What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Tang Baona was startled and almost screamed, but the person at the door clicked on the light in the room, and after seeing her appearance clearly, she immediately felt at ease.

"Lao Xia!" Tang Baona felt excited to finally see her relatives after wandering in a foreign country for a long time - although she and Lao Xia actually met just a few hours ago, and they had been in the same building.

"Why aren't you asleep yet? Ah, did I make too much noise when I went downstairs and woke you up?" Tang Baona said apologetically.

"No, I didn't sleep at all." Xia Libing said, "Sister Nana, do you need to check the surveillance if something happens to you?"

"Ah, I was on the rooftop just now, and when I was coming back...well, I almost fell, and then...I just wanted to see how I fell." Tang Baona hesitated.

After all, what I just experienced was too unbelievable. Telling others directly without sufficient evidence will either make others doubt whether it is true or false, or make others also be frightened. There is no need.

"By the way, Xiang Kun informed you, right? I just wanted to come in and check the surveillance, but couldn't open the door, so I asked Xiang Kun for the key. He probably thought something had happened to me." Tang Baona thought of herself wearing slippers and going up and down the stairs. She moved lightly, so there should be no movement. Lao Xia would know that she was checking the surveillance camera and run down to check. It was most likely Xiang Kun who told her.

"I didn't sleep anyway." Xia Libing neither confirmed nor denied. He walked in and bent down to check the surveillance video on the computer with her: "It seems that there was a problem with the data transmission of the surveillance, and the captured footage was not saved. It’s not surprising that this question comes up so often.”

"Does it happen often?" Tang Baona caught the key word.

"Yeah." Xia Libing nodded.

"Lao Xia... um... have you ever encountered anything strange when you lived here before?" Tang Baona finally couldn't help it and asked tentatively.

"for example?"

"For example... strange sounds, or... people I haven't seen before, uh... hallucinations?" Tang Baona frowned and organized her words.

"You saw hallucinations just now on the rooftop and at the stairs, so you want to use surveillance to confirm?" Xia Libing asked.

"So... you can put it that way." Tang Baona said a little tangledly, as if she had told Lao Xia unknowingly. Fortunately, Lao Xia was not someone else and was not scared so easily.

"What specific hallucination is it?" Xia Libing asked again.

I thought about asking Lao Xia to help me with the analysis.

Tang Baona simply said it out: "I was going down from the rooftop. When I walked into the stairwell, I accidentally tripped and almost rolled down the stairs. In the end, I was hugged from behind by someone... Let's just say it was a person. . But when I looked back, I found nothing. I searched for a long time on the rooftop. There was no hiding place, and I didn’t see any signs of climbing up. I wanted to check the surveillance of the stairwell. , but it turns out that there was something wrong with the surveillance camera and no video was recorded."

Xia Libing listened to her calmly and said, "Sister Nana, stand up."

"Ah?" Tang Baona was stunned for a moment, but stood up as she was told, looking puzzledly at Xia Libing, who was half a head taller than her.

"Turn around." Xia Libing said.

Tang Baona turned around and felt her waist being hugged. Xia Libing's voice sounded from behind: "Is this how you hug her?"

"Huh?" Tang Baona couldn't help laughing and said, "No, he hugged my thigh. It felt like a short hand. He was also very short, like a child. He also made a 'hey' sound, um, It's probably like 'Hey!' It's a little girl's voice. Hey, I think I imitated it pretty well, Hey! Hey! Hey!~"

Xia Libing squatted down again, then half-hugged her thigh: "Is that so?"

"Well, yes, it's the right leg, about that height." Tang Baona said.

Then Xia Libing asked her to simulate a situation where she was about to fall at the door of the stairwell, and then continued to squat down and hug her legs to help her hold on.

In order to truly restore the scene, Xia Libing ran to the living room to get a sofa cushion so that Tang Baona could complete the entire action from almost falling to being pulled to kneeling.

After going back and forth with Tang Baona for many simulations and picking out many details, Xia Libing concluded: "Based on objective analysis based on your description and the simulation we just conducted, there are two possibilities."

