What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 620: Chapter 620 The World Is Already Quite Different (Middle)

After Little Fatty Girl and Xiao Pingguo sat down, Xia Libing served them some food and Tang Baona poured their drinks.

Even though Xia Libing and Tang Baona weren’t like Xiang Kun, who could completely grasp the two little ones’ tastes through established cognitive models and extensive sensory information analysis, they too, after living together for so long and sharing meals and food discussions daily, had a pretty accurate understanding of what the two liked, loved, and ate the most.

Only after Little Fatty Girl had finished eating one meat bun did Xia Libing ask, “How do you feel after you woke up today, Xiao Lingdang?”

“Huh?” Little Fatty Girl instinctively pulled back her hand reaching for the bun. Realizing that her BBQ-Chicken-Wings Sister was not asking to cut down on her eating, she slowly reached for the bun again and said, “The buns taste so good, thank you BBQ-Chicken-Wings Sister!”

Xiao Pingguo laughed and helped Little Fatty Girl put the bun in her bowl, saying, “Ice sister is asking what you felt after waking up, not how the bun tastes! You told me earlier that you felt more powerful, right?” Little Fatty Girl had shared various new feelings and experiences while they were washing and changing clothes together earlier.

Feeling a little embarrassed, Little Fatty Girl said, “It feels like chocolate, ice cream, and other things are more obedient, and I feel like there are many things around me that are happy to listen to me and play with me.”

As she said this, she glanced at the stainless-steel soup spoon in Tang Baona’s bowl for eating porridge. The spoon seemed to respond to a call or encouragement and jumped up on its own.

Tang Baona was startled, then quickly realized it was Little Fatty Girl’s manipulation and excitedly exclaimed, “Wow! Xiao Lingdang, are you becoming Magneto now?”

If this conversation had happened a week earlier, Little Fatty Girl would have probably asked in confusion, “What is Magneto? Is it powerful?” She had watched many cartoons but hadn’t seen Marvel, DC or any superhero movies.

It was only a short time ago, the night Xiang Kun celebrated Tang Baona’s birthday, after Little Fatty Girl and Yang Zhen Er experienced the realistic illusion of a thunderstorm on the rooftop, that Yang Zhen Er began to play various superhero movies and animations for Little Fatty Girl at home and explained how powerful those abilities were, letting her know the names and corresponding powers of these superhumans.

Little Fatty Girl swallowed half of her bun and earnestly stated, “I’m not quite like Meatball King. I discussed with Elder Fairy Sister, Meatball King uses his powers to manipulate everything as if they are things. I’m different, I use my powers to share with my partners. Once they share my powers, they become my partners and help me!”

Tang Baona listened with a doting smile on her face; she didn’t quite understand Little Fatty Girl’s explanation, but that didn’t stop her from finding Little Fatty Girl’s words adorable. So she didn’t correct her pronunciation of “Magneto” to “Meatball King” and nodded in agreement, “Mmm, anyway, Xiao Lingdang is the most powerful.”

Xiao Pingguo also said to Xia Libing, “Ice Sister, I also feel a little different after waking up. It seems… I can hear things from further away, and smell things too. Before at our home, I could only smell what Aunt Lin was cooking, but now I can also smell the scent of food from Grandpa Wang’s house. However, this smell… is a bit strange. Hmm, how should I put it? It feels a bit unreal, like something I would smell in my dreams.”

Xia Libing knew that Aunt Lin and Grandpa Wang were residents of Chongyun Village, and the straight-line distance between their homes was about twice as far from hers.

Being twice as far doesn’t merely imply that Xiao Pingguo’s sense of smell had doubled in strength, the enhancement of her senses was all-round.

Xia Libing also understood that the enhancement of Xiao Pingguo’s sense of smell was not the same as the increase in “super-connected objects” sensed by Little Fatty Girl. It wasn’t that her olfactory organ had been enhanced, but instead it was due to the further upgrade of Xiang Kun’s “Super Sensory Item System” and Alice’s deeper interpretation and application of the system. It was akin to not upgrading the “hardware configuration”, but improving the “software performance” and enhancing the “software decoding” capabilities.

In Chongyun Village, full of “super-connected objects”, Alice redirected part of the “navigation” ability she used for Xiao Pingguo towards Xiao Pingguo’s sensory collection abilities. This reduced the steps required for intermediate translation, reducing delay and distortion, allowing Xiao Pingguo to perceive directly and make decisions.

Obviously, there would be a slight difference between the smells Xiao Pingguo directly sniffed and what Alice transmitted to her, the “sense of unreality” as she mentioned earlier. But, this has limited impact on information interpretation and judgement.

