What It’s Like Being a Vampire

It was around 8:40 p.m. when the four of them arrived at "Youlong Hotel".

If it were normal, there should be many guests in "Youlong Hotel", but today the hotel closed its door early and put up a "Closed for Business" sign.

After You Meng saw the video of the flight accident and related news on his mobile phone, and confirmed that Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhener were on that passenger plane, he was in no mood to go back to the kitchen.

Although most of the dish production has been streamlined now, the impact of his presence or absence will not be great. After all, they have now opened two branches. But You Meng is not the only one who knows Xiang Kun. The management and old clerks in the store also know Xiang Kun. Every time they develop new dishes, Xiang Kun comes over to give personal guidance, configure and optimize the process.

Now you know that Xiang Kun, Miss Tang, and Miss Yang are all on that passenger plane. In addition, the boss and the wife of the boss are not interested in business and have been staying in the box upstairs. The atmosphere of the whole store is not right, and everyone is not thinking about it. On what you do.

So You Meng asked Liang Yulong to suspend the business. Customers who had already ordered and had their dishes served would be free of charge and given 100 coupons to help with packing; those who had ordered but not yet been served would be given 500 coupons and compressed packaging. Smoked rabbit legs; people queuing up outside the door are also given different coupons with face values ​​ranging from 300-100 depending on the number they take. There is no single use limit for these coupons. If you spend 500 at a time, you can get the full 500 directly. Therefore, most customers have no objection.

Of course, there are also those who feel dissatisfied that their meal was interrupted and want an explanation. However, when they learned that the boss’s friend was on the plane that had the accident, they immediately expressed their understanding.

The video and related news about the accident of the passenger plane from Pengcheng to Jianzhou have already been widely circulated on the Internet, especially people from Tongshi Town, which belongs to Jianzhou City. Many people directly posted it in their respective WeChat groups and circles of friends. Post relevant news, after all, people in Tongshi Town want to go to other provinces, and if they take a plane, they basically go to Jianzhou Airport. This is something that happens around them.

To put it bluntly, if one of his relatives and friends were on that plane, they wouldn't be able to continue working.

So soon, all the guests left and the store door was closed again. Only the hotel staff and people who knew Xiang Kun such as Xia Tianhuo and Chu Xiuwen were left in the store. They moved from the private rooms to the lobby on the first floor and gathered together to wait. information.

Zhao Feng and Wang De'an naturally stayed behind, secretly using their mobile phones to use the "Shenxing Technology" channel to find out more practical news.

Fortunately, not long after the store suspended operations, they saw the news of the successful landing of the passenger plane, and saw the video of the passenger plane landing safely. For a while, the store burst into cheers and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Then You Meng called Xiang Kun's cell phone again.

After learning that he, Tang Baona and Yang Zhener had gotten off the plane and were all fine and uninjured, they made an appointment to have dinner at the hotel.

You Meng calculated the time for their departure from the airport, and also worked with the hotel staff to prepare a table of steaming meals, which Xiang Kun and the others could start eating as soon as they arrived at the restaurant.

"I'm starving to death! I'm starving to death!" As soon as he entered the store, Yang Zhener couldn't wait to rush to the table of dishes that had just been placed in the hall.

Originally, they were expected to arrive at Copperstone Town around seven o'clock, which would be a good time to have dinner. Who would have thought that such an incident would make them arrive so late. I was scared on the plane before, and then I was immersed in the excitement and joy of discovering Lao Xia's secret. I didn't care about being hungry. But when I was about to arrive at Tongshi Town, Yang Zhener's stomach was already so hungry. I can't bear it anymore, and I feel like I can swallow a cow.

Tang Baona and Xia Libing were relatively more reserved, but they were still so hungry that their eyes turned blue. After entering the store, they did not bother to say more greetings to their friends. They drank a bowl of hot soup and then started eating staple food to fill their stomachs.

But their looks made Liang Yulong very happy: "I feel relieved to see you like this. If it were me, I would probably be so scared that I can't even eat."

"Indeed, look at the situation of the plane in the video. It fell straight down and the engine was still on fire. It was really scary." Xia Tianhuo also nodded repeatedly. Although he complained about Yang Laosan every day, he was really worried about her safety.

Yang Zhener raised his head with a mouth full of food and replied vaguely: "No matter how long it takes, you have to call me again!"

Xia Tianhuo asked again: "By the way, Yang Laosan, on the way you guys came from the airport, I watched a video of the media interviewing several passengers on your flight. They all said that a little girl appeared on the plane. Outside the plane, they guarded the plane and prevented the birds from blowing up the remaining engine, and then the plane landed safely. Have you seen the little girl? There are a lot of doubts on the Internet, saying that at that height, There's no way anyone could stand outside an airplane without protection, let alone a little girl."

