What It’s Like Being a Vampire

After finishing the meal in the restaurant's private room, Zhang Qian called the waiter, cleared the table first, and served desserts. After closing the private room door again, she signaled to Yang Zhuo that he could start his "performance."

"Sister Qianqian, we can play some small quiz games first." Yang Zhuo took a new pair of poker cards that his sister took out from the bag, opened them and washed them in his hands, and said: "Sister Qianqian, you can Ask me three detailed questions about the surrounding scenery or people from the moment I entered the restaurant until now. Any questions are acceptable. For example, you can ask me how many floor tiles there are in a straight line from the restaurant door to the door of our private room. In the center of the restaurant hall There are several crystal balls in the chandelier, what pattern and color are the curtains on the side, etc.”

Zhang Qian was very interested. She thought about it and asked, "How many kettles and cups are there on the cabinet behind you?"

"Two kettles and six cups. When we entered the room just now, there was one kettle and six cups, but the waiter just brought another one in, so it should be two now." Yang Zhuo said with certainty.

Xiao Min, who was sitting next to Yang Zhuo, turned around, glanced at the cabinet behind them, and said with a smile: "It's really two kettles and six cups. That's the right answer!"

Zhang Qian asked again: "The waiter who just cleared the table, on which finger of which hand is the ring worn?"

Yang Zhuo replied immediately without any hesitation: "On the little finger of his right hand, there is a silver ring."

Xiao Min looked at Zhang Qian: "Sister Qianqian, is Xiao Zhuo's answer correct?"

Zhang Qian nodded and said with a smile: "Correct answer, it is indeed worn on the little finger of the right hand, awesome! The third question, what is the second dish we serve?"

This seemingly simple question, but Yang Zhuo thought about it for a few seconds, frowned slightly and said, "It's the tenderloin."

"Yes, the answer is correct." Zhang Qian applauded: "Okay, little brother, your observation and memory are so strong? Are you always memorizing things? Can you really remember how many bricks there are in this hotel from the door to the private room, and how many chandeliers are in the living room? How many crystal balls?”

Yang Zhuo smiled and said: "Of course these two don't remember. The waiter took us to the box as soon as we came in. I don't have time to count."

Zhang Qian was startled and said curiously: "Then you just said..."

Yang Zhuo said: "Because saying this will make it appear that I am very observant, have a good memory, and am very sure. If I were to ask Xiao Min, I would not ask this question. She would be very used to using the examples I gave to answer me." , but with your character, Sister Qianqian, you will definitely not ask those two questions directly.

"Sister Qianqian, if you ask questions, you will definitely not ask questions that cannot be verified or that are difficult to verify, but questions that you know the answer to or can be verified immediately.

"We just got off the car in the parking lot, and when my sister suggested that I perform a 'performance,' I already thought about playing this question-and-answer 'game,' so I asked you at that time, have you been to this restaurant before? You said no, which means that you also need to obtain the on-site environmental information of this restaurant in real time.

“From the moment I entered the restaurant, I deliberately stayed a few steps behind, and then paid attention to the direction of your eyes, what you were looking at, and memorized it.

"I actually thought you would ask about the advertising slogans and discount information in the lobby, because when you entered the restaurant, you glanced in the direction of the cashier. In addition, I thought you would ask what the number of the box next to our box is. Questions like this, because you glanced above before entering the private room. The private room number of this restaurant is quite special. Our room is 035, but the rooms next door are 033 and 025.

"I thought the situation of the waiter and the cabinet behind me was very likely to be regarded as a problem, so I carefully observed the waiter who took us into the box and the waiter who later delivered the food, paid the bill, and cleaned up. I guess I was right. . Instead, what is the second dish? I almost didn’t answer this most normal and simple question.”

When Zhang Qian heard Yang Zhuo's self-analysis and explanation, she nodded repeatedly: "It's really like Xiang Kun."

Yang Zhuo said: "This is the 'observation analysis method' and the 'nine-stage prediction method' that Brother Xiang taught me.

First rehearse possible situations in advance, analyze various conditions and possibilities that are most beneficial to you, and then proactively plan and make arrangements in advance to let things develop in the direction you hope and preset. "

"But reality is not a game. It is impossible for all conditions to be calculated. Things cannot develop into the situation you want every time. There are too many variables." Zhang Qian shook her head and said.

Yang Zhuo said: "These methods are just some training, training in thinking methods and observation habits. In this way, when we can obtain more sensory information, we can think and analyze quickly and make correct decisions."

