What It’s Like Being a Vampire

After rummaging through the snacks in the bag for a while, Xia Libing finally locked on the vacuum-packed bread.

He tore open the package and held the bread through half of the package with his left hand. A piece of fragrant crispy pork knuckle appeared on Xia Libing's right hand. Then he took half a bite of the bread on his left hand and half a bite of the pork on his right hand. Elbow, chewing, eyes narrowed unconsciously.

Xiang Kun has been away for the past few years, and the only way they can eat "Chef Xiang's taste" meals is through Lao Xia's "Fantasy Realization" ability.

However, what makes Tang Baona, Little Fatty Niu, Yang Laosan and others more regretful is that the "Xiang Kun cuisine" presented by Lao Xia Ju, whether it is pork knuckle, rabbit meat, or all kinds of food, is all biased towards her taste. Although it is also very delicious, after all, the most powerful thing about "Xiang Kun Cuisine" is that it can be fine-tuned according to everyone's different tastes. It scores 98 to 100 points. Although it is only two points away, it is fundamental in terms of experience. different.

Moreover, although the food in Juxian can taste and have the same texture as the real thing, after knowing that they are fake, there will be some psychological differences in eating, and there is no feeling of fullness, which is even worse. This aggravated the weird feeling.

Of course, in the beginning, they often went out to eat "Xiang Kun cuisine" together. Even if Lao Xia is busy at the Chongyun Village base and others are in Pengcheng City or Shenhai City, Alice can still show up. Every time Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, and Xiao Pingguo failed to learn how to cook and cooked dark dishes and cried themselves to tears, they would all ask Alice to order "Xiang Kun cuisine" to change their taste.

But it didn't take long for "Xiang Kun's food" to be restricted by Lao Xia. She set a limit on the number of times everyone could eat "Xiang Kun's food" every month, especially for Little Fatty and Little Apple. It is limited to six times a month, and the amount per session is also strictly required.

The reason for this is that they are worried that they will be addicted to the taste of "Xiangkun cuisine" and reduce their appetite for other foods. Although the food that is available will not make them feel full, they will have a real feeling during the eating process, which will make them feel full. It has a psychological impact and can produce a "sense of deception" on the body.

Tang Baona and Yang Zhener will think about "losing weight" and deliberately want to eat more food instead of real food, but Little Fat Girl and Little Apple will be greedy and eat too much "Xiang Kun Cai" without realizing it. They will eat a lot less normal food and become more and more picky eaters. This is obviously not good for the two people who are growing in body.

In particular, the longer Xiang Kun leaves, the stronger their nostalgia for "Xiang Kun's cuisine" will be. The psychological deliciousness bonus brought by these unique foods will be further enhanced, and their taste threshold for other normal foods will become higher and higher. high.

Although Alice is "watching" them, there will definitely be no major problems with their bodies, but Xiang Kun's long-standing philosophy is to let Little Fatty and Little Apple have as "normal" a life as possible, and eat naturally while growing up. is also like this. Especially chubby girls are in need of nutrition. When they are growing, they cannot indulge in enjoying the delicious food brought by virtual food.

Xiang Kun is not here now.

Naturally, she has to control and restrict this. After all, the ability to "manifest fantasy" was "developed" by her.

That is to say, after Lao Xia stipulated the restriction on the appearance of "Xiangkun cuisine", Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, and Little Apple began to take the little fat girl to "sweep the streets" in Pengcheng City and surrounding cities, looking for delicious food, and even took the initiative to guide, Educate merchants to adjust to the taste they need.

Of course, as the person who proposed a limit on the number of times that "Xiang Kun Cai" can appear together, Lao Xia will also set an example. She also said that she will abide by the limit of six times a month for "Xiang Kun Cai" to appear together - the "food" that appears during battles is naturally not included. Inside - those are not for eating.

Although Lao Xia has a strong obsession with food and delicious food, she also has strong self-control capabilities. She is usually immersed in research related to "mutated organisms" and various affairs at the base. As for food, Basically, when the time comes, she goes to the cafeteria with everyone to solve the problem. What she wants is a quick and satisfying meal. That is, when Tang Baona and Yang Zhener come to see her, everyone will go to Youlong Hotel to have a good meal together.

Just like before meeting Xiang Kun, Yang Zhener didn't know that her cousin was so particular about food and had such deep insights. In fact, she was just a foodie at heart.

