What It’s Like Being a Vampire

When Xia Libing took "Baby Alice" to Citong City, Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, and Little Apple also took Little Fatty to Pengcheng City - because Little Fatty's long vacation was over and she had to go back to class. .

At noon, after receiving a WeChat notification from Lao Xia, they started to pick up the time. When the planned time arrived, Tang Baona began to call Xiang's mother.

Although what she wanted to say and how she wanted to say it, Tang Baona had already written it in advance and "rehearsed" it with Yang Zhener twice. While on the phone, she also looked at the "script" on the tablet to avoid "forgetting the words." .

But when she actually spoke to Xiang's mother and started chatting, Tang Baona was still a little nervous, and almost laughed several times. She had to cover the phone's microphone and laugh while holding in her "Kukuku". Then continue talking.

But unexpectedly, this made the conversation between her and Xiang Ma sound even more like "unable to speak," "uneasy," "emotionally unstable," and "out of control." , but better achieved the purpose of this call.

After the call ended, Tang Baona's pretty face turned red and her eyes were filled with tears. Finally she couldn't help but lie on the table and laughed hard for a while. Yang Zhener and Little Apple beside her couldn't help laughing too. .

After a while, Tang Baona finally took a long breath and stopped laughing.

Yang Zhener geared up: "Nana, let me call Auntie too, hehe."

"Hey, you big-headed ghost!" Tang Baona raised her hand and slapped Yang Laosan on the forehead, and said angrily: "Lao Xia is just worried that you will cause trouble, and I have specifically told you that you are not allowed to 'add drama'! You are going to stab him later." Tong picks up Alice, remember not to talk nonsense! Otherwise, the plan will be ruined and Uncle Xiang and Aunt Shen will become suspicious, and you will be spanked by Lao Xia!"

"I'm not Xiaolingdang, how can I still be afraid of being spanked by Lao Xia? Lao Xia is my cousin, so it's almost enough if I spank her..." Yang Zhener said unconvinced.

However, Tang Baona and Little Apple next to them both had "just pretend" expressions. It was obvious that they did not take her "anti-summer declaration" seriously.

"Don't worry, even if I want to say something to auntie, I will discuss it with everyone before saying it. I am very particular about teamwork!" Yang Zhener said, "But, I guess even if I don't call now, I will talk to you later. When I go to pick up Alice, my uncle and aunt will definitely give insinuations. Hehe, I will give a little hint then..."

"Lao Xia said, we don't want to preset a result for guidance, which requires too many conditions and can be easily seen through. We only need to give information that is close to the truth and let uncles and aunts make their own judgments. You have said too much, absolutely. The secret is revealed!" Tang Baona said.

"Then I won't tell you. Alas, you won't let me play such a fun thing. My acting skills are much better than both you and Lao Xia..." Yang Zhener said regretfully.

Little Apple held her chin up and murmured: "Sister Zhen'er, Sister Nana, let's do this now. If Grandpa Xiang and Grandma Shen really think that Uncle Xiang has given birth to a child, they will hide outside and not come back until Uncle Xiang comes back." , he should be scolded badly."

Yang Zhener said with a bit of schadenfreude: "Of course!"

Tang Baona also snickered excitedly, as if she was imagining how Xiang Kun would be bewildered and scolded by his parents after he returned home.

Little Apple was a little worried: "In this case... the misunderstanding is getting bigger and bigger, will it end badly in the future?"

Yang Zhener said: "Don't worry! It won't happen! Anyway, if there is any problem in the future,

I will also deal with it after Chef Xiang comes back! He is so powerful, there must be a solution! Hehe, this is equivalent to the big boss going on vacation. We help the big boss manage the company, and then the company's major shareholders come to ask for money. We have no money and don't want the company to collapse, so we have to temporarily borrow super high interest loans and send the major shareholders away. , just keep the company going. We don’t have to pay back the loan sharks anyway. The big boss can take care of it when he comes back, hehe! "

Little Apple looked puzzled when he heard this: "Why do the company's major shareholders force the company to close down?"

"Oh, that's what it means anyway, just understand it." Yang Zhener said, and sighed: "Oh, even though we haven't seen her for a long time, I actually started to miss Alice a little bit."

As soon as she finished speaking, "Little Old Summer Alice" appeared in the room, lying on the sofa next to them, and said loudly: "I've always been there!"

Yang Zhener reached out to pinch her cheek: "I miss my little Alice!"

Alice dodged Yang Zhen'er's clutches, leaned close to Little Apple, and said, "My grandparents like me so much that they gave me a Chinese name! Lao Xia also approved it! My name is Xiang Xinran now!"

