After waking up from a bloodsucking slumber this time, Xiang Kun first learned from "Little Apple" about the reason why Officer Xiao Zhao was concerned about the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, as well as the circumstances related to some of the corpse cases in the mountains.

That night, he used the known circumstances of these cases, and through Lao Xia's "dream within a dream" mode, he got more details of the case from Xiao Zhao police.

These details allowed Xiang Kun to refine his guess about the trajectory of the previous "mutant parasite" and improve the establishment of its cognitive model.

Basically, it can be determined that the male deceased in Zihuan Mountain is one of the former hosts of the "mutant parasite".

He would abduct two girls to the depths of Zihuan Mountain to murder, which was also caused by the influence and guidance of "mutant parasites".

Normally, either one of the two female deceased will become the next generation host, and the "mutant parasite" will leave Zihuan Mountain, or the male host will "drink blood" and leave Zihuan Mountain after murdering the two girls.

Judging from the parasitic pattern of this "mutant parasite" in the "vampire patient", it has a tendency to continue to modify the host, so the latter is more likely.

But the final result was that the host and the two girls died in the cave, and the "mutant parasite" left Zihuan Mountain after a period of time, parasitizing the "vampire patients" who entered the mountain to play through flowing water.

It is very likely that in the process of "drinking blood", something went wrong and it changed its plan.

As for what kind of fork it is, Xiang Kun speculated based on the "mutant big bird" that he found in Zihuan Mountain a few days ago that he was "ambushed" and "squatting", and it should be the host of the "mutant parasite" that was targeted by the big bird - it's just that the big bird didn't understand the survival mode of the "parasite" and regarded the host as a "mutant creature". It wasn't until the "parasite" abandoned the host and fled and the host committed suicide that he realized that the host was not a "mutated creature", but he still thought that the "mutant parasite" would come back, so he would come over and squat after so long, but he didn't expect to meet Xiang Kun and was almost captured.

Xiang Kun originally wanted to trace the node where it was parasitized by the "mutant parasite" according to the identity information of the host, and then deduce the starting point and mutation process of the "mutant parasite" step by step.

But when he wanted to look on the Internet to see how much information the police had released about the Zihuan Mountain case, he inadvertently found a very key piece of information, which made him directly change the direction of the investigation.

On the night he had just returned to Thornton City, he and Lao Xia went to the place where the "vampire patient" was arrested, and accidentally found a video taken by a nearby flower shop clerk of the "vampire patient" and his accomplices.

Through that video, combined with the information that Lao Xia had obtained for him in the dream of the "vampire patient" earlier, Xiang Kun had several guesses about the whereabouts of the "mutant parasite".

One of them is the passerby who passed the van after the "vampire patient" was taken out of the car, and looked in the window for a while - the "mutant parasite" had a certain chance of attaching to him and leaving until it was "safe" to parasitize.

To determine whether the passerby has been parasitized by a "mutant parasite" or whether it has become a "springboard", it is first necessary to determine his identity and find his location.

The information revealed in the video is very limited, but Xiang Kun can still draw some judgment conditions:

For example, the passer-by was wearing slippers, dressed casually, carrying a bag from a convenience store, and at that time, it was inferred that he should be a resident living nearby and on his way home. From some other details, he deduced his possible occupation, age, personality tendencies, etc., and was ready to use this as a premise for Alice to help in the search.

However, in Xiang Kun's judgment, the possibility of the "parasite" attaching to the passer-by and leaving is relatively low, after all, the passer-by only stayed by the car for a short time, so the priority of this investigation direction is also relatively low.

But what he didn't expect was that before he searched through Alice, he found the identity of the passerby from the Internet.

And that information is still wanted by the police.

Xiang Kun recognized at a glance that the man in his forties on the police wanted warrant was a passerby who looked at the car window for a while on the video taken by the flower shop clerk.

According to the wanted warrant, this person committed a murder in Thornton City in May last year and absconded, because the body was well hidden, and it took more than half a month to be discovered, so the police failed to control him immediately.

However, Xiang Kun searched for relevant information and found that this person accidentally fell to his death in June during the joint arrest of the police in Yangcheng.

