What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 51 Three Experiments (Part 2)

It took more than a minute for Xiang Kun to fill all four containers and plug them.

Then set up the phone and start shooting.

The first glass vessel numbered X-001 contained 20 milliliters of blood.

The second glass container numbered R-001 contained a small piece of bloody flesh weighing about 3 to 4 grams.

In the third glass vessel numbered K-001 is a mouthful of saliva.

In the fourth glass vessel numbered T-001, one had to look closely to find a black hair—it was a leg hair.

These four things have one thing in common, they all come from Xiang Kun.

Yes, he bled and cut himself again, and this time he directly cut off a piece of flesh that was even bigger than the last time.

It stands to reason that Xiang Kun suffered much more serious injuries when fighting the giant owl than cutting such a small piece of flesh himself. If it were an ordinary person, there would be a high probability that he would burp directly, but maybe he didn't pay attention to himself at the time , the reason for the large amount of adrenaline secretion, the pain is far less than it is now.

After gritting his teeth and cutting off the piece of meat, Xiang Kun's cheek muscles started to twitch uncontrollably in pain, and he cursed himself as an idiot...

But what to do, keep going.

The pain came and went quickly, and he quickly focused on the glass vessels.

When testing the recovery speed of the wound before, he cut off a piece of meat the size of a grain of rice on the belly of his little finger, and the piece turned into powder after a while, which also made him notice that after a period of time after his blood left the body, the same Such changes will occur.

However, Xiang Kun didn't realize that such a phenomenon would happen at that time, so he was only paying attention to observing the wound, but did not observe the whole process of the changes in the flesh and blood, and there was no video.

Xiang Kun became interested in this phenomenon again after encountering the giant owl and discovering that the owl's fallen feathers would disappear, and later even the corpse.

Although the owl has "no bones left" and can't go back in time to "perform" him again, he can observe himself.

Time passed by every minute and every second.

The wound on his thigh was healing rapidly, and the contents of several sealed glass containers also began to change.

The most intuitive thing is the piece of meat and blood. It is obvious that the blood starts to coagulate, and then the color becomes extremely dark at first, and then begins to fade. The same is true for the piece of meat, which shrinks a little, from dark red to dark red. Dark gray transition.

On the other hand, the saliva became clearer, but the volume also decreased significantly.

Only the leg hair didn't change, and the place where Xiang Kun cut the leg hair didn't repair itself like the injured skin and muscles, and the hair grew again.

When the electronic watch that Xiang Kun specially bought in the morning showed 00:10:57, the wound on his thigh had completely healed, and the piece of meat he had cut was still slowly changing, and it had become a bit lumpy stones, the blood has become like a pile of dark gray viscous fine sand.

The saliva had almost disappeared, except for a very fine dark powder on the bottom of the vessel.

And the leg hair, which was thought to have hardly changed, has also undergone obvious changes-the color has faded, and it has become... a gray or close to white leg hair?

After a few more minutes, the piece of meat had turned into a piece of gravel. Xiang Kun flicked the glass wall lightly with his finger, and the slight vibration caused the "stone" to collapse instantly, turning into powder and spreading it on the bottom .

The blood in the X-001 vessel also turned into a pile of gray powder, its volume reduced many times compared to the original blood state.

The saliva in the K-001 container has completely disappeared, and there is no liquid left.

Only a small amount of gray powder.

Even the hair on the legs in T-001 has disappeared, leaving only a gray trace that is almost invisible. Xiang Kun picked up the container and shook it a little, and the "trace" gathered into a small pile of gray powder, but it was very light, and it floated into the bottle all at once.

The time on the electronic watch is 00:14:46. Although he didn’t time the last time he cut off the meat on the belly of his little finger, the wound recovery time was 13 minutes at that time, and his piece of meat was completely turned into powder. After that, around this time period.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the time it takes for the isolated body tissue to turn into fine gray powder has not been correspondingly accelerated because of the improvement in the healing speed of his wound.

The four bottles in front of me now, apart from some differences in weight, there is basically no difference. They all seem to be the same gray powder.

Another person would definitely not be able to recognize the transformation of the gray powder in these four bottles.

On the sealed bottle labels of the four bottles, except for the four numbers, Xiang Kun only marked today's date and nothing else.

It is naturally impossible for others to guess that the number X stands for blood, the number R stands for flesh and blood, the number K stands for saliva, and the number T stands for leg hair...

Looking at the powder in the four bottles, Xiang Kun's eyes were a little complicated.

A question arose in his mind: "Can I still be considered a human being now..."

After Xiang Kun smelled the smell of the giant owl, he went to the zoo to collect the smells of various animals in order to judge which animal the "special smell" belonged to.

At that time in the zoo, he also saw owls, and he wrote down the characteristics of the owl's smell.

But he was pretty sure that the scent left by the giant owl and the owl scent he smelled in the zoo were two completely different species.

This point was confirmed again after Xiang Kun found other owls of the same species in the deep mountains a few days ago - after the mutation, the owl no longer belonged to the species of owl in terms of smell.

Perhaps, after so many mutations, he has become farther and farther away from humans?

However, these complicated and weird emotions only existed for a few seconds, and they were driven out of his mind by Xiang Kun. Now he has no deformed organs, his body is not rotten, or he is too sick to get out of bed. The physical function has been greatly improved, if there is any more self-pity, it would be too hypocritical.

Xiang Kun picked up the four bottles and shook them. After confirming that the powder had no further tendency to change, he put them in a cardboard box and stored them.

Then I checked the video recorded by the mobile phone. Although one camera took four bottles, the performance of the Redmi phone was not bad. At least the changes in the four bottles were basically captured clearly.