As Xiang Kun’s abilities continue to improve, and the “Super Sensory Item System” continues to be perfected with expanded functionalities, the sensory information conveyed by Alice to Xiao Pingguo would become more and more similar to the actual sensory experiences.

And by then, it wouldn’t be impossible for Alice to simulate real vision for Xiao Pingguo. This way, bypassing the ‘hardware defect’ of the optic nerve, she could help rebuild Xiao Pingguo’s visual cognitive system. With the ‘Super Sensory Item System,’ even physical reconstruction at the cellular level could be possible, allowing Xiao Pingguo to “see the light again.” Theoretically, this could surely happen.

Even now, with Alice’s help, Xiao Pingguo has a “God’s Perspective” that surpasses that of ordinary people, the fact that her physical eyes can’t see doesn’t matter at all, considering the ease with which she moves. As the distribution area of the “Super-connected Object Matrix” continues to widen, wherever Xiao Pingguo goes, she could connect with Alice and have super vision.

But, Xiao Pingguo is human after all. If she could experience the normal vision that other ordinary people get to experience, something she has never had since birth, she’d definitely be thrilled.

Whatever makes Xiao Pingguo happy is something that Xiang Kun and Alice would definitely do.

The reason Xia Libing knows these details is because on her way to the town to buy breakfast, Alice had been chattering to her all along.

The reason why she rushed out to buy breakfast right after waking up wasn’t entirely because of breakfast. It was due to the difference she sensed in the entire world, or rather in the perception system constructed on the basis of the “Super Sensory Item System,” as soon as she woke up.

For her, the “Illusion Reality” ability had significantly improved. She can now create multiple illusionary objects simultaneously and duplicate them rapidly.

For instance, in an instant, she could make cream fill the entire room, making the whole room appear like it’s been covered in snow, and then ‘plant’ crispy pig’s elbow all over. The scope of her creations could even extend to an entire village or a whole block. Of course, if monitoring or recording systems are operational, they would be affected. But with Alice’s assistance, that’s not a problem for her.

She realized that when she created illusions, she was no longer limited to using “Super-connected Objects” that had established special connections with her. Instead, a huge range of “Super-connected Objects” could respond to her “co-manifestation demand,” accomplishing a co-manifestation with an ultra-long viewing range.

Alice could even provide her some of the super sensory abilities provided to Xiao Pingguo, like transmitting sound and scent information. Of course, the “God’s Perspective” super vision sensory information was still not possible, because this feature was customized by Alice for Xiao Pingguo, and the sensory information format is not compatible with Xia Libing. She needs to wait for Alice to develop for her in the future.

Although Xia Libing could still only create those things that she enjoys eating or things she’s eaten in her dreams with Little Fatty Girl, she still struggles to manifest any other object.

Upon leaving the small courtyard where they resided, just outside Chongyun Village, Xia Libing sensed an odd sense of disorder throughout the world.

It was as if a water pool that was initially stirred regularly and turned clockwise, suddenly had a large stone post set right in the waterway, disrupting the rhythm of the water flow and creating an eddy.

The most evident of these changes was the weather. The initial forecast had predicted light showers turning cloudy, with temperatures ranging from 17℃ to 21℃, a level 2 north wind. However, the actual morning weather turned out to be sunny, with a barely a few clouds in the sky, a minimum level 4 wind, and that too a southwest wind.

Of course, what was most puzzling was the temperature. Despite the extremely good weather, the thermometer in the car showed it was 12℃ outside, and pedestrians on the road were hunched and shrinking their necks as they walked.

Xia Libing drove to the town for the sole purpose of observing and experiencing this environmental change – her home and most of the areas in Chongyun Village, had clearly been adjusted by Alice.

She could understand that the “Super Sensory Item System” was undergoing a complete evolution, but the significant change in the objective environment left her somewhat puzzled.

Xiang Kun didn’t completely kill the “Ultimate Predator”, nor did he sever the “Ultimate Predator’s” connection with various special factors, he only paralyzed its ability to exert influence through these special factors.

According to the predictions they made when formulating the plan, as long as they could accurately build the consciousness model of the “Ultimate Predator” and sever its connection as soon as the dream ended, preventing it from doing anything through the special factors, then there wouldn’t be any substantial impact on the outside world.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

However, it now seemed that perhaps because the range of the special factors of the “Ultimate Predator” and the biological communities involved were too broad and numerous, even the smallest unit changes, when accumulated, would create a wide-scale qualitative change?

Or was it due to other factors?

For instance, the ten “Super Coins” Xiang Kun used this time, as mentioned by Alice?

When Alice co-manifested in her car, she was clearly extremely excited and spoke erratically, requiring Xia Libing to analyze and summarize the information herself.

Alice disappeared before she could finish her sentence, and hadn’t shown up by breakfast time. These past few days, Alice would always request to co-manifest during occasions where everyone was gathered together, and now that she hadn’t, it was clear she was occupied with other important matters.

