What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 112 Wood Carving

It was past three o'clock in the morning, and it was pitch black outside, but the lights in Xiang Kun's bedroom were still on as usual.

Under a desk lamp, Xiang Kun was slowly and carefully polishing a 20-centimeter-high wood carving with fine sandpaper.

It was a female humanoid wooden sculpture, wearing a two-dimensional style skirt armor, holding a two-handed sword, looking forward, and a raised hair on her head. From the overall image, it should be a anime characters.

This is a wood carving of a character that Xiang Kun carved out by himself from beginning to end.

Today is October 3rd, and tomorrow, October 4th, is Tang Baona's birthday. This wood carving is Xiang Kun's birthday present for her.

On September 13, after accepting the "misunderstanding birthday gift" compound bow from Tang Baona and the others, Xiang Kun began to think about how to return the gift.

Then he got the birthday time of the three of them through some of their network information, as well as the driver's license and other ID information that he had seen by chance before.

Yang Zhen'er is on January 3rd, and Xia Libing is in April, both are still very early. Only Tang Baona's birthday is October 4th, and it won't take long.

His original idea was to give a gift with a price of around two or three thousand, so based on his usual observations and the information left by Tang Baona's various online accounts, he analyzed it and speculated that she might like it. Gift.

The final options are: 1. Figures or other animation peripherals that Tang Baona likes; 2. Audio recording equipment; 3. Some trinkets or ornaments with a sense of design; 4. Music-related peripherals or out-of-print items she likes album.

But the problem is, from Xiang Kun's understanding, although Tang Baona is not the kind of person who spends money lavishly, she has never been short of money. If she likes the options 1, 2, and 4, basically She had already bought them this morning, and the ones she chose herself must have been more pleasing to her heart.

From this point of view, it seems that buying a small accessory that looks more matching with her usual dressing style, or a small ornament with a sense of design, is a safer option.

He also asked Yang Zhen'er and Xia Libing privately, and the former just expressed his intentions, and it didn't matter what he gave, Nana didn't need anything, just cook a big meal when the time came.

And Xia Libing replied similarly to the last survey of tastes: "Anything is fine, she doesn't pick."

Indeed, Xiang Kun knew that no matter what he gave, Tang Baona would not mind. Even if he gave a handicraft or peripheral product that she already had or didn't like so much, she would gladly accept it.

However, thinking about how he felt when he received that compound bow as a gift before, this "casualness" always made him a little uncomfortable. He knows very well that the value of a gift is not just the price in the market, but more depends on how much the recipient likes the gift.

So after thinking about it for a while, Xiang Kun prepared to make a wood carving of Tang Baona's favorite anime character, Saber Altoria, which was used as a head portrait.

And the production process itself is also a process for him to conduct several experiments, which is the best of both worlds.

Of course, in order to prevent him from being unable to make the wood carving on October 4th, he also prepared another option. If it is not possible, he will give a Swarovski crystal ornament that he thinks Tang Baona should like as a gift. .

Xiang Kun has a certain level of art skills. It's not a big problem to draw a bottle, a sketch of a human face, etc., but it doesn't mean that he knows how to sculpt.

But it was precisely because of this that he wanted to try to see if establishing a supersensory connection with the tool could help him master the ability to use the tool more quickly.

So before drinking blood on September 16, he bought five carving knives and three chisels of different shapes and made a connection.

In order to successfully connect, he specially disassembled the bodies and handles of these tools,

After the association is complete, reinstall it. And he also found that after associating items of the same type and function with one of them, the time for associating the other items will be greatly reduced.

After waking up on the night of September 17th, Xiang Kun quickly watched more than ten hours of various tutorials and videos, and then found a 3D drawing of Saber's character as a reference, and began to prepare several pieces that had been prepared before and opened into a rough shape. Practice wood for carving.

Although the chisels and carving knives that have been established are connected, they are indeed controlled with near-expert proficiency, and they can steadily apply what he has learned in tutorials and videos, and move with his heart.

But the first four pieces of wood were still chipped before they entered the fine billet. Not to mention the stupid hair on the top of the head and the two-handed sword on the base, it was difficult to make the arms alone. Crooked or broken.

The fifth piece of wood, for the purpose of making a finished product first to see the shortcomings, Xiang Kun made a semi-finished product with a thin billet, but looking at the wood carving with a crooked face and a disproportionate mouth, he couldn't help thinking that he was looking for a reference picture before. When I saw the "evil god saber" on the Internet...

Judging from the experimental results, simply connecting the tools can only achieve the control and mastery of the tools, but when it comes to other application variables, it still needs to adapt and practice to exert its due ability.

It can also be deduced from this that if he can completely establish contact with all parts of a car in the future, then he may know the condition of the car very well, and he can use his fingers when driving. But if you go to race with others, you still need to know the specific road conditions, the route of the track, the situation of your opponents, the weather conditions during the race and other information before you can fully exert your driving strength.

But now, although he is proficient in chisel control and knife manipulation, he still has problems with the familiarity with the wood material and the carving and chiseling of the outline.

Xiang Kun knew that if he practiced a lot, he would be able to improve in a short time if he started with simple and easy works, provided he was able to skillfully operate a few chisels and carving knives.

But his goal was not to become a master woodcarver, so he temporarily stopped making woodcarvers. After all, he had to do a lot of things during each blood-drinking period, not just learning to carve and preparing gifts.

Before the blood drinking on September 22, Xiang Kun spent an hour establishing contact with two pieces of boxwood that he had bought and had been simply opened.

Before starting to establish a connection, he took a small sample from the two pieces of wood, and then softened, sliced, dyed, loaded, and observed under a microscope to understand the surrounding structure of the two pieces of wood.

He has done experiments with paper towels, A4 paper and other things before. In addition to knowing the weight, size, composition and other information can improve the speed of establishing a connection, observing the crowd structure of the target can also greatly increase the speed and success rate.

Xiang Kun planned that if the two pieces of boxwood that had established a relationship were ruined again, he could only use the crystal ornaments he bought as a gift. Otherwise, if he continued to study, he would really become a carver...

Fortunately, when he woke up on September 23, after spending more than ten hours making one piece of wood, the second piece of wood finally basically met his expectations, step by step towards the perfection of the finished product.

The carving knife with which he has established a supersensory connection operates on the wood with which he has established a supersensory connection. It is indeed more comfortable and stable, just like the communication between two old friends, and the "coordination" is skillful.

In fact, on September 27, he had already completed the finished wood carving.

But today, he just took it out again, checked it again, did some minor sanding and oiling, so that the whole wood carving was in the best condition.

Although from his slightly obsessive-compulsive perspective, this wood carving still has a lot of room for improvement, and there are still many flaws, but as the first work, it can basically be regarded as qualified.

Before he knew it, it was already dawn. Xiang Kun picked up his mobile phone which was full of dents and a cracked screen, and saw him and Tang Baona in the group of four. Tang Baona said that he was already at the airport, and he would arrive in the city after 10 o'clock tonight .

In fact, Xiang Kun planned to invite Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er to have a meal in advance tonight, cook a few newly developed dishes himself, and then give her a gift by the way. But Tang Baona's family went abroad to attend a relative's wedding these few days, and they can only come back tonight, so they can only find another opportunity for her tomorrow.