Xiang Kun's "Tentacles"

"They actually caught the doll!" Yang Zhen'er couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Tang Baona, holding the doll she had just grabbed, looked at Xiang Kun with some excitement. "Your method really worked!"

Xiang Kun also feigned surprise and gave her a thumbs up. "I didn't expect you to be able to catch it. It seems you have a real talent for claw machines. No wonder you're known as the 'Iron Claw Princess of the Tang Clan'."

"Pah! You call yourself 'Iron Hand of the Beggars' Sect'?" Tang Baona retorted with a grin, holding the doll.

While talking Xiang Kun Tang Baona, Xiang Kun was secretly reflecting on his actions: although he had successfully increased the current in the coil on the claw, allowing it to firmly grasp the doll, he had clearly not controlled it well and had used too much force.

Fortunately, normally no one would suspect that he tampered with the equipment; at most, they would think the machine malfunctioned. Let alone others, even he himself wouldn't have imagined that someone could do this a month ago.

Xiang Kun and Yang Zhen'er each carried a bag of drinks and snacks, while Tang Baona held the plush toy she had won. The three of them chatted and laughed as they returned to the hotel.

There were eight of them this time, which was just enough for two people to share a standard room: Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er, Yang Zhuo and Xiao Min, Zhang Qian and Yang Jie, Xiang Kun naturally shared a room with himself.

After sharing drinks and snacks with Tang Baona in the other rooms, Xiang Kun flicked the Coin he had placed on top of the claw machine at her before returning to his room.

Tang Baona instinctively reached out and caught it, then heard Xiang Kun say, "This Lucky Coin is for you. Didn't you want to learn how to flip Coin? I'll send you a practice video later. Practice it first, and ask me if you have any questions."

Tang Baona glanced at the ordinary one-yuan Coin in her hand, smiled, and nodded, saying, "Okay!"

Back in her room, Tang Baona held the Coin between her fingers and tried to flip it, just like she had seen Xiang Kun do. However, the Coin only managed to flip twice before it got stuck, and her fingers almost cramped up.

Thinking of how nimbly Xiang Kun flipped Coin, she couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. Could it be that her fingers, capable of playing the piano and guitar, were no match for Xiang Kun on a keyboard?

On the other side, Xiang Kun knocked on the door for a while before Zi Chengcai rushed over with his phone to open it. As soon as the door opened, he looked down at his phone again, quickly returned to the bed, sat cross-legged, and focused intently on playing a game.

Xiang Kun was a little curious. Zi Cheng had always looked down on mobile games, thinking their controls were too "childish" and boring. He never expected him to suddenly become a fan.

However, recalling the time he and Tang Baona had just delivered drinks to the other rooms, he instantly understood what was going on—besides him, Tang Baona, Yang Zhen'er going shopping, Yang Zhuo, Xiao Min, Zhang Qian, and Yang Jie were all playing the same game.

The five of them are playing "Honor of Kings" together.

Sure enough, Yang Jie's voice came from Zicheng's phone. "Where's the jungler? Come quick! Stop focusing on killing jungle monsters, they're about to beat me to death!"

Zicheng quickly said, "Coming, coming right away!"

"No way, Brother Liu! Clear this jungle camp first! You're only level 3, we'll just be feeding kills if we go there! Don't listen to my sister, she just loves to yell when she plays! Sis, you're the top laner, you're the tank, don't go and pressure two people by yourself, just farm under the tower, understand?" Yang Zhuo said in a worried tone.

But the next moment, Yang Jie screamed in agony, "Ah! I'm dead!"

"Don't worry, I'll avenge you right away!" Zicheng quickly said.

"Yang Zhuo, stop following Liu Chuang and come with me! I'm going to get beaten to death too!" Zhang Qian's voice rang out, sounding somewhat exasperated.

Xiao Min's voice followed. "Come to mid lane, honey, come to mid lane quickly, I'm going to kill this Zhen Ji!"

Then came the notification sound, "Play it safe and don't be reckless!" It's obvious that it was sent by the miserable Yang Zhuo.

Xiang Kun almost burst out laughing. He didn't disturb Zi Cheng and went to the table to charge his phone.

He set his phone to not automatically turn off the screen, then took out another Coin that had established a "Super-Sensory Link" and placed it next to the phone. Staring at the phone on the table, he began to concentrate and entered a "Hyper-Sensory State."

After drinking the blood this time, he entered a "Hyper-Sensory State" very quickly. As long as he was mentally prepared, he could enter the state in almost one to two seconds.

In his "Hyper-Sensory State," Xiang Kun easily identified the feedback from his phone and determined its location.