Having said this, he stopped shuffling the cards in his hand and placed the new pile of shuffled playing cards in front of Zhang Qian.

Zhang Qian picked up the poker and asked Yang Jie next to her: "Are we going to start a 'performance' now?"

But Yang Jie took out her mobile phone and said while recording the video: "I want to record it, but I don't believe it. I can't find his little trick."

"Sister Qianqian, you can look at those cards, then choose one, put it in your hand or pocket, and then return the rest of the playing cards to me." After Yang Zhuo finished speaking, he stood up and turned around to signal himself I won't watch her drawing process.

Zhang Qian and Yang Jie checked the playing cards together and made sure there were no creases or marks before taking out a playing card and putting it in the bag next to them.

"Okay." Zhang Qian returned the remaining playing cards.

Yang Zhuo turned around and sat down again, holding the playing cards without looking at them, and continued shuffling them. Zhang Qian, Yang Jie, and Xiao Min next to him were all watching his hands, his movements, and his gaze, wanting to see Was he secretly reading and checking the cards?

But no matter how he looked at it, with the way Yang Zhuo shuffled the cards, it was impossible for him to see the cards.

After washing for less than 10 seconds, Yang Zhuo stopped, looked at Zhang Qian and said, "Sister Qianqian, your card is the 10 of spades."

Zhang Qian raised her eyebrows slightly, looked at each other with Yang Jie, with a look of surprise on her face, then took out the playing card from her bag and put it on the table - it was indeed the 10 of spades.

Obviously, this is not a trick.

"It does smell a bit like Xiang Kun's magic stick." Zhang Qian took the playing cards back and inspected them more carefully: "Did you do anything on those cards that only you can touch when you shuffled them?" The marks that come out can be distinguished on each card, so after I draw the cards, you can shuffle them again and know which card is missing?"

"This is really not..."

"I see, it has something to do with the quiz game you were making fun of before? Are you deliberately using that quiz game to test which card I will choose, or are you hinting at which card I should choose? It doesn't seem right..."

Yang Zhuo smiled and said: "How can it be so mysterious, Sister Qianqian?"

As he spoke, he took the deck of playing cards over, shuffled them in his hands, and said: "It's not about marking the playing cards, it's just about getting familiar with the feeling of playing cards, like... like 'knowing' pick them up. So take it back to your hand, say 'hi' to them, and it's easy to know which card was taken out."

Zhang Qian was stunned when she heard this: "Why do I think your statement is even more mysterious?"

"It's not mysterious, it's not metaphysics, it's really a real feeling. Sister Qianqian, take these two cards, close your eyes and feel it, imagine that you can use ultrasound to feel... Forget it, in such a short time You shouldn’t feel it. Let’s try something else. Let’s try coins. Sister, do you have any coins for exchange?”

Yang Jie took out a handful of coins from her bag and put them in front of her brother. There were six one-yuan coins and two fifty-cent coins, old and new.

Yang Zhuo picked the coins one by one into the palm of his hand, weighed them, then picked out a one-yuan coin and put it aside. He pushed the remaining seven coins back to Zhang Qian and Yang Jie and said:

"Sister Qianqian, sister, how many coins will each of you share, and then I will judge how many coins you have in your hands."

After he finished speaking, he turned back and waited until Zhang Qian and Yang Jie finished dividing the coins, then turned around and said directly: "Sister Qianqian has four coins in her hand, three for one yuan and one for fifty cents. My sister has two coins for one yuan." One fifty cents, right?"

Zhang Qian and Yang Jie spread their hands, and the number of coins in their hands was exactly as he said.

"Xiao Min, did you secretly give him a hint?" Zhang Qian asked Xiao Min, who was sitting next to Yang Zhuo.

Xiao Min quickly waved her hand: "No, no, I didn't do anything."

Yang Jie also said: "When I was at my house, Xiao Min was not there, but this kid is still so smart. It really has nothing to do with Xiao Min."

"Did you hear the sound of us splitting coins?" Zhang Qian murmured to herself.

Then Yang Zhuo played several similar games with some ballpoint pens bought by his sister, all of which had miraculous performances like magic.

"When Xiang Kun was in the bar, he guessed what I wrote on the A4 paper. It was probably the same 'trick' that my younger brother used." Yang Jie played with a ballpoint pen, still thinking that Yang Zhuo was from Xiang Kun. I learned some tricks like magic there.

