What It’s Like Being a Vampire

It was beyond Xiang Kun's expectation to see this video in this flower shop.

When Alice searched for information about "vampire patients" before, she didn't find this video.

Either the female clerk who took the video didn't upload it on the Internet, or there was no popularity on the Internet, or the keywords had nothing to do with the "vampire patient" case.

Xia Libing also looked curious, and came over with other shop assistants to watch the video on the little girl's phone.

Even the proprietress, who had already seen it, couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing again when she saw the place where the drunk was dragged and dragged by three young men, screaming for help.

Although it is a very serious matter with a bad influence, the audiovisual performance in this video is indeed an inexplicable sense of joy.

The other girls in the store also laughed out loud when they saw it.

Even Xiang Kun and Lao Xia, who didn't find it funny at all, saw that everyone was laughing, so they followed suit with a smile and hehe.

When other people watch this video, their attention is naturally focused on the "funny" process of the three young men pulling the drunk into the car at the beginning.

But Xiang Kun's focus was not on this, because he knew very well that during this process, the "mutated parasite" was still in the "vampire patient".

After the police car appeared and the police took everyone in the van down, Xiang Kun was really concerned about it.

For this part, the little girl in the flower shop also shot part of it.

It can be seen that as soon as the van was stopped by the police car, it stopped immediately, and there was no attempt to escape by speeding. The process of rescuing the drunk and arresting the three young people was also very smooth.

It was not until the arrest of the "vampire patient" that there was a struggle, and the police took a little effort to remove the knife from her hand, take her out of the car, and take her to the hospital.

After the "vampire patient" was taken out of the car, Xiang Kun's eyes were always on the bottom of the van, but the little girl who took the video was not the photographer he hired, so naturally it was impossible to take care of that position all the time. Arrested suspects go.

After watching the video, Xiang Kun followed the emotions of the flower shop proprietress and the shop assistants and said, "This is simply a farce!"

Lao Xia also nodded in response: "Yes, it's so funny."

The little girl who took the video said: "I posted it on Moments before, and everyone who saw it said that the acting was so fake..."

After chatting for a while, and almost knowing the information he wanted to know, Xiang Kun motioned for Lao Xia to choose a box of roses and two carnations, and left the flower shop.

After putting Huadu in the back seat, Xiang Kun stood on the side of the street for a while before getting into the co-pilot, and said to Lao Xia, "Let's go to Zihuan Mountain."

After the car started driving, without Lao Xia asking, Xiang Kun began to explain: "The 'mutated parasite' must have a way to leave Nanhua Street. From the situation of the previous dream within a dream, it can be preliminarily judged that the insect is in the When detached from the host, it has a certain ability to move autonomously. Relatively speaking, the ability to move in water is relatively strong, and it is clumsy on land.

"Judging from the video taken by the flower shop clerk, after it came out of the 'patient' in your hospital, it didn't leave the van immediately, but was still in the car.

"I speculate that its next parasitic target will definitely be human beings. But with its IQ and judgment mode of external information, it will naturally not directly 'invade' the host when other people are paying attention.

"The first option, when the police or passers-by are not paying attention to the van, it will get out of the van, enter the sewer from the drain on the side of the road, and then go through the sewer system extending in all directions to find the host;

"The second option is to wait for someone to touch the van alone. For example, after the police investigate and collect evidence at the scene,

Drive the car back to the parking lot of the police station. If you are driving alone, you may be caught while driving or parking;

"The third option, I saw in the video in the flower shop that about a minute after the 'patient' was arrested, a person approached the van, looked through the window for a while, and left after being scolded by the police officer. The camera was not on him all the time, so it is not sure whether he was hitched by a "parasite" and clinging to him, but theoretically, it is possible;

"If it doesn't have cleanliness and chooses the first way to leave, we can't track it accurately for the time being, and we can only use other methods to investigate in the future.

"If it is the latter two options, we still have ways to determine and rule them out.

"However, almost a year has passed anyway, these investigations are not in a hurry, and I will start after I finish drinking blood next time.

"As for going to Zihuan Mountain, the purpose is to investigate its past, what it is, where it came from, and what characteristics it has. Knowing these will be of great help to us in our pursuit of its trail."

Xia Libing nodded: "Understood."

