What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Seeing Xia Libing rushing back, the third aunt who had been standing at the door for a while was not angry at all. After all, she didn't inform Xia Libing before coming here, and Xia Libing only asked her to borrow a car in the afternoon. It's normal to not come back outside.

In fact, she just went to the hospital just now, and stopped by the community not far from the hospital to see her niece, but now she is more curious: "Where did you come from?"

"I went to the First Hospital of Medical University to find a friend." Xia Libing replied simply, and then took out the car keys to the third aunt: "Thank you, third aunt."

"Just let it go and drive. I'll drive your third uncle's car. He won't need it for these two days anyway," said the third aunt. Although this niece has a strange personality since she was a child, she is very polite and distant to everyone, but she still has a good feeling for this niece.

"I can't use it for the time being." Xia Libing said, he had already opened the door, and then helped the third aunt carry things into the house.

As soon as she entered the room, the third aunt noticed the situation on the dining table in the living room.

At noon, when Xiang Kun and Xia Libing were having dinner, they received a call that their father had been injured, so they hurried over and did not have time to clean up.

Later, after Xia Libing came back by himself, he took the time to sort out his own materials, but he didn't do it.

So now that she entered the door, what Third Aunt saw was still the situation when the two of them left at noon.

"Did you eat at home at noon? This is... with friends?" Third Aunt asked curiously. Judging from the situation at the table, there were obviously two people eating, but what was even more strange was that one of the bowls The chopsticks don't seem to have been moved. Is this eating by one person and watching by the other? Or were there two people at first, and then one left?

"Yes." Xia Libing said with a nod, and then started to tidy up the things on the dining table: "Is Third Aunt looking for me?"

"Oh, I read the weather forecast. The temperature will drop sharply in the next two days. I brought you a blanket. I still have something to eat. Just put it in the refrigerator and take it out to warm it up when you're hungry."

While helping Xia Libing clean up, the third aunt looked at the leftovers. After taking the tableware to the kitchen, she asked in surprise, "Did you make the lunch yourself?" In her impression, Xia Libing probably didn't know how to eat by herself. cooking.

"A friend made it." Xia Libing explained simply.

"Is it Mr. Xiang who was with you the night before yesterday?" Third Aunt asked tentatively.

Because during the period when Xia Libing came to work in Eitong, she actually paid close attention to the social situation of this niece, but from the information she learned, Xia Libing was basically a loner, and her relationship with her colleagues was not good. It's relatively average, and I haven't heard of any local friends in Erythronia. The only exception is "Mr. Xiang" who helped her catch the two "criminal elements" the night before.

"Yes." Xia Libing didn't hide anything either.

"You went to the first hospital just now, and you also went to look for him? Could it be that he was hospitalized suddenly?" Third Aunt guessed again. According to her thinking, Xia Libing is unlikely to go to the first hospital if she is fine, but if it is a business, she will definitely tell her.

"His father was injured." Xia Libing's reply was still relatively simple.

"Oh? Is it serious? What's the specific situation?" Third Aunt asked with concern.

"I had a slight concussion. To be on the safe side, I was hospitalized for two days for observation." Xia Libing briefly introduced the situation of Xiang Kun's father.

The third aunt nodded thoughtfully, and said, "I just went to the courtyard, and I heard that someone brought you a supper last night? Could it be that the person who brought the supper is also Mr. Xiang?"

"Yes." Xia Libing said.

The third aunt smiled and said: "In the past few days, find a time, you can call Mr. Shang Xiang, and have a meal with me and your third uncle, just to thank him for his help the night before yesterday.

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"No, he doesn't like to eat with too many people." Xia Libing said, paused for a moment, and added: "He is withdrawn and afraid of others."

The third aunt thought for a while, and then said: "Then... find a time tomorrow, and I will go to the first courtyard with you to see Mr. Xiang's father? I also have some old friends in the first courtyard, so I can ask them to take care of you." .”

Xia Libing still refused, "No need."

The third aunt didn't think it was disobedient, and chatted with Xia Libing for a while, knowing that she hadn't had dinner yet, she helped her heat up some of the food she brought this time, and then left.

Sitting in the car that Xia Libing returned to her, the third aunt searched the address book with her mobile phone, searched for a name beginning with Xia, and dialed it.

After a while, the phone was connected, and a cheerful voice rang out: "Third Aunt? Why did you think of calling me... Oh, oh, I see, it's because I didn't take the initiative to call for New Year's greetings last night! I was wrong Third Aunt! Happy New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Good luck! Eat tonight...it tastes delicious, and you will feel great!..."

"What a mess!" The third aunt couldn't help interrupting: "Tian Huo, do you have Yang Zhen'er's mobile phone number, send it to me."

