What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 618: Chapter 618: Creator Coin

Liu Shiling, holding Old Xia’s hand, looked at the retreating figure, feeling a bit baffled.

She couldn’t quite comprehend the man’s words, but she heard Uncle Bald’s name, and Old Xia’s attitude made her realize something.

“Roast Chicken Wing Sister, is he one of us?” Liu Shiling asked softly.

“He is one of us.” Xia Libing confirmed.

The consciousness of the “Ultimate Predator” was essentially held by Mr. Liang’s consciousness and dragged into the dreamland, so seeing Mr. Liang’s projected consciousness in the dream was natural.

But seeing Mr. Liang’s projected consciousness essentially meant that the “Ultimate Predator’s” projected consciousness, and the expression of the dream, had approached the boundary.

Xia Libing patted Liu Shiling’s head and said, “I’m going to find Sister Xiao Pingguo now. You go back by yourself, stroll through the dream a few more times, and if you see anything not belonging to your dream, mark it in your mind. There’s no need to deal with it. Your pretty sister’s song will keep playing and won’t stop. If something urgent comes up and you need to find me, call my name, and I will return.”

Liu Shiling nodded earnestly and slightly raised her chopstick magic wand, “Don’t worry, Roast Chicken Wing Sister. This is my dream. I am the strongest.”

Hearing this sentence, almost identical to what Yang Lao San had said, Xia Libing gave a little nod and gently pinched her cheek.

…

After leaving Little Fatty Girl’s dream, Xia Libing located Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland via Alice and “Emotion Infused Objects”.

Xia Libing had never used the “Dream in A Dream” ability to enter Xiao Pingguo’s dream before, firstly because there was no need, and secondly because Xiao Pingguo’s sensory information makeup was somewhat different from ordinary people. Her dream expression might not be compatible with ordinary people.

That is to say, even if she entered the dream, Xia Libing might not be able to understand the information in the dream, and her influence on the dream might be misinterpreted by Xiao Pingguo.

However, this time it’s different because in addition to Xiang Kun, Mr. Liang and the consciousness of the “Ultimate Predator” were instigating the dream. The process itself was converting the special sensory expression information into sensory expression information that humans could perceive commonly. With the “translator” Alice helping, it would be much easier for Xia Libing’s “Dream in A Dream” consciousness to enter.

To Xia Libing’s surprise, upon entering Xiao Pingguo’s dream, it wasn’t pitch-black nor was she immersed in nothingness. Various geometric bodies were composed of white and grey lines all around her. However, when she “looked” at them, she found they were not white or grey but seemingly made up of constantly changing shades of light and darkness.

Despite not being able to recognize what the various geometrical figures represented, Xia Libing was not in a hurry. She observed the surroundings slowly while listening to the sounds by her side.

There were music and the melodious singing of Tang Baona rendering the background. Besides these sounds, there were also some sporadic sounds, including footsteps.

Looking back following the sound of footsteps, Xia Libing saw a figure approaching quickly and grabbing her arm. The figure moved so fast that she had no time to dodge, “Bing Sister! It’s me!”

It was Xiao Pingguo’s voice.

Xia Libing touched Xiao Pingguo’s shoulder, arm, head, and pinched her cheek. Visually, Xiao Pingguo looked vastly different in the dream than in reality, not even appearing human. But by touch, she was the same as in reality.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

“Bing Sister, there are some weird things in my dream. I have put them aside. Some are sounds, some are smells, and some are… I don’t even know what they are. Anyway, they don’t belong to my dream. I have packed them all together,” Xiao Pingguo explained.

Obviously, Xiao Pingguo had been “awaked” by Tang Baona’s cross-dream BGM before Xia Libing’s arrival, and smartly and nimbly “cleaned up” her dream.

Despite being in the same dreaming state, this being her first time “waking up” in a dream, Xiao Pingguo had a much better understanding and control of her dream compared to an ordinary person — there was a domineering sense of control in her. Of course, this could be attributed to her unique dream structure, dream system, and sensory information makeup.

