What It’s Like Being a Vampire

　　 Chapter 35: Synergy of Hearing and Taste

　　 Xiangkun’s house is only 70 square meters, with two bedrooms and one living room, and the balcony is not big, it can even be said to be relatively small.

　　 But the better point is that the line of sight is good. It is far away from other tall buildings and you can see the mountains in the distance.

　　 Xiangkun did not bring out the chair, so he lay directly on the tiles on the balcony—of course, the floor had been carefully wiped.

　　 Under the night, Xiang Kun's condition is particularly good, his body function has reached the peak, his sensory ability has undergone targeted training after the last three blood drinking, followed by mutation and evolution, and has been greatly improved.

However, limited by the equipment and methods, he could not make accurate tests and statistics. He used his mobile phone to download an APP that can emit sound at a frequency of 1-22000 Hz, but this can only test the frequency range of the sound he hears. Fa completely test the overall improvement of his hearing. He also used a fixed sound source as a reference, and then extended the distance, using the farthest distance that can be heard as the criterion. However, this judgment method requires a relatively fixed and stable environment, which is susceptible to interference and difficult to accurately test.

　　 The sense of smell is the same, and only a more subjective approximate test can be done.

　　 Xiang Kun, lying on the balcony tiles, closed his eyes, relaxed his body muscles, and focused all his attention on hearing and smell, primary hearing and secondary smell.

　　 The sound came rushing forward like a flood discharge from a reservoir, all kinds of noises intertwined, and the smell was the same.

　　 The human brain has a very mature mechanism for processing external information. It can be said to be a protection mechanism or a lazy mechanism.

　　 When the attention is not on sounds and smells, although the auditory and olfactory organs have been collecting information, this information will be weakened, filtered or even blocked by the brain.

　　 And when the attention is focused on sound and smell, it can concentrate and enhance the transmission of information according to the information that the attention is focused on, and shield other influences.

　　 But it is one thing to hear a sound, smell a scent, and lock a sensory information. How to make a judgment based on this sensory information is another matter.

　　 is like sitting alone at home and hearing a car roaring by outside the house.

　　 If he is attracted by this sound, then he will subconsciously show a picture of a car driving fast on the road outside the house.

　　 This picture can appear because he is familiar with the road outside the house, he has also heard the sound of cars, and seen cars speeding on the road outside the house.

And if you are more familiar with the sound of car engines and exhaust sounds, you can even directly tell whether the car outside is a four-cylinder or a six-cylinder engine, whether it is a Ford or a Toyota, a broken diesel truck or a supercar, and the picture constructed in your mind will also More specific and rich.

And this person sitting at home, hearing the crisp sound of footsteps upstairs, would tell that the sound was high heels. If he hadn't seen the residents upstairs, he might have a young girl in his mind. Long legs walking around in high heels, but if you see the resident upstairs is a fifty-year-old aunt, then when you hear the sound of high-heeled shoes, it is a scene of a fifty-year-old aunt walking around.

　　 The brain will make necessary "brain supplements" based on its own "database", experience, logic and instinct.

　　 So it is one thing to be able to collect sensory information, but whether this information is really useful and help the brain make judgments is another matter.

The reason why Xiang Kun lies directly on the ground is not because there are no chairs to move out, no blankets to spread on the ground, but because in this kind of reinforced concrete building, besides the air, the walls and the ground are the main sources of sound transmission. Medium, so lying on the ground, directly touching the ground, you can more easily hear the sound of the whole building.

Hearing all kinds of messy sounds, Xiang Kun carefully distinguished, and slowly screened, starting from the nearest voice, first the nearest downstairs 608. The voice seemed to be a middle-aged couple talking about going to university in the north. His son, and the news is broadcast on TV.

　　 To the side, the next door was silent. There was no sound of footsteps, no sound of electrical appliances, no voice, and no breathing, but there was the sound of curtains being blown. It should be that the window closed, and the owner did not return.

　　 Then he heard the voice of the little fat girl Liu Shiling he had seen during the day, so he located the place where she was speaking at 706-he knew that the little fat girl's home was 706.

　　 Judging from the sound, the little chubby girl is at home with her mother. Her mother is urging her to take a bath, but she still refuses to move while watching cartoons in front of the TV.

　　 Using 706 as the anchor point, Xiang Kun continued to distinguish the sound he heard and made a judgment.

When he hears footsteps, he can judge others based on the structure of his own home and other reference sounds, such as the sound of turning on the tap, the sound of turning on the gas, the sound of lifting the cup, and the sound of other electrical appliances being turned on. Where in the home, and even in what kind of mobile trend.

At the same time, he can also use the smell to assist in his judgment. For example, he heard the sound of someone colliding with a spatula and cooking food in 402, and then he can judge what the other person is cooking, even the taste. Can guess seven or eight.

　　 And the mutual verification of smell and sound can also help him determine the position more accurately.

　　 Time passed bit by bit. From the outside, the lights in the entire community gradually went out and decreased, and the voices and movements of each household gradually decreased.

