Chapter 28: Sleepwalking patient?

"It's really... what a ghost!"

Pan En felt a panic in his heart. It was "himself" who climbed over the wall and climbed back to Kobayashi Shinichi's house in the middle of the night?

Although most of the face was not particularly clear, under the illumination of the street lights, one could indeed tell that the face on the surveillance screen was basically the same as his own.

"Kobayashi-kun, why is it you?" Shinozuka Kaoru stammered.

The old store manager showed agility that was beyond his age. He quickly took out a pack of table salt from under the counter, grabbed a handful and threw it at Paine.

"The evil spirits are gone!"

"What are you doing, you damn old man!"

Before Pan could get angry because he couldn't dodge, Sayuri Inoue, who was almost sprinkled with salt grains, became furious first.

"Huh? Are you okay?"

The old store manager laughed sarcastically, trying to resolve the embarrassment.

"My reaction just now was subconscious... I thought this young man was possessed by an evil spirit. You also saw that the movement of climbing up the stairs on the surveillance camera didn't look like something a human could do, and that His face looks exactly like this young man’s, don’t blame me for overreacting, it’s really scary.”

"It's so rude. It's still daytime. How could there be evil spirits?"

While Paine was rubbing the grains of salt off his body, Sayuri Inoue quietly took two steps away from him, and then continued to attack the old store manager.

Paine noticed something strange about Sayuri Inoue, but he didn't say anything and was just busy brushing off the salt grains on his body.

"And how can you throw salt at people so casually!"

The old store manager touched his thinning hair with some embarrassment.

"I bought this shop from the previous shop owner. The shop owner before me had been operating here for more than 30 years and told me some very scary and weird stories. One of them mentioned that salt granules can be used to kill people. To remove evil spirits from people."

"Do you believe this nonsense?"

Sayuri Inoue scoffed.

"My former shop owner said he has a nose and eyes, I have to believe it! What's more, I have lived for so many years and I have indeed seen some strange things. It is natural to keep a pack of edible salt under the counter for self-defense."

"Okay, okay, stop talking."

Shinozuka Kaoru came out to smooth things over, and then said to Pan.

"Xiao Lin, what on earth is going on? Now that I think carefully about the footage on the surveillance camera, the man's posture when climbing up the stairs is too strange. It's like a spider. There's obviously no place for him to use his strength. Climb up then...and that person does look a lot like you."

"How do I know this kind of thing? In short, that person is definitely not me."

Paine was also speechless. He encountered such a strange thing before work even started.

"Could it be that that person is actually Xiaolin-kun, just Xiaolin-kun in a sleepwalking state?"

Sayuri Inoue offers a scientific-sounding idea.

"Xiao Linjun has been injured before. According to clinical medical cases, there are also patients who suffer from sleepwalking after being injured. They move around unconsciously or perform other unconscious behaviors during sleep, such as climbing through windows, driving or even killing people. Sleepwalking patients can do Very complex actions, they can open doors and go to the street, pick up utensils, and avoid obstacles without collision and injury..."

"But the movements in this video are too complicated. He climbed up to the fourth floor like a spider."

Shinozuka Kaoru complained, "This is simply not something that ordinary humans can do."

"Sleepwalking patients may indeed do things they cannot do when awake."

Sayuri Inoue said: "I have seen similar stories. For example, there was once a person who did not understand music and could play complete classical piano music while sleepwalking in the middle of the night."

Paine shook his head. This was getting more and more outrageous. Can I not know whether I am sleepwalking? It's just that Sayuri Inoue acted like a fanatical spiritual explorer at first, but now she acts like a scientific producer. Coupled with her previous abnormal behavior when she saw salt grains, the answer in Paine's heart has become increasingly clear - —

"Is this woman possessed by an evil spirit?"