Before this blood-drinking ritual, Xiang Kun, as planned, spent several hours establishing connections between several items.
One was two pebbles, each only the size of a quail egg. The reason for this was not only to see if establishing a connection would improve the ability to control vomiting after swallowing them, but also to use them as a backup "ranged weapon".
Initially, Xiang Kun wanted to link it to a blade, believing that such a simple metal blade shouldn't be difficult to link. Based on his previous experience playing "Coin 1," if he could link it, combined with his current arm strength, becoming a "modern Little Li Flying Dagger" wouldn't be too difficult.
However, if you don't show your razor blade, it's fine, but once you use it and hurt someone, even if you're in the right, there will be a lot of follow-up trouble.
Comparatively, the stone is easier to explain. Although its lethality is much lower, he doesn't think he'll need to use throwing knives in any situation now. If he encounters a Mutated Creature like a "Giant Owl" again in the future, it would be more practical to get a high-weight hunting compound bow.
The other related item is a plastic corner piece removed from a Rubik's Cube.
He wanted to see if, or how much, establishing a connection with a part of a whole would affect his control over the whole.
However, it took him an hour and a half of observation to successfully observe this single plastic corner before he finally managed to make a flash of light in his eyes and establish a connection.
At 6:30 p. m., the expected hunger pangs arrived, Xiang Kun went to the kitchen to process a rabbit and draw its blood.
This time, the rabbits were larger than the previous meat rabbits, and more than 200 ml were taken from one rabbit.
This amount of blood was still not enough for Xiang Kun at the moment, and he still felt hungry after drinking it. However, he wanted to "change his taste" this time, so he did not continue to collect rabbit blood, but instead processed the blood of chickens and ducks - which was also to prepare ingredients for the new recipes he would try later.
What puzzled him was that after drinking rabbit blood, he felt something was off when he drank chicken blood and duck blood. This was not only a matter of taste, but also a reaction from his body. When drinking chicken blood and duck blood, he clearly felt a sense of "joy" and "satisfaction" in his body, but not as much as when drinking rabbit blood.
What's going on?
Xiang Kun clearly remembered that the chicken blood he drank earlier and the rabbit blood he drank later were not very different. Or rather, all blood seemed to be essentially the same. When he followed the memory of that "Giant Owl" to explore the deep mountains, he also hunted some wild animals and birds of prey and tasted their blood, which was not much different from the livestock and poultry he bought in the city.
The only real difference is the blood of the Mutated Creature, the "Giant Owl."
But now it seems, could it be that by drinking the blood of the same animal for a long time, the body's digestive system has become more accustomed to that animal's blood?
Moreover, he was quite certain that it wasn't because the blood from the newly purchased Belgian rabbits was any different from that from the previous meat rabbits; the experience of drinking the blood from ordinary meat rabbits last time was no different from this time.
The only difference is between chicken blood and duck blood.
While pondering the differences in rabbit blood, Xiang Kun quickly prepared the rabbit, chicken, and duck meat and put them in the refrigerator. After a quick rinse, he lay down on the bed.
He didn't dwell on the issue any longer, planning to consider it again when he woke up.
At 8:13 p. m. the following evening, Xiang Kun woke up during the expected time.
After taking a shower and drying himself off, Xiang Kun glanced at himself in the bathroom mirror.
After more than a month of transformation and targeted training, his physique is now vastly different from what it was a month ago.
Zicheng previously said he looked like Dwayne Johnson, but in reality, just looking at muscle mass and size, even ignoring the height difference, he is still far from being Dwayne Johnson.
If he were to wear long sleeves and trousers now, he might even appear a little thin.
But one thing is certain: if a piece of muscle of the same volume were cut off and weighed now, neither Dwayne The Dwayne Johnson nor anyone else would weigh as much as him.
He even suspected that his muscle fibers might be very different from those of ordinary people.
Xiang Kun touched his head and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Why am I bald?"
When he first mutated, he didn't care whether he had hair or not, because at that time he was concerned about life and death, and relatively speaking, whether he had hair or not was really insignificant.
But now, more than a month has passed, and after so many mutations, he can't help but wonder, why hair?
