What It’s Like Being a Vampire

From the memory fragments of the mutated spider, Xiang Kun knew that it killed and devoured two mutated plants.

The first mutated plant was a tree, which seemed to be able to secrete a liquid on the trunk that attracted certain mammals. When those animals came to lick and eat, the thorns extending from the branches pierced the animals to suck blood. During the whole process, the animal whose blood is sucked will not be aware of it.

After the animal licked the liquid from the tree trunk, the blood-sucking process stopped, and then the animal could be seen leaving unnoticed, but obviously became very weak, dazed, and even staggered and stumbled. Although none of the mutated spiders' memory fragments contained the final results of these animals, Xiang Kun could tell that none of them would live long.

From the memory fragments of the mutated spider, Xiang Kun had seen three scenes like this. It was obvious that the mutated spider took the initiative to find the tree, and secretly paid attention to it for a long time before attacking.

In the memory fragment of the mutated spider, there was no specific process of how it dealt with the mutated tree, but in the end, it was possible to see a tree surrounded by a large amount of spider silk, and the branches were all pulled under control. The mutated spider used its sharp extension mouth The device pierces the trunk to suck something.

The other mutated plant is a vine, which attracts other animals by feeding on fruits. However, compared to the mutated tree, this mutated vine has much stronger fighting ability than the ability to trap and kill.

Just like the corrosive liquid that Xiang Kun has seen before, this mutant vine also has it, but it is obviously not as powerful as when the mutant spider arranged traps for Xiang Kun. It should be the later evolution of the mutant spider and its own venom mechanism .

But even so, in the memory fragment Xiang Kun saw, the fight between the mutated spider and the mutated vines was very tragic. Half of the mutated spider's body disappeared, leaving only its head and a pair of forelimbs closely following a pile of vines entangled.

Just looking at those memory fragments, he can't even tell who won and who smoked whom.

Of course, these memory fragments were obtained from the mutated spider, which is enough to explain who survived to the end.

From the memory fragments of those mutated spiders, what it saw, parts of its own limbs, and the occasional reflections when it passed the water surface, Xiang Kun could see that before it dealt with the mutated tree, its body was only half the size of the later one. The organ has mutated a lot, but there are no green roots on its body. When dealing with the mutated vines, its body has grown to the size of a washbasin, but there are no green roots on its body.

Xiang Kun deduced that the mutant spider should solve the mutant tree first, and devour the mutant vines after - those green roots growing on the body, those strange "transformation branches" and "reconstruction branches", all It is a mutation and acquired ability that occurred later.

During the fight against the mutated spider,

Xiang Kun didn't find that it possessed any of the abilities of the mutant tree, nor did it find that it had been used in the spider's memory fragment.

Therefore, it is inclined to judge that this mutated spider does not have the ability to obtain a mutated tree. However, after it obtained some of the abilities of the mutated vines, its body changed drastically, such as those green roots extending outside its body.

Therefore, Xiang Kun believes that if mutant creatures need to obtain the special abilities of other mutant creatures through blood, unless they are of the same kind and have the same basic structure, otherwise, their bodies must undergo substantial mutations in order to adapt quickly.

It's like directly plugging in a peripheral to a computer, so that it can directly have a certain function.

After Xiang Kun drank the blood of a certain mutant creature, he dismantled and sold them, exchanged money, and changed his computer to a better configuration. As for the new functions, he had to understand their functions first. Principle, and then make improvements according to your own situation.

The functions that can be realized by its own hardware can be realized by modifying the software, and those that cannot be realized by its own hardware can be modified by slowly buying parts.

Undoubtedly, in terms of difficulty, the latter is much more difficult than the former, and the final actual functional effect may not exceed the former, or the functional performance is different.

But there is one thing that is incomparable to the former, that is compatibility, and the possibility of deriving and expanding other functions based on known principles, and strengthening existing functions.

It's like Guo Tianxiang's "Looking at each other to create a projection of one's own fear", which has evolved into a "both projections" in Xiang Kun's case. Although the manifestations are different, the influence is actually stronger.

Xiang Kun speculated that the reason why he has not been able to obtain Guo Tianxiang's ability to hypnotize people directly with his voice is that his original body structure and certain abilities conflict with this hypnotic ability. After he finds out what the specific conflict is and resolves it, he should be able to master this ability, or derive other related abilities.

Back to this mutated spider, after careful study of its memory fragments and the related information about spider flight, Xiang Kun believed that its flight relied more on electric fields. And in this way, Xiang Kun felt that it was possible for him to obtain it without changing his body structure.

