What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Pengcheng City.

In a conference room on the 10th floor of an office building, eight people, including Zhang Qian and Tang Baona, were having a meeting to discuss several temporary problems.

However, the expressions on the faces of several people were relatively relaxed. After all, the problems they encountered were not big problems and time was not urgent.

Only Yang Zhener, who was sitting in the corner of the conference table and looking at his notebook, had a solemn expression on his face, as if he felt that the problem was serious and was dissatisfied with the way Tang Baona and Zhang Qian discussed.

However, until the discussion of the issue was over, Tang Baona, Zhang Qian, and everyone else in the conference room stood up and started to pack their things to leave, she did not say a word, she just closed the laptop silently, and then followed Tang Baona Leave as if she were just a minute-taker.

Zhang Qian and others had to take the elevator down to the underground parking lot to drive, but Tang Baona and Yang Zhener were staying in a hotel near the office building, within walking distance, so they said goodbye and separated on the first floor.

After leaving the door of the office building, Tang Baona glanced at Yang Zhener, who was carrying a backpack and still squinting her eyes as if she had something on her mind. She couldn't help but smile and said, "When we were having a meeting just now, what were you reading that was very heavy and tragic?" Is it social news? Why are you always looking so grim?"

Yang Zhener was stunned when he heard this, and then said unconvinced: "Hey? Why are you wronging people? Am I the kind of person who openly watches the news and fishes when other people are meeting to discuss business! I can't be watching Company documents, are you thinking about the issues you discussed? Maybe I have unique insights! No one of you asked me for my opinion just now!"

"So, 'Manager Yang,' what do you think?" Tang Baona asked, making a virtual fist with her right fist and pretending to hold a microphone and hand it over.

Yang Zhener stopped, leaned back slightly, glared at her, and said, "This is not in the conference room, and Zhang Qian and the others are not here either. It's useless for me to just tell you, don't tell me!"

"Ouch, are you still being naughty?" Tang Baona said, went over and put her arms around Yang Zhen'er's neck, pulled her towards her, and said with a smile, "Come on, in the conference room just now, I blocked the glass from behind you. The reflection of the screen shows what you are watching on the screen. You are reading news with pictures and texts! You are browsing Weibo! You are also browsing Zhihu! There is also a white background, what website is it from? "

"I'm not! I didn't!" Yang Zhener also put her arms around Tang Baona's neck and said shamelessly.

"If you still don't admit it, take out your computer and look at the browser history. There are browsing times on it!" Tang Baona used force in reverse, strangled Yang Zhener's neck, and laughed.

Yang Zhener was pinched under the armpit by Nana first, losing her positional advantage and unable to exert her strength.

Unable to resist, he had to reach down and scratch her waist.

Tang Baona smiled and bounced away, then reached out to grab her computer bag.

While hiding, Yang Zhener said with a "serious" expression: "Stop making trouble for now, let me tell you a big, big, big thing I discovered!"

"What's the matter? The show you were chasing was cut off, or the peripherals you wanted to buy were out of stock, or your mother asked you to go back to get married, your father asked you to go back to inherit the family business, and all the points on your driver's license were deducted. Did you forget to have your car inspected for the year?" Tang Baona obviously felt that she was changing the subject, so she naturally joked casually.

Yang Zhener ignored his friend's teasing and continued to maintain a serious expression: "It's related to Chef Xiang. Do you remember the news about Myanmar that we talked about when we were eating at noon? The one about riots and the appearance of monsters? "

Tang Baona asked strangely: "You mean many people saw hallucinations in Mentamila? What does that have to do with Xiang Kun?"

When they had dinner with Zhang Qian and others at noon, Director Lin casually talked about the news, but he just briefly mentioned that there was a riot in Mengtamila, Myanmar, and then there was an illusion of a huge monster, which scared the mob. , stopped the riot.

However, because they had other things to talk about at the time, they only mentioned this topic casually. Director Lin did not go into details, and the others did not discuss it in depth.

After all, it happened in another country, and to Tang Baona, any monster hallucinations or hallucinations sounded like some kind of group confusion, and it was not information that she would pay attention to and be curious about.

"Do you know what the monster hallucination that appeared in Montamila looks like?" Yang Zhener came over and said mysteriously.