Therefore, Lao Xia's cash "quota" can basically be "spent" every month. This time, she happened to be in the car and took out the bread from the backpack Xiang Kun gave her, and then she remembered that she could cash the maximum amount. Come and eat the beloved "Crispy Pork Knuckle".

With the "crispy pork knuckle" on hand, Xia Libing quickly ate three pieces of bread, drank a sip of mineral water, exhaled with satisfaction, burped, and continued driving.

Now that he had eaten, Xia Libing did not go to Tongshi Town, but drove directly to Jianzhou City Airport to prepare for Pengcheng City.

Tomorrow is July 1st, and July 2nd is Xiang Kun's birthday. Although Xiang Kun is not here now, they have developed a habit of having dinner together on July 1st.

Xia Libing actually knew that this was an excuse deliberately made by cousin and sister Nana to let her take a break from work and research to relax. After all, cousin, Nana, Little Apple, and Little Lingdang were all in Pengcheng City most of the time. , we all live together and there is no need to find special time to get together.

At this time, Nana, cousin, and Little Apple are still on a mission in Bratislava. They will leave for home immediately after completing the mission today. According to Alice's schedule, they will definitely arrive in Pengcheng before dinner tomorrow.

If Xia Libing arrives in Pengcheng first today, he can just have a chat with Xiao Lingdang and check the details of her schoolwork and various hobbies - although Alice usually reports Xiao Lingdang's situation to her, Xiao Lingdang is on vacation. When I was young, I often followed Yang Zhener and the others to Chongyun Village to play with her, but the content they learned remotely was still a layer away. It was not easy for them to talk too much about technical content when they came to play. Now Xiao Lingdang has just finished her final semester. Test, when you are in a relaxed mood, it is a better time to communicate.

Xia Libing could feel that Xiao Lingdang was putting a lot of pressure on herself, and she was too obsessed with the construction of her own ability system, but she was not completely immersed in the construction of the ability itself. She still had the need to show off her abilities and was eager to fight. Opportunity. So in this case, the more complete her ability system is and the stronger her ability, the greater the pressure she will put on herself.

After all, according to the current situation, it is definitely impossible for Xia Libing to let a primary school student deal with issues related to "mutated creatures" - although according to her ability, she is already among the top three in destructive power under the "super-sensory item system".

However, Xia Libing is not very worried about this. She knows Xiaolingdang too well and is sure that she can continue to go to school, live and play happily, and reduce the stress of "fighting monsters and letting magic play its due role". Obsession. After Xiao Lingdang graduates from junior high school, and then give her the opportunity to intern at the base and let her see the hope of developing her abilities, the little girl will naturally be able to calm down and finish primary school and junior high school safely.

Of course, if Xiang Kun had woken up and returned by then, then all the problems would disappear - as long as Xiang Kun was there, Xiao Lingdang's heart would be at peace, and her inner drive would return to "Becoming stronger can be a problem." "Fighting side by side with the 'bald uncle'", unlike the current "becoming strong enough to protect my mother, sisters and little screws" can lift the burden she has placed on her small shoulders.

Arriving at the Jianzhou Airport, Xia Libing parked the GL8, which looked very ancient in this era, to the parking lot, put on his old and smelly backpack that looked very good at first glance, and walked into the airport. hall.

In fact, the research base has a special driver class. There are many cars that are much more advanced and comfortable than her old GL8. There are drivers who are responsible for picking up and dropping off experts and senior researchers at the base.

As the number one person in the research base, it stands to reason that Xia Libing should be equipped with a full-time driver, full-time assistant and even security personnel. He should not drive a shabby business car to take a plane by himself. But Xia Libing was used to working alone. Even in the base, he never needed any assistants - Alice was enough, and no assistant could match Alice's cooperation with her.

As for driving, if she has "official business" and travels with people at the base, she will still take the base's car with everyone, but if it is private, she will definitely drive by herself, and she will drive her own car. Old GL8.

It's not entirely because she wants to stay in the car alone. If that's the case, Alice can always modify a self-driving car that meets the requirements. Even if this GL8 is not modified, Alice can take over the operation and control it - because basically more than 95% of the parts of this car are "hyper-connected things".

