Xiang Kun opened his eyes and immediately checked his phone to confirm the time. It was a total of 25 hours and 17 minutes, which was a normal amount of sleep.
After routinely washing up and showering, and collecting and analyzing various bodily changes, Xiang Kun sat down at his computer to check his phone and QQ for any messages that needed replying in the past 25 hours.
Yes, the final payment for the outsourced job has been transferred. The client was quite satisfied with Xiang Kun's work and indicated that there might be another job soon, hoping he would take it then.
Then, looking at her phone, Tang Baona sent her several photos of the wood carving, saying that the gift was fantastic and she loved it.
It has to be said that women have a natural talent for taking photos. The photos that Tang Baona took with the wood carving on the table made the wood carving look even more textured.
Yang Zhen'er also sent two photos of wood carvings and said she wanted to receive her birthday gift in advance. She then sent the name of an anime character, saying she wanted to have one custom-made.
Looking at the time, it was almost midnight, Xiang Kun didn't reply.
However, Yang Zhen'er wanting a wood carving as a gift is actually a good thing for him, saving him the trouble of figuring out what gift to give later. He can use the same skill repeatedly, which is quite nice.
Uh, it would be great if I could give Xia Libing a wood carving as a birthday present.
How about giving her a wooden skull carving? Or a wooden carving of a brain anatomy diagram?
After checking his phone, Xiang Kun went to check the web crawler he had set up on the cloud server.
Although the rules he set were quite complex, after relaxing the conditions to include animals, he still frequently obtained a lot of information that he needed to personally verify.
However, without exception, no truly useful information has been found over this long period of time, and another "similar" has yet to be found.
So when he searched for results today, he still didn't have much hope.
But to his surprise, one piece of information in the results matched his situation perfectly!
"I've come uninvited to share my personal experiences."
For me, becoming a vampire is not a noble thing; on the contrary, it brings a lot of trouble.
For example, they couldn't eat anything; they would vomit whatever they ate, and they couldn't even drink their favorite cola. Although they didn't need to sleep normally, they would sleep for a long time after each blood-drinking session. Fortunately, they felt great after waking up and didn't need to sleep again until the next blood-drinking session.
Although I hate sunlight, I have no problem going out during the day, except that I feel a bit lazy.
Of course, it's better at night; I love the moon.
Oh right, my skin has improved too, all my pimples are gone!
Sigh, I'm so lonely. I wonder when I'll meet another vampire?
Xiang Kun immediately checked the source of the message, and it turned out to be from Zhihu, specifically the answer to the question he had previously seen, "What's it like to become a vampire?"
Xiang Kun went directly to Zhihu and found that answer.
I discovered that this answer was added just two days ago, and it was given by a user with the ID "August's Kasumi".
I wasn't the only human mutant after all!
Although he felt that there must be other similar creatures in the world after encountering the "Giant Owl," whether human or other animals, he never found any further clues, which gradually made him lose confidence.
If there really is someone like us, we might be able to communicate and discuss issues that we simply cannot share with others.
Although Xiang Kun was used to shouldering everything on his own and thinking and solving problems on his own, he usually chose to be alone. If he really wanted to talk to someone or ask for help, he could find someone, whether it was his parents or friends. Regardless of whether they could help or not, at least they could communicate with him and share his burden.
But now, it is true loneliness, a loneliness that can't be shared with anyone.
However, this intense excitement and agitation did not last long, and Xiang Kun quickly calmed down again.
He subconsciously began to wonder if there was something wrong with this suddenly appearing "useful information."
Since there are other humans who have mutated into "vampires" like him, then logically speaking, he shouldn't have failed to find "useful information" online for so long, unless the other "vampires" all shared the same idea as him—not wanting to be the first to be exposed.
But obviously, not everyone thinks that way.
"When in doubt, search online; when there's no answer, ask questions online" is a normal thought for people in this era.
Unless this mutation has just begun and involves a very small number of people, Xiang Kun and the person who answered the question on Zhihu are among the first batch.
However, considering the timing of the mutation of that "Giant Owl," this possibility is also unlikely.
Xiang Kun refocused his attention on the answer. If it weren't for someone like him, a "vampire" or "mutant," they would have just dismissed it as the ignorant fantasy of a naive young girl, and a rather uninteresting one at that. No wonder it still had zero likes.
Could it be just wishful thinking, and that he just happened to guess a few of the characteristics correctly?
He quickly dismissed the conjecture because the answer not only correctly described several characteristics, but more importantly, it didn't misrepresent any of them. The chances of achieving that through mere speculation were extremely slim.
Moreover, she didn't say "suck blood," but rather "drink blood."
Normally, other answers to this question, speculating about vampires, would easily include characteristics from traditional literature such as fangs, fear of sunlight, pale skin, fear of crosses, and fear of garlic. In such cases, even if a few characteristics are correctly mentioned, such as a long period of sleep after drinking blood or vomiting whatever one eats, Xiang Kun would know it's just wild guessing.
If a test paper has ten questions, and you answer five correctly, the teacher might guess that you just guessed. But if you get all ten right, the teacher will just think that you knew the answers beforehand.
The tone of this answer was somewhat deliberate, like she was telling a story, as if she was intentionally trying to make others think she was fantasizing, so that normal people would overlook the answer?
Otherwise, he certainly wouldn't have spoken so lightly. As someone who had been through it, he knew very well the pain of being newly mutated, the mental fear and confusion about the unknown.
Xiang Kun didn't rush to comment on the answer, nor did he immediately send a private message to the answerer, nor did he like, favorite, or thank them.
He first clicked on the answerer's profile picture. Next to the ID "August's Kasumi", there was no other information except for a female symbol representing gender.
Below that, there are 2 answers, 0 questions, 0 articles, 0 columns, and 0 thoughts. The personal achievements section on the right is also empty, with 6 followers and 2 followers.
There are two answers: one to the question "What's it like to become a vampire?", and another to the question "How can I become a vampire?".
The answer was relatively simple:
"Becoming a vampire isn't good. You can't eat or drink good food, and food is hard to find."
Do you really think vampires are as happy as you imagine?
No, you can't even imagine the pleasures of vampires!