What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Xiang Kun knew that although Xia Libing could not perceive the dreamer's various sensory information and emotional fluctuations in the "dream within a dream" caused by her like he could in the first-level dream, he could still understand the various details in the dream. The certainty is much stronger than in reality.

After all, in that "dream within a dream", she has the highest "administrator authority" and can also enter the "developer mode". She can decide the information, behavioral patterns, and existence environment that the dreamer receives in the dream. , you can have more understanding.

While he was thinking about it, Xiang Kun heard movement in the bedroom - Lao Xia also woke up.

Xia Libing tied up her loose hair again and yawned as she walked out of the room.

Xiang Kun couldn't help but frown: "Why didn't you continue sleeping?"

He judged based on the sensory information that Lao Xia was still very sleepy and his body was in a state of exhaustion. Normally, he would continue to sleep after the "dream within a dream" ended.

Moreover, he made a supper for Lao Xia not long before going to bed tonight, so he would not wake up from hunger.

Obviously, Lao Xia forced himself to wake up when he returned to his first-level dream after ending Officer Xiao Zhao's "dream within a dream".

After sitting down at the dining table opposite Xiang Kun, Lao Xia opened his mouth and asked about the memory of Officer Xiao Zhao's confession at the end of "A Dream Within a Dream".

"Why do you find it funny when you fart when confessing your love? Is it because of the contrast? In a more formal atmosphere, it is easier for people to laugh when something inconsistent with the atmosphere occurs? But what kind of situation will make people feel embarrassed? What kind of situation will make people feel embarrassed? It makes people feel painful. What kind of situation will make people angry and what kind of situation will make them funny? How to distinguish this point?"

"This is actually not that easy to distinguish. People's emotions are not completely single. Many emotions are closely connected." Xiang Kun said: "And sometimes, the same thing is different in the eyes of the parties involved and bystanders. Feelings. Even different parties may have completely opposite emotions. They may also have different cognitions and feelings at the time and after the incident. Just like the dream that Officer Xiao Zhao confessed to, Maybe when it happened, he was so ashamed and embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole to hide himself, but..."

Halfway through, Xiang Kun suddenly felt that something was wrong. Although Lao Xia had difficulties in sensing emotions, he had a master's degree in both psychiatry and psychology, and had been studying issues in this area over the years. Lao Xia must clearly know what he just said, and even know it more comprehensively, more deeply, and more systematically than he does.

And from the past experiences of playing with Lao Xia, Yang Zhener, and Tang Baona, her various WeChat chat conversations, and the notebook that recorded more than 900 behavioral patterns,

Xiang Kun can also tell that Lao Xia has long known how to grasp the line between dou (dou) and (bi) and rude. Although she cannot have funny or happy feedback, it does not prevent her from being essentially an excellent cold person. Face smile craftsman.

Just when Xiang Kun was confused, Xia Libing, who was discussing with him seriously, suddenly stuck out his tongue and made an "Einstein face."

Xiang Kun was stunned, and instantly understood Lao Xia's purpose - she got up without sleeping, not to discuss and analyze theories with herself, but to conduct experiments directly.

Lao Xia probably had a new idea after seeing "the funniest thing he has ever experienced" by Officer Xiao Zhao in a "dream within a dream". He wanted to make Xiang Kun laugh by actually creating "funny events" and trigger him. emotions, and then reversely feel Xiang Kun's "emotional assimilation" to integrate herself into the "funny event", just like Police Officer Xiao Zhao who farted when confessing to a girl in middle school and remembered it for the rest of his life. .

Seeing that Xiang Kun didn't respond, Xia Libing put away his grimace and kept his expression indifferent for a few seconds. He stretched out his two index fingers, pushed up the skin on both sides of his eyes, wrapped his upper lip around his lower lip, and made a face imitating a fox. .

Xiang Kun still didn't respond, so two seconds later, Xia Libing returned to his original state. After being expressionless for a while, he pinched his cheek with one hand, squeezed his mouth into a pout, pushed his nose up with the other hand, and rolled his eyes at the same time. He made a very impactful face.

Xiang Kun finally smiled and gave Lao Xia a thumbs up.

After Xia Libing regained his expression, he looked at Xiang Kun and shook his head: "You didn't think it was funny, you were just perfunctory. Is it because the grimace I made was flawed and the contrast was not enough, or is it the atmosphere of the conversation now?"

"No, if you were making faces like this out of the blue, I would have laughed so hard." Xiang Kun explained helplessly, "But just now I noticed in advance that you were deliberately talking seriously, maybe for other purposes. When you make a face, my attention is focused on why you are doing that, and I am also thinking about which part of the funny video we watched yesterday afternoon that the face is from..."

Xia Libing nodded: "I understand, I did it too deliberately."

Then he asked: "On a scale of 0 at the lowest level and 10 at the highest level of funnyness, how would you rate Officer Xiao Zhao's confession?"

