Xiang Kun studied all night, but this time he studied professional English for biology and medical science.
His English level is decent, although he speaks haltingly with a heavy accent, and he can't fully understand movies without subtitles. However, he usually has no problem reading foreign news or programming-related texts.
But a few days ago, after reading dozens of books or textbooks on psychiatry, clinical medicine, applied psychology, and biology, he started looking for related English books or documents on foreign websites, only to find that with his English level, there was a lot of content he couldn't understand.
However, his learning ability is now vastly different from before. He can not only read very quickly, but also memorize very quickly, making him extremely efficient at this kind of language intensive learning.
Xiang Kun couldn't help but sigh, if he had been in this state during high school, exams would have been a piece of cake. If he had a semester to cram, he probably wouldn't have had a problem getting into the top three or five in the provincial college entrance exam, even if he didn't get the top score in the province.
After daybreak, he called SF Express and sent out the "Tissue 2".
Then he went to the living room and placed his cell phone, a Coin, a blank A4 sheet of paper, an A4 sheet with some printed content, and a ballpoint pen tip that had fallen off on the dining table.
He first "observed" his phone, then took out his digital watch and started timing.
An hour passed, and the flash of white light did not occur, nor did any other abnormalities happen.
He didn't waste any more time, but instead focused his attention on his next target: a one-yuan Coin from 2006.
Xiang Kun knew that this was China's fourth-generation Coin, made of nickel-plated steel, weighing 6 grams, with a diameter of 2.5 centimeters, a thickness of 0.15 centimeters, a volume of 0.74 cubic centimeters, and a density of 8.15 grams per cubic centimeter...
It has various smells, the most obvious being a hint of machine oil. Perhaps its previous owner was a mechanic or someone with a profession that requires frequent contact with machines?
All that could be smelled was the scent coming from many people, but it was difficult to obtain more detailed information.
There are also many tiny scratches on it, probably from being rubbed when it fell on the ground?
When the digital watch showed 42 minutes had passed, a flash of white light appeared in Xiang Kun's eyes, proving that his observation of the Coin had yielded results.
Subsequently, two A4 sheets were also used for observation. The white light appeared in Xiang Kun's eyes for 31 minutes and 33 minutes respectively. The former was a blank "A4 Paper 1", and the latter was "A4 Paper 2" with 192 words printed by an inkjet printer.
The tungsten carbide Ballpoint Pen Tip caused a white light to appear in his vision in just 27 minutes.
Of the five experimental targets, four were successful, and one was unsuccessful. Although it only took an hour, he was basically certain that even if he stared at his phone for 16 hours, just like with "Tissue 1," there would be no result, and the all-encompassing white light would not appear in his eyes.
Could it be related to the target's composition and structure? Mobile phones are far too complex; when you observe the entire phone as a target, the subtle details are simply too numerous and varied.
As for the meaning of that white light, he couldn't make a precise judgment for the time being. He vaguely felt that it wasn't pure light, but seemed to contain other information, though his eyesight might not be able to make it clear.
Xiang Kun could only speculate that perhaps during the observation process, his body, brain, or consciousness successfully "identified" a certain special particle radiated by the object and stored those particles in his body. After drinking blood, his body mutated and gained the ability to "read" the state information of these particles.
As for how he can determine the location of those objects by "reading" particle state information, perhaps it's because some of the particles he absorbed are entangled with some of the original particles of the objects. When his "consciousness" "observes" the particles on his body, he can know the corresponding state of the particles on the objects from the state of the particles on his body—and the state of the particles on the objects is affected by the current environment, reflecting the information of the environment. So, he can sense the location of the objects?
As for how his body and consciousness "interpreted" that information and how they "observed" the particle state, it can only be explained by X, which caused the mutation in his body.
Of course, these are all just Xiang Kun's speculations, guesses, and wishful thinking.
He only has a superficial understanding of quantum physics through one or two popular science books and some online news and articles.
Moreover, the various theories of quantum physics currently held by the scientific community are still largely speculative and far from perfect.
In Zhengyi School disciplines can be "boldly hypothesized" using quantum physics.
As for "careful verification," that's not what Xiang Kun needs to do right now. He just needs to figure out how this ability works and find a better, more efficient way to use it.
This is destined to be a process that requires a long time to verify.
Xiang Kun put the Coin, beads, and two sheets of A4 paper into self-sealing transparent plastic bags and placed them in a storage box. They would only take effect after the next blood-drinking.
Xiang Kun checked the time, went to the kitchen, and took out the rabbit meat from the two rabbits that had been processed after drinking their blood from the refrigerator to begin thawing.
Today he planned to try improving another recipe, but after looking around the kitchen for a while, he found that he was missing a lot of ingredients and seasonings, so he decided to go to the supermarket to buy some.
When they arrived at the supermarket, Xiang Kun didn't just buy the ingredients needed for the recipe; instead, he bought a little of each ingredient.
He suddenly had an idea: he wanted to collect as many ingredients as possible and record the information using his sense of taste and smell. In the future, he might be able to deduce the seasonings and proportions used in a dish simply by smelling the aroma and tasting the flavor, and make various targeted adjustments based on the taste to suit different palates.
Xiang Kun did indeed suddenly develop an interest in cooking.
Even before the mutation, when he could still eat normally, he wasn't someone who cared about gourmet food or food.
When eating out, his consistent idea is to keep it simple and hassle-free, such as Western fast food restaurants or Chinese noodle shops. When he goes home to "cook" for himself, he usually eats oatmeal, instant noodles, or bread that he picked up along the way.
Last time, as a "return gift," Xiang Kun tried to adjust and improve the recipe he found online according to his own taste, and made a pot of spicy rabbit meat, which was well received by the mother and daughter of 706.
So he wanted to continue improving the recipe and create other dishes.
It wasn't any specific training, but simply out of interest—an interest that didn't stem from a personal pursuit of delicious food.
He judges based on information such as taste and smell, and then makes various adjustments and combinations according to changes in ingredients, proportions, cooking time, and material processing, ultimately creating a dish that is perfect in color, aroma, and taste. Seeing the reactions of others after tasting it and receiving their praise gives him a strange sense of pleasure.
It's like when I was in college, I originally just made a free software for practice and put it online. But when I saw that people liked it, I couldn't help but start adding features, fixing bugs, and constantly updating the version. Watching the number of users keep increasing, even though I was busy day and night and forgot to eat and sleep, I felt a great sense of satisfaction. The process itself was joyful.
Right now, he desperately needs this kind of happiness.
Moreover, he had planned to go home in a while and cook a meal tailored to his mother's tastes for her birthday.
He believed this would definitely be a "birthday gift" that would surprise his mother.