Guo Tianxiang's Ability (Bonus Chapter for August's Kasumi 2)

However, after recalling some of Guo Tianxiang's memories and comparing them with the previous encounters, he realized that this vampire, who had been a vampire for at least nine years, was not as weak as he had imagined, and indeed had the "confidence" to hunt Xiang Kun.

When Xiang Kun fought the vampire Guo Tianxiang before, he was deeply impressed by the monster that Guo Tianxiang suddenly transformed into, which was more than two meters tall. That thing really gave him a big fright.

Now, through analyzing some of the memories, Xiang Kun has a rough idea of what it is.

He also went to the place where the two had fought before to check, and there were only their footprints on the ground, but no trace of the two-meter-long monster.

That thing was clearly an illusion created by Guo Tianxiang. However, Guo Tianxiang seemed to have some special ability: when others noticed his eyes, he could make them imagine him as the person they feared most deep down.

In Guo Tianxiang's memory, there were similar scenes where he made some people look into his eyes, and then those people were so frightened that they wet themselves and knelt on the ground. Some were even so frightened that they lost control of their bladders and then completely lost the desire to resist.

At such times, those memory images would be interspersed with some images that seemed to be edited incorrectly, only partially displayed, and these images were all random people or monsters.

When he first woke up, he thought these images were just Guo Tianxiang's confused memories, but now, recalling his own experience, he immediately realized the significance of these images—they were likely hallucinations that Guo Tianxiang had obtained and that others had seen after being influenced by him.

Therefore, Guo Tianxiang did not make others see a pre-set illusion, but rather made them see what they were most afraid of seeing, and then deceived their brains into believing it was real, so that they would fill in the rest of the details in their minds.

You want to judge by smell? You'll smell it immediately.

Want to judge by touch? Then you can feel the touch.

Want to see the shadow on the ground? You'll see a shadow that matches its size.

Xiang Kun was even certain that if he had wanted to see its footprints back then, he definitely would have been able to! Even though those footprints never actually existed in reality!

Then when it hits, you might imagine what it feels like to be hit, "hitting" yourself and amplifying the damage.

Although the body may not suffer serious physical damage, it may be actually weakened due to misjudgment by the brain.

Ultimately, all perceptions of the outside world are judged by the brain.

Unless encountering a fearless and reckless being, most people or creatures, when faced with a being conjured by their own fear, will instinctively avoid battle and flee.

However, looking back, Xiang Kun didn't actually feel much fear or dread when he saw the monster. He was more frightened. So he still made that cut on Guo Tianxiang's neck as he remembered it. His subconscious made his body automatically decide that the monster didn't exist.

It is clear that Guo Tianxiang's ability has a less pronounced impact on Xiang Kun than it did on other ordinary people, as seen in his memories.

Perhaps it's because Xiang Kun is a vampire or a mutant, or perhaps Xiang Kun is just naturally bold, but he doesn't seem to have anything he's truly afraid of, especially after he mutated.

He now understands that the two-meter-tall, eight-armed monster he saw was actually a subconscious fear of what he might mutate into.

But facing the form he fears becoming doesn't terrify him to the point of being afraid to fight.

I'm afraid of becoming you, but I wouldn't mind killing you...

However, this only applies to Xiang Kun; for other living beings or normal people, the impact would certainly be enormous.

I just don't know how long he can maintain this level of ability.

No wonder he dared to commit crimes in those war-torn areas.

No wonder this guy is so confident, acting like he's got me cornered.

Of course, if he had used this ability from the beginning, then based on Xiang Kun's normal judgment... he would probably have turned around and run away, making a strategic retreat.

Given the physical abilities this guy has demonstrated, it's practically impossible for him to catch up.

However, Xiang Kun also knew that it wasn't that Guo Tianxiang careless, but rather that he had initially used another ability on Xiang Kun, "hypnotizing" Xiang Kun.

Among those memories, some show Guo Tianxiang "receiving medical treatment".

For example, when he was diagnosing an elderly man alone in an office, he started with very standard medical diagnoses, such as, "Because of ***, your liver is now ***, and you are experiencing ***. If it continues to deteriorate, it will ***." These were all normal and reasonable medical diagnoses. But as he spoke, he changed his tone to, "I have just treated you. You will feel ** next, and ** in two days. Then come back for a follow-up appointment."

After he finished saying those obviously outrageous things, he immediately saw that the old man's expression, which had been somewhat pained and haggard, instantly brightened up. Even his previously hunched back straightened up considerably, and his overall physical condition visibly improved.

Xiang Kun knew, of course, that Guo Tianxiang couldn't possibly have the physical healing ability to make his words come true; he could only have hypnotized the other person's brain, making them believe that they were already cured.

Besides these, there are many other memory fragments, all of which involve having strange conversations with others and communicating in absurd ways, yet all of which are successful.

His wealth was probably acquired in this way.

Clearly, Guo Tianxiang possesses a certain ability to hypnotize others and make them believe his words through eye contact.

