What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Xiang Kun walked directly to the riverside, dodging surveillance cameras everywhere - now he didn't even need to switch to infrared thermal imaging visual mode for observation, he could directly use his sixth sense to help him determine the location of the camera and its approximate location. The recording area is then calculated so that he can avoid the camera range like he avoids light.

Based on his previous observations on the way back and analysis of online maps, he found a remote, dark area by the river without camera coverage.

Xiang Kun climbed over the river embankment, first carefully inspected the riverside grass with various sensory methods, and then began to take off his pants and shoes, leaving only a pair of shorts on his body.

After hiding his clothes, cell phone, and room key in a dry place he had observed, Xiang Kun slowly walked toward the river.

Around him, six coins and twenty tungsten steel balls floated in the air - these were the super-connected objects he always carried with him.

Stepping into the cold river water, Xiang Kun slowly lowered his body, letting the river water completely cover his head, and the twenty-six super-connected objects followed him into the water.

On the surface of the river, there were only a few ripples, and then there was no movement. There were not many bubbles, which was calmer than a stone sinking.

Under the river, Xiang Kun opened his eyes and looked around, but he didn't seem to be holding his breath with his mouth puffed out. He seemed very comfortable and calm as if he were on the ground.

Yes, Xiang Kun no longer needs to hold his breath to maintain his activity needs. His current body can actually breathe.

Since the mutation last year, Xiang Kun has conducted many experiments and training on holding his breath, and has always recorded the time he holds his breath.

Although he was holding his breath for longer and longer, he was still very sure that even if his body had undergone drastic changes, he still needed oxygen.

Just after walking back to the hotel with Lao Xia, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhener, Xiang Kun had some inspiration, so he filled the sink with water, exhaled, and then soaked his head Go in.

Then he discovered that after holding his breath, he could activate an anaerobic mode that he had never had before. He stopped breathing, but he did not have any dyspnea or hypoxic reaction. It seemed that his body no longer needed oxygen. .

However, Xiang Kun felt that it was not that his body no longer needed oxygen, but that he had evolved other ways of breathing after swallowing the mutated parasite.

Because the hotel didn't have a bathtub, so he couldn't experience the feeling of being fully immersed in water, so Xiang Kun just sneaked out of the hotel and went straight into the river at night.

Relying on his already heavy weight,

Shen Jiang went quite smoothly, but in the water, after Xiang Kun switched to the special anaerobic mode, he once again experienced the feeling of stopping breathing in the hotel bathroom.

Xiang Kun carefully felt the changes in his body, dangling under the water like an abandoned stone sculpture.

Then he discovered that after switching the breathing mode, his body functions declined to a certain extent, but this did not affect various sensory abilities and brain thinking. Obviously, this aspect was automatically provided by the body.

Most of the decline was in functions such as strength, endurance, and explosive power. Of course, he only had a rough estimate of the specific degree of decline, and without actual testing or experiments, he could not accurately judge.

However, there is no obvious change in the feeling of muscle exertion, other modes of operation of the body, and normal breathing.

Just like an electrical appliance, the screen can still be turned on, but the brightness of the screen has been reduced, and the internal operation does not seem to have fundamentally changed.

So Xiang Kun guessed that what he switched to after holding his breath underwater was not the anaerobic mode but the oxygen-saving mode.

So, where does oxygen come from?

Xiang Kun knew that fish rely on gills to breathe underwater.

Fish can capture dissolved oxygen in the water through gill flakes and expel carbon dioxide through gill flakes. Even if it has the function of gills, it still has to open its mouth to absorb water and drain it?

But the fact is that he doesn't need to open his mouth or filter the water underwater.

Xiang Kun immediately thought of his observations after catching the mutated parasite.

Most of the world's internal parasites rely on glycolysis for energy and do not require oxygen.

But obviously, the mutated parasite is not one of them. It can still survive after being separated from the host, has a certain ability to move, and its maneuverability and adaptability in water are far greater than those on land, so it should need to breathe. of.

However, from Xiang Kun's observation, the guy did not have a gill-like structure.

So how does it breathe?

Xiang Kun continued to feel carefully, and then noticed a slightly cold feeling on his skin. He had actually noticed this feeling from the beginning, but he initially thought it was just because of the cold water.

At this time, I carefully recalled the subtle differences before and after completely submerging in the water and turning on the oxygen-saving mode, and I immediately realized that this slightly cool feeling all over the skin may be that the skin is breathing.