Then he began trying to influence the phone using the Coin.

Touchscreens in electronic products typically consist of two transparent resistive conductor layers, an insulating layer between the conductor layers, and electrodes.

When the touchscreen is working, the two conductive layers act as a resistive network. When a voltage is applied to one of the electrodes, a voltage gradient is generated on this network. If an external force causes the upper and lower layers to contact at a certain point, the voltage at the contact point can be measured on the other layer where no voltage is applied, thus revealing the coordinates of the contact point.

However, most mobile phones nowadays use capacitive screens. When a person touches the touchscreen, the electric field of the human body creates a coupling capacitor between the finger and the touchscreen surface. For high-frequency currents, a capacitor is a direct conductor, so the finger draws a small current from the point of contact. This current flows out from the electrodes at the four corners of the screen. Theoretically, the current flowing through the four electrodes is proportional to the distance from the finger to the four corners. The controller calculates the position by analyzing the ratio of the four currents and sends the result to the processor.

In the "Hyper-Sensory State," Xiang Kun can influence people or objects around him through "Super-Sensory Link" and "Emotional Injection" objects. Although these influences cannot simulate actual contact and are more about affecting electric and magnetic fields, they have a great advantage: this influence can penetrate directly into the interior of any object, completely ignoring obstacles.

In his "Hyper-Sensory State," as long as Xiang Kun can "understand" what the information from the surrounding environment represents, he has a way to influence it in the opposite direction. All objects and all substances that can provide feedback are essentially defenseless against him; this is a domain that only he can navigate.

In theory, Xiang Kun could bypass the phone screen and send coordinates to the controller, or even send the desired operation information directly to the processor.

Unfortunately, that operation was too complicated, and he found it difficult not only to perform it but also to observe and interpret the information. So in the end, he could only simulate it by observing the current drawn when a finger touches the screen.

After several attempts to switch out of "Hyper-Sensory State," Xiang Kun finally succeeded:

I randomly opened an app on my phone.

Yes, for him now, even this one operation is quite difficult.

He couldn't even accurately control where the touch was triggered; he meant to open WeChat, but ended up opening Alipay instead.

However, for Xiang Kun, being able to have this level of influence while in a "Hyper-Sensory State" was already quite exciting.

As time went on, he became more and more familiar with the "Hyper-Sensory State," and as he was able to analyze more and more environmental information, he was naturally able to exert more and more complex influences.

After being affected by his "Hyper-Sensory State," the phone screen seemed to have some "aftereffects," becoming somewhat unresponsive for a short period of time, as if the touch points were fixed.

Fortunately, turning off the screen and waiting about half a minute restored the display.

Xiang Kun studied it for a while longer, and seeing Zi Cheng engrossed in playing the game with sweat beading on his forehead, he suddenly had a mischievous idea.

He lay down on his bed, placed his phone and the Coin on the bedside table between himself and Zicheng, then closed his eyes as if preparing to sleep.

In reality, he entered a "Hyper-Sensory State," locked onto his own phone, and began using the Coin on the bedside table to exert influence.

"Here I come! I'm here! We can win this wave!" Zicheng was controlling the jungler A Ke in this game, but after entering the fray and seeing that Yang Zhuo's support and Zhang Qian's marksman had already been eliminated, he immediately changed his tune, saying, "No, no, we can't win the team fight, let's retreat and defend one wave at a time!"

"What the hell are you retreating for! They've used all their skills on me, go and finish them off, Brother Liu..." Yang Zhuo's desperate and hoarse voice came through the phone.

Zi Cheng decided to play it safe for now and prioritize stability, and he also wanted to protect Yang Jie's Arthur during their retreat.

But suddenly the arrow keys stopped working, and his character became uncontrollable and started veering off course.

"Holy crap, what's going on? The screen's frozen?! Damn it, my Apple!! No, I mean China Unicom, this lousy network! I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck..."

Seeing his character running back into the enemy heroes, Zicheng frantically flicked the directional keys, trying to bring it back, while subconsciously pressing various skill and attack buttons, pressing whichever skill was available.

Unexpectedly, with all the opponents low on health and having used up their main crowd control abilities, Zicheng's A Ke kept racking up kills and refreshing her skills, achieving a quadra kill and directly reversing the situation.

"66666, Brother Chuang is awesome! That's how it should be done! Hey? You just said you were stuck?" Yang Zhuo's voice rang out.

Zi Cheng paused for a moment, then chuckled, "Yeah, it lagged a bit, otherwise I would have gotten a pentakill. Ugh, damn it, China Unicom is so unreliable!"

