What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Time has entered November 2020, the lunar calendar has just begun winter, but strange weather is frequently occurring around the world.

Rare high-temperature weather has occurred in many places. The average temperature is several degrees higher than the average temperature for the same period in previous years. It is so hot that it is difficult to tell whether it is summer or winter.

In some places, abnormal weather such as tornadoes, super thunderstorms, hail, etc. have even occurred. Various out-of-season and out-of-regular severe weather occur frequently. Fortunately, most of the areas where they occur are vast and sparsely populated.

But even in densely populated areas on all continents, various anomalies, such as persistent high temperatures and dry weather, cause frequent fires.

Originally, due to the warm winter caused by the El Niño phenomenon last year, many people are speculating that this year there may be an anti-El Niño or La Niña phenomenon, resulting in a cold winter that is rare in recent years.

But I never expected that this year would end up being hotter than last year.

Of course, there are various opinions on the Internet, saying that it is not really cold yet, and it is normal to have occasional high temperatures.

However, as time went by, and by late November, more and more weird weather appeared all over the world, and densely populated cities began to be "attacked". Some cities were even directly hit by large-scale thunderstorms, and many electronics Equipment is affected or damaged. Moreover, these violent severe convective weather phenomena have not received early warning from the meteorological department. It is as if the weather forecasting technology that humans have developed over the years has suddenly failed.

But in fact, several major powers have obtained some special information through satellite remote sensing technology and know that the source of recent abnormal global climate changes lies in Antarctica.

Starting from mid-October, the temperature in some areas of Antarctica began to rise sharply and the glaciers melted at an accelerated rate. Scientific expedition teams and other relevant personnel from various countries in Antarctica were just about to investigate the situation to see what caused the abnormal phenomenon, but they received Orders from their respective agencies required immediate evacuation.

Of course, not everyone was willing to leave at the beginning. Many people wanted to explore the situation first and at least understand what caused the large-scale temperature increase in Antarctica. However, a series of strange phenomena followed. and danger, but let everyone know that if they don't leave, let alone investigating the reasons for the rising temperature, it will be difficult to leave alive.

What happened in Antarctica was not only the abnormal increase in temperature, but also various anomalies. When the Antarctic scientific expedition personnel were withdrawn from the scientific research station, a large number of black, seemingly mineral and plant-like substances appeared. Objects that can grow and exchange material and energy with the surroundings appear, like a layer of vegetation, constantly spreading on the Antarctic continent.

But the strange thing is that after they appeared, the temperature in Antarctica stopped rising. Instead, it dropped rapidly at the same abnormal speed, even lower than the temperature line before the warming.

As those black objects encroached on an ever larger area, related images and photos quickly circulated on the Internet. Some strange thermal images taken by satellites were used by TV programs and Internet self-media celebrities. explain.

So gradually, more and more "world-destruction" remarks appeared on the Internet, various gods, various legends, various reasons for the destruction of the world, and even aliens launching attacks. , the arguments that ancient beasts are about to awaken are endless and dizzying.

In fact, similar remarks have appeared on the Internet since a period of time in early October when the entire Eastern Hemisphere suddenly experienced an abnormal sudden drop in temperature at the same time.

However, because the impact of the abnormal weather at that time was relatively small and did not last long, similar "annihilation" and "doomsday" remarks did not cause any splash. They quickly disappeared from the Internet and attracted little attention.

Of course, in fact, in secret, Alice did some tricks to deliberately reduce the chance that these remarks would be searched and appear on various social media platforms, and interfered with the Internet equipment and operating systems of some people with ulterior motives, allowing them to Relevant information cannot be released in a short period of time, so the spread and impact of that information can be quickly prevented.

But now, because the weather has changed so strangely and violently, there are situations in Antarctica that cannot be explained by common sense. All kinds of information are emerging one after another, various media platforms have followed up with reports, and various experts have come out to refute rumors and provide answers. There are too many.

