What It's Like to Become a Vampire
Chapter 576

Super-Sensory Information Disease Analysis Database

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When Xiang Kun and his three companions arrived at the Youlong Restaurant, it was a little after 8:40 p. m.

Normally, there would still be quite a few customers at the "Youlong Restaurant," but today the hotel closed its doors early and put up a "Closed for Business" sign.

After seeing the video and news of the plane crash on his phone, and confirming that Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, Yang Zhen'er were on that plane, You Meng lost all interest in going back to the kitchen.

Although most of the dishes are now prepared using standardized procedures, his presence or absence wouldn't have a significant impact, given that they now have two branches. However, You Meng isn't the only one who knows Xiang Kun. The management and veteran staff at this branch also know Xiang Kun. Whenever they develop new dishes, Xiang Kun personally guides them, helping them configure and optimize the processes.

Now that they know Xiang Kun, Ms. Tang, and Ms. Yang are all on that plane, and with the boss and his wife both distracted and staying in the upstairs private room, the atmosphere in the whole restaurant is off; no one is focused on what they're doing.

So You Meng instructed Liang Yulong to temporarily suspend business. Customers who had already ordered and received their food would have their meals free, receive a 100 yuan voucher, and have their food packed up. Those who had ordered but hadn't received their food yet would receive a 500 yuan voucher and a compressed package of smoked rabbit legs. Those queuing outside would also receive vouchers ranging from 100 to 300 yuan, depending on their number. These vouchers had no limit on the number of times they could be used; a single purchase of 500 yuan could be used to offset the entire 500 yuan, so most customers had no objections.

Of course, some people were very dissatisfied because their meal was interrupted and wanted an explanation, but when they learned that the owner's friend was on the ill-fated plane, they immediately expressed their understanding.

The video and news of the plane crash between Peng City and Jianzhou have already gone viral online, especially among the people of Tongshi Town Jianzhou City. Many of them have been sharing the news in their WeChat groups and Moments. After all, people from Tongshi Town usually fly to Jianzhou Airport when they want to go to other provinces, so this is something that happened in their neighborhood.

Put yourself in their shoes; if it were your own family or friends on that plane, you wouldn't be able to work either.

So soon, all the guests left, the shop doors closed again, and only the restaurant staff and people who knew Xiang Kun, such as Xia Tianhuo and Chu Xiuwen, were left in the lobby on the first floor, waiting for news.

Zhao Feng and Wang De'an naturally stayed behind as well, secretly using their phones to inquire about more concrete information through "Shenxing Technology's" channels.

Fortunately, shortly after the store closed, they saw the news of the plane's successful landing and the video of it landing safely. The store erupted in cheers, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Then You Meng called Xiang Kun's cell phone and learned that he, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhen'er had gotten off the plane and were all fine and uninjured. They then arranged to meet at the restaurant for dinner.

You Meng calculated their departure time from the airport and, along with the restaurant staff, busied themselves preparing a table of steaming hot food so that Xiang Kun could start eating as soon as they arrived at the restaurant.

"I'm starving! I'm starving!" As soon as she entered the store, Yang Zhen'er rushed to the table of dishes that had just been set out in the hall.

They were originally scheduled to arrive in Tongshi Town around 7 PM, just in time for dinner. But this unexpected turn of events made them so much later. She'd been so busy being scared on the plane, and then so excited and smug about discovering Lao Xia's secret, that she hadn't paid attention to her hunger. But as they approached Tongshi Town, Yang Zhen'er's stomach was growling unbearably; she felt like she could swallow a whole cow.

Tang Baona and Xia Libing were much more reserved, but they were also starving. After entering the store, they didn't bother to exchange pleasantries with their friends. They first slurped down a bowl of hot soup and then started eating staple food to fill their stomachs.

But seeing them like this made Liang Yulong very relieved. "Seeing you like this makes me feel relieved. If it were me, I probably would have been so scared after going through that that I wouldn't have been able to eat."

"Indeed, looking at the plane in the video, it was falling straight down, and the engine was on fire. It was really scary." Xia Tianhuo repeatedly. Although he complained about Yang the Third every day, he was genuinely worried about her safety.

With her mouth full of food, Yang Zhen'er tilted her head back and mumbled, "Even if it's scary, I still have to eat!"

Xia Tianhuo then asked, "By the way, Yang the Third, on your way from the airport, I saw some online media interviews with passengers from your flight. They all said that a little girl appeared outside the plane and protected it from the birds blowing up the remaining engine, allowing the plane to land safely. Did you see that little girl? There's a lot of skepticism online, saying that at that height, it's impossible for anyone to stand outside the plane without protection, let alone a little girl."

