What It's Like Being a Vampire

Li Shibao, Yang Zhuo, Liu Zhengyi, and others were among the first to study Xia Libing’s “Spirit Control Theory”.

In fact, before studying Xia Libing’s “Spirit Control Theory”, all of them had sensed more or less the overall changes brought about by the surrounding “Super-connected Object Matrix”.

Yang Zhuo and Liu Zhengyi could be described as gifted with ideas, those who truly have “echoes” with their persistent thinking.

As for Li Shibao, he is the connector of the “Foodie Wood Sculpture”, an emotion-infused object connected to the secondary network in the “Youlong Restaurant”. He was innately advantageous in sensing the “Super-connected Object Matrix” as he himself is an outer terminal of the “Super Sensory Item System”.

Once they heard Xia Libing expound on the “Spirit Control Theory”, it was indeed like receiving a head-clearing dose of reality, like a martial arts enthusiast who struggled to understand martial arts suddenly being taken under the wing of a master to be taught the secrets of inner strength; they all learned with great enthusiasm.

Before long, all three of them found their corresponding “Attached Spirit”, and established their own “Spiritual Application Way”. They actually had some ideas before, but they didn’t systematically know. Upon learning Xia Libing’s “Spirit Control Theory”, they immediately got started.

However, even with the “Attached Spirit”, even after they had a start, their abilities still were more “peculiar” than powerful.

When it comes to real missions, especially when dealing with “mutants” or other threats, equipment provided by the base, like electricity guns, anesthetic guns and other weapons, are still more efficient than their “Attached Spirit”.

For this reason, after the proposal of “Spirit Control Theory”, some higher-ups who have not seen Xia Libing, Tang Baona, and others in action but only knew about the “Spirit Control Theory” through the “Non-Research Center” and watched some of the members who just became “Spirit Controllers” demonstrate, would jokingly call the “Spirit Control Theory” a training for magicians and acrobats.

While their remarks might not have too much malice in themselves, it still extremely annoyed Old He, which is why he was so excited to know that Mr. Liang’s “Biological Components” might become “High-level Attached Spiritual Objects” for “Spirit Controllers”.

And this time, Li Shibao, Yang Zhuo, and Liu Zhengyi are going to load “High-level Attached Spiritual Objects” that Alice made according to their “Spiritual Characteristics”.

The “High-level Attached Spiritual Object” that Li Shibao is loading into is a large glove. Once worn on the left hand, it can cause a sudden drop in the water temperature within a certain distance. For example, when inserted into a basin filled with water, it can freeze the water at the edges of the basin without affecting the water around the glove, and it can also make water vapor freeze anywhere within twenty meters—including inside the body;

The “High-level Attached Spiritual Object” that Yang Zhuo is loading into is a very thick pair of glasses which look somewhat similar to Xiao Pingguo’s, but is much bulkier. It allows Yang Zhuo to acquire various visual modes and quickly detect hiding enemies, no matter whether they use optical camouflage or terrain cover. It can even somewhat predict the direction of movement of fast-moving creatures, achieving some kind of enhanced Dynamic Vision. With these glasses on, he can easily aim at targets with weapons, but the accuracy of his shooting still depends on his physical control abilities and are not particularly good;

The “High-level Attached Spiritual Object” that Liu Zhengyi is loading into is also a pair of gloves. However, these gloves are different from Li Shibao’s. They not only come in pairs that extend to the upper arm, almost reaching the shoulder, but they’re also not as large or heavy as Li Shibao’s gloves. Instead, they stick closely and feel like a layer of skin when worn. Besides the gloves, he has a bar that looks much like a baseball bat, which seems small but is very heavy. It can provide a huge boost to Liu Zhengyi’s strength, enabling him to exert ten times his original strength. With that bat, he can deliver even greater damage.

The “High-level Attached Spiritual Objects” of the three are actually only “beggar version” of Mr. Liang’s “Alice’s Improved Biological Component”. Each was customized based on a small part of some functions from Mr. Liang’s “Biological Components”, combined with the direction of their own “Inspiration”.

However, even such “beggar versions” have been very powerful and terrifying. Moreover, they are not something that the three of them can use anywhere, anytime.

Aside from a test site especially set up by Alice and Xia Libing at Chongyun Village, this hospital main building under renovation is the second place where they could use these “High-level Attached Spiritual Objects”.

Because this main building is now filled with a variety of “Super-connected Objects”, with a large part of it having been transformed into “Super-connected Objects”, there are even “Super coins” set up in advance in various directions. The so-called building renovation is, in fact, the arrangement of an enhanced “Super-connected Object Matrix”.