"Hey? Third Aunt, what are you looking for with our youngest Yang? Did she get into some trouble again?" Xia Tianhuo, who was overseas at this time, asked in a surprised tone on the phone, "Tell me , What trouble did she get into? Later, I will scold her for you too!"

"It's not causing trouble, I'm asking her for someone, a friend who has a good relationship with her and Xiaobing." The third aunt said.

"Xiao Bing? Oh? Yes, Lao Xia is also in Erythronia now, and he has a good relationship with Lao Xia? Who, why don't I know? Wait, third aunt, you are not talking about a bald head, are you?"

"You know Xiang Kun too?" Third Aunt asked strangely.

"Oh, I met once, Third Aunt, what do you ask him for?"

"What about this person, do you understand?"

"I definitely don't know much about it, but initially, judging from the impression I've met once before, this person is pretty good."

"What is a good way?"

"How should I put it, I can't tell you the specifics, it's just a feeling..."

"I feel...you stop talking to me, send me Yang Zhen'er's number, and then do what you should do." The third aunt said angrily, "By the way, you are not allowed to call you Xiaobing in the future." Xia', a beautiful girl, is called "Old Xia" and "Old Xia" by you when she was only a teenager. Is it appropriate? You can't call it that when you are an older brother. I will hear you call it that next time , I'll tell your dad I'll tell you."

At this time, after quickly finishing dinner, Xia Libing was sitting at the desk, and placed the six coins that Xiang Kun gave her in the afternoon, plus the previous three, on the table for a total of nine coins, with a slight frown. Wrinkled, thinking about something.

A moment later, a napoleon cake appeared on the table, but it disappeared quickly, and then a piece of crispy pork knuckle appeared in that place again, looking very realistic, exuding aroma, and making people mouth-watering.

Xia Libing stared at the two kinds of food that he "presented together", and his brows furrowed deeper, as if he had encountered some problem.

She turned on her laptop, created a new Excel spreadsheet, and then started to do some statistics.

Xiang Kun told her before not to leave too many obvious records that can be found by others, so when she made the form, there were all kinds of special symbols that only she could understand. The meaning of the data, except for her Besides, no one can understand it at all.

After a while, she seemed to understand something, she frowned, then picked up her phone, found Xiang Kun's wechat avatar, and sent a message there.

...

After separating from Lao Xia, Xiang Kun did not immediately go back to the ward where his father was. Instead, he found a stone chair in the hospital and sat down to check the message reminder from "Alice" just now.

I asked "Alice" to check the information about the "vampire" mental patients in the Third Hospital, and found some content that fit the description.

He asked "Alice" to send the information, and then looked at it.

In March of last year, in a small town below Zaitong City, a 27-year-old woman who claimed to be the "ancestor of vampires" took three young men who were bewitched by her, and abducted them on the street in the middle of the night. A passerby wants to suck his blood.

Fortunately, when they were kidnapping, they were discovered by the surrounding residents and called the police in time. The police arrived before the innocent passer-by was hurt, and arrested the "ancestor vampire" and the three young men.

Later, after a judicial appraisal by a psychiatrist, the woman who claimed to be the "ancestor of the vampire" was a mentally ill patient, so after the trial, she was arranged to be sent to the Third Hospital of Yitong for compulsory medical treatment.

Come to think of it, it should be what Lao Xia said last night, the patient who claimed to be a "vampire" and only ate "red" things.

"Alice" found the verdict at the time, and also found all kinds of crazy remarks made by the woman who claimed to be "the ancestor of the vampire" on the Internet.

The remarks she made were basically the settings of various vampires in film and television dramas, and did not have the characteristics of real "mutated creatures" and "vampires".

To be honest, if it was Xiang Kun himself who wanted to find the same kind, he would automatically skip this information when he searched online. Even if I saw this information, I would not think that this person would be of the same kind, or anyone related.

But now, because of the special intuition after the "super sensory state" detection when he was in the Third Hospital, he felt that there should be something wrong with this person.

Of course, the investigation of this person does not have to be entirely on his own. Now that Lao Xia already knew about his situation, if he wanted to investigate the patient, he could just tell Lao Xia directly—there is someone in us!

It has to be said that after telling this secret that had been hidden for more than half a year and telling another person, Xiang Kun felt that he felt a lot easier on the psychological level. And there are a lot of things to do in the future, because of Lao Xia's helper, when making plans, they can be much more relaxed.

Not only the investigation of the "vampire" mental patient, but other things such as the arrangement of the blood-drinking period, etc., can have more choices and more execution methods.