After seeing this information, everyone will have some similar thoughts in their mind. After all, there were too many movies like "2012" and "The Day After Tomorrow" in the early years. No matter what kind of knowledge background or cognitive system, There will be more or less assumptions, speculations, fears and worries about the end of the world.

If Xiang Kun had asked Alice to use technical means to interfere and mislead from the data level before someone spread the Antarctic phenomenon, the images or video information of the expanding black matter, and banned these "heavy news" from the source "It will be much easier to spread.

But Xiang Kun didn't do that.

At this point, unless Alice directly cuts off the global network and various media, prohibits the dissemination of all information, or conducts large-scale and large-scale falsification, and uses falsified information to guide public opinion and public attention, will this be possible? A wave of global panic suppressed.

Naturally, Xiang Kun didn't do this.

Because his original operation was to start directly from the true source - the vision itself.

Don't look at the endless occurrence of various abnormal weather and drastic changes in temperature, which makes people feel that the end of the world is approaching.

In fact, as early as mid-October, these changes were already taking place violently, but at that time Xiang Kun and Alice had been conducting research through the "Hyperconnected Object Matrix" that had been deployed and associated in various human settlements around the world. Reverse influence, limiting abnormal changes in climate and minimizing the impact.

If we can significantly reduce the impact and duration of abnormal weather changes as we did in early October, we can naturally reduce people's panic and attention, and then limit the scope of the solution to the Antarctic, and it will be much more convenient to block the news. .

But in the end, Xiang Kun's restrictions failed. The climate anomaly was destined to intensify, and the panic caused by such radical weather changes was almost unavoidable. It could not be blocked by restricting Antarctic anomalies alone.

So Xiang Kun changed his strategy, from blocking to sparing.

…

Xiang Kun knows why the global weather has undergone such drastic and abnormal changes.

The root of everything lies in Antarctica, or to be precise, in the "ultimate predator" that is about to re-condensate its body on the Antarctic continent.

Xiang Kun's previous plan was very successful. By allowing Mr. Liang to meet the blood source requirements of the "Ultimate Predator" in a short period of time, he was able to draw him out. While undergoing devouring and staged mutation, he used "dreams" to his main consciousness. Format it, then analyze and build its consciousness model, allowing Alice to reversely destroy and influence its function of controlling specific factors in other organisms, essentially "paralyzing" it.

Originally, according to Xiang Kun and Alice's deduction, the most likely situation is:

The "Ultimate Predator" was successfully calculated by them and lost control of the specific factors in other organisms. However, it is better to die than to live. Judging from the past behavior of the "Ultimate Predator", it will have some "fearless" abilities. "Struggle", but it will not have any impact. It will survive until Xiang Kun's "hyperconnected matrix" truly spreads to every corner of the world, completely surrounding it and completely eliminating the threat.

However, after the plan was successfully implemented, a small probability situation occurred:

In the process of being "paralyzed", the stability of the high-dimensional factors of the "Ultimate Predator" itself was greatly affected. It was already at the stage limit, and it was directly forced to the critical point and could no longer pass the " "Break it all into pieces" and enter a state of suspended animation to avoid extreme collapse, so I wanted to kill the fish and break the net, and took the final blow.

It may be that this state of being on the verge of disintegration caused the consciousness of the "Ultimate Predator" to enter a manic and bloodthirsty mode, rejecting the "gleam of life" that Xiang Kun left for it through the little carrot, and did not choose to connect to the little carrot. The "Hyperconnected Things Platform" will eliminate its stage boundaries, but choose to condense itself through all the "high-dimensional factors" distributed in a large number of living things around the world.

After being calculated by Xiang Kun and Alice, the "Ultimate Predator" cannot activate the special factors in the bodies of other organisms to influence and control them, but the characteristics of the special factors are through the "high-dimensional factors" of the "Ultimate Predator". Realization, "high-dimensional factors" and consciousness are connected, regardless of spatial distance, which is why the connection established by the "ultimate predator" and its specific factors in other organisms still exists.