More than a hundred years ago, few people discovered that "spiders can fly".

People sometimes find a large number of spiders suddenly appearing on the deck of a sea voyage, "blown over" by the wind. These spiders can fly tens of hundreds of miles by the wind, transfer from one place to another, and even " Across the ocean to see you."

People have found through observation that some small spiders will climb to high places, raise their abdomens, and shoot out spider silk, and then the wind will "pull" the spider silk, dragging the spider into the air. It is believed that the flying behavior of spiders is the use of airflow, and the spider silk is more like a parachute.

But last year researchers at the University of Bristol, Ley and Daniel Robert, used an artificial electric field to demonstrate that spiders' flight not only uses air currents, but also the earth's electric field.

They put the spider in an airtight container isolated from air flow and external electric field, and then applied an electric field inside with the same strength as in the natural environment.

Then they observed that in the absence of airflow, the spiders still flew, and they could also control the flying speed of the spiders by adjusting the strength of the electric field.

Through further observations and experiments, they found that the spider's leg hair should be able to sense the electric field, and then "shoot" the spider silk into the air at an appropriate time. Go by electricity.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, only very small spiders can do it. After all, the lifting force obtained by relying on the spider silk to borrow the electric field is actually quite limited.

And that mutated spider is definitely not in the ranks of "little spiders", and its body tissue is not light enough to a certain extent, so it needs to fly many, many times stronger than ordinary small spiders. It can be picked up by sticking out the ass and shooting down the spider silk.

So when the mutated spider was being chased by Xiang Kun, it had no way to fly into the air. It had to run to the edge of the cliff. After flying into the air, find a way to use the force of the electric field to help it glide.

But when there was a thunderstorm that night, the mutated spider had a stronger source of power.

The electromagnetic circuit between the earth and the ionosphere is called the atmospheric potential gradient. Usually, the electric field is 100V/m, and it can reach 10,000V/m or more in thunderstorm weather.

The mutated spider must have evolved a special structure, which can "charge" itself in thunderstorm weather, so that the surface of its body can be charged enough, and then use its strength to ionize the surrounding air, and then it will emit light In this case, it looks like a uFo.

And judging from its flying state, it is obvious that it can control the flight direction and state very precisely.

Although the mutated spider's memory fragment obtained by Xiang Kun also has a picture of it walking under the electric current, but how it "charges", how it controls the flight, and how this ability evolved is not known for the time being.

However, Xiang Kun knew that if he wanted to fly, the two most important points were to perceive the electric field in nature, and the other was to "charge" himself, obtain enough charge, and then take advantage of the momentum.

And compared to the weight of the mutated spider, Xiang Kun's current weight of more than 100 kg required much greater force to fly, and naturally the required charge was much greater.

The first is to perceive the electric field. According to the information Xiang Kun read, the spider perceives the change of the electric field through the change of the direction of the tiny hairs on its legs. Assuming that the mutant spider is also in the same way, how can Xiang Kun imitate it?

As soon as he thought of this, he rolled up his trouser legs, observed his crooked leg hair, and then looked at his obedient and honest hand hair. Although it was all body hair, its structure was actually It is completely different from the function. The spider's leg hair itself is one of their sensory organs, and now my hand hair and leg hair don't look like they have mutated or changed. Mao has no sensory feedback.

He felt that it was necessary to understand the flight principle of mutant spiders, because some of the "energy" obtained in his body was the root of those mutations, but to imitate and reshape those abilities, it was not necessarily necessary to follow its original structure. accomplish. Just like using an internal combustion engine as a vehicle, it can be made into a two-wheeled motorcycle, a four-wheeled car, a tracked tank, or an airplane.

So after the last blood drinking session, Xiang Kun first used his several experiences of witnessing the flight of the mutated spider, the flight memory fragments related to the mutated spider, the information found on the Internet, and the deduced realization principle, in his mind. A cognitive model of "Royal Flight" was established.

Then in reverse, apply this cognitive model to yourself to see what is still missing and what details need to be improved.

It's like setting up a strategy goal by yourself, and then proposing tasks one by one for yourself to conquer.

But when he tried to make a cognitive model for his own specific situation, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness instantly.

This brief fainting was actually very fast, only a few tenths of a second, so when he was standing, he didn't even fall down but just lost his balance slightly.

But this feeling made him realize that to build a comprehensive cognitive model for himself, the amount of data should be too large. Just having this idea, he was saYnoed protectively by the brain.

Perhaps when he has this ability, he can directly control his mutation, and even find the root of his mutation.

Therefore, Xiang Kun could only simply start with the "Yudian Flight" cognitive model established there, and slowly perceive the parts that he needed to improve according to the required conditions.