When he was thinking about how to change some of the plans he had made before returning to Erythronia after Lao Xia, an "informer", joined in, Xiang Kun received a WeChat message from Lao Xia:

"I go to bed now."

If other people saw this message, they might feel a little baffled. It's only seven o'clock, so I went to bed so early, and I didn't send a WeChat message without thinking, what does it mean? If you knew that Lao Xia didn't sleep much yesterday, you might guess that she was going to catch up on sleep and ask him not to disturb her next?

But when Xiang Kun saw the news, he immediately understood what Lao Xia meant - she was going to sleep again and let Xiang Kun make arrangements.

Could it be that after Lao Xia went back, he suddenly thought of something related to "Fantasy Juxtaposition", and he needed to go to that special dream to verify it?

Xiang Kun didn't think much about it, closed his eyes, and began to sense the pair of chopsticks given to Lao Xia.

After knowing that the chopsticks guide the dream, Lao Xia will definitely keep the chopsticks by his side before going to bed, and he doesn't need to remind him.

After more than six minutes, Xiang Kun perceived some changing images, which successfully triggered Lao Xia's dream.

This time, when the dream appeared, it was the scene of the two of them eating at noon, but sitting opposite Lao Xia, in his original position, was the little chubby girl Liu Shiling who was eating with chopsticks—this was the chopsticks. Emotional projection.

In the dream, Lao Xia was also eating and drinking, but this time, he stopped after eating a few mouthfuls, then took out five coins from his pocket with his left hand and slapped them on the table, and then he also He took four coins out of his pocket and slapped them on the table.

"Liu Shiling" sitting across from her froze for a moment, stopped eating, stared blankly at the nine coins on the table, and asked softly, "Sister Xia, are the coins edible?"

Lao Xia didn't answer, but Xiang Kun could already feel that extreme sense of reason and sobriety appeared, and Lao Xia had "woke up" in his dream, this time much faster than the previous two times.

After entering the "lucid dream" state, Lao Xia got up and walked around the room, and the nine coins were like nine satellites, revolving around her.

"Xiang Kun, are you there?" Lao Xia suddenly asked.

At this time, Xiang Kun's perspective and perception could change everywhere in the dream, and he no longer had to be limited to Lao Xia.

But the problem is that this dream is not caused by the graffiti in the black circle. He cannot enter the "super-sensory state" in this dream, and cannot directly edit this dream, so he cannot interact with Lao Xia in the dream. "Yes" to her.

But he quickly thought of a way. He cut off the authority of one of Lao Xia's nine coins to call his ability, so in the dream, the nine coins surrounding Lao Xia suddenly became eight, and one of the coins The dream projection disappeared.

But the next moment, the coin reappeared.

Lao Xia obviously understood that Xiang Kun was "greeting" to her, and instead of continuing to ask, he manipulated the nine coins.

The nine coins disappeared instantly, and at the same time, a little girl appeared in the dream.

That little girl was not a little chubby girl, but the little Lao Xia in the photo that Xiang Kun had seen in the PDF file that Lao Xia made in the afternoon.

The little girl held a scalpel in her hand, was wearing a gorgeous princess dress, black leather shoes on her feet, and cute accessories on her head. Her facial features were exquisite, but her face was expressionless, and her eyes were devoid of emotion.

Uh...Lao Xia showed her own childhood image in her dream?

Then after waking up, in reality, wouldn't it be...

When Xiang Kun thought this way, Lao Xia's dream suddenly collapsed, and all perceptions disappeared.

He immediately picked up his cell phone and called Lao Xia.

Two seconds later, the phone was connected, and Lao Xia said, "Are you free now? Come here."

"it is good."

After Xiang Kun hung up the phone, he ran back to his father's ward to check his condition, and then talked to his mother before taking a taxi to Xia Libing's rented residence.

Xia Libing opened the door, and after Xiang Kun entered the room, he couldn't help but ask immediately: "Can you show all of your childhood?"

To be honest, his original idea was that since Lao Xia could present things like cakes and pork knuckles, it should be possible to present tables, chairs, and even cars and airplanes. Develop in a more complicated direction a little bit, and then try to embody plants or something. I didn't expect Lao Xia to embody a person directly? Or her own childhood? What would it be like if this "both appeared" in reality?

Xiang Kun was looking forward to and curious.

But Xia Libing shook his head: "No."

"Oh, that's right." Xiang Kun was far from disappointed. If Lao Xia "jumped up" and made a "little Lao Xia", then he would feel a little horrified. .

"What's the difference?" Xiang Kun asked again.

He knew that Lao Xia called him over after waking up, there must be a reason, not simply telling him that the "little Lao Xia" in the dream couldn't appear.