What It’s Like Being a Vampire

The supermarket staff responsible for cutting and weighing the meat took a few pieces of pork knuckle and looked at Xiang Kun on the shelf. Seeing that he didn't show any sign, he followed Lao Xia's instructions, packed the meat, weighed it, and then posted it. Get the label and hand it out.

Xia Libing naturally put the packaged pork knuckle into the shopping cart, and then continued to look at other ingredients. He didn't seem to care at all about Xiang Kun's "trick" just now.

But after walking a few steps, Xiang Kun heard Xia Libing whisper: "I wanted to ask you some emotional questions by the way, but it seems that you have no relevant experience."

Listening to this, why does it feel like "I originally wanted to borrow money from you, but I found out that you are as poor as me"?

Xiang Kun couldn't help pushing the shopping cart and whispered: "No... just because I'm not very popular in school doesn't mean I don't have relevant experience!"

Xia Libing, who was walking beside the shopping cart, looked back at him and said nothing.

Xiang Kun continued: "Even if I don't have a lot of emotional experience, I still have a lot of theoretical experience. I've never eaten pork, and I've seen pigs running! Chang Bin used to be a love saint in school. Master', as a roommate, I have heard and seen, and I also have a considerable knowledge reserve. By the way, when you ask about emotional questions, you want to ask about related emotional questions. The emotions related to this kind of emotion are actually diverse and very diverse. Rich, not a single emotion can be expressed and summarized. However, this problem is actually easy to solve, and does not require specific experience. If we look back at better love movies and TV series, I might be able to find some. Emotions, assimilation and sharing.”

He could understand Lao Xia's idea of ​​opening the door to emotional perception. After experiencing "funny and happy" emotions through "emotional assimilation", he wanted to feel more types of emotions that ordinary people have.

There is no doubt that emotional communication between people, such as falling in love, is the state most prone to various emotions.

Various states such as liking someone, being liked by someone, liking each other, not getting what you want, having a secret crush, emotional breakdown, being betrayed, etc., will bring about very complex emotional experiences. Lao Xia will be curious, which is very normal.

But after listening to his words, Xia Libing said: "The first time I played cards at Nana's house, when I played Truth or Dare, Zhen'er asked you how many times you had been in love. When you said 'once', you didn't really mean it. Yes."

Xiang Kun glanced at Lao Xia faintly: "I originally wanted to make dinner a little richer, but you seem to have eaten too much meat recently. Why don't you have a vegetarian meal tonight?"

Xia Libing's expression remained unchanged and he changed the subject naturally: "How do you feel after what happened in the mountains and the sea? Do you need to talk to me?"

Xiang Kun was slightly startled.

This change of topic was really big enough, but he still understood what Lao Xia meant instantly.

If he only talks about "things in the mountains", then he may still be a little confused, because there are too many things that happened in various mountains, from Zihuan Mountain, to Wushu Mountain, to Chongyun Mountain, Qinling Mountains, etc., there is no specific reference. As for the age, I don’t know which time and which one.

But with the parallel prompt of "Haili" and the following two sentences, he immediately knew what Lao Xia was referring to - referring to the lightning storm he caused when he was "flying against lightning" in the mountains earlier. Two fugitives, and in the process of entering the sea to rescue Xia Tianhuo when they were in Myanmar, they caused the kidnappers on the boat to kill each other.

The commonality between the two incidents, that they need to be asked about their feelings and whether they need to "talk" with Lao Xia, obviously refers to the fact that in both incidents, his actions directly or indirectly caused the death of people.

But to be honest, it was only when Lao Xia asked about it that he began to recall and realize the casualties caused by these two incidents. He didn't have any special feelings before.

But looking back now, he realized that "no feeling" was actually a different kind of feedback than before.

If it were Xiang Kun before the mutation, and these two things happened, and witnessed a whole boat of people killing each other, and witnessed two people being chopped into charcoal by lightning, their souls would definitely be greatly shocked and frightened. ——He was not a very courageous person before.

