What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Group leader Li panted heavily, kept running, and checked his equipment from time to time.

The surrounding scenery is constantly changing like a slideshow. There are jungles, cities, and ruins. When the scenery gradually settles down, you can see that he is running on a country dirt road, and there are many people in the same costume as him. Run, just can't see the face clearly.

I don't know how long I ran, a building appeared in front of me, which should be the destination, and a person whose face couldn't be seen was distributing food to those who arrived.

Team leader Li took the lunch box, opened it and found that it was all meat, and he didn't need to taste it, he knew inexplicably that it was rabbit meat, braised in soy sauce. But he didn't find it strange, and even the person who distributed the food wore a long and short rabbit ear, which he thought was normal.

He quickly wiped out the rabbit meat in the lunch box, and then concentrated on preparing for the next training.

...

When Team Leader Li woke up, it was still late at night, and he had to get up and change the guard with his deputy, who would be on duty for the rest of the night.

Although normally speaking, with the equipment installed around them after camping, wild beasts, poisonous insects and the like will not approach, and there will be no danger.

But since they discovered the footprints, the cave, and the bizarre deaths of the dead wild boar and anchor Xue, they naturally wouldn't take it lightly, and have always been on high alert.

Get up and hand over to the deputy, and then confirm the location and status of all the team members on duty at night, check the equipment, and patrol around the camp. After that, Team Leader Li found a corner, leaned against a tree, looked down at the map on the tablet, and seemed to be still there. Check surrounding conditions.

But in fact, he kept thinking about the dream he had when he just fell asleep.

The content of the dream is actually not very special as a whole, it is just a variety of common training, many things have already been carved into the bone, and he has not rarely had this kind of dream before.

But what made him feel inexplicably strange was the frequent appearance of "rabbit meat" in his dreams.

Sometimes after training, I eat rabbit meat and various flavors. And sometimes, piles of freshly processed raw rabbit meat suddenly appeared on the side of the road.

And he just glanced at it, even if the meat didn't have any rabbit characteristics, he could immediately realize that it was rabbit meat.

Coupled with the one long and one short rabbit ear ornaments worn by the person distributing food, and elements related to rabbits appearing around from time to time, it deepened the absurd and weird atmosphere.

In the dream, he didn't feel anything wrong or strange, but after waking up, recalling this surprisingly clear dream, he felt weird everywhere, as if he felt itching somewhere on his body, but he couldn't help it. I can't find the specific itchy spot, and I can't scratch it no matter what.

Why rabbit meat?

Team leader Li couldn't help but think of the extremely rough wooden rabbit carving in the cave they found during the day. Could it be that they think about it day by day and dream about it at night? Because I have been thinking about why the wood carving is in the shape of a rabbit during the day, so the elements related to the rabbit are integrated into the dream at night?

The person who served them in the dream had rabbit ears on his head, one side was long and the other was short, exactly the same as the wood carving.

Team Leader Li wanted to tell himself that this was just a normal dream, but for some reason, the more he thought about it, the more images from the dream and the wooden carving of the rabbit kept appearing in his mind.

That wood carving... there won't be any dirty things, right? As soon as this idea came up, Team Leader Li violently threw it out of his mind.

"You can't scare yourself." He said to himself secretly.

When it was almost dawn, Team Leader Li saw that Dr. Fang had also woken up, but he was inspecting the various samples collected and packaged before them with a serious face.

"What's wrong?" Team Leader Li went over and asked.

Then he saw that Dr. Fang was holding the wooden sculpture in a transparent plastic bag in a daze.

Team Leader Li suddenly felt his scalp tingling, and he had a vague premonition in his heart, especially when Dr. Fang turned around and asked him: "How did you sleep last night?"

Team leader Li looked at her, and asked inappropriately: "You don't know... you're also dreaming, right?"

Dr. Fang narrowed his eyes slightly, then looked at the wood carving in his hand, raised his head and said to Team Leader Li: "I dreamed of doing a few experiments in the laboratory, but my experiment target is a pile of rabbit meat, and after finishing After the experiment, I cooked and ate the rabbit meat. How about you? What dream did you have?"

Team leader Li was stunned when he heard it, it was weirder than Dr. Fang's dream was much weirder than his.

He briefly described his dream, and Dr. Fang also listened with a solemn expression, and then when the two looked at the wooden rabbit in her hand, their eyes were different.

Obviously, the element of "rabbit meat" is the main commonality in the dreams of the two people. Although there was nothing wrong with the overall content of the dream, they were all doing what they used to do the most, but the appearance of "rabbit meat" made everything weird-especially they felt inexplicably, "rabbit meat" "It may have something to do with this wood carving.

