What It’s Like Being a Vampire

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Mr. Liang was a little surprised when he suddenly heard Xiang Kun say this question, but he had actually thought about this question before and after meeting Xiang Kun.

He knows very well that the key to this issue is not the "ultimate predator" itself, but whether there is an "ultimate predator", the status of many "blood-eating creatures" in the world, and human society's attitude toward "blood-eating creatures" "Attitude and method issues.

Although the "ultimate predator" is a huge guillotine hanging over the heads of all living things, which limits human society's research on "blood-eating creatures" and the evolutionary upper limit of "blood-eating creatures", in a sense, it is also It is because of the existence of the "ultimate predator" that the order of human society has not been disrupted by a small number of "blood-eating creatures".

Once the "ultimate predator" is gone, whether it is a variety of "blood-eating creatures" or human institutions that have been threatened, they may have a strong impact on the existing ecological and social order.

Mr. Liang asked, "Do you... have a way to know the locations of all the 'blood-eating creatures'?"

After following Xiang Kun on his "hunting trip", Mr. Liang has been curious about how Xiang Kun knows the exact location of those "blood-eating creatures" lurking around the world, including camouflaged lion cubs on the African grasslands. , there are underground creatures in remote mountainous areas of Australia, and even large aquatic "blood-eating creatures" in the deep sea. It seems that the eyes and ears are all over the world and are everywhere.

He knew very well that the reason why Xiang Kun took him to hunt those "blood-eating creatures" was not because Xiang Kun only knew the locations of those "blood-eating creatures". You must know that these "blood-eating creatures" are all sorted according to their staged blood-drinking transformation needs, and not just any one will do. In other words, Xiang Kun most likely knew the status and location of all the "blood-eating creatures" in those areas and selected them.

"Shenxing Technology" has so many years of accumulation, the help of official organizations behind it, so much resource investment, and so many professionals and professional equipment serving it, even in those with the strongest "monitoring" capabilities. In China, it is far from possible to know the location of all "blood-eating creatures", let alone the degree of their staged transformation.

As for abroad? As for the sea? That's even more overwhelming.

But Xiang Kun had calculated everything. From the beginning of the mutation to now, it was only a little more than a year, so how did he do it?

"We can't say 'all' yet, but it will indeed be possible in the future." Xiang Kun looked at the small piece of moss that slowly squirmed in the palm of his hand, as if coquettishly, and said, "Depend on them."

Mr. Liang looked at the piece of moss and said,

Thinking of the various animal-like plants that were controlled by Xiang Kun that I had seen in the mountains before, and the balls that were controlled by Xiang Kun to fly freely, the little girl who was so elusive and had no trace of her existence suddenly suddenly thought An idea came up:

Can Xiang Kun inspire plants or other items and give them "souls"?

If it were Mr. Liang before, he would definitely not have such an idea without theoretical or experimental support, but during the time he was with Xiang Kun, his theoretical system had collapsed long ago.

However, after this idea came to him, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have established an inexplicable and very subtle relationship with the slowly spreading moss on the ground and the tens of thousands of tungsten steel balls of various colors around him. contact.

He murmured: "If you can know the location and status of all 'blood-eating creatures', then you can 'monitor' them and even manage them. I understand, what you mean is, if we solve the 'ultimate hunter' Eater, will you replace the 'Ultimate Predator' and establish a new order and new rules for 'blood-eating creatures'?"

Xiang Kun said: "When our plan succeeds and when the 'Ultimate Predator' loses its ability to dominate other creatures, the world will definitely change dramatically. Since I have that ability, I have the responsibility to decide the fate of that new world." The way it works. I opened Pandora's box, and I'm responsible for closing it...or should I say, us."

"You should know where I stand."

"certainly."

"All human organizations are letting go of research on 'blood-eating creatures' and 'high-dimensional factors' at the same time. I'm worried that it will cause chaos."

"Even if there is no 'Ultimate Predator', I can still decide who can study 'blood-eating creatures' and who cannot. Even if the research on 'blood-eating creatures' is opened, I can guarantee that the research field and progress will be Under my control."