Zhang Qian said: "This feeling is even more magical than Xiang Kun's time. The A4 paper he brought with him may have been manipulated a long time ago, but the little brother used the new playing cards and new ballpoint pen you just bought. The coins I used were also exchanged for them."

Yang Zhuo said quickly: "That's wrong. Brother Xiang is much stronger than me. Much stronger. He is not on the same level at all. I followed Brother Xiang's instructions and spent almost a year training, and I just touched it." Taoism. I used to think that Brother Xiang was very powerful and smart, and wanted to learn some of his ways of thinking about problems. But after really learning from him, I realized that Brother Xiang is far more powerful than I thought. Especially During this time, I really began to feel some special changes around me... How should I put it? My perception of the entire world has changed. This world is far more complex and vivid than we thought. Sister, Sister Qianqian, Xiao Min, really, if you can also have that feeling, that feeling of re-understanding the world, you will also admire Brother Xiang like me. I have a hunch, no, I know... Brother Xiang is changing the world."

Seeing that Yang Zhuo's words became more and more outrageous and his tone became more and more excited, not only Yang Jie, Zhang Qian, but also Xiao Min were stunned.

Yang Jie gently touched her friend next to her with her elbow, but her eyes were still on her younger brother in front of her: "You see, this is the state. I feel that he has been brainwashed by Xiang Kun. He is better than the kind of star-chasing fans. It’s an exaggeration.”

Yang Zhuo also realized that he seemed to have gone too far, and said with a wry smile: "I never say these things in front of other people, and I never 'perform' anything... It's all at my sister's request." I showed her several times and told Brother Xiang that the purpose of our training is to better understand the world and ourselves, not to show off or quarrel with others. The main thing is that I have really felt the changes around me recently, this With the changes in the world, knowing that what Brother Xiang taught me is really of great use, and you are all our own people, I couldn’t help but want to say a few more words."

Xiao Min also nodded and said: "Yes, yes, Xiao Zhuo is not like this usually."

Zhang Qian frowned slightly and said, "What you just did, really wasn't magic?"

"It's really not magic..." Yang Zhuo said helplessly.

"What do you mean by world change?" Zhang Qian asked again.

"It's just..." Yang Zhuo opened his mouth, but he seemed to be unable to find a suitable description. He paused for two seconds before continuing: "It's like we originally saw the world in black and white, and then suddenly we saw With the arrival of a new color, and there are more and more colors, the whole world is becoming more and more colorful. A thing that we thought was ordinary at first has a completely different feeling after it is 'colored'."

Zhang Qian nodded thoughtfully and asked: "Brother, tell me in detail about the nine-stage method, refining method, analysis method, axis method, etc. Xiang Kun taught you. Xiang Kun didn't tell you to keep it secret. Bar?"

"No, I asked you to help me educate A-Zhuo. How come you seem to have believed his rhetoric?" Yang Jie asked anxiously.

Zhang Qian smiled and squeezed her friend's shoulder, and said: "Xiaojie, you are a little stuck in your own knowledge system, and you are confused when you are worried. Think about it, the way he said those words seemed like he was joking. Are you deliberately deceiving us? And if he believed in those statements, how could he simply learn some magic tricks from Xiang Kun? How could just some magic tricks make him have such unwavering thoughts? Xiaojie, You have relatively little contact with Xiang Kun, and you have gone to Tongshi Town and Chongyun Village relatively rarely, so you may not have noticed... Xiang Kun, there are indeed many magical places that cannot be explained at all."

"You mean...how you behaved in the bar?"

"No, it was a series of performances later." Zhang Qian said, "Not to mention other things, let's just say that he has been staying in Tongshi Town and Chongyun Village, and has been in the mountains from time to time. He has not formed a development team, he is just one person. , how do you continuously provide me with various systematic solutions in a short period of time? Every time the game is updated and iterated, the workload is a team of hundreds of people, which takes a lot of time to develop and test. How did he do it alone? Sometimes, I couldn't help but wonder if he had discovered some space-time tunnel leading to the future in Chongyun Village or Chongyun Mountain, so from time to time he got in and directly 'copied' points from the future. I've got something to use back.

"Also...when Xiang Kun celebrated his birthday in Pengcheng last time, did you notice the blind girl with a little 'little apple'? If I hadn't told you that she was blind and her eyes were born blind, it would have been your first time See, can you tell that she is blind? I asked her in private why she seemed to be aware of her surroundings without using a blind stick. She said that Xiang Kun taught her some ways to exercise her senses. Does it feel like she is the same as her little brother? Is there something similar to what you said just now?”