"9 points," Xiang Kun said.

Then Xia Libing stopped talking about this topic and started talking about the information they got from Officer Xiao Zhao's "dream within a dream" tonight.

Relying on Lao Xia's "professional guidance", Xiang Kun learned that Officer Xiao Zhao and his companions encountered Mi Qiao and his group when they went to the area where the body was found in Zihuan Mountain.

It happened that when the companion was assisting the Yangcheng police in investigating a certain case, he had seen Mi Qiao's information and recognized her, so he notified Officer Xiao Zhao's branch and sent out personnel to stop Mi Qiao's car. It was brought back to the bureau, which was the scene that Xiang Kun and Lao Xia saw when they turned around on their way back from the airport.

When people from Yangcheng arrived in the evening, Mi Qiao was very cooperative and explained Guo Tianxiang's case very clearly, letting the Yangcheng police know some information that they had not noticed or found before.

Officer Xiao Zhao and his companions were also allowed to participate in the interrogation.

The two of them originally wanted to use the identity of "Chen Tianhua" to dig out the whereabouts of Guo Tianxiang, or other major cases hidden behind Mi Qiao that might be involved.

However, the leader of the bureau suddenly gave instructions, which was equivalent to endorsing the identity of "Chen Tianhua" from an official perspective. Except for the information related to Guo Tianxiang's case, other relevant information was not to be touched, and Mi Qiao's identity was Defined as a witness who assists in the investigation of a case.

Officer Xiao Zhao then judged that Mi Qiao was most likely a person with official status, so he speculated whether he might be a police undercover agent. He had a mission around Guo Tianxiang before, and Guo Tianxiang might have noticed her identity and then Directly missing. Now Mi Qiao has changed her identity as "Chen Tianhua" and entered Ci Tong's "Tai Yu Laboratory" as an undercover agent to investigate something.

But Officer Xiao Zhao immediately overturned his guess, because if it was an undercover police officer, even if it was not the Yangcheng police but belonged to other provinces and cities, it would not be possible for Guo Tianxiang to be wanted for so long and still not be freed. Therefore, even if Mi Qiao is an undercover agent, there is a high probability that he is not from the police.

Because when they met by chance at Zihuan Mountain, Mi Qiao and his team were sampling the place struck by lightning, so Officer Xiao Zhao had a vague suspicion that perhaps the official department to which Mi Qiao belonged was specialized in investigating incidents like No. 14 Zihuan Mountain. Incidents like a weird thunderstorm, the burning aircraft, and even they knew about the bodies he found.

If this is the case, was it because Mi Qiao stayed with Guo Tianxiang before because Guo Tianxiang was similar to the male deceased who killed two female companions and then committed suicide in Zihuan Mountain?

Do Micho and his departments also know about the existence of the "multi-armed monster"?

Xiang Kun still admires Officer Xiao Zhao's guesses, both in process and result, which are half close to the truth and half free of imagination. After all, the real information that Officer Xiao Zhao has access to is very limited, and he has to be confused by him from time to time. Lao Xia's "dream" affected his judgment, and it was quite difficult to come up with such a "guess".

Through the information about Mi Qiao learned by Officer Xiao Zhao, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia also came to a lot of judgments about "Shenxing Technology".

Xiang Kun knew Mi Qiao's original origin very well. Before she helped Guo Tianxiang, she was a "hacker" who mined other people's privacy for extortion and had no official identity.

But since her identity as "Chen Tianhua" can be officially endorsed, it means that many of the things "Shenxing Technology" is doing have official permission.

It is easy to understand that the authorities are aware of the existence of “an institution that studies ‘mutated organisms’” and secretly control and provide support.

But what Xiang Kun is a little confused about is why it is not a department directly under the official government that does these things, but why it is affiliated with "Shenxing Technology"?

Through his previous investigation, he was very sure that the secret department of "Shenxing Technology" was not officially created through the shell of "Shenxing Technology", but was really made by people from "Shenxing Technology".

This can be supported by the dreams of Fang Pingfang, Zhou Rui, Li Shijue and others, as well as their personal information.

If it is just for confidentiality, the official can set up a secret department on its own. There is no need to rely on a private technology company to do these things.

There may be some deeper reasons behind this.

If we can figure this out, we may be able to understand why the public knows nothing about "mutated creatures", why the authorities do not conduct research and investigations on "mutated creatures" with great fanfare, and why the whole world seems to be mutated. It's the same as knowing that "mutated creatures" exist.

Xiang Kun and Lao Xia discussed this for a long time and both put forward some speculations of their own. However, there is no definite evidence yet and further investigation is still needed to verify it.

Xiang Kun said: "The people behind 'Shenxing Technology' probably want to use the power of the police to find out Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts. They are secretly checking and filling in the gaps to assist in the investigation. After all, in China, a person has to be traced. There is nothing stronger than the power of the police to trace the whereabouts of Guo Tianxiang. This also further proves from the side that 'Shenxing Technology' is connected with the authorities, and they can ensure that they will have ways to contact Guo Tianxiang after he is controlled by the police."

