What It’s Like Being a Vampire

After waking up from this blood-sucking slumber, Xiang Kun first learned from "Little Apple" why Officer Xiao Zhao paid attention to the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, as well as some of the circumstances related to the corpse case in the mountain.

That night, he used the known case circumstances and Lao Xia's "dream within a dream" mode to get more details of the case from Police Officer Xiao Zhao.

These details allowed Xiang Kun to improve his guess on the trajectory of the previous "mutated parasite" and improve his cognitive model of it.

Basically, it can be determined that the deceased male in Zihuan Mountain was one of the former hosts of the "mutated parasite".

He abducted two girls and went deep into Zihuan Mountain to murder them, which was also caused by the influence and guidance of the "mutated parasite".

Normally, either one of the two dead women will become the next generation host, and the "mutated parasite" will use this to leave Zihuan Mountain, or the male host will "drink blood" and leave Zihuan Mountain after murdering the two girls.

Judging from the subsequent parasitic pattern of this "mutated parasite" on the "vampire patient", it has the tendency to continue to transform the host, so the latter possibility is more likely.

But the final result was that the host and the two girls died in the cave, and the "mutated parasite" left Zihuan Mountain after a period of time, through flowing water, parasitizing the "vampire patients" who visited the mountain.

It is very possible that something went wrong during the process of "drinking blood", causing it to change its plan.

As for what went wrong, Xiang Kun speculated based on the "mutated big bird" that was "ambushing" and "squatting" in Zihuan Mountain a few days ago. It should be that the host of the "mutated parasite" was targeted by the big bird. ——It's just that the big bird failed to understand the survival mode of the "parasite" and regarded the host as a "mutated organism". It wasn't until the "parasite" abandoned the host and fled, and the host committed suicide, that he realized that the host was not a "mutated creature", but he still thought that the "mutated parasite" would come back, so he came to stay after such a long time. Unexpectedly, I met Xiang Kun and was almost captured.

Xiang Kun originally wanted to trace the host's identity information back to the node where it was parasitized by the "mutated parasite", and then deduce the starting point and mutation process of the "mutated parasite" step by step.

But when he wanted to search online to see how much information the police had released about the Zihuan Mountain case, he accidentally found a very crucial piece of information, which made him directly change the direction of the investigation.

The night before he returned to Citong City, he and Lao Xia went for a walk around the place where the "vampire patient" was arrested, and accidentally discovered the failed kidnapping and arrest process of the "vampire patient" and his accomplices filmed by a nearby flower shop clerk. video.

Through that video,

Combined with the information that Lao Xia helped him obtain earlier in the dream of the "vampire patient", Xiang Kun had several guesses about the whereabouts of the "mutated parasite".

One of them was the passerby who looked inside the van for a while after the "vampire patient" was taken out of the van. There was a certain chance that the "mutated parasite" would attach to him and leave. Wait until you are in a "safe" location before parasitizing.

To determine whether the passerby has been parasitized by a "mutated parasite" or whether it has become a "springboard", we must first determine his identity and find his location.

The information revealed in the video was very limited, but Xiang Kun could still draw some judgment conditions:

For example, the passerby was wearing slippers, dressed casually, and carrying a bag from a convenience store in his hand. As well as the time at that time, it was inferred that he should be a resident living nearby and on his way home. From other details, he inferred his possible occupation, age, personality tendencies, etc., and prepared to use this as a premise to ask Alice to help in the search.

However, in Xiang Kun's original judgment, the possibility of the "parasite" attaching to the passerby and leaving was relatively low. After all, the passerby only stayed by the car for a short time, so the priority of this investigation direction was also relatively low.

But what he didn't expect was that he found the identity information of the passerby on the Internet before searching through Alice.

And that information was a wanted notice issued by the police.

Xiang Kun recognized at a glance that the man in his forties on the police wanted list was the passerby who was watching the video from the car window for a while.

According to the wanted order, this person committed a murder in Citong City in May last year and absconded. Because the body was well hidden, it took more than half a month to be discovered, so the police were unable to control him immediately. he.

However, Xiang Kun searched for relevant information and found that this person accidentally fell from a building and died in June while being jointly arrested by police from two places in Yangcheng.

