Xiang Kun took all of Guo Tianxiang's belongings with him, including clothes, shoes, keys, some miscellaneous items, the white knife he had taken from Guo Tianxiang and used to kill him, and the cell phone, which is the most important thing for a modern person.
Before putting everything into his backpack, he quickly checked each item one by one, paying particular attention to his phone.
Of course, he wasn't checking the phone's contents. Although he could find the unlock password through Guo Tianxiang's memory, he didn't have time to examine the phone's contents in detail, and he didn't want to just throw the phone away. So, he wanted to make sure there was nothing wrong with the phone.
He was a little worried that the female hacker with dreadlocks might have secretly tampered with the phone without Guo Tianxiang's knowledge, since hackers often have this habit.
Under normal circumstances, when a mobile phone is turned off or the battery is removed, the location can only be found at the moment the phone was turned off, using base station positioning.
However, sometimes, if a dedicated Trojan horse program is implanted first, when the phone owner manually shuts down the phone, it will enter a "fake shutdown" state and will still connect to the internet to send location information.
Although Xiang Kun had never seen its actual application, he knew that it existed.
Fortunately, after inspection, it can be basically confirmed that Guo Tianxiang's phone has not been tampered with.
So Xiang Kun turned off his phone, put it in his backpack along with his other belongings, and started running at a steady pace along the national highway, following the directions on his phone's navigation. He ran until after 10 a. m. before taking a short-distance minibus, making several transfers, and finally returning to his city.
He wasn't running for hours just to save on transportation costs, but rather to experience the specific changes in his body after drinking the vampire's blood.
Aside from the obvious improvements in strength, speed, agility, and sensory abilities, Xiang Kun was actually most concerned about the series of abilities brought about by that vampire eye.
However, Xiang Kun, using the method he had previously discovered to gain night vision from owl blood, was unable to find the mode to activate the infrared thermal imager that Guo Tianxiang remembered.
As for the ability to hypnotize or make people see things they fear, it has not yet been tested, and the method of using it is unknown.
However, Xiang Kun wasn't in a hurry. He knew that if he had already obtained those abilities, he would be able to test them out sooner or later.
Besides, on the way back, he kept searching through Guo Tianxiang's memories. He knew very well that he had not obtained all of Guo Tianxiang's memories. He wasn't sure whether he had obtained 50%, 40%, or even less.
However, it is clear that the memories obtained from searching using the scenery of the pedestrian street and scenes related to Xiang Kun were more comprehensive.
Xiang Kun speculated that the more recent the memory and the more memorable it was for Guo Tianxiang, the more he would gain from it.
This point also makes it easier for Xiang Kun to analyze the vampire's psychology and determine what he values and prioritizes. Of course, that's something to be done later.
He planned to go back and "conquer" this vampire. Although the target had already died, the information he had gathered was abundant enough for him to reconstruct the vampire's psychology and experiences, help him untangle the timeline of those complex memories, and thereby find the information he needed.
Xiang Kun first used the dreadlocked female hacker as a search parameter to retrieve Guo Tianxiang's memories. After piecing together the various memory fragments, he roughly deduced how this seemingly ordinary-looking but very individualistic female hacker Guo Tianxiang, this vampire.
The female hacker Mi Qiao had discovered Guo Tianxiang's other identity and learned that he was involved in a murder case. She planned to use that information to blackmail him and get a large sum of money.
But it is estimated that after investigating further, she discovered Guo Tianxiang a vampire from some clues. So she contacted Guo Tianxiang what she had found out, told him how to hide it so that no one would suspect or discover it, and then expressed her hope to receive his embrace so that she could also become a vampire.
Guo Tianxiang readily agreed. Later, when the two met in private, he did not harm the dreadlocked female hacker, Mi Qiao. Instead, he promised her that if she helped him find at least one other vampire or Mutated Creature, he would turn her into his blood slave and grant her immortality.
Xiang Kun knew that Guo Tianxiang must have used hypnosis on Mi Qiao. However, this female hacker was actually lucky. Perhaps Guo Tianxiang needed her hacking skills to do things for him. Otherwise, she would most likely have become food for this vampire.
From his memories related to Mi Qiao, Xiang Kun also saw Guo Tianxiang receive a message from Mi Qiao, then establish a video chat with her, and see the chat content between her and Xiang Kun's Zhihu alias "Pipi Kaka Qiuqiu".
He saw Guo Tianxiang loudly instructing Mi Qiao through the video that she must lure Xiang Kun out by any means necessary, and that he had directly told Mi Qiao all the information about vampires.