At the same time, it is also trying to establish a cognitive model of the electric field between the sky and the earth.

Then there is the item of "charging" himself. Xiang Kun had touched the electricity with the socket at home before, tested his feeling of "electricity", and was sure that if he was directly electrocuted, he would belch as well. It does not "charge" directly. (※Do not imitate sB's behavior)

So he still pins his hopes on his new cognitive model, trying to build a cognitive model to "recharge" himself.

During this period of time, Xiang Kun often came to the top floor to experience his body and the surrounding environment more, and try to improve several related cognitive models.

And through this gathering at Tang Baona's house tonight, Xiang Kun has more experience on how to handle a more complex cognitive model - in the case of too many variables and lack of accurate data, it can be divided into Multiple relatively simple cognitive models, and then promote the operation of the entire large system by influencing more familiar cognitive models, thereby collecting data and improving other cognitive models.

For example, the chat scene of ten people tonight can be classified as an entire cognitive model. Xiang Kun can subdivide the other nine people into nine cognitive models, and then subdivide each person's taste for food Form a new cognitive model, influence them through food, make an entry point, and then further affect the entire chat through a few people who are more familiar, and each link can be continuously subdivided and re-established.

Using this method, Xiang Kun, who was standing on the rooftop, also faintly discovered a way for him to perceive the electric field between the sky and the earth - sight, smell, and hearing. A single sense cannot clearly establish a detailed cognitive model of the surrounding electric field. . But it does not mean that these sensory information do not have any feedback about the electric field.

As I said before, you have been receiving a lot of information all the time, but when you don't have the corresponding "decoder", you can't really understand that information.

And now, benefiting from the blood of the mutated spider, and the brand-new cognitive model obtained after this mutant evolution, he is gradually integrating a comprehensive cognitive model of the electric field by establishing the cognitive model of the electric field in each sense organ .

There is light rain in the weather forecast tonight. Although there are very few thunderstorms in their city this season, the electric potential will still change a lot. Xiang Kun thinks this is a good opportunity for a breakthrough in the cognitive model.

...

Tang Baona's home.

Before everyone left, they all cleaned up together briefly, even the dishes and chopsticks were washed together, so now there is nothing to clean up except for dumping the garbage.

Yang Zhen'er was lying on the sofa and talking to Lao Xia again: "Oh, I have improved a lot from the crispy pork knuckle made by the chef tonight, the taste is really, tsk tsk, there is not a piece left, Did you see those bones I took just now, they are clean, hehe, they are all delicious! My dear sister, Merry Christmas!"

"You really don't look like a big sister!" Tang Baona took the bag Xiang Kun brought over today, and was about to go back to the room, and spit casually.

"It's just a bean sack!!" After Yang Zhen'er sent the voice, she jumped up from the sofa, leaned over to Tang Baona, and looked into the bag: "What is it? I found it before, Xiang Chef There was a wooden box in the bag I brought! Could it be a Christmas present?"

"Hey." Tang Baona said, and walked into the room.

"Hey, what a woolen thread! Stop! Chef Xiang only gave you a Christmas gift alone??" Yang Zhen'er hurriedly followed in, "Is there any law of heaven, is there any law of the king?"

"He said he didn't notice Christmas, and it was too late, so he only made this one, and you will make up for yours later. Also, isn't your birthday coming soon..." Tang Baona said, taking out of the bag Take out the wooden box.

"Christmas presents are Christmas presents, and birthday presents are birthday presents. You can't mix them up!" Yang Zhen'er leaned to the side and asked curiously, "What did you get this time?"

The wooden box was obviously also handmade by Xiang Kun. After Tang Baona opened it, she saw the wooden carving lying inside.

"Hey?"

"what?"

Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er looked at the wood carving with surprised expressions.

Because the palm-sized wooden carving looks very cute like the Q version of the big head style in various anime, but they can tell at a glance that the face is plump, wrapped in a quilt, with double ponytails, and wearing The woodcarving with round-frame glasses and drowsy eyelids is clearly the Q version of Tang Baona!

"Hahahahaha! They really look alike! What are these glasses made of? Is it wood or plastic? I'll go, I'll show you to the chef! Ouch, I laughed so hard, come here, let me take a picture!" Yang Zhen Er happily picked up the mobile phone and said while taking pictures.

At the same time, in Citong City, after listening to the deserious voice sent by her cousin, Xia Libing replied "Merry Christmas, you have gained five catties", then exited WeChat with an indifferent expression, opened the previously recorded "Video", looking back slowly.