According to the suspect's family, in March last year, he became a little chattering, and his family refused to take him to the hospital for examination, and finally divorced his wife, and also turned against other family members, broke off relations, and lost contact. Then he borrowed a lot of online loans and loan sharks, and everyone wondered if he was infected with gambling or other vices.

Judging from the point of time, Xiang Kun judged that there was a high probability that the suspect had become a victim of the "mutant parasite" and became its host, and his behavior was guided and influenced by it.

In this case, according to the pattern of a "vampire patient", it must have been detached before the host was captured and died.

So Xiang Kun set off to Yangcheng to investigate on the second day.

Normally, if the suspect who fell from the building was really the host of the "mutant parasite", there was still an eight-month time difference between Xiang Kun and the parasite's positioning node, and the bug might have been out of Yangcheng for a long time.

Therefore, he didn't expect to be able to find out the exact location of the "mutant parasite" directly on this trip, and he was also prepared to return in vain during a blood-drinking period.

But sometimes that's it, intentionally planting flowers that don't bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade.

The day after he finished investigating the location of the suspect's fall, he went to a tea restaurant near a university in Yangcheng and tasted their special fried beef river.

Because he heard Yang Zhen'er say that every time she and Tang Baona go to Yangcheng, they must go to that restaurant to eat fried beef river, and the taste has never been comparable to that in other restaurants.

So although Xiang Kun doesn't need to eat, he also deliberately wants to taste it to see what is special about the fried cow river here.

With his current sense of taste, and how well he knows the seasoning, it's easy to deduce the basics of seasoning and cooking from taste.

Of course, he may not be able to review the cooking process very accurately, but Xiang Kun is very confident, and the taste adjusted by him will definitely be more suitable for the tastes of Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er - after all, he customizes and adjusts them according to the tastes of the two of them, and in this world, there is definitely no one who understands the tastes of the two of them better than him.

When he left the restaurant after tasting the fried beef river, Xiang Kun habitually switched visual modes to observe the surroundings, but accidentally found a passerby on the street with a little light blue spot.

Since he began to deliberately and purposefully train and guide the evolution of various perceptions, Xiang Kun has developed the habit of "seeing six ways and listening to eight directions", and every time he arrives in a new environment, he must first collect enough sensory information, which has become his instinct.

To be honest, when he saw the blue spot for the first time, Xiang Kun's first reaction was that he was wrong?

But he soon determined that it was indeed a "mutated creature" embedded in the human body.

And there is a high probability that it is the "mutant parasite" that he tracked all the way to Yangcheng - unless there is another "mutant parasite" in Yangcheng.

Xiang Kun didn't dare to get too close, because judging from the experience of the "vampire patient", the male deceased in Zihuan Mountain, and the passerby man, the "mutant parasite" could always get out in time before the host fell into trouble, and was very sensitive to changes in the host's situation.

It is quite possible that there are special ways of acquiring perceptual information that are not the original sensory abilities of the host.

This is actually Xiang Kun's greatest curiosity about this "mutant parasite".

From a normal point of view, after this "mutant parasite" enters the host, its sensing range is limited to the host's local organs.

There is a possibility that the "mutant parasite" can share and obtain the host's sensory information through mutation, and through mutation, it has the ability to process this information, and can judge the host's environment by itself - but Xiang Kun feels that this is unlikely, because the information processing ability required is too great, as a creature that originally did not have those sensory organs, to evolve the relevant information processing ability from scratch, even if it can evolve through blood-drinking mutation, it will take a long time;

Another possibility is that it does not directly obtain sensory information, but only makes judgments through the emotional feedback of the host that has processed the perceptual information, such as "fear", "panic", "nervousness", etc., which is judged by the subtle changes in the human body's physical condition when these emotions are generated.

However, these cannot explain how the "Zihuan Mountain" escaped from the peep of the "mutant bird", so Xiang Kun speculated that the "mutant parasite" may have another unique special way of perception that can surpass the host's perception ability.

If he really has this kind of perception ability, Xiang Kun wants to figure out what it is, which should help improve his current super perception system.

