What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Early the next morning, Zhao Feng and Wang De'an rushed to the hospital to visit Old Man Du, who was said to have drawn a picture of the "eight-armed eight-eyed monster" in prison.

The hospital where Old Man Du was treated on parole was naturally designated by the prison, but judging from the environment of his separate ward, as well as the equipment in the ward and the professional nursing staff, it was obvious that he had spent a lot of money on it himself.

Wang De'an strangely whispered to his companion: "Looking at the information last night, didn't he have his illegal income confiscated, and he has no relatives."

Zhao Feng said: "I'm going to ask." Then he asked the nurse who was obviously not a hospital.

The nurse didn't hide anything, and directly said that the person who paid was Mr. Du's godson, who was a former prison inmate.

"Inmate? Godson?" Zhao Feng frowned and asked the nurse to ask for the phone number and name of the "godson", and then sent it to the information collection department for them to check.

Zhao Feng and Wang De'an walked into the ward, sat down next to Old Man Du's bed, and asked softly: "Hello, Mr. Du, we are reporters from 'New International Perspectives'. Have the people at the hospital told you? What? We would like to conduct an interview with you."

Old Man Du was barely holding his eyelids open on the hospital bed and looked very weak. The nurse beside him also said: "You should try to be as quick as possible and don't take too long."

After Zhao Feng agreed, he leaned slightly closer to Old Du's ear and said, "Mr. Du, how do you feel?"

Old Man Du's eyes moved, he glanced at him, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said: "I'm going to die, but I should be fine after dealing with you. What kind of interview are you going to do? I'm just an old liar. Maybe I can't." What hard news can I give you?"

Zhao Feng found it a little strange. Although Old Man Du looked extremely ill and weak, and his voice was very low and had a little vibrato, he somehow gave off a very calm and stable feeling.

"It's like this. I don't know if you have watched the news before. In early March, a large-scale collective hallucination event occurred in Mentamirah, Myanmar. People in several blocks saw a huge , the illusion of a giant with many arms and many eyes, walked through the middle of the city, and then disappeared. Everyone who saw it felt shock and fear for the first time, and many people had subsequent psychological effects, including their life trajectories. Everything has changed.”

While Zhao Feng was speaking, he had been observing Old Man Du's facial expression.

He found that when he mentioned the description of the vision of the multi-armed, multi-eyed giant, there was a faint but clear change in Old Man Du's expression.

So he glanced at Wang De'an,

The latter understood, took out the tablet computer from his bag, and pulled up the sketch of the eight-armed acropod vision that had appeared many times in the news before.

As soon as he saw the picture, Old Man Du immediately forced his eyes open, raised his neck slightly, and opened his mouth slightly, as if he was trying to sit up.

If you take a photo of Old Man Du and post it online at this time, it is estimated that many people will post it with words such as "Grandpa, the "XXX" you have been waiting for is finally released!" "Hurry up, help Grandpa up!" and other popular emoticons. .

Zhao Feng quickly put a pillow behind Mr. Du's head, raising his head a little higher. Then he took Wang De'an's tablet, brought it closer, showed it to him, and said:

"Old sir, have you seen the things in this picture? The reason why we came here this time is that we heard that you drew a similar picture in prison. I wonder if the picture is still there? Can you show it to us? ?”

Old Man Du did not answer, but stared at the painting on the tablet. He took a few breaths before saying, "Tell me about that...Meng..."

"Montamila."

Old Man Du: "Tell me about that Montamila thing. How did it happen?"

Zhao Feng and Wang De'an were also prepared. They directly used their tablet computers to play a Chinese news clip that they thought explained the cause of the incident most clearly for Old Man Du to watch.

While observing Old Man Du's expression, Zhao Feng added: "At that time, there was a riot in Mentamila. The appearance of the giant illusion, in a sense, stopped the riot and saved many people's lives. .”