Xia Libing also pondered what could have attracted Alice’s attention so much. From what she knew, Alice definitely wouldn’t be so excited just because of the successful plan or the capture of the “Ultimate Predator”.

As Xia Libing pondered, Little Fatty Girl had already finished eating her second meat bun. With her chubby hand reaching towards another, she paused before picking it up, seemingly in hesitation.

Seeing this, Tang Baona laughed and said, “Xiao Lingdang, just eat if you want to, Old Xia bought a lot, there’s enough for everyone.”

Xiao Pingguo also readied her chopsticks to help her pick one up, “Eat as much as you like, breakfast should be satisfying.”

Little Fatty Girl, however, was conflicted, “This bun is bigger than what Uncle Bald makes, I might not be able to finish a whole one…” Her mother had taught her that while gluttony was permissible, wasting food was not. Anything she ate must be finished to the best of her ability, and even if it couldn’t, it had to be packed up, otherwise, she would starve when she grew older.

Xia Libing casually said, “Give me whatever you can’t finish.”

Receiving this promise, Little Fatty Girl immediately broke into a grin and began to munch on the meat bun. As she enjoyed her food, she swayed her little feet joyfully, seemingly very content.

The National Day holiday was very enjoyable for her, the only regret was that Uncle Bald wasn’t at home. Otherwise, they would have been able to eat delicious food every day. Uncle Bald’s homemade meat buns were much tastier than those bought outside.

Pity.

But in the end, she managed to finish the last meat bun all by herself.

…

Xia Libing was right. Alice’s excitement was not because of the successful plan against the “Ultimate Predator.”. In Alice’s view, that was to be expected.

The reason why she was so excited was that she saw the reconstruction of Mr. Liang’s body and the appearance of Mr. Liang’s “human head”.

Although the reconstruction of Mr. Liang’s body was unique – the main underlying components were the high-dimensional factors that already belonged to him, and since his body had just broken down and all the materials had been confined within a small range, the high-dimensional factors, which could overcome spatial constraints, hadn’t completely collapsed and dissipated and was able to be re-integrated. This was a special circumstance.

But this special circumstance was, after all, achieved through the “Super Sensory Item System”. Since Mr. Liang was a connector of the “Super Sensory Item System”, Alice believed that with the right conditions, this “special circumstance” could be turned into a standard practice. Even if she couldn’t do it herself, Xiang Kun would likely be able to help her achieve it!

So, as soon as Mr. Liang’s body was hidden in a temporarily constructed forest protected by Xiao Luobo, Alice could barely restrain her excitement as she thought of several applications and wanted to propose them to Xiang Kun.

However, Xiang Kun was video-calling with Old He at the time, so she decided not to disturb Xiang Kun and ran off to play with Old Xia.

The video communication device that Xiang Kun used was brought by Mr. Liang. Although this device was exclusive to Mr. Liang, and could only be unlocked and used after verification through his biological component, with Alice’s presence, Xiang Kun could use it directly without requiring Mr. Liang’s authentication.

On the other end, Old He swiftly answered the communication request. Judging from his appearance on screen, he had just gotten out of bed, still clad in pajamas, with disheveled hair, rather different from his usual neat slicked-back style.

“Xiang? How are your preparations? Are you ready to take action? If there’s anything you need, feel free to speak up. As long as we can do it, we will do our best to satisfy your request.” Old He spoke first, his tone faintly excited.

During this period, although it was Xiang Kun and Mr. Liang who were acting independently, using only resources from “Divine Technology”, every time they left the country or entered another one, they sent a written report to him via their contact method, briefly mentioning the actions related to “blood-eating creatures” being carried out in certain areas. However, what specific action was carried out, the process, and the results, per their agreement, were recorded but not reported.

Old He knew that Xiang Kun and Mr. Liang were executing a plan against the “Ultimate Predator”. After a long period, this was the first time Xiang Kun took the initiative to contact him. It was obvious that something important was happening, so he instinctively guessed that the preliminary preparations were almost complete and the main event was about to start.

However, Xiang Kun laughed and said, “The plan has been fully executed and was completely successful. We no longer need to worry about the ‘Ultimate Predator’ for the time being. We can start fully researching the ‘blood-eating creatures’.”

Old He was taken aback. Just yesterday, he had received Mr. Liang’s routine itinerary report, stating that they had left Australia and arrived at our country’s northwest border, and would possibly carry out a cross-border mission. It seemed as if they were still in the preparatory phase. How was it that in just one day, even the “Ultimate Predator” had been taken care of?

Staring at Xiang Kun’s bald head on the screen, Old He was momentarily unsure whether Xiang Kun was joking with him or not.