Although Xiang Kun was far away, he still knew very well that the current host of the "mutant parasite" was also tracking others.

Thinking back to the experiences of several hosts that are now known, Xiang Kun naturally guessed that this guy was afraid that he was driven by parasites to find a target for blood extraction.

Although being able to observe the behavior pattern of another "mutant creature" other than himself made Xiang Kun a little excited, it was also a rare opportunity.

But in any case, if the controlled host really wanted to attack other humans, he would not be able to stand by and die without saving him.

Fortunately, the host did not immediately plan to do anything to track the target, and after tracking the other party to the place where they lived, they turned around and left.

Xiang Kun followed him from a distance to a small building in an urban village, and determined by sound that the room he lived in was on the south side of the third floor.

Xiang Kun used his mobile phone to ask Alice to help him search for information about the host - on the way back, the host answered a phone call, and the short two-minute call contained a lot of identity information that could be traced.

At around 6 o'clock, Xiang Kun determined that the current host of the "mutant parasite" was a junior named Fan Jiading from the dozen search results provided by Alice.

Judging from the content posted by this student on social media, he is also doing live broadcasts and videos on various topics, from games to life spoofs and food.

But these contents came to an abrupt halt at the beginning of last month, with videos not being updated, live broadcasts stopped, and no new content even posted on social media.

Alice even found a post about Fan selling cameras and other equipment on Salted Fish.

Obviously, at that time, he had been influenced and guided by the "mutant parasite", and his behavior was seriously affected.

Xiang Kun observed the surrounding environment, and when it was about nine o'clock in the evening and there were no pedestrians nearby, he quickly climbed along the outer wall of the small building to the outside of Fan Jiading's room on the third floor, and looked in through the window.

Xiang Kun found that Fan Jiading was sorting out the things in a backpack, and he saw that there were folding knives, ropes, and adhesive tape, obviously preparing for the follow-up operation of today's tracking.

It wasn't too late, although this side was remote, it was inevitable that there would be residents going out, so Xiang Kun didn't dare to hold on to the window for too long, and bounced a black circle graffiti that he had crumpled up before through the crack in the window, bounced to the corner, and then crawled back to the ground lightly, shrunk into the dark place between the two buildings and waited.

If Fan Jiading is going to do it tomorrow, then the only time that Xiang Kun can observe is tonight, so he has to make arrangements in advance.

Xiang Kun stood in the dark, standing against the wall, closed his eyes and entered the "super feeling state", and descended to Fan Jiading's side through the black circle graffiti that had just been placed.

Through the perception of cognitive information, Xiang Kun noticed that in addition to the "mutant parasite" that was "embedded" in the back of his body, there were some other differences from ordinary humans, but he couldn't describe the specific differences for the time being.

This kind of cognitive information gives him the same feeling as observing a "vampire patient" in a "hypersensory state" for the first time, and at first glance he can't tell the difference from ordinary people, and can only faintly feel that something is wrong. In the final analysis, it is his lack of ability to interpret cognitive information in the "hypersensory state".

And these differences obviously come from the modification of the host by the "mutant parasite".

According to the host experience discovered before, Xiang Kun can basically judge that this "mutant parasite" seems to be transforming the host as a vehicle, making its "performance" better, having stronger abilities, and helping it obtain more blood sources.

It can also be seen that it is very obsessed with human blood, and almost every time the host dies because it is trying to obtain human blood.

But it is obviously unwilling to directly suck up the blood of one host and transfer it to another host, and seems to believe that "transforming" and "cultivating" a powerful host to help it grab blood is the best solution, and has been taking this route.

After forcibly writing down some of the cognitive information of the "mutant parasite", Xiang Kun exited the "super sensing state", and then picked up his mobile phone to contact Lao Xia.

In addition to the observation of cognitive information through the "supersensory state", after Fan Jiading fell asleep, Xiang Kun also used Lao Xia's dream-within-a-dream mode to restore Fan Jiading's real memory of being parasitized.

But after sending a WeChat message, I waited for twenty minutes, but I didn't wait for a reply.