Alice said, pointing to the TV in the room, she saw the 75-inch TV turned on by itself, and then displayed three large Chinese characters on a black background with white edges glowing: Xiang Xinran.

Yang Zhener leaned over and put his arms around Alice's shoulders, and said with a smile: "You called your grandparents directly? And you also directly named Xiang. You are pretending to be real, and you really are Xiang." Is your granddaughter?"

Alice raised her chin slightly with a proud look on her face.

Little Apple smiled and said, "This is a really good name."

Tang Baona also said: "Yeah, it sounds pretty good. When I hear this name, I think she is a cute little girl, haha."

"That's not right." Yang Zhen'er said with a bad smile: "Xiang Xinran? The pinyin abbreviation of his name is XXL. Hey, hey, it sounds like a big fat girl!"

Tang Baona, who had just taken a cup and took a sip of water, burst out laughing, coughed repeatedly, and almost choked to death. It took a while to recover, and she burst into tears from laughing. She pointed at Yang Zhener and said, "Yang Laosan! Did you do this on purpose? ! What XXL, Ran! Why does the pinyin of Ran start with L!"

Yang Zhener was stunned: "Huh? Could it be that I have stayed in Haixi Province for a long time and my accent has changed?"

"Go! Just making excuses, Lao Xia and I have stayed in Haixi Province much longer than you, right!" Tang Baona said angrily.

"Oh, let's not talk about this anymore." Yang Zhener forcefully carried Alice over, let her sit on his lap, and asked with a smile: "Dear Alice, dear kid Xiang Xinran, where is Lao Xia now? Now, what kind of 'mutated creatures' will she have to deal with when she goes to Thailand this time? Can you live broadcast it for us?"

Lao Xia told Xiang's father and Xiang's mother that she had to catch a plane and go abroad, which was really not an excuse. After she sent "baby Alice" to Xiang's father and Xiang's mother's house, she took a plane to Thailand to deal with a Special events of "mutated creatures".

Generally speaking, Alice can solve ordinary "mutant creature" management problems through "hyper-connected things" all over the world.

Whether they are mutated from humans, or mutated from insects, plants, or other creatures, Alice can basically communicate with them, regulate their behavior, and guide them to connect to the "Little Carrot Platform".

For "mutated organisms" that are unwilling to connect to the "Little Carrot Platform", if they do not pose a threat to humans or ecology, they will be supervised and restricted. If they pose a threat, they will be punished.

The "mutated creature" that Lao Xia has to deal with this time when he goes to Thailand is of a special type. It is unwilling to connect to the "Little Carrot Platform" and has tried to attack humans several times, so Lao Xia plans to capture it and use it as a "little radish platform". "Living samples for mutated biological research" are put into the database.

Yang Zhener only knew that Lao Xia was going to Thailand to deal with the "mutated creatures", but he didn't know exactly how to deal with it or what the "mutated creatures" looked like, so he was very curious.

Now the "research base" already has field service, investigation and combat departments that specialize in dealing with "mutated organisms". Although Yang Zhen'er doesn't know the specific way this department performs tasks and its internal organization, she knows that there are several people she knows. They have all joined, such as Liu Zhengyi from Chongyun Village, her cousin Xia Tianhuo, and even Yang Jie's younger brother Yang Zhuo, all seem to have started secret internships, so she is very attentive and concerned about related matters.

Yang Zhener believes that she should also be a general in that department!

How can you not have a place to display your unique skills?

However, Alice refused Yang Zhener's request flatly: "No! Lao Xia doesn't agree!"

"Is the scene extremely bloody?" Yang Zhener's eyes lit up: "That's okay, let Little Apple get out of the way first, and Nana and I can just watch!"

Little Apple couldn't laugh or cry: "Sister Zhen'er, I'm not a child. There's nothing you can see that I can't."

"Maybe you have to deal with birds, cats, etc. You are more soft-hearted." Yang Zhener said.

"Three years ago, there was a bad 'mutated bird' that almost killed Jin Shining Shining, but Sister Bing, Little Bell, Alice, and Egg Yolk Pie worked together to drive them away. I can tell the difference between friend and foe." Little Apple said seriously. said.

So Yang Zhener shook Alice's shoulders: "Alice, look, Little Apple wants to watch it, hurry up and broadcast live!"

Alice sighed helplessly, and then... collapsed and disappeared.

"Ai! Li! Si!——" Yang Zhener shouted unwillingly.

On the window sill of the room, Yolk Pie, who was dozing on his stomach, raised his head, glanced at the people in the room confusedly, shook his head, yawned, and continued to sleep.