Sister Xiao Pingguo began to describe the unique aspects of the dreamscapes she had “packaged” together to Old Xia. Her thoughts were well-organized and articulate.

Old Xia knew that Xiao Pingguo may not have identified all the dream expressions of the “Ultimate Predator”, but her approach to organising the dreams was highly effective. As long as she continued this thought process in her exploration and organization of the dreams, Alice and Xiang Kun would be able to progressively uncover the consciousness of the “Ultimate Predator”, as they were fundamental constituents of the dreams.

In summary, the presence of Xia Libing made little difference to Xiao Pingguo’s side, and could not provide any substantial help.

However, Xia Libing did not immediately move on to other dreams, because she could feel that even though she couldn’t practically help Xiao Pingguo, she could provide substantial emotional support.

So, after spending a long time in Xiao Pingguo’s dream, she returned to her own dream, then visited Tang Baona’s dream, followed by Yang Lao San and Little Fatty Girl. Then back to Xiao Pingguo’s, in this way patrolling through various dreams, providing them with necessary help and guidance.

After a few rounds of visits, Little Fatty Girl had grown more accustomed and focused. In the ever-changing, but increasingly familiar scenes, she identified more and more “suspicious points” that did not match her dreams, and even seemed to enjoy the process and couldn’t stop playing.

As for Sister Xiao Pingguo, she’s inherently adept at this dream “bug hunting” “game”, handling everything with ease.

Nana, serving as the BGM provider and music broadcaster for other dreams, was also pretty good at controlling the dreams once she got the hang of it. She was now wearing a beautiful performance outfit, standing before a stage with dazzling lighting and gorgeous special effects, singing in front of tens of thousands of spectators. The large, complete band on both sides of the stage, each member of which sported a shiny bald head, looked extremely professional…

The only person who kept Xia Libing staying and spending more time was her cousin, Yang Zhen’er’s dream.

Most of the signs of the “Ultimate Predator” appeared in Little Fatty Girl’s dream, but because Mr. Liang had many dream projections in the same dream, the signs of the “Ultimate Predator” were basically boxed in and not too complicated. To Little Fatty Girl, it was similar to the real-life game of “spot the difference”.

However, in Yang Zhen’er’s dream, the expressions of the “Ultimate Predator” were strange. For example, a gap suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, causing Yang Lao San to fall into another space; the world suddenly turned upside down, with the ground reaching the sky and gravity reversing; the engine hood of a car beside the road suddenly lifted, transforming into a mouth full of sharp teeth; all the colors of surrounding items disappeared, and the whole world turned into a grey white; the ground became like tree bark, and the outer walls of nearby high-rise buildings seemed like human skin, or the whole space turned from a city into the interior of a biological body…

Although in the dream, Yang Zhen’er’s combat power was strong, especially with the accompaniment of Nana’s BGM. She imagined herself as a “Silver Armor Fairy”, wielding a great sword to make a way, but every time these strange phenomenons occurred, she would still make a fuss, swinging her sword recklessly while crying “Old Xia save me!””

Only when Xia Libing was also participating in the dream did Yang Zhen’er’s emotions become slightly calm. Even if sudden changes in illusions scared her, she was able to subdue her panic and fear, maintaining a calm demeanor, and swung her great sword to break the illusions, restoring the environment to its original state.

So basically, out of each round of dream visits, Xia Libing would spend half of her time in Yang Zhen’er’s dream.

…

Xiang Kun opened his eyes, it was still the middle of the night, completely dark around him, and a thick layer of clouds blocked the moonlight and starlight.

The darkness could not hinder Xiang Kun’s vision, he was able to clearly see the scene in front of him under various visual modes.

Not far away, in front of a big tree that required three people to encircle, Mr. Liang still remained in invisibility status, seemingly unchanged.

But Xiang Kun knew that the plan had already succeeded.

He extended his right hand, there was nothing on it.

