What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 498: 498: Thoughts in Deep Sleep (part 3)

Chapter 498: Chapter 498: Thoughts in Deep Sleep (part 3)

Liu Shiling clung to Xiang Kun’s neck, crying her heart out increasingly bitterly, as if all her grievances, pain, and fear were all coming out at once.

Professor Li Yang, Xia Tianhuo, who returned to pick up Little Fatty Girl, and Old Xia looked on, dumbfounded and at a loss, not understanding how this little girl was fine just getting off the car, but started crying miserably as soon as she saw Xiang Kun.

Tang Baona, Yang Zhen’er, and Xiao Pingguo, who probably knew some of the details, were heartbroken. They tried to comfort Liu Shiling who was laying her head on Xiang Kun’s shoulder, even the shiny golden creature was chirping from the side wall.

Old Xia handed over a tissue to help Liu Shiling wipe her tears and blow her nose.

Though crying bitterly, Liu Shiling was careful not to get her snot on Bald Uncle. In the midst of her crying, she would obediently tilt her face up to allow Old Xia to wipe her nose before she resumed crying.

Xiang Kun, for his part, was only gently patting her back, saying nothing to comfort her because he knew it was best to let the child cry it out right now. The rest could wait.

In fact, after waking from his deep slumber, Xiang Kun had already received a detailed report of Liu Shiling’s family situation from Alice.

Alice was very concerned about “Sister Lingdang”, and basically collected all the information she could find.

Shiling’s father had amassed a large sum of money through various means, such as mortgaging loans and private loans. The money from selling Shiling’s mother’s previous house was also included. He then planned to invest it all in a major project.

Unfortunately, that project fell through due to a variety of reasons. Coincidentally, Shiling’s dad got acquainted with several individuals who were said to have strong connections and great influence in a small country in Southeast Asia. They introduced him to a mogul from a local listed company. He was persuaded to participate in their so-called short-term, high-yield investment project, putting all the funds he had raised into it.

Initially, Shiling’s father thought he was a small fry and that the mogul of the listed company was the big shot who invested much more money and would have thought things through more meticulously than him.

Soon, however, Shiling’s dad sensed something amiss. Upon investigating with people he knew, he found out that while there was indeed a mogul by the name he was given and the physical description matched, that person was currently overseas and not in the country.

His initial trust in the identity of the mogul stemmed from an incident at a hotel where those people casually grabbed a complete English business magazine with the mogul on the cover from a hotel magazine rack. The mogul indeed had the aura of a mogul, was all branded, wore a watch worth seven figures, and when he talked about some insider information, it all seemed pretty reliable. Even the manager of the well-known local hotel came over to greet the mogul.

However, when he went to that hotel and couldn’t find that English magazine on the magazine rack in the lobby area, and when the hotel staff said they didn’t carry that kind of magazine, he couldn’t find any information about that magazine online either.

He went to look for the hotel manager, only to find that the actual hotel manager was not the person he saw that day!

As soon as Shiling’s dad tried to reach out to those people, he realized all of their contacts were disconnected. He naturally knew he had been scammed, rushed to report to the police, and then found out that all the various information those people showed him was mainly fake. The countless contracts he signed were all worthless, and in order to save some taxes, he had cooperatively facilitated the quicker transfer of his funds.

In his despair, Shiling’s dad incidentally came across the whereabouts of one of the main fraudsters through some old connections.

Fearing that even if the police caught the fraudster, he wouldn’t be able to get his money back, he took a fruit knife and paid a visit, intending to reclaim the money.

He had even thought that he would settle for just some of it, at least retrieving the money from selling Shiling’s mom’s house would do.

However, when the fraudster saw that he came alone, he got vicious. Before Shiling’s dad could take out his knife, the fraudster drew an axe to chop at him.

During the scuffle, Shiling’s dad pulled out the fruit knife he was carrying and unintentionally stabbed the fraudster to death.

So, not only did he not recover any money, he ended up killing a person, and Shiling’s dad was temporarily detained by the police.

However, through the information collected by Alice, Xiang Kun found that there was still hope for the situation. The police and the prosecutors’ primary judgment from interrogating Shiling’s dad and investigating the crime scene was “justified defense”.

The specific distinction between intentional homicide, intentional injury resulting in death, or justified defense was a heaven and earth difference for Shiling’s dad.

