Reaching an Agreement (Bonus Chapter for Patron aspirincl 3)

Twenty-one minutes after Xiang Kun drank the rabbit blood and red wine, he still felt nauseous. However, what he vomited, besides the red wine, also contained a lot of blood.

He wiped his mouth, frowning in thought. Did this method involve repeated trials to make his digestive system "think" that drinking red wine, like blood, was something to be absorbed? Forcing his digestive system to mutate and adapt?

If one cannot accept red wine, then one cannot drink blood. Perhaps the digestive system would indeed be forced to change its structure to adapt to and absorb red wine in order to "survive"?

Guo Tianxiang may have mutated his digestive system in this way to "digest" red wine and then excrete the residue through urine, which explains why he urinated on the street.

If that's the case, wouldn't it also allow the digestive system to adapt to other foods?

Xiang Kun couldn't help but feel a little hopeful. If this method succeeded, it would be much better than his method of swallowing pebbles, and it would make eating with others much more convenient.

I'm just wondering about the intensity of this targeted training. Is it limited to liquids, or can any food be included?

Xiang Kun found it strange again. Why did Guo Tianxiang insist on drinking red wine? Why not other beverages or food? Wouldn't beer, baijiu, or other spirits work? Aren't cola, Sprite, Midea, or Orette good enough? Why only red wine? Does it look more upscale?

He poured a little more red wine. Looking at the red liquid, Xiang Kun suddenly realized that perhaps Guo Tianxiang's training method was not only to make the body feel that it had to accept red wine in order to drink blood, but perhaps he was also hypnotizing himself, making himself drink the red wine as if it were blood, thus reducing the resistance and rejection of his stomach and body.

If that's the case, then the only edible things are limited to red liquids. Besides red wine, what else is there? Watermelon juice? Radish juice? Tomato juice?

In any case, if Xiang Kun had a choice, he definitely wouldn't have chosen red wine as his training drink; watermelon juice would probably have been a better choice.

The problem is, he hasn't yet found a way to use Guo Tianxiang's "Eye-Contact Hypnosis," let alone "self-hypnosis." Forcing himself to believe that the watermelon juice he's drinking is blood is probably going to be difficult.

However, it's not like you can't try it.

As Xiang Kun was pondering, he noticed that the canary had flown onto the table at some point and was tilting its head, looking at him.

It seems a bit strange that I kept vomiting just now?

Well, from the bird's posture, Xiang Kun understood its meaning; it seemed to be... pitying itself?

October 18th, 7:00 AM.

Xiang Kun sat up in bed and first checked the time he had been asleep; it was still about 25 hours.

Based on the day he encountered Guo Tianxiang, and according to his normal blood-drinking cycle, the time when he felt hungry should have been after midnight on October 15th.

But perhaps because Xiang Kun had undergone several digestive system adaptation exercises involving watermelon juice mixed with fresh blood over the past few days, and had drunk a lot of fresh blood, even though he deliberately let it sit for a while to reduce the effects of the blood, he still ingested a lot of effective components. Therefore, the time when he finally felt hungry was postponed until the evening of October 16.

Then, in order to test the "bloodletting to suppress mania method" that Guo Tianxiang previously asked Mi Qiao to control "August's Kasumi" to use, Xiang Kun deliberately endured for four hours after feeling hungry before starting to bleed.

After drawing a total of 400ml of blood using disposable syringes, Xiang Kun did feel that the manic feeling caused by hunger was greatly relieved, but the feeling of hunger did not lessen much.

At the time, Guo Tianxiang had mentioned that he could use "blood from other animals" to alleviate his hunger, but the problem was that Xiang Kun's "staple food" was rabbit blood and other "blood from other animals," so he did not try to alleviate his hunger anymore, but continued to experience the feeling after bleeding.

Xiang Kun felt that after the bloodletting, his physical attributes such as strength, speed, and reaction time did not decline significantly, or rather, the amount of bloodletting had not reached the point of affecting his physical abilities. He guessed that the blood he released would likely "regenerate" in his body soon.

But there was a very mysterious, quite uncomfortable, and awkward feeling all over his body, a feeling that he couldn't quite put his finger on, so Xiang Kun didn't dare to bleed any more.

After enduring the night until sunrise, he suddenly felt a slight drowsiness, something that hadn't happened before he drank the blood.

However, Xiang Kun dared not try to sleep directly, as he was worried that he would sleep for an unpredictable period of time. Therefore, he began drinking blood after sunrise.

As he had predicted, his need for blood increased again, and he had to draw blood from four rabbits to relieve his hunger.

After waking up, Xiang Kun first performed his routine, measuring and compiling various data. Then, he took out the watermelon juice that had been prepared in the refrigerator, and without caring about the taste or how fresh it was, he gulped it down. Then he started timing, stood by the sink, and prepared to vomit.

To his surprise, he didn't vomit after twenty seconds.

It's important to know that, under normal circumstances, watermelon and watermelon juice are both within the 20-second range of being vomited.

Twenty minutes later, Xiang Kun gagged a few times and vomited a small amount of clear liquid. After a while, he felt the urge to urinate and went to the toilet.