From the information he saw last night, other people in the prison's description of Old Man Du's behavior, and Old Man Du's reaction just now, he roughly guessed his stance on the "Eight-Armed and Eight-Eyed Giant Vision". Good directional description - of course, his words are also true.

Sure enough, when he heard this, Old Man Du laughed: "It's normal, it's normal..."

But after laughing for a while, he started coughing violently, which attracted the nurse guarding the door to come over quickly.

After calming down, Old Man Du looked at Zhao Feng: "You want... to know from me... where He comes from?"

"You have indeed seen this thing, right? Can you tell us where you saw it?" Zhao Feng asked.

Old Man Du looked at the ceiling and exhaled: "In a dream."

"In the dream?" Zhao Feng was slightly startled, and looked at each other with Wang De'an. Both of them thought of Zhao Feng's previous use of dreams to guide him to find the body hidden in the cave deep in Zihuan Mountain.

"Can you tell me... what was that dream you had like? The giant with eight arms and eight eyes in the dream, is there any difference in details from this picture? If you have painted it before The picture couldn't be better." Zhao Feng continued to ask.

Old Man Du turned his neck with difficulty, looked at Zhao Feng's face, and suddenly said: "Have you dreamed about it too?"

Zhao Feng was a little surprised and subconsciously blurted out: "How do you know?"

Old Man Du laughed hard again, and he was breathing heavily. After a while, he said, "I know you all want... to find Him, but that... doesn't make sense..."

Old Man Du's voice became much softer, but his mouth was still moving, so Zhao Feng leaned down, put his ear to it, and heard Old Man Du's intermittent and weak voice:

“…Fear can reveal your true self…Follow your heart…Death is not the end…Don’t be afraid…Obey Him…Obey yourself…”

As he spoke, Old Man Du suddenly began to gasp for air and seemed to have difficulty breathing. The nurse rushed over, checked briefly, and quickly pressed the pager to ask the doctor to come over.

Naturally, Zhao Feng and Wang De'an were also kicked out of the ward and waited outside.

The two of them were also a little worried, but they didn't want to kill Old Man Du after just one visit.

After a while, the doctor came out and after questioning, he learned that Old Man Du's condition was temporarily stable, but he was indeed terminally ill and would not be alive for long. He also suggested that they stop talking to him about emotionally stimulating topics, otherwise there might be consequences.

So Zhao Feng and Wang De'an had to go back to the hotel first. Judging from what the doctor said, they wanted to apply for the next meeting, but it probably wouldn't be that soon.

"Did you record what he said?" Wang De'an asked.

"Yes, but his voice was too low, and the recording may not be clear. I'll look back and see if the people in the technical department can handle it. But there were only a few words he said, and I remember them all." Zhao Feng said.

"Fear can reveal your true self, follow your heart, death is not the end, don't be afraid." Zhao Feng repeated, his original dream of being guided by the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant to discover the corpse cave, although it was Lao Xia and Xiang The "dream within a dream" caused by Kun, but the "emotional object" that caused the dream was not the eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture, so the dream was not actually affected by the projection of fearful emotions. When you hear this sentence, it is not like it was earlier. Qi Haoguo had such deep feelings.

Wang De'an smiled and said: "I almost shouted "Oli". This old man Du is really talkative. No wonder he used to pretend to be a fool. He didn't mean to say that to us in PUA, right? Could he have some other intentions? ? But the words he said, judging from several key words, are indeed consistent with the feelings of people we have come into contact with before who saw the vision of an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster or giant."

"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, let's see if we can apply to chat with Old Man Du and directly ask him when and where he dreamed of the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, and what the specific content of his dream was." Zhao Feng said.

But that afternoon, they received news that Old Man Du's condition suddenly deteriorated and he fell into a coma. He was admitted to the ICU and might not be able to survive.

The two of them rushed to the hospital and asked the nurse when Mr. Du's "godson" would arrive. The answer they received was that he had something to do and couldn't come. If he didn't have enough medical expenses, don't worry, and he would get whatever treatment was needed.

