As A Vampire, I Am No Longer A Human Being.

(This chapter is a personal idea about virtual reality. I feel uncomfortable if I don’t write it out. I’ll see if I can add virtual reality into the main line later. If there are any similarities, I’m not honored. You can skip this chapter)

When he woke up in the morning and saw the messages on his phone, Lu Yan felt that he was isolated.

After discovering the abnormality last night, Lu Yan planned to stay with Xu Yangyang to work overtime and wait for Wen Lin, but Xu Yangyang drove him back.

This morning I was planning to go to the bureau to see what was going on, but before I even left the house I was told that I was on leave for a week.

Lu Yan looked confused when he received the message. He didn't ask for leave. Was he given a leave for no reason?

A week, which probably means he can't participate in this mission?

If it weren't for the pain coming from behind, Lu Yanzhen would have felt isolated.

After being injured yesterday, Xu Yangyang had to heal herself from time to time, so Lu Yan never dared to let the wound heal too quickly.

He originally thought that Xu Yangyang might treat himself when he went to work today, but Lu Yan did not let the wound heal completely.

This feeling of preventing the wound from healing is simply more painful than adding salt to the wound.

Thinking back to the sour feeling last night, Lu Yan didn't know what to say for a moment.

Close Xu Yangyang's text message telling herself to have a good rest.

Lu Yan took a deep breath, and the spiritual power that suppressed the healing of the wound quickly retreated like a flood.

If you had a perspective, you could see through the clothes that Lu Yan's scarred back quickly darkened in color within a few seconds. Within half a minute, the edges began to fall off, and within a minute it automatically fell off and was revealed again. Smooth back.

Pulling up the hem of the short sleeves, pieces of scars fell out of the clothes. Under the control of Lu Yan's mind, they were ground into powder and fell into the trash can.

"Ah~~"

Lu Yan stretched his arms fiercely and felt that his whole body felt much more relaxed.

The last time an injury took so long to recover from was seven years ago.

Nothing to do today, let’s go to the laboratory.

In less than twenty minutes, Lu Yan had arrived at the school.

After the start of the school year, the school's popularity has also increased, and you can feel the youthful atmosphere on campus anytime and anywhere.

However, probably because Professor Zhou has not returned from his business trip, the laboratory is still Lu Yan's domain alone, as for the other graduate students under Professor Zhou.

Unlike Lu Yan, they have been following Professor Zhou since their sophomore year. They are not yet capable of setting up a topic on their own, so there is no need to come to the laboratory.

"Meow~~"

As soon as Lu Yan entered the door, he saw Xiaoyan jumping in from the window at the same time and jumping into Lu Yan's arms.

"Hey, have you gained a lot of weight?"

Feeling that his hands were heavy, Lu Yan held up Xiao Yan with both hands and held it up in front of him to observe carefully. He found that the entire cat had grown in size.

And recently, Lu Yan discovered that Xiao Yan's intelligence seemed to have increased a lot.

Just like today, Xiaoyan usually lives in the Superpower Bureau, and he didn't go to pick him up, but he still came to the laboratory.

It would be fine if it went back and forth between the two places every day. It could also be said that Xiaoyan had formed a habit.

But Lu Yan has been on missions in the Superpower Bureau recently, which can ensure that Xiao Yan does not have such a habit.

Looking at the cute little Heitan in front of him, Lu Yan could imagine it.

In the morning, I heard Xu Yangyang's discussion with others and learned that he would not go to the Superpower Bureau today. He guessed that he would appear in the laboratory, so he escaped from prison and came to find him.

This is not something that ordinary kittens can do.

Xiaoyan stuck out his tongue and gently licked Lu Yan's palm.

"You little greedy cat."

Lu Yan chuckled lightly, snapped his fingers, and a blooming flame flower appeared on his fingertips and was brought to Xiaoyan's mouth.

Xiaoyan sucked it in, and the flame flower slid down its throat.