After everyone else in the team woke up, Team Leader Li and Dr. Fang chatted with their subordinates respectively, and then learned that including the two of them, a total of five people had dreams last night, in which there were " The element of "rabbit meat" exists.

And they have another common feature, that is, the sleeping bags are very close to the "wood carving".

Team Leader Li and Dr. Fang immediately confirmed that this was not a simple isolated incident or accident, but that the "wood carving" was really weird!

So he immediately connected to Mr. Liang and reported the situation in detail.

After Team Leader Li finished speaking, Dr. Fang added some details, and then waited for Mr. Liang's instructions, but to their surprise, Mr. Liang remained silent for several minutes without any response. Judging from the indicator light, the network is connected, and the communication is still in progress.

The two looked at each other, and just when Team Leader Li couldn't help but want to ask if Mr. Liang was still there, the very recognizable voice with harsh friction sounded: "Besides dreaming, there are still Are there any other abnormalities?"

After getting a negative answer, Mr. Liang asked a few more questions carefully, observed the wood carving carefully through the camera again, and said, "Bring it back."

Didn't I just want to take it back...

Hearing these three words that seemed like nonsense, Team Leader Li became more and more uneasy.

Judging from Mr. Liang's attitude and performance just now, it seems that he was surprised and ignorant of this situation.

What exactly are they tracking?

Who is the owner of that footprint?

What kind of creatures lived in the cliff cave before?

What exactly is this wood carving?

Why would it be rabbit meat that affected them in the dream and not rabbits or something else?

Team leader Li has more and more questions in his mind, and more and more weird thoughts and guesses. He usually doesn't watch many supernatural and suspense movies and TV series, but living in this era, he still has some exposure.

So I can't help but think of those things, think of similar plots, especially in this deep mountain and old forest far away from human society.

He looked at Dr. Fang beside him, this female doctor who had always acted decisively and thoughtfully, her expression was unprecedentedly dignified at this time, she seemed a little worried, even more worried than him.

Obviously, for Dr. Fang, the "rabbit meat" that inexplicably appeared in the dream was far more complicated and incomprehensible than the corroded trees, footprints, caves, dead birds, and rabbit wood carvings found before. question.

Team Leader Li looked up at the drone providing communication support for them in the sky above his head, and an idea came to his mind:

Can these people go back safely?

That night, after discussing with Dr. Fang, Team Leader Li and Dr. Fang decided that when camping at night, all the samples obtained in the mountains were collected and placed away from the sleeping and resting areas of the personnel, and then the people who were awake at night took turns. Looking at those things—of course, the main thing I looked at was the rabbit wood carving. Although neither Team Leader Li nor Dr. Fang specifically explained it, everyone knew about it.

When team leader Li and Dr. Fang asked other people about their sleep status and whether they had any dreams, although they asked them separately and privately, and the questions were more tactful, there were only 20 people in their team, and all of them Colleagues who get along with each other day and night, either have been out on the field many times together, or work in the same laboratory every day, and they have a good relationship. Noticed.

So this night, although no one had that kind of strange dream and was not dreamed by "rabbit meat", the atmosphere of the team still became more and more weird and heavy.

Although no one said it, everyone knew that there was something wrong with the "rabbit woodcarving" found in the cave, which would make people have strange dreams about "rabbit meat".

Obviously the wood carving is a rabbit, but the dream is rabbit meat, what about that person? As long as many people in the team think of this, they will have a creepy feeling.

So on the way back, everyone has to be more careful and vigilant than when they came here. The team members in charge of security even feel a little bit like soldiers, and they are surprised when there is a little movement, and many people actually have insomnia at night, so When traveling during the day, the situation is even more serious.

This situation made Team Leader Li and Dr. Fang very worried. They were afraid that the mental state of the entire team would be getting worse and worse, and that the weird wood carving and the possible existence behind the wood carving would take advantage of it.

Team leader Li even thought that if something weird happened again, he would leave the wood carving in the forest first, put it together with the locator, and let Mr. Liang send someone to pick it up later. Even if he was punished by Mr. Liang and the company and deducted a large amount of bonus, he would not hesitate to do so.

He must be responsible for the safety of these team members.

But in the next few days, although the atmosphere of the team was depressed and the spirits were tense, no accidents happened after all, and no weird things happened again.

On January 14, more than 20 days after they entered the no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains, they finally returned to the main road outside safely, met with the support staff who stayed outside, and left by means of transportation.

In the back row of an suV, Team Leader Li looked back at the wood carvings in the trunk that had been installed in a sealed container. While he was relieved, he felt a sense of inexplicable excitement and anticipation.

