Chapter 225: Flight of Imperial Lightning

From the mutant spider memory fragments obtained, Xiang Kun knew that it had killed and devoured two mutant plants one after another.

The first mutant plant was a tree that appeared to secrete a liquid on its trunk that attracted specific mammals, and when the animals came to lick and feed, pierced the animals through the thin spines that extended from the branches to suck the blood. During the entire process, the animal whose blood is drawn will not be noticed.

After the animal has finished licking the liquid from the trunk, the blood-sucking process stops, and the animal can be seen to leave without noticing, but apparently becoming very weak, trance-like, and even stumbling and stumbling. Although none of the mutant spiders' memories had the final results of these animals, Xiang Kun could tell that none of them would live long.

From the memory fragments of the mutant spider, Xiang Kun has seen three such scenes, and it is obvious that the mutant spider took the initiative to find the tree and secretly paid attention to it for a long time before starting.

The mutant spider's memories don't show exactly how it dealt with the mutated tree, but in the end, a tree can be seen surrounded by a large amount of spider silk, the branches are all pulled and controlled, and the mutant spider stabs into the trunk with its sharp extended mouthparts to absorb something.

The other mutant plant is a vine that attracts other animals by fruiting food, but compared to the mutated tree, this mutated vine is much stronger than the ability to trap and kill.

Just like the corrosive liquid that Xiang Kun has seen, this mutant vine also has it, but it is obviously not as powerful as when the mutant spider arranged a trap for Xiang Kun, it should be the evolution of the mutant spider in the later stage and its own venom mechanism.

But even so, in the memory fragments that Xiang Kun saw, the battle between the mutant spider and the mutant vines was also very tragic, and half of the mutant spider's body disappeared, leaving only the head and a pair of forelimbs tightly entangled with a bunch of vines.

Just looking at those memory fragments, he couldn't even tell who won and who smoked whom.

Of course, these memory fragments were obtained from the mutated spider, which is enough to show who survived to the end.

From the memory fragments of those mutant spiders, what it saw, some of its own limbs, and the reflection when it occasionally passed over the surface of the water, Xiang Kun could see that before it dealt with the mutant tree, it was only half the size of the later one, and its mouthparts had been greatly mutated, but there was no green root whisker on its body, and when dealing with the mutant vine, its body had become the size of a basin, but there were no green roots on its body.

Xiang Kun deduced that the mutant spider should be the first to solve the mutant tree, and the devouring mutant vine should be the last—those green roots that grow on the body, and those strange "transformation branches" and "reconstruction branches" are all mutations and abilities that occur later.

In the process of fighting the mutant spider, Xiang Kun did not find that it had any of the abilities of the mutant tree, and it was not found in the spider's memory fragments that it had been used.

Therefore, it is inclined to judge that this mutant spider does not have the ability to mutate trees. However, after it gained some of the abilities of the mutant vine, its body appeared very largely mutated, such as those green roots that extended outside the body.

Therefore, Xiang Kun believes that mutated creatures must obtain the special abilities of other mutated creatures through blood, unless they are of the same kind and have the same basic structure, otherwise, the body must have a large mutation in order to adapt quickly.

It's like plugging a peripheral into a computer and giving it a function directly.

And after Xiang Kun drank the blood of a mutated creature, it was equivalent to dismantling and selling them, exchanging them for money, and changing his computer to a better configuration.

The functions that can be realized by their own hardware can be realized by modifying the software, and if they cannot be realized by their own hardware, they will slowly buy parts to transform them, and reorganize the functions without changing the form without changing the form......

There is no doubt that the latter is much more difficult than the former in terms of difficulty, and in the end, the actual functional effect may not exceed the former, or the functional performance is different.

But there is one thing that cannot be compared with the former, and that is compatibility, and the possibility of deriving and extending other functions according to the principles known, and enhancing existing ones.

It's like Guo Tianxiang's "looking at each other to establish a projection of one's own fear", which has evolved into "projection appearance" here to Xiang Kun, although the form of expression is different, but it is actually more influential.

Xiang Kun speculated that the reason why he had not been able to obtain Guo Tianxiang's ability to directly hypnotize people with his voice should be that his original body structure and some abilities conflicted with this hypnotic ability. By the time he has figured out what the conflict is and resolved it, he should be able to master this ability, or derive other related abilities.

Returning to this mutant spider, carefully studying its memory fragments and the relevant information about the spider's flight later, Xiang Kun believes that its flight still relies more on electric fields. And in this way, Xiang Kun felt that it was possible for him to obtain it without changing the structure of his body.

More than 100 years ago, several people discovered that "spiders can fly".

People sometimes find a large number of spiders on the deck of sea voyages, which are "blown over" by the wind, and these spiders can fly dozens or hundreds of miles by the wind, move from one place to another, and even "cross the ocean to see you".

Through observation, it