After coughing and breathing heavily, Xiaoyan collapsed in Lu Yan's arms and fell asleep with a look of enjoyment on his face.

Shaking his head, he carefully placed it next to the experimental table.

I turned on the computer and prepared to start today's experiment, but at a glance I saw that there was no closing interface on the computer.

"I am Cao."

Lu Yan exclaimed and slammed the table so hard that he almost fell off his seat.

Rubbing his eyes, he looked at Xiaoyan aside in disbelief, then looked at the screen on the computer again.

"I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, hahahahaha, it's done, it's done, (Master Dao) I'm done."

Lu Yan, who had always been steady, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Meow-meow~"

Xiao Yan, who had been sleeping, was awakened by the laughter. The whole cat went into alert state and kept turning to look at the surrounding environment. When he saw that it was Lu Yan who was laughing, he rolled his eyes helplessly and lay down again.

At this time, Lu Yan, who was happy, didn't care. He grabbed Xiao Yan and kissed him hard on the face.

"Meow meow meow, meow meow, meow~"

Xiaoyan's limbs were flailing around, and he was overwhelmed by the kiss.

Lu Yan noticed that the computer screen fluctuated again, and the smile on his face became even wider, and he smiled even happier.

"I am, I am."

After being excited for more than five minutes, Lu Yan suppressed his excitement, put Xiao Yan back on the table, and conjured another spark for him to eat.

Seeing more food, Xiao Yan jumped up happily and patted Lu Yan's hand.

I forgive your rudeness just now.

After comforting Xiao Yan, Lu Yan looked at the computer screen again.

The computer screen was divided into two sides. There were two similar trajectory pictures on the left and right. They didn't look much different, but only Lu Yan knew the meaning.

The picture on the left is a simple positioning action track record. It records Xiaoyan's actions in the past few days. It is fairly accurate.

The picture on the right is also a record of the action trajectory. No, to be precise, it should be a guess.

If you look carefully, you will find that many details are finer than the one on the left.

If you want to explain its greatness, you must first understand the theme and purpose of Lu Yan's research project.

Dreams are a very wonderful thing, but it's a pity that Lu Yan doesn't have them. They completely disappeared from his life seven years ago.

Why do people dream? The medical explanation is that after the body rests, some brain cells are still in an excited state, so people can dream.

Lu Yan has wondered since he was a child, since the brain does not need to rest for 24 hours, then if having a 'lucid dream' is equivalent to extending the 'day', human beings can truly live for 24 hours.

This was a dream of his, and it was a dream that reached its peak after he lost his ability to dream.

To achieve this, the clichéd virtual reality technology appeared in front of him.

The current technology is very advanced, especially the development of VR technology. Lu Yan also used scientific research funds to buy the most advanced VR glasses on the market.

It can be said that it is 'immersive', but it is only immersive.

Lu Yan felt that their research was in the wrong direction.

VR glasses, to put it bluntly, rely on external equipment to deceive vision and touch. However, if you want to achieve this, the equipment cannot be small, and the weight of carrying it on the body will greatly affect the experience.

In order to study the characteristics of vampires, Lu Yan applied for the biology major and began to conduct biological research. Then a new entry point naturally entered his field of vision and inspired his desire to realize his dream.

Human five senses: vision, smell, touch, hearing, taste, how these feelings are generated.

Take vision as an example.

To put it simply, the retina gets the "picture", and the information is transmitted to the brain through neurons such as the optic nerve, and the brain receives and analyzes the picture.

A common feature of the five senses is that they are inseparable from nerves. All sensations rely on nerve conduction to the brain, and the brain then outputs commands through nerves to control human actions.

The brain is like a Transcendent Level calculator, receiving and outputting huge amounts of information every moment.

But since ancient times, the brain has been the most mysterious field. Human research on the brain has always been arduous and progress has been slow.

Lu Yan was also at a loss what to do about this Transcendent Level calculator, so he turned his attention to its 'transmission line', which is the nervous system throughout the human body.

