an early Middle-aged people who have passed their prime and neglected exercise can do it.

But this was not enough, Xiang Dong said again: "Your whole body is as hard as iron, it can bear all weight!"

There was bottled water at the door, and Zhou Xu was still frowning and thought it was too heavy to carry it with one hand, so he and the young man with a cut head lifted the bottled water up and put it on the subject's dangling waist—the person didn't move at all!

Chen Shu's jaw was about to dislocate behind the mask, and he turned his head to look at Director Huang with his neck stuck, only to see that Huang Dao was also stunned.

The bottled water stayed on the Director's waist for half a minute, and was lifted off by Zhou Xu and Cun Tou.Immediately afterwards, the director was put back on the ground and stood upright by the two men.

Xiang Dong said: "Now I will pat your shoulder, and you will wake up, and you won't feel any discomfort when you wake up." Then Xiang Dong patted the director's left shoulder.

Seen from the side, the director's stiff body instantly regained the relaxation of standing naturally, and opened his eyes.

"Can we start?" The subject asked with a natural expression, as if he had no memory of what happened before.

Xiang Dong told him: "It's over."

The man seemed a little puzzled, but he didn't lose his face in shock: "I don't feel anything this time..."

An expert on the sofa asked: "Professor Xiang, can you hypnotize everyone just by calling attention?"

Xiang Dong explained: "That's not the case. 'Attention' is just a pre-established post-hypnosis code. What you want to see is the human body phenomenon caused by hypnosis, not the hypnosis process. In order to save the time needed to guide the subject into deep hypnosis, I I have already hypnotized my partner the night before and established a secret language in his mind, as long as I speak this secret language in front of him today, he will immediately enter a deep hypnotic state."

Afterwards, Chen Shu couldn't listen to Xiang Dong's exchange of questions with the experts, and he was deeply in shock that he had never heard before.

After the performance, Director Huang and Chen Shu went to the corridor to wait for Xiang Dong to finish his discussion with the psychiatrist.

There were very few people in the corridor of the Mental Health Center, and Chen Shu's face exposed outside the mask was also a little pale under the light-colored halo of the corridor lamp: "Director Huang...is this the Xu Nanzhu you want? Difficult, The difficulty is a bit high..."

Director Huang was silent for a while: "This level is not enough, just a little foundation?"

Chen Shu said with difficulty: "What is the basic difficulty level of hypnosis?"

Director Huang: "..."

Director Huang also felt that the task was too arduous: "Let's ask Professor Xiang after he comes out."

After waiting for a while, the office door opened, and two young men came out to help Professor Xiang.Before Chen Shu's mask was hanging on his chin, Zhou Xu saw him at a glance.

The young man with an inch cut opened his mouth first: "The discussion between the teacher and the professors may have been a bit long, so I asked the two of us to entertain Mr. Huang first. We are both graduate students under the teacher, and we have been studying psychology since undergraduate. If you have any questions, you are welcome." Don’t worry, we are all professionals!”

Finally, they found a private room in a coffee shop near the hospital. Director Huang invited drinks and desserts, and the four of them sat down to discuss in detail.

The young man with an inch-cut head is called Li San, and he speaks in a startled and energetic way: "Do you want to learn psychological hypnosis?!"

Director Huang quickly said, "It's not hypnotism, it's just a little basic theory."

Li San was shocked and said: "A layman wants to learn hypnosis theory!! My God, the Jade Heart Sutra is the unique secret book of my Ancient Tomb Sect, and the school rules are passed on to women and not to men!!"

Director Huang: "..."

Chen Shu: "..."

Zhou Xu was not surprised when he saw it, he was too lazy to talk to Li San, and asked, "Who wants to learn?"

In Chen Shu's impression, Zhou Xu was still the cool guy who left with a cold face when he disagreed with him. Chen Shu felt his scalp tingle when he answered: "...I. Can't hypnotism be given to laymen?"

Zhou Xu looked at Chen Shu and frowned: "You want to learn hypnosis, do you want psychotherapy?"

Only Chen Shu could understand this question—Zhou Xu thought that Ding Lan was worried about outsiders, and his heart disease was getting worse, so he asked Chen Shu to give her hypnotherapy.

Chen Shu hurriedly waved his hands: "How is that possible? I don't have a license." Then he glanced at Director Huang and got permission: "It's just for filming needs. There is a character who knows how to hypnotize. That's why I have to learn."