"This 'godson' doesn't seem to be very filial, does he? He is in prison with Old Man Du, so he might know something. Should we go and talk to him?" Wang De'an asked softly in the corridor of the hospital.

Zhao Feng thought for a while and shook his head: "Then we might as well investigate what happened to old man Du before he surrendered and went to jail. Maybe we can find out what triggered his dream."

Wang De'an disagreed: "There may not be any triggering events. Look at the several cases we investigated before. Which cases had specific triggering events? Didn't they all appear suddenly? Did you dream about that? Was there any clear sign before the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant guided you to find the corpse cave? If there was any triggering event, it would at most be some criminal act he committed. If this can help us find the reason, we have investigated the two previous cases. When you file a case, you won’t find nothing.”

"Yes." Zhao Feng thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Wang De'an said: "Honestly, if Lao He hadn't found us, we knew that the government had no direct relationship with the eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion. Just based on the investigation in Myanmar, I would have thought that this was a black technology secretly developed by our government. . You see, that illusion appeared twice in Myanmar in just 24 hours. One time was the rescue of kidnapped Chinese citizens, and most of the kidnappers affected were domestic fugitives. The other time was in Bangladesh. Tamira indirectly prevented the riots against the Chinese, and the real behind-the-scenes instigator of the kidnapping was killed by his men in this incident. If the eight-armed and eight-eyed vision has a nationality, I think it must be Chinese."

In fact, before Lao He came to the door and they became members of the "Abnormal Research Center" and the "Shenxing Technology" secret department, the two of them had made various unreliable guesses about the eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion.

For example, due to special reasons, someone's consciousness enters another dimension and becomes another form of existence. He has a strong sense of justice. When he sees injustice, he will want to draw a sword to help. However, he cannot directly affect the real world and can only use psychological influence and create illusions. , or in the form of dreams.

It is precisely because of this that those who see the illusion and are affected are basically people related to the crime, either criminals, victims, or law enforcement.

Zhao Feng said thoughtfully: "I think these affected people are not just random, there must be some reasons. Especially in the kidnapping case in Myanmar, when the kidnappers saw the illusion, they were at sea. In this world On the ship, evil deeds happen every moment, so why did it appear at that time and on that ship?”

"Indeed, judging from the time, the illusion occurred on the kidnapper's ship earlier than the large-scale group illusion of Monta Mira. If the eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion really comes from China, there is really a subjective will. "Control, there is really a purpose for crossing the ocean to Myanmar, maybe to save people." Wang De'an speculated.

"What is the name of the kidnapped person? He should have returned to China. Let's talk to him carefully." Zhao Feng said.

…

Originally, it was planned that Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhener would have another meeting with Zhang Qian and prepare to leave Pengcheng City and return to Chongyun Village in the afternoon.

But at noon, Zhang Qian said that her grandfather, Zhang Hongpu, the chairman of Zhang Group, happened to be in Pengcheng City today, and she wanted to have a meal and chat with him in the evening.

Xiang Kun's blood-drinking time in this cycle was expected to be from tomorrow afternoon to evening, so it was not impossible to stay one more night, so he agreed.

He could guess that Mr. Zhang Hongpu came to Pengcheng, most likely specifically for him. Zhang Qian was able to mobilize so many resources during that time, and it would be impossible without Zhang Hongpu's support.

Of course, if his blood-drinking period is tonight, he can only say sorry to Mr. Zhang - anyway, he believes that such a small disrespect is not a big deal if it can provide foreseeable huge future benefits. What impact will it have.

The place for dinner in the evening was still in the classic manor-style restaurant where I met Zhang Chu last time.

Zhang Hongpu and the Zhang Group are neither high-profile, so there is not much information about him on the Internet. However, Alice had collected a lot of information and materials before, so Xiang Kun didn't know anything about this old man.