He hopes that the company can find something from the things brought back this time, and then send him to explore here again, or go to other places to pursue clues related to the wood carving, the footprints, and the existence in the cave.

Although he knew that there would be danger, and he might even face situations that he had never seen or thought about before, he found that exploring and tracing the unknown was the feeling he really wanted to pursue, a feeling that could be suppressed. Overwhelmed by the desire for money and the fear of danger.

He raised his eyes, looked through the rear glass of the trunk, looked at the mountains and forests shrouded in white mist in the distance, and muttered to himself.

...

The time was dialed back. In the early morning of December 26, Xiang Kun got into Chang Bin's Magotan at the gate of the community, and was going to pick him up at the airport together.

As soon as he saw Chang Bin, Xiang Kun quickly looked at the cognitive model and came to a judgment:

He looked a little tired, but his mood was still relatively high. Obviously, preparing for the wedding was a lot of work, but Zi Cheng's arrival and the reunion of the three brothers still made him look forward to and excited.

Xiang Kun was about to chat a few words and ask Chang Bin about his wedding preparations when his phone rang suddenly.

As soon as he saw the notification that it was "Shiling's mother", he probably knew what it was and picked it up.

"Mr. Xiang? Good morning, are you busy, did I disturb you?" Shiling's mother greeted politely.

"It's nothing. I'm taking my friend's car to pick him up at the airport." Xiang Kun said with a smile.

"Mr. Xiang, the gift you sent to Liu Shiling was received yesterday. She likes it very much, thank you very much." Shiling's mother said, as if she handed the phone to the daughter next to her: "Come on, you and Uncle Xiang Say thank you."

Then Liu Shiling's voice sounded, as if there was a hint of crying: "Uncle Bald, my mother is too difficult to teach, I can't teach it!!"

"Hey? You girl, what are you talking about? Didn't I ask you to say thank you..." Shiling's mother's voice of reproach came faintly.

Xiang Kun couldn't help grinning, he naturally knew what the little fat girl meant. When he went to Star City before, he left another coin with a "supersensory connection" for the little fat girl, and asked her to teach her mother how to flip coins. He wanted to see if Shiling's mother could also get it from the coin. some special connections.

The little fat girl is obviously serious about carrying out this task, but now it seems that it is more difficult.

Xiang Kun said with a smile: "It's okay, your mother may not be good at this kind of magic, and the bald uncle will think about other magic. By the way, what about the gift I gave you? Is it useful?"

He sent a gift to the little chubby girl by courier before, and the gift he gave was a pair of wooden chopsticks he made. Of course, this wooden chopsticks also carried out "emotional injection".

Among the people he knew, the one who eats the most delicious food and concentrates the most is the little fat girl, so after Xiang Kun knew how to "collect" and "transform" other people's emotions, he thought of getting something from the little fat girl. Feelings of contentment and joy while eating.

The little chubby girl's voice immediately cheered up: "It's easy to use! I don't use a spoon to eat now, I use those chopsticks! I'm very good at using chopsticks now!"

I chatted with the little fat girl again, and after knowing that their mother and daughter had arrived at the kindergarten, they ended the call.

Xiang Kun sensed the condition of the two coins and a piece of A4 paper on the little chubby girl, and then sensed the pair of chopsticks.

The sensitivity of the three "super sensory connection" items continued to decline steadily. Obviously, the little fat girl continued to get something from these three items. The "emotional injection" chopsticks also successfully felt a very light and happy emotion, which should belong to Little Apple. She said just now that she would also bring these chopsticks to the kindergarten for dinner.

Next, Xiang Kun quickly sensed many items that he had established "supersensory connection" and "emotional injection" one by one, including a few items that he left there on purpose when he left Qinling no man's land.

In addition to leaving a ball with an established supersensory connection near the mutated spider rock wall cave to help locate the next time he needs to return, he also found a small piece of beast bone before leaving , established a "supersensory connection", and deliberately left it in the cave, and placed it next to the belching birds. Most of the large number of vines in the cave had disappeared after the mutant spider died.

In addition, he also spent a lot of time finding a piece of wood and carving a very rough rabbit wood carving with arrows. Although it looks quite crude, at least the process of "emotional injection" was completed. And the emotions he built during the carving process are the emotions he focused on when making and researching rabbit meat recipes.

The wooden carving was also thrown in the cave by him.

He believed that if the "Shenxing Technology" people would enter the mountain later and find the cave with the behavior they showed before, no matter whether it was bones or wood carvings, they would definitely be taken back.

At that time, through these two items, he can learn a lot of information very safely.

But for the time being, there is no sign of the bone being moved, nor is there any emotional feedback from the wood carving, obviously it has not been discovered yet.

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