Yang Zhen'er looked at him blankly and said, "I don't know. I was probably too scared to notice what was happening outside. You can ask Nana." After saying that, she secretly winked at Lao Xia, but Lao Xia was engrossed in eating and didn't see her "triumphant" look at all.

Tang Baona shook her head. "I didn't notice either, I was so scared... I even closed my eyes! You should ask Xiang Kun!" Then she continued eating.

So in the lobby on the first floor, Xia Tianhuo, You Meng, Liang Yulong, Chu Xiuwen, Liu Caifu, including Zhao Feng, Wang De'an and others, all turned their gazes to Xiang Kun, who ate the most slowly among the four, waiting for his answer.

Because of his enhanced control over his body, Xiang Kun no longer needs to rely on the small pebbles he has established Super-Sensory Link to "soothe his stomach" and suppress vomiting when he eats. He can directly control the movement of food residue in his stomach and intestines. Although he cannot digest and absorb it directly yet, and will still vomit it out eventually, he can at least eat and drink very naturally now. He no longer has to endure the severe stomach discomfort that he had to endure when he used small pebbles to suppress vomiting before.

Facing the expectant gazes of the crowd, Xiang Kun smiled, wiped his mouth, and said, "I'm not quite sure either. I think I was so scared that I fell asleep."

Yang Zhen'er, who was eating, suddenly burst out of her nose and coughed repeatedly, choking on her food.

You Meng couldn't help but complain, "Damn! The plane is about to crash, and you're still asleep?"

Xiang Kun chuckled and said, "I guess he fainted from fright."

This time, Tang Baona also choked on the soup.

No one really took Xiang Kun's words seriously. After all, the plane was in such a chaotic and critical situation that it was normal for Xiang Kun and his two companions not to notice if anyone was outside. Besides, the online media interviews might just be a publicity stunt; those interviewed might not actually be passengers on the flight, but rather people trying to capitalize on the buzz. Otherwise, the idea that someone was standing outside the plane would be too far-fetched and exaggerated.

Then Zhao Feng took the initiative to step forward and greet Xiang Kun and Xia Libing: "Mr. Xiang, Dr. Xia, I really didn't expect to meet you here again."

Xiang Kun stared at Zhao Feng for a moment, seemingly recalling for two seconds before recognizing him. "Ah! You are... you are Officer Zhao!"

Of course, he already knew that Zhao Feng and Wang De'an had come to Tongshi Town to see Xia Tianhuo. He even knew about the two brothers' trip with Ye Zijun to film a documentary and interview Chinese tourists who had seen the illusion of the Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant of Montamira, and their two visits to Old Du through Alice.

Coincidentally, both Ye Zijun and Old Du are connected to the secondary Emotion-Infused Object network under the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving" in his "Super-Sensing Item System".

The reason why Old Du was able to leave the ICU several times, and why his condition suddenly reversed when the doctors thought there was little hope, and he was in good spirits and even able to get up and walk on his own, was also due to the "operation" performed by Xiang Kun.

Old Du was the first "criminal" to surrender himself due to the emotional projection of the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving." Compared to those who were later affected by the emotional projection in the real world, Old Du was affected in a dream, and relatively speaking, the degree was not as deep. But what's peculiar is that as time went on, the influence on Old Du actually became stronger. It was precisely because of this that when Xiang Kun was able to perceive the secondary network of connected individuals under the "Emotion-Infused Object" system, Old Du quickly became one of them.

Xiang Kun didn't have any particular feelings about this old swindler. He had done a lot of bad things and cheated a lot of people, but he had already turned himself in and confessed his crimes, helped the police dismantle the entire fraud organization and the huge network of connections behind it, and handed over all his illegal gains. He was obediently serving his sentence in jail and paying the price for what he had done.

Xiang Kun wouldn't treat him as one of his own or give him his trust just because he had established a secondary Emotion-Infused Object connection with the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving."

However, when Old Du was admitted to the ICU due to his illness, Xiang Alice received a notification from Xiang Kun and happened to be free. Moreover, because "Super-Linked Object" were being deployed on a large scale around the world during that period, there were many newly connected or deployed "Super-Linked Object" that could be used in Old Du's hospital and his vicinity. Xiang Kun then entered a "Hyper-Sensory State" and influenced Old Du's cognitive information about his body.

