What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 4 Records

Xiang Kun tried everything he could eat and drink at home.

Then make a record on the document:

Solid food: instant noodles X, potato chips X, oatmeal biscuits X, Oreo biscuits X;

Liquid drinks: boiled water √, pure water √, pure milk X, Red Bull X;

Thinking of the porridge and side dishes that he had eaten in a small shop outside on July 14, he also vomited up all of them, so he added to the solid food:

Clear porridge X, fried bean sprouts X, mustard X.

After checking and recording himself, Xiang Kun checked the time. It was already 1:30 in the morning, so he washed up and prepared to go to bed first to ensure a good sleep and rest.

But after lying on the bed tossing and turning for nearly an hour, Xiang Kun didn't feel sleepy at all. He thought it might be because he had just slept for more than 20 hours before, so he didn't feel sleepy, so he turned up and turned on the laptop again.

He used his body changes as a keyword to search before, and most of the search results pointed to "vampire".

So Xiang Kun was going to target the "vampire" to collect some information.

Of course, literary and artistic works such as "Twilight", "Interview with the Vampire", and "The Vampire Diaries" will not be the goals of his collection.

He saw the question "What is it like to be a vampire" on Zhihu. In addition to the answers to the vampire novels that were obviously brainstorming, there were also some answers that collected data seriously to explore the origin of vampires and scientific explanations.

Regarding the origin and scientific explanation of vampires, most of the answers are actually similar. It is believed that the origin of vampire legends is Eastern and Central Europe in the eighteenth century.

Those who become "vampires" are usually people who have died of accidents or sudden illnesses.

Their relatives either suffered from serious diseases, or died one after another in other accidents. And a few days before their death, they would dream that the dead people turned into vampires to suck their own blood.

In the final analysis, when disasters or infectious diseases, or other unlucky things happen, these things are recorded on the deceased family members.

The solution at that time was usually to dig out the heart of the corpse and burn it after opening the coffin, and because the corpse swelled up and made a strange sound in a short period of time, the tissue shrank and the nails seemed to grow after death, which made the "vampire" The legend goes one step further.

Later, with the development of medicine, various phenomena were explained, and "vampires" became more literary and artistic, with more images and characteristics added, and even superpowers and immortality.

Sometimes patients with diseases such as rabies, pica, and porphyria are also used as scientific explanations for modern "vampires".

Xiang Kun also specially watched the vampire analysis program "Vampire Forensics" specially produced by the National Geographic Channel mentioned in the next few answers. It talked about those things, and there was nothing that could explain the series of changes in him. content.

On the contrary, some descriptions and descriptions in some unreliable literary and artistic works are more consistent with his situation.

Before he knew it, it was dawn, and Xiang Kun was still in good spirits, so he decided to go out and buy some things and come back.

He went to the bathroom to wash his face, opened his mouth to check, and found that his teeth had almost grown in. At least when he grinned, other people should not be able to see anything except that his teeth were very white.

To his relief, his newly grown teeth were normal, and there were no scary fangs.

After Xiang Kun went out, he first bought a few kinds of food, fried dough sticks, soy milk, pancakes, bread, etc. He only tried to take a bite of each of them, trying the same ones, but without exception, they all spit them out in the end.

However, if you eat less, the feeling of nausea and discomfort when vomiting will also be alleviated a lot.

Xiang Kun took a ride to the shopping mall to buy some things, including a variety of food, drinks, an induction cooker and matching small pots,

Cleaning tools, weighing scales, meter sticks, etc.

It was already past 10 in the morning when I returned home, and the sun was very bright, so Xiang Kun subconsciously avoided the sun.

It was hot in July, but Xiang Kun didn't feel the heat at all. He didn't sweat much when he went out to shop, squeeze the bus, and carry a few bags that weighed tens of catties.

Although the body instinct seemed to subconsciously avoid the sun, but after noticing this, Xiang Kun deliberately stood in the sun and let the sun shine directly.

But in his feeling, standing in the sun didn't feel any obvious discomfort, not even the burning sensation of being exposed to the sun that he should normally feel.

He looked up at the sky again, blinded by the sunlight, but ordinary people are the same, right?

Although he didn't understand the specific reason, he could still feel the body's instinctive rejection of sunlight and scorching sun.

According to the information he read last night, the degree of photophobia of the "vampire" is much more serious. When exposed to the sun, the skin will be quickly burned, oxidized and blackened.

The so-called porphyria, which is the closest to the "vampire", will cause photosensitivity dermatitis, itching, and chickenpox symptoms when exposed to the sun.

In comparison, although his body instinctively wanted to avoid light, he didn't have any obvious symptoms or reactions in the sun, and he was even more heat-resistant than before?

When he got home, Xiang Kun moved a chair and sat in the bathroom, and began to drink.

Take a sip of Coke, and after more than 20 seconds, throw up.

Take a sip of Sprite, and after more than 20 seconds, vomit.

Take a sip of orange juice, and after more than 20 seconds, vomit.

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However, after drinking the coffee brewed with Nestle's gold medal freeze-dried coffee powder, Xiang Kun didn't spit it out after a few minutes. It is more than twenty seconds to spit, what is the difference between the two? What is the difference from the drinks you drank before?

Xiang Kun made another boiled egg and ate it, but there was no reaction. Then boiled the beef slices in clear water, and it was also no problem to eat.

So he began to think, is it because of the sugar content of the food?

Although black coffee, eggs, and beef also contain trace amounts of sugar, it can be said to be much lower than other foods and drinks.

But why sugar? What Xiang Kun had learned before, he knew that most of the energy needed for the growth of the human body was provided by sugar.

While Xiang Kun was recording in front of his laptop, he suddenly felt another twitch in his stomach, and rushed to the bathroom again, throwing up all the food he ate and thought was fine.

Xiang Kun reluctantly wiped his mouth, washed his face, returned to the computer, and marked in the document: foods or drinks with low sugar content can stay in the stomach for a longer time, but within twenty minutes After half an hour, it still vomits.

Then he began to take off his clothes. With only a pair of boxer shorts left on his body, he stood on the electronic scale he bought and weighed himself. He used a meter ruler to measure bust, waist, arm circumference and other data. According to.

He's going to start keeping track of how his body changes.