Everyone Had Too Much Time on Their Hands

According to the original blood-drinking pattern, Xiang Kun should have felt hungry on November 4th, which was yesterday morning, and then performed his routine blood-drinking.

Based on the previous blood-drinking baseline, he should still be drinking the blood of four Belgian rabbits this time, or at most five if there is an increase.

To Xiang Kun's surprise, after drinking the blood of four rabbits, he still felt extremely hungry, so he took the blood of two more rabbits.

However, even after consuming the blood of six rabbits, the feeling of hunger persisted.

Originally, Xiang Kun had six plump Belgian rabbits at home. Based on past experience, their blood-drinking capacity should increase steadily and linearly. Normally, given that they drank blood from four rabbits last time, having six already provided a large margin.

After all, he still lives in the community. If he raises too many rabbits at once, it will easily attract the attention of neighbors and property management, and the smell will also be quite strong, so it's unnecessary.

I didn't expect the amount of blood they drank to increase so suddenly; six of them weren't enough.

Fortunately, although he still felt hungry due to insufficient blood intake, he was also sleepy, which meant he had met the basic requirements. So Xiang Kun didn't risk going out to find new blood sources and simply fell asleep.

The last time he had insufficient blood, he slept for 32 hours. This time, he slept from 8 a. m. on the 4th until 9 p. m. the next day, a total of 37 hours!

Before sensing the Minion that Little Apple received, Xiang Kun had been undergoing physical tests and pondering the reason why his blood consumption had suddenly increased so much.

At this rate, he'll probably need to keep around ten rabbits at home from now on. I wonder if eight Belgian rabbits will be enough health next time?

After being "shocked" by Little Apple's dream, Xiang Kun turned his attention to the twelve wooden carvings.

If there was anything special about his Bloodlust period, it would be that he carved a total of fifteen wooden sculptures, including thirteen Minions, Arthas, and a canary.

However, the wood carvings of Arthas and Canary, because the wood had a pre-existing "Super-Sensory Link," were unable to achieve "Emotional Injection."

Therefore, only thirteen Minion Wooden Carving were actually "Emotional Injection".

However, thirteen is the most special connections he has established with items during a single Blood-Drinking period, including the establishment of "Super-Sensory Link."

Let's assume the reason for my significantly increased blood consumption is that I sculpted these thirteen "Emotional Injection" Minions. Then:

1. This shouldn't be due to excessive energy expenditure; otherwise, hunger should arise when energy consumption reaches a certain level, rather than appearing on schedule during the prescribed blood-drinking cycle. If the amount of blood consumed during this blood-drinking cycle is still more than 6 rabbits, this would confirm the point.

2. If the increased blood consumption was not due to the large amount of energy consumed by the thirteen "Emotional Injection," then it must be the process of completely completing the association after the blood-drinking sleep, which requires far more blood consumption than usual.

In other words, after Xiang Kun finished sculpting the thirteen "Minions" and completed the "Emotional Injection," the brain sent a "demand" to the body: to fully establish the connection, it needed to increase the consumption of blood. So when the blood-drinking period was over, the body, through a feeling of hunger, requested more blood from Xiang Kun.

This model seems similar to Xiang Kun's targeted training and guidance of mutations;

3. If point 2 holds true, then whether it's "Super-Sensory Link" or "Emotional Injection," these items that establish a special connection with Xiang Kun are actually the result of bodily mutation. In a sense, they could even be considered part of his being?

Therefore, Xiang Kun has always maintained a continuous connection with them in different ways, and it's not simply that he "endowed" those items with some function.

4. In that case, blood seems more like the "raw materials" he needs for each cycle of mutation and evolution. What about the energy he consumes during his daily activities? Is it converted and stored "incidentally" by his blood during the cyclical mutation process, like "recharging"? But why hasn't he ever experienced premature hunger due to excessive exercise? Is it because his daily exercise volume is negligible compared to his "energy"?

Or is there another system providing his daily energy? Besides blood, he hasn't eaten anything else; it can't possibly be "photosynthesis," can it?

Xiang Kun glanced at the cabinet with some annoyance; the microscope in the house was stored inside.

First, check if your cells are still powered by ATP, and then trace back to see if the source of ATP is the same as that of other humans.

Thinking back to the violent reactions of the red blood cells he had observed, Xiang Kun decided to put the problem aside for now, especially since he didn't have enough equipment. He picked up his phone and checked the various messages he had received during his 37-hour slumber.

