What It’s Like Being a Vampire

The big iron ball was suspended in the air, vibrating at a high frequency, and there were electric lights surging above, near, and below. It was in the heart of a thunderstorm, and it looked like something from an alien planet.

If someone witnessed this scene at this time, they would probably think that this was a black technology that was more advanced than earth civilization.

The mutated bird, wrapped in tens of thousands of tungsten steel balls, was naturally struggling hard and trying its best to get out.

The last time it was besieged by Niu, Xia, Ai, and Guo in Chongyun Village, it had encountered a similar attack method. However, at that time, the four people worked together to pass through the created field, enveloping the small gravel and minerals in the surrounding environment. Particles and metal shavings are used to trap the mutated bird, with only a small amount of hyperlinked tungsten steel balls among them.

So at that time, the gravel did not have a strong stagnation ability. It mainly used the cover of the gravel to let a small amount of hyperlinked balls drill into the nostrils, ears, and mouth of the mutant bird, trying to break into its body to destroy it. In the end, it used the self-destruction method of "igniting" itself to break free and escape.

But in the current environment, after Xiang Kun appeared in person and fully stimulated the super-connected matrix, he established an optimal "home field environment", and what covered the whole body of the mutated big bird was not just the gravel or fine debris of soy sauce, And when all are "hyper-connected things", no matter how hard the mutated bird struggles or what method it uses, there is no possibility of breaking free.

Looking at the "iron ball" suspended in the air by the hyperlinked object, Xiang Kun suddenly started to step forward, stepping on the ground with bare feet, every step caused the electric arc on the ground to change and jump violently, and also aroused the electric energy in the air to start Released violently.

Xiang Kun's pace became faster and faster, changing from walking to running, and the speed increased. The electric light "long hair" behind his head suddenly stretched out for several meters, and he began to dance wildly. Then he also jumped into the air, soaring into the sky amidst the electric light rise.

As he flew into the air, the lightning storm became more violent, and one after another "electric dragons" scrambled to grab the ground nearby, bringing the whole area as bright as day.

However, the lightning storm caused by Xiang Kun this time is different from the past, because a field was deliberately created on the ground. After the lightning landed, most of them did not cause huge damage, and the energy was not converted into heat energy, but continued to circulate. .

Xiang Kun soared into the sky and flew directly over the big iron ball. He then froze his body, paused for half a second, and then rushed towards the iron ball. He raised his leg and swung at the iron ball wrapped around the mutated big bird. He kicked it far away.

Xiang Kun didn't just rely on pure strength to hit the big iron ball. His kick was more like a firing pin that stirred energy. The moment it came into contact with the iron ball, it shot out like an electromagnetic cannon.

The iron ball flew dozens of meters away and penetrated into the soil.

As soon as it hit the ground, the super-connected object ball temporarily disintegrated. Although the mutated bird's bones were broken and twisted together irregularly when it was trapped, it still struggled desperately when it found an opportunity. Struggling and trying to escape, sparks began to burst out from the feathers all over his body.

But as soon as it stretched out its bird's head from the blasted pit, countless roots and vines suddenly stretched out from between the surrounding pit walls, and then pulled it back into the pit.

Above it? Those rhizomes and vines are twisting together and merging rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The growth process is even accompanied by a beating arc, and there is a layer of extremely pale white light all over the body. Soon, it will be in the soil. A huge crooked-necked tree formed directly above the pit.

Around the crooked neck tree, there were a large number of "daughter plants" that Alice had mobilized the ant army to assist "Little Carrot" in. Xiang Kun and Alice also relied on them to determine the exact location of the mutated big bird.

Naturally, the mutated big bird trapped underneath is still struggling desperately? If it only relied on the rhizome of the "carrot", it would definitely not be able to trap it.

But now there is not only the "little radish"? There are also the countless super-connected beads that wrapped it before. Now in the soil, they are still filling the gaps covered by the rhizome, bringing extremely strong oppression and restriction.

And many tiny spikes extend from those rhizomes. With the help of the super-connected ball beads, they penetrate into its body, continue to extend, and connect into its blood vessels, muscle tissue, and soft tissue.

Xiang Kun did not fall down immediately, but flew in the air at extremely fast speed for more than ten seconds, driving the violent electric dragon in the sky to flash and continuous thunder to rumble.

