Chapter 51: Three Experiments (Part II)

It took more than a minute for Xiang Kun to load all four utensils with things and stuff them with stoppers.

Then set up your phone and start shooting.

The first glassware, numbered X-001, contained more than 20 milliliters of blood.

The second glassware, designated R-001, contained a small piece of flesh weighing approximately 3 or 4 grams.

The third number K-001 glassware is a mouthful of saliva.

In the fourth number T-001 glassware, you have to look closely to see a black hair—it's a leg hair.

These four things all have one thing in common, they all come from Xiang Kun's body.

Yes, he bled and cut himself again, and this time he went directly to his thigh and cut off a piece of flesh that was even bigger than last time.

It stands to reason that when fighting with the giant owl, Xiang Kun's injury was much more serious than cutting such a small piece of flesh by himself, and there was a high probability that ordinary people would burp directly, but perhaps because he didn't pay attention to himself at that time, and the reason for the large amount of adrenaline secretion, the pain was far less than now.

After gritting his teeth and cutting off the piece of meat, Xiang Kun was so painful that his cheek muscles began to twitch uncontrollably, and he scolded himself for being stupid......

But what to do, let's keep doing it.

The pain came and went as fast as he could, and he quickly focused his attention on the glassware.

Once, when testing the speed of wound recovery, he cut a piece of meat the size of a grain of rice on the belly of his little finger, and it didn't take long for the piece to turn into powder, which also made him notice that the same change occurred after his blood left his body.

However, Xiang Kun didn't realize that such a phenomenon would happen at that time, so he only paid attention to observing the wound, but did not observe the whole process of changing the flesh and blood, and did not record the video.

After encountering the giant owl and discovering that the owl's feathers would disappear, and later even the corpse would disappear, Xiang Kun became interested in this phenomenon again.

Although the owl was "gone" and could not go back in time to "perform" on him again, he could observe himself.

Minutes and seconds passed.

The wound on his thigh was healing rapidly, and the contents of several sealed glassware were beginning to change.

The most intuitive thing is the piece of flesh and blood, and it is obvious that the blood begins to coagulate, and then the color first becomes very dark, then it begins to fade, and the same is true of the piece of flesh, which shrinks a little in size, from dark red to dark gray.

On the other hand, the saliva has become clearer, but the volume is also significantly reduced.

Only the leg hair did not change at all, and the place where the leg hair was cut off from Xiang Kun's leg did not repair itself like the injured skin and muscles, and the hair grew back up.

When the electronic watch that Xiang Kun bought for the timer in the morning showed that it was 00:10:57, the wound on his thigh had completely healed, and the piece of meat he had cut was still slowly changing, becoming a little like a stone, and the blood had become like a pile of dark gray sticky sand.

The saliva was almost gone, and only a very fine layer of dark powder could be seen on the bottom of the vessel.

And the leg hair, which was thought to have barely changed, has also changed significantly - the color has faded and become ...... A gray or almost white leg hair?

After a few more minutes, the piece of meat had turned into the appearance of a sand stone, Xiang Kun flicked the glass wall lightly with his fingers, and the slight vibration caused the "stone" to collapse in an instant, turning into powder and spreading on the bottom.

The blood in X-001's vessel also turned into a pile of gray powder, many times smaller than the original state of the blood.

The saliva in K-001's vessel is completely gone, leaving no liquid and only a small amount of gray powder.

Even the leg hair in T-001 is no longer "hairy", and only a barely visible gray trace remains. Xiang Kun picked up the vessel and shook it slightly, and the "trace" gathered into a small pile of gray powder, but it was very light, and it was scattered in the bottle at once.

The time on the electronic watch is 00:14:46, and although he didn't time it when he cut off the flesh on his little finger last time, the wound recovery time at that time was 13 minutes, and his piece of meat was completely powdered, and it was after that, which is about this time period.

Therefore, it can be judged that the time when the body tissue separated from the body turns into a gray fine powder does not increase the speed of healing of his wound.

The four bottles in front of me now, except for a slight difference in the amount, basically did not see any difference, and they all seemed to be exactly the same gray powder.

In other words, it is certainly impossible to recognize what the gray powder of these four bottles is transformed from.

On the bottle labels sealed by the four bottles, except for the four numbers, Xiang Kun only marked today's date, and nothing else was written.

Naturally, it is impossible for others to guess that the number X represents blood, the number R represents flesh and blood, the number K represents saliva, and the number T represents leg hair......

Looking at the powder in these four bottles, Xiang Kun's eyes were a little complicated.

A question arose in his mind: "Can I still be considered a human now......

After Xiang Kun smelled the scent of the giant owl, he once went to the zoo to collect the scent of various animals in order to determine what kind of animal the "special smell" belonged to.

At that time, in the zoo, he had also seen owls and recorded the smell characteristics of owls.

But he was pretty sure that the smell left by the giant owl and the owl he had smelled in the zoo were the scents of two completely different species.

This point was confirmed again after Xiang Kun found other owls of the same species in the mountains a few days ago - after the owl mutated, in terms of smell, it no longer belongs to the owl species.

Perhaps, after so many mutations, he has become farther and farther away from humans?

However, this somewhat complex and strange emotion only existed for less than a few seconds, and was driven out of Xiang Kun's mind, he now has neither any deformed organs, nor is his body rotten or too sick to get out of bed, but his physical functions have been greatly improved, if there is any more self-pity and self-pity, it will be too hypocritical.

Xiang Kun picked up the four bottles and shook them, and after making sure that the powder did not change further, he put them in a cardboard box and stored them.