Xiang Kun immediately realized that Lao Xia was probably asleep, otherwise, with the content he posted, as long as Lao Xia saw it, he would be back in seconds.

If it was usual, ordinary things, Xiang Kun would definitely not make any noise about Lao Xia and let her have a good rest, but if Fan Jiading wanted to stop him from committing murder tomorrow, the in-depth observation of the "mutant parasite" parasitic host would only have a chance tonight, and if he wanted to capture the "mutant parasite", he would definitely get it out of the host.

If Lao Xia sleeps now, if she wakes up in the middle of the night, then she will probably not be able to sleep...... Without her dream guide, if Xiang Kun directly triggers the dream, she can only edit some dreams, but she can't psychologically guide her subconscious, let alone carry out deep dream hypnosis.

So after thinking about it again, he could only call "cruelly".

Thorn City, in Xia Libing's rented house.

Indeed, as Xiang Kun guessed, a ponytail girl was asleep on the keyboard of her laptop at this time, and the word document on the screen was constantly repeating and outputting a letter.

The sharp mobile phone ringtone, Xia Libing was awakened, his head was raised suddenly, and he subconsciously reached out to touch the phone.

And above her bewildered eyes, her originally smooth forehead has been printed out of a few squares by the keyboard.

After connecting the mobile phone and listening to Xiang Kun say a few words, Xia Libing's eyes quickly returned to clarity.

Before falling asleep, she was reading the documents sent by some large laboratory equipment suppliers to order, if it was a research on "mutant creatures"—and it was the "mutant parasite" that she and Xiang Kun had been tracking before, how could she be sleepy! You know, she could stand up to Xiang Kun drinking blood and sleeping for 25 hours.

For Xiang Kun to be able to find the "mutant parasite" in such a short period of time, Xia Libing was also a little surprised.

After listening to Xiang Kun's introduction to the host Fan Jiading, as well as his thoughts, Xia Libing also put forward some of his own opinions, and quickly formulated an observation plan for tonight.

......

It's past two o'clock in the morning.

After Fan Jiading fell asleep, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia entered his dream through a "dream within a dream" with the help of the "black circle graffiti" that was stuffed into his room and connected with Xia Libing.

To be honest, as soon as I saw Fan Jiading's dream, Xiang Kun, who was "well-informed", was also a little surprised.

The dream is a very high-tech hall, full of high-end and highly detailed electronic devices and holographic projections, like the kind of science fiction movie scenes that have been built with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is very visually stunning.

However, in the mist above the hall, there were eight big characters that were very incompatible with this environment, shining with a pale yellow light, and the polar earth:

"Heavenly Selection System Exchange Hall".

Look at those holographic projections and introductions, such as the one in front of Fan Jiading in the dream, under the holographic projection of a muscular man "Fan Jiading", a row of introductions: "Hercules-lv.3 (price: 2500 days to choose points) (effect: upgrade Hercules' skills to lv.3 level, greatly increase the power of the Chosen One)", Xiang Kun immediately understood that under the guidance of the "mutant parasite", Fan Jiading's brain fantasized about his "parasitic" process and driven behavior into a similar adventure in getting the "system".

From the experience of several previous hosts, Xiang Kun knew that just as the "vampire patient" imagined being parasitic as being embraced by an elegant and handsome blood clan, and the male deceased in Zihuan Mountain imagined parasitism as practicing immortal martial arts, the "mutant parasite" only guided and drove the host to achieve its purpose and achieve its intentions, as for how to achieve it and how to persuade the host, it all depended on the host's own imagination.

Just like Guo Tianxiang's ability to "look at each other to establish a projection of one's own fear", he only needs to throw out a fear emotion, and the affected person will imagine and establish an incomparably perfect projection of fear illusion by himself.

Hosts affected by parasites will also give themselves an explanation based on different experiences, personalities, knowledge, emotions, and desires, and establish a complete illusory system for their behavior, and any loopholes can be filled by themselves.

As for letting people see the specific content and scenes, whether in reality or in dreams, Xiang Kun knows very well how difficult it is, and even he has to work so hard to find a little bit of the doorway to be able to do it to a certain extent.