Xia Libing asked: "If the police re-investigate Guo Tianxiang's actions on the pedestrian street, will they discover your existence?"

Xiang Kun shook his head: "Probably not. Even if you know my existence, you can't lock my identity."

Previously, when the police investigated Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, they only knew that Guo Tianxiang and Mi Qiao disappeared after going to Liushi. They did not know his exact trajectory in Liushi.

Although Mi Qiao knew Guo Tianxiang's movements in the pedestrian street that afternoon, he knew very well what Guo Tianxiang was doing during that time, so when investigating Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, he would not check the past movements.

But now, Mi Qiao told the police after excluding the "vampire"-related content from the information she knew. The police wanted to investigate Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, but they were very likely to re-investigate Guo Tianxiang's visit to the pedestrian street on the afternoon of October 8. action trajectory.

Lao Xia was worried that the police investigation would discover the existence of such a "backward oriole" as Xiang Kun.

Xiang Kun has actually deduced this possibility many times. Ever since he was accidentally discovered by Officer Chen through the surveillance system while patrolling the streets in the middle of the night, he has been particularly concerned about surveillance. That time when he went to Guo Tianxiang's appointment, he not only acted in appearance In addition to camouflage, I always paid attention to the location of the surveillance camera along the way. Most of the time, I could ensure that my frontal face would not be photographed.

The only three places where the police might be aware of his presence are: one is the waiter at the restaurant where Mi Qiao and Guo Tianxiang dined, and he asked to see the surveillance camera on the grounds that his companion had lost something; the other is the parking lot. The security guard at the police station used the excuse of catching an adulterer to watch the surveillance. People in these two places knew the iconic feature of "dreadlocks", so they knew the direction of his inquiry.

Third, Zhang Jinan, a local whom Mi Qiao contacted through the dark web, was "intimidated" by Xiang Kun when he broke into his house. Although he did not see his face, he was definitely aware of his existence.

When Mi Qiao explained Guo Tianxiang's case to the police this time, he did not mention the process of "fishing" online, and naturally he did not mention Zhang Jinan, so this point can be ignored.

As for the restaurant waiters and parking lot security guards, Xiang Kun is not too worried, because this incident happened on October 8 last year, more than four months have passed, and many people's memories may become blurred. Most businesses monitor All have been washed off. Moreover, even if the police really questioned the waiter and the security guards, the focus would be on Guo Tianxiang, and Xiang Kun, the "back-footed investigator", might not be mentioned. Even if he knew it, there would be no corresponding surveillance footage for comparison, and he would not be able to investigate his identity, so he could not be threatened for the time being.

After listening to Xiang Kun's explanation, Xia Libing nodded. After two seconds of silence, he suddenly puffed up his cheeks and made a "bú~~~~~" sound.

Xiang Kun was startled, but then he thought of Officer Xiao Zhao's confession in the "Dream Within a Dream" not long ago from the peculiar voice and the slowly rising pitch, and realized what Lao Xia was imitating.

Looking at Lao Xia's round eyes and slightly bulging cheeks, and the slightly dangling hair on top of his untied hair, Xiang Kun finally laughed uncontrollably.

Regardless of the funny image, Lao Xia brought excellent results. Xiang Kun looked at Lao Xia who was serious after finishing "bú" as if nothing had happened, but the more he thought about it, the funnier he became. The more he laughed, the more he wanted to laugh. I almost burst into tears.

For a time, the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

…

Star City.

At around four o'clock in the morning, before the sun came up, Liu Shiling had already rolled out of bed and ran to the egg yolk pie on the sofa cushion in the corner of the room. She squatted on the ground and gently touched the cat's head with a worried look on her face.

"Egg Yolk Pie, what's wrong with you?"

Egg Yolk Pie raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at his little master. However, his fleshy body remained motionless and did not respond actively with meows as usual. He seemed to have fallen asleep again.

Liu Shiling went to get Egg Yolk Pie's favorite freeze-dried food, as well as other cat snacks, and even her own favorite snacks, all brought over to seduce him in front of Egg Yolk Pie.

"Egg yolk pie, come and eat it, I'll give it to you, it's only today! You can eat as much as you want! If you don't eat it, if you still don't eat it...I...I'll eat them all Come on!" Liu Shiling said with a "threatening" tone.

But the usually gluttonous eater of egg yolk pies still lay motionless, as if sleeping was his top priority.

There were already tears in Liu Shiling's eyes: "Egg Yolk Pie, are you going to die? You are not allowed to die..."

Hearing the sound of the little fat girl carrying snacks and talking to the cat, Shiling's mother was also awakened. She stood at the door of the room with her clothes on, looking at her daughter and the cat helplessly.

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