Chapter 72: Repeatedly Jumping Between Feng Shui Patterns And Belief In Science!
Wang Bing and his girlfriend felt it was a bit unbelievable when they heard this.
In his view, although the Feng Shui Room used the name of Feng Shui, it had no air conditioner. In such a stuffy environment, anyone who booked the room should regret it or even complain, right?
So what was going on now? These people were praising it like this, even saying it was more comfortable than an air-conditioned room?
How did it feel a bit like they were shills?
But after looking at the way they were dressed, one person’s bag seemed to cost more than thirty thousand. His girlfriend had repeatedly looked at this bag before, but with their salaries they could not afford it, so she could only stare at it longingly.
Fortunately, apart from having strong desires, his girlfriend was not materialistic.
So they probably were not shills.
“Honey, it seems the Feng Shui Rooms on the Chen Clan side are really not simple.” His girlfriend had clearly noticed too and suggested, “Why don’t we switch rooms and give it a try?”
Wang Bing would not go against his girlfriend’s will in this kind of matter, so he nodded and headed to the service desk.
Inside there was only a middle-aged woman. He politely asked, “Auntie, we originally booked an air-conditioned room. Now we want to change to a Feng Shui Room. Do we just need to pay an extra three hundred?”
Seeing how polite he was, Li Xiaoyun smiled and said, “Mister, here’s the situation. We can help you change your room.”
“Then we’ll switch.” Without hesitation, Wang Bing paid another three hundred yuan.
Li Xiaoyun quickly handled the procedures, then turned to Huang Yanfang beside her and said, “Yanfang, this mister has upgraded to a Feng Shui Room. Take them over there.”
Huang Yanfang nodded and came forward to host Wang Bing. She first took him to their original room to pack their luggage, then led them over to the Feng Shui Rooms on the other side and into one marked Camp 2, Room
Wang Bing asked curiously, “Why are the room numbers arranged like this?”
Huang Yanfang explained, “Mister, in the past, when wars and chaos were frequent, there were many bandits and rebel soldiers. Our Chen Clan also provided protection for the surrounding ten miles and eight villages. Whenever chaos broke out, the young and strong from the ten miles and eight villages would gather here for training. These rooms were renovated from the housing used by those young and strong.”
“So that’s how it is.” Wang Bing remembered the large martial arts field outside the Tourist Service Center, which should have been where the Chen Clan gathered and trained the young and strong.
It seemed the Chen Clan had been quite impressive back then.
When they entered the room, Wang Bing and his girlfriend were both stunned. They instantly felt an extremely comfortable, refreshing sensation wash over them, in stark contrast with the heat outside. And this coolness was definitely not the kind blown out by an air conditioner.
It felt like when autumn had just arrived, cold air had started to move in but was not intense yet, humidity dropped, it was not stuffy, and the breeze carried a pleasantly natural feeling.
So fascinating.
Instinctively, Wang Bing started searching around the room, wanting to see if there was a hidden air conditioner or similar equipment.
“Honey, it seems… there really is a Feng Shui Pattern?” his girlfriend said in disbelief. After putting down the luggage, she looked at the three potted plants in the room. “The other tourists said moving the potted plants can affect the Feng Shui Pattern. Is it these three?”
Following the training from Xiao Yu, Huang Yanfang smiled and explained, “Yes. These three potted plants are located in the Li Palace, the Kun Palace, and the Zhong Palace. They correspond to the three palaces. Placed in the proper positions, they form a special Feng Shui Pattern with the whole environment, creating the refreshing atmosphere you feel now.”
To Wang Bing and his girlfriend, this sounded truly mysterious and did not conform to any scientific principle at all.
Wang Bing stepped forward and tried lifting the bamboo pot on the table. After a short while, both he and his girlfriend felt a wave of heat pressing in.
The Feng Shui Array had been modifying the environment for some time. Because of the environmental influence, even if the array was broken, it would not be like during Chen Han and the others’ initial experiment, where the refreshing feeling disappeared instantly as soon as the potted plants were moved.
The environmental residue would persist for a while.
But this was enough to shock Wang Bing and his girlfriend. Moving a potted plant could really cause such an effect.
“Honey, put it back and see.” his girlfriend urged anxiously.
Wang Bing put the bamboo potted plant back on the table. The refreshing feeling immediately returned, enveloping his whole body in extraordinary comfort.
