What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 57 Analysis and Summary

After leaving the coffee shop, Xiang Kun went to the supermarket and bought some things before taking a ride home.

The 20,000 yuan rewarded by the police can be said to be an income that he did not expect at all. Although it is not a lot, it can be said to be good for him who has had no income for a whole month and still needs to continue to pay the mortgage. Charcoal in the snow.

Even for a moment, he wondered whether he could be a professional "bounty hunter", specializing in catching fugitives and receiving bounties, as if there were such occupations abroad.

But just thinking about it, he knew very well that there was no room for such a career in China.

Don't look at his sensory ability far surpassing ordinary people, and even scent tracking is better than hunting dogs and police dogs, but it is really better than catching criminals. Nowadays, high-definition cameras are everywhere, face recognition is widely used, communication, transportation, accommodation and other fields When the real-name system is fully implemented, the police and the entire social system that assists the police are the real net.

Xiang Kun was able to meet Huang Mao on the road before, and then identified and tracked him by his smell. In fact, it was more luck.

According to the chat with Police Officer Chen later, even if the yellow-haired suspect was not caught by Xiang Kun by chance on the street, even if the kid had already disguised himself, which was very different from his original image, and even got a fake ID card , but it was still only a matter of time before he was arrested. Xiang Kun just advanced the time a little bit.

Of course, even if there is a chance to be a bounty hunter, Xiang Kun will only dream about it and flirt, and won't really do it - it's okay to do this kind of thing once or twice, and it's too easy to expose yourself too much It's abnormal.

It was almost 8pm when I got home.

Xiang Kun did an experiment first. After severely burning the skin on the pads of the index finger and middle finger of his left hand at the same time, he used a knife to cut off the burnt flesh of the index finger.

Although it was not the first time he had done this kind of experiment, the process was still quite tormenting. The pain constantly stimulated the nerves, causing blue veins to appear on his forehead. However, he also clearly felt that compared to the first time he burned himself, the pain this time had been slightly reduced.

After timing, it was found that the time for the index finger and middle finger to recover and grow was 8 minutes, 58 seconds and 10 minutes, 04 seconds, respectively.

Sure enough, if the burnt part was cut off, the recovery speed increased a lot, although it has not yet returned to the original normal speed of 8 minutes and 18 seconds.

He speculates that it is because the burn cannot be controlled only on the surface of the finger pad, but goes deep into the muscle, basically covering the entire knuckle. Unless the entire knuckle is cut off, it is difficult to completely remove the impact of the burn.

But Xiang Kun is not sure if he can completely grow back his knuckles if he cuts off his entire knuckle, so he won't test it rashly.

Anyway, the current experiment does not require such precise numbers, as long as it is known that removing the burnt part can improve the recovery speed.

The recovery time of the burnt middle finger is exactly the same as the recovery time of the suppressed body function after sunrise, which is about 20% longer than the normal trauma recovery time after sunset.

Moreover, the recovery speed of burns is obviously closely linked to the recovery of physical injuries. After all, since the mutation, he has only carried out a burn experiment, unlike a knife wound, which has undergone repeated and large-scale targeted "training", and has Those two hand-to-hand battles of giant owls.

So this further shows that the recovery speed of burns is slower than that of knife wounds, and it should be that the burnt wounds have an inhibitory effect on recovery.

Is it a coincidence that burns and post-sunrise inhibit trauma recovery at almost the same time?

Or is there actually a deep connection between the two?

Xiang Kun didn't think about it for the time being, but just recorded these phenomena. Later, he can start from the perspective of studying burns, and see if he can find a way to explain the reason why his body functions were suppressed after sunrise.

And the next time you encounter a mutated creature like him,

He also knew an effective method of killing——burning.

Next, Xiang Kun began to sort out the training process in the coffee shop today, recording the "observation" process and results of the 39 targets, and then digitizing them.

For example, sensory information is divided into three types: visual information, auditory information, and olfactory information. Every time you get a piece of information, you will add 1 to the corresponding information type.

And if you can directly get an effective judgment result through the obtained information, you will get +1 on the judgment result.

As far as this training program is concerned, only those related to the target's occupation and real identity information are considered "effective results".

For example, when observing female 3, through:

Perfume smell (smell information +1);

The words typed in the upper left corner of the notebook screen (visual information +1);

Go to the bar for plain muffins and fruit salad (auditory information +1);

Saw looks and makeup (+1 for visual information);

Keyboard tapping sound (auditory information +1).

judge:

Female 3 is a writer (valid result +1).

As for female 3's login password, the title of the book she wrote, her pseudonym, Weibo, and even her email password, they are not valid results.

Except for the visual information of "the words typed in the upper left corner of the laptop screen", the other 4 pieces of sensory information are redundant information.

His most efficient "observation" method should be to directly lock on the corner of the female 3's screen, judge from her typing that she is a writer, and immediately shift the target.

This is the training method he should adopt next: use the least amount of information as much as possible to get the desired result—in this training alone, the "result" is to judge the profession. For other training, you can also replace "result" with "whether you are hostile to him" or "whether you have the ability to threaten him".

After all, what he wants to train now is only elementary and quick observation, and he needs to make quick judgments on many targets efficiently. What he pays attention to is a quick word, not in-depth spying and observation of specific targets—that should be The purpose of training in the next stage.

Through data collation and analysis, Xiang Kun came to a conclusion:

1. Vision is still the most effective, direct and efficient way to obtain information. After all, the speed of light transmission is the fastest, and the speed of obtaining information is the fastest. It is also the sensory ability that most people rely on and are accustomed to.

For example, the identity of the other party can be instantly judged directly from the age, uniform, books carried or other objects with identification marks.

2. When the results cannot be directly obtained visually, sound and smell information are important aids. Of course, sometimes sound and smell can also bring the same direct judgment basis as vision.

For example, sometimes when the other party communicates with others, he directly tells the information Xiang Kun needs, or the smell on his body has a strong specificity and identity.

3. To improve the efficiency and success rate of observation and judgment, it is necessary to continue to greatly expand his sensory "database".

For example, when observing female 4 in a coffee shop, if Xiang Kun was familiar with the uniforms of various banks, he could tell which bank female 4 belonged to at a glance.

If he has been to that bank before, is familiar with some unique smell sources in that bank, and smells that smell from female 4, he can also judge that female 4 belongs to ICBC based on the smell, even to a specific person. Sales points.

Of course, the collection of various sensory information is a long-term job, and he is not a computer, so he cannot record all the sensory information he has come into contact with, let alone a computer, and the hard disk has capacity limitations.

Fundamentally speaking, the training he is doing now is not only sensory training, but more training on the way of thinking and reaction speed of the brain.

After deciding on the next training method, Xiang Kun got up and went to the kitchen.

Since he moved to this house, he basically only has two things to do when he enters the kitchen—shoveling and feeding the rabbits, and slaughtering the rabbits to drink their blood.

But tonight, he was going to do something he hadn't done since his body mutated—cooking.