Xiang Kun carefully observed his skin in the water. By constantly switching between low-light night vision and infrared thermal imaging vision modes, he could still exert his visual advantage even in the water.

Many times, some cosmetics advertisements will promote human skin can also breathe and pores can breathe, but in fact, pores do not have the function of breathing.

But it seems that for Xiang Kun, those advertising slogans have come true. He seems to be breathing at a very low level through his pores, absorbing oxygen in the water, and expelling metabolized carbon dioxide through the pores. But in the water, this process It was broken down into parts, and the various tiny reactions were not only difficult to observe visually, but even difficult for him to clearly perceive.

After determining his breathing method in oxygen-saving mode, Xiang Kun began to expand his attention outward and let go of his perception.

Following the inspiration he had while walking along the riverside with Lao Xia and the other three, Xiang Kun once again used the parasitic all things mode to perceive the surrounding river water.

Then he discovered that while breathing through his skin, he also had a new perception ability in the water - his skin seemed to have a more acute perception of the fluctuations of the water, and he could judge through this perception. Information such as the trajectory of living objects in the water more than ten or even twenty meters away, the location of dead objects in the water, etc.

Xiang Kun carefully sensed this information and believed that it was not only due to the evolution of abilities brought about by the mutated parasite, but most of it was due to the combination of his already super sensory abilities, information processing and judgment abilities. Only under this will we have the ability to scan comprehensive information in the water.

Then Xiang Kun stopped going with the flow and began to swim actively in the water.

He had only learned the frog pose before, and his swimming skills were average, but now in the water, when he moved, he swam according to an instinct.

His swimming posture is like a fish, similar to butterfly-leg swimming, but compared to human butterfly-leg swimming, it is much more comfortable and relaxed. His hands are stretched forward from under his chest from time to time to control the direction. Let yourself take advantage of the current and the force of the water to save more effort.

After swimming in the water for a while, Xiang Kun found that the connection between himself and the river seemed to have become closer, just like a pair of shoes that had just been put on his feet. After wearing them for a while and exercising for a while, they became more and more snug. combine.

As a result, Xiang Kun's movements in the water became smaller and smaller, but his swimming speed and flexibility became higher and higher.

After swimming in the water for more than an hour, Xiang Kun stopped again, and then controlled the twenty-six super-connected objects that followed him down the river to gather around him.

Just after he started swimming, he half-released his control over these super-connected objects. He only gathered them after swimming a certain distance to avoid being carried too far by the river back and beyond his control. It's too troublesome to retrieve them one by one.

But at this time, Xiang Kun sent these twenty-six super-connected objects far away under the water. The farthest ones were even hundreds of meters apart.

Originally, he could sense it at this distance, but he definitely couldn't control it. He had to enter a super-sensory state and accurately locate it before he could perform corresponding operations.

But now in the river, Xiang Kun passed through the magnetic field of super-connected objects from near to far, and found that the river was like an adhesive, binding the single magnetic field of the twenty-six super-connected objects to Xiang Kun's body. Perceive the Chinese spelling to form a whole.

And with the help of this super-connected object matrix, Xiang Kun's perception in the water has once again been greatly expanded, reaching as far as more than a hundred meters away, and the details of perception are also richer.

He could sense the small boats moored on the opposite side of the river, the fish swimming around him, the snails of different sizes and other plankton lurking on the bottom of the river.

Slowly, Xiang Kun discovered that not only could he perceive things, he could also have certain control abilities.

Through the influence of the matrix of hyper-connected objects, he reunited twenty-six hyper-connected objects, and then tried to intervene in the flow of the river and find points of force that could be borrowed to influence the water flow.

After repeated attempts, he finally formed a tiny whirlpool in the water.

But what Xiang Kun didn't know in the water was that while he was conducting these experiments, some strange phenomena appeared on the river.

The wind seemed to change its direction slightly, and became a little stronger. On the river surface near the whirlpool, there were layers of very light mist, but because it was very small, it was blown away by the wind in the blink of an eye.

Of course, no one could see this scene on the river late at night.

Xiang Kun in the water is still obsessed with research and experiments on controlling the river water.

At this time, nearly three hours had passed since he sank into the river.

Just when Xiang Kun had figured out the way through research and experiments, and found a way to use the hyper-connected matter matrix to better control the flow of water by borrowing the force of the water flow, a person appeared on the river bank more than sixty meters away from his location. The small object fell into the river, followed by a series of women's screams from the shore.

The twenty-six super-connected objects that were originally gathered together around Xiang Kun instantly followed his will and shot out in the water, like torpedoes, rushing towards the place where they fell into the water.

