What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 24 Encounter

The human olfactory organ is the nose, and what plays an olfactory role is the various nerve cells inside the nostrils.

Generally speaking, to make the sense of smell more sensitive and distinguish more and finer smells, more olfactory cells are needed. For example, humans have about 5 million olfactory cells, while dogs have as many as 100 to 200 million olfactory cells, so dogs have a much stronger sense of smell than humans.

Xiang Kun has been thinking about it. When his strength increases, his muscles can feel an obvious increase. Moreover, when he exerts force, his muscles are as hard as steel, which seems to be much stronger than ordinary people's muscles when exerting force. It is obvious that the muscle fibers have been significantly strengthened. and change.

So what kind of changes will the improvement of the sense of smell have in the organs?

Are there more olfactory cells or associated nerves?

Or a single cell has been enhanced, and its efficacy is many times stronger than that of ordinary people's olfactory cells?

There is no obvious change in the shape of his nose now, so the latter seems more likely?

If Xiang Kun had a medical background and had the relevant equipment, he would probably get some samples of his nasal cavity for research now. Anyway, his recovery ability is so strong now that taking some samples would have no effect at all.

Maybe this discovery alone can win a Nobel Prize or something.

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On August 2, more than a day had passed since Xiang Kun was stabbed by someone on the evening of July 31.

Yesterday and today, he still followed his own plan and rhythm, went to the gym to train during the day, and wandered the streets at night, training his sense of hearing and smell, and also a "database" for collecting various sounds and smells.

Moreover, he vaguely felt that training at night would be more effective.

This point needs further experiments to prove.

Since chatting with Police Officer Chen on WeChat yesterday and knowing that the suspect was wanted, Xiang Kun has not paid much attention to this matter. In his opinion, it is impossible for the suspect to be in a situation like the police when his real identity has been exposed. escaped attention. As for whether the smell he "collected" from the gloves in the trash bin the night before was from the suspect, he didn't even think about verifying it.

But sometimes things are like this, intentionally planting flowers but not blooming, unintentionally planting willows and willows to make shade, Xiang Kun didn't even think about looking for the suspect, but the suspect appeared in Xiang Kun's sight.

Or to be more precise, the suspect's smell appeared within Xiang Kun's sense of smell.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Kun came out of the gym and was about to follow the previously planned route to train his sense of smell and hearing. Before taking two steps, he suddenly smelled a somewhat familiar smell from among the many mixed smells.

The night before yesterday, in order to see the results of his tracking all the way, Xiang Kun endured the stench and rummaged through the trash can, and found the bloody glove left by the suspected suspect. He was very impressed, not to mention that it has only been less than two days.

Xiang Kun immediately looked up and searched for the suspect's location. Judging by the smell, the target should not be more than ten meters away from him.

Although he focused on training his sense of smell and hearing during this period, his eyesight has not let go, especially because he always walks around at night, so his ability to see things at night has also been greatly improved. With targeted training, dynamic Vision is also enhanced to a certain extent.

Xiang Kun quickly scanned the passers-by around him, but he couldn't find the target.

Soon, he felt that the smell became weaker, and the target was getting farther and farther away from him.

Xiang Kun frowned slightly. It wasn't that he was overwhelmed with a sense of justice and wanted to catch the wanted criminal. In fact, he just wanted to keep a low profile as much as possible and didn't want to expose his abilities. So even if he found the suspect, he would still notify Police Officer Chen to arrest him. I didn't say that I have to catch people by myself and pretend to be a hero.

But now I smell the smell, but I don't see anyone, it's like peeing halfway and not finishing peeing,

It made Xiang Kun really uncomfortable.

So he began to walk slowly in the direction of the smell, focused his attention, and carefully searched for the target of the smell.

Ten minutes later, at the door of a mobile phone repair shop, he finally saw a thin black man with fluffy slightly curly yellow hair and sunglasses.

Although I have seen the photo of the suspect sent to me by Police Officer Chen, it was a ID photo and a few very blurry pictures taken by surveillance, but to be honest, there is a big difference between the real person and the picture, especially the fluffy yellow hair. Hair—the photos are all black and cropped.

As he got closer, based on Xiang Kun's vision, from the chin, nose, mouth, height and shape of the yellow-haired man, he could basically be sure that he was the wanted suspect sent to him by police officer Chen.

Just as Xiang Kun took out his mobile phone and reported to Police Officer Chen on WeChat that he had found a wanted criminal, he was startled by a shout from behind him:

"Mr. Xiang!"

Xiang Kun was taken aback, and looked back, only to see that it was Tang Baona and the handsome girl who was standing with her in the gym downstairs. They were walking towards him with a glass of juice each.

"Mr. Xiang, who are you messaging? Why haven't you heard it for a long time?" The girl walking with Tang Baona said curiously.

Xiang Kun knew that it was probably because he had focused his attention on smell and vision just now, so to a certain extent, he isolated a lot of voice information, so he didn't hear them calling him.

However, Xiang Kun was still a little baffled. It would be fine if Tang Baona said so, but what happened to the girl next to Tang Baona? I don't know you well, how can you talk to me in this tone?

But he didn't have time to agree to them, and his first reaction was to look back in the direction where the yellow-haired suspect was.

I don't know if it was because the girl called him too loudly to attract attention or because of other reasons, Huang Mao just happened to look at him.

The two looked at each other abruptly.

Although they only stared at each other for a fraction of a second, Xiang Kun quickly looked away "naturally", as if he was looking at the scene on the other side of the street.

But Huang Mao still realized something, and suddenly quickened his pace and walked away.

"Damn it!" Xiang Kun cursed in a low voice, turned around and said to Tang Baona, "I'll contact you later!" Then he quickly chased after Huang Mao.

At this time, there are many pedestrians on the street, those who have just got off work, those who are going to have dinner, the crowd is very dense, and the yellow hair is obviously an experienced escaper, he walked through the crowd, and quickly disappeared in Xiang Kun's eyes. In the line of sight, I don't know if he jumped into a nearby store or an alley.

Afraid of being noticed by the yellow hair just now, Xiang Kun didn't get too close to the target after confirming it, and kept a distance, so he couldn't catch up immediately.

If it was an ordinary person, at this time, they would probably have to search all the way, or guess Huangmao's escape route, but Xiang Kun locked on Huangmao's smell, but he was not worried about losing him.

He even had time to use his mobile phone to send his location to Police Officer Chen, but Officer Chen couldn't sit still, so he called directly.