Seconds later, a dull explosion sounded with a “thud”, and a light blue halo radiated around Xiang Kun’s palm like a shock wave. Anyone that saw this would undoubtedly be astonished, as the blue halo extended more than ten kilometers.

Despite the surrounding darkness of the night, when the light halo appeared alongside the dull sound, everything in the area swept by the light seemed to be engulfed in darkness, with only the rapidly moving and spreading halo visible.

Not only light, but all other sounds, even the sound of the wind, ceased instantly, as if the air itself had been paused, fixed in place.

However, it was strange that this seemingly powerful light halo didn’t cause any actual damage – the plants it swept past didn’t even move at all.

In Xiang Kun’s palm, a coin had taken shape.

It appeared as unremarkable as an ordinary one yuan coin.

If Mr. Liang were awake, he would likely presume this coin, like the crispy pig’s elbow that materialized out of nowhere in Xiang Kun’s hands back in Africa, to be some sort of “real illusion” that seems quite authentic and impactful.

However, if Xia Libing were present, she would instantly sense that the coin in Xiang Kun’s hand is not an ordinary “Illusion Reality”. It is even more “real” than a coin materialized through “Illusion Reality”.

When Xiang Kun first “created” this type of coin in Star City, it caused a range of effects.

This time, it seemed to make a bigger commotion than before, but since they were in a high altitude mountainous area with no people around, the actual impact was actually smaller. If this had happened in a city, let alone the awe the halo would cause, the widespread power outage, internet disconnection, and electronic device malfunction that occurred in a blink of an eye would have definitely made headlines the next day.

This coin was a “super-connected” object that Xiang Kun had truly “created” based on the “Super-connected Coin”. The basis for its existence is the “High-Dimensional Factors”, it originated from the underlying structure of Xiang Kun’s mutation.

In other words, this coin not only has the characteristics of a regular coin, but also those of a “Super-connected Object”.

Xiang Kun pinched the coin in his hand, then released it into the void, where it remained suspended as though it were integrated or merged with the air rather than floating.

Next, a series of loud gunshots thundered one after another as blue halos spread out one after another, Xiang Kun “created” ten coins and “placed” them in the air in front of him.

Then, he pointed towards where Mr. Liang was, and the ten “Creator Coins” shot out simultaneously, reaching him in the blink of an eye.

The moment the coins got close, Mr. Liang disintegrated into a cloud of dust.

Just as the dust was about to dissipate, tens of thousands of super-connected tungsten steel balls erupted from the ground, encircling the dust.

An astonishing burst of dazzling light exploded, it was as if every tungsten steel ball had turned into a miniature LED bulb capable of producing its own light. The ten “Creator Coins” were the brightest light sources, they enveloped, restricted the dust as if they had created a spherical barrier of sorts, inside of which electrical sparks flickered amongst the dust, apparently brewing a storm of spectacular power.

This “tiny sun” seemed to have been created, slowly floating up from the ground until it was hovering four or five meters above.

Xiang Kun wasn’t trying to annihilate the material in the middle of the light sphere. Killing that material would only kill Mr. Liang, but it wouldn’t destroy the “Ultimate Predator”.

After the dream ended, Xiang Kun and Alice had established a usable “Ultimate Predator Consciousness Model”, and using it, they devised a set of operating mechanisms to paralyze its abilities to influence all special factors and to kill or control organisms by generating various compounds and large molecules, as it had done in the past.

This operation mechanism, like a running program, needed to be executed through the “Super Sensory Item System,” with “Super-Connected Objects” serving as the “hardware” responsible for the execution.

He could have accomplished this with regular “Super-Connected Objects” as well, like the tens of thousands of tungsten steel balls that were already deployed, as well as the common super-connected coins scattered around, and the various “daughter plants” and their extensions spread throughout the forest by “Xiao Luobo”.

However, Xiang Kun still created ten “Creator Coins”, intending to use the best and highest-performing “hardware” to run what he considered the most important “program”.

As soon as this “program” was executed, the “Ultimate Predator” was forcefully interrupted from devouring Mr. Liang.