Xiang Kun said this so decisively and confidently that Mr. Liang was stunned.

Judging from the wording and tone of Xiang Kun's words, he seems to be very sure that he has more control over human research on "blood-eating creatures" than the "ultimate predator".

After getting along with each other for this period of time, Mr. Liang also roughly understood some of Xiang Kun’s acting style:

Xiang Kun rarely exaggerates his descriptions, and basically does what he says.

Therefore, Mr. Liang did not doubt Xiang Kun's words, but he was very curious in his heart. Those strange-shaped plants scattered all over the place, those small steel balls, and the elusive and seemingly real little girl. Not only could he find the "blood-eating creatures" Location, can we also determine what the humans on this planet are doing?

Can he truly monitor all sentient beings?

But Mr. Liang also knew that if Xiang Kun planned to say something, he would tell it without asking. If he didn't intend to say something, he would not get a definite answer if he asked.

So he changed the question: "What should we do if the 'blood-eating creatures' drink blood and fight with each other? You know, 'blood-eating creatures' have their own stage limits. At that time, it is a matter of life and death. Under the impulse of bloodthirsty, anything can be done, is there really a way to control it?"

Xiang Kun smiled, slightly tossed the small piece of moss on his hand, and said, "That's why I came here to do the experiment this time. So far, the experiment has been successful."

He did not sell it off, but continued: "For example, the high-dimensional factor in our body is the workers of the construction team. It exists widely in various living things. However, when the workers exist independently, it will not have any obvious effect. Sexual influence, only under special circumstances, a 'foreman' appears in a certain biological unit. It raises its arms and pulls up a construction team, so the workers begin to work in an organized manner in this biological unit.

“Projects continue to expand and developments continue to deepen, they require more manpower, more building materials, and their scale is getting larger and larger, but within an isolated biological unit... no matter how complex, development can be established Projects are ultimately limited. And when biological units cannot provide them with the conditions to expand their teams and establish larger development projects, they will still continue construction until the entire biological unit collapses. This is what I understand by high-dimensional factor construction and Evolutionary system, the stage limit as I understand it.

"But in fact, the development projects of the 'construction team' do not have to be limited to the 'biological unit' where they were born. It allows them to have a wider world to develop and give them room to build more ambitious projects. And they The completed project also belongs to the original 'biological unit' and can have wider and richer applications.

"The little carrot is the 'development space' I provide to the 'biological units', or in other words, it is the bridge that allows them to access a wider world. Under this system, the 'blood-eating creatures' can have conditions for coexistence. , will no longer be bound by stage limits, and do not need to devour each other to improve their capabilities."

Mr. Liang was dumbfounded by Xiang Kun's words. What a "construction team", what a "development project", what a "development space", what workers, bridges, these are really talking about "blood-eating creatures" , is it the same thing as "high-dimensional factor theory"?

But after listening to it, Mr. Liang really understood what Xiang Kun meant.

"That 'blood-eating creature' just now... entered the development space?"

"No, it has become a 'building material'." Xiang Kun said with a smile, "But it helped me prove that the operation system I designed for Little Carrot works. As for the 'biological units' 'developed' on it, No actual proof needed, I already knew it worked.”

In fact, Xiang Kun had already borrowed "Little Carrot" and "Supersensory Object System" to help Jiang Chun pass a stage limit.

Previously, Xiang Kun discovered that "Little Carrot", a "semi-mutated creature", has characteristics that are very different from ordinary "mutated creatures". It does not have a fixed blood-drinking period. When it needs to expand its territory and add "child plants" "Only when it needs to absorb "nutrients" directly from the surroundings, the method is similar to other "mutated plants" devouring plants, but it does not have a dormant period for transformation and mutation, and the transformation results can be directly applied to "child plants" "superior.

In addition, "Little Carrot" does not have a stage limit. A large part of its "mutated creature" characteristics come from the ability given by the "super-sensory item system".

It was the observation of "little radish" that gave Xiang Kun the inspiration to help other "mutated creatures" overcome their stage limits, and even assist in adjusting the blood-drinking cycle and blood-drinking method.

