Chapter 35 The Synergy of Hearing and Taste

Xiang Kun's house is only seventy square meters, with two bedrooms and one living room, and the balcony is not big, and it can even be said to be relatively narrow.

However, the good thing is that the line of sight is not bad, and it is far away from other high-rise buildings, and you can see the mountains in the distance.

Xiang Kun didn't move the chair out, just lay directly on the balcony tiles - of course, the ground had been carefully wiped over.

Under the darkness of the night, Xiang Kun's state is particularly good, his physical function has reached its peak, and his sensory ability has been greatly improved after targeted training after the last three blood drinks, and then mutation and evolution.

However, limited by the means of equipment, he has no way to make accurate tests and statistics, he has used his mobile phone to download an APP that can emit sound at a frequency of 1-22000 Hz, but this can only test the frequency range of the sound he hears, and it is still not possible to completely test the overall improvement of his hearing. He also used a fixed sound source as a reference, and then extended the distance to determine the longest distance that could hear the sound. However, this judgment method requires a relatively fixed and stable environment, which is easily disturbed and difficult to test accurately.

The same is true for the sense of smell, which can only be tested in a more subjective way.

Xiang Kun, who was lying on the balcony tiles, closed his eyes, relaxed his body muscles, and focused all his attention on hearing and smell, the primary sense of hearing, and the second sense of smell.

For a while, the sound was like a reservoir flooding, and all kinds of noises were intertwined, and so was the smell.

The human brain has a very mature mechanism for processing external information, which can be said to be a protection mechanism or a lazy mechanism.

When attention is not paid to sounds and smells, although the auditory and olfactory organs are collecting information all the time, this information will be weakened, filtered or even blocked by the brain.

When the attention is focused on sounds and smells, it can concentrate and enhance the transmission of information according to the information that the attention focuses on, and block out other influences.

But it's one thing to hear a sound, smell a smell, and lock in a sensory message, but it's another thing to make a judgment based on that sensory information.

It's like sitting alone at home and hearing a car whizz by outside.

If he had been drawn to the sound, he would have subconsciously conjured up images of a car speeding down the road outside the house.

This picture can appear because he is very familiar with the road outside the house, and he has also heard the sound of cars, and has seen the car speeding on the road outside the house.

If you are more familiar with the sound of car engines and exhausts, you can even directly tell whether the car outside is a four-cylinder or a six-cylinder engine, whether it is a Ford or a Toyota, a broken diesel truck or a supercar, and the picture constructed in your mind will be more specific and rich.

And this person sitting at home, when he hears the crisp footsteps upstairs, he will tell that the sound is high heels, if he has not seen the residents upstairs, he may have in his mind a picture of a young girl walking around with long legs in high heels, but if he has seen the upstairs resident is a fifty-year-old aunt, then when he hears the sound of high heels, it is a picture of a fifty-year-old aunt walking around.

The brain will make up the necessary "brain supplements" based on its own "database", experience, logic and instinct.

So it's one thing to be able to collect sensory information, but it's another thing to be able to really use that information to help the brain make judgments.

The reason why Xiang Kun lies directly on the ground is not because there are no chairs to move out and no blankets to spread on the ground, but because in this kind of reinforced concrete building, in addition to the air, the wall and the ground are the main medium of sound propagation, so lying on the ground and directly touching the ground, it is easier to hear the sound of the whole building.

In hearing all kinds of chaotic voices, Xiang Kun carefully discerned, slowly sifted through, starting from the voice closest to him, first the nearest downstairs 608, listening to the voice seemed to be a middle-aged couple, talking about their son who went to college in the north, and the news broadcast on TV.

To the side, there was silence next door, no footsteps, no sound of electrical appliances, no sound of talking, no sound of breathing, but there was the sound of curtains being blown, it should be that the windows and doors were closed, and the owner did not return.

Then he heard the voice of Liu Shiling, a chubby girl he had seen during the day, so he located the place where she made her voice as 706 - he knew that the chubby girl's house was 706.

Judging by the sound, Chubby Chick and her mother are at home, her mother is urging her to take a shower, and she is still watching cartoons in front of the TV and refuses to move.

Using 706 as the anchor point, Xiang Kun continued to distinguish the sound he heard and make a judgment.

When he hears footsteps, he can judge where others are in the house, or even what kind of movement trend they are in, based on the structure of his own home and other reference sounds, such as the sound of turning on the faucet, the sound of turning on the gas and igniting the fire, the sound of holding a cup, and when other electrical appliances are turned on.

At the same time, he can also use smell to assist in judgment, such as hearing the sound of someone colliding with a spatula and cooking food in 402, and only with the smell of smell can he judge what kind of dish the other party is cooking, and even the taste can be guessed.

Moreover, the mutual verification of smell and sound can also help him to determine the location more accurately.

Time passed little by little, and from the outside, the lights in the entire community slowly went out and became less, and the voices and movements of each household gradually became smaller.

It was just after one o'clock in the morning that Xiang Kun opened his eyes, sat up from the ground, and stretched.