Xia Libing simply likes to drive this car. She wonders if driving this car reminds her of the feeling she had when she drove everyone on a trip together in Chongyun Village. Anyway, every time Every time she drives this car, she will have a different feeling in her heart. This feeling is vague, erratic, and difficult to describe, but it does exist.

She likes this feeling.

After completing the formalities and going through the security check, Xia Libing held her bag and sat in the waiting hall, waiting to ascend the throne.

There were many people in the waiting hall. Behind her was a group of adults and grandparents who were traveling together. They were discussing the itinerary after arriving at the destination and sharing the snacks and fruits in their hands.

To her left was a couple, cuddling tightly together. You were talking to me, you were squeezing me, I was pinching you.

Next to the young couple is a middle-aged man who is holding a mobile phone and making a video call with a smile on his face. On the other side is his child.

To Xia Libing's right, there is a family of three. It seems that they have just come to Haixi for a trip and are preparing to go back. At this time, the couple are watching videos taken during the trip with their children, laughing constantly.

Next to the family of three was a young girl in her twenties, playing games on her mobile phone with a focused look on her face, cursing from time to time.

Xia Libing looked at herself reflected in the glass in front, feeling as if she was in two different worlds from everyone else around her. She couldn't help but think of a sentence:

"Human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same. I just think they are noisy."

However, she immediately realized that this sentence did not apply to her, because she did not think other people were "noisy". If she needed to think and focus, the surrounding sounds would naturally be blocked by her. This was something she had always had His "talent" existed before he met Xiang Kun.

As for the first half of the sentence... She actually shares the joys and sorrows of others, but she only shares the joys and sorrows of one person, and only when she shares the joys and sorrows of him, can she feel the joys and sorrows herself.

Over the years since Xiang Kun entered the staged transformation and "sleep", the more Xia Libing studied the characteristics of "mutated creatures" and the deeper his integration with the "supersensory object system" became, the more certain he became that he wanted to experience emotions. To achieve a breakthrough, if you want to have a richer emotional experience, you must rely on Xiang Kun's emotional assimilation.

She first obtains new emotional perceptions through emotional assimilation, and then relies on repetition of scenes to continuously deepen her emotional perceptions and establish corresponding emotional perception habits. This is the only way for her to obtain normal emotions.

In the past few years when Xiang Kun was away, Xia Libing has been repeating the spontaneous perception conditions of several emotions she has experienced, deepening the intensity of these emotions and expanding the trigger range of emotions. Now she is watching Xiao Lingdang, Yang Zhener and The new cross talk that Little Apple rehearsed occasionally felt funny, but it was not funny enough to make her laugh out loud spontaneously. From the outside, she still seemed indifferent.

Although she doesn't talk about it as often as Nana, Laosan, Little Lingdang, and Little Apple, Xia Libing is actually the one who hopes that Xiang Kun will come back as soon as possible, because only Xiang Kun can bring her new emotional experiences, and only Xiang Kun can bring her new emotional experiences. Xiang Kun can help her answer some difficult questions related to the characteristics of "mutated organisms" that Alice is still unclear about. Only Xiang Kun can help her verify some new conjectures about the nature of high-dimensional factors.

Xia Libing suddenly stood up, approached the piece of reflective glass, and stood only half a meter away. Looking at his reflected face, he suddenly pinched his cheek with one hand, squeezed his mouth into a pout, and raised his nose with the other hand. Pushed, while rolling his eyes and making a very exaggerated grimace.

The next moment, she felt a very strong emotion, so she let go of her hand, hugged the backpack on her chest, and grinned.

Looking at his extremely bright and unfamiliar smile reflected in the glass, Xia Libing suddenly realized something.

A small body appeared next to her, leaning against her legs. In the picture reflected in the glass, Alice appeared next to her with a smile on her face and a look of joy.

Xia Libing looked down at her, and she also raised her little face to look at each other. The smiles on their faces had not yet dissipated.

"Is he awake?" Xia Libing suddenly asked.

The "funny" emotion just now was so strong that she had never experienced it in the past five years. And Alice's sudden appearance was without her permission.

Although she suddenly appeared in such a crowded place, Alice was able to arrange in advance all the surveillance and electronic equipment that would photograph her, and to divert the attention of people looking here in advance, but under normal circumstances, she There's no need to do this.

Clearly, something big was going on.

"Hehe." Alice hugged Lao Xia's thigh, twisting her body with a silly smile on her face.