…

Xia Libing arrived in Chiang Mai at around nine o'clock in the evening.

In fact, she arrived in Thailand in the afternoon, but she stopped in Bangkok for a long time to integrate the team. Now in addition to herself, there are five companions in Chiang Mai, all members of the newly formed field investigation department, including There are "veterans" like Li Shijue, a former member of the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", and there are also fledgling "interns" like Yang Zhuo.

Because Li Shijue often went to Youlong Hotel to eat, he unknowingly established a connection with the "Qingzhuwu Secondary Network". Coupled with his original professional skills, work experience in the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", and Fang Pingfang and others had the experience of participating in the training as the first batch of members, and naturally became one of the leaders in the field investigation department of the new base established.

As for Yang Zhuo, although he has not established a connection with the "Second Level Network of Love and Things", he, like Liu Zhengyi from Chongyun Village, has discovered some peculiarities in life, and then relied on his own sensory abilities to perceive them to a certain extent. Arrived at some "super-sensory items" in the environment.

According to Xiang Kun's words before, he is a "spiritual" person. Xiang Kun also suspected that their ability to perceive the influence of "super-connected objects" and "super-sensory object systems" was related to their understanding of Xiang Kun and their subconscious belief that some peculiar roots were in Xiang Kun.

It is also because of this identity that Yang Zhuo and Liu Zhengyi were both admitted into the newly established department, and they were prepared to be given certain resources for training to see if they could develop new methods of utilizing the "supersensory object system".

After arriving at Chiang Mai Airport, someone quickly picked them up.

The people who came were peripheral members of the field investigation department in Thailand, and they were all still interns, just like Yang Zhuo.

None of the peripheral members here are sent from China. They are recruited and trained by a person in charge in Thailand.

However, Xia Libing had no doubts about the identity and reliability of these people, not only because of his trust in the person in charge, but also because Alice, an "omniscient monitor" to a certain extent, basically did not exist. The possibility of someone with ulterior motives sneaking in - if so, they let it in on purpose.

The guy who came to pick them up was a dark-skinned, short, thin, but smart-looking young man. If you just looked at his appearance, you would probably think he was a native of Thailand, but Xia Libing knew that this guy The young man named "Zuo Liu" is of mixed Chinese and Thai descent - his father is Chinese and his mother is Thai.

"Hello, leader." After seeing Xia Libing, Zuo Liu was very nervous, and his voice trembling in greeting.

In his opinion, what he joined was not just a peripheral department of a Chinese abnormal biological research institution, but a channel and bridge that gave him the opportunity to see "powerful creatures" and the "real world".

Just the "team leader" who recruited and trained him already made him awe and worship him very much. Before the "Antarctic Crisis", a person like the "team leader" could have been called a god.

As for Leader Xia, who even the "team leader" was in awe of, one can imagine what kind of terrifying and powerful existence he would be.

After meeting Xia Libing, Zuo Liu could feel that this leader did have a temperament that was obviously different from other people. Although he had never seen a photo of this leader, he could tell when he saw her from a distance. This is who he's coming to pick up.

"Don't call me 'leader'. They all call me 'Doctor Xia'. You should call me that too." Xia Libing said simply.

"Ah, okay, leader. No... okay! Doctor Xia." Zuo Liu was still a little nervous.

His performance made Yang Zhuo, who was following Xia Libing, a little puzzled. Apart from his indifferent expression and tone, Lao Xia didn't look scary. Why did this guy look like he had seen a monster?

Thinking like this, he couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority "coming from the domestic headquarters", and he held his chest and head higher as he walked.

The group of them drove to the suburbs overnight and stopped outside a protected area. Several Thais left quickly under the instructions of Zuo Liu, who was driving the car. They also got out of the car and walked.

After a while, two people came up from the front with flashlights.

One of them looked a lot like Zuo Liu, and he was Zuo Liu's cousin Putpeng, while the other one looked like a Chinese, and he had a bald head.

"Jiang Chun, how is the situation?" Xia Libing said to the bald man who looked like a Chinese.

Yes, the bald man who came to greet Xia Libing was Jiang Chun, who mutated in Myanmar three years ago and was connected to the secondary love network of eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carvings. In order to adapt to high-speed swimming in the water, his hair was "specialized" and lost during the mutation process.

However, seeing Jiang Chun's "hair style", Li Shijue and Yang Zhuo were "awed" at the same time. Even if Lao Xia hadn't introduced Jiang Chun's identity, they subconsciously concluded that this guy was extraordinary.

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