He has already figured it out, and if he finds a trustworthy and cooperative researcher or institution in the future, these things will be the first temptation he throws out.

Without revealing his mutation, let others help him figure out what those gray powders are.

Anyway, with Xiang Kun's current level of knowledge, he couldn't understand what kind of reaction happened to those body tissues in the bottle, but it was definitely not a simple oxidation reaction.

Not to mention anything else, where did the water in the meat, saliva and blood go? No water vapor can be seen on the glass wall. Could it be decomposed into H atoms and O atoms and contained in those gray powders stably? Moreover, the rapid reaction that occurred in such a short period of ten minutes did not feel any temperature change on the vessel.

Without professional equipment and a large amount of relevant knowledge reserves, Xiang Kun can only speculate or guess based on the observed phenomena.

Judging from the information he got now: body tissue cannot exist for a long time in the external environment, and it will turn into gray powder after about fifteen minutes. After death, the same change seems to occur in the corpse. Xiang Kun had done an experiment before, and the effect on him would be greatly reduced after drinking the rabbit blood five minutes after it left the body.

Xiang Kun speculated: There may be a special component or energy in the animal's blood, which is temporarily defined as Z. After the blood leaves the body and is exposed to the external environment, Z quickly dissipates.

As for Xiang Kun or other mutated creatures, the digestive system has mutated and can absorb Z from animal blood, and Z is also the main reason for supporting his body consumption, tissue remodeling, and mutation evolution. After his body tissue left his body, Z dissipated with it.

Unlike the blood of other animals, after losing Z, there is not much change in appearance. The body tissue of the mutated creature is based on Z, so after losing Z, it will quickly collapse and decompose, turning into that gray powder.

This also made Xiang Kun couldn't help wondering if one day he couldn't take in enough blood and didn't provide enough Z to his body, would his whole body just disintegrate and turn into powder.

So first figure out what the ingredients of these powders are, which may help him verify his speculation.

At 3:20 in the afternoon, Xiang Kun, who was sorting out various experimental records, videos, and pictures in front of the computer, suddenly felt a sense of hunger released from the bottom of his body.

He expertly packaged, encrypted, and hidden all kinds of documents, and then got up and walked to the kitchen.

In the cage in the kitchen, the four separate meat rabbits still didn't show any special reaction. After taking a look, Xiang Kun walked to the remaining four rabbits and took out three.

Before, he only drank the blood of one rabbit every time, and deliberately controlled the amount of blood he drank, but after drinking the blood of the rabbit last time, he obviously still felt a strong sense of hunger, and then he slept for 32 hours, which also made him conscious. It is indeed insufficient to drink blood.

Originally, according to his plan, it should be enough to go from one to two.

But this time, he wants to experiment to see if the greatly increased blood intake will shorten the sleep time, so he plans to drink the blood of three meat rabbits at once.

He dealt with the rabbit very skillfully, divided the blood into measuring cups, and drank it quickly.

This time the total blood intake reached 450ml.

Then Xiang Kun started the third experiment he was going to do today.

He picked up the small stones in a plate on the cooking table in the kitchen—these stones were the decorative pebbles he bought at the flower and bird market today, each of which was no more than the size of a fingernail.

All these stones have been washed by him, and they have been washed with boiling water. The reason for this treatment is because he wants to swallow these stones.

Yes, his third experiment is to verify the previous conjecture that emerged from the giant owl's cliff nest in the deep mountains.

Let's see if the stones swallowed by the owl can help it resist the drowsiness after drinking blood.

Xiang Kun only swallowed one. Although the stone was very small, the process of swallowing was really uncomfortable. He could clearly feel the shock of a hard object coming down the esophagus.

In less than ten minutes, Xiang Kun's stomach reacted, and he felt like vomiting, wanting to spit out the stone.

But Xiang Kun found that he could indeed suppress the feeling of vomiting, which was not as nauseating and uncontrollable as when he wanted to vomit after eating other foods.

But the stone remained in his stomach, which really made him very uncomfortable, and he could even clearly feel his stomach twitching from time to time, as if protesting loudly to him.

But it's amazing, perhaps because the discomfort in his stomach diverted his body's attention, Xiang Kun's drowsiness after drinking blood did ease a lot.

From 3:30 p.m. after drinking blood, to 7:45 p.m., Xiang Kun was still not "knocked down" by sleepiness and fell asleep.

You know, the last time he took the anti-drowsiness test, he was a little delirious in about an hour and a half, and he even forgot how to fall asleep.

And now, four hours later, he could carry on if need be.

However, his complexion was not very good, and his expression was even a little ferocious, because the feeling in his stomach was really... quite uncomfortable.

Although it proved his previous conjecture that the giant owl swallowed stones and returned to its nest to sleep, he still decided that this could only be used as a last resort insurance option, usually after drinking the blood and going to sleep. The feeling of the stones churning in the stomach is really too painful. He would even rather cut two more pieces of flesh on his thigh than insist on swallowing stones for another four hours.

At 7:58, Xiang Kun took the initiative to spit out the stone, then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

At 9:14 pm on August 18, Xiang Kun sat up from the bed, looked at the timer on his phone, and confirmed that his sleep time was still around 25 hours, and shook his head with some regret.

I casually glanced at the missed calls, and among the six missed calls, four of them were unnamed numbers that seemed to be advertising sales, while the other two belonged to Police Officer Chen.

What did Police Officer Chen want for him?

Xiang Kun was puzzled, and after thinking for a few seconds, he called Officer Chen back.