Why don't I feel anything now?

From the perspective of visual impact, when he obtained Guo Tianxiang's memory fragments before, he saw more bloody scenes in those memory fragments - Guo Tianxiang did many bloody and cruel things when he was in Africa.

Those images could no longer shock him, not to mention the lightning striking and the fight on the ship.

Seeing bloody scenes, especially the death of the same kind, most ordinary people without special training will enter a "fight or flight" stress state to varying degrees. This is an instinct engraved in DNA.

But because Xiang Kun continues to evolve, from his sensory abilities to his physical strength, recovery ability, and athletic ability, he is no longer on the same level as ordinary humans. Many injuries or actions will not cause fatal injuries to him at all. Even to the extent that he can hide if he wants to, and he can bear it if he wants to.

Unlike those who have undergone extensive training and increased their psychological endurance, Xiang Kun changed his instincts directly from the bottom of his body, naturally.

Just like ordinary people don't feel any strong discomfort when they see someone else get their butt kicked or their arm pinched.

And now, his collection of sensory information is fundamentally different from that of ordinary people. When an event or phenomenon occurs, he collects and processes information from sight, hearing, taste, touch and even the sixth sense, and collects it. The amount of information is also much greater than that of ordinary people.

Just like when seeing a picture with low resolution, most people's immediate feedback can only be the intuitive feeling brought about by the composition and color of the picture, but Xiang Kun can get every detail immediately. There is bound to be a difference in perception and cognition of the information of each pixel.

From a moral perspective, although Xiang Kun will not set himself a principle of never killing people like Batman in DC comics, he also has his own code of conduct:

When facing ordinary humans, the use of abilities must be limited. When encountering any problem, first consider solving it through conventional channels within the social framework.

When using extraordinary measures in incidents related to "mutated creatures", you must be clear about the objects and situations in which your abilities will be used, and the necessity of using various abilities.

The two fugitives in Chongyun Mountain were struck to death by the thunder of his "Electric Flying". It was not that he deliberately controlled the lightning attack, but that he used his ability explosively to cause the clouds to sustain high-intensity discharge for a short period of time, creating small-scale lightning. Ancillary results of the storm.

However, this result was within his expectation, and he would not deceive himself into thinking that the deaths of the two fugitives had nothing to do with him, but he was very clear that those two people posed a direct threat to Lao Xia first, and this was self-defense. , this is emergency avoidance, so this behavior does not conflict with his code of conduct.

In the same way when dealing with kidnappers at sea, Xiang Kun chose to let them "judge themselves" through the emotional projection of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture". If during this process, someone directly threatened Xia Tianhuo, he would be the same He will attack directly and kill with thunderous means, which is also a legitimate defense.

Of course, he is not a moral saint, nor does he consider himself a "judge". He will not ask himself to judge whether everyone on the ship "deserves his crime" and whether everyone "deserves the death penalty for his crime."

Extraordinary measures are used at extraordinary times.

So morally, he won't be troubled either.

Xia Libing's simple words made Xiang Kun conduct a lot of "self-examination" in an instant.

However, the process was actually very fast. From the time Lao Xia finished speaking to Xiang Kun finishing his self-thinking, it only took less than a second.

Xiang Kun thought of the poem name of a character in a certain work called "Buddha's Swordsman", and felt that it was a suitable answer and very convincing, so he smiled slightly and said to Lao Xia: "Don't worry, I have no problem. .'Killing is to protect life, killing karma is not killing people', I think very clearly."

Lao Xia glanced at him and said, "Oh." Then he started to help him take out the items from the shopping cart and scan the QR code to settle.

This made Xiang Kun, who originally thought that his words would be more convincing, suddenly felt that he was a little funny and slightly embarrassed.