He stared blankly, mouth slightly open.
“Honey, how do you explain this scientifically?” his girlfriend asked.
“…” Wang Bing was silent for a moment.
To hell with science.
How was he supposed to explain this scientifically?
It really seemed like the Chen Clan had a genuine Feng Shui Pattern.
He felt a bit confused. Only when the waitress left and his girlfriend deliberately, right in front of him, took out that bottle of medicine and the 01 did he snap back to his senses, and he instinctively thought of the Chen Clan’s Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
If this Feng Shui Pattern was real, then the effect of the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea might also be real.
“Honey, which color do you think looks better?” His girlfriend was actually holding the 01 and asking him about colors, scaring him into blurting, “Any is fine. Um, baby, I’m going out for a bit. You tidy up the room.”
With that, he hurried out and found a waitress. “Excuse me, do you sell Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea here at the Chen Clan? Where can I buy it?”
“Mister, please come with me.” The waitress, also a middle-aged woman, immediately led him to the area the Chen Clan had set up specifically to sell Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea when she heard he wanted to buy some.
When they arrived, she saw Xiao Yu inside doing inventory. “Xiao Yu, this mister wants to buy Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.”
Xiao Yu was clearly in a bad mood, but when she saw the tourist, she still greeted him with a bright smile. “Mister, would you like to purchase ordinary Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, or Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea?”
“The ordinary kind is fine.” Wang Bing recognized Xiao Yu at once. After all, he followed her “Xiao Yu Za” account. But Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea was already one hundred thousand per jin, which was beyond the consumption level of someone like him.
The ordinary one was ten thousand per jin. He gritted his teeth, but it was barely acceptable for saving his life.
“Alright, mister.” Xiao Yu nodded and took out a canister of ordinary Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
After buying the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, Wang Bing immediately returned to the Tourist Service Center.
Xiao Yu picked up her mobile phone, looked at the data on her newly uploaded video, and sighed.
Just then, Xiao Mi happened to arrive. Seeing that she seemed off, Xiao Mi asked with a smile, “Xiao Yu, what’s wrong?”
Xiao Yu explained, “Now that the Feng Shui Rooms have been renovated, I shot a video for promotion focusing on the Feng Shui theme, but the data is terrible. Only two thousand likes in half a day. People have low willingness to pay attention to this.”
“Let me see.” Xiao Mi took out her phone to watch Xiao Yu’s video. The video focused on introducing the Feng Shui Rooms, explaining the three palaces, emphasizing the effect of the Feng Shui Pattern, and describing how miraculous it was several times.
After watching, she smiled and said, “Xiao Yu, to outsiders your video is actually an Abstract Video just like your senior brother’s. Other people cannot feel the Feng Shui effect. They do not believe in Feng Shui. In the video it is just you talking. No matter how miraculous you say it is, they cannot feel it.”
Xiao Yu said awkwardly, “I actually did it abstract on purpose. Why is it that my senior brother can be abstract but I cannot?”
“The audience is different.” Xiao Mi explained, “Your senior brother’s account is Abstract Cultivation. His fans are Entertainers and can immerse themselves in it. Send me your raw footage. I will re-edit it.”
Xiao Yu nodded and sent her the video, then watched as Xiao Mi re-edited it and soon started dubbing, “Today Xiao Mi came to the Chen Clan for a visit. You all know the Chen Clan, right? That very Abstract Chen Family Head. When I arrived, I found their rooms are miraculous. They installed a special air conditioning system. Not only are the air conditioning facilities hidden, but it is also an Induction Device that can be controlled via three potted plants…”
“The key is, this kind of refreshing feeling is a bit different from normal air conditioning. It is created by diffusing appropriate concentrations of menthol, eucalyptol, and other harmless cool-sensation compounds, which can activate TRPM8 in terms of vision, breathing, and skin, bringing a ‘refreshing’ sensation…”
“This technology requires control of concentration, attention to ventilation, and combination with actual cooling methods…”
Listening at the side, Xiao Yu was stunned. There were so many scientific terms she did not even understand.
Sister Xiao Mi was so impressive.
But Xiao Mi continued, “Because the air conditioning system is hidden, and combined with the induction system, the Chen Clan outwardly promotes it as a Feng Shui Room, mainly to go with the Ancient Buildings and add freshness. Everyone should still believe in science.”
