What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 240 The Abnormal World

When Liu Shiling's "runaway plan" a few hundred meters away from home failed, Li Jun, the "little apple" who had slept for more than an hour, suddenly sat up from the bed.

Her eyes widened, "looking" ahead, those blind pupils were like black gemstones with a faint stream of light.

Just now in her sleep, she vaguely heard rumbling thunder, and then she seemed to be in a thunderstorm.

She hadn't seen lightning, hadn't seen a thunderstorm.

In the past, the cognition of this natural weather phenomenon could only rely on the description of thunder and various related languages ​​or words to imagine.

But in the dream just now, the thunderstorm she perceived was very, very different from what she had known before.

She could even vaguely feel the vibration of the surrounding air after the thunder, as well as the slight movement of the hand hairs under the influence of static electricity, and the feeling of numbness on the skin.

This thunderstorm was not the only thing in her dream. This thunderstorm seemed to be just a "ritual" to open a door for her in the dream.

Next, she didn't know what to do, as if she passed through a "passage" inexplicably, and then came to another space, starting another "dream".

In that "dream", she sat in front of the computer and watched all kinds of funny animations, film and television dramas, one after another, laughing out loud from time to time.

Not long after, she followed another "passage" and entered another dream. That was when she was squatting on the ground and tinkering with the accessories in a case. Based on the knowledge Xiang Kun had taught her, she could probably tell that she was pulling out jumpers and overclocking. After the lighting failed and she heard the beep of the machine, she began to prepare to modify the air cooling of the CPU.

Then she left this dream again and entered the "channel". This time, she wandered in the "channel" for a long time before finally finding another "dream".

In this "dream", she turned into a monster. Not only was she huge, but she also had many arms. Being chased by many people, she could only run away instinctively. Fortunately, she ran very fast.

In the fear conveyed by the dream, Little Apple woke up and sat up from the bed.

Although several dreams including the inexplicable thunderstorm were very weird, the last dream made her feel a great sense of fear,

But after waking up, while she was a little nervous and scared, she was more excited, joyful and curious!

In those three "dreams", she had a lot of perceptions that she didn't have before.

It's like sitting in front of a computer and watching movies and animations. She can not only hear the sound, but also perceive some weird pictures.

Those pictures were very different from her usual judgments and cognitions based on the sound alone, and seemed a bit bizarre and surreal, but that feeling made her very novel, and it was the first time that she had The real concept of the image.

Although she didn't know how different the scene in this "dream" was from the scene in the real world.

In addition to the screen in front of the computer, she also perceived the other two "dream" screens, "seeing" the monster-like chassis with its mouth wide open, and "seeing" those who were chasing after themselves who had turned into monsters In her cognition, those "people" who were chasing her seemed to be called monsters, because they looked so weird.

Sitting on the bed, Little Apple kept thinking about what he "saw" in those dreams. He didn't lie down and go to sleep again. It was not because he was afraid of dreaming again, but because he was afraid that if he fell asleep immediately, he would forget those "dreams" ".

Fortunately, after waking up, she was very impressed with the experience in the "dream" and could easily recall it.

Thinking about it, Little Apple suddenly felt something, and then leaned over to touch it, and accurately grasped the wood carving of the little yellow man on the bedside.

After learning the practice method of "Perception of Objects" from Xiang Kun, the minion woodcarving was basically inseparable from her, and she had to take it with her wherever she went-of course, she seldom went out, and basically stayed alone. At home, at most, I go to the park outside the community to sit for a while every day.

Rubbing the little yellow man in his hand, Little Apple suddenly felt that the connection between himself and the wood carving had become deeper.

In fact, a day ago, she had already noticed that there seemed to be a stronger special connection between herself and the wooden carving of the little yellow man than before. Not only through the little yellow man, she could let herself perceive the surrounding environment, listen to When listening to the sound, her emotions and attention are more concentrated, her senses are more sensitive, and she seems to be able to judge people or objects moving around more accurately through wood carvings, giving her a "subconscious reaction" like a sixth sense.

