Xiang Kun caught a rabbit in the kitchen, intending to test its psychological effect.
From Guo Tianxiang's jumbled memories, it can be seen that he also had experiences of influencing animals and making them see things they feared.
So trying it on a rabbit should be fine.
After placing the rabbit on the dining table, Xiang Kun first stared at it from the front, trying to make eye contact with it.
Xiang Kun knew that rabbits' eyes were very different from humans' because of their different habits, resulting in different structures.
Rabbits have eyes located on the upper sides, giving them a visual range of approximately 360 degrees. They can see clearly both in front and behind, allowing them to guard against malicious creatures around them while grazing.
However, there is a small blind spot in front of the rabbit. At close range directly in front, only a two-dimensional image can be seen, and a three-dimensional image cannot be constructed.
Furthermore, rabbits have very weak eye muscles for focusing, so they have a poor ability to focus on close-up targets and cannot see them clearly, but they have a strong ability to focus on distant targets and can see them clearly.
To avoid making a seductive gesture that would be misleading to the blind man, Xiang Kun first approached him slowly from the front, then gradually moved to a slightly angled position, maintaining a certain distance. He also bent down slightly so that his eyes were aligned with the blind man's, allowing him to see his gaze clearly and "make eye contact" with him.
Although he had seen Guo Tianxiang's memories of him using this ability multiple times, and had even been a target himself once, these experiences only showed him the results of the ability's application, not the process, method, or triggering pattern. He could only try it himself, just like when he first discovered the visual pattern of infrared thermal imaging.
It's like getting a four-wheeled machine. You know it can run, but how exactly to drive it is something you have to figure out by yourself. And the normal way to figure it out is to try it out first, using the driving methods you're familiar with from driving other cars before.
While maintaining eye contact with the rabbit, Xiang Kun switched his vision to infrared imaging mode.
Seemingly sensing that Xiang Kun harbored ill intentions, the rabbit tried to hop away.
Xiang Kun keenly observed the changes in the rabbit's thigh muscles, and just as it was about to jump, he reached out and pressed it down, making it lie flat on the table again.
After trying repeatedly and using various methods, Xiang Kun still couldn't find a way to make the rabbit see something it feared through eye contact.
There were even two unintentional triggers of "Mental Intimidation," but fortunately it was only a "suppressive" type, not a "killing" type, so the impact on the rabbit was not very significant, and it recovered after a while.
Xiang Kun felt that although his abilities of "Mental Intimidation," "Emotional Assimilation," and "Super-Sensory Link" differed from Guo Tianxiang's abilities of "Eye-Contact Hypnosis" and "Fear Projection Through Eye Contact," they were likely the same in essence and at a fundamental level.
This is the method that Xiang Kun has been pondering and searching for. He always felt that once he found it, it might lead him into a completely new field, allowing him to understand his mutation from a completely new perspective, and even to rediscover the entire world.
Based on Xiang Kun's current line of thinking and his initial analysis derived from his knowledge system, it is related to the particle properties in the microscopic realm.
These abilities all share a common characteristic: they are connected to the user's consciousness.
The normal human brain contains hundreds of billions of interconnected neurons. Each neuron has tens of thousands of dendrites, which connect with the axon terminals of other neurons to form synaptic structures, thereby transmitting signals.
In addition to neurons, the brain contains glial cells, which outnumber neurons by several times and account for more than half of the brain's volume.
Glial cells form segments of myelin sheath on the axon, with the spaces between them called nodes of Ranvier, and electrical signals are rapidly conducted along the axon in a skipping manner.
It is very likely that the constant changes in electrical potential and signal transmission within the extremely complex nervous system constitute our consciousness. Of course, it can also be said that these are products of consciousness.
Regardless of how it is defined, essentially, only matter can interact with and influence matter.
Therefore, it can also be said that consciousness is composed of elementary particles.
We generally believe that for human consciousness to influence the real world, it needs to control the brain to send various signals to the body, and then take actions such as speaking, acting, or other behaviors to affect the outside world. Consciousness also needs to obtain information from the outside world through various sensory organs and nerves, and then transform it into various signals in the brain.
But Mutated Creature like Xiang Kun, Guo Tianxiang, and Giant Owl may have evolved some kind of function in their brains that allows their consciousness to directly connect with and influence the outside world.
This effect is likely achieved through the microscopic realm, through many currently unknown particle properties.
Therefore, they can perceive the location of the object they are connecting with regardless of distance, influence other people's emotions remotely, and make others see what they fear in their hearts, which they themselves can also see.
Of course, these are still just his reasoning and wild ideas—it's his habit to first find a plausible theory based on his own knowledge, regardless of the phenomenon. Whether they are correct or not requires further verification.
Regardless of whether Xiang Kun's mutated abilities have surpassed the limits of current scientific research, the only methods he can use to explore and analyze himself are still those known in modern science.
Just like at the level of consciousness and brain thinking, all he can think of is to make observations and judgments through fMRI, EEG, EcoG, MEG, and the like.
In fact, there have been many achievements in the research on reading brain consciousness by interpreting brain waves. The most common application is to type or make sounds by reading brain waves.
For example, at the Facebook F8 developer conference in 2017, a system was demonstrated that allowed an ALS patient to type using their brain.
In 2018, Capital University published a study on a technique that can reconstruct images seen in a person's brain by reading their brainwaves.
However, these studies are currently limited to interpreting brain activity and are primarily focused on functional cognition.
If Xiang Kun wants to delve deeper into these fields, he either needs to become an expert and join various research institutions and laboratories, or he needs to earn enough money to invest in his own research and have others do the work for him.
Of course, Xiang Kun isn't in a hurry right now. For the time being, his priority is to master the abilities he possesses and guide their evolution step by step.
Even if Mike Tyson didn't know how many muscles the human body has, how each muscle contracts and stretches when he throws a punch, how food is absorbed and transformed, how adenosine triphosphate is broken down, or how mitochondria in cells consume organic matter and oxygen, it wouldn't prevent him from conducting systematic training and then stepping into the boxing ring to punch the whiny boxers one by one.
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