41. Sleepwalking (Thanks to HGT for the diamond gift)

  After entering the house, Gao Cheng went to my kitchen to find something to eat on his own. When he came out again, he glanced at me with a satisfied expression and said slowly: "You have time to idle around here, why don't you go over there to help me collect some clothes and toiletries?"

  Still in a daze from the previous explosion, he mechanically followed each instruction and action, only to realize when he stepped out of the door: why did I agree to his requests?

  Gao Cheng saw me return empty-handed and slightly raised an eyebrow, "When are you planning on handing in your exam paper?"

  I remained silent, and eventually turned back to his house, crossing the messy living room, and found his bedroom. Ten minutes later, I returned with a bag in each hand, under his satisfied gaze, I arranged things properly before pulling up a chair to sit down. After thinking for a moment, I first sent a text message to Xiao Tong, then looked up at Gao Cheng: "Let's start."

  Before getting into the topic, I couldn't help but interject a digression: "Your legs should have recovered by now, why are you still stuck in that wheelchair?" Gaoting replied matter-of-factly, "It's convenient, didn't I already tell you?"

  My eyes twitched, and I'm afraid that the person in front of me who often uses a wheelchair at home for convenience is just this weirdo. Thinking about it, since you asked, let's clarify what happened earlier too: "Were you asleep or awake before?"

  Gao Cheng furrowed his brow: "When?"

  "...it was just before the accident, I saw you closing your eyes while pouring milk and heating a hamburger in the microwave, then when you went to the bathroom, you shouted for me to heat up the milk for you, but after waiting for half an hour, I saw that you had fallen onto the sink."

  Gao Cheng raised his head and looked over, "What's going on? Wasn't I sleeping in bed?"

  Astonishing!

  Couldn't help but stare at him with a monster-like gaze, and after a long while, he finally spat out from between his teeth: "You can actually sleepwalk!"

  "What a shock!" Gao Cheng casually threw out, and then said: "Sleepwalking is just the result of brain cortical activity. Human brain activity includes two processes: 'excitation' and 'inhibition'. Usually when people are asleep, the cells in the cerebral cortex are in an inhibited state. If at this time there is a group or several groups of motor neurons that are still in an excited state, sleepwalking will occur. According to data statistics, out of 10,000 people, at least 100 have had sleepwalking experiences."

  The corners of her eyes twitched again, and he made it sound like people who didn't sleepwalk were the abnormal ones.

  Just as I was about to give up asking these absurd questions, he suddenly hooked his lips again: "But do you think I'm the kind of person who sleepwalks?" I was stunned again, my thinking couldn't keep up with his rhythm. All I heard was him chuckling and saying: "So far, nothing has excited my neurons, so I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. This morning, I closed my eyes to perform normal actions because my brain was still in a resting state, only consuming one-quarter of my energy, which is enough to handle those low-level behaviors. Otherwise, have you ever seen a sleepwalker who can talk?"

  How was I supposed to know if other sleepwalkers could talk? But, "You were leaning over the sink for nearly half an hour just now, what's going on?"

  Gao Cheng Xie Xiao: "Half an hour? Did you see it?"

  "I didn't see it, what I saw was the scene when I walked over to investigate after waiting for a long time and no one came. Suddenly enlightened, this is another test he set up for me, and once again I was misled by my subjective thoughts, taking what I saw with my eyes as objective truth, unaware that perhaps in the second I approached the door, Gao Cheng had fallen onto the sink and pretended to fall asleep."

  Without these causes, how could I have come up with my previous "sleepwalking theory" and walked right into his trap again? Only perhaps even he didn't expect that an unexpected accident would occur in the kitchen, directly blowing it up! It can also be considered... a "small achievement", being able to do something beyond his expectations, rather than being led by the nose every time.