This action has no purpose, it's just that Xiang Kun simply wants to feel the feeling of flying wantonly. Flying at high speed in the sky, between strong winds and thunderstorms, is very different from flying in an airplane. big.

Especially with the help of tens of thousands of "super-connected things" around him to expand his perception, he could clearly feel the entire lightning storm area and feel that the entire energy was used for his own use. For a moment, Xiang Kun was really a little bit... He has become a god, can control thunder, lightning, wind and rain, can destroy heaven and earth, and feels omnipotent.

It's really cool, so cool.

However, Xiang Kun quickly controlled his buoyant and swollen emotions, because there was a little guy who was more buoyant than him. He was constantly applying for coexistence and wanted to fly with him on the electricity, so that he could put his thoughts from beyond. The system of sense objects retracts into itself.

After the energy in the cloud was almost vented, and Alice appeared and flew with her whole body electrified for three seconds while shouting "woohoo", Xiang Kun fell back to the ground.

As he walked towards the huge and ugly crooked-necked tree, he relaxed his influence on the entire area. As he walked, the long electric hair on the back of his head quickly became shorter and then disappeared.

After the frequency of lightning and thunder decreased, heavy rain quickly began.

Amid the rain, Xiang Kun stood in front of the huge crooked tree, closed his eyes, and entered a "supersensory state."

If this scene were made into a video or a picture posted online, it would probably trigger a heated discussion:

Wearing only a pair of shabby-looking jeans, barefoot, bare upper body, bald head, eyes closed, expression calm, in the heavy rain, a tree looked as if it had lived for hundreds of years and was as ugly as Kesu The big tree invaded by Lu World.

This kind of picture and this kind of comparison will probably make many people come up with stories like "eminent monk" and "tree demon".

In fact, if Xiang Kun was willing, just after a large number of super-connected objects trapped the mutated big bird in the air and wrapped it into a big iron ball, he could directly draw a few bolts of lightning to hit it, and he would soon be able to kill the mutated big bird. Bird killing.

Although the mutated big bird had been enhanced and specialized in resisting lightning strikes due to being struck by lightning by him in Zihuan Mountain, the most important characteristic of the mutated bird, in addition to rapid recovery and resistance to high temperatures, was that it could survive being struck by lightning. At the moment of bombardment, one layer of one's "outer skin" is discarded, and then a layer of vacuum insulation layer is established in between, and a wave of "tail-cutting to survive" takes place. Otherwise, even if it can withstand high temperatures, it will be difficult to escape from continuous direct lightning strikes.

After being trapped by hyperconnected objects, it has lost the ability to use that coping mechanism. If it is bombarded again, it will really only turn into a roasted chicken, and then turn into coke and disappear into ashes.

Xiang Kun didn't do this, he just trapped it and caught it, not to better devour and drink blood.

Xiang Kun's own development and evolution system is fundamentally different from traditional "mutated creatures". His power lies in the continuous expansion and strengthening of the "super-sensory item system". His own mutation and evolution are the cornerstones and abilities of the system. Source, but now the foundation is very stable and there is no need for rapid evolution.

Of course, the biggest reason is that he changed his original plan after the airliner attacked, and prepared to deal with the "Ultimate Predator" ahead of time, and also judged that the "Ultimate Predator" had entered a "sensitive state" and was being Azimuth tried to target him, so he decided that before implementing the plan, he would no longer drink blood, no longer enter a deep sleep state, and stay awake at all times to deal with the possible means of the "Ultimate Predator".

And this mutated big bird is an important "tool" that he may use in his next plan.

Standing in front of the crooked neck tree, Xiang Kun entered the "super sensory state", relying on the huge amount of hyperlinked objects around the mutated big bird to analyze and even influence its cognitive information in depth.

Xiang Kun originally planned to search for the "Ultimate Predator" special cognitive information fragment on it to see if it was different from the previous special cognitive information, so as to find out how it could affect the mutant bird to attack. The mutant bird himself was unable to "plan" the attack that just escaped the range of his hyper-physical perception.

This perception made Xiang Kun discover something strange:

There is actually a "mutated creature" inside the mutated big bird!

This is a novel discovery.

Xiang Kun quickly determined that the "mutated creature" that was almost integrated with the mutant bird was something like a toxoplasma, but it had many tentacles attached to the mutant bird's body.