"The first one is that when you are in a dangerous situation, a large amount of adrenaline is secreted in a short period of time, the sympathetic nerves are extremely excited, and there are also rapid secretions of other hormones. The body enters a state of stress, and the muscles tighten instantly and may explode. Far beyond your usual strength, your subjective consciousness cannot adapt immediately during this process, and you may have an illusion, imagining a 'person' who helps you complete those actions. That 'Hey' may be the force you exert in your heart. It’s time to shout out.”

Seeing Tang Baona's eyebrows slightly furrowed and thoughtful, Xia Libing continued: "The second type is the little one who actually appears behind you for a moment and hugs your thigh in time to prevent you from falling down the stairs. Girl. She can hold your legs and make sounds, which proves that she really exists and can influence on the physical level. She appears to save you when you are about to fall, but there is no trace when you look back, which proves She has good intentions towards you, but for some reason she doesn’t want to be discovered by you for the time being, and the surveillance may have been influenced by her and not preserved.”

Tang Baona nodded while listening. If she thought rationally, the first scenario mentioned by Lao Xia should be more likely, especially after having just conducted many review simulations with Lao Xia.

But considering it from another perspective that she couldn't explain, she preferred the second situation. Thinking about having a cute little girl who could appear at any time to help and protect herself, it was quite... good. of.

As for why she felt "cute", it was because she almost instinctively and subconsciously conceived the appearance of the little girl in her mind, basically imagining it as a chubby girl.

Yes, after Lao Xia's repeated simulations, on-site restoration, and careful analysis, not only did she not feel the uneasiness, hairiness, restlessness, or surprise she had at the beginning, she even had some expectations that such a little girl really existed. .

In other words, no matter what happened at the rooftop staircase, Tang Baona could accept it. It didn't seem to matter if the surveillance was not found.

She suddenly felt much more relaxed.

"Sister Nana, are you hungry? Do you want to eat instant noodles together?" Xia Libing asked.

"Okay, hey, by the way, there seems to be some food in the refrigerator that Xiang Kun cooked at night..." Tang Baona said. She just heard Lao Xia's stomach growling, and she was indeed a little hungry herself. As for quitting late-night snacks and losing weight, let’s wait until Qiankun Technology’s business stabilizes.

Xia Libing walked to the refrigerator and said, "You can add the leftovers to the instant noodles and cook them together. It should be delicious."

So the two of them chatted while studying which plate of leftovers to add and whether the instant noodles should be boiled or soaked.

"By the way, Lao Xia, have you noticed that this time we live in Chongyun Village, we can hardly see any mosquitoes. Our house is even more special. The outdoor lights at night will attract many light-seeking flying insects. Not to mention the mountains, the street lights in the city can attract a lot of bugs, and at night you can see a swarm of insects. But there are no bugs in the lights in our yard or the street lights at the door. It's very strange! Have we sprayed pesticides or anything here?”

Xia Libing said: "There should be many reasons. It may be that there are some natural enemies that mosquitoes are afraid of in Chongyun Village. In addition, it should also have something to do with Jin Shining."

"Jin Shining Shining? No, Jin Shining Shining... eats bugs?" Tang Baona asked curiously.

"Jin Shining Shining doesn't want the little apple to be bitten by mosquitoes, so if there are bugs nearby, it will be driven away. Moreover, its smell is quite strong, which will scare the mosquitoes." Xia Libing said.

"Is that so? Jin Shining Shining is a bit... special? Lao Xia, do you think Jin Shining Shining is much bigger than ordinary canaries, and is really very humane, not only compared to other birds, but also compared to dogs? Animals with relatively high IQs are smart, and sometimes I even think it can completely understand what we say and really understand the meaning of our words." Tang Baona continued to ask.

"Jin Shining Shining is indeed special. After all, he is a guide bird, possibly the only guide bird in the world." Xia Libing said.

When the instant noodles were cooked, Tang Baona thought of Yang Zhener's conjectures and various doubts raised before, so she simply took them out and asked Lao Xia: "Lao Xia, you resigned and went to Chongyun Village with Xiang Kun to get that research base , is it really just because you are interested in breeding or something?”

Xia Libing was about to speak when she suddenly noticed the coin that flipped naturally and smoothly in Tang Baona's hand. She could faintly sense it and confirmed that this coin was the "super-connected object" coin that Xiang Kun gave to Sister Nana - at first she It was from this coin that I noticed something unusual about the coins sent to Kun.