Xiang Kun checked some media reports. According to the suspect's family, he became a little nagging in March last year. He refused to take him to the hospital for a check-up, and ended up having an affair with his wife. After getting divorced, I also fell out with other family members, severed ties, and stopped communicating with her. Then he borrowed a lot of online loans and loan sharks, and everyone suspected whether he had gotten into gambling or other bad habits.

Judging from the time point, Xiang Kun judged that the suspect had a high probability of becoming a victim of a "mutated parasite" and its host, and his behavior was guided and influenced by it.

In this case, according to the "vampire patient" model, it must have escaped before the host was captured and died.

So Xiang Kun set off to Yangcheng to investigate the next day.

Normally speaking, if the suspect who fell from the building is really the host of the "mutated parasite", there is still a time difference of eight months between Xiang Kun and the parasite, and the parasite may no longer be there. City.

Therefore, he did not expect to directly find the exact location of the "mutated parasite" during this trip, and he was prepared to return without success after a blood-drinking period.

But sometimes it's like this. If you plant flowers intentionally, they won't bloom, but if you don't mean to plant willows, they will create shade.

The day after he investigated the location where the suspect fell, he went to a tea restaurant near a university in Yangcheng and tasted their specialty fried beef river.

Because he heard Yang Zhener say that every time she and Tang Baona go to Yangcheng, they must go to that restaurant to eat fried beef river. The taste has never been comparable to that in other restaurants.

So even though Xiang Kun didn't need to eat, he came here to try it and see what was so special about the fried beef river here.

With his current sense of taste and knowledge of seasoning, he can easily deduce the basic seasoning and cooking methods from the taste.

Of course, he may not be able to accurately review the cooking process, but Xiang Kun is very confident that the taste he has adjusted will definitely be more suitable for the tastes of Tang Baona and Yang Zhener - after all, he customized and adjusted it according to their tastes. , and there is definitely no one in the world who understands their tastes better than him.

When leaving the restaurant after tasting the fried beef river, Xiang Kun habitually switched the visual mode to observe the surroundings, but unexpectedly discovered that a passerby on the street had a light blue light spot on his body.

Since he began to conduct deliberate and targeted training to guide the evolution of various perceptions, Xiang Kun has developed the habit of "seeing in all directions and listening in all directions". Every time he enters a new environment, he must first collect enough sensory information. It has become his instinct.

To be honest, when he first saw the blue light spot, Xiang Kun's first reaction was that he had seen it wrong?

But he soon determined that it was indeed a "mutated creature" embedded in the human body.

And there is a high probability that it is the "mutated parasite" that he tracked all the way to Yangcheng - unless there is another "mutated parasite" in Yangcheng.

Xiang Kun did not dare to follow too closely, because judging from the experiences of "vampire patients", dead men in Zihuan Mountain, and passers-by, the "mutated parasite" could always escape in time before the host got into trouble, and was very harmful to the host. Very sensitive to changes in situation.

It is possible that there are some special ways of acquiring sensory information that are not native to the host's original sensory abilities.

This is actually Xiang Kun's biggest curiosity about this "mutated parasite".

From a normal perspective, after this "mutated parasite" enters the host's body, its range of perception is limited to the host's local organs.

One possibility is that the "mutated parasite" has the ability to share and obtain the host's sensory information through mutation, and has acquired the ability to process this information through mutation, and can judge the host's environment on its own - but Xiang Kun I think this possibility is unlikely, because the information processing capacity required is too great. As a creature that does not originally have those sensory organs, it has to evolve the relevant information processing capabilities from scratch. Even if it can evolve through blood-drinking mutation, It takes a long time;

Another possibility is that it does not directly obtain sensory information, but only makes judgments through the emotional feedback of the host after processing the sensory information, such as "fear", "panic", "nervous", etc. - when these emotions are generated, the human body Make judgments based on subtle changes in physical condition.

But these cannot explain how it escaped from the prying eyes of the "mutated big bird" in "Zihuan Mountain", so Xiang Kun speculated that the "mutated parasite" might have another unique and special way of perception that can surpass the host's perception. The ability exists.

