What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 20 Hearing and Smell

Xiang Kun was a little dazed looking at the video, and he found that in Gao Liang's reply, there were videos from other angles, but they were not so clear. Obviously, not one person took the video at that time.

He even saw the video taken by the surveillance camera, and wondered if it was uploaded by the grocery store owner.

Xiang Kun was a little dizzy. After returning the phone to the reporter, he still left the house in a hurry under the pretext that he had something to do.

After walking on the street for a while, Xiang Kun felt that it was no big deal. When he stopped the murderer, he did not show any ability beyond ordinary people. As long as he insisted on not accepting interviews, not showing his face, and keeping Keep a low profile, when this matter is over, no one will pay attention to him anymore.

After all, netizens are only concerned about this incident.

Xiang Kun went to the busiest area in the city, then found a roadside beverage shop, bought a drink, half-closed his eyes, and sat at the door, as if dozing off.

But in fact, he focused all his attention on hearing.

The voices of the clerks in the beverage shop behind you, the voices of customers ordering, the footsteps and voices of pedestrians outside, the sound of cars driving on the road farther away, the sound of horns, the sound of radio and music from promotional activities in nearby shopping malls, etc. All kinds of voices were distinguished one by one in Xiang Kun's mind.

Then he locked on to one of the sounds and began to focus on "capturing".

For example, when you hear a certain footstep, you will always pursue the footstep, feel its movement and orientation, calculate the distance to yourself, the material of the sole, etc., until the sound goes away and you can no longer hear it.

In this way, Xiang Kun relied on his hearing to "construct" the surrounding situation in his consciousness.

After drinking blood last time, Xiang Kun found that his hearing had greatly improved, and it was better than ordinary people.

After drinking blood for the third time, Xiang Kun adjusted his training plan, reduced the proportion of strength training, and increased physical agility and balance training, especially targeted training for the senses of vision, hearing, and smell. A lot of planning was done.

Xiang Kun sat at the entrance of the beverage store from ten o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon. He never opened his eyes and moved his buttocks. The people in the beverage store probably thought he was asleep.

At 5:15 in the afternoon, Xiang Kun opened his eyes, stretched his waist, as if he really fell asleep, then got up and left the beverage shop, and threw the cup of milk tea in his hand directly into the trash can - in fact, he Didn't take a sip.

Xiang Kun did not go home, but continued his hearing training.

He walked casually on the street, looking for various sound sources to track.

Sometimes when I see someone talking or making a phone call from a distance, I approach slowly and shorten the distance until I can vaguely hear the other party's conversation, and then distance myself to continuously increase the maximum distance at which I can hear the voice.

Sometimes I randomly lock on one of the sounds, and then search for the source of the sound, such as one of the footsteps, the barking of a dog out of sight, or the ringing of a mobile phone from nowhere.

Sometimes it is centered on a fixed and continuous sound source, such as the broadcast of a shopping mall, the music of a clothing store, or even the sound of some machines, and slowly distance itself.

For auditory training, Xiang Kun's method is to listen more, distinguish more, find and exercise the limit of hearing.

In the next few days, I would spend about ten hours a day wandering around the streets, listening to various types of sounds, and doing auditory training.

Xiang Kun found that the training effect at night was much better than that during the day.

Not only is his physical function stronger at night, his mental state is better, and his hearing is more sensitive, but also there is much less noise at night, and it is relatively quieter. For him at this stage, it is easier to train.

So Xiang Kun still went to the gym to exercise during the day,

At night, it wanders around the streets, searching for various sounds randomly.

As a result, I heard a lot of sounds that I didn't think of before, such as the screams and crawling sounds of various bugs in the grass and ditches, such as the gnawing sound of mice, such as the thermal expansion of various materials in various buildings. Sounds caused by cold shrinkage or other vibrations, such as the different sounds of wind blowing through streets and roads with different structures, and some very subtle sounds, he couldn't even find the specific source.

In addition to hearing, Xiang Kun will also conduct olfactory training. Like hearing training, he also distinguishes and tracks various smells.

However, although smell and hearing are trained on the street, they are trained separately, because at this stage, if you listen and smell at the same time, the two senses cannot fully focus and will interfere with each other. .

So when he first trained his sense of smell, he would find a place to sit down, close his eyes, put on earplugs, close these two main senses, and only use his nose to perceive the surroundings and distinguish the various sources of the surrounding smells.

Compared with sound, smell is actually more difficult to distinguish and difficult to train. In many cases, a strong smell will suppress other smells, and after staying in an environment for a period of time, the nose adapts to the surrounding smells, and the sensitivity of the sense of smell to smells will also decrease.

So sometimes, he even deliberately chooses places with strong smells and miscellaneous smells, such as garbage dumps, stinky sewers, stinky ponds, or food streets, snack streets, etc. for training.

On the evening of July 30, Xiang Kun didn't go out after returning from the gym because he felt hungry again.

Calculated, it has been almost six days since the last time he drank blood, which is about the same as the last time the statistics were made.

This time, Xiang Kun did not conduct the endurance test. After feeling hungry, he disposed of the meat rabbit left at home and drank about 165ml of rabbit blood.

Then sleepiness struck, Xiang Kun picked up his phone and set an alarm clock, which would ring after 23 hours.

He wanted to see if he could be woken up by noise during his deep sleep.

The reason why I set it after 23 hours is that I am worried that if I am woken up too early and I don’t get enough sleep, I don’t know if it will have any excessive impact on the body.

The alarm duration is set to 1 minute and repeated 3 times.

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When Xiang Kun opened his eyes again, he was lying on the bed in a daze for a moment, vaguely feeling that the world seemed to be a little different, but after lying down for a few minutes and thinking for a while, he didn't realize what was different .

Sitting up from the bed, he picked up his phone and checked. Sure enough, he was not awakened by the alarm. It seemed that during the deep sleep period after drinking blood, the sound of the alarm could not wake him up.

I just don't know, if I make physical contact, will I wake up? How much physical contact is required?

As for the sleeping time this time, 25 hours and 27 minutes, it was still within the previous statistical range, and there was no change.

Xiang Kun suddenly felt that the room was a bit noisy, and he could even hear people chatting and bragging at the roadside stalls outside. He thought that he forgot to close the window before going to bed, but when he walked over to take a look, he found that the window was well closed.

Xiang Kun was stunned for a moment, then he realized that it wasn't the noise outside that became louder, but his hearing became stronger.