When the threat of staged disintegration came, the "Ultimate Predator" chose to establish its physical presence in the Antarctic continent, one of the "vacuums" dropped by Xiang Kun's "hyperconnected matrix".

Yes, the "break it into parts" method was "paralyzed" by Xiang Kun. The "Ultimate Predator" decided to make a bold move and directly use a comprehensive construction entity to fight decisively, or in other words, to try to die together.

It has no way to actively control the specific factors in other organisms, but it can drive all "high-dimensional factors" through the connection of "high-dimensional factors", its own stress state about to disintegrate, and the "instinct" of "mutated organisms". "Factor" returns, undergoes morphological changes in the non-blood-drinking mutation and non-transformation stages, and directly establishes a larger, more powerful, and materialized ontological existence.

If we use an analogy, then Xiang Kun lost the ability to control his "body" before. He only had the perception of the body, and his brain was still able to think, and his consciousness was still awake. Now, it directly activates its "passive ability", discards the original body, and then directly lets the brain "grow" hands, feet or other limbs again, creating a new entity.

In fact, Xiang Kun does nothing. The "Ultimate Predator" will disintegrate and dissipate itself soon after the entity is condensed. The reason why it can stimulate the instinct of high-dimensional factors and let them help it condense the entity again is that it Chosen to perish.

Just like a company decides to close down and go bankrupt, after the news is released, the construction teams outside will naturally rush back to pay their wages and then disband.

The purpose of gathering is to disperse completely.

But the problem is that the process itself of "condensing" entities is already a catastrophe for the entire world.

Not only will massive energy exchanges occur, but the scope of influence of high-dimensional factors is the entire world and countless biological communities.

It's like a huge mountain of books made up of huge volumes of books, layered on top of each other, well arranged, perfectly arranged, and very stable.

There is a bookmark in every book. Taking out one, a few, or even hundreds of bookmarks individually will not have much impact. But if the bookmarks in all the books are to be pulled out at the same time through the connecting thin wires, then even if the entire book mountain will not collapse, it will be greatly affected. It may be twisted, skewed or even partially dislocated and scattered.

"Ultimate Predator" is now bookmarking all the books, all at the same time.

Xiang Kun's "super-connected object matrix" and "super-sensory object system" are some of the bookends or layers in the book mountain. They can be moved to correct the effect of bookmark twitching, so that the book mountain can be moved when all the bookmarks are drawn. , keep it as original as possible.

Therefore, it is not that the "ultimate predator" or Xiang Kun can now disturb global climate change and control the weather in every place in the world through high-dimensional factors. This huge natural system, whether Xiang Kun or "the ultimate predator" ”, there is no way to precisely control and influence it. All of these are "side effects" of the condensed body of the "Ultimate Predator", and Xiang Kun only makes a small difference.

Unfortunately, the chain reaction caused by the bookmarks was too great. The bookends and shelves arranged by Xiang Kun were not enough, and the error correction ability was insufficient. Therefore, when the impact became more and more serious, he had no choice but to give up.

After Xiang Kun gave up the reverse influence and corrected the weather, as the "Ultimate Predator"'s body condensation process in Antarctica progresses, various apocalyptic weather phenomena will appear frequently around the world, and there will even be even weirder ones. situation occurs.

This process will be scary, but according to Xiang Kun and Alice's deduction based on the changes in the supersensory information, the impact can still be recovered. What's more, through his reverse influence, he has allowed people around the world to experience "mild" abnormal weather. With early warning and preparation, the losses will be smaller.

The most critical thing is what to do after the "Ultimate Predator" body is completely formed.

Although it is a low-probability situation, when formulating a plan to deal with the "ultimate predator", Xiang Kun and Alice have plans to deal with it.

For Xiang Kun personally, the most conservative and safest way to deal with it is to wait for the "ultimate predator" to collapse and perish on its own - after it appears as an entity in this way, it will disintegrate in a very short time, and the high-dimensional factors Dissipate, dust to dust, dust to dust.