Indeed, it was within this environment that the three of them could use the three “High-level Attached Spiritual Objects” relatively easily.

They had memorized the plan of action and detailed tasks well beforehand, so upon receiving the signal, they immediately began to load the “High-level Attached Spiritual Objects”, made preparations for battle, and Li Shibao filled his prepared water gun from various places.

Several minutes later, a black figure and large mass of flesh broke through the underground chamber and appeared in front of them — Mr. Liang had brought the “humanoid creature” all the way up to the third floor.

Seeing the large mass of flesh being smashed by Mr. Liang to blast against the wall and quickly stretching out to reveal the terrifying “human form”, Li Shibao, Yang Zhuo, and Liu Zhengyi joined the battle according to the plan.

Li Shibao used his freezing gloves to restrain the “humanoid creature”, while Liu Zhengyi brandished a heavy stick and hit hard.

But the skin of the “humanoid creature” suddenly tensed up; the layer of ice on its body surface burst open, and a series of bumps erupted on the skin. As Liu Zhengyi’s stick smashed onto it, it rebounded like hitting a highly elastic rubber, narrowly missing himself.

When the “humanoid creature” was about to counterattack, it was once again intercepted by a Black Armor-covered Mr. Liang and they tangled together.

After some fighting, Liu Zhengyi finally got an opportunity. Before the skin of the “humanoid creature” tensed up, he smashed its head with a heavy stick and then one after another, he smashed its body into pieces.

Just when he thought the battle was over and wanted to stop, the mashed flesh and blood converged into groups of independently thinking masses of meat, then ran off in all directions, crawling out from the windows.

Yang Zhuo raised his head and saw the locations where those flesh masses converged through his spirit-attached glasses, he loudly commanded, “It has run to the fifth floor!”

Without hesitation, Mr. Liang immediately took off, smashed the ceiling and continued to rush upwards, breaking through two floors to chase it on the fifth floor.

Li Shibao and the others looked at the big hole in the ceiling that had been smashed; they looked at each other with a bitter smile and followed up the staircase.

Outside the basement morgue, Old Qian and Korowin had regained their strength and asked through the communicator what they should do next. Their captain gave them two choices: either stay put and wait for the mission to end, or go up to the first floor via the staircase, then go to the parking lot to meet them.

Both of them still wanted to witness the battle between Mr. Liang and the “humanoid creature”, so they promptly climbed the stairs to the first floor.

When they came out of the first-floor lobby, they happened to see Tang Baona, Yang Zhen Er, and little apple who were coming from the parking lot.

Both parties entered and exited through two different doors. When they saw each other from a distance, they nodded acknowledging each other without any halting.

Old Qian and Korowin looked at each other, both feeling somewhat excited, “The elite squad is moving out!”

This battle, is definitely going to be a grand one.

They just wondered if “Dr. Xia” would make a move?

They realized that when they were on the basement and first floors, the sounds of the battle above were thunderous, as if hundreds of demolition workers were wreaking havoc. But the moment they stepped out of the main building, the noise vanished. The entire building was eerily quiet, and distant chatter within the other hospital buildings and car horns from outside the hospital were clearly audible.

Although surprised, they didn’t linger at the entrance and hurriedly followed their captain’s instructions to the parking lot.

Several black modified trucks, bearing the logo of a transport company sat in the parking lot, but they immediately recognized them as research base vehicles.

“Over here.” The back door of one of the trucks opened and the captain jumped out waving at them.

They quickly rushed over, and as soon as they entered the vehicle, they found multiple screens inside. Each had a multitude of CCTV feeds showing every floor of the main building, including shots from the morgue. It was clear that their earlier situation in the morgue was under constant watch.

They immediately settled down in the vehicle, staring anxiously at a screen in the top right corner showcasing the current battle situation on the fifth floor.

Even though they couldn’t directly take part in this ‘battle stage’ of the heavyweight mission they had been preparing for over two months; as witnesses and members, Old Qian and Korowin felt proud and excited. Especially knowing they could witness the performance of the “Elite Trio”. Ever since they returned from Slovakia, their team’s speculations about the “Elites” wearing glasses and how they might’ve subdued the massive and terrifying “Old Vampire” were the hot topic.

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Contrary to what Old Qian and Korowin might think, this mission had not transitioned from the “preparation phase” to the “battle phase” only today.

Before today, elsewhere, the mission participants had already interacted with the “creature” from the morgue.