After finishing the voice-over, Xiao Mi directly uploaded it to her Douyin.
Title: using science to solve the mystery of the miraculous Feng Shui Room!
Then she hit send.
She treated it as one of her shop-exploring videos.
Xiao Yu asked in surprise, “Sister Xiao Mi, can this really work?”
Half an hour later, when she saw that Xiao Mi’s video had already reached five thousand likes, she became excited. “Sister Xiao Mi, you are amazing, the video is blowing up.”
After seeing the comments under Sister Xiao Mi’s video, she understood why the same video did not get popular when she posted it.
“666, so this is how you can pull off Feng Shui scams.”
“Judging from the room in the video, if Xiao Mi had not explained it, I really would not have noticed the air conditioning.”
“Earlier I saw ‘Xiao Yu Za’ post a Feng Shui Room video and thought it was fake. With Xiao Mi’s explanation I get it now. Believe in science.”
“Both are advertisements, but Xiao Mi’s professionalism is at least three times that of ‘Xiao Yu Za’!”
“……”
Xiao Yu suddenly felt a bit frustrated. If this went on, she felt she would not even be able to compete with her senior brother’s Abstract content on Douyin.
Xiao Mi saw what she was thinking and said with a smile, “Xiao Yu, you are a swordswoman beauty. Just shoot what you are good at. Your sword dance and boxing, who in the National Style niche does it better than you? And among those in the same niche, none are as pretty as you.”
Those words really made Xiao Yu happy. The corners of her mouth curled up uncontrollably.
Seeing this, Xiao Mi smiled. Comforting Xiao Yu was actually very simple.
She had long noticed that you just had to praise this girl directly.
…
In the room, after returning to the Tourist Service Center, Wang Bing brewed a pot of Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, then took it back to the room. As soon as he entered, he saw his girlfriend had changed into a short skirt and a low-cut blouse.
Dressed like this outside, she would definitely attract the eyes of pervy guys and get cursed as a slut.
His girlfriend really knew how to dress up and how to flatter her appearance.
“Honey, does this look good?” She leaned up to him sweetly.
Wang Bing also wanted to curse her as a slut, which scared him into quickly pouring two cups of Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea for her.
He knew this was her being restrained. If they were at home…
The key thing was, she clearly wanted it but never took the initiative. She would seduce him until he was burning up and made the first move, then turn it around and say he was improper in broad daylight.
Damn.
However, after two cups of Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, he noticed his girlfriend slowly calmed down.
This Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea seemed truly effective. After that, she just played on her mobile phone, without that “hurry up, honey” attitude.
Holy crap, awesome. This was really a life-saving thing.
Why had he not believed it before?
Next, Wang Bing was drawn again to the three potted plants and began to study them.
How long does it take for someone with higher education to go from believing in science to not believing in science?
A single trip to the Chen Clan was enough.
Now he was even wondering if the Cloud Barrier Technique of the Chen Family Head might also be real.
“Li Palace, Zhong Palace…” Wang Bing muttered while looking at information on the nine palaces on his phone for comparison.
The more he studied, the more it felt like his brain was going to explode. This stuff about Feng Shui Patterns was too hard.
“Honey, what are you studying?” his girlfriend asked in confusion.
Wang Bing explained, “Studying this Feng Shui Pattern. Maybe we can set it up when we go back.”
“Honey, are you stupid?” His girlfriend stared at him in shock and asked, “Don’t you always say you are highly educated and must believe in science? The Chen Clan invited National Style Goddess Xiao Mi to promote it. Xiao Mi has already revealed the secret of the Feng Shui Room. It is a special air conditioning system. And you are still seriously studying?”
“What???” Wang Bing was instantly dumbfounded.
“Watch this video.” His girlfriend found Xiao Mi’s video and played it for him.
“Today Xiao Mi came to the Chen Clan for a visit…”
Xiao Mi’s voice sounded from the video.
“???” After watching the video, Wang Bing felt like his brain was gone.
He had originally been a firm believer in science. Now, based on his personal experience, he had started to believe in this Feng Shui Pattern stuff, only to be suddenly told that the so-called Feng Shui Pattern was actually an air conditioning system.
When he heard Xiao Mi’s final line, “everyone should believe in science,” he directly cursed, “Damn it, are you playing with me!”
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