What It’s Like Being a Vampire

"Are you going to prepare a New Year's Eve dinner?" Xia Libing asked.

"Yes, but I bought quite a lot. If you don't have enough ingredients for your 'treat' in a few days, I can even give you some." Xiang Kun said.

Xia Libing was also polite, nodded: "Okay."

She looked at Xiang Kun's trolley again, and asked, "Have you bought ribs?"

"Yes, but I don't buy much."

"Where's the shrimp?"

"There are also fresh ones. If you want to eat them when you're treating guests, it's better to buy them temporarily."

"Where's the chicken thigh?"

"There are some."

"What kind of meat is that?" Xia Libing pointed to a bag in the cart.

"Beef, prepare to make dumplings. Although we don't have the habit of eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year, it's good to have some. Didn't I say that I would send you a midnight snack last night, and I will make some for you to try. Dumplings This kind, if you keep it warm, the taste will not be too bad. But fried or grilled crispy pork knuckle, if there is no way to eat it as soon as possible after cooking, the taste will be much worse," Xiang Kun laughed.

Xia Libing nodded, and said again: "What are you going to do for dinner?"

"You know the ingredients for other dishes. The main ones you haven't tried are egg yolk spring rolls, mushroom soup, fried sea oysters, cold pig ears, oh, and the dumplings just mentioned. You probably haven't eaten them either. "Xiang Kun's "never eaten" here naturally refers to the cooking he has never eaten.

Today, Lao Xia's focus is a bit strange. It's not that she didn't suddenly talk too much in the past, but she seldom focused on the dishes Xiang Kun was cooking. This is usually what Yang Zhener pays attention to. Lao Xia Nana and Nana are doing whatever they want to eat, at most they are discussing how the dishes that have been prepared taste like.

However, Xiang Kun was not impatient at all, and answered very patiently. He knew that Lao Xia's words and actions were not in the style of doing whatever he wanted or on a whim. What she did and said, and the sudden change of her usual behavior must have something to do with it. reason.

So while talking to her, Xiang Kun was also observing Lao Xia's state, thinking about how to quietly test her about her dreams last night.

But what I didn't expect was that without him thinking about how to probe, Lao Xia started the conversation by himself:

"I had a dream last night.

"

"Oh?" Xiang Kun said with a "curious" face: "Didn't you say before that you hardly dream? What dream did you have last night? Is it related to meeting those two... criminals?"

Xia Libing said: "It's still related to eating. I dreamed of eating at your house. I used to live next to you. The little girl in 706 was also there. She ate rabbit meat, and I ate pork knuckle. You made them all." .”

"Oh? You still dream of Liu Shiling. I didn't expect that. I don't think you have ever talked to her. You haven't met her twice, right?" Xiang Kun said.

In fact, he was more interested in the first part of Lao Xia's dream in that closed room, but it was expected that Lao Xia didn't take the initiative to mention that part.

Xiang Kun could feel that when Lao Xia was talking about the dream, his eyes had been locked on his face, and his attention was very concentrated. He was obviously judging something through the conversation on this topic.

Xiang Kun soon realized that Lao Xia felt that her dream was strange and suspected that it had something to do with him.

He couldn't fully understand Lao Xia's derivation, but according to Lao Xia's usual way of thinking, it was normal to think that the dream was related to him. After all, he only asked Lao Xia about dreams in Tongshi Town before, and Lao Xia said that he hadn't had a dream for a long, long time, and it was only a few days before he met Xiang Kun again. The next night, he suddenly had a dream, and Xiang Kun appeared in the dream, so it was strange not to doubt him.

Xia Libing said: "When I was in Tongshi Town, I watched the video of the little girl playing with coins."

"Zhen'er showed it to you. I didn't know she was so good at flipping coins until I saw that video." Xiang Kun said, he knew that Lao Xia was talking about Yang Zhener and Tang Baona when they searched for the coin flipping video on the Internet. Accidentally found a video of Liu Shiling flipping coins captured by others.

Xia Libing said again: "Did you give her that coin as well?"

"I did give her a coin." Xiang Kun replied very simply.