So, Xiang Kun contacted Zhang Qian in the morning, asking her to arrange for a good lawyer to assist Shiling’s mom in handling this matter – where Shiling’s dad committed the crime was not far from Pengcheng City. Moreover, with Zhang Qian’s background and connections, finding suitable candidates would be relatively simple.

Zhang Qian was very responsive to this matter, happy that Xiang Kun would owe her a favor.

Xiang Kun then contacted Shiling’s mom and got an understanding of the situation. He told her about asking Zhang Qian for help and reassured her that Little Fatty Girl would be living in Chongyun Village for the time being. He guaranteed that he would arrange her studies well and take care of her meals and daily life.

Back to the present, Little Fatty Girl, hugged by Xiang Kun at the entrance, felt much better after crying her heart out. But when she saw a big crowd around them, all looking at her with concern, she became embarrassed again and buried her head in Xiang Kun’s shoulder, pretending to be an ostrich.

It was not until Xiang Kun carried her into the house and set her down at the dining table that her attention was finally drawn to the dishes on the table.

Estimating their arrival time, Xiang Kun had prepared a sumptuous dinner in advance, and everyone was waiting for them to arrive before starting the meal.

After hearing Xiang Kun say that her father would definitely not be “shot”, there would be no death sentence, and she would not be without a father or unwanted, Little Fatty Girl finally relaxed and started to eat cheerfully.

In the past few days, she had endured a wearisome journey, suffered injustice everywhere, experienced severe emotional turmoil, and “cast a spell” on a large scale. Coupled with walking down the mountain on foot last night and irregular meals, she was now truly joyful eating the food she had dreamed about, displaying her voracious spirit, happily savoring the meal with eyes smiling.

Those who were initially worried about her situation, like Li Yang and Xia Tianhuo, couldn’t help but laugh and started feeling hungry upon seeing her eating so heartily.

After dinner, Xiang Kun let Little Fatty Girl video call her mom to ease her mind completely.

Aware of Liu Shiling playing around in the yard with Custard Pie, golden creature, Xiao Pingguo, and Yang Zhen’er, Xiang Kun, sitting at the stone table in the courtyard and chatting leisurely with Tang Baona, Old Xia, and Professor Li Yang, was deep in thought throughout this bout of post-blood drinking hibernation.

Since his mutation in July last year, Xiang Kun had made records of each of his blood-drinking hibernations and the corresponding changes thereafter.

But before, unless he swallowed the blood of other “mutants”, briefly fell asleep, and gathered fragments of the other party’s memory and sensory information, he never dreamt or had any clear conscious perception.

Basically, after consuming blood, he would nap, fall asleep, wake up, and discover the mutation results.

But this time, a special kind of perception arose during his deep sleep, activating his consciousness.

His consciousness seemed to enter a “Super Sensory State” where he could only decipher the specifics through a large amount of Super Sensory Information.

Luckily, he was already somewhat familiar with both the “Super Sensory State” and “Super Sensory Information”, and was able to vaguely discern the meanings represented by these Super Sensory Information streams.

Generally, he determined that a “Super-connected Object Matrix” was exerting a range influence, signaling a thunderstorm.

The people who can use “Super-connected Objects” to create influence, aside from him, include Little Fatty Girl, Xiao Pingguo, Old Xia, Golden Flash, Alice, and Custard Pie.

But the corresponding information was a thunderstorm. Given this, Xiang Kun instantly ruled out Xiao Pingguo, Old Xia, Golden Flash, and Custard Pie.

Only Little Fatty Girl and Alice were the slightest bit possible to call forth a thunderstorm.

Regardless, even if Alice could do it, it must be by relying on the collective efforts of countless “Super-connected Objects” in Chongyun Village, along with certain weather conditions and surrounding environments.

But if it were in Chongyun Village, the sensations Xiang Kun received after the “Super-connected Objects” were activated would not be so explosive and concentrated, but rather more balanced, complex, and dispersed.

That’s why those characteristics were more in line with Little Fatty Girl’s style of invoking “Super-connected Objects”.

Having discerned this, the consciousness of Xiang Kun within the stream of super sensory information could not help but worry about Little Fatty Girl. He knew she was very conscious about keeping secrets after he told her to, normally she wouldn’t recklessly invoke “Super-connected Objects” for such a widespread “intense interference.”

