To use an analogy, Guo Tianxiang's memories are now like tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of txt files, with no regularity in their titles, all of which are parts of the text content.
Each txt file contains diary entries that may span several hours or even minutes. However, these entries do not have dates at the beginning, and they are not arranged chronologically. The actual time and place of the events can only be determined by inferring from the specific content within them.
Now Xiang Kun can use keywords to search the entire folder. For example, searching for the name of the dreadlocked female hacker, Mi Qiao, will bring up content related to her.
Or, if you remember a file you've seen before, you can annotate it and retrieve it directly when needed.
If we interpret these txt files as various first-person memory scenes and fragments, then this is the current state of Guo Tianxiang's memory storage in Xiang Kun's mind.
Chaotic, complex.
In Xiang Kun's first impression, there were no scenes in these memories that looked like targeted training, and he didn't know how to search for such content, since he didn't know what aspects Guo Tianxiang would train if he did conduct targeted training.
But just like his targeted training, to improve a certain aspect, you definitely need to do a lot of high-intensity repetitive exercises.
This can also be used to retrieve Guo Tianxiang's memories.
However, after searching, Xiang Kun discovered that besides drinking blood, Guo Tianxiang's most frequent activity was having sexual relations with various women...
Therefore, Xiang Kun had no choice but to study these memory fragments and images from an academic perspective.
If he could obtain these memory fragments before the mutation, Xiang Kun would probably be secretly thrilled! This is a huge amount of VR resources!
But after the mutation, he can suppress that desire if he wants to.
In fact, not long after the mutation occurred, he secretly tested whether his sexual abilities had changed. As a man, this was definitely a matter of great concern.
Fortunately, there were no problems. He was still able to experience pleasure in that area, and his function seemed to have been enhanced, just like his physical abilities.
However, the resulting substance, like other bodily tissues, will turn into gray powder after about ten minutes, so whether it can still be used for reproduction is questionable.
Moreover, unlike before, he can now directly sever **'s influence on him whenever he wants.
For example, in the past, if he saw certain pictures or videos, he would raise the flag and have impulses and thoughts. Once these impulses and thoughts arose, if they were not resolved, it would take a long time to shift his attention, and he would always be unable to help but recall those pictures or clips again, in a vicious cycle.
But now, if he wants, he can temporarily suppress that impulse; in other words, he can control his desires instead of being influenced by them.
**It is a reward mechanism that organisms have evolved to reproduce and spread their genes as much as possible. Once you have the idea of having a relationship with the opposite sex, your brain will produce a large amount of dopamine and endorphins as a reward, which will strengthen this expectation. This is an instinct engraved in your genes.
Xiang Kun wondered if his body had decided that it no longer needed to rely on traditional sexual relationships to reproduce and spread its genes?
But Guo Tianxiang so enthusiastic about doing that?
Just because of boredom?
Xiang Kun focused his attention on the scenes of Guo Tianxiang's physical interactions with numerous women in his memory, analyzing and statistically examining them from an academic and rational perspective.
He wanted to see if Guo Tianxiang, who had engaged in so many sexual activities, had experienced any mutations or evolutions in his sexual abilities, and to determine whether Guo Tianxiang had the ability to guide mutations.
Although there is no timeline and we don't know which segment came first and which came later, as long as the differences are shown, they can be used for comparison.
They should at least get better with practice, not worse, right? They're vampires, after all!
But after studying those memory fragments all night, and even compiling a table for statistics and comparison, Xiang Kun discovered that apart from the increasingly wide range of types of women this guy was having relationships with, there weren't many other changes.
Could this evolution occur in the brain's neural pathways, leading to increasingly intense pleasure?
In the end, Xiang Kun had no choice but to abandon his plan to study Guo Tianxiang's evolutionary abilities from this perspective and instead turn to studying other memory fragments.
Whether it's the fragments of "Eye-Contact Hypnosis" or "Self-Fear Projection," Xiang Kun. He couldn't lock onto and search for them like he could when looking for memories related to the female hacker Mi Qiao or other scenes.
It seems that to search for memories, one cannot use a conceptual approach; one must be specific to the scene and image, unless one has already seen all those memories and categorized them by labeling them.
It's like those "Eye-Contact Hypnosis" clips that Xiang Kun had already found; now, if you want to find them, you can see them immediately.
After observing Guo Tianxiang's hypnosis process again, Xiang Kun felt that his inability to achieve "Eye-Contact Hypnosis" might be due to a problem with his voice.
Guo Tianxiang's voice is very distinctive; it's a magnetic baritone voice that's very pleasant to listen to and easily inspires trust.
So Xiang Kun tried to imitate it, but just like when he tried to imitate the song of a canary, he failed. His vocal system had not yet undergone targeted evolution.
Could it be that Guo Tianxiang's speech system also holds a secret? And I haven't been able to acquire the corresponding ability, which is why Eye-Contact Hypnosis failed?
After thinking it over, Xiang Kun decided to use another method to explore Guo Tianxiang's memories and find the key points he might have missed. That was to go to the places where Guo Tianxiang had been before and use the images of the environment or the people he had come into contact with to evoke the corresponding memory images, thereby establishing more accurate memory anchors.
However, this is a rather dangerous activity, so caution is advised.
From his memories of the female hacker Mi Qiao, Xiang Kun knew that Guo Tianxiang was now an unlicensed private doctor who only treated a very small number of wealthy people who came through connections. Appointments were required to see him. For the past month or so, he had canceled all his appointments and was prepared to disappear at any time, having also made all the necessary arrangements.
Therefore, even if he suddenly disappears, no one will report him missing.
But it's hard to say whether someone is looking for him, such as a patient's family member who discovered a problem after treatment, a police officer who found something suspicious, an enemy that Xiang Kun hasn't yet discovered from his memories, or even other vampires who might also want to hunt him down. None of these are impossible.
First, Xiang Kun wanted to check the contents of Guo Tianxiang's phone. He hadn't turned it on at home, but had taken the phone back to a neighboring city and found a relatively secluded place without surveillance cameras to turn it on.
In that case, if someone were to actually locate and monitor Guo Tianxiang's phone, they would assume that he had never left the neighboring city.
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