What It’s Like Being a Vampire

On Yang Zhen'er's birthday, besides Xiang Kun and Tang Baona, Tang Baona's sister Bao Ting, "brother-in-law" Gao Yao will not be absent, as well as her friend Qin Ping.

It's a pity that Lao Xia will be on duty on New Year's Day this time, so he has no holiday and can't come back.

Of course, Yang Zhen'er "guaranteed" Lao Xia that she would definitely send her pictures and videos, and "share" what's delicious for dinner.

Xiang Kun was still working alone in the kitchen, it wasn't that Yang Zhen'er and Tang Baona didn't want to help, it was because they couldn't help at all when they came into the kitchen, and instead disrupted his arrangement plan, he could handle it by himself anyway, This time it was much easier than Christmas Eve.

While processing the ingredients, Xiang Kun kept sensing the "rabbit woodcarving" and "bones" left deep in the Qinling Mountains.

Through the perceived emotions, Xiang Kun was sure that there were at least two people around the "rabbit woodcarving".

After perceiving a large number of emotions, Xiang Kun has already discovered that emotions are also characteristic, even if they are the same type of emotion, such as fear, even if the source of fear is the same, the emotions of different people are slightly different. Only by carefully distinguishing and building a feature library can we detect the difference.

Even for people who are more familiar, such as Tang Baona, he can tell from certain specific emotions whether the owner of the emotion is her.

And from the emotional perception of a thing, it is also possible to judge some personality of the owner of the emotion to some extent.

Just like Xiang Kun now perceives the two equally amazed emotions through the "rabbit woodcarving", he imagines the pictures and scenes in the cave, and after substituting them in himself, he establishes a cognitive model to come to a judgment. Most ordinary people are stronger.

Although Xiang Kun's woodcarving skills have improved a lot compared to the beginning. But in the no-man's-land of the Qinling Mountains, he didn't bring any wood carving tools that established a "supersensory connection", and the wood he made was actually not very suitable. It can be regarded as being able to chisel out the basic shape.

However, the rough appearance of the rabbit wood carving looks a little more weird, primitive and mysterious. In the environment of the cave, and there are other animal corpses, most people will feel more emotional after seeing it. .

Xiang Kun couldn't help guessing, would one of the two people who came into contact with woodcarving now have a "vampire"? Could it be Lu Cheng'an, the founder of "Shenxing Technology"?

However, Xiang Kun temporarily ruled out that possibility after thinking about it. If it was a "vampire", there should be other emotions. Relatively speaking, doubts should take the majority.

Because Xiang Kun had personally explored most of the area near the cave, he had been to most of the places, and he had observed from a high place if he hadn't been there, so he could build a basic map of the scene in his mind. Therefore, when positioning the bone with the "supersensory connection", it can accurately judge its moving track and distance.

Judging from the direction it was moving, after being taken out of the cave, it was going directly to the outside of the Qinling Mountains, and it had a tendency to leave.

Although they don't know exactly how they found the cliff cave, logically speaking, finding the cave means that the search has made significant progress, should they continue to expand the search area?

Or, they have also realized that the person who left the wood carving was not the first mutant creature to kill the wild boar?

But if that's the case, they should also continue to track down the person who left the wood carving.

unless they think,

What can't be traced after staying? How did they come to this judgment?

Of course, it is also possible that they have two groups of people, one group transports the things in the cave back, and the other group stays to continue exploring and searching.

Sensing and thinking, Xiang Kun made dinner.

There are still three dishes that use rabbit meat as the main ingredient. There are too many rabbits consumed every time I drink blood. Now the weekly "food expenses" are much higher than before he mutated.

In addition, there are several newly developed dishes, such as sizzling squid, garlic lobster, and two kinds of green vegetables, which are not too difficult for him.

Moreover, he was basically familiar with the tastes of these people at night. Even Qin Ping probably knew her tastes after observing them last time.

At the dining table, Xiang Kun learned that Qin Ping finally chose the offer from "Shenxing Technology", although "Shenxing Technology" seems to be more about exploring new fields of research and development, while the other company's products are You have to be much more mature, and for career development, going to the latter is a safer choice. But for Qin Ping, who is less than 30 years old, the offer provided by "Shenxing Technology" is obviously more challenging and expectant, not to mention better treatment.

"When did you join the job? Is the headquarters of 'Shenxing Technology' in this city? Where is their research and development site for this powered exoskeleton?" Yang Zhen'er asked curiously.