Is it a mutated parasite?

Xiang Kun had seen and even eaten a mutated parasite before, and also seen and ate a mutated spider that had incompletely devoured the mutated plant in the Qinling no-man's land, so he didn't have any feelings for the mutated bird's state. Too shocking effect.

It seems that this mutant bird is in a state of coercion. This mutant parasite is the "messenger" of the "Ultimate Predator" and has come with a mission?

But soon, Xiang Kun discovered a problem from the cognitive information of the mutated parasite on the mutated big bird. Judging from the cognitive information, the characteristics of the mutated parasite were too consistent with the characteristics of the big bird. Yes, which is why he and Alice didn't discover it immediately when they determined their location through long-distance cognitive information.

However, when Xiang Kun tried to influence the parasite's cognitive information to a certain extent through hyperlinked objects, those cognitive information suddenly began to disintegrate and dissipate, and with it, the special identity representing the "ultimate predator" know the information.

So Xiang Kun instantly understood that it was not a "mutated parasite" controlled by the "Ultimate Predator", but the "Ultimate Predator" itself!

Or to be precise, it is a small part of the "Ultimate Predator". It "edits" the special super-sensory information fragments existing in the body of the mutated big bird with the mutated big bird itself as nutrients and materials. He took out the parasite-like part of the bird and used it to control, coerce, or trick the mutated bird into performing certain behaviors.

This discovery made Xiang Kun suddenly understand many characteristics of the "Ultimate Predator", the way he affects living things, as well as his acting style, part of his thinking mode, and even part of his "personality".

Xiang Kun immediately revised his original plan based on this discovery, which also gave him greater confidence in the success of the plan.

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At around seven o'clock in the morning, Liu Zhengyi got up for a run along the village road when he suddenly saw an upper body figure washing his feet by the pond of Liu Caifu Farmhouse.

Liu Zhengyi originally wanted to yell out loud, but he immediately noticed that the figure had a bald head, so after hesitating for a second, he immediately judged who the person was from the figure.

Liu Zhengyi ran over quickly and smiled at Xiang Kun who was putting on shoes after washing his feet: "Mr. Xiang, is it so early?"

Xiang Kun glanced at him, and while getting up and putting on his clothes, he nodded and said, "Yes, I got up early to climb a mountain and exercise. Are you getting up and running every day now?"

"Yeah, I'm used to getting up early now." Liu Zhengyi said, rubbing his head in embarrassment.

The originally planned buildings for the research center are now almost complete, but some time ago Xiang Kun and Liu Caifu made plans with the village and town to expand the scope of the research center. Then a lot more people were hired. A lot of experimental equipment in the first phase of the project has been shipped in and needs people to watch and maintain it. So now the two brothers Liu Zhengyi and Liu Gaoshang have also followed the rising tide and been promoted. They don’t have to work every day. I work at the construction site in shifts, so now I can have a regular schedule and get up early every day for a run.

Xiang Kun got dressed, exchanged a few words with Liu Zhengyi, and then went home. He knew that Lao Xia had just gotten up, and Nana and Yang Laosan were not awake yet, but they were probably about to wake up. He was going back to make breakfast now. , they almost had enough to eat.

Liu Zhengyi looked at Xiang Kun's leaving figure, but thought of the news he saw yesterday.

They also knew from Xia Libing before that Xiang Kun was coming back yesterday, so when the video of the accident on the passenger plane went viral yesterday afternoon, they immediately thought of whether Xiang Kun was on that plane.

But before they could find anyone to confirm whether Xiang Kun was on that flight, they got news that the passenger plane had landed safely.

Then rumors began to spread on the Internet that a little girl in a white dress appeared outside the plane to protect and bless the plane for a safe landing.

Others may not think much of this statement, but brothers Liu Zhengyi and Liu Gaoshang suddenly thought of what happened to Zhu Tail and Liu Ertong when they stole materials from a construction site in the village a few months ago. A little girl in a white dress suddenly appeared and blocked him, so he was so frightened that he called the police and asked the police to come to the rescue.

At that time, everyone laughed at them for being timid, but now looking back on their descriptions and comparing the appearance of the little girl outside the plane, the Liu brothers suddenly realized that Pigtail and Liu Ertong might have really seen something.