Zhang Hongpu is a tall and energetic old man. He always has a gentle and kind smile on his face. He has no airs about Xiang Kun, Tang Baona and Yang Zhener and is very enthusiastic.

"Mr. Xiang, I have heard of your name for a long time and have always wanted to meet you. It's just that my old arms and legs are useless and I haven't traveled far in recent years, so I didn't have the chance to meet you until today. Mr. Xiang is indeed a talented person, with this figure , it seems that he is both civil and military, haha." Zhang Hongpu patted Xiang Kun on the shoulder and back as soon as they met, and praised him half-jokingly.

If it was Xiang Kun before the mutation, he would definitely be very nervous when meeting a big boss of this level, for fear of saying something wrong - of course, if it was him back then, he would definitely not attract such attention from Zhang Hongpu and treat him to a special banquet.

At this time, after seeing Zhang Hongpu, Xiang Kun instinctively analyzed the relevant sensory information, and even subconsciously "scanned" his physical condition.

"The chairman is so complimentary. If I had known that the chairman wanted to see me, I should have paid a visit earlier." Xiang Kun also responded with a "loyal and shy techie smile".

Zhang Hongpu greeted Tang Baona and Yang Zhener again, and mentioned Tang Baona's grandfather, Mr. Feng, and Yang Zhener's father, Yang Keyan. He had met the former in his early years, and although he had never met the latter, a company under the Zhang Group He had business dealings with the pharmaceutical factory where Yang Keyan worked, so he had a reason to bring it up.

Zhang Hongpu acted like a kind elder. After saying hello, the atmosphere became harmonious and natural with a few words. Tang Baona and Yang Zhener, who were originally a little nervous, also relaxed a lot.

After sitting down, while Zhang Hongpu and Zhang Qian were explaining some changes to the dishes at the first meeting, Tang Baona, who was sitting next to Xiang Kun, couldn't help but whisper: "I originally thought Chairman Zhang would be more serious and old-fashioned, but no. It’s easy to think of something to say.”

Indeed, through outside reports on the Zhang Group's consistent behavior, as well as some of the words she occasionally mentioned Zhang Hongpu inadvertently in her past contacts with Zhang Qian, it is easy for people to think that the head of the Zhang Group is not a good person. The elderly people who come into contact with are more strict.

Xiang Kun smiled and whispered back: "Because this is a private occasion, treat us as Zhang Qian's peers."

In fact, through his observation of Zhang Hongpu, Zhang Qian, and the entourage around Zhang Hongpu, it can be judged that this old man is relatively dignified in the eyes of his subordinates and the Zhang family. Zhang Qian, in particular, was obviously more cautious in her words and actions than usual.

What I see now is Zhang Hongpu's warm and gentle side, but the old man must also have a thunderous side.

While saying hello, the old man's smiling eyes were always observing and scrutinizing Xiang Kun. Judging from the comprehensive sensory information analysis, Xiang Kun believed that the old man did not have any established likes and dislikes towards him, and more of them were curious.

And judging from what he mentioned about Tang Baona's grandfather and Yang Zhen'er's father, he already had a basic understanding of the three of them before he came here or even earlier, and he certainly had a good understanding of Xiang Kun's background and experience. clear.

While eating and chatting, Zhang Hongpu did not ask Zhang Qian, Xiang Kun, and Tang Baona about the specifics of their company's operations, business, and products. He did not even mention that the one they had made was already well-known and had a promising future. They just chatted about some family gossip, and occasionally talked about the impact of the development of the Internet and mobile networks on the real economy and traditional business models.

Xiang Kun quickly grasped Zhang Hongpu's true intention from these seemingly unrelated topics and chats.

Normally speaking, even if "Voice Genesis" has a good momentum and will almost certainly have good revenue in the future, compared to the entire Zhang Group, at least it is far from a business worth mentioning now, and it will not attract Zhang Hongpu's attention. .