On QQ, the old forum buddy who had previously outsourced work to him sent a few messages, saying that the investor who had mentioned the project before wanted to talk to Xiang Kun to see if Xiang Kun could come to Pengcheng to meet him or have a video conference online. Of course, if Xiang Kun was willing to go to Pengcheng, he would cover his round-trip business class flight and five-star hotel accommodations, plus a service fee.

The message was sent at 9 a. m. yesterday, not long after Xiang Kun had "fallen asleep".

After such a long time without a reply, Xiang Kun guessed that the other party probably thought he had been rejected.

Anyway Xiang Kun had always thought there was no chance of this happening. The other party would definitely require him to work in Pengcheng, which he couldn't accept. So there was nothing to regret. He would just send a message to his old friend tomorrow during the day to say that he hadn't been on QQ for the past few days and hadn't seen the message.

Meanwhile, You Meng sent him a message on WeChat, asking him to check his QQ email, where he had already filmed the first version of the video according to a shooting script that he had previously provided.

Xiang Kun opened his email, downloaded the video, and watched it. He shook his head in disbelief. You Meng's "acting" was terrible, and the whole video was so awkwardly shot that it was... a bit of an eyesore.

Xiang Kun thought about it. He naturally couldn't slowly cultivate You Meng's acting skills anymore, but if he arranged the storyboard properly during the actual filming and did some editing in post-production, he should be able to avoid a lot of problems.

But wouldn't it be unprofessional to just have a studio team take the photos? But if we want a more professional team, the price seems too high, and we can't afford it.

I can't possibly be a vampire who has to learn how to be a director, cinematographer, lighting technician, and editor, can I?

Thinking about Tang Baona's hobby, Xiang Kun decided to find some time tomorrow to ask her for advice.

Then Xiang Kun thought of the "demonstration video" that had been leaked at the "Youlong Restaurant." He wondered if the online buzz had died down after these past few days, so he went to Weibo and prepared to search using "bald brother" and "bamboo rat meat" as keywords.

But as soon as he typed in "bald", several options appeared in the list below:

"The bald chef and the bald lone ranger are the same person."

"The bald chef turned out to be a chivalrous hero."

"The Bald Chef God and the Fire Cloud Evil God"

Xiang Kun was completely bewildered, with a strange, uneasy feeling in his heart, so he tried searching for each one.

My premonition actually came true; all these headlines really are related to him!

Someone actually connected the image of himself in that cooking video with the hunched back image that circulated online before, and even earlier with himself kicking a knife-wielding assailant away from his rented apartment!

This is insane!

Is this ever going to end?!

They're really going to fleece you to death because they caught you?!

Xiang Kun scratched his head, somewhat puzzled. It was true that he showed his face in the cooking video, but the hunched-over image and the heroic act video—one only showed the back of his head, and the other had barely any clear image, let alone a clear face—how could anyone connect the three?

Only Tang Baona, Xia Libing, and Yang Zhen'er knew that these three were the same person!

Based on Xiang Kun's understanding of them, they would never spread rumors online without his permission.

After a few more minutes of searching, Xiang Kun finally found the "source of evil".

That's a user on Weibo; judging by the verification, they belong to some internet company.

Two days ago, he posted a Weibo, quoting a screenshot from Xiang Kun's cooking video, along with a photo of Xiang Kun carrying a satchel on his back on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a comparison image from the software:

"When I first saw this video, the main character looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't quite place where I'd seen him before. It wasn't until today, when I saw that Photoshopped image of the 'Urban Lone Ranger,' that I realized the two men's bald heads looked alike. So I used software to edit them and compared their head shapes, and I'm pretty sure they're the same person."

If he had hair, I wouldn't be entirely sure, but since he's bald and his ears are showing, judging from the picture, the accuracy rate is basically 90%.

90% my ass! Are you bored out of your mind?!

Xiang Kun couldn't help but want to cover his face.

Then he discovered that about 20 hours after that Weibo post, another Weibo user quoted the same Weibo and posted a blurry, enlarged screenshot of a video. The screenshot showed a bald man wearing a vest, shorts, and flip-flops, with his back to the camera, along with data comparing it to screenshots of cooking videos and images of a man carrying a backpack.

"The picture posted by this blogger looked familiar, which reminded me of a video that circulated online before. Although the video's clarity was poor, I was able to extract several key features through my processing. After comparing them, I concluded that there was an over 80% chance that these three people were the same person."

You guys were joking before that this bald chef might be a good fighter, and now it seems your words are coming true. But he stopped a serious crime, so he's a true hero."

Then, the blogger also posted a long infographic explaining in detail his algorithm for comparing three bald men, as well as the difference between bald man comparison recognition and facial recognition.

Upon Xiang Kun realized it was another person from an IT company!

Are all my colleagues this free?!