But the problem is that after the "ultimate predator" is completely condensed and formed, it will definitely not be willing to just dissipate. It will definitely do something before dissipating, whether it is further invading the ocean, trying to reach other continents, and causing huge damage before disappearing. , or directly through its influence in Antarctica, stirring up the global climate, melting glaciers, and raising sea levels, all of which will bring devastating disasters.

Under this situation, Xiang Kun really couldn't be alone and wait for the "Ultimate Predator" to collapse. He had to take action to kill the "Ultimate Predator" before it had just condensed into shape and caused huge damage and devastating disasters. It dries out completely.

Xiang Kun had a premonition of this situation in mid-October, when the "Ultimate Predator" had just begun to condense its body, so when he met Lao He in Tongshi Town, he told him about this meeting. There is a "big scene that attracts global attention".

With the current level of science and technology of mankind, there is still no way to deal with the "Ultimate Predator". Even if several major powers take action together and throw nuclear bombs into the Antarctic regardless of the consequences, the huge thing condensed by the "Ultimate Predator" can be blown into pieces. Ash, but there is no way to really eliminate it, it will continue to condense soon, and it may even form corresponding material properties due to being attacked by nuclear bombs or other thermal weapons, making it even more harmful.

It's not that human weapons are not powerful enough or lethal enough, but that they are in the wrong direction.

Just like using your fist to hit the water, cutting the water with a knife, or hitting the water with a hammer, it is useless no matter how hard you use it. The water will be splashed, but essentially no harm will be done.

In the final analysis, human society has too little understanding of the existence form of the "ultimate predator" and the characteristics of high-dimensional factors. Even Mr. Liang now does not have any effective method to deal with the "ultimate predator".

In this world, the only one who can stop the "ultimate predator" is still Xiang Kun.

For Xiang Kun, the real difficulty is not to eliminate the "Ultimate Predator" or win the battle in Antarctica. What is difficult is to completely kill the "Ultimate Predator" and let its consciousness completely dissipate, and then how to control and take over its existence. A huge amount of high-dimensional factors.

Comparing according to the normal transformation stages, the "Ultimate Predator" is a super giant glacier on the sea, and Xiang Kun is a small boat. Not counting underwater, the volume of the glacier exposed on the water alone is countless times larger than the small boat. . Although the boat can easily smash the glacier, but in terms of size, there is indeed a huge difference.

Not to mention Xiang Kun, even Mr. Liang, whose staged transformation has improved rapidly in the past few months, meets the blood source requirements of the "Ultimate Predator", but he has not reached the level that can devour the "Ultimate Predator". The gap between them is too big.

If we compare high-dimensional factors to construction team workers, Xiang Kun's construction team only has twenty people. It has various high-tech equipment, automated management and operations, and AI assistance. It can do the work of several traditional large construction teams, and continuously Developing new technologies and applying new equipment.

But now, he suddenly has to organize a construction team of tens of thousands of people and let his own workers train and take over. Twenty people versus tens of thousands of people is extremely difficult as you can imagine. If it's a team versus a team, his construction team of more than 20 people has enough equipment, and there are many ways to win whether it's a civil fight or a physical fight. But it is much more difficult to integrate the other party's skilled workers into the team.

This is why for Xiang Kun, the best way to deal with the "Ultimate Predator" is to let it disintegrate on its own.

As for the huge amount of high-dimensional factors it has accumulated, it will dissipate if it dissipates. For Xiang Kun, there is no problem of wasting it.

His "construction team" has long been different from other "mutated creatures". It no longer relies on stacking heads and numbers to increase productivity. The dimension of development is no longer the same.

And if Xiang Kun goes to deal with the "Ultimate Predator" and kills it with his own hands, then according to the characteristics of the high-dimensional factors, he will definitely belong to him and be connected with his consciousness and his original high-dimensional factors. This is inevitable.

