What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Every half an hour, Xia Libing would get up to check Xiang Kun's physical condition, and then record the relevant data with pen and paper. Of course, they were all recorded with special symbols she had compiled.

Compared with when he was awake, Xiang Kun's breathing rate was much faster now, and his body temperature was also rising.

However, there is still a lot of relevant data that cannot be observed and measured based on current conditions alone, and more equipment is needed.

Xia Libing also observed Xiang Kun's sleeping condition while writing down the equipment and tools that needed to be purchased in her black soft-cover book - this was not the one she had been using, but a new one she had bought when she went out.

Before turning around and sitting back in the computer chair, Xia Libing suddenly noticed that the camera indicator light on the computer desk was on and turned on, but as soon as she took two steps towards the computer desk, the indicator light went out again.

This made her even more confused. She walked to the computer desk, turned on a monitor, and tapped the keyboard to wake up the system. What she saw was not the WINDOWS login interface, but a normal WIN10 desktop, except for the recycle bin and this There are no icons outside the computer, and the wallpaper is the system default.

She checked the connection of the camera and once again confirmed that the host it was connected to was the same one she was operating. After all, there were three computer hosts, two monitors, and a laptop in Xiang Kun's bedroom. However, according to Xiang Kun's bedroom, Judging from the status of independent developers now and what they have done before, it is normal to have so many computers.

After disabling the camera in the device manager, Xia Libing turned the monitor off again, but after thinking about it, he turned the camera around and faced the wall.

Her first reaction just now was that Xiang Kun's computer had been hacked and someone was controlling the camera remotely, so her first reaction was to unplug the network cable. But then she felt that given Xiangkun's understanding of computers and network security, as well as his own personality, it was unlikely that such a situation would occur. Moreover, Xiang Kun had specifically told her before that the computer in the corner could not be powered off and she did not have to operate it, so maybe the camera would "start" on its own because of Xiang Kun's settings.

But to be on the safe side, Xia Libing decided to put the camera facing the wall. Anyway, the camera she bought was filming Xiang Kun's sleeping state, and no other equipment was needed to record it.

Xia Libing looked at the UPS host in the corner again, thinking about the small generator in the living room that she didn't have before going to Citong City, and thinking about Xiang Kun's explanation that "the power cannot be cut off". Thoughts.

It seems that Xiang Kun put a lot of thought into ensuring the power supply of that host.

She knew that Xiang Kun would not do meaningless things, so some programs might be running on that host, and this process was very important to Xiang Kun and could not be interrupted. Although Xiang Kun had only said that the power could not be cut off before, but she did not say that the network could not be cut off, she was not sure whether the program needed a network to run, so she did not unplug the network cable rashly just now.

Xia Libing sat back on the computer chair and picked up her notebook to write and draw. She wrote down some of her thoughts, things to do next, and things to buy, and discussed them when Xiang Kun woke up.

Time passed by minute by second, and Xia Libing was not impatient at all. When he was not writing anything in his notebook, he turned over the coins with the back of his hand, feeling the connection with the "super-connected things", the kind of "control" "Power", have there been any changes due to Xiang Kun drinking blood and falling asleep?

From time to time, she would pick up the pair of chopsticks and the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving to play with, looking at the lyrics and two black circle graffiti written in the brush that Xiang Kun gave her before, trying to see if she could play with them in a non-dream state. , observing or perceiving properties on these “emotion-infused items.”

At around twelve o'clock, after feeling a little hungry, Xia Libing bought the bread and milk he bought in the morning.

He took it to Xiang Kun's bedroom and sat on the computer chair to eat.

Taking a bite of the toast, eating the crispy pork knuckle, drinking a sip of milk, and eating the grilled chicken wings, which not only improves the taste of lunch, but also verifies Xiang Kun's sleepiness of "fantasy appearing". "Whether ability matters.

By around noon, Xiang Kun, who was only wearing a pair of loose sports pants on the bed, still looked unchanged. However, Xia Libing found after testing that Xiang Kun's body temperature began to drop. It was not only lower than when he first fell asleep, but also lower than when he had been drinking. Before bleeding, the body temperature under normal circumstances is lower, and the frequency of heartbeat and pulse also plummets to almost nothing.

If someone who didn't know Xiang Kun's condition suddenly touched Xiang Kun's body, he would be shocked and think he had turned into a corpse.

After Xia Libing finished recording his observation data, he sat back on the computer chair and began to think about the reasons for this situation.

The mobile phone on the computer table vibrated. Xia Libing turned around and looked to see if it was her mobile phone. It belonged to Xiang Kun.

Before falling asleep, Xiang Kun gave her cell phone to her for safekeeping, only saying that she would respond on his behalf if there were some unavoidable situations, but in most cases, she didn't need to worry about whether it was a message or a phone call.

Xia Libing thought for a while, took Xiang Kun's phone over, unlocked it and looked at the newly sent QQ message. It was a voice from a person nicknamed "Great Magician Little Bell", asking about electromagnetic Some very simple questions.

Under normal circumstances, Xia Libing would not reply to this kind of question on Xiangkun's behalf - obviously this was not a "last resort".

But seeing this nickname, the avatar of a round-faced little girl wearing a hood with cat ears, which was obviously drawn with watercolor pens, and the little girl's familiar voice, Xia Libing realized that this was the person before Liu Shiling, a little girl who lives next door to Xiang Kun, has a special connection with Xiang Kun's "super-connected things", and "had dinner" with her in a dream.

Xiang Kun had told her about this little girl's ability to "develop" and knew what was special about her, so after thinking about it, Xia Libing replied to Liu Shiling in a way that she thought was the simplest and easiest to understand. , answered her question.

But ten seconds later, a voice message came from over there:

"Aren't you bald uncle?"

Before Xia Libing could ask her how she could tell, another voice message came over:

"I can't understand what you're saying, so you must not be the bald uncle."

Then there was another voice: "Ah! By the way! The bald uncle should be at home. Then...are you the bald uncle's parents?"

Another voice: "Hello, bald grandpa, bald grandma... No!"

The voice was withdrawn.

A few seconds later a new voice message came over: "Hello grandpa, hello grandma! I am Liu Shiling! Happy New Year!"

Xia Libing watched the voice messages being sent one after another with some helplessness. After thinking about it, he searched for pictures of "grilled chicken wings" on his mobile phone, then selected one and sent it.

A few seconds later, Liu Shiling's voice came over: "Ah! It's the roast chicken wing sister! Is it the roast chicken wing sister in the dream? Is it you?"

Xia Libing made a nodding expression, and understood in his heart. It seemed that although Liu Shiling was not in a "lucid dream" state about the "dinner party" in the previous dream, she still remembered it after waking up, and she seemed to remember it. It stands to reason that Xia Libing also remembers it.

Liu Shiling's voice continued to send: "Sister Roasted Chicken Wings, are you hiding it in Uncle Baldhead's cell phone now?"

The voice was withdrawn.

Liu Shiling’s new voice message came over: “Sister Roasted Chicken Wings, do you have Uncle Bald’s cell phone in your hand now?”

Xia Libing thought for a while and sent a bald emoji, followed by a Zzz sleeping emoji, a girl's avatar, and a mobile phone emoji next to it.

Liu Shiling immediately understood the meaning of this string of expressions and sent a cheerful and authentic voice: "Sister Grilled Chicken Wings, are you saying that the bald uncle is sleeping? Sister Grilled Chicken Wings, can you come to me in your dreams again tonight? That chicken wings are delicious, There are also pork knuckles and cakes, they are all delicious... I'll treat you to glutinous rice balls! My mother made delicious glutinous rice balls for me today!"