Over two months ago, when Liu Shiling was having fun in Pengcheng City with Da Lu and Xiao Mei, when Tang Baona, Yang Zhen’er, and Xiao Pingguo headed to Slovakia prepared to tackle “Old Vampire” Gerald, when Xia Libing rushed to the airport after a meal of bread and co-manifested “Crispy Pig’s Elbow”, when Mrs. Xiang and Mr. Xiang proudly introduced their baby granddaughter Xiang Shinran while strolling in a park with their baby carriage in Citong City, when Mr. Liang, Old He, Mijoe, and others headed to Chongyun Mountain for demonstrating and testing the new “Biological Components”, a minuscule change occurred somewhere in the southwest hills.

This “minuscule change” was actually extremely tiny, being a highly microscopic variation with virtually no noticeable impact at its inception.

But the moment this change occurred, a sleeping consciousness deep beneath the South Pole keenly detected it.

Although this change was so small it was nearly undetectable and its impact on the surroundings negligible, it originated from “another world”.

When Xiang Kun transformed the “Ultimate Predator’s” High-Dimensional Factors and absorbed its inherent “capabilities”, he initially relied on his physical instincts and gradually became conscious, attempting to control and manipulate the High-Dimensional Factors.

Then, he inadvertently discovered another way the High-Dimensional Factors could exist – existence outside of this world.

Xiang Kun always understood that High-Dimensional Factors existed in all things. Due to reasons unknown, they would “activate”, forming an association with “consciousness”, and started to demarcate a “control region” on the individual where consciousness would arise, resulting in “renovations” that transcended the normal functioning of the world.

However, what were the conditions under which the High-Dimensional Factors chose to “activate”? What exactly were their modes of operation? How do they migrate between individual units? How do they specifically connect with consciousness?

Even with the restraints removed from the “Ultimate Predator” project, and assistance from Old Xia, Dr. Fang, Mr. Liang, numerous research personnel, advanced equipment, including the “unbeatable Alice”, he still could not completely answer these questions.

Only when High-Dimensional Factors were “activated”, could Xiang Kun somewhat clearly perceive their existence.

He tried to trace the dissipating High-Dimensional Factors after a “mutant creature” died and indeed managed to locate some of the dissipating High-Dimensional Factors to some extent. This enabled the birth of “Xiao Luobo”, this unique “semi-mutant being” or “Xiang’s Mutative Creature”. But strictly speaking, his control and tracking were still focused on the “activated” or “deactivated but not completed” High-Dimensional Factors.

As for the “fully deactivated” High-Dimensional Factors that completely dissipated, Xiang Kun still couldn’t find their whereabouts.

This time, after the transformation of the “Ultimate Predator’s” High-Dimensional Factors was completed and he gradually regained consciousness, he started attempting to probe the transformational and activation modes of the High-Dimensional Factors thanks to his conscious connection with them.

In this process, Xiang Kun accidentally discovered a method to open another dimension, discovering a type of special “alternative activated state” of High-Dimensional Factors.

This, “alternative activated state” of High-Dimensional Factors significantly differed from the normally perceived High-Dimensional Factors. They were of the same origin but born under different rules – like grilled chicken wings and marinated chicken wings.

He realized that these “alternative activated state” High-Dimensional Factors might belong to the consciousness of living beings from another world.

Now, it seemed that the consciousness of this otherworldly being was trying to explore Xiang Kun’s world, controlling its High-Dimensional Factors.

The moment he realized this, Xiang Kun’s first reaction was to stop it.

However, he soon thought that any attempt to stop it would send a clear signal to the creature, like a battleship sailing directionless through a fog being shot at, confirming its course.

Moreover, Xiang Kun realized that his dimension and knowledge greatly outweighed that of the foreign consciousness – because he discovered it, but it had not discovered him.

Thus, Xiang Kun began to try and explore the world of its consciousness through these “alternative High-Dimensional Factors”.

It was his obsession with the perception and discovery of this “alternative dimension” that prolonged his sleep phase for this long compared to the preset maximum sleep phase of “three years”.

He then discovered that his control over High-Dimensional Factors was far superior to the consciousness that manipulated High-Dimensional Factors in the “alternative world”.

If subservient to the “Ultimate Predator” was akin to pitting a small fishing boat against an aircraft carrier, then the existence of the “alternative world” was like a carriage compared to an aircraft carrier — the gap was vast, yet they belonged to different domains.

Thus, Xiang Kun began to prepare a plan.

The minor incident in the southwest was the “result” of this plan.

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