"You learned."

Tang Baona was slightly startled by the fact that her answer was not what she was asking. She noticed Lao Xia's gaze and realized what she was talking about. She smiled and said, "Yeah, I suddenly got better tonight for some reason. I couldn't do this before." I turned it over in a circle, hey, don't you think it's weird? I couldn't practice it well no matter how I practiced it before, and I didn't think about how to practice it today. I just fiddled with it casually in my hands while thinking about things, and I got it before I knew it. I don’t quite understand it myself. It’s just that the flowers planted intentionally will not bloom, but the willows planted unintentionally will form shade.”

Xia Libing nodded: "Sister Nana is very powerful."

"How awesome is that? You, Little Apple, and Little Bell can all know it already." Although Tang Baona said this, the smile on her face still showed that she was still a little bit shy about being able to flip coins so smoothly. Little proud of it.

Xia Libing said: "Sister Nana, do you remember that on the 21st, the day after Little Apple and Professor Li came to Chongyun Village, a 'researcher' who knew Professor Li came to us like this?"

"Remember, that person's surname is Zhou, and there is a dark-skinned, tough-looking person with him. They seem to be asking about some ants, insects, etc., and want to go into Chongyun Mountain for research." Tang Baona said.

Xia Libing nodded: "The research base that Xiang Kun and I set up is essentially similar to theirs."

Tang Baona suddenly realized that Yang Laosan was actually right. She asked again: "So... you resigned and came to Chongyun Village mainly to study insects?"

"It actually has nothing to do with insects. When I was a child, I got a very special disease, or a 'congenital defect'. I received certain 'treatments', but it was not cured. Xiang Kun and I were in Chongyun Village My research may be able to help me repair this 'defect' and cure these diseases. I can't tell Sister Nana the specific details yet, because I haven't fully understood them yet." Xia Libing is very patient. said.

These words corresponded to what Yang Zhener said before going to bed. Some of Tang Baona's doubts were immediately explained. She did not ask what the specific "disease" or "defect" of Lao Xia was. Since Lao Xia did not elaborate, then Even if she didn't want to tell it, she wouldn't ask.

Thinking of the past experience of getting along with Lao Xia, thinking of Yang Zhener's description of Lao Xia's childhood and student days before and at night, and the two postgraduate majors chosen by Lao Xia, Tang Baona actually had some vague guesses in her heart. She looked at the person sitting opposite Lao Xia, who was waiting for instant noodles with her, couldn't help feeling a little distressed.

"It's done." Xia Libing skillfully opened the lid of the stainless steel basin, divided the noodles for Tang Baona, poured the soup, and then started to eat the noodles.

"Well, I didn't expect instant noodles with leftovers to taste so good." Tang Baona raised her head, but her glasses were completely whitened by the mist.

"Because we are hungry, there is a bonus." Xia Libing said.

"Xiang Kun should not be sleeping yet. Should we also send him a midnight snack?" Tang Baona took off her glasses and wiped them and said.

"No, he has something to eat." Xia Libing said.

"Yes. If he's not asleep now, he's probably concentrating on doing things. It's better not to disturb him." Tang Baona nodded.

She didn't know that Xiang Kun was already fast asleep and would continue to sleep for more than ten hours. The person she just communicated with on WeChat was not Xiang Kun, but the "little girl" who saved her and shocked her.

After saving Tang Baona and preventing her from falling down the stairs, Alice immediately informed Xia Libing, who was indeed not sleeping.

When Xiang Kun was sleeping, Xia Libing was undoubtedly the number one "commander" on the "supersensory item system". When unable to make the only decision based on the existing rules and principles, Alice knew that she should find the old Xia's decision is the safest.

When you are in doubt, ask your boss, and when your boss is sleeping, ask Lao Xia!

Of course, there is no doubt that they all risked exposure to rescue Tang Baona. Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, including Xiang Kun's parents, Chang Bin, Zicheng, You Meng and others all need to conduct "real-time operations" "Guardian", their life safety is the most important at all times!

But after being exposed, Alice was not sure how to guide Tang Baona, because she had too many ways and directions.

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