He speculated that the urine likely came from the byproducts of the watermelon juice's digestion.

Xiang Kun still urinates, but very infrequently. He only needs to urinate when he drinks a large amount of water in a short period of time. Sometimes, he doesn't need to go to the toilet for two or three days without drinking water. It seems that the water he ingests through pure water and fresh blood is "swallowed" by his body out of thin air and is basically not excreted through urine or sweat.

Logically speaking, the water in watermelon juice should be no different from regular mineral water, boiled water, purified water, or the water in blood.

But he felt as if his digestive system was somewhat "discriminating" against the water in the watermelon juice, so it expelled it more quickly instead of "digesting" it along with regular water and the water in his blood.

In a normal person, water enters the stomach through the esophagus and then quickly enters the small intestine, where it is absorbed by the digestive system and enters the bloodstream. After being transported by the blood, the water and all crystals are filtered by the glomeruli and enter the renal tubules, becoming primary urine.

The renal tubules then reabsorb nutrients, most of the water, and inorganic salts from the primary urine back into the bloodstream, eventually excreting final urine containing a small amount of ammonia metabolites and salt solutions, which is then excreted through the ureters, bladder, and urethra.

Of course, this is for normal people.

Xiang Kun's digestive system must have undergone significant mutations. He suspects that the water and blood he drinks are processed in a completely different way than those of ordinary people after being absorbed into his blood plasma.

Now that drinking watermelon juice causes urination, it proves that the stomach and digestive system, after previous targeted training and a mutation, have reached an "agreement" with themselves, agreeing to include watermelon juice in the category of food that can be digested.

Although he still needs to vomit up a small portion, he believes that after two or three more blood-drinking periods of training and adaptation, there shouldn't be any problems.

It seems that although she doesn't have Guo Tianxiang's self-hypnotic abilities and can't "deceive" her own consciousness and body, her ability to "communicate" and "negotiate" with her stomach is still quite good.

For now, however, only liquid drinks can be consumed this way. He tried mixing fresh blood with cooked meat slices, bread, biscuits, and other similar foods and swallowing them, but the results were extremely disastrous...

Moreover, this training method will inevitably interfere with the blood-drinking cycle, which is something Xiang Kun dislikes.

Xiang Kun checked the time; it was almost eight o'clock. He then sent a message in the group chat on WeChat: "Come to my house for dinner tonight? Rabbit meat feast."

Yang Zhen'er immediately sent a crying emoji, "Why!?!?!"

Xiang Kun: "??"

Yang Zhen'er: "Why do you have to treat us when I'm on a trip with Mom and Dad?! No way!!!! Wait until I get back!!!"

Xia Libing: "Then why don't you wait for me to come back as well?"

Tang Baona sent a laughing emoji, "When is Lao Xia coming back?"

Xia Libing: "Maybe it's during the Spring Festival."

Tang Baona: "..."

Yang Zhen'er: "..."

Xiang Kun sent a monk scratching his head emoji. "What should I do? I've already prepared the rabbit meat."

Tang Baona: "It's okay, I can eat it. If I can't finish it, I can pack it up!"

So Xiang Kun and Tang Baona made arrangements to come over for dinner at 6 p. m.

Now he needs the blood of four rabbits to eat at one meal, which means he has four rabbits to eat, and they are all Belgian meat rabbits that are a size larger than the previous meat rabbits. Although he fattened them up after buying them, the amount is still quite sufficient. Moreover, Xiang Kun himself will only eat a little bit, so Tang Baona alone is destined to not be able to finish it.

Xiang Kun prepared six different dishes with rabbit meat as the main ingredient, ranging from cold dishes to soups. Then, following Tang Baona's strong suggestion, he added a vegetable dish.

Since there was only one "diner" today, he modified the recipes and seasoned them specifically to suit Tang Baona's taste, believing that she would be satisfied.

At 5:20 p. m., Tang Baona came and knocked on the door.

After Xiang Kun opened the door and let her in, he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Why are you here so early? Aren't you supposed to get off work at five o'clock?"

Tang Baona chuckled, "I'll leave a little early, no problem." As she spoke, her eyes immediately fell on the birdcage in the living room, and she exclaimed in surprise, "You bought a new pet again? Wait, the rabbit wasn't a pet before... so this bird..."

Xiang Kun quickly said, "Don't even think about eating it! This isn't for eating, it's a canary! An ornamental bird!"

Tang Baona glared at him and said, "Who said I wanted to eat him! Do you think I'm that kind of person?!" She then went over to tease the canary.

"Why did you leave the cage open? Aren't you afraid it will fly away?" Tang Baona asked curiously.

"I only left it on because I knew it wouldn't run around. Uh, be careful, don't put your hands under it, or it might poop," Xiang Kun said.

At this moment, the canary chirped twice, hopped around in the cage a few times, and then ran to the side.

Tang Baona laughed and said, "It seems to like me a lot. Is it welcoming me?"

Xiang Kun laughed, "Let me translate its cry; it roughly means 'Don't touch me!'"

Tang Baona: "..."

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