However, after paying the bill, leaving the supermarket with the purchased ingredients, and taking the bus back, Xiang Kun looked at the indifferent expression of Lao Xia next to him, and suddenly realized that Lao Xia's sudden question just now may not necessarily be because he was worried about him. His psychology was affected by those two things. Otherwise, he should have talked to him earlier and wouldn't have mentioned it suddenly at this time.

Lao Xia, who has an all-round observation and understanding of him, should know very well that those two things will not have any impact on his state and psychology.

Relevant to the topic just now, Lao Xia mentioned this matter at this time... It should be to remind him that with his current super sensory ability, way of thinking and state, he has many emotions, and if he wants to get them, it may be more difficult than before the mutation. It's many times more difficult.

Obviously, Xia Libing, who can only gain new emotional perception through his "emotional assimilation", is also worried that Xiang Kun's threshold for certain emotions is too high due to constant mutation and evolution, which will reduce her ability to perceive those emotions. Chance.

But for the time being, Xiang Kun himself doesn't have a good solution to this situation.

After returning home, Xiang Kun processed the ingredients and cooked, while Lao Xia entered the "conscious world" through the "CAKE01" notebook and established a special connection with the "black circle graffiti" that Alice had briefly sensed before, preparing for the subsequent experiment. Prepare.

Xiang Kun cooked a sumptuous dinner, including Lao Xia's favorite crispy pork knuckle, fish soup, lamb chops, two plates of vegetables also adjusted to her taste, and fragrant rice.

Of course, Lao Xia would not let down the delicious food, so she ate with all her heart. She even untied the belt of the overalls she wore today, and used her chopsticks and spoons alternately to open and close the food.

The whole meal process was quiet, efficient, and fast. Lao Xia ate with a sense of rhythm, which made Xiang Kun, who was eating "Juxian Ice Cream" next to him, secretly sigh. Fortunately, "Little Apple" is not so obsessed with eating, otherwise He would think that the "network access condition" for his "super-sensory object system" is to be a "foodie".

After dinner, Xia Libing, who was a little stuffed, walked around the house for a few times, then sat on the sofa in a daze for a while. Then his eyelids began to become heavy, and he was indeed sleepy.

Xiang Kun quickly asked Lao Xia to go to bed and lie down to sleep. He also made arrangements with Alice and checked the layout of the relevant "love objects" and "super-connected objects". After being prepared, he turned on the computer next to the bed. Sit down in the chair.

Xia Libing quickly relaxed, obeyed his sleepiness, and fell into a deep sleep.

Xiang Kun judged that Lao Xia had fallen asleep through her breathing and other body status information, but he did not immediately sense the "love object" to trigger a dream, but waited for a while before starting to sense it.

In Lao Xia's dream, just like before, she quickly "awakened" and then, as planned, began to try to create a "dream within a dream" through the "black circle graffiti".

Normally, the establishment of a "dream within a dream" requires that there are sleeping people around the "black circle graffiti", and currently, except for Xiang Kun and Lao Xia themselves, there are no other "people" within that range. .

If there had not been the "experiment" with Alice at noon and the "dream within a dream" attempt had been carried out directly, there would be no doubt that there would be no suspense and no "dream" could be established through that "black circle graffiti". "Dream".

But at noon, Alice successfully perceived the "black circle graffiti" and briefly connected to the world of "supersensory information". Alice found a "format" that could be assimilated and affected by "emotional objects" , now as long as you are prepared, when the "Super Connected Things" have established a connection, you will have the conditions to be affected by the "Love Notes" and create a "dream within a dream".

Whether it is human consciousness activities or computer data operations, after being unified by "super-connected things" and "emotional things", they can essentially be regarded as the same "format".

Of course, all this is just a plan that Xiang Kun has thought up by himself and should be feasible in theory. He is not sure about the actual results.

The possibility of success in this step is much smaller than the experiment at noon.

Xiang Kun, sensing Lao Xia's dream, was a little nervous and excited waiting for the result of Lao Xia's "dream within a dream".

