Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 41
byIs it fun in the fog?
“R-right, An-Anle, what is that white-white house experiment you are talking about?” The group of people changed into a boat and returned to the village. When they were on the same boat, An Linmian no longer had nowhere to hide, racking his brains to escape reality under An Mai’s “gentle” eyes.
An Linmian and Anshun looked down at the deck of the ship, while the other pretended to be calm and looked at the sea. Antu stood behind Anmai, looking around without speaking, trying to pretend that he didn’t exist.
Anle thought it was funny. In fact, he wanted to see how the two of them were scolded by Anmai. But the two looked really pitiful, so he decided to delay them for a while and explained: “The so-called white room experiment is actually a sensory deprivation experiment. A person is locked in a room painted white. There is nothing in this room.”There is no outside sound.People in this room are deprived of vision and hearing, and their range of activities is extremely limited.This experiment requires the experimenter to stay in this white room as long as possible to study what happens when a person is deprived of normal sensory input from the outside world.”
“What will happen?” Antu asked curiously.
“Imagine,” Anle said, “throwing yourself into that white mist for a long time, how would you feel?”
“Myself,” Antu thought for a moment, suddenly shuddered, and said, “Then I definitely can’t stand it, not even for a while. I can see everything there. It’s so scary. When I first went in, I was so scared that I kept holding on to Brother Anshun, and my heartbeat never stopped.”
“It’s scary how dare you let Maizi in.” An Linmian raised his hand to knock Antu on the head, feinting.
Antu immediately hid behind Anmai
“Mianmian.” Anmai called out very gently. An Linmian immediately shut up, smiled ingratiatingly, and then lowered his head in silence.
Antu hid behind Anmai and defended in a low voice: “I said I wanted to go, but Maizi wouldn’t let me go. If you had listened to Maizi, Maizi wouldn’t have worried about you going in. Fortunately, Maizi went in, otherwise how would you have come back. This time you…”
It seems that with An Mai’s support, An Tu is no longer afraid of An Linmian, scolding the two people behind An Mai.An Linmian and the other two didn’t dare to say a word, they just looked at Anle and winked.
An Le laughed for a while before rescuing the two of them from the water and fire. He said: “In that experiment, few people could persist for more than three days. As the experiment progresses, the experimenters who participate in the experiment will experience emotions such as confusion, anxiety, tension, irritability, depression, despair, etc., and then they will have hallucinations: seeing things that do not exist.Pictures, hearing someone talking… If the experiment is not interrupted in time, the person will eventually have a mental breakdown.An important result of the White Room Experiment is that it shows that if a person is deprived of sensation and locked in a closed room, it will not take long for the person’s willpower to collapse and the person to have a mental breakdown.”
“So the real horror of thick fog you said at that time was that it can cause people to have mental breakdown?” An Xiaoyu said.
Anle nodded: “Some… um… intelligence agencies use this to interrogate prisoners. They lock the prisoners in a room alone to break the prisoner’s willpower.”
“But I don’t feel anything.” An Linmian said.
“Because we are not the experimenters of the White Room experiment.” Anshun continued, “We are not alone.”
Just as Anle was about to nod, he heard Anshun whisper: “My father is the one.”
After the words fell, the atmosphere suddenly became silent.
The sea breeze weakened and when the boat docked at the small pier, an old voice suddenly came from the pier: “Where are you going?”
Several people were startled, and all turned their heads to look at the kind-faced old man with white hair and silver beard on the shore in horror.
“Grandpa, grandpa.” An Linmian stuttered out two words.
Village Chief Anmu looked at several people with a smile and his hands behind his back.Several people scratched their heads and ears, looked around, looked at the sky and the sea, and remained silent.
After a while, An Linmian smiled dryly and said, “Grandpa, I, we, went to admire the moon.”
“Yeah, yeah, let’s enjoy the moon. Grandpa An, we went to enjoy the moon. Ha, ha, ha. The moonlight is so beautiful tonight. It’s just right for admiring the moon.” Several people followed and stammered and laughed in agreement with An Linmian.
“Haha.” Anmu laughed twice, stroking his beard. When his shrewd eyes fell on a few people, they felt guilty and did not dare to look at Anmu.
“Appreciating the moon, do you need a rope to enjoy the moon?” Anmu asked with a smile.
Hearing this, Anle quietly kicked the rope under An Xiaoyu’s clothes with his feet, trying to cover up the huge thick rope that almost covered the entire boat.
“How many times this time? Mianmian? What did grandpa say last time?” Anmu looked at An Linmian kindly.
An Linmian scratched his face and rubbed his eyebrows, but he didn’t dare to look at An Mu. The dry smile on his face was uglier than bitter.
“This, this… this is all An Le’s idea!” Suddenly, as if a drowning man had suddenly grabbed a lifeline, An Linmian said, suddenly waved his hand, pointed at An Le, and said righteously, “Grandpa, An Le and An Xiaoyu are going to explore. We are afraid that something will happen to them, so we followed them to protect them.”
Anle had a dark look on his face, but that was correct. He was indeed the one who brought in a few people to be his helpers.
“Oh? Is it fun in the fog, Lele?” Anmu asked with a smile.