Xiang Kun soon discovered that the person who fell from the embankment into the river was an adult man, while the person shouting on the shore was a woman.

Fell into the water?

Xiang Kun quickly made a judgment in his mind. If possible, people should be saved. At this distance, and at his speed, he should be able to swim over and rescue the person in time.

But he had been sinking in the water and did not jump from the side. Now in the middle of the night, there was no one else around and there were no boats on the river. It seemed too strange for him to suddenly emerge from the water to rescue people. Abrupt.

You can't just shout Light of Righteousness after saving people, then turn around and jump back into the water to sink and disappear without a trace, right? That would scare people terribly.

And looking back, maybe there will be big news tomorrow, attracting a lot of attention and investigations that he doesn't want.

So Xiang Kun's decision was to swim over there while using the water control method he had just discovered to save people.

…

a few minutes ago.

Riverside.

A car stopped on the side of the road.

The back seat door opened, and a young girl with short chestnut hair got out of the car angrily and headed towards the river.

On the other side of the back seat, a rather handsome young man quickly opened the door and followed quickly, calling the girl's name and holding her hand as he ran.

Apparently, this was a quarrel between a young couple.

The two people in the car, the driver and the co-pilot, looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, lowered the windows, and started chatting, waiting for the young couple to come back from their quarrel. As friends, they had seen this scene countless times.

But the development of things was a little different from before. The young man seemed to have drunk a lot of wine and was a little excited. After quarreling with the girl for a few words, he yelled: How the hell do you want to believe me? Do you want me to Would you believe it if you jumped from here?

The girl was already angry, so she took the opportunity to say something back: If you have the guts...

When she saw the wide river, she suddenly trembled. She wanted to brake and did not finish her sentence, but it was too late. The young man who was drunk on alcohol shouted Jump! and then jumped into the river with a running approach. .

Ah? Ah!! Fuck!! Help!!! - Come help me!!! The girl screamed again and again, and even wanted to jump down, but like her boyfriend, she was a landlubber, so she could only He jumped on the river bank and shouted to his companions in the car to come and save him.

When the two companions in the car realized something was wrong and quickly got out of the car and rushed over, they and the girl, who was already crying with snot and tears on her face, saw a scene that shocked them.

The young man who fell into the water was spinning on the river surface and moving quickly towards a beach not far away from the shore. From his posture in the water, it was certain that he was not swimming by himself.

After seeing the young man being carried to the downstream bank by the river, the three people ran over quickly.

When they arrived, the young man was lying in a patch of water plants, screaming and crying as he climbed up the embankment.

It took a lot of effort for the three of them to pull their companion up.

Damn it, you, a guy who almost drowned in a 1.5-meter swimming pool, how dare you jump into the river? You must have been drunk stupid... The man who was driving the car cursed with a look of fear on his face.

The young man's girlfriend also kept crying. While crying, she asked her boyfriend if he was hurt anywhere and if he wanted to call 122.

It's 122, it's 120! The man driving the car scolded the girl helplessly, and said to his companion who was sitting in the passenger seat: Call his brother, let him know, and we will take him to the hospital... ...Huh? Why are you standing there stunned?

He looked up and saw his companion standing beside him, staring blankly at the river, and couldn't help but wonder.

But when he followed his companion's gaze towards the river, he was also stunned.

Just now under the moonlight, the river on the other side was clearly visible, but now it was covered in a whole fog, and this fog was only between their location and the place where the young man jumped into the river.

After dozens of seconds or minutes, the fog quickly dissipated, and a gust of cold wind blew through, making several people on the riverside shiver.

At this moment, the surrounding street lights suddenly brightened, and then they suddenly realized that the street lights seemed to have dimmed a lot along the way they had just ran, but they were in a hurry to save people and didn't pay much attention.

Now it's not brightening, it's just restoring?

At this moment, the man who was lying on the ground, all wet, crying and groaning for a long time, suddenly raised his head and shouted to his girlfriend and two companions: Run...run! In the water There’s something… there’s something in this water!!”

The three people, who were already a little scared, were all frightened by his voice.

After the three people helped the man who jumped into the river stumble away, half a bald head slowly rose up on the river near the shore.

Xiang Kun looked at the four people who ran towards the car in panic on the roadside with helpless eyes. He originally wanted to make it look like an accident, but the man who fell into the water was lucky and washed up on the river beach. Unexpectedly, the operation was not skillful enough, and it still happened. Scary.

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