Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 170 Nan Zhuren: surprise!

Young male graduate students tend to enjoy discussing topics outside of the research lab.

The point of discussing this topic isn't really about wanting anything, but rather that in a monotonous and stressful life, we always need something to distract ourselves.

Especially since the work of collecting experimental data is so mechanical, tedious, and boring.

Just like how doctors might tell dirty jokes while cutting flesh with scalpels in the operating room, drawing blood, it doesn't mean that the pixelated scene in front of us triggers any fetishes in the doctors or makes them have other associations.

It's just to lighten the mood. At times like this, even if a naked beauty were lying in the operating room, the doctors' hands wouldn't tremble as they cut the flesh.

Similarly, even though they're having a great time chatting now, if a beautiful female student of the level of Di Mi Meng Zha really came to the lab, the male graduate students wouldn't do anything in the end; after all, what can attract their attention most in the lab is experimental data.

Unless that junior student Di Mimengzha provides perfectly accurate experimental data, then that's a different story.

Huang Xin desperately needs to adjust his emotional state right now.

Faced with his junior's question, he thought for a moment and replied, "How should I put it... well, it's a voice that's very suitable for psychological counseling, do you understand?"

"Even hearing those sounds gives me more energy to do experiments."

The big-nosed junior brother sniffed and immediately understood.

"What's the junior's name?"

Huang Xin flipped through today's schedule: "Let me see, it's called—"

They found it quickly: "Tian Nan".

The junior apprentice with the big nose approvingly commented: "It's a very nice-sounding name. Both her surname and given name sound beautiful."

Compared to Huang Xin, the junior brother with the big nose is in a different mental state.

He didn't go to his supervisor's office for a scolding this morning, and he didn't have any important work to do recently, so he was in quite high spirits.

At the same time, unlike Huang Xin, who had been tormented by experiments and writing for several years, the junior student with the big nose had not been exposed to these scientific research-related tasks for long and had not yet developed a sense of mutual aversion to them.

That's why the big-nosed junior brother was especially looking forward to being the first test subject of the day.

If the subject is a female student with a nice voice, then I'm even more excited.

Huang Xin checked his watch and said, "They should be here soon."

dong dong dong-

Sure enough, there was a knock on the door soon after.

Huang Xin gave his big-nosed junior brother a profound look.

The junior brother with the big nose took the initiative to open the door, muttering that name as he walked.

"Tian Nan, Tian Nan..."

"What a lovely name! I wonder how beautiful her voice must be?"

"Tian Nan, Senior Brother Tian Nan?!"

They opened the door without any warning.

Nan Zhuren's face suddenly came into view.

The moment he opened the door, he stuck his foot through the crack and then gave a smirk to his big-nosed junior brother, who was staring at him in shock.

Good morning, junior brother.

……

Huang Xin watched as Nan Zhuren casually pushed open the laboratory door, walked past his big-nosed junior brother who had wide eyes, and walked straight toward him.

For a moment, I felt like I was about to develop PTSD.

The last time Nan Zhuren appeared here, he used a micro-expression lie detector to mentally assault me, tricking me out of a lot of information through a combination of coaxing and deception, and afterwards he even made a terrible threat to me.

At that moment, at this moment.

They look so alike...

[No, last time this guy squeezed in right at the point when the experiment was about to end.]

This time, he went even further, disguising himself as a test subject!

[She even pretended to be a female student!!]

In that instant, Huang Xin felt a surge of anger brewing within him.

But this mindset also gave Huang Xin a sense of familiarity, because when he last met Nan Zhuren, his first reaction seemed to be the same.

What will happen next?
……

Huang Xin suddenly felt listless. He leaned back and slumped into the ergonomic chair prepared for visitors.

"It's Zhu Ren... What are you doing here again?"

The term "export" sounded surprisingly familiar.

Nan Zhuren nodded politely in return, as if to say hello, and pulled up another chair to sit in front of Huang Xin.

"Since we're already quite familiar with each other, I'll just ask directly."

The phrase "very familiar" refers to the fact that Nan Zhuren had already established a baseline of Huang Xin's facial expressions and emotions, which could be directly used for micro-expression lie detection.

Huang Xin didn't know if he understood what this meant, but he was still able to respond weakly:

"We've known each other for a long time, okay? We even did experiments together when we were in the same research group... Why are you acting like you've only just met me?"

The familiar tone and the reminiscent opening remarks seemed harmonious at first glance.

If we ignore the current actual situation of these two people.

Nan Zhuren looked directly at Huang Xin and got straight to the point: "First of all, you should know what I did a few days ago, right? I went directly to 'Liu Lin Psychological Clinic'."

Huang Xin replied listlessly, "Of course, who doesn't know about something this big..."

Nan Zhuren gathered information from the other person's face: "Very good—the truth. Did what I did there affect you?"

"Look at me, what do you think?"

Nan Zhuren nodded: "It seems so—did Lin Lilin tamper with the files?"

"Yes, of course."

"You're supposed to change it?"

"Yes. I wouldn't normally be able to participate in something of this level, but the teacher needed to complete the files in the shortest possible time, so they needed as many people as possible and pulled me in..."

Huang Xin answered the truth every single time.

In addition, he even began to speak freely and without reservation.

His words also began to reveal a lot of additional information.

Nan Zhuren was somewhat surprised, which made his questioning much smoother.

However, upon closer examination, this situation is not entirely incomprehensible...

Psychologists all have their own set of psychological defense and protection mechanisms.

When Nan Zhuren came last time, he launched a fierce attack and relentlessly pursued Huang Xin. Even so, Huang Xin repeatedly activated a near-meltdown-like defense when he was on the verge of a mental breakdown, and repeatedly concealed, showed weakness, and disguised himself by "using small secrets to cover up big secrets".

Of course, all of these defenses were eventually destroyed.

This caused Huang Xin even greater psychological harm.

From this perspective, Huang Xin's current cooperation is likely due to his psychological defense and protection mechanisms starting to operate in a different direction.

It can only be said that once a rebellious person is tamed, they can be surprisingly cooperative...

……

When Huang Xin answered the last question, Nan Zhuren secretly cheered in his heart.

When Nan Zhuren went to Liu Lin's psychological clinic, he hoped to obtain the key information about Li Minglu and Chen Jie in one go.

However, the result was that only part of Li Minglu's prescription was obtained, and the specific details are unknown; it was later proven that there was nothing wrong with the prescription.

Chen Jie, on the other hand, had no information whatsoever, not even the situation or the prescription.

In fact, when Nan Zhuren learned that Chen Jie's information was recorded in a so-called "ledger" that Lin Lilin himself had collected, he immediately began to wonder who would know the location of the "ledger".

Would Huang Xin know? — It's probably impossible.

As Huang Xin himself said, he usually has a very low level of involvement, so Lin Lilin originally did not intend to let Huang Xin participate in the work of the psychological clinic.

And since even clinic consultants can't touch the general ledger, Huang Xin, a graduate student, has even less access to it.

However, nothing is absolute.

Is it possible to allow the person you have the easiest access to right now—Huang Xin—to access things he wouldn't normally have access to?
As Huang Xin said, "I wouldn't normally be able to participate in something of this level, but the teacher needed to complete the files in the shortest possible time, so they pulled me in."

This is the result of Nan Zhuren's previous outburst at Liu Lin's psychological clinic.

Although it was an unintentional act.

But—this is what is known as "beating the grass to alert the snake."

(End of this chapter)