Yang Zhener looked at him with a confused expression: "I don't know. I was probably petrified at the time and didn't notice what was going on outside. Just ask Nana." After that, he winked at Lao Xia secretly. , but Lao Xia was immersed in eating and didn't even see her "asking for credit" look in her eyes.

Tang Baona also shook her head: "I didn't pay attention either. I was so scared... that I closed my eyes! Just ask Xiang Kun!" Then she continued to eat.

So in the lobby on the first floor, Xia Tianhuo, You Meng, Liang Yulong, Chu Xiuwen, Liu Caifu, including Zhao Feng, Wang De'an and others all turned their attention to Xiang Kun, who was the slowest to eat among the four. , waiting for his answer.

Because he now has enhanced subtle control over his body, Xiang Kun no longer needs to rely on small pebbles that have established a supersensory connection to "soothe his stomach" to suppress vomiting when eating. He can directly control the movement of food residues in his intestines and stomach. Although It is still unable to be directly digested and absorbed, and it will still have to be vomited out in the end, but at least it can be done naturally when eating and drinking, and there is no need to endure the severe discomfort in the stomach like when using pebbles to suppress it.

Facing everyone's expectant gazes, Xiang Kun smiled and wiped his mouth before saying, "I'm not sure. I seemed to be so scared that I fell asleep."

When Yang Zhener, who was eating, heard this, suddenly the rice spurted out of his nostrils, and then he coughed repeatedly and choked.

You Meng couldn't help but complain: "Holy crap! The plane is about to fall, how can you still fall asleep?"

Xiang Kun chuckled and said, "I guess I fainted from fright."

This time Tang Baona also puffed and choked on the soup.

No one took Xiang Kun's words too seriously. Anyway, the plane was in such chaos and the situation was so critical that it was normal for Xiang Kun and the three of them not to notice if there was anyone outside. Moreover, the online media interviews may also be deliberately staged. Those interviewed may not be the real passengers on the flight. They may be here to make headlines. Otherwise, the idea that there are people standing outside the plane is too mysterious and exaggerated. .

Then Zhao Feng took the initiative to say hello to Xiang Kun and Xia Libing: "Mr. Xiang and Doctor Xia, I never expected that we would meet here again."

Xiang Kun looked at Zhao Feng and was stunned for a moment. It seemed that he had to recall it for two seconds before he recognized it: "Ah! You are... you are Officer Zhao!"

Of course, he had actually known for a long time that Zhao Feng and Wang De'an had come to Tongshi Town to meet Xia Tianhuo. Even when the two brothers followed Ye Zijun to shoot a documentary, interview Chinese tourists who saw the vision of Montamira's eight-armed eight-eyed giant, and went to see Old Man Du twice, he knew the situation early through Alice.

Coincidentally, Ye Zijun and Old Man Du are both associates of the secondary emotional object network under the "Eight Arms and Eight Eyes Wooden Sculpture" in his "Supersensory Object System".

And the reason why old man Du was able to come out of the ICU several times, and suddenly reverse his condition even when the doctors thought there was no hope, and he was in good spirits and even able to get up and walk on his own, was also due to Xiang Kun's " operate".

Old Man Du was the first "criminal" to be influenced by the emotional projection of the "Eight-Armed and Eight-Eyed Wooden Sculpture" and surrendered. Compared with those who were later affected by emotional projection in the real world, "Old Man Du" was in Relatively speaking, the extent of being affected in dreams is not that profound. But what is strange is that as time goes by, the influence on Old Man Du becomes stronger and stronger. Because of this, when Xiang Kun was able to sense the secondary network associates under the "Qingzhuwu", Old Man Du quickly became one of them.

Xiang Kun didn't have any special impressions of this old liar. He had done a lot of bad things before and deceived a lot of people, but he had surrendered and confessed his crimes, helping the police bring down the entire fraud organization and the huge network of connections behind it. He turned over all his illegal gains, served his sentence obediently in prison, and paid the price for what he had done.

Xiang Kun would not treat him as one of his own and trust him just because he had established a connection with the "Eight Arms and Eight Eyes Woodcarving" in the secondary emotional network.

However, when Old Man Du was admitted to the ICU due to his illness, Xiang Kun was notified by Alice and happened to be free. Moreover, because of the large-scale launch of "Super Connected Things" around the world during that time, Old Man Du's hospital and his nearby There are also many new connections or newly launched "super-connected objects" that can be called, and Xiang Kun enters the "super-sensory state", which has some influence on the cognitive information of Old Man Du's body.

