What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 21 New Feelings

Xiang Kun opened the window, and the sound from outside immediately came into his ears more and more clearly. The sound was so loud and complicated that it made him quite uncomfortable for a while, and even developed tinnitus.

Not only the sound, but also all kinds of strong irritating smells, which made him almost shed tears and snot.

Xiang Kun quickly closed the window again, and couldn't help frowning: Isn't this improvement in hearing and smell too much?

If they are all so sensitive, wouldn't living in the city be a kind of torture?

Fortunately, he didn't worry for long. After adapting forcibly for a period of time, Xiang Kun found that the effects of his extremely sensitive sense of hearing and smell were soon alleviated.

Only when he puts his attention on the sense of hearing or smell, will the messy sound information and smell information become clear again.

Just like after drinking blood for the second time, his hearing has actually improved to a certain extent, but if he hadn't closed his eyes on the rooftop one night and suddenly heard a voice that he thought he couldn't hear, he might still be able to hear it. not found.

The human brain filters or even blocks the information obtained by the senses, and only receives the information that people want and need.

Compared with the improvement of strength, vision and lung capacity, the improvement of hearing and smell is more difficult to quantify and count, or requires special equipment.

Xiang Kun was in his room, closing his eyes, trying to focus all his attention on hearing, receiving various sound information.

After the sharp enhancement of hearing, the sound information obtained by Xiang Kun and the judgment of the whole time have undergone great changes. It is not just as simple as enhancing all the sounds, but all kinds of messy sound information are flooding the brain. Within a short period of time, he needed to distinguish the sources and attributes of various sounds, and for a while he felt a little "unintelligible".

After an unknown amount of time, Xiang Kun suddenly felt dizzy and wanted to vomit. He quickly opened his eyes and took a long breath to distract himself.

Is it still not suitable for the improvement of hearing?

But thinking back on the feeling just now, he quickly realized that maybe it wasn't because of his hearing, but because his brain couldn't cope with too much sound information.

The human brain is actually thinking about being lazy all the time. Of course, this kind of laziness is actually a means of self-protection.

Sensory organs are collecting information all the time, but this information will always be "selected" according to needs. Many times we see, hear, smell, and feel far more than we think.

Just like those pictures of visual blind spots, people often don’t find some strange points at first glance, and only after seeing the prompts will they find out. In fact, those strange points have always been seen by themselves, but they are ignored by the brain. .

Now, although Xiang Kun's senses have evolved and he has received multiple times of information, his brain's ability to process these information does not seem to have evolved enough. After all, he did not receive so many sounds at the same time during his previous training. message.

So after resting for a while, Xiang Kun changed his mode and only focused on a single sound.

...

Among the sounds of cars, shouts, and music coming from outside, Xiang Kun carefully stripped and selected, and found the sound closest to him...

Tick, tick, is that the sound of the bathroom faucet dripping? No, that's not his faucet, but the one next door.

There was a gurgling noise, surging in the water pipes. It was the sound of the toilet being pressed upstairs and the waste water being discharged.

There are crisp gunshots? Is that the young people upstairs playing shootouts or watching movies at home?

I vaguely heard someone talking, it seemed to be a female voice, but it was so thin that I couldn't hear clearly, and I couldn't hear what was being said.

...

Xiang Kun walked out of his room,

Squinting his eyes slightly, he walked in the aisle, and then went down the stairs. He was looking for the source of the female voice.

This ability to judge the source of sound was something he had been training hard for the past few days, and it seems that the effect is still good.

A few minutes later, Xiang Kun finally found the source of the female voice. It was not in their building, but in the grocery store diagonally opposite. It was the grocery store owner's daughter who was talking on the phone.

At this time, Xiang Kun was standing across the street, more than ten meters away from the grocery store, and the grocery store owner's daughter was on the second floor, so she couldn't see it at all, and there was a wall separating her.

But Xiang Kun could already hear what the grocery store owner's daughter was talking about.

At this time, the whole world seemed to be muted, except for the female voice who was talking.

However, this requires Xiang Kun to concentrate a lot. Once he relaxes and diverts his attention - for example, after the owner of the grocery store greeted him, the voice from the owner's daughter of the grocery store became a little indistinct. Because sounds from other directions, of various types and sizes, would immediately occupy his mind.

But for now, Xiang Kun was still very surprised by the improvement of his hearing.

This range far exceeded his previous expectations.

After all, when training physical strength before, after drinking blood twice, the improvement is still within the range of normal people. Except for the abnormal strength recovery speed and endurance, the absolute strength is not beyond the level that normal people can achieve.

But now, after only five days of training, Xiang Kun's hearing has far surpassed that of ordinary people. He doesn't believe that ordinary people can reach this level after training.

However, Xiang Kun speculated that maybe he didn't improve his hearing and smelling organs too much, but that his original sensory organs had not been fully utilized.

Xiang Kun was still accompanied by the night, just like the nights of the previous few days, wandering around, testing his sense of hearing and smell that had just been improved through targeted training and mutation.

If Xiang Kun felt fear and worry when he first felt a series of mutations in his body, now he is more curious and excited.

After discovering that his life didn't seem to be in danger for the time being, although there were various inconveniences, the improvements brought about by several mutations to various functions of the body still made Xiang Kun take a more active and active attitude towards the mutation of his body—— Anyway, it is going to mutate, why not mutate in the direction you want?

In the past few days, Xiang Kun has been walking all night basically every night. The dozens of nearby streets are already very familiar, but walking on them again tonight has a completely different sense of freshness, just like a few days ago, How he felt when he set foot on these streets for the first time late at night.