Regarding how to use "Super-Linked Object" to influence the cognitive information of humans or other organisms in a "Hyper-Sensory State," thereby changing the physical state of other organisms, treating various diseases, or even improving bodily functions, Xiang Kun has already come up with some basic ideas as he has analyzed and mastered a large amount of cognitive information.

However, for these ideas to be implemented, detailed research on cognitive information about various specific diseases and cancers is needed, along with a large number of experiments, in order to summarize a usable and reliable capability model and then form a fixed and reliable application capability.

However, this was not the most pressing issue, and secondly, there was no suitable target for the experiment—he dared not try it on real people without knowing what the side effects might be.

Given Old Du's condition at the time, Xiang Kun was certain that without any intervention, he would be 100% dead. Therefore, he had no psychological burden and decided to give it a try to see if he could figure out a few extrasensory information editing modes for human physical ailments.

Xiang Kun didn't initially expect to save Old Du. After all, Old Du was truly on his deathbed, suffering from numerous ailments that Old Du leave peacefully.

Unexpectedly, when he began to influence and even edit Old Du's cognitive information about his body with Alice's help, he discovered that he did not need to solve each of Old Du's ailments one by one, nor did he need to understand the cognitive information expression of each body part and each ailment.

He could treat Old Du as a whole, a small system, and then guide his overall, outermost cognitive information, defining a goal for him: to move towards a healthier state of being.

Xiang Kun has a very clear understanding of the cognitive information regarding the outermost states of human beings: healthy, diseased, and dead. He can also perform very comprehensive analysis and define his goals very accurately.

So once he defined it that way, under Alice's coordination, all the "Super-Linked Object" in the hospital and around Old Du began to target this and influence Old Du's cognitive information about his body.

Under this influence, the various microscopic components of his body also began to undergo some subtle changes, as if spontaneously striving towards a goal. Although the various lesions had not completely disappeared and the various ailments had not been completely cured, the overall condition had entered a state of "not being unusable."

And so, Old Du was "incredibly" discharged from the ICU, and then gradually recovered, eventually even being able to walk on his own with the help of a walker.

To the doctors, this was a "medical miracle" that they couldn't yet comprehend.

For Xiang Kun, Old Du is a mobile "hypersensory information symptom analysis database." Alice can analyze and decode the changes in cognitive information of a specific symptom little by little through his physical changes. With this, she might be able to find a model that can truly edit and remove specific ailments through hypersensory information.

Of course, Old Du's "pseudo-healthy" state requires continuous influence and support from the surrounding "Super-Linked Object," otherwise his body would instantly enter a normal evolutionary state and die quickly.

Therefore, he must live in an environment with enough "Super-Linked Object" around him in order to maintain this state.

Fortunately, he had no intention of leaving the hospital and was unable to do so. Moreover, the coverage area of Xiang Kun's "Super-Linked Object" is becoming increasingly larger, and for the time being, it would be difficult for him to actively go to areas not covered by "Super-Linked Object".

Inside the Youlong Restaurant, Zhao Feng didn't realize that Xiang Kun's unexpected reaction was an act. He smiled and said, "I'm not a policeman anymore. Today, I came to Tongshi Town with my colleague to see Mr. Xia. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that Dr. Xia is Mr. Xia's sister, and we just happened to run into this situation. Mr. Xiang, you are truly blessed; you can get through any crisis safely."

"Indeed, I was just lucky," Xiang Kun said with a smile and a nod.

To be honest, he felt quite close to Zhao and Wang. Moreover, he was very clear about their experiences, their general thinking, their goals, their attitudes towards the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Monster," various "Mutated Creature," and special events. Therefore, when they wanted to come to Tongshi Town to find Xia Tianhuo, he did not create obstacles for them. Otherwise, if he had just told Alice to use the clues to lead the two away from Tongshi Town and Chongyun Village, he could have prevented them from encountering him.

Zhao Feng shook his head and laughed, "The case you and Dr. Xia encountered in Citong City last time, the fact that you were able to get away with it unscathed wasn't due to luck, but entirely due to your abilities."

As he spoke, under the questioning gazes of You Meng and the others, Zhao Feng recounted how Xiang Kun and Xia Libing had cornered two armed thugs in an alley and beaten them to tears on the night of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month before Xiang Kun Lunar New Year. He even deliberately exaggerated the pitiful state of the two thugs who had been subdued by Xiang Kun when they arrived after receiving the report.

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