　　 It was just after one o'clock in the morning that Xiang Kun opened his eyes, sat up from the ground, and stretched.

　　 He has used the sound and smell to "walk around" the whole building, every household. Although the only people who have really met, said their first names, and have known each other so far are Liu Shiling, a little fat girl of 706, but this evening, through the sound and smell, he recognized almost everyone, even a lot. "Secrets".

　　 Of course, Xiang Kun did this not to explore the privacy of others, but to train.

　　 Just like the increase in muscle circumference, he began to train endurance and agility. After the rapid increase in sensory ability, he needs to train the brain's ability to process the sensory information obtained.

　　 is like two professional athletes with the same weight and similar muscle content. Because they are engaged in different sports, they perform different trainings, and the methods of exerting force are different, and the results of exerting force are naturally different. The punches of professional boxers are naturally heavier than professional basketball players, and the ability of professional basketball players to complete basketball moves at the same level of confrontation is definitely better than professional boxers.

　　 So Xiang Kun knew that it was useless to just increase the sensory ability. He still needs to practice and know how to apply this powerful sensory ability.

　　 The first stage is to collect the “samples” of sounds and smells that were not available before, and establish a “database” to become the instinct of smell and hearing. Most of it has been completed.

　　 The second stage is what he is doing now, how to use sound and smell to help Xiang Kun judge the surrounding environment and situation, and become his "super eye".

Even if it takes him five or six hours to "walk around" a building now, when he is familiar with it, maybe only a second or two, he can quickly locate anyone in the building by sound and smell, even in Real-time holographic images of the entire building are built in the brain.

　　 Xiangkun has discovered that as his sensory abilities evolve, his brain is also evolving. At least now, when he is immersed in multiple sounds at the same time, he will no longer have the nausea and dizziness at the beginning.

At 7:30 the next morning, Xiang Kun went out with a sports bag on his back, ready to go to the gym. Although it is far away from the previous gym, it would take at least 40 to 50 minutes to take the subway and then transfer to the bus. I don't plan to change places to exercise. After all, the membership card has already been issued, but there is no way to refund.

　　 And he didn't plan to go by car, but was going to run directly. This running process is also a training process.

　　 After going out, Xiang Kun happened to see Liu Shiling of 706 also going out. Behind her was a plump-bodied young woman who was six to seven points similar to her. It should be her mother.

　　 "Uncle Bald!" Liu Shiling ran over to greet Xiang Kun when she saw Xiang Kun.

When she heard this greeting, her mother was embarrassed immediately, and hurriedly came over and said: "Oh, sorry, the child is not sensible and call me arbitrarily. Are you a new tenant of 708? You will be a neighbor in the future, if you need help , Just say it."

　　 The little fat girl ran to press the elevator, and Xiang Kunze chatted with Shiling's mother for a while, knowing that they actually moved in this year at 706, which was the house they bought. Liu Shiling's father was a construction worker and was often away from home, while Shiling's mother was a full-time housewife, mainly with the only child.

　　 Xiang Kun also made a simple introduction, saying that he is a programmer and has been working for seven years, but he did not tell her that he is still unemployed.

They didn’t wait long. There are two elevators in one unit here, and soon there will be a downward elevator arriving ~www.novelmtl.com~ With a ding-dong, the elevator door opened, but a dog's head stretched out, eager to stand. Liu Shiling, who was about to go in at the elevator door, was taken aback. After taking two steps back, he almost fell. Xiang Kun on the side hurriedly took hold of her.

Looking back, there was a young girl in the elevator in her twenties, holding an adult Husky. The Husky was obviously very excited. When the elevator door opened, she wanted to rush out. The girl was playing with a mobile phone with one hand, but she almost didn't hold it. .

　　 "PINKIE! PINKIE! STOP! Don't move!" The girl used her hands to hold the dog and shouted loudly.

　　 But the Huskies kept thinking about it, and the little fat girl outside the elevator was obviously frightened, with a timid appearance, holding Xiang Kun’s thighs and afraid to speak.

Shiling's mother obviously knew the dog-holding girl, and frowned, "Miss Yang, your dog must be pulled properly. The elevator is such a small space, the dog is so big, the child is so small, what should I do if I was bitten and rushed? ..."

　　Ms. Yang pulled the dog, and said without looking up: "It's okay, PINKIE just wants to play with children and won't bite people. I will hold it!...PINKIE! STOP! SIT! Hurry up!"

　　 Shiling’s mother was obviously not complaining to this Miss Yang for the first time, and she knew it was of no use, so she pressed the elevator and said to Kun, “You go down first, let’s wait for the next elevator.”

　　 Xiangkun took the little fat girl by the hand and walked into the elevator together.

At first the little chubby girl was a little scared and reluctant to go in, but when she saw the husky who was very lively and eager just now, Miss Yang couldn't hold her back, she suddenly shrank behind Miss Yang, her dog's head pressed against the elevator wall. , Seems to be still shaking.

　　 Xiangkun turned around and said to Shiling's mother: "It's okay, let's come in together."