Although the decision has been made to deal with the "ultimate predator", Xiang Kun can only wait now.

When it is completely formed, the regression characteristics of high-dimensional factors will be fully exerted.

It's not that Xiang Kun is too talkative about "martial ethics" and is unwilling to interrupt the process of forming the "Ultimate Predator", but that this process cannot be interrupted at all. This is the self-characteristic of high-dimensional factors.

No matter what he does at this time, no matter how he messes with the parts of the "Ultimate Predator" that have been born in Antarctica, it will not affect its final shape. It will just expose himself and attract unnecessary attention.

…

In mid-December, various weather phenomena became more violent and frequent, and the huge black monster in Antarctica slowly took shape. It was hard to tell what it was, but judging from its movements, it seemed to be a conscious life form. It caused even greater panic.

All continents, countries, and regions around the world have been hit by abnormal weather, whether it is in the inaccessible wilderness or densely populated cities, whether it is land or ocean, mountains or plains, there are no exceptions.

Super thunderstorms, hail, and heavy rain have become commonplace, and people are slowly getting used to them in fear.

Twist City.

Ye Zijun and her shooting assistant Xiao Ding were walking on the streets, shooting material for making a video program.

The two of them were severely frightened due to their special encounter in Australia, and because they cooperated with the Australian police investigation, they also stayed for a long time. Fortunately, with the help of some friends, it was proved that the boy's death had nothing to do with them. They were victims and were able to return home smoothly.

In fact, the two of them also discovered that the Australian officials did not seem to want to investigate in depth what happened in the abandoned underground passage, and they kept secret the real cause of the boy's death.

Originally, after this incident, the two of them wanted to take a break in China, edit the filming materials, and complete the first half of post-production.

However, in early October, the temperature in the entire Eastern Hemisphere experienced a short-term abnormal decrease at the same time. In mid-October, various abnormal weather phenomena occurred around the world, and Western media began to make various violent comments against China.

Statements such as that China has too many cars and exhaust emissions, that China has too many factories that pollute too much, and that it needs to be responsible for global weather anomalies, completely ignore the factual evidence and directly double standards. Even outrageous comments such as "To protect the earth, Chinese people should eat less meat" have appeared.

Ye Zijun and Xiaoding couldn't get angry, so they thought of a topic and planned to shoot some materials on site and make a video program to slap them in the face with Western logic.

As soon as the topic was submitted to the media platform where Zhao Feng connected them, it was immediately approved. Then the funding for the interview was approved, and they set off across the Pacific Ocean.

But what they didn't expect was that not long after they arrived in a foreign country, the monster in Antarctica was discovered, and then all the media and all the people's attention was focused on it.

Due to all kinds of unpredictable bad weather, especially super thunderstorms and lightning storms raging at sea, most transoceanic flights have been suspended, and the two of them were temporarily trapped.

However, this also allowed them to record various video materials during this special period, almost becoming expatriate reporters for that media platform.

Today, they still went to the streets to shoot videos as usual. They contacted a few international student friends who were twisting their waists and prepared to do a program to talk about everyone's different psychological and living conditions under the current situation.

Originally, it was approaching Christmas, so the streets should be lively and crowded, but the strange and fierce weather caused everyone to stay outside as little as possible, and there were even fewer cars.

After shooting a piece of street scene material, Ye Zijun and Xiao Ding packed up their shooting equipment and were about to move to the agreed-upon coffee shop when a clear bell suddenly rang in the sky.

Then another.

Another sound.

Everyone was stunned and looked up at the sky. The sky where the sun could be seen just now was now covered with clouds. People have become accustomed to this weird weather change during this period, but the sound of the bell is disturbing.

The bells still kept ringing at a fixed rhythm, as if coming directly from the sky or from the clouds, spreading indiscriminately to everyone's location. It was grand and majestic, and inexplicably made people feel a sense of urgency, and a feeling rose in their hearts. The fear of being judged.