"Since it's an illusion, does it matter what it looks like?" Tang Baona asked strangely.

Yang Zhener shook his head: "Many, many people in several blocks have seen similar hallucinations, and they are not just hallucinations. Did you know that the monster hallucinations they saw all have one characteristic, eight arms, eight arms? Only eyes! How are you, did you remember something? "

Tang Baona frowned slightly: "You mean, the wood sculpture that Xiang Kun carved before?"

"Yes, yes, he was the one who carved the eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture that was given to your grandpa. Later, didn't your second uncle secretly send the wooden sculpture to others for practice, and then you found out that he wanted to come back? Didn't you I told you, Chef Xiang, that the image with eight arms and eight eyes was designed by himself?" Yang Zhener nodded repeatedly.

"He did say it back then, but the image of eight eyes and eight arms shouldn't be unique to his wood carving, right?" Tang Baona said.

Yang Zhener took out her cell phone, checked it for a while, and then showed it to her: "Look, this is the wood carving from Chef Xiang before."

When Xiang Kun gave the eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture to Tang Baona, she took several photos of it and even sent it to Lao Xia to ask her to help analyze it. Xiang Kun created such an image of the wooden sculpture. What kind of psychology is it based on?

In addition to the photo of the eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture taken before, Yang Zhener moved the picture again to show Tang Baona another picture she had just found.

That picture was also a monster with eight arms and eight eyes. It was obviously drawn by someone with painting skills. Although it was not colored, it still looked very realistic.

If you look at the previous wood carving photo first, and then look at this drawing, comparing the two, no matter who you are, will feel that they are different artistic expressions of the same thing.

"This was drawn by someone who witnessed Menta Mira last night. This picture is the image she saw. How about it, it is basically the same as Chef Xiang's wood carving! And this..." Yang Zhener added She took her phone back, searched on the browser, and then handed the video she found to Tang Baona: "Look at this, this is a 3D image restored by a foreign media based on the descriptions of several other witnesses. Isn't it basically the same?" ?”

Tang Baona frowned slightly: "It's a bit similar...but the wood carving made by Xiang Kun is much cuter...this painting and the 3D drawing...should be just a coincidence, right?"

Yang Zhener immediately said: "When you were having a meeting just now, I searched online. Generally speaking, statues with many arms have three eyes, multiple arms, or three heads, six arms, or three heads and eight arms. I have been looking for it for a long time, but there is nothing. Find an image with eight eyes and eight arms at the same time. The only one with similar characteristics... is the spider."

"So what you're saying is that the hallucinations and illusions that so many people in Mentamila saw were caused by Xiang Kun? Why did he do that? How did he do it?" Tang Baona asked.

"Needless to say, of course it's to stop Menta Mira's riot against the Chinese!" Yang Zhen'er said, lowering her voice, standing next to Tang Baona, holding her arm, and whispered: "Nana, Do you remember what I told you last time that Chef Xiang might have joined some secret organization with superpowers? To quell the riots should be the task given to him by the secret organization! Hey, Nana, do you remember that we watched it together before? Is it JOJO? You said you couldn’t accept the painting style and only watched two episodes. I watched the rest by myself. In fact, you can accept the painting style after watching it for a while... Anyway, in the third part, inside The abilities of the strong are completed by a kind of phantom called a "substitute". Do you think that monster with eight arms and eight eyes could be Chef Xiang's "substitute"? We usually see Chef Xiang doing it. When he was cooking, making wood carvings, or doing many other things, he actually summoned a 'substitute' to do the work, but we couldn't see it..."

Tang Baona frowned slightly at first and listened very seriously because she also felt that the paintings drawn by Mentamila's witnesses and the 3D images made by the media were quite similar to the eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture that Xiang Kun had carved before. At least the overall structure is basically the same. But as she listened, she couldn't help laughing and bent over, and Zhen'er began to overthink again.

"Let's go have some supper first. I'm starving. You can have sex while you eat." Tang Baona walked up behind Yang Zhen'er and pushed her forward.

"Where to eat? I want to drink soup, but that place is a bit far away. It's too late now. Let's eat beef noodles... Wait a minute, what the hell! I'm seriously analyzing the problem, okay?"