"The research and development center of this area is located in Yangcheng City, and I will be there in the next year. Alas, I won't be able to eat the delicious food made by Chef Xiang in the future. It's sad." Qin Ping said, but her hands kept Well, she already liked seafood, so she was very interested in Xiang Kun's lobster.

Yangcheng?

As soon as this city was mentioned, Xiang Kun thought of Guo Tianxiang, but he also knew that there was likely to be more than one research and development center for "Shenxing Technology", and the laboratories related to research on vampires and mutant creatures might even be related to other directions. The research and development sites of the company are not in one place, and they are self-contained.

He also guessed in his heart where the things transported out of the cave would be sent.

After the position stopped moving and was confirmed, Xiang Kun might run over to observe it.

Of course, you have to be careful, do your homework and research. Compared with Guo Tianxiang, "Shenxing Technology" is a more difficult and dangerous existence.

Although the exact attitude of "Shenxing Technology" and the people behind it towards other "vampires" and mutant creatures is still unknown, judging from the memory fragments of giant owls, mutant spiders, and Guo Tianxiang obtained by Xiang Kun, mutant creatures At a certain stage, there will be a "just need" for the blood of other mutated creatures, so it is doomed that it will be difficult to have a chance to live in peace.

After dinner, everyone got together to play Three Kingdoms Killing. Although Xiang Kun could basically know their identities as soon as everyone got their ID cards, he still pretended that he didn't know the "truth" when playing, and played according to the routine However, it made Yang Zhen'er and Tang Baona feel that they had finally discovered a field that Xiang Kun was not that good at.

When it was almost twelve o'clock, everyone stopped to cut the cake and sing birthday songs. Yang Zhener blew out the candles and made a wish.

But when everyone was about to say goodbye and leave, Yang Zhen'er stopped Xiang Kun: "No, I have to look at the gift that the carpenter gave me first. If it's really a galloping horse and eight immortals crossing the sea, I will 'return the product'!"

Qin Ping couldn't help laughing and said: "This is the first time I heard that birthday gifts from others have to be 'returned'. It's too difficult to be your friend. Hey, you should also check the gifts I gave you. If you are not satisfied, I can take it back and 'return' it!"

Tang Baoting also joked: "That's right, let's take a look at what we sent. If it doesn't work, I can 'return' it."

Yang Zhen'er ignored the other people's jokes, and hummed: "That's different, the gift to the carpenter is made by himself, I have waited for this wood carving for three months, I can't let him get away with it, You have to weigh every ounce."

Xiang Kun smiled and said: "Okay, okay, today you are the birthday star, you have the final say, first 'inspect', first 'inspect'~! If it doesn't work, I will redo it for you! Everyone is watching, I will definitely not cheat !"

So Tang Baoting and Qin Ping, who had already walked to the door, also walked back to watch Yang Zhener "open the box".

When they saw the cardboard box that had been placed in the corner of the living room before, they were curious about what kind of gift Xiang Kun sent. Now that they have the opportunity to look at it together, they will naturally not miss it.

After opening the carton, there was a pile of bubble wrap for filling. Yang Zhen'er first picked up a small wooden box from the upper left under Xiang Kun's guidance.

The wooden box didn't look very delicate, and it wasn't painted, but the corners were polished, at least there were no wooden thorns and it wouldn't prick your hands, just like the box Xiang Kun used to send Tang Baona's wood carvings.

After opening it, there is a long-haired girl with the size of a palm, holding two swords, and wearing armor. Although it is the same as the wood carving that Tang Baona gave as a Christmas gift before, it is a Q-version cartoon image with a big head and a round face, but it is also very easy. People who are familiar with it can see that the prototype of this woodcarving is Yang Zhen'er, and the characteristics are very accurate.

Yang Zhen'er's eyes lit up, the image carved by "to the carpenter" really suits her heart, she often YY her own image in the second dimension, it is almost like this, of course, it is not a Q version but beautiful Handsome version.

"This is a Christmas present for you." Xiang Kun added on the sidelines.

"Huh? Seeing this makes me want to have the cheek to ask Xiang Kun for a Christmas present." Tang Baoting couldn't help sighing.

"I think so too." Gao Yao also nodded, agreeing in a low voice.

Yang Zhen'er happily put the small wood carving back into the box, put it on the table, and reached into the cardboard box again. With the help of Xiang Kun, he unfastened the fixings and put the larger wood carving that was not in a wooden box Take it out.

After taking it out, except for Xiang Kun, the few people watching the excitement couldn't help but let out a soft breath.

The theme of this wood carving is a dinosaur, and on the back of the dinosaur sits the group of five in the cartoon Doraemon, but Doraemon, Nobita, and Xiaojing ride on the back, and Fat Tiger and Xiaofu hug each other tightly. with the tail of the dinosaur.