And she found that when she communicated with other people, she seemed to be able to feel other people's emotions and intentions more clearly through this wood carving.

Because he just had this feeling, Little Apple wasn't sure if it was his own psychology, but after consulting Xiang Kun on WeChat, he never got a response.

But at this moment, holding the minion wood carving in her hand, she was very sure that her perception ability had really been significantly improved.

She can even sense the CPU wood carvings, motherboard wood carvings, and memory wood carvings in the drawer through the little yellow man wood carvings.

She could clearly feel the general environment of the table, and then through the three wood carvings, let her thoughts fly away, and vaguely felt that in an unknown distance, there was a monster with many arms, looking eagerly at it. looking at her.

She could sense that the place where this monster was located was a closed place on all sides, it seemed to be locked up!

Reminiscent of the few immersive dreams I had just had, where I could feel inexplicable emotions, are these dreams related to this wood carving?

Little Apple's first reaction was that the monster she perceived was just a psychological effect, an illusion produced by her focusing too much on recalling the details of the dream just now.

After all, whether it is the image of a monster or its movement looking at itself from a distance, it is a cognition that is automatically constructed in the brain, but there is no sensory information for this cognition, whether it is sound, smell or touch. , Objectively speaking, this kind of cognition without sufficient basis can only be an "illusion".

She is seventeen years old, and she is no longer at an age where she can easily believe in the existence of monsters and spells. In fact, or because her father is an associate professor in a university, she has not had many similar fantasies since she was a child. , she should be more willing to use scientific methods to think about various phenomena.

But this time, she really hoped that what she perceived was not an illusion.

Or after accepting Xiang Kun's "parasitic perception", she had already begun to expect some kind of miracle beyond the current human cognition.

If this is not an illusion, if the multi-armed monster that she substituted in her dream and sensed from a distance just now really exists, then in the previous dream, did it enter the dream intentionally to attract her attention, asking for help from herself? ?

And the reason why the monster was able to affect her was perhaps because the set of "parasitic perception" that Xiang Kun taught her accidentally played some role? Maybe it has something to do with these wood carvings?

If the monster is real, does that mean that she has now been connected to some abnormal world?

In that abnormal world, maybe there is a way for her to really see things?

It was as if in the three previous dreams, she could "see" those bizarre scenes?

Little Apple held the little yellow man wooden sculpture tightly, a kind of hope slowly rose in his heart.

If such a world really existed, would my mother be there too?

...

In the mountains and forests, Xiang Kun, who was barefoot and dressed in dirty and torn clothes, stopped in the rain and snow and looked up, maintaining the posture of "looking up at the starry sky" for more than half an hour.

Just now he suddenly felt something, so he sensed the two coins of the little chubby girl Liu Shiling, but the result surprised him—he not only sensed the position of the coins, but also sensed another existence.

This is a very special and strange induction. It is different from other items that have established a "supersensory connection", and it is also different from "emotional injection" items. He can not only perceive its location, but also perceive its current state. state—but this state is not an emotion or a form, but some kind of energy-like form.

Although it was impossible to be sure, according to normal reasoning, Xiang Kun instantly judged that the sudden extra sensory existence should belong to the little chubby girl Liu Shiling.

Judging from the intensity of the induction feedback, it is indeed equivalent to the induction intensity of the missing part of coins and A4 paper.

He not only sensed the little fat girl, but also sensed some kind of energy-level "communication" between the little fat girl and one of the coins.

Although he couldn't see the picture, nor did he have any perception information about sound or smell, but through the flow of that energy, he knew that the coin was controlled by a magnetic force and moved a certain distance.

The source of this force is actually very complicated. Even if Xiang Kun can perceive the energy transformation between the little fat girl and the coin, he can't make a very accurate judgment. It can be said that it comes from the surrounding electric field force, or it can be said to be It came from the control of the little chubby girl, but it should have originated from Xiang Kun's ability.

