What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 35 Synergy of Hearing and Taste

Xiang Kun's house is only 70 square meters, two bedrooms and one living room, and the balcony is not big, it can even be said to be relatively narrow.

But the better point is that the line of sight is not bad, it is far away from other high-rise buildings, and you can see the mountains in the distance.

Xiang Kun didn't move the chair out, and just lay on the tiles on the balcony - of course, the floor had been carefully wiped down.

Under the darkness of night, Xiang Kun's condition was particularly good, his body function reached its peak, and his sensory ability had undergone targeted training after drinking blood for the last three times, and then mutated and evolved, which had greatly improved.

However, limited by equipment means, he has no way to make accurate tests and statistics. He has downloaded an APP that can emit 1-22000 Hz frequency sound with his mobile phone, but this can only test the frequency range of the sound he hears, and it still doesn’t work. There is no way to fully test the overall improvement of his hearing. He also used a fixed sound source as a reference, and then extended the distance, using the farthest distance where the sound can be heard as the criterion. However, this judgment method requires a relatively fixed and stable environment, is easily disturbed, and is difficult to test accurately.

The same is true for the sense of smell, which can only be tested in a more subjective way.

Xiang Kun, who was lying on the balcony tiles, closed his eyes, relaxed his body muscles, and focused all his attention on hearing and smell, with the primary sense of hearing and the secondary sense of smell.

All of a sudden, the sound came rushing like a flood from a reservoir, all kinds of noises intertwined, and so did the smell.

The human brain has a very mature mechanism for processing external information, which can be called a protection mechanism or a lazy mechanism.

When the attention is not on the sound or smell, although the auditory and olfactory organs are always collecting information, the information will be weakened, filtered or even blocked by the brain.

And when the attention is focused on the sound and smell, it can concentrate and enhance the transmission of information according to the information that the attention is focused on, and block other influences.

But hearing a sound, smelling a smell, and locking in a sensory information is one thing, and how to make a judgment based on this sensory information is another.

It is like sitting at home alone and hearing a car whizzing by outside the house.

If he was attracted by the sound, the image of a car speeding by on the road outside the house would subconsciously appear in his mind.

This scene can appear because he is very familiar with the road outside the house, has heard the sound of cars, and has seen cars speeding on the road outside the house.

And if someone is more familiar with car engine sound and exhaust sound, he can even directly tell whether the car outside is a four-cylinder or six-cylinder engine, whether it is a Ford or a Toyota, whether it is a broken diesel truck or a supercar, and the picture constructed in his mind will also Be more specific and rich.

And this person sitting at home, when he heard the crisp sound of footsteps upstairs, he would recognize the sound as high-heeled shoes. If he had never seen the residents upstairs, he might have the image of a young girl in his mind. There is a picture of long legs walking around in high heels, but if you have seen a 50-year-old aunt living upstairs, then when you hear the sound of high-heeled shoes, it is a picture of a 50-year-old aunt walking around.

The brain will make necessary "brain supplements" based on its own "database", experience, logic and instinct.

So it's one thing to be able to collect sensory information, but it's another thing whether the information can be really useful to help the brain make a judgment.

The reason why Xiang Kun lay directly on the ground was not because there were no chairs to move out and no blankets to lay on the floor, but because in this reinforced concrete building, apart from the air, the walls and the ground are the main sources of sound transmission. Medium, so lying on the ground with direct contact with the ground makes it easier to hear the whole building.

After hearing all kinds of messy voices, Xiang Kun carefully distinguished and slowly sifted through,

Starting from the voice closest to me, the nearest downstairs is 608. The voice seems to be a middle-aged couple, talking about their son going to the north to go to college, and the news broadcast on the TV.

To the side, the next door was completely silent, no footsteps, no sound of electrical appliances being used, no sound of talking, and no sound of breathing, but there was the sound of curtains being blown, which should be the windows and doors being closed, and the owner has not returned.

Then he heard the voice of Liu Shiling, the little chubby girl he met during the day, so he located the place where she made her voice as 706—he knew that the little chubby girl's home was 706.

Judging from the sound, the little chubby girl was at home with her mother, and her mother was urging her to take a bath, while she was still watching cartoons in front of the TV and refused to move.

Taking 706 as the anchor point, Xiang Kun continued to distinguish the voices he heard and make judgments.

When he hears footsteps, he can judge others based on the structure of his home and other reference sounds, such as the sound of turning on the faucet, the sound of turning on the gas ignition, the sound of picking up the cup, and when other electrical appliances are turned on. Where in the home, and even in what mobile trends.

At the same time, he can also use smell to assist in judgment. For example, when he hears the sound of someone in 402 colliding with a spatula and frying food, and then matches the smell he smells, he can judge what kind of dish the other party is cooking, even the taste is different. I can guess a lot.

Moreover, the mutual verification of smell and sound can also help him determine the location more accurately.