The real vast space where high-dimensional factors can be exerted is actually the "super-sensory object system", which is a "vast space" based on the combination of "super-connected objects" and "emotional objects" based on his abilities. space".

But that "space" cannot be borrowed by just anyone, even with Xiang Kun's permission and approval. It requires their own "understanding" and they need to find the most suitable "interface" by themselves.

The "little carrot" is the "interface" that is easier to "connect".

On the one hand, "Little Carrot" was transformed under Xiang Kun's active influence, possessing some of the characteristics of "mutated creatures", and has been deeply bound and integrated with the "super-sensory item system". It should be said that it is second only to itself. Alice "lives" on the "super-sensory object system".

On the other hand, compared with the illusory "super-sensory object system", "little carrot" is an entity that can be touched and felt. This is for those who have not been able to establish a special connection and form a "super-connected object" in a short time. For a set of "mutated organisms" that are connected to the system, it is a "platform" that can quickly access certain system functions and serve as a link between the past and the next.

As for the current experiment, this process of letting "Little Carrot" decompose a "mutated organism" and use it to nourish itself also allowed Xiang Kun to confirm that "Little Carrot"'s absorption and control of high-dimensional factors is different from that of ordinary "mutated organisms". “There’s something fundamentally different about Devouring.

The fungus part of the "mutated organism" directly dissipates and disintegrates, and the moss part becomes a "functional module" that is absorbed and accepted. In the future, if someone establishes a relatively deep and systematic connection with the "little carrot", they happen to have similar abilities. , that "functional module" can be decomposed, developed and completely transformed.

Or, if Xiang Kun is interested, he can directly deconstruct and apply it, or he can let Alice do it.

Of course, if you want to use this "platform", you must at least establish a connection with the secondary emotional network. Currently, there are only two "mutated organisms" that meet this premise:

Mr. Jiang Chunheliang.

It is precisely for this reason that Xiang Kun wants to take Mr. Liang on this trip to do this experiment together, show him these phenomena, give him so many explanations, and let him have a rough understanding of the existence of this system.

Although there are still many things that have not been explained clearly, and there is not even a very specific explanation of what kind of existence "Little Carrot" is, Xiang Kun judges based on past experience that it is enough to know this level of analysis, which can make good people Mr. Liang has "room to express his ideas", otherwise, firstly, Mr. Liang will not be able to fully understand it, and secondly, his imagination and system construction space will be limited.

After spending this time together, Mr. Liang also vaguely understood what Xiang Kun meant. Many of Xiang Kun's abilities seem to be "can only understand the ineffable", but he has been embedded in this system, and Xiang Kun is letting him find his own way to understand the system.

Without asking about the specific operation of that system, Mr. Liang instead asked: "Since your ability to create eight-armed and eight-eyed fearful illusions can be used on a large scale, then put it on the entire city, the entire country, and even ...Can the entire planet help us better 'govern' the world in the future?"

Judging from his personal experience and his previous investigations into related phenomena, this "eight-armed and eight-eyed fear illusion" can indeed help people understand themselves more clearly, and can even punish criminals to a certain extent and make people move towards the world. good. According to his understanding, if everyone can "see" this "eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion", then ordinary people can be in awe and will not do wrong things because of temporary desires or selfishness. It is also able to reflect better, which is an "artifact" that makes the entire human society more orderly.

Hearing this, Xiang Kun laughed. He thought of a slogan that Alice and Little Bell had chanted in their dreams a long time ago:

"Barbie warrior, ambassador of justice!

Fight crime and protect the planet!

Eight eyes, big and bright!

Eight arms, invincible!

Barbie arrives, world peace! "

In the dream, Alice and Little Fat Girl debated the last two slogans for a long time. Alice thought "Invincible" sounded better, but Little Fat Girl thought that she had never learned the word "Military" and it was not impressive. Alice thinks "love and peace" is more resonant than "world peace". Little Fat Girl thinks "world" is bigger than "love", so just having "world" is enough.

Of course, in the end it was the little fat girl who won the debate.

From then on, Alice always liked to say "We are invincible".