After finding a noodle shop nearby and ordering something, Yang Zhener continued to "perfect" her reasoning.

But seeing Tang Baona's squinted eyes and smiling expression, Yang Zhener couldn't help but ask: "Nana, don't you still believe what I said? Doesn't what I say make sense?"

"No, if you want to confirm, can't you just ask Xiang Kun directly?" Tang Baona said with a smile.

"While you were having the meeting, I had already sent him more than a dozen WeChat messages, but he didn't reply to any of them! And I also asked Liu Chuang on WeChat. He is still in Tongshi Town, but he said that he wanted to ask the chef I haven’t gone to Youlong Hotel for two days! I also asked Lao Xia, but Lao Xia hasn’t replied to me yet," Yang Zhener said.

"Can't you just call him directly?" Tang Baona said.

"That won't work...then...then let's scare the snake away!"

Tang Baona smiled and said, "Are you afraid that Xiang Kun will expose your childish guess directly?" She said, directly picked up the phone, found Xiang Kun's name in the call history and dialed it.

"Huh?!" Yang Zhener was startled, quickly got up, moved next to Tang Baona, put his head close to her phone, and listened.

"...The subscriber you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please try again later. Sorry, The subscriber you dialed..."

Listening to the female voice notification coming from Nana's cell phone, Yang Zhener chuckled, walked back to his seat and sat down, and said: "Look, it appeared again. The phone can't be connected, and the person disappeared. , every once in a while, there will always be one or two days or even several days like this! It must be to 'perform a mission'!"

Tang Baona frowned and thought for a while, then she was about to call Lao Xia to ask. She knew that Lao Xia was helping Xiang Kun to set up a breeding research center. During this time, he was either staying in Tongshi Town or Chongyun Village. She should be interested in Xiang Kun's whereabouts. It will be clearer.

But before she pressed the dial button, Yang Zhener's cell phone rang opposite her.

Yang Zhener picked up the phone and looked at it. She was stunned for a moment and said to Tang Baona: "It's my mother... Strange, why did my mother call me so late?"

"Is there something urgent? Hurry up and pick it up!" Tang Baona urged.

After Yang Zhener answered her mother's call, she didn't say a few words, but her expression became more and more surprised. She chatted with her mother for a while before hanging up the phone.

Tang Baona asked with concern: "Someone in your family has been kidnapped?" Judging from the few words Yang Zhener said when she talked to her mother just now, it seemed that someone in her family had been kidnapped, but strangely, judging from the tone of their exchange, , it doesn’t look like it’s urgent.

Yang Zhener moved a chair from opposite Tang Baona to her side, and whispered: "You also know the person who was kidnapped. It's my silly big cousin, 'Big Guy' Xia Tianhuo. But he's fine now. He has been rescued. He was actually kidnapped in Myanmar three days ago..."

Tang Baona immediately caught the key word, frowned and asked: "Burma?"

"You've thought of it too, right? That's right, it's Myanmar, and it's in Menta Mira!" Yang Zhen'er lowered her voice, but couldn't suppress her excited and excited tone.

"We were just talking about Myanmar, so of course we're thinking about that. Who was your cousin kidnapped by, and how was he rescued?" Tang Baona asked, and this time her curiosity was also captured by Yang. Zhen'er was aroused.

Yang Zhener said: "My mother just found out. The specific details are not clear yet. It seems that she has been kidnapped for three days. But you know, the first person my silly brother asked the kidnappers to call was not me. Uncle, aunt and others, but Lao Xia!"

"So... your cousin was rescued because of Lao Xia? But Lao Xia is still in the country, right?"

"I don't know, but if the person who knew my cousin was kidnapped was Lao Xia for the first time, then Chef Xiang would probably also know it for the first time!" Yang Zhener became more and more excited: "Then Chef Xiang happened to be in Mengta Mira was performing an organizational task and got Lao Xia's call for help, so she rescued 'Big Man' by the way!"