When he felt that Lao Xia's dream began to become chaotic and all kinds of sensory information quickly disappeared, but the dream did not collapse, Xiang Kun knew that the "dream within a dream" had been successfully established!

Xiang Kun was very excited. As long as the "dream within a dream" is established, it means the success of this experiment. Alice has the basic conditions to be included in the "supersensory object system". As for what kind of dream Alice had, it doesn't matter. important.

The dream shown by Alice through the "dream within a dream" established by Lao Xia is an extremely chaotic space, with all kinds of sensory information disorganized, making this dream impossible to be recognized and understood by normal people's consciousness.

Even Xiang Kun can adapt to Little Apple's dream, can read the memory fragments of "mutated parasites" and "mutated spiders", and can understand various cognitive information in the "supersensory state" to a certain extent. This is also true for this dream. Confused - he felt that Alice herself couldn't even figure out what she was dreaming about.

Just when Xiang Kun felt that this "dream within a dream" should end like this, the surrounding environment changed drastically, and then a somewhat familiar white room appeared in Xiang Kun's visual perception.

Xiang Kun instantly recognized that this was the room that had appeared many times in Lao Xia's dreams.

But now, this room is empty, there is nothing, no Lao Xia, and no Alice.

Obviously, the room shown now is the result of Lao Xia's influence on Alice's "dream within a dream".

At this time, Lao Xia and Alice were like the materials that made up the room, and he was overlooking the peeping people from above the room.

Xiang Kun was a little curious, what was Lao Xia going to do?

It is obvious that Alice is not quite accustomed to this connection method, cannot process data in this way, and cannot find the correct way to express information.

Xiang Kun, the creator of Alice and an experienced programmer, can't find a good solution for the time being. Could it be that Lao Xia already has a solution in such a short period of time?

A moment later, Xia Libing appeared in the room wearing overalls, basketball shoes, and a sports coat. This was the first time Xiang Kun saw Lao Xia himself appearing in a "dream within a dream" without a "panda expression".

Nine coins and a tungsten steel ball then appeared in the room. They were dream projections of ten "super-connected objects" that had a special connection with Lao Xia.

The nine coins and one bead floated to a corner of the room, dissipated and condensed into the appearance of a little girl.

The little girl was wearing a gorgeous princess dress, black leather shoes, and cute accessories on her head. Her facial features were exquisite, but her face was expressionless, and her big eyes had no sparkle at all. She was squatting in the corner of the room, holding a scalpel in her hand. The wall was scratched and dug, as if he wanted to dig a tunnel to escape, and he seemed to be studying the material of the wall.

The image of this girl... is clearly what Xiang Kun once saw in Lao Xia's dream, the image of her own childhood that appeared through the "super-connected object" dream projection!

But now, Xiang Kun is very sure that this "little old Xia" is Alice's expression in this dream - or in other words, it is Lao Xia who guides and controls her expression in this dream.

This dream belongs to Alice, but the super administrator is Lao Xia, who is helping Alice construct and understand the dream.

As for Xiang Kun? He is the power source.

Lao Xia in the room waved to "little Lao Xia" in the corner, and the little girl squatting in the corner and digging into the wall with a scalpel instantly appeared in front of her, looking up at her blankly with her little face raised.

Compared with the delicate little girl Xiang Kun first saw in Lao Xia's dream, the current Alice version of "Little Lao Xia" looks exactly the same and has the same expressionless face, but there are still some slight differences. "Little Old Xia" looked indifferent, but now "Little Old Xia" looked at a loss, with confusion and a hint of curiosity in his big eyes.

"Who are you?" Lao Xia asked in his dream.

"Who am I?" "Little Lao Xia" repeated the question, tilting his head and thinking, and gradually, his blank eyes began to focus.

"I'm Xiang Kun's assistant."

"I'm the boss's assistant."

"I'm...Alice."

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