If the pheromones transmitted during nerve conduction and between neurons can be analyzed, the nerve information can be converted into simulated information that can be received by computers.

Then everything will be much simpler.

Lu Yan has been studying these things in the past few years. (When searching for information, I saw that some scientists have done research on decoding brain signals. I don’t know the difference. I am not a professional.)

The equipment Lu Yan brought to Xiaoyan a few days ago was his receiving equipment that had been improved many times. It could theoretically analyze nerve signals and convert them into computer signals, whether they were transmitted from the limbs to the brain or from the brain to the brain. limbs.

The trajectory diagram on the right is the trajectory drawn by the nerve signals received by the computer by simulating the movement instructions of Xiaoyan's limbs.

This is different from the sensing devices on the market, which scan through the movements of arms and fingers.

Only Xiaoyan was a Spirit Beast, so Lu Yan dared to do this.

The previous equipment could not analyze it perfectly, resulting in intermittent and incoherent pictures, but this time the coherent trajectory map let Lu Yan know that he had succeeded.

However, to be on the safe side, further verification is needed.

Click the mouse, the computer screen switches, and a lying little black cat outlined with lines appears on the computer screen.

It is Xiaoyan's three-dimensional modeling.

"Xiaoyan, don't go to bed after eating. Get up and walk around the laboratory for a few steps."

"Meow~~"

Lu Yan reached out and poked Xiaoyan's forehead, and Xiaoyan stretched out his claws to stop him.

Annoying, I just fell asleep and was woken up again.

Although the coquettish Xiao Yan was very cute, Lu Yan's attention was not on it. He kept paying attention to the computer screen.

Just when Xiao Yan waved his paw, 'Xiao Yan' on the computer also waved his paw. Lu Yan's brain quickly compared it, and he was surprised to find that the amplitude, speed and posture of the waving were exactly the same.

Lu Yan reached out and grabbed one of Xiaoyan's legs, lifted it up, and released it in mid-air.

Xiaoyan on the computer was lifted up in the same posture. After Lu Yan let go, Xiaoyan on and off the screen waved his limbs in the air in the same posture and stood alert.

The only difference is that the hair on the computer does not stand up.

Xiaoyan was helpless, knowing that he was disobedient, so he couldn't sleep anymore. He jumped from this experimental table to the previous one, taking off one after another, leaping between the experimental tables.

Lu Yan's eyes kept turning between Xiaoyan and the computer, and with his excellent eyesight, he kept comparing the differences between the two.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that whether they were walking on the ground or in mid-air, the similarity between the two reached an astonishing 95%.

This represents the most difficult step, and Lu Yan successfully defeated him.

Lu Yan couldn't help but wave his arms happily again.

To solve the problem of converting neural signals into computer signals, the next step is to study how to convert electrical signals into neural signals.

This process is relatively simple and should not take long.

In Lu Yan's opinion, the most difficult thing is the next step.

After solving the above problems, if you want to achieve true virtual reality, you need to weaken the connection between the limbs and the brain, insert simulated nerve signals, and cut off the information output by the brain.

In Lu Yan's expectation, this would allow him to create a controllable 'dream' in his brain.

It's a bit like "brain in a vat", but Lu Yan understands that there is an essential difference.

To put it simply, it is to deprive a person of his five senses and input virtual five senses. This eliminates direct contact with the brain and relies on indirect neural influence.

The rest just needs to be handled by the Transcendent Level calculator in the brain.

Of course, all this is just Lu Yan's speculation at the moment. Whether it is feasible in the end requires experiments, but the possibility should still be very high.

Even if it fails in the end, relying on the results of this information conversion, Lu Yan can be considered at the forefront of the world in the field of neurology.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Lu Yan published his current research results, his photo and name would be published in major academic newspapers tomorrow. He will also be nominated for next year's World Awards.

Taking advantage of the current excitement, Lu Yan immediately started the next step of research.