Tang Baona rolled her eyes at her: "You're here again! If according to what you said before, Xiang Kun's mobile phone couldn't be reached when he was 'performing a mission', then how did Lao Xia contact him? How did he let him know that your cousin was kidnapped? What happened? And they happened to be in Montamira? Is it such a coincidence? "

Yang Zhener was stunned and nodded: "Yes! Could it be that Chef Xiang was entrusted by Lao Xia and ran to Montamila to save the 'big guy', and then the people in their organization said, 'Oh Brother Xiang, It's time for you to carry out a mission, what? Are you in Myanmar, in Menta Mira? That's just right, there is a mission over there, you can solve it by the way." So after saving the 'big guy', he conveniently went to Menta Mira Put an end to the riot!"

"Call and ask Lao Xiabai to see where Xiang Kun is now and if he knows about this." Tang Baona said.

"That makes sense!" Yang Zhener called Lao Xia's cell phone, but after one ring, she was not picked up.

"I guess Lao Xia is already asleep, right?"

"No, during the previous meeting, I sent her a WeChat message and she didn't reply. She didn't go to bed so early." Yang Zhener said and dialed again.

After several rings this time, the phone finally picked up.

…

Xia Libing sat up from the bed, looked at his cell phone that kept ringing, and then looked at Xiang Kun who was laying on the floor not far away, thought for a while, and pressed the connect button.

"Lao Xia! What are you doing?" Yang Zhener's somewhat anxious and slightly excited voice came from the receiver.

"Sleeping." Xia Libing replied matter-of-factly.

"Huh? Didn't you stay up very late before? Were you always in the group at two o'clock in the morning?"

"I didn't sleep well yesterday." Xia Libing said.

"By the way, I just heard from my mother that Big Man was kidnapped? And the call from the kidnapper asking for money was made directly to your mobile phone? Did you inform others?"

"Yes." Xia Libing responded.

"Who was the 'big guy' kidnapped, and who rescued him?" Yang Zhener asked hurriedly.

"When he returns to China, you can ask him yourself. He will know better." Xia Libing said.

"Where's Chef Xiang? Where is Chef Xiang now?" Yang Zhener continued to ask.

Xia Libing replied without any pause: "He went to Nande City the day before yesterday."

"Nande City? Isn't it Menta Mira?" Yang Zhen'er on the other side of the phone seemed very surprised.

"Why Monta Mira?"

"Isn't it you who asked Xiang Kun to go to Montamila to rescue Big Man?" Yang Zhener asked.

"I didn't ask him to ask, why do you think so?" Xia Libing asked.

"Have you read the discussions on the Internet? Last night in Mentamila, many people saw a vision of a figure with eight arms and eight eyes. An eyewitness drew a picture, which is very similar to Xiang Kun's original wood sculpture! So I suspect, What happened to Monta Mira was done by Chef Xiang in order to complete the mission of the secret organization he belonged to! Do you remember what I told you last time? Xiang Kun may have had some adventure last year and joined a secret organization..."

The more Yang Zhener talked, the more excited she became, and she re-described her earlier guesses and what she had just said to Tang Baona to Xia Libing, while describing and improving her guesses.

At the end, Yang Zhener said: "Lao Xia, during your time in Chongyun Village, have you noticed anything wrong with Xiang Kun? Have you noticed that he often disappears, doesn't reply to WeChat messages, and can't make calls on his mobile phone?"

"I didn't find anything wrong." Xia Libing said, "His phone seems to be broken. When he comes back or buys a new phone, you can ask him yourself."

After ending the call with Yang Zhener, Xia Libing sat on the edge of the bed. With the light shining into the door from the living room, she looked at the woman sleeping on the ground, motionless, and not at all disturbed by the sound of her cell phone ringing and talking to her just now. Xiang Kun was thinking about something when he arrived.

She had only slept for more than two hours so far, which was naturally not enough sleep. However, after being awakened by her cousin's call, she did not go back to sleep immediately.

She didn't wonder why she fell asleep on the sofa before and now came to the bed - obviously it didn't matter whether Xiang Kun slept on the bed or not, so Xiang Kun put her on the bed to fully utilize the "resource" of the bed. use.

After getting up and pouring a cup of hot water in the living room, Xia Libing returned to the room and recorded some data on Xiang Kun who was lying on the ground, just like she did when Xiang Kun was sleeping while drinking blood.

Then she returned to the living room, sat on the sofa, looked at the laptop on the coffee table, and thought about something.

Yang Zhener's guess that part of that communication was close to the truth did not shock or surprise Xia Libing.

