What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter Forty-Eighth Dare to Stop

Xiang Kun was quite surprised to see the SUV stop beside him. Someone really wanted to stop.

The passenger window was lowered, and a middle-aged man with a crew cut and dark skin looked him up and down, and asked strangely, "Brother, why are you barefoot?"

Xiang Kun took out the remarks he had prepared before: "Hey! When I was climbing the mountain, my shoes broke, so I had to go barefoot. Are you going down the mountain? Can you give me a ride and put me down at the bottom of the mountain?" That's fine, I'll find a car myself."

The middle-aged man with a flat head and co-pilot looked back at his driver, and asked in a low voice, "Let him get in the car?"

Normally speaking, his volume was separated by the distance inside and outside the car, and people standing outside the car would not be able to hear it, but with Xiang Kun's hearing, he could hear everything clearly. But he didn't care, even if the people in this car had malicious intentions and wanted to lure him into the car for money and death, then he would have to "defend justly" again.

However, based on his observations, this possibility is extremely slim.

The driver was also a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, wearing glasses and looking very gentle. He didn't answer, just nodded slightly.

So the middle-aged man with a crew cut as the co-driver opened the door and got out of the car, and said to Xiang Kun, "Get in the car, anyway, you'll be on the way anyway, it's a hot day, and you're not wearing shoes, so don't waste your feet when you go down the mountain."

The middle-aged man with a crew cut opened the back door and sat in, letting Xiang Kun sit in the co-driver - because there was a quiet girl who looked sixteen or seventeen sitting in the back seat.

While thanking Xiang Kun, he took off his backpack and held it in his arms, preparing to get in the car.

"Wait." The driver wearing glasses said suddenly.

Xiang Kun froze for a moment, and retracted his feet that had just stepped onto the car. He wouldn't complain if they suddenly changed their minds, since he didn't expect to get a ride anyway.

But the driver pulled the handbrake, put it in P gear, opened the door and got out of the car, opened the tailgate and said: "I still have a pair of slippers in the car, you should wear them first, I am a size 44, you should be able to wear them ?”

After taking the slippers and a bottle of mineral water, the driver closed the trunk, walked around to Xiang Kun, put the slippers at his feet, and handed him the mineral water.

Xiang Kun thanked him for taking the water channel, and prepared to put on his shoes.

"That...that water is for you to wash your feet." The driver reminded with some embarrassment.

"Oh." Xiang Kun looked down and found that his feet were really dirty, covered with a layer of solidified, dusty mud.

After briefly washing his feet with the bottle of mineral water, he put on his slippers and sat in the co-pilot. He also thanked the driver who re-boarded the car and the middle-aged man with a flat head who sat in the back row.

The car was back on the road, and Xiang Kun noticed through the rearview mirror that the girl in the back row put on a pair of sunglasses after he got in the car.

The middle-aged man with flat hair sitting next to the girl noticed his eyes, and explained with a smile: "This is my daughter, she can't see."

Xiang Kun actually had some guesses, but when he heard the middle-aged man with flat hair say it so frankly, he didn't know how to respond for a while, so he nodded, then changed the subject and said, "I reached out my hand five times when I came down from the mountain. , as long as you are willing to stop the car, I thought I would have to walk down the mountain today, thank you so much, you are really kind people...good people will be rewarded."

"Little brother, if you want to climb a mountain, choose a pair of better quality shoes." The middle-aged man with a flat head laughed in the back row.

Xiang Kun smiled bitterly: "I can't help it, I have no experience, it's my first time climbing a mountain."

"You are dressed like this, and you haven't worn shoes yet, so it's no wonder that most people dare not stop." The driver laughed.

"Yeah, I know that too, so I'm actually a little surprised that you guys are willing to stop." Xiang Kun said truthfully.

"Because I can see that you shouldn't be a bad person." The driver said.

"Oh? Can you see that too?" Xiang Kun said,

"Honestly, if I was driving and saw a person who looked like me standing on the side of the road to stop the car, I wouldn't dare to stop."

The driver said: "The place where you just reached out to block the car, there is no shelter on the side of the road, and the view is wider, which means that there is no way to ambush people on the side, and they will not rush over while we are parking. And generally the plot is unruly, want to People who deliberately hitchhike will pretend to be pitiful, or weak, and kind. But although you don’t even have shoes, your expression is very flat, your brows are stretched, neither frown nor any smile. Judging from your body language , is ten words: Love can’t stop, anyway, I stretched out my hand.”

Xiang Kun and the middle-aged man with short hair in the back seat couldn't help laughing after hearing the words.

Although he felt that what he said was a bit far-fetched, Xiang Kun still flattered him: "Your eyesight is really good, you must have studied psychology, right?"

"Not to mention, we really need to have a little knowledge of psychology in this job." The driver laughed.

Without waiting for Xiang Kun to guess his occupation, the middle-aged man with a flat head smiled and added directly in the back row: "He is a policeman, and a criminal policeman at that. If you are really a bad guy or a fugitive, then give him credit."

Xiang Kun suddenly realized that this was the reason.

But the driver shook his head and said seriously: "That's not true. If I really think he might be a bad guy, I won't stop if you and Little Apple are in the car."

After chatting for a while, Xiang Kun was stunned to find that the gentleman-looking driver with glasses was a criminal policeman, which was beyond his expectation. The guy sitting in the back row had slightly dark skin and a crew cut, looking like a farmer. The middle-aged man turned out to be an associate professor at the university.

This is really...you can't judge people by their appearances!

Of course, the two were quite surprised to hear that Xiang Kun was a programmer. The driver laughed and said that if Xiang Kun changed into a monk's robe, he would believe that he was an ascetic monk traveling far away.

Xiang Kun claimed that the company had just closed down, so he went out for a walk, climbed mountains, looked at the scenery, and changed his mood. Of course, he didn't say that he had been in the deep mountain for four and a half days, but only said that he started climbing from a nearby mountain, but ended up on this side of the mountain for some reason, and almost lost his way. Fortunately, he found the winding mountain road. Go straight along the road. Unfortunately, the shoe is broken.

Anyway, there are truths in what they say, and there are lies in the truth. They really want to verify it later. Things that are easier to verify are basically true.

The criminal policeman driving the car was named Li Sheng, and he was brother to the associate professor Li Yang sitting in the back seat. The quiet girl in the back seat nicknamed "Little Apple" by Li Sheng was Li Yang's daughter.

Today they went to the temple on the mountain to meet a relative, and they went to the top of the mountain to watch birds.

It's fine to see relatives, but Xiang Kun is quite puzzled by the term "bird watching". After all, Li Yang's daughter can't see it.

Li Yang also saw his doubts and explained: "Although my daughter can't see, her hearing is much better than ordinary people, and she can distinguish the different calls of various birds. The intention of the voice is to warn, provoke, greet or courtship or something."

Xiang Kun, who has relatively strong hearing, can understand. When he was training his sense of smell and hearing, he would also cover his eyes to help him focus on these two senses. When sight cannot be relied on, both hearing and smell burst into greater potential.

It is normal to be able to distinguish the sounds of different birds. If you give him time to practice, he can do it now. Of course, with the help of smell, it is easier to judge the type.

But this young girl can distinguish the intention of the bird's call through the sound, which is quite amazing.

Xiang Kun didn't think that Professor Li Yang was bragging, so he asked the girl how to identify the meaning of bird calls.