Normally speaking, when I saw the video of Liu Shiling playing with coins, and thought that Xiang Kun might have something to do with her playing so smoothly, the usual question would be "Did you teach her to flip coins?", but what Lao Xia asked directly was The coin itself, once again confirmed that she realized that the coin sent to Kun was different, and had the characteristics of making it easier for people to learn to flip coins, or easy to control.

When she was in Tongshi Town before, Lao Xia also asked "Little Apple" if he gave him the coin, and took the initiative to ask him for one. She had already realized this at that time.

Obviously, she could already feel the characteristics of the coins that Xiang Kun gave, and also associated the little chubby girl in her dream with the coins he gave chubby girls.

Although it is not completely consistent with the facts, the direction is already basically correct.

Xiang Kun wasn't worried about what Lao Xia could see from the coins, but was looking forward to what she could see.

The two of them pushed the trolley to a corner of the supermarket to chat, so as not to block the aisle. After all, there are still a lot of customers in the supermarket.

Xia Libing continued to ask: "Is there anything special about the coins you give to others?"

Xiang Kun smiled and said, "Didn't I say last time that besides the 'lucky coin', I also have a 'universal coin', and this one of yours is..."

But before he finished speaking, Xia Libing interrupted him: "I could feel this coin in my dream last night."

Xiang Kun froze for a moment, recalling the scene of Xia Libing's second dream last night when she suddenly woke up.

At that time, she looked down at the back of her hand, and then saw the coin that Xiang Kun gave her appeared between her fingers, and then the coin flipped quickly, and then even floated into the air.

Naturally, Xiang Kun also noticed the coin, but he didn't feel too special. After all, his attention was all in the dream, and Lao Xia suddenly became that extremely rational and indifferent emotional state.

"Feel it? How do you feel it?" Xiang Kun asked.

Xia Libing reached into his coat pocket and took out the seemingly ordinary one-yuan coin. He skillfully grasped the coin with the second joint of his thumb and index finger, turned it over to the back of his hand, and let the coin flip between his fingers.

She looked at Xiang Kun and said, "I was awake for a while in the dream, and then I felt a coin in my hand for the first time. It felt different from everything else in my dream. Others No matter how real the details are, it’s like something is separated by a layer. I can tell it’s a dream, but it’s not the same. I don’t know if it has something to do with the coin I was holding in my hand when I fell asleep. .”

Xiang Kun also frowned when he heard this, and began to think about the relationship. He knew that with Xia Libing's character and behavior habits, since he would say that, he could be sure that her feeling about the coin in the dream was definitely not an illusion.

At the very beginning, Xiang Kun knew that the characteristics of the "emotional injection" item and the "super sensory connection" item were incompatible and could not exist at the same time.

But with the passage of time, especially when Little Apple and Liu Shiling also established some kind of connection with some "super sensory connection" items and "emotional injection" items, and helped him "develop" multiple expansion abilities, It can be seen that there is actually a connection between the items of "emotional injection" and "supersensory connection", and a connection can be established.

In other words, in essence, the root causes of "supersensory connection" and "emotional injection" may be the same, but in different forms.

He also thought of the special dream of the little chubby girl Liu Shiling that he had sensed on the bullet train he came back from—that dream was not caused by his sensing "emotional infusion" items, but a dream "created" by Liu Shiling himself. Intervention", and it is not sharing Liu Shiling's subjective feelings in the first person, but perceiving the dream from the perspective of the "emotional injection" chopsticks in the dream.

Contacting Liu Shiling has always had a deeper connection with the coins and paper of "super sensory connection", and the ability to "develop" before is also related to "super sensory connection" items. Xiang Kun feels that there will be that "active dream" , is likely to be related to her connection with "hyperlinked things".

Perhaps, Lao Xia's perception of coins in the dream last night is also somewhat similar?

Perhaps Xia Libing was worried that Xiang Kun didn't understand what she meant, so she continued to explain: "...In a dream, even if you wake up and realize you're dreaming, you still feel like you're floating in the air, and you don't have your feet on the ground. Feeling. But as soon as I feel the existence of that coin, it seems that the coin is a land connected to reality..."