After driving for more than an hour, when they reached the foot of Zihuan Mountain, Xiang Kun asked Lao Xia to stop: "I didn't tell my family when I came back at night. I will stay in the mountain tonight. You can go back by yourself. Help me take a bag tomorrow." Send the bouquet to my mother, and you can give the rest of the carnations to your third aunt. After checking here, I will call and ask you to pick me up, no later than six o'clock tomorrow night. If it is before six o'clock Call me before you receive my call, and if you can't get through, just drive over and wait for me here."

Xia Libing knew that with Xiang Kun's current vision, various sensory abilities, and athletic abilities, there was almost no difference between night and day when investigating him. In some cases, it was even more convenient for him at night.

"Okay." Xia Libing's answer was still very straightforward. She knew that it didn't make any sense for her to follow her into the mountain. Instead, it would become a drag and greatly affect Xiang Kun's investigation speed.

So Xiang Kun not only left the luggage he brought back this time, but also took off his coat, shoes and socks and put them on the car, so as not to get dirty or broken on the mountain at night.

For him, barefoot is more comfortable than wearing shoes when moving on the mountain.

"By the way, if you have time tomorrow, help me prepare the meat rabbit in advance, so as not to rush the day after tomorrow." After getting out of the car and closing the door, Xiang Kun said to Xia Libing by the car window again.

"Okay." Xia Libing nodded.

After explaining, Xiang Kun patted the roof of the car: "Thank you."

Xia Libing circled the index finger and thumb of his right hand and made an OK gesture.

Seeing the Camry turn around and leave, Xiang Kun started running towards Zihuan Mountain.

He did not take the winding mountain road, nor did he take the sightseeing stone steps, but climbed directly according to the shortest distance. The speed was extremely fast, and even monkeys could not match it.

Zihuan Mountain is the synonym for the entire mountainous area. Xiang Kunlai had used the satellite map to combine with the dream of the "vampire patient" before, and roughly delineated the location where she was attacked and recruited by the "mutated parasite".

In the deep mountains at night, Xiang Kun has his own method of identifying the direction, which does not require mobile phone navigation or flipping through paper maps, plus the ability to climb and jump all-terrain, before three o'clock in the morning, He has already arrived at the creek where the "vampire patient" was recruited.

Generally, parasites are targeted in their selection of hosts. The different characteristics of each parasite determine the hosts they choose.

The characteristics of the "mutated parasite" on the "vampire patient" made Xiang Kun deduce that it was definitely not the first time it had parasitized humans, and it had probably already evolved and mutated on other human hosts before.

With its parasitic method, it obviously does not simply suck the host's blood, but at the same time induces the host to take the initiative to obtain fresh blood, and then absorbs this blood through a certain way of "connecting" the digestive organs in the host.

In this case, after experiencing the current "ruler" at the top of the food chain on the earth as a host, it is generally difficult to accept other hosts with the IQ displayed by the "mutated parasite".

In Xiang Kun's view, its goal should be to parasitize a human being with huge wealth and power, and then it will really be "supported" directly by lying down. Instead of trying to "kidnap" like a "vampire patient", it ended up falling in by itself, making it have to "escape" temporarily.

Xiang Kun suspected that the reason why the "mutated parasite" appeared in the stream of Zihuan Mountain and parasitized the "vampire patient" was probably because of an accident that changed the parasitic plan. His previous host, maybe Just buried here.

Alice did not find any news about the discovery of an accidental dead body in Zihuan Mountain in the past two years. If it is true as he guessed, the previous host of the "mutated parasite" was buried in Zihuan Mountain, then the body should not have been found yet.

If the "mutated parasite" appears in the water, then the corpse should also be near the water or at the bottom of the water.

Zihuan Mountain is not the kind of deep mountains and old forests in the uninhabited area of ​​Qinling Mountains. Even if it is a relatively deep area, tourists and local mountain people often set foot there. If there are corpses that have not been found for a long time, they will definitely not be in places that are easy to reach. . .

Of course, it is also possible that Xiang Kun's conjecture and assumption were wrong. The "mutated parasite" arrived in Zihuan Mountain through other non-human hosts, or the former human host did not die, just like the "vampire patient". Some accidents forced it to temporarily decide to abandon the host.

At four o'clock in the morning, Xiang Kun, who was running fast in the mountains and constantly collecting various sensory information, hadn't found his "assumed" corpse yet, but suddenly smelled a "familiar" smell - it was a "mutated creature" "The characteristic smell.