That's why he said a bunch of strange things to Xiang Kun at the beginning, starting with the truth and then moving on to false promises that were clearly meant to lull him into a false sense of security. He probably thought he could use this method to Xiang Kun and make Xiang Kun lose his resistance.

Xiang Kun's motionless posture made him believe that the hypnosis had been successful...

Although hypnosis was ineffective, the ability to make someone see what they feared worked, suggesting that the latter might be some kind of ability to directly influence and interfere with the brain's cognition.

Since Guo Tianxiang can influence others to see what he fears, he can also see what others see.

This means that there is an exchange of information between the two people's consciousnesses. Analogous to the Internet or computers, it's like two terminals interacting, establishing a link, and transmitting data.

This excited Xiang Kun greatly. He was somewhat expectant, wondering if he had inherited this ability from Guo Tianxiang's blood.

Just as the intimidating power he gained from the Giant Owl led to the development of various abilities, he felt that if he acquired Guo Tianxiang's abilities, he could also do other, even more impressive things, or even develop more powerful abilities under Guo Tianxiang's deliberate guidance.

After buying a backpack and filling it with Guo Tianxiang's belongings, Xiang Kun also found a more convenient way to "retrieve" his memories and find the corresponding images and information he wanted to know.

That is, when "browsing" Guo Tianxiang's memories, one simultaneously thinks of the corresponding people, places, or events.

Just as he recalled the information he had found about the Western restaurant on the pedestrian street, he could find the scene of him being with the dreadlocked woman in the coffee shop in Guo Tianxiang's memory.

He then learned that the other party had indeed, as he suspected, controlled the surveillance cameras of several shops on the pedestrian street, including "Long Time No See Cafe," to monitor them.

He also knew that after they left at 3 p. m., Guo Tianxiang told the dreadlocked female hacker to leave the city first, while he stayed behind and wandered around the city.

Then, after Xiang Kun used himself as a reference point to retrieve his memories, he discovered that the reason Guo Tianxiang returned to the pedestrian street at that time was not because the dreadlocked female hacker was still controlling the surveillance video of the Western restaurant and discovered Xiang Kun, but because he had wandered around the city and then returned to the pedestrian street, where he happened to see Xiang Kun preparing to leave.

Knowing this, Xiang Kun didn't know whether to lament his bad luck or sigh, "Fate is truly wondrous."

Guo Tianxiang "recognized" Xiang Kun because he directly "saw" that Xiang Kun was a vampire.

In Guo Tianxiang's memory, there are occasional images that look like thermal imaging cameras, clearly showing the distribution of body heat in various creatures.

It is clear that Guo Tianxiang's eyes have mutated and evolved some kind of special ability.

When he saw Xiang Kun using that visual mode, Xiang Kun's body was not only much lighter in color than that of a normal person, but also had some blue patches distributed all over his body, making him distinctly different from other creatures or objects.

It was through this that he discovered Xiang Kun's identity as a "vampire".

It seems Guo Tianxiang has focused all his "evolution points" on his eyes. He can use his eyes to hypnotize people, force others to see the monsters they fear, and even see the infrared radiation of objects.

It's just unclear how he acquired these abilities. From Guo Tianxiang's memories, there was no record of any targeted training process, nor any evidence of how he guided the mutation and evolution. Surely he didn't acquire them after becoming a vampire?

Xiang Kun suddenly realized that the "Mental Intimidation" ability he had obtained from the owl didn't seem to have been specifically trained or mutated; it seemed to be an ability he had from the very beginning of the mutation?

What about mine? What abilities did I gain after the mutation? Xiang Kun fell into deep thought.

Xiang Kun did not continue to track down or contact the dreadlocked female hacker, because according to Guo Tianxiang's memory, they did feel that they had been stood up by "Pipi Kaka Qiuqiu," and she did not leave any backup plans in the Western restaurant, so she should not have discovered Xiang Kun's abnormality from the Western restaurant's surveillance.

Judging from the way Guo Tianxiang contacted her, she didn't have any status and was someone who could be summoned and dismissed at will, so she shouldn't have discovered Guo Tianxiang's disappearance so quickly.

Xiang Kun planned to go home first to sort out and summarize his condition after drinking the blood, and then consider his next course of action.

After this trip to the neighboring city, Xiang Kun discovered that when he imagined the other party to be very strong, the other party was actually not that strong at all;

When he thought the other party was weak, the other party was actually not weak;

When he thought the other party was cunning, their plan was actually not complicated at all;

Just when he thought he had seen through the other party's conspiracy and was in control of the situation, reality hit him hard.

Although the brain's computing power has greatly improved, enabling it to consider various possibilities and situations more comprehensively.

But ultimately, the real world is too complex, and the information he has is still too limited, so his judgments are still often flawed.

To be honest, I still need a helper.

The saying goes, "Three cobblers are equal to one Zhuge Liang." Often, when others are helping to oversee a matter, it can indeed reduce blind spots and prevent getting bogged down in trivial details.

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