Through Guo Tianxiang's subjective perspective, Xiang Kun could see that in the live video call, Mi Qiao looked panicked, clearly frightened by Guo Tianxiang's state, which was why she so quickly broke down her "August's Kasumi" persona—although this did not affect Xiang Kun's ability to see through their pretense.
Although he could not perceive the original owner's emotions most of the time, Xiang Kun could judge Guo Tianxiang's state of being furious and somewhat out of control by observing his own side of the video call and the behavior of the female hacker Mi Qiao.
It seems that Guo Tianxiang's blood-drinking period has reached a critical point, just as Xiang Kun had guessed. It is very likely that ordinary fresh blood will no longer be able to completely alleviate his hunger, and he will need the blood of other vampires or Mutated Creature.
Xiang Kun's plan for the time being is to ignore Mi Qiao.
He speculated that the female hacker might not discover Guo Tianxiang's disappearance in the short term—even if there was no response to her calls, she might just think that the other party was ignoring her.
If necessary, Xiang Kun could also impersonate Guo Tianxiang reply to Mi Qiao.
After all, through Guo Tianxiang's memories, he knew their communication habits and had seen a lot of their conversations.
As soon as he opened the door, the canary fluttered its wings and flew over, landing "obediently" on his shoulder and chirping a few times.
Xiang Kun could hear its excited sounds; it was welcoming him back.
It felt like the emperor had personally led an expedition, leaving ministers to guard the capital. Now that the emperor had returned, the ministers were happily coming to greet him, boasting, "These ministers guarded the city perfectly!"
Xiang Kun reached out his hand, and the canary immediately hopped into his palm, letting him stroke it a few times. Its eyes were slightly closed and its neck slightly tucked in, as if it was enjoying it.
Feeling the warmth of the canary's body, Xiang Kun suddenly had a thought. He blinked hard, felt the temperature around him, and then focused his attention on the canary again.
Suddenly, Xiang Kun realized that the colors of the entire world had been instantly stripped away. Whether it was the canary in his hand or the rabbit in the kitchen, they were covered with patches of color of varying shades, just like the scene observed by an infrared imaging device in a movie.
However, it differs from infrared imaging seen before; there are fewer normal outlines, while the color blocks are richer and denser.
Xiang Kun grinned; he had indeed acquired this ability from Guo Tianxiang's blood.
Since I have this ability, perhaps I've already acquired the other two abilities related to the eyes?
Like a child who has received a new toy, Xiang Kun let the canary fly back to the open cage, then went to take a few rabbits to conduct experiments, observing the composition of the various red patches on their bodies.
He looked at his body again and saw that, sure enough, it was a light red with patches of blue.
He already possessed night vision from the "Giant Owl," and now with this infrared thermal imaging-like visual ability, he would have a visual advantage regardless of whether it was day or night, whether it was a foggy day or the complex terrain of a dense forest.
Especially now, if he encounters other vampires or Mutated Creature, with both his sight and smell to detect them simultaneously, he is likely to gain the upper hand, discover the opponent first, and take the initiative.
Unfortunately, infrared thermal imaging doesn't seem to be able to penetrate walls yet. Plastic bags, curtains, and glass are no problem, but thicker walls are beyond its reach unless the target organism has extremely high heat and is very close to the wall.
During a break from researching his new ability, Xiang Kun casually sensed the current locations of several items he had established a connection with.
That Tissue 2 has now traveled across the ocean to America, and he can still sense it. Moreover, his senses haven't diminished significantly. The total time he's been sensing it is now 2 hours and 36 minutes. Of course, the actual time spent is definitely longer.
He could determine the direction of Tissue 2, but he couldn't determine its exact location out of thin air, nor could he estimate the distance, since he had never been to those places.
Besides, the Ballpoint Pen Tip that was placed on the boy with the earring is still in the city, but judging from its location, it is most likely no longer on him, because that location is in the junkyard.
But when Xiang Kun sensed the one-yuan Coin he had given to the Little Chubby Girl Liu Shiling, he was somewhat surprised. Although he could still locate the direction of the Coin, the sensation was weaker than at the beginning.
If this happened with a tissue, Xiang Kun could easily understand it, because if the tissue broke into several pieces, his senses would only be preserved in a portion of them, and the effect would be weakened, as he had proven through previous experiments.
But those are Coin!
Could it be that the Little Chubby Girl lost the Coin, and then something chipped off part of it?
I'll have to find some time to confirm this after things are settled here.
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