Xiang Kun nodded: "I didn't even know this coin was so special, but Lao Xia, you can actually wake up from your dream, which is quite amazing. How did you do it?"

"I don't know, but I realized that I woke up soon after I had a dream." Xia Libing said.

"That's it... Then next time if you still have a dream and see coins in the dream, and realize that you are dreaming, you can try more before you wake up. For example, create a few more coins in the dream, See if there is any difference, or make that coin bigger." Xiang Kun suggested.

Xia Libing said: "Give me a few more."

"Okay, I'll give you two more later." Xiang Kun didn't hesitate, he also wanted to get the specific characteristics of this coin in the dream from Lao Xia.

Xia Libing asked again: "How many coins do you have?"

"Well, I won't tell you. Anyway, there are not many, and each one is hard to come by..." Xiang Kun laughed.

"What did you use to make it?" Xia Libing asked.

Xiang Kun tapped his forehead with his index finger, and said jokingly, "Use your mind."

"Then help me convert these coins into 'universal coins'?" Xia Libing said, reaching into his pocket for a while, took out a few coins, held them in his hands and spread them out for Xiang Kun to see. .

Xiang Kun took a look. There were several coins of different sizes lying on the palm of her hand, including five dimes, cents, and even a steel coin that looked like a game machine.

Xiang Kun couldn't help laughing, Lao Xia obviously prepared these things early in the morning, and probably got them from her third uncle and third aunt.

Lao Xia...you are trying to embarrass me on purpose...

It seems that even if he didn't meet by chance in the supermarket, he would still face this problem when he delivered Lao Xia's supper at night. What I talked about just now must have been "planned" by Lao Xia. Oh, those who asked to eat should not be.

"No." Xiang Kun gave a very simple rejection.

"Oh." Xia Libing didn't show any disappointment, nor did he continue to struggle, but simply put the coins back into his pocket.

"Have you bought Flammulina velutipes?" Xia Libing changed the subject very "naturally".

"No, do you want to eat Flammulina velutipes?"

So the two of them pushed the trolley again and bought a few more ingredients according to Xia Libing's suggestion.

I bought almost everything, looked at the time on my phone, and asked Xiang Kun, "You started to go to the hospital on duty in the afternoon? Then if you have nothing to do at noon, how about going to my house for dinner?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Libing responded very simply: "Okay."

Xiang Kun was taken aback, looked at Lao Xia's expression, and immediately realized the reason why she agreed so quickly - she wanted to go to her home to observe her growth environment, and she could also get in touch with her parents by the way, so as to explore herself secret.

Compared to Xiang Kun, his parents must have been easier to "pry out" news.

Xiang Kun laughed inwardly, but Lao Xia's expectations were doomed to fail, neither his family nor his parents had any direct relationship with his special situation, basically nothing could be seen.

In fact, if it was him, he would have the same idea. In fact, he also wanted to find a chance to get in touch with Xia Libing's parents. If Xia Libing's "secret" began when she was a child, then her parents would definitely know a lot of information.

When he was pushing the trolley and was about to check out, Xiang Kun suddenly frowned, took Xia Libing's hand and put it on the armrest of his trolley, and ran to the supermarket door quickly, and quickly disappeared at the exit place.

In the supermarket, Xia Libing narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiang Kun's disappearing back. Instead of chasing after him, he calmly pushed the trolleys of the two of them and continued to line up to check out. After paying the bill, they pushed the trolley out of the gate of the supermarket Finally, I saw Xiang Kun talking to a young couple with a child in their arms.

She pushed the cart to the side and stood some distance away.

Then through the conversation between Xiang Kun and the young couple, she knew that Xiang Kun knew them, like classmates? And they were still thanking Xiang Kun, but they didn't know why.

Although they were some distance away, Xia Libing, a tall beauty, was too conspicuous. Looking at him in a daze, the young couple felt strange, so they also turned their heads to look at her.

Xiang Kun waved to Xia Libing, and then said to the couple, "This is my friend. We just went shopping together in the supermarket."

Then he said to Xia Libing: "Both of them are my middle school classmates."