It wasn't because I cared about my appearance, but rather because I vaguely felt that this might be related to the cause of my mutation? Or some characteristic of the source of this mutation?
After all, after the mutation, my teeth, nails, and skin were all replaced and new ones grew back, except for my hair.
But other body hair, such as eyebrows, nose hair, and leg hair, is still there.
Oh, his beard is growing very slowly now. He's only shaved three times in the past month or so, whereas he used to shave every morning.
After thinking for a while without finding a solution, Xiang Kun walked out of the bathroom, stepped onto the scale, and unsurprisingly broke through the 100KG mark, now reaching 100.3KG.
Judging from his appearance, he believes no one would guess he weighs more than 170 pounds.
After routinely testing and recording various changes, Xiang Kun fed the rabbits, changed the food and water for the canaries, and then picked up his phone to check unread messages on WeChat.
There was a message in Tang Baona and the other three's group chat saying that Lao Xia was going to Haixi Province in a few days, and they were going to have a get-together at Lao Xia's house this Friday. Xiang Kun was to be the "chef" and cook for them.
Xiang Kun thought for a moment, then replied with an OK emoji, which immediately drew all three women out.
Tang Baona: "I knew it! Xiang Kun's WeChat were definitely delayed!"
Yang Zhen'er: "I thought you'd pretended to be dead and wouldn't show your face since you were supposed to cook!"
Xia Libing: "I'll prepare whatever ingredients you need in advance."
After chatting for a few more minutes in the group, Xiang Kun noticed several unread messages from Officer Chen. He clicked on them to read:
"I said, what happened when you were blocked at the entrance of the residential area?"
"One of the young people involved seemed really scared; he was so frightened that he ran to call the police himself."
Xiang Kun was completely bewildered. What was going on? He guessed that the "young man" Officer Chen was talking about was the boy with the earring who had been "intimidated" by him before, but that happened on the 7th, and today was the 11th.
And why call the police? He was the one who came to surround me with a knife, wasn't he? I didn't even lay a hand on him...
However, Officer Chen only sent WeChat and did not make a phone call, indicating that the matter was not very urgent.
He glanced at the timestamps of the two messages; they were from around 5 PM today. He replied with a blank emoji and then asked, "What happened? I didn't do anything! I'm the victim here..."
After a while, Officer Chen replied with a laughing emoji:
"I only heard about it today. A few days ago, the police officers at the ** District Police Station received a report from a young man who was panicking and said that someone was following him and trying to kill him. But when asked for specific details, he gave a jumbled story. One minute he said he went to block someone with a knife, and the next he said he ran into that person again when he went to buy cigarettes..."
"At first, the police officers at the station thought he was high on drugs and took him for a urine test. Later, after he calmed down a bit, they questioned him again in detail. But according to him, he went to ambush someone, but the person called the police, which scared them away. Later, he encountered the person he had ambushed again and thought that person wanted to kill him, but when asked what that person had done, he couldn't say."
"Later, the police officers found his parents and took him home. It's said that after he got home, he never left the house, and he even asked his parents to help him get back into a regular class so he could take the college entrance exam next year, thinking that he wouldn't run into that person if he went to school."
"I only found out about this today when I was chatting with my colleagues at the police station on official business. From their description, I knew that the guy was talking about you."
"What have you done? You've scared a street thug so badly that he's too scared to go out and would rather repeat a grade and go back to school?"
Xiang Kun smiled wryly and replied, "I didn't do anything! They blocked my way at the door that day, and I scared them away by using your name, Brother Chen. Then I think I bumped into one of the boys at the convenience store, but I didn't talk to him, let alone have any physical contact. How could he be scared?"
He naturally knew why the boy with the earring was frightened, but he was also somewhat surprised that the "intimidation" had such a powerful effect.
He had assumed that once he left, the boy would return to normal because he couldn't see him anymore. In fact, he did confirm that the boy's heartbeat and breathing had returned to normal before leaving. He never expected the kid to later go and call the police...
Xiang Kun guessed that this might not be entirely due to his "intimidation," but rather that the boy with the earring might have imagined something and scared himself, which led to this result.
Fortunately, this incident doesn't seem to have caused him any trouble.
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