Anle lowered his eyebrows, rubbed his nose and said: “No…it’s not fun. I won’t go next time.”
“Ha.” Anmu snorted with a half-smile, then suddenly turned around and walked toward the village.
Several people on the boat looked at Anmu’s sudden departure and looked at each other in confusion.An Linmian poked Anle and said in a low voice: “Hey, grandpa, are you not going to pursue the case?”
“Your grandfather, don’t you know?” Anle asked in a low voice.
“That’s right,” An Linmian seemed to have just come to his senses. He touched his chin and pondered for a while before saying, “Grandpa has always made mistakes and was punished on the spot. From the looks of it, he doesn’t intend to pursue you anymore. Tsk, it’s really unfair. He threatened to throw us to feed the fish in the first place!”
As soon as they finished speaking, several people heard Anmu’s voice coming from the front: “Lele, Xiaoyu, come to me tomorrow.”
Anle: “……”
With a crow’s mouth, Anle rolled his eyes at An Linmian and cursed.
An Linmian spread her hands guiltily and said, “I… I was just joking… but luckily I will only punish you…”
Before they finished speaking, several people heard An Mu say again: “You four, follow the village rules a hundred times.”
An Linmian: “……”
Antu, Anmai, and Anshun all stared at An Linmian.
An Linmian bit his hand and smiled awkwardly: “I forgot, grandpa, grandpa has good ears.”
The stars in the night sky have disappeared, and only the morning star in the southeast shines brightly in the deep sapphire blue night sky.Dawn was approaching and the temperature was even lower. Anle gathered her fur clothes, shrank her neck, lowered her head and buried her red nose in the furry fox collar.
“Let’s go back to sleep.” An Xiaoyu looked down at Anle and said softly.
The charcoal fire was burning brightly in the bedroom, but it still seemed powerless in the cold winter night.Even though he was covered with two layers of quilts, the inside of the quilt was still as cold as an ice cellar. Anle wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and tucked the edges of the quilt tightly, but she still felt cold.
“Why aren’t you here?” Anle huddled up and muttered.
Just after he finished speaking, there was a creaking sound on the door, and Anle stuck his head out excitedly and said, “Come on, come on, it’s time to go to bed.”
An Xiaoyu came over and stuffed An Le with a skin bag filled with hot water. As he took off his clothes and went to bed, he smiled and said, “So you are really afraid of the cold.”
“Nonsense,” Anle threw the hot water bottle to his feet, and his feet tried their best to absorb the heat from the hot water bottle, “Is it possible that you are pretending to be afraid of the cold?”
An Xiaoyu smiled without saying a word, opened a gap and got into bed, saying, “I’m very angry.”
“Yes, yes, you are very angry. I will leave it to you to warm the bed from now on.” An Le quickly moved towards An Xiaoyu, wishing that he could press his whole body against An Xiaoyu.
“It would be nice to have a kang.” An Le thought of the northeastern fire pit on TV and couldn’t help but feel envious. “The kang is good. As the saying goes, if your wife and children are hot on the kang, what else can a man ask for? An Xiaoyu, build a pit. Build a kang, and it will be hot. Build a kang, and I will sleep on the kang every day.”
“Okay,” An Xiaoyu said with a smile, hugging An Le, “You tell me what it is, and I will make it for you.”
“I don’t know how it was made,” Anle said, “I just know that it is an earthen kang, and the bottom of the kang is empty. Burning firewood from the outside allows the hot air to enter the bottom of the kang, and the pit can be heated up.”
“It doesn’t sound difficult.” An Xiaoyu said.
Anle turned over in surprise, looked at An Xiaoyu with bright eyes, and said, “Can you do it?”
An Xiaoyu smiled, looked down at An Le and said, “You can try it. It’s just winter and you’re so cold. There’s no heating or air conditioning. How will you survive the severe cold season at the end of the year?”
An Le was so happy that she blurted out: “An Xiaoyu! It is indeed right to marry you!”
“Of course, everyone in the village said that there is no better husband than me.” An Xiaoyu said, curling up the corners of his mouth, looking quite proud.
It’s rare to see An Xiaoyu look so complacent. When he came back from hunting and was praised by the men, women, and children in the village, An Xiaoyu just smiled implicitly and said, “It’s just good luck.”An Le wanted to laugh, but was afraid that the thin-skinned mermaid would be embarrassed if she laughed. She turned back into a taciturn, restrained and steady mermaid, so she resisted laughing. She even touched An Xiaoyu’s head lovingly in order to encourage An Xiaoyu, just like motivating An Xiaojin with praise, and praised An Xiaoyu seriously: “Yes, there is no better husband than you.”
Unexpectedly, this trick was also very effective for An Xiaoyu.
Seeing An Le’s praise, the corners of An Xiaoyu’s mouth raised even higher.
Fortunately, humans don’t have tails, otherwise An Xiaoyu’s tail would have been raised high into the sky at this moment.
Oh, no, mermaids have tails. I wonder if mermaids raise their tails when they are proud.
Thinking of this, Anle couldn’t help but curl his lips, and before laughing out loud, he covered half of his face with the quilt, holding back his laughter and said: “Okay, go to sleep, go to sleep. When you wake up, you have to go to Grandpa An to collect the punishment.”