Time passed little by little. From the outside, the lights of the whole community gradually went out and became less and less, and the voices and movements of each household also gradually became quieter.

It was after one o'clock in the morning that Xiang Kun opened his eyes, sat up from the ground, and stretched.

He has used sound and smell to "walk" the movement of the whole building, every household. Although Liu Shiling, the little chubby girl from 706, is the only one who has really met, told her name, and known each other so far, but this night, through the sound and smell, he recognized almost everyone, and even knew a lot. "Secret".

Of course, Xiang Kun didn't do this to find out other people's privacy, but for training.

Just as his muscle size increased, he began to turn to training endurance and agility. After his sensory abilities improved rapidly, he needed to train his brain's ability to process the sensory information he received.

Just like two professional athletes with the same body weight and similar muscle mass, because they engage in different sports, perform different trainings, and use different methods of exerting force, the results of exerting force will naturally be different. The punch of a professional boxer is naturally heavier than that of a professional basketball player, and the ability of a professional basketball player to complete basketball moves under the same level of confrontation is definitely stronger than that of a professional boxer.

So Xiang Kun knew that it was useless just to have a stronger sensory ability. He still needed to practice and know how to use this powerful sensory ability.

The first stage is to collect "samples" of sounds and smells that did not exist before, and establish a "database", which has become the instinct of smell and hearing, and most of it has been completed.

The second stage is what we are doing now, how to use sound and smell to help Xiang Kun judge the surrounding environment and situation, and become his "super eye".

Even though it takes him five or six hours to "walk around" a building now, after he gets familiar with it, it may only take a second or two to quickly locate anyone in the building by sound and smell, even in the building. A real-time holographic image of the entire building is created in the brain.

Xiang Kun has already discovered that while his sensory abilities are evolving, his brain is also evolving. At least now, when he is immersed in multiple sounds at the same time, he will no longer feel the nausea and dizziness at the beginning.

At 7:30 the next morning, Xiang Kun went out with his sports bag on his back, ready to go to the gym - although it was far away from the previous gym, and it would take at least 40 or 50 minutes to take the subway and then transfer to the bus, but he I don't plan to change places for fitness. After all, I have already applied for a membership card, but there is no way to refund the money.

And he doesn't plan to go by car, but is going to run directly. The running process is also a training process.

After going out, Xiang Kun happened to see Liu Shiling from 706 was also going out. Behind her was a plump young woman who was six to seven points similar to her. It should be her mother.

"Uncle Bald!" Liu Shiling ran over to greet Xiang Kun as soon as she saw him.

When she heard this greeting, her mother was embarrassed immediately, and hurried over and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, children are ignorant and call you indiscriminately. Are you a new tenant of 708? You will be a neighbor in the future. If you need help , just say it."

The chubby girl ran to press the elevator, while Xiang Kun chatted with Shi Ling's mother for a while, and found out that they actually just moved into 706 this year and bought a house. Liu Shiling's father works in engineering and is often away from home, while Shiling's mother is a full-time housewife, mainly taking care of the only daughter.

Xiang Kun also made a brief self-introduction, saying that he was a programmer and had been working for seven years, but he didn't tell her that he was still unemployed.

They didn't have to wait long. There are two elevators in one unit here, and the descending elevator arrived soon.

With a sound of ding dong, the elevator door opened, but a dog's head stuck out, ready to pounce. Liu Shiling, who was standing at the elevator door and was about to enter, was startled, took two steps back, and almost fell. Xiang Kun who was beside him hurried Help her up.

Looking back, there was a young girl in her twenties in the elevator, leading an adult husky. The husky was obviously very excited. When the elevator door opened, she wanted to jump out. The girl was playing with her mobile phone with one hand, so she almost missed it. .

"PINKIE! PINKIE! STOP! Don't move!" The girl pulled the dog with both hands and shouted loudly.

But the husky kept thinking about it, and the little fat girl outside the elevator was obviously frightened, and she looked timid, holding Xiang Kun's thigh and daring not to speak.

Shiling's mother obviously knew this dog girl, and she frowned and said, "Miss Yang, your dog needs to be pulled well. The elevator has such a small space, the dog is so big, and the child is so small. ..."

Ms. Yang pulled the dog and said without raising her head: "It's okay, PINKIE just wants to play with the children and won't bite people. I'm leading it!... PINKIE! STOP! SIT! SIT!!"

Obviously, this is not the first time Shiling's mother has complained to Ms. Yang, and she knew it was useless, so she pressed the elevator and said to Xiang Kun, "You guys go down first, we will wait for the next elevator."

Xiang Kun took the little fat girl's hand and walked into the elevator together.

At first, the chubby girl was a little scared, and she was reluctant to go in, but when she saw the husky, which was very lively just now and Ms. Yang couldn't hold back, she suddenly shrank behind Ms. Yang, with the dog's head clinging to the elevator wall , still seems to be trembling.

Xiang Kun turned back and said to Shiling's mother, "It's okay, let's come in together."