But from Zhang Hongpu's words, Xiang Kun heard that the old man was worried about the development of Zhang Group's traditional business, and that he planned to slowly shift the focus of development and extend his tentacles to emerging industries such as the Internet. It just so happens that Zhang Qian is making a splash with the game "Voice Genesis". The old man is probably hesitating whether to directly use this as a breakthrough, give Zhang Qian the greatest power and resources, and put the burden on her shoulders. .

The most important partner of Zhang Qian's "Tengjiao Interactive Entertainment" is now "Qiankun Technology", or Xiang Kun. Maybe Zhang Qian had used Xiang Kun to "draw cakes" in front of her grandfather before, which impressed the old man deeply, but the cooperation model between them was very weird, so she wanted to meet Xiang Kun in person now.

After making a rough judgment on Zhang Hongpu's intentions, Xiang Kun was naturally able to "accommodate him" and help Zhang Qian "draw the pie" together, drawing a blueprint for the future era of 5G, intelligent manufacturing, and new interactive entertainment, describing this moment This is the best and last time to enter the market.

As for Zhang Hongpu's test of himself, Xiang Kun's response was very simple, with just one word - "sincerity".

He knows that when people try to obtain information, they will have a tendency and expectation in their hearts. If the information obtained is contrary to this tendency and expectation, then even if it is fact, they will instinctively have doubts in their hearts, which requires a verification process, and If it is highly consistent with their tendencies and expectations, even if the information obtained seems to be nonsense alone, they will have a feeling of "it is true" and they will readily believe it.

Of course, it is difficult for ordinary people to do this perfectly. After all, most people are unable to accurately grasp and describe their own ideas.

And Xiang Kun can grasp Zhang Hongpu's victory reaction mechanism through verbal communication on other topics and real-time feedback on Zhang Hongpu's various body sensory information, constantly make adjustments, and grasp his various subtle emotional changes and physiological changes when he develops certain thinking tendencies. Make subtle changes to push information that conforms to his expectations and tendencies.

Of course, most of what Xiang Kun himself told was the truth, but it was just a packaged truth that was not shown in full.

But in Zhang Hongpu's opinion, it was able to basically answer some of his doubts and establish a basic impression and understanding of Xiang Kun in his mind - a very talented, technically confident and even a little arrogant person. A young man who has vision and mind but not too much ambition, not too much scheming, treats people with sincerity, is low-key and patient, and is low-key and patient.

This kind of "personality" is in line with the rough judgment he established based on the information he obtained through Zhang Qian and other channels. The discrepancy is not big. Therefore, as time goes by and communication increases, Zhang Hongpu naturally believes that he has made this The bald young man had a lot of thoughts.

After dinner was finished, when they moved to a courtyard tea pavilion in the hotel to drink tea, Xiang Kun took advantage of everyone's relaxation and followed one of Zhang Hongpu's topics and said: "In China, what I admire most is 'God' Xing Technology is a company. I really admire their style of making technology. They always work in areas that no one pays much attention to. Various products and inventions like "black technology" often appear, and they are particularly low-key. , that is, focusing on technology and not being exaggerated. I also hope that in the future, 'Qiankun Technology' can become an enterprise like 'Shenxing Technology'."

As soon as these words came out, Xiang Kun immediately noticed Zhang Hongpu's eyebrows frowning slightly, and Zhang Qian immediately looked at her grandfather nervously.

Xiang Kun naturally said these words intentionally. He had heard Yang Zhuo say before that Zhang Qian's grandfather particularly hated "Shenxing Technology". Even the company founded by Zhang Chu was handed over to Zhang Qian by Zhang Hongpu, all because of him. Cooperated with "Shenxing Technology".

According to Alice's investigation, Zhang Hongpu and Lu Cheng'an were similar in age and had had many contacts and even cooperation in their early years. They might know some information that was not recorded in the previous secret documents and could help him answer some questions. You know, sometimes some information is just ordinary information that cannot be seen by people who are not aware of it, but people who know the inside story can use it to judge a lot of things.

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