Li San laughed: "Psychological hypnosis is so profound. You two think it's all humor when I compare hypnosis to the Jade Heart Sutra? Let's put it this way, among the ten or so students brought by Boss Xiang, only our Brother Xu has inherited psychological hypnosis." The mantle of hypnosis, those who can learn it will be able to understand it, and those who can’t learn it will never be able to, it’s already predestined.”

Chen Shu and Director Huang looked at each other.

Chen Shu changed his mind: "Then when will you have a hypnosis demonstration, can you let me observe it from the sidelines? If you can't learn kung fu, you can learn some tricks that can bluff people."

Hearing this, it was Li San and Zhou Xu's turn to exchange glances.In fact, it was Li San who forcibly turned his face to Zhou Xu: "Brother Xu, have you asked questions about hypnosis recently?"

Zhou Xu shook his head: "I haven't taken the second-level exam yet. Which consulting agency will hire me to do hypnotherapy. It's not like the boss, who has a regular hypnosis partner like Mr. Wu."

It means that there is no chance to show it to Chen Shu.

Chen Shu was a little disappointed. He lowered his head and stared at the milky latte art on the surface of the coffee for a while, thinking that a sip might stimulate the secretion of dopamine and boost his spirits... Alas, there is no way to ask for advice here.

At this time, I heard Zhou Xu say again: "However, I can let you experience the effect of hypnosis for yourself."

Chen Shu raised his head and stared at Zhou Xu, feeling that he didn't quite understand what he meant.

Li San was also a little confused: "What do you mean Brother Xu? Feel the effect of hypnosis? Do you want to hypnotize Mr. Chen?"

Zhou Xu explained solemnly: "The Jade Heart Sutra needs to be practiced by two people to help each other. If not voluntary, the hypnotist is not allowed to apply psychological hypnosis at will. If you don't want to, I have no one else for you to experiment with."

I understand the Tao and the truth, but why do you use the Jade Heart Sutra to explain it?When practicing, the whole body is steaming with heat, combining the strength of two people, and practicing with the whole body open...

Chen Shu felt that Director Huang's sideways gaze towards him implied some kind of sincere sympathy...

Having seen the director who was hypnotized by Xiang Dong, let others manipulate him without resistance, Chen Shu quite deeply agreed with Ding Lan's view - accepting others' hypnosis is no different from being stripped naked and letting others do what he wants.

Chen Shu hesitated a little: "Do you really know how to hypnotize?"

Zhou Xu moved the coffee cup in front of him, propped his palm on the table, and suddenly stood up and leaned towards Chen Shu.The speed was fast and wide, and when Chen Shu reacted, the distance between the two was so close that he could vaguely feel Zhou Xu's breath.

Chen Shu was shocked immediately: "What are you doing!"

Without saying a word, Zhou Xu spread his two fingers apart, raised his hand and poked at Chen Shu!

The light on the armor flickered, and the fingertips seemed to be shining brightly!Chen Shu was so frightened that he closed his eyes subconsciously, and the next moment, his eyelids became heavy——Zhou Xu's fingers landed on his eyelids, which were icy cold, neither light nor heavy, but Chen Shu couldn't open his eyes because of the pressure.

Almost got poked blind!

Chen Shu had lingering fears, but before he could react, he heard Zhou Xu say, "Your eyelids are heavy and you can't open them."

Of course I can't open the nonsense, and you are still holding my eyelids!

"Try it." Zhou Xu's voice sounded in his ear.

Chen Shu rolled his eyes.

In the dark world, there are fragmented and mottled five-color light spots, and the eyeballs chase after them unconsciously.

"Try again, it can be opened now."

It seemed that Zhou Xu's fingers had finally been removed, and Chen Shu slowly opened his eyelids.

In an instant, the soft wall lamps in the box became a bit dazzling, and Zhou Xu sat opposite him, which was a relatively far away position, not the distance from which he could turn around when he opened his eyes.

Chen Shu looked around, Li San's familiar face and Director Huang's surprised and puzzled expression reflected in his pupils.

And Zhou Xu's posture remained motionless, as if he had never left his position.The warm yellow wall lamp illuminates his straight nose bridge and confident eyes, showing a calm and confident attitude.

"Do you think I will?" Zhou Xu said to Chen Shu.