"How do you know that my favorite comic is "Doraemon"?" Yang Zhen'er asked in surprise.

"Didn't you say it yourself?" Xiang Kun was surprised.

"Have I said that?" Yang Zhen'er was puzzled.

"Yes." Xiang Kun affirmed. Of course, the reality is inferred from some scenes he saw through dreams before. In fact, the two woodcarvings for Yang Zhener are not very good in terms of the details of the production, because he did not establish a "supersensory connection" with the materials, nor did he have "emotional injection". But it was a coincidence that the two woodcarvings I made must be the shapes that Yang Zhener likes, so she can still love them and be very satisfied.

After leaving Tang Baona's house, Xiang Kun and Qin Ping followed Tang Baoting and Gao Yao's car.

In the car, while chatting with the three of them, Xiang Kun was perceiving dreams through the "rabbit wood carving" at the same time.

In fact, from less than ten o'clock in the evening, Xiang Kun had already perceived the first dream through the "rabbit woodcarving", and before leaving, he perceived the second dream, and not long after getting in the car, he perceived the third dream.

From his many previous experiments, it can be known that in the same night, an "emotional injection" item cannot arouse emotions to make the same person have two dreams, but it can arouse emotions again after perceiving a dream. And perceive the dreams of another person near the item.

After arriving home, within two hours, he perceived two more dreams, and he did not perceive any new dreams until sunrise.

In other words, there are at least five people near the "rabbit woodcarving".

As for whether there are only five people in total, it is still uncertain. After all, the scope of influence of "rabbit woodcarving" is limited, and there may be other people outside the scope of influence.

Xiang Kun summed up the dreams he perceived. There were two dreams related to military training. It was obvious that these two were "professionals" who had undergone such training. In the team, it is also normal.

There was a dream scene in a laboratory where the dream owner was concentrating on processing "rabbit meat". Obviously this was a researcher from Chengtianpao's laboratory, and it was normal for him to appear in the team.

In the other two dreams, one was playing with Lego toys, and the other was feeding ants in a huge transparent ant box. From the painful and complicated gameplay of the former, and the uniquely designed and obviously customized ant box of the latter, it can be seen that the owners of these two dreams are also science and engineering nerds, and they are probably the same as the one in the laboratory dream. A research technician.

This is also the reason why Xiang Kun used that kind of focused and serious emotion to carry out "emotional injection" to associate rabbit woodcarving. According to previous experience, when affected by this kind of emotion, the dreams of the affected person are usually related to their occupation. or hobbies.

In this way, he can speculate on the other party's occupation and identity through dreams.

Even if he was lucky and got enough information, he might be able to directly determine the identity of the dream owner, or know what research the institutions and organizations behind them were doing and what results they had.

From the two dreams of military-related training, Xiang Kun failed to find out any special information, and the other three dreams had much more information.

After repeated thinking and calculations, Xiang Kun focused all his attention on the dream of feeding ants.

Whether it is the ants themselves or the large ant box with special shape, the number should be very small. If it is custom-made, it can even directly locate people.

Moreover, there may be only a few small circles in the whole country for this kind of niche hobby group. Maybe everyone knows about those who play well and are relatively good. This kind of technical nerd also likes to find fellows through sharing.

Of course, another possibility is not ruled out, that is, the owner of the dream really likes ants and pays a lot of attention to related information, but he just "raises ants in the cloud" and has no time to raise them. Those ants and the large ant box are all from him. yy came out. If he is sexually active enough, serious enough, and focused enough on weekdays, it is possible to dream of being sexually aroused by the wooden rabbit carving.

However, the chances of that situation are not very high. Xiang Kun started with ants and ant boxes first, checked the species map of ants on the Internet, compared the appearance of ants seen in the dream, determined the species, and then posted on each ant-related post , communities, and forums to search for relevant content.

During this process, Xiang Kun kept asking Alice to monitor his operations on the computer. Every step he took, he would also tell Alice the purpose and reason of his doing so.

He wants Alice to learn the logic of his inquiry and let Alice learn to take "shortcuts".

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Xiang Kun finally saw the same ant box as in the dream on Weibo, and then looked at the "from 20" displayed on that Weibo, and contacted a mate20 next to the ant box in the dream, It also increases the possibility of being the same person.

The weibo user was not certified, and his occupation was not marked, but as long as he found the weibo account, Xiang Kun knew that he would not be far from finding the specific person.

At that time, whether it is the bones through the "super sensory connection", or this little ant brother, they can all become clues for him to track down.