He has used sound and smell to "walk" the movement of the whole building, every house. Although there is only one 706 chubby girl Liu Shiling who has really met, said his name and surname, and counted as knowing him so far, this night, through the sound and smell, he almost recognized everyone, and even knew a lot of "secrets".

Of course, Xiang Kun did not do this to find out about other people's privacy, but to train.

Just as he began to train endurance and agility after his muscle girth increased, he needed to train his brain's ability to process the sensory information he received after his sensory abilities increased rapidly.

It's like two professional athletes with the same weight and similar muscle content, because of the different sports they are engaged in, the training they carry out, and the way they exert their strength are also different, and the results of their efforts are naturally different. The punches of professional boxers are naturally heavier than those of professional basketball players, and the ability of professional basketball players to complete basketball actions under the same level of confrontation is definitely stronger than that of professional boxers.

Therefore, Xiang Kun knew that it was useless to just become stronger in his sensory ability, he still needed to practice and know how to apply this powerful sensory ability.

The first stage is to collect "samples" of sounds and smells that were not available before, build a "database", and become the instinct of smell and hearing, which has been completed for the most part.

The second stage is what he is doing now, how to use sound and smell to help Xiang Kun judge the surrounding environment and situation, and become his "super eye".

Don't look at the fact that it takes him five or six hours to "walk" around a building now, when he gets acquainted with it, maybe only a second or two, he can quickly locate any location of anyone in the building by sound and smell, and even establish a real-time hologram of the entire building in his brain.

Xiang Kun has discovered that while his sensory abilities are evolving, his brain is also evolving, at least now when he is immersed in multiple sounds at the same time, he will no longer have the nausea and dizziness he had at the beginning.

At half past seven the next morning, Xiang Kun went out with his sports bag and prepared to go to the gym - although it was far away from the previous gym, and it would take at least forty or fifty minutes to take the subway and then transfer to the bus, but he didn't plan to change places to exercise, after all, the membership card had already been done, and there was no way to refund the money.

And he didn't plan to go by car, but was going to run directly, and the process of running was also a training process.

After going out, Xiang Kun happened to see Liu Shiling of 706 also going out, and behind her was a young woman with a plump figure who was six or seven points similar to her, which should be her mother.

"Uncle bald!" Liu Shiling ran over to greet Xiang Kun as soon as she saw her.

Hearing this, her mother was immediately embarrassed, and hurriedly followed over and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, the child is ignorant and calls indiscriminately." You're a new tenant of 708, right? You'll be a neighbor from now on, and if there's anything you need help with, just say so. ”

The little chubby girl ran to press the elevator, and Xiang Kun chatted with Shiling's mother for a while, knowing that they actually moved into 706 this year, which was the house they bought. Liu Shiling's father is an engineer and is often away from home, while Shiling's mother is a full-time housewife, mainly taking this only daughter.

Xiang Kun also made a simple self-introduction, saying that he was a programmer and had been working for seven years, but he did not tell her that he was still unemployed.

They didn't have to wait long, there were two elevators in one unit here, and soon there was a downward elevator arriving.

Ding Dong, the elevator door opened, but a dog's head stretched out, ready to pounce, Liu Shiling, who was standing at the elevator door and was about to enter, was startled, took two steps back, and almost fell, Xiang Kun on the side hurriedly stepped out to hold her.

Looking back, there was a young girl in her twenties in the elevator, holding an adult husky, the husky was obviously very excited, and when she saw the elevator door open, she wanted to pounce out, and the girl was playing with her mobile phone with one hand, and she almost didn't pull it.

"PINKIE!PINKIE!STOP!STOP!" THE GIRL YELLED AT THE DOG, HOLDING THE DOG IN BOTH HANDS.

But the husky still kept coming up, and the little chubby girl outside the elevator was obviously frightened, looking timid, hugging Xiang Kun's thighs and not daring to speak.

Shiling's mother obviously knew the dog girl, and frowned: "Miss Yang, your dog has to be pulled well, this elevator is such a small space, the dog is so big, the child is so small, what should I do if I am bitten and pounced......"

MISS YANG PULLED THE DOG AND SAID WITHOUT RAISING HER HEAD: "IT'S OKAY, PINKIE JUST WANTS TO PLAY WITH CHILDREN, SHE WON'T BITE, I'LL HOLD IT...... PINKIE!STOP!SIT!!

Shiling's mother obviously didn't complain to this Miss Yang for the first time, and she knew that it was useless, so she pressed the elevator and said to Xiang Kun: "You guys go down first, let's wait for the next elevator." ”

Xiang Kun took the little chubby girl's hand and walked into the elevator together.

Originally, the little chubby girl was still a little scared and didn't want to go in, but when she saw the husky that was still very lively just now, Miss Yang couldn't hold it, but at this time, she suddenly shrank behind Miss Yang, and the dog's head was close to the elevator wall, and she seemed to be still trembling.

Xiang Kun turned back to Shiling's mother and said, "It's okay, let's come in together." ”