As the blood-drinking periods pass one after another, the mutations continue to deepen. Although Xiang Kun's appearance does not seem to have changed much from when he first met him, in fact, he has more and more abilities, allowing him to understand the world in a different way. Great changes have taken place in thinking efficiency and thinking angle.

With the continuous expansion and derivation of the "hyper-connected object system", this change is increasing subtly and at an extremely fast speed.

He didn't come into contact with many people before, and after his mutation, he deliberately kept a certain distance from most people. Only people with extremely strong insights can feel something like this with a very small amount of contact. What sets him apart.

But if you have a good relationship with him and have more communication and contact with someone, then no matter how slow you are, you will still find his peculiarity to some extent. This is almost unavoidable.

Even if they don't realize it subjectively due to habit, they will definitely be aware of it instinctively and subconsciously. Essentially, Xiang Kun's way of existing in this world is completely different from that of ordinary humans.

Xia Libing knew that not only cousin Zhen'er, but also Nana, Zicheng, Chang Bin, You Meng, and even Liu Caifu, Chu Xiuwen and others who had been in frequent contact with Chongyun Village recently, were somewhat aware of Xiang Kun's peculiarity.

It's just that the information they know is very limited, and they can use some reasons to explain the past and convince themselves. For people they are familiar with and trust, the human psychology itself will automatically repair and adapt to the cognition.

Xiang Kun must have considered these situations.

Xia Libing is thinking about another question now.

She had just come to the living room to get a drink of water and found her laptop, with the screen facing the door.

If Xiang Kun was using the computer when she was asleep, the screen should have been facing the sofa. There was only one row of sofas in her living room, and there was no place to sit on the other side.

And according to what she has always observed about Xiang Kun's habit of using laptops, he will take the initiative to close the laptop after using it for a certain period, such as when leaving home or going to eat, whether it is on or off. .

Since he was going to sleep after drinking blood, after using the computer, according to his habit, he should also close the computer. He would not leave it like this, and it would be facing the direction of the door in a weird way.

The computer screen was off, but it was still on and connected to the power cord. She clearly remembered that before Xiang Kun came back, her laptop was not connected to the power cord.

If other people saw this scene, most people wouldn't think much about it.

But Xia Libing thought of many things at once, such as the camera indicator light that suddenly turned on in Xiang Kun's home when he helped Xiang Kun drink blood for the first time while he was sleeping.

Like now, it seems that the screen of this laptop is facing the door, which makes no sense, but in fact the camera above the screen is also facing the door, although now it seems that the camera indicator light is not on.

During this time, in Chongyun Village, she spent most of her time with Xiang Kun, doing experiments on "Zero Zero One", "Zero Zero Two", and other creatures earlier, even when she was sleeping And when Xiang Kun didn't have to sleep, he basically knew what Xiang Kun was doing.

She was very sure that Xiang Kun did not have time to sit in front of the computer to write code, do design, and make modifications as needed, but Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, and Zhang Qian were still able to make modifications and iterations according to various opinions. The latest new game version, and it can be seen from their discussions that the game has evolved very much, and it is not just a small feature repair.

Xia Libing doesn't know much about programming or game production, but he still has some basic relevant knowledge. He has also played the game developed by Xiang Kun. Judging from the richness of functions, the degree and speed of version iterations of that game, now Xiang Kun didn't have the time to realize it.

So, he might have another team helping him?

But if that was the case, there was absolutely no need for him to hide it from Zhang Qian and Nana, let alone himself.

Unless that team is very special and knows the secret of Xiang Kun's mutation, and has been providing technical support, and even helping him monitor his own status, so that it cannot be exposed?

However, this guess was immediately rejected by her.

First of all, with Xiangkun's current economic situation, it is absolutely impossible to support a development or technical support team.

Secondly, she recalled the content of Xiang Kun's words, facial expressions, and actions before and after when he explained the mutation to her. She still believed that it was the first time Xiang Kun revealed this secret to others, and she was the first to know the secret of Xiang Kun's mutation. Man, so far, should remain the only one.

Otherwise, there are many things for which Xiang Kun would not be able to make such a choice.

So...how did Xiang Kun do certain things?

Xia Libing narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at his laptop.

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