As for how to use "super-connected things" to influence the cognitive information of humans or other creatures in the "super-sensory state", thereby changing the physical status of other creatures, treating various diseases and even improving body functions, with the development of Xiang Kun has already made some basic assumptions about analyzing and mastering a large amount of cognitive information.

However, for these ideas to be implemented, detailed research on the cognitive information of various specific diseases and cancers is required. A large number of experiments are required to summarize usable and reliable capability models, and then form fixed and reliable application capabilities.

But firstly, this is not the highest priority problem to be solved. Secondly, if there is no suitable target for the experiment, and he is not sure what the side effects will be, he dare not try it on real people.

As for Old Man Du's condition at that time, Xiang Kun was sure that if he didn't do any intervention, it would be 100% GG, so he didn't have any psychological burden and decided to try it to see if he could figure out several ways to target humans. Extrasensory information editing model for physical illness.

Xiang Kun didn't expect to save Old Man Du at first. After all, Old Man Du was really in a state of despair at that time. There were so many diseases all over his body that it was impossible for him to overcome them one by one in a short period of time and save Du. It would have been good if the old man left a little peacefully.

But what he didn't expect was that when he really started to influence or even edit Old Man Du's physical cognitive information with the help of Alice, he found that he didn't really need to solve the various illnesses that Old Man Du suffered from one by one. It is not necessary to understand the cognitive information expression of each body part and each disease.

He can treat Old Man Du as a whole, a small system, and then guide his overall and outermost cognitive information to define a goal for him: to move towards a healthier living state.

However, Xiang Kun is very clear about the cognitive information expression of human beings' outermost states of healthy living, morbid living, and death. He can also make a perfect analysis and define the goals very accurately.

So after he defined it in this way, under the coordination of Alice, all the "hyperconnected things" in the hospital and around Old Man Du began to use this as their goal to affect Old Man Du's body cognitive information.

The various microscopic components of his body also began to undergo some very subtle changes under this influence, as if they were spontaneously working toward a goal. Although each lesion has not completely disappeared and various ailments have not been completely cured, the overall situation has entered a state of "not unusable".

So old man Du came out of the ICU in such an "unbelievable" way, and then he got better day by day, and he was even able to walk on his own with a walker.

From the perspective of doctors, this is a "medical miracle" that they cannot understand for the time being.

For Xiang Kun, Old Man Du is a mobile "supersensory information disease analysis database". Alice can use his body changes to analyze and decode the cognitive information changes of a specific single disease bit by bit. Relying on this, it may be possible to find a model that actually edits and removes specific ailments through supersensory information.

Of course, Old Man Du's "pseudo-healthy" state requires continuous influence and support from the surrounding "super-connected things". Otherwise, his body will instantly enter a normal state of evolution and die quickly.

So he has to live in an environment with enough "hyperlinked objects" around him to maintain this state.

Fortunately, he himself had no plans and no way to leave the hospital, and Xiang Kun's "super-connected things" were now covering an increasingly wider area. For the time being, he thought that even if he took the initiative to go to places that were not covered by "super-connected things" areas are not easy.

In Youlong Hotel, Zhao Feng did not realize that Xiang Kun's unexpected reaction was staged. He smiled and said, "I am no longer a policeman. I came to Tongshi Town with my colleagues to meet Mr. Xia today. I didn't expect such a coincidence." , Dr. Xia is Mr. Xia’s sister, and she happened to encounter such a thing. Mr. Xiang, you are really auspicious, and you can survive any crisis safely. "

"Indeed, I'm just lucky." Xiang Kun nodded with a smile.

To be honest, he feels quite cordial to Zhao and Wang, and what these two experienced during this period, their general thoughts, and their purpose, their views on the "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster", and their He was also very clear about the attitude of various "mutated creatures" and special events. Therefore, when they wanted to go to Copperstone Town to find Xia Tianhuo, he did not create obstacles for them. Otherwise, as long as he told Alice With one sound, let the clues that lead the two of them away from Tongshi Town and Chongyun Village prevent them from meeting him.

Zhao Feng shook his head and said with a smile: "Last time in Citong City, the case you and Dr. Xia encountered was safe and sound in the end, not because of luck, but entirely because of strength."

As he spoke, under the puzzled looks of You Meng and others, Zhao Feng told Xiang Kun that on the night of the twelfth lunar month of the previous year, he and Xia Libing blocked two armed assailants in an alley and beat them to tears, and even deliberately It exaggerated a little bit the pitiful appearance of the two murderers who were beaten by Xiang Kun when they arrived after receiving the police.