He did not know what situation Little Fatty Girl had now come across that would cause her to so recklessly utilize the power of the “Super Sensory Item System”. But he believed that with Alice there, Little Fatty Girl’s safety should be basically ensured.

However, after Xiang Kun discovered that his consciousness could significantly manipulate related Super Sensory Information influenced by “Super-connected Objects” under the “Super Sensory State”, he decided to intensify his “response” to Little Fatty Girl’s power invocation.

He believed that with Alice present, Little Fatty Girl’s extreme invocation of ability must have a practical need, and Alice could help regulate the use of such power.

It was because of the push given by the consciousness of Xiang Kun during deep sleep that Little Fatty Girl—formidable on all sides—formed a small-scale thunderstorm in the air, created by her “descent” from the mountain.

This allowed her continuous control over the five Coin “Super-connected Objects” to become more secure.

Therefore, the later lightning strike by Little Fatty Girl, Alice’s utilization of environmental factors and Xiao Pingguo’s operation, and the remote launching of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wooden Sculpture Emotional Projection” became possible.

Of course, even if Xiang Kun had not made such an active “response” and “promotion”, Little Fatty Girl could have protected herself and killed off the ill-intentioned middle-aged man with her invoked ability alone.

But this occasion of remotely influencing Super Sensory Information during deep sleep brought quite some advantages to Xiang Kun, Little Fatty Girl, Alice, and Xiao Pingguo.

Little Fatty Girl’s control over the five Coin “Super-connected Objects” became more stable and proficient; Alice gained a better understanding of co-manifesting through “Super-connected Objects” and discovered more ways to utilize them; and Xiao Pingguo learnt from the experience and application model of remotely implementing “Emotional Projections” in collaboration with Alice.

Of course, the one who benefited the most was Xiang Kun himself.

His operation of directly influencing Super Sensory Information under such a deep “Super Sensory State” was the first time he had the sensation of spiritually, mentally, or rather, consciously being directly connected with the entire physical world. It felt like he was a gigantic creature held together by “Super-connected Objects.”

Through this, he gained a much deeper understanding of the various changes and expressions of Super Sensory Information during a thunderstorm than his previous clumsy and solitary attempts at “deciphering”, and this understanding was much deeper.

Xiang Kun realized that this occasion of contact through consciousness during a period of deep sleep could very likely be the crucial moment when he unraveled the obscurity of the Super Sensory Information.

Once this opening was made, with the aid of Alice who was deeply embedded into the “Super Sensory Item System” and could decode and apply Super Sensory Information to some extent, he would very likely be able to quickly understand the essence of “Super Sensory Information”, the operating principles of “Super-connected Objects” and “Emotion Infused Objects”, and even the reasons for the emergence of “mutants” and the source of mutation.

Of course, there was another question: how was his consciousness contacted and “awakened” through Super Sensory Information during this period of deep sleep?

Through the reports by Alice, and his brief exchange with Little Fatty Girl just now, Xiang Kun made a preliminary guess that everything was related to the intense emotional fluctuations of Little Fatty Girl.

Firstly, Little Fatty Girl was deeply integrated with the “Super Sensory Item System”, rivaling Alice, who could already reside inside the “Super Sensory Item System”. Besides Xiang Kun, she was the one who could control and influence “Super-connected Objects” the most among all individuals.

To some extent, when Little Fatty Girl was invoking “Super-connected Objects”, she could treat herself as one of the “Super-connected Objects”, allowing her to maximize the influence of “Super-connected Objects”.

Although she was not conscious of this operation herself.

Last night in Qing Mountain Village, Little Fatty Girl, who was a tangle of anger, sadness, grievance, and fear, might have made herself a sort of “Emotion Infused Item” within the “Super Sensory Item System” to a certain degree.

This “Little Fatty Girl Version – Emotion Infused Item” had its own consciousness, its self-generating emotional source. Therefore, when she began to influence her surroundings through “Super-connected Objects”, Xiang Kun—the source of all power, discovered these situations through Super Sensory Information and even interacted with them.

Xiang Kun always knew that there was a profound connection between human emotion and the fundamental influence behind the “Super Sensory Item System”.

If his guess about being “awakened” by Little Fatty Girl’s consciousness is correct, Xiang Kun believes he, Alice, and Old Xia should soon find a more efficient framework for directly utilizing the “Super Sensory Item System” based on this.