If there is such a perceptual ability, Xiang Kun wants to figure out what it is, which should be helpful in improving his already super strong perceptual system.

Although Xiang Kun was far away, he still knew clearly that the current host of the "mutated parasite" was also following others.

Recalling the known experiences of several hosts, Xiang Kun naturally guessed that this guy was probably driven by parasites to find a target for blood.

Although Xiang Kun was a little excited to be able to observe the behavior pattern of another "mutated creature" besides himself, it was also a rare opportunity.

But no matter what, if the controlled host really wants to attack other humans, he will never be able to stand by and ignore it.

Fortunately, the host had no immediate plans to attack the target. After following the target to his residence, he turned around and left.

Xiang Kun followed him from a distance to a small building in a village in the city, and determined from the sound that the room he lived in was on the south side of the third floor.

Xiang Kun used his cell phone to ask Alice to help him search for information about the host. On the way back, the host answered a phone call. The brief two-minute call contained a lot of identity information that could be traced.

At around 6 o'clock, Xiang Kun determined from the dozen search results provided by Alice that the current host of the "mutated parasite" was a junior named Fan Jiading.

Judging from the content posted by this student on social media, he is also doing live broadcasts and making videos on various topics, ranging from games to life spoofs and food.

However, these contents came to an abrupt end at the beginning of last month. The videos were not updated, the live broadcasts were stopped, and no new contents were even released on social media.

Alice even found a post about Fan Jiading selling cameras and other equipment on Xianyu.

Obviously, at that time, he had been influenced and guided by the "mutated parasite", and his behavior was seriously affected.

Xiang Kun observed the surrounding environment, and waited until after nine o'clock in the evening when there were no pedestrians nearby, then he quickly climbed along the outer wall of the small building to the outside of Fan Jiading's room on the third floor and looked in through the window.

Xiang Kun found that Fan Jiading was sorting out the things in a backpack. He saw a folding knife, rope, and tape. He was obviously preparing for the follow-up operations of today's tracking.

It's not too late now. Even though this place is remote, it's inevitable that some residents will go out. So Xiang Kun didn't dare to stay by the window for too long, and passed the black circle graffiti that he had crumpled into a ball through the crack of the window. He bounced to the corner, then climbed back to the ground softly, shrunk into the darkness between two buildings and waited.

If Fan Jiading was going to take action tomorrow, the only time Xiang Kun could observe would be tonight, so he had to make arrangements in advance.

Xiang Kun stood in the dark, leaning against the wall, closing his eyes and entering a "super-sensory state". Through the black circle graffiti he had just placed, he came to Fan Jiading's side.

Through the perception of cognitive information, Xiang Kun noticed that in addition to the "mutated parasite" "embedded" in the lower back of the body, Fan Jiading's body also had some other differences from ordinary humans, but the specific differences were, He couldn't describe it yet.

This kind of cognitive information gave him the same feeling as observing a "vampire patient" in a "supersensory state" for the first time. At first glance, he couldn't tell the difference from ordinary people, and he could only feel that something was wrong. In the final analysis, his ability to interpret cognitive information in the "supersensory state" is insufficient.

These differences obviously come from the transformation of the host by the "mutated parasite".

Based on the experience of the previously discovered host, Xiang Kun can basically judge that this "mutated parasite" seems to be transforming the host as a vehicle, making its "performance" better and possessing stronger abilities. Help it get more blood sources.

It can also be seen that it is very persistent in human blood. Almost every time the host dies, it is because it is trying to obtain human blood.

But it is obviously unwilling to directly suck up the blood of one host and then transfer it to another host. It seems to have decided that "transforming" and "cultivating" a powerful host to help it steal the blood is the best solution, and it has been following this path. route.

After forcibly writing down part of the cognitive information of the "mutated parasite", Xiang Kun exited the "super-sensory state" and then picked up his cell phone to contact Lao Xia.

In addition to observing cognitive information through the "supersensory state", after Fan Jiading fell asleep, Xiang Kun also used Lao Xia's dream-within-dream mode to restore Fan Jiading's true memory of being parasitized.

But after sending a WeChat message and waiting for twenty minutes, there was no reply.