After a moment of energy flow, the suspected chubby girl's induction disappeared, and only the perception of the coin's position deepened.

Then Xiang Kun obtained a connection similar to "emotional injection" from Little Apple, and had a very clear sensory feedback, and then he successively sensed abnormalities in the little yellow man woodcarving and CPU woodcarving in Little Apple. Feedback, even the wood carving with eight arms and eight eyes at home at this time also responded.

This time, Xiang Kun also felt the flow of energy, but this flow of energy was different from what Liu Shiling felt, and it was more difficult to figure out and understand.

The little apples, the minion wood carvings, the CPU wood carvings, and the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carvings far away at home seem to be linked together by some kind of force, carrying out the transmission of that special energy.

And Xiang Kun searched carefully, and it seemed that he was the kind of energy to establish a connection.

Then he suddenly discovered that under such circumstances, he could perceive multiple objects with "emotional injection" at the same time. Before, he could only perceive one "emotional infusion" item at the same time. To perceive another item, he had to stop perceiving the previous one, so the "Twelve Yellow Man Formation" he made could not be stimulated at the same time. experiment of.

Xiang Kun could interrupt the connection between several items and Little Apple at any time, but he would naturally not do so, and this situation made him very curious and looking forward to it.

He began to focus on the energies that were being exchanged, and then he had a faint feeling of "falling into a dream". He realized that the little apple probably inspired him to "emotionally inject" and attach it to several wood carvings. emotions, and "actively" began to enter related dreams.

It's as if Little Apple, as a game player, was passively pulled into the game while sleeping, but now, she is actively entering the game, and she has found the game client.

After a while, Xiang Kun suddenly had a wonderful feeling. He felt that the CPU wood carving was in a very oppressive place. There were flat obstacles on the top, bottom, left, and right, and they were very close to each other; It is tightly wrapped against a layer of obstacles.

He knew very well that the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving was placed in a cabinet at home at this time, so there were "walls" on all sides. So from the perception around the CPU wood carving, it should be in a drawer. As for the minion woodcarving, according to the previous communication with Little Apple, it may be held in her hand, or pressed under the pillow - judging from the basic coverage of the obstacle, the former is more likely.

The result of this perception made Xiang Kun very happy. Although he couldn't perceive the picture, sound and other normal sensory information, he could only judge the approximate location of the nearest obstacle around the object, which seemed to be some kind released by himself. Bo came to this judgment.

The induction on Little Apple's body also disappeared quickly, and the induction on other objects also returned to the previous state.

Xiang Kun's brain was still thinking rapidly. He knew that Liu Shiling and Little Apple would have a special connection with those items at almost the same time, and the abnormality should be related to his mutation and evolution after drinking blood several times. On the other hand, it is related to his flight at night and the lightning storm it caused.

Xiang Kun felt that the induction energy produced by the two of them at the same time should be related to the evolution of a certain related ability in his body, and tonight, when he was flying, he used that ability to the extreme, which triggered their already Certain properties of existence operate through the objects with which a relation is established.

Moreover, although some of the things they did were achieved by "calling" Xiang Kun's ability, the methods and results were beyond Xiang Kun's own ability.

He is like a server and a platform. Liu Shiling and Apple are no longer just ordinary users and players, but developers involved in it.

The abilities that the two of them showed tonight through the "super sensory connection" and "emotional infusion" items were exactly what Xiang Kun urgently needed but had been thinking hard about and couldn't achieve.

Xiang Kun withdrew his gaze of "looking up at the starry sky" and sighed softly:

"Sure enough, the ancients didn't lie to me. Three people must have my teacher. Three cobblers are worth one Zhuge Liang..."

Even Liu Shiling, a child who is still in kindergarten, has brought great breakthroughs to his ability system.