Then I checked the video recorded by the mobile phone, although one machine shoots four bottles, but the performance of this Redmi mobile phone is okay, at least the change process in the four bottles is basically clearly filmed.

He had already thought that if he found a trustworthy researcher or institution to cooperate with in the future, these things would be the first temptation for him to throw out.

Don't expose your mutations, let others help him figure out what those gray powders are.

Anyway, with Xiang Kun's current level of knowledge, he can't understand what reaction is happening in those body tissues in the bottle, but it is certainly not a simple oxidation reaction.

Not to mention anything else, where did the moisture in the meat, saliva, and blood go? There was no moisture visible on the glass wall, could it have been broken down into H atoms and O atoms, and stably contained in those gray powders? Moreover, the rapid reaction that had occurred in such a short period of ten minutes did not feel any change in temperature on the vessel.

Without professional equipment and a large amount of related knowledge, Xiang Kun can only speculate or guess based on the phenomena that can be observed.

Judging from the information he has now obtained, the body tissue cannot exist for a long time in the external environment, and will turn into gray powder after about fifteen minutes, and after death, the corpse is suspected to undergo the same change. Xiang Kun had done experiments before, and if rabbit blood was drunk five minutes after leaving the body, its effect on him would be greatly reduced.

Xiang Kun speculated that there may be some special component or energy in the blood of animals, which is tentatively defined as Z, and after the blood leaves the body and is exposed to the external environment, Z will quickly dissipate.

As for Xiang Kun or other mutated organisms, the digestive system has undergone a mutation, which can absorb Z from the animal's blood, and Z is also the main reason for his body consumption, tissue remodeling, and mutation evolution. After his body tissue leaves his body, Z dissipates with it.

Unlike the blood of other animals, after losing Z, it does not change much in appearance. The foundation of the body tissue of mutated creatures is Z, so after losing Z, it will quickly collapse and decompose, turning into that gray powder.

This also made Xiang Kun can't help but wonder if one day he can't ingest enough blood and don't have enough Z to provide to his body, will the whole body directly disintegrate and turn into powder.

So figuring out what these powders are made of might help him test his hypothesis.

At 3:20 p.m., Xiang Kun, who was sorting out various experimental records, videos, and pictures in front of the computer, suddenly felt a hunger released from the bottom of his body.

He expertly packaged, encrypted, and hidden the various documents, then got up and walked to the kitchen.

In the cage in the kitchen, the four meat rabbits that were split on and off still did not have any special reaction, and after glancing at Xiang Kun, he walked to the remaining four rabbits and took out three.

Before, he only drank the blood of one rabbit at a time, deliberately controlling the amount of blood he drank, but after drinking rabbit blood last time, he obviously felt a strong sense of hunger, and then slept for 32 hours, which also made him realize that he did not drink enough blood.

Originally, according to his plan, it should have been enough to start with one or two.

But he wanted to experiment this time to see if greatly increasing the amount of blood he drank would shorten his sleep time, so he was ready to drink the blood of three meat rabbits at once.

He skillfully dealt with the rabbit, divided the blood into a measuring cup, and drank it quickly.

This time, the total blood volume reached 450ml.

Then Xiang Kun started the third experiment he was going to do today.

He picked up the pebbles from a dish on the kitchen dressing counter—the decorative pebbles he had bought at the bird and flower market today, each the size of a fingernail.

He had washed all the stones and had washed them in boiling water, and the reason why he had to deal with them was because he had taken them to swallow.

Yes, his third experiment was to test the conjecture that had emerged from the giant owl's cliff nest deep in the mountains.

Let's see if the pebbles that the owl swallowed in its stomach can help it resist the drowsiness after drinking blood.

Xiang Kun only swallowed one, this stone is not very small, the process of swallowing is really uncomfortable, and you can clearly feel the diaphragm of a hard object coming down from the esophagus.

In less than ten minutes, Xiang Kun's stomach reacted, and he felt vomiting, wanting to vomit out the stone.

But Xiang Kun found that he could indeed suppress the feeling of vomiting, unlike other foods after the stomach, when he wanted to vomit, it was so disgusting and difficult to suppress.

However, the stone remained in his stomach, which did make him very uncomfortable, and he could even clearly feel his stomach twitching from time to time, as if it was shouting at him.

But it's amazing, maybe because the discomfort in the stomach diverts the body's attention, and Xiang Kun's sleepiness after drinking blood has indeed been reduced a lot.

From 3:30 p.m. after drinking blood, until 7:45 p.m., Xiang Kun still did not fall asleep after being "knocked down" by sleepiness.

You know, the last time he took the anti-sleepiness test, he was already a little delirious for about an hour and a half, and he even forgot how to sleep.

And now, four hours later, he can continue if he needs to.

However, his face was not very good, and his expression was even a little hideous, because the feeling in his stomach was really ...... Quite uncomfortable.

Although he proved his previous conjecture that the giant owl swallowed the pebbles and returned to the nest to sleep, he decided that this could only be used as a last resort insurance option, and he usually slept after drinking blood. The feeling of a stone churning in my stomach was too painful. He would even rather cut two more pieces of meat on his thigh than insist on swallowing rocks for another four hours.

At 7:58, Xiang Kun took the initiative to spit out the stones, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

At 9:14 p.m. on August 18, Xiang Kun sat up from the bed, looked at the timer on his phone, and confirmed that he still slept for about 25 hours, and shook his head with some regret.

casually glanced at the missed calls, four of the six missed calls were numbers without names and suspected of being advertised, while the other two were all from Officer Chen.

What did Officer Chen ask him to do?

Xiang Kun was puzzled, and after thinking for a few seconds, he dialed back Officer Chen.