Xiang Kun immediately realized that Lao Xia was probably asleep. Otherwise, based on the content he sent, Lao Xia would reply instantly as soon as he saw it.

If it were normal and ordinary things, Xiang Kun would definitely not bother Lao Xia and let her have a good rest. But if he wanted to prevent Fan Jiading from committing murder tomorrow, he would only have the chance to conduct in-depth observation of the host of the "mutated parasite" tonight. He had to To capture the "mutated parasite", you must get it out of the host.

If Lao Xia is sleeping now, if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she will probably not be able to sleep... Without her guide to dream within a dream, if Xiang Kun directly triggers the dream, he can only edit the dream, but there is no way to target it. His subconscious mind provides psychological guidance, and he is unable to carry out deep dream hypnosis.

So after much thought, he still had no choice but to make a "cruel" call.

Citong City, inside Xia Libing's rental house.

Indeed, as Xiang Kun guessed, a girl with a ponytail was fast asleep with her head on the keyboard of her laptop, and the word document open on the screen was repeatedly typing out letters.

The sharp ringtone of the cell phone rang, Xia Libing was awakened, his head suddenly raised, and he subconsciously reached out to touch the cell phone.

And above her confused eyes, her originally smooth forehead had several squares printed on the keyboard.

After connecting the phone and listening to Xiang Kun say a few words, Xia Libing's eyes quickly returned to clarity.

Before she fell asleep, she was looking at the documents sent by some large laboratory equipment suppliers that she wanted to order. If she was studying "mutated organisms" - and it was the "mutated parasites" that she and Xiang Kun had been tracking before. , how could I be sleepy! You know, she could survive while watching Xiang Kun drink blood and sleep for 25 hours.

Xia Libing was also a little surprised that Xiang Kun could find the "mutated parasite" in such a short period of time.

After listening to Xiang Kun's introduction to the host Fan Jiading and his thoughts, Xia Libing also put forward some opinions of his own and quickly made an observation plan for tonight.

…

It's about two o'clock in the morning.

After Fan Jiading fell asleep, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia entered his dream through "dream within a dream" with the help of the "black circle graffiti" stuffed into his room that established a connection with Xia Libing.

To be honest, even the "well-informed" Xiang Kun was a little surprised as soon as he saw Fan Jiading's dream clearly.

The dreamland is a very technological hall, full of high-end and detailed electronic equipment and holographic projections, like the kind of sci-fi movie scenes invested in hundreds of millions of dollars, which is very visually shocking.

However, in the dense mist above the hall, there were eight large characters of Jitu with a light yellow light that was very inconsistent with the environment:

"Tianxuan System Redemption Hall".

Look at those holographic projections and introductions, such as the one in front of Fan Jiading in the dream. Under the holographic projection of a muscular man "Fan Jiading", there is a row of introductions: "Hercules-lv.3 (Price: 2500 Days Select Points) (Effect: Will The Hercules skill has been upgraded to lv.3, greatly increasing the power of the chosen one)", Xiang Kun immediately understood that under the guidance of the "mutated parasite", Fan Jiading's brain revealed the process of being "parasitized" and the driving force he was driven by. The behavior and fantasy become similar to the adventure of getting the "system".

From the experience of several previous hosts, Xiang Kun knew that just like the "vampire patient" imagined being parasitized as being embraced by an elegant and handsome vampire for the first time, and the dead man from Zihuan Mountain imagined being parasitized as practicing martial arts for immortality, "mutated parasites" "It only guides and drives the host to achieve its goals and achieve its intentions. As for how to achieve it and how to convince the host, it all depends on the host's own imagination.

Just like Guo Tianxiang's ability to "build one's own fear projection by looking at each other", he only needs to throw out a fearful emotion, and the affected person will imagine and create an extremely perfect fear hallucination projection.

Hosts affected by parasites will also give themselves an explanation based on different experiences, personalities, knowledge, emotions, and desires, and establish a complete set of illusory systems for their own behavior. Any loopholes can be filled by themselves.

As for letting people see specific content and scenes, whether in reality or in a dream, Xiang Kun knew how difficult it was. It took him so much effort to figure out some tricks and be able to do it. Do it to a certain extent.

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