It sensed the danger, but it was too late.

Alice swooped down from the sky, like a fully-armed Gundam, landing at the heavily fortified castle, and according to the plan, she demolished all the gates, trampled the stables, and flattened the official buildings of the administration’s office.

When the light faded, the ten “Creator Coins” vanished into thin air, and the thousands of tungsten steel balls fell back to the ground, the group of tiny particles solidified into a firm sphere.

The “Ultimate Predator’s” remaining tissues and special factors have dispersed. It wasn’t killed, but for now, it has lost the capability to remotely control the special factors within other organisms to kill them and influence them. It no longer has the ability to threaten Xiang Kun by hijacking various species.

Those special factors still exist in other parts of the world and inside various organisms. They’re still components of the “Ultimate Predator”, but it has lost the ability to perceive and control them. It’s like a “vegetative patient”, retaining its physical form, but unable to sense or move at all.

Xiang Kun looked at the sphere made up of tiny particles. He was still unable to protect Mr. Liang’s original body. During the process of the “Ultimate Predator’s” consuming and transformation, he implemented his plan, but he still ended up letting Mr. Liang’s body get disintegrated.

However, just like the “Ultimate Predator”, Mr. Liang also didn’t “die”. His consciousness still resides within this particle mass, with the remaining high-dimensional factors belonging to him. He will soon use the “Super Sensory Item System” to rapidly reconstruct Mr. Liang’s body using the “resources” from its decomposition – just as he had promised earlier before.

The low rumble of cannon and the blue halo appeared again. To deal with the “Ultimate Predator”, Xiang Kun pulled out the highest configuration of his “Super Sensory Item System”. To reconstruct Mr. Liang’s body, he also needs to show the highest configuration again.

As for whether these continuous anomalies will attract attention from the human settlements or attract official attention from China and other countries, he doesn’t care. After all, with Alice controlling all kinds of electronic devices and without any video evidence, even the biggest anomaly can only become a legend. Besides, the Chinese government is his backing and he can just inform Old He when the time comes.

Another “Little Sun” rose on the top of the mountain, and Mr. Liang’s body was being quickly rebuilt, looking exactly like it did originally. However, when it came to the head, Xiang Kun perceived Mr. Liang’s autonomous will, and thus gave up rebuilding control.

The light faded away, revealing his huge body with various patterns all over. Strangely, it had a head of a normal human. That face seemed young – it was his original appearance.

However, because its body was still in its default invisible state, it looked quite eerie to human eyes as if a man’s head was floating in the air.

Xiang Kun laughed, it seemed that after dealing with the threat of the “Ultimate Predator”, Mr. Liang also wanted to return back to his “human” form.

Of course, although his head looked like a human’s head, the internal structure was completely different. In fact, it was closer to its original composition, just different in appearance. This was a sacrifice of “performance” for aesthetics.

Mr. Liang, now having a “human head”, didn’t open his eyes. On the ground, vines stretched out, slithering like snakes, crawling up his body, ensnaring him.

Then large pieces of moss grew out, covering him up, spreading around, changing the look of the entire hilltop.

On top of the mountain, initially withered, remarkably flourished out of season.

Mr. Liang was hidden among it, concealed and sheltered.

The reconstruction of his body had not yet completed, and after the “Ultimate Predator’s” failed attempt at consuming him, many of Mr. Liang’s “high-dimensional factors” were temporarily seized by “Xiao Luobo”. Now it will use them to assist Mr. Liang in continuing to rebuild his body, making him look the way he wants.

This time, it’s a truly customized body.

It is the reward he deserves for this sacrifice and contribution.

Xiang Kun stood on the green hilltop, looking into the distance.

The next second, streaks of light appeared on the clouds as if they caught fire. Then the light slowly expanded, tearing open from the middle.

A golden ray seeped out from the horizon, connecting with the “sea of fire” in the sky, tearing apart the night.

The sun was rising in the east.

Dawn broke.