Having emerged from his "Hyper-Sensory State," Xiang Kun was completely bewildered upon hearing this. He hadn't intentionally helped Zi Cheng counterattack; in fact, even if he wanted to, he couldn't. He couldn't even precisely open an application, let alone accurately control a game character. He had simply been interfering with Zi Cheng, preventing him from controlling the game freely...

As if he had discovered a new toy, Xiang Kun once again entered a "Hyper-Sensory State," using the "Emotional Injection" items scattered throughout the area as "portals" and "jump points."

Items that "Emotional Injection" can make his senses "descend," while items that "Super-Sensory Link" can make him appear to influence the objects around him.

Therefore, he directly sensed the "Rabbit Woodcarving," and in a "Hyper-Sensory State," he "descended" to the vicinity of the wood carving, and then quickly discovered the bone with which he had established a "Super-Sensory Link."

On the day Chang Bin got married, Xiang Kun had already sensed that the bone had left the Qinling Uninhabited Zone.

However, based on subsequent continuous sensing, the bone was not sent to Qicheng City, but rather in another direction.

The city he was sent to was one that Xiang Kun hadn't been to since the mutation, so he could sense the general direction but couldn't pinpoint the exact location.

Now it seems we at least know that the bone and the Rabbit Woodcarving were both taken to the same place.

Based on the information he had gathered from the past, he determined that they were currently on the second basement level of a high-rise building. Even though it was past midnight, there were still a few scattered people on this floor.

Xiang Kun had used the Rabbit Woodcarving to perceive his surroundings in a "Hyper-Sensory State" more than once before, so he had some understanding of the feedback from the bodies of the members who transported the Rabbit Woodcarving and other items out of the Qinling Uninhabited Zone.

According to his judgment, the person closest to the bone with which he had established a "Super-Sensory Link" should be one of the members who transported these items from the Qinling Uninhabited Zone.

The location of these things now is definitely another secret Research Base of "Shenxing Technology", and the people still around them at this time are definitely related researchers.

Xiang Kun pondered, "Is there anything I can do?"

In a high-tech industrial park in Baoqing City Ironpeace Town.

On the second basement floor of a building, Fang Pingfang, dressed in work clothes, was in a laboratory looking at various data on a computer screen, frowning in thought.

After bringing those things out of the Qinling Uninhabited Zone, she got into the car arranged by "Mr. Liang" and followed those "things" all the way to the research center in Ironpeace Town.

This is Fang Pingfang, and it's her first time here.

Clearly, compared to the Research Base in Qicheng City, the equipment here is more complete and newer, and the confidentiality and security measures are also more comprehensive. It must have been built not long ago.

Originally, "Mr. Liang" planned to give all the members who entered the Qinling Uninhabited Zone a vacation so that they could rest properly. After all, exploring the Qinling Uninhabited Zone for more than half a month was a great test for most people, both physically and mentally.

However, Fang Pingfang refused to take a vacation and instead took the initiative to apply to "Mr. Liang" to continue participating in the analysis and research of the items brought out from the Qinling Uninhabited Zone.

In fact, the primary target of the analysis was that "Rabbit Woodcarving".

However, after testing and researching with various devices, they did not obtain much valuable information.

The only slightly useful thing they learned was that the Rabbit Woodcarving was made with a pointed metal object. From the metal shavings left on the carving, they could determine the material of the carving tool. They could then try to find similar metal objects of the same shape and material on the market.

But this approach is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack; you might end up with nothing despite all your efforts.

The fact that there was no trace of human or humanoid DNA or fingerprints on the wood carving was also very puzzling to them. After all, the "person" who appeared in the Qinling Uninhabited Zone wasn't even wearing shoes, running around barefoot. Would they have deliberately worn gloves when carving this rabbit?

Thinking back to the peculiar and bizarre "rabbit meat intrusion dream" she had on the way back, Fang Pingfang felt a mix of fear and excitement.

When I returned to China, I accepted Mr. Liang's invitation, signed a confidentiality agreement, and joined this secret department of "Shenxing Technology"—wasn't it precisely because I could research these unknown and mysterious things?

In the past two days, she shifted her attention from the Rabbit Woodcarving to other items brought out from the Qinling Uninhabited Zone, hoping to find a breakthrough from those items and the footprint.

The lights in the lab flickered suddenly. Fang Pingfang looked up in surprise. The equipment in this research center was very advanced, and the supporting facilities were also very well done. The voltage was always very stable. She had been staying there very late these past few days, and this was the first time she had encountered such a flickering light.