Yang Jie frowned slightly, but did not refute. Apparently her friend's words also made her start to think about another possibility.

Yang Zhuo said excitedly: "Yes, I also know Little Apple. Little Apple must have learned from Brother Xiang. Although we haven't communicated with her in detail, I know she must be much better than me. Sister Qianqian, If you are interested, you'd better ask Brother Xiang and let him teach you. He didn't tell me to keep it confidential, but he said that each of us is a different collection of information, and we should base it on each person's different needs. Depending on the situation, I will develop training methods according to the situation. My training methods and the direction of my sensory extension may be different from yours. In fact, I really want to talk to Brother Xiang. I have had many different feelings and discoveries recently. But I just feel like there’s something missing, and I still can’t figure it out.”

What Yang Zhuo didn't know was that even if he failed to contact Xiang Kun, his sensory training was always being observed and recorded by Alice, and it would be summarized to Xiang Kun at each stage.

Now, for Alice, who is able to conduct worldwide surveillance through "full electronic equipment" and "super-sensory object system", in addition to Xiang Kun's parents, Lao Xia, Tang Baona, Little Lingdang, and Little Apple, the observation and monitoring list of Zangdian In addition to key protection targets such as Yang Zhener and others, as well as their relatives and friends, there are also several types of observation lists.

One type is "mutated creatures" like Jiang Chun and Mr. Liang, who have established preliminary connections with the "supersensory object system" but have not yet formed a cognitive system that suits them. Of course, Mr. Liang now has Xiang Kun himself. observe;

One type is people like Old Man Du and Qi Haoguo who are profoundly affected by the emotional projection of the "Eight Arms and Eight Eyes Woodcarving" and have established deep connections with the "Second-level Network of Emotions and Things";

One type is Ye Zijun, Mao Qiang, Li Shijue, Zhou Rui and others, who are affected by different "qingzhuwu" and have established weak connections with the "qingzhuwu secondary network";

There is also a category with only two people, one is Liu Zhengyi from Chongyun Village, and the other is Yang Zhuo.

If the "supersensory object system" is compared to a giant building complex hidden in the thick fog of the mountains, then most people in the world are not aware of the existence of this building complex.

Lao Xia, Little Fatty, Little Apple, Yang Zhener, Tang Baona and others were equivalent to opening the door to Xiang Kun and inviting them to enter the building complex. They would arrange the building with him, decorate each room, and clarify its functionality.

Liu Zhengyi and Yang Zhuo were not invited to open the door, nor could they see the entire building complex. They were only vaguely aware of the existence of such a building complex, and roughly knew in which direction it was, and then explored it in their own ways. Move forward, trying to find the building complex.

The difference is that Liu Zhengyi discovered it purely on his own. His consciousness and senses happened to be stimulated by a large number of "super-connected things" in Chongyun Village, and they hitched the string. A sudden inspiration gave him a glimpse of the misty mountains. A small corner of the Hongwu building, so I began to explore it spontaneously and carefully.

However, Yang Zhuo was deliberately guided by Xiang Kun, and targeted training was conducted based on his actual situation, his behavioral patterns, and the cognitive model established by his supersensory information.

Xiang Kun wanted to see if he had not been passively affected by the emotional projection of the "Emotional Object" and had not been passively affected by the emotional projection of the "Emotional Object" without actively providing the "Super Connected Object" interface, that is, without rejecting it or confirming its approval. Under the premise of "secondary network of objects", how can ordinary people perceive the existence of the "super-sensory object system", and whether they can connect with the "super-sensory object system" by themselves and find the interface by themselves. If there is a connection, can the "super-sensory object system" be used, and to what extent can it be used?

After all, "hyperconnected things" have spread to many human settlements around the world and almost all medium and large cities, and the songs adapted and created based on Nana's "emotional melody" and "object melody" are also under Alice's control Next, it spreads around the world, carrying out the influence of "secondary emotional assimilation".

Moreover, the launch and association of "super-connected objects" and "emotion-intensive objects" continues to accelerate. In the future, the "super-sensory object system" will inevitably be based on the entire world and all things.

It's like the huge building complex that was originally hidden in the clouds and mist is getting bigger and bigger, blocking out the sky and the sun. No matter how hard it is hidden, it will always be noticed.

There are some things that you need to prepare for a rainy day.