What It’s Like Being a Vampire

After getting through the communication with "Mr. Liang", Fang Pingfang invited Dr. Yang out of the conference room first.

Dr. Yang didn't have any objections, he cooperated very much, walked out of the conference room consciously, and closed the door behind him.

But he didn't go far, he leaned against the wall and looked at his phone, waiting for Fang Pingfang to finish communicating with Mr. Liang. He felt that no matter what happened in the "Ninth Laboratory" last night, with his level of confidentiality, Mr. Liang should allow him to participate in the solution or investigation. Otherwise, if there is any solution or follow-up research plan, in the research center in Antie Town, Fang Pingfang alone cannot handle it.

In the conference room, Fang Pingfang reported to "Mr. Liang" in detail about her experience in several laboratories in D2 last night.

After listening, "Mr. Liang" did not respond for a while, but Fang Pingfang was not in a hurry and waited quietly.

She knew that compared to her or other highly paid researchers hired by the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", "Mr. Liang" must have a deeper understanding of the rabbit wood carving they brought back from the no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains.

In other words, there is a preset guess about the "person" or other creature who hid in the cliff cave in the Qinling no-man's land, killed those birds, made this rough wood carving, and left that footprint, otherwise they would not be allowed to Let's go there.

During the period of working for "Shenxing Technology" after returning to China, although Fang Pingfang did not meet "Mr. Liang" face to face, through many exchanges and phone calls, she clearly felt that "Mr. It is clear what they are studying and the goal they are pursuing, but for some reason, to them researchers, there is a feeling that they can't explain everything, but they are just all kinds of guidance.

It's like someone paid a lot of money to ask them to do the questions, but the people who paid the money already knew the answers to these questions.

It seems that they are deliberately exercising their "ability to solve problems".

"What do you think?" Mr. Liang's very unique voice sounded again.

Fang Pingfang is not surprised by this question. He often asks this question first, whether he observes special phenomena during some experiments in the laboratory, or discovers some special things or creatures during field trips.

Fang Pingfang has already thought about the answer to this question. In fact, she has been thinking about this question since she encountered those strange things last night.

"In the Qinling no-man's land, after being affected for the first time and having a strange dream, my guess is that it was the wood carving that affected us.

"It may be affected by some kind of energy, and it has a magnetic field with certain characteristics.

"But after coming here,

A large number of tests have been carried out on the wood carving, no matter its material composition or energy radiation, there is nothing abnormal. The dream test was also unsuccessful. I suspect that some of its characteristics lost their effect after leaving the Qinling no-man's land, or dissipated on their own over time.

"It suddenly 'awakened' last night and had a direct hallucinatory effect on me. It may be that its characteristics have recovered after a period of time.

"But I have another speculation today. When we were in Qinling, Team Leader Li and I believed that the strange dream we had had something to do with the wood carving, because there were elements related to 'rabbit meat' and 'rabbit' in the dream. And the wooden carving is the image of a rabbit, which is also the most weird and special among the things we carry. After staying away from it, the strange dream did not reappear, which also deepened our understanding.

"But what if it wasn't the wood carving that affected us and made us have strange dreams?"

On the other side, after hearing these words, Mr. Liang, who was in the no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains, said with admiration: "You mean, the one who affected you is the person who carved this wood carving? He entered our building last night. The research center, made you hallucinate?"

But Fang Pingfang said: "This is one possibility, but I am actually inclined to another possibility: the 'person' who left his footprints and made the weird wooden sculptures in the cave on the cliff may also have a similar experience to us. He has had similar dreams or hallucinations. He carved this rabbit-like woodcarving, possibly out of some kind of admiration, or he may think that the "rabbit meat" in dreams or hallucinations is some kind of existence. I asked him for a request, so I made this rabbit wood carving for feedback.

"The bird carcasses in the cliff cave are likely to be the 'person'. When the rabbit meat cannot be found, they are used as a temporary substitute for the rabbit meat just like the wood carving.

"It may have been present in other items we brought back from the Qinling no-man's land in a way that we don't understand."

For Fang Pingfang's guess, Mr. Liang still encouraged him: "It's a very interesting idea."

"Do you agree with this guess?" Fang Pingfang asked.

Mr. Liang did not give a positive response, but said: "Your handling method is also very correct. The situation last night was really dangerous. Since it allows you to see rabbit meat, it will naturally allow you to see other things. Things, not everyone has your calm judgment. Once they are affected, it may cause incalculable consequences. You are right to temporarily block D and D2. I will personally handle the situation over there, you guys Don't worry about it anymore."

Fang Pingfang was taken aback for a moment, she originally thought that Mr. Liang would have follow-up advice on how to deal with it, and even if she came to deal with it herself, they should be the ones to do it. But listening to this, what Mr. Liang meant, it seems that they will have nothing to do next?

Sure enough, Mr. Liang went on to say: "I will send a formal notice, and all the researchers will be transferred to Qicheng City."

"But..." Fang Pingfang frowned, wanting to say something.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Mr. Liang: "You don't go to Qicheng City, you go to Haixi Province. There is an abnormal situation. You can just go and find out during this time."

"Is it just me? Dr. Yang..."

"He's going to lead the team to Qicheng City. Don't worry, you're not alone. Other team members will join you, including your old acquaintances."

After Mr. Liang finished speaking, he asked Fang Pingfang to call Dr. Yang over and personally explain to him the plan to transfer the research team from Antie Town to Qicheng City.

After finishing talking with Dr. Yang and Fang Pingfang, Mr. Liang waved his hand lightly, and the power system of the small drone started working again, and it flew into the air with very little noise.

If someone sees Mr. Liang at this time, he will definitely be shocked by his appearance.

After all, the special substance covered with spider silk patterns attached to his body looks too weird, completely covering every inch of his body from head to toe, it doesn't look like a special tights, but his "Skin" same.

His facial features are also different from those of ordinary people. His two eyes have no eyelids, just like two big eyeballs embedded in his face. His pupils are very large, his eyes are very little white, and his nostrils are flat and wide. He looks very different from normal people. .

Mr. Liang scans the traces around him. His eyes are very different from those of ordinary people. He has multiple detection imaging modes and can detect electromagnetic waves of different frequencies and wavelengths. Some of these abilities are his own, and most of them are obtained through the "contact lenses" that replace his corneas.

Through this "contact lens", he can even receive more pictures and other detection information through the drone cruising around. It can also be used to browse past recorded information, such as the pictures taken by drones when Fang Pingfang and Team Leader Li explored this area.

Through comparison and analysis, he preliminarily judged that "blood-eating creatures" did appear here, and there may be more than one.

The footprints Fang Pingfang and the others found, and the wood carvings in the cliff cave, are probably from a "blood-eating creature" transformed by humans. He came to this no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains, probably because he saw anchor Xue and their video and found Knowing that there may be other "blood-eating creatures" in this no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains, they came to "hunt".

If it is really a "blood-eating creature" transformed by humans, then he should be a "predator".

Mr. Liang squatted on the ground, reached out and grabbed a piece of soil, observed it carefully, then put it directly into his mouth, and began to chew.

After a harsh chewing sound that made the scalp tingle, he spat out the dirt residue, wiped his mouth, and reconfirmed the inference that there was a "blood-eating creature" here and was injured.

After the body tissue of a "blood-eating creature" is separated from the body and "necrotic", it will quickly transform into another heavy substance. He has his own special "detection" method for that substance.

He can even use this "detection" to infer the time after those body tissues left the body.

However, whether this "hunting" has any results, whether the "blood-eating creatures" that originally lived in this area were captured by alien human "predators", he still cannot draw a definite conclusion for the time being.

"A new 'predator'?" Mr. Liang's voice seemed to be broken, and his voice sounded more harsh and incomprehensible, but he was not talking to anyone, but just talking to himself: " I hope you don't disappoint me this time."

After saying this, his lipless mouth showed a smile, and the corners of his mouth were split back, all the way to the base of his ears.

...

When Xiang Kun received Liu Caifu's wechat, it was already ten thirty in the evening.

Today they had lunch in Chongyun Village, played all afternoon, and had a sumptuous dinner before they left the village and returned to the town.

At this time, Xiang Kun and a group of friends, including You Meng and his wife who came back from Liang Yulong's hometown, a total of eleven people were playing Werewolf in "Youlong Restaurant".

Xiang Kun was naturally very relaxed when playing this game, it was no different from opening a cheat.

But he didn't pursue winning or losing too much, but guided for the purpose of mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm and making the game more fun. Sometimes, he even "sacrificed himself" to make everyone happy.

Of course, Xia Libing is also the "big killer" of this game. It is easy to see the true identity of other people, and he can also "seriously" say very logical words to mislead others.

So in many cases, even if Xiang Kun and Lao Xia belonged to the same camp, they had to give some guidance secretly to limit Lao Xia's performance.

But because his ability is too strong in everyone's mind, he can't make it too obvious, otherwise everyone will easily feel that he is releasing water and reducing the fun of the game.

Therefore, he can only rely on a more detailed and perfect cognitive model for everyone, and through subtle and chain influences, to provide overall guidance, so that everyone can play the game more enjoyable, and can fight against the "big killer" of Lao Xia.

For example, Xiang Kun wanted Zicheng to make a D response and needed to give information, so he asked Yang Jie to make a B response, which allowed Zicheng to make an information judgment. So Xiang Kun influenced Zhang Qian through his seemingly inadvertent performance, making Zhang Qian make a reaction to trigger Yang Jie's B reaction.

The same sentence, spoken by different people, has different effects on different people.

Even for Xiang Kun, this was a rather complicated job, requiring careful thinking and specific reactions.

The final effect is that after playing the werewolf all night, everyone deeply realized that Lao Xia is indeed a more terrifying existence than Xiang Kun, and his eyes are too poisonous! So cunning! Very good at acting! This is a demon! It is worthy of being the "master" who teaches Xiang Kun's psychology.

At the end of the round, Xiang Kun couldn't help feeling a little puzzled when he saw Liu Caifu's news on WeChat. It said that he was with Liu Feibao now. Because of what happened this morning and yesterday afternoon, Liu Feibao was very sorry and wanted to reconcile with Xiang Kun. Is he free to have supper together?

What happened on Chongyun Village Road in the morning, apart from the people in their two cars and Liu Caifu who came to help, only the two idiots who came to Pengci knew.

Neither they nor Liu Caifu would casually say that Liu Feibao knew it so quickly, could it be that those two idiots told Liu Feibao themselves?

Xiang Kun felt that his preliminary cognitive model of those two idiots had to be revised again...

He naturally didn't care about Liu Feibao, but Liu Caifu wanted to show some face when he was there, so he replied: "I'm with my friends, and I can't leave for a short time. After I send them back to the hotel, if you haven't left, I will Just go there."

Liu Caifu returned a K gesture.

Xiang Kun knew that since Liu Feibao invited Liu Caifu to make an appointment with him, he would definitely wait until he went.

After playing until eleven o'clock, everyone was a little hungry, so Xiang Kun and You Meng went to the restaurant's kitchen to make supper - when they came, Xiang Kun had already ordered supper to make noodle soup for everyone, so they had already made it After preparation, all kinds of ingredients are ready.

You Meng is in charge of the soup base, while Xiang Kun is in charge of checking the degree to which everyone's noodles should be cooked, whether there is more meat or more vegetables, what side dishes to add, and the different seasonings for each person.

"Don't look at the amount of meat on Zicheng's body. In fact, he likes to eat soy products more than meat. Put more pieces of tofu skin and some yuba..."

"Nana's taste is relatively light, she doesn't like spicy food, and she doesn't like too much salt, but she likes meat. Compared with rabbit breast, she likes rabbit leg meat more. For vegetables, water spinach and broccoli are her favorites. , but in the noodle soup, bean sprouts are better..."

"Zhen'er has a stronger taste. She likes spicy food, but in fact she is not very good at spicy food. Medium spicy is just right. What is medium spicy? You can see that my seasoning is her favorite..."

"Lao Xia's taste is more inclusive, she can eat anything, but compared to other flavors, she prefers sweets. Of course, there must be no sugar in this noodle, but you can put more seafood for her, and those shrimps are three-thirds Give her one piece, and give her the meat without bones, fat or thin..."

"Yang Zhuo also likes to eat meat, and he hates fatty meat. He likes to eat lean meat. He doesn't like the skin of any animal, but it doesn't matter if it's crispy. Let him add some fried peanuts..."

"Xiao Min loves to eat fans very much. You fans in Tongshi Town must like him..."

Every time Xiang Kun prepares a bowl of noodles and serves them out, he will tell You Meng the reason for doing so - because he knows that he will often bring these friends over to play in the future, and sometimes when he can't leave, You Meng can help him Treats, so describe their flavors as best you can.

The last two bowls, one with coriander on top, one without coriander but with garlic, Xiang Kun said to You Meng: "You should know whose taste these two bowls are made for."

Of course You Meng knew that he had mentioned to Xiang Kun before that his wife Liang Yulong loved coriander, and he hated coriander.

You Meng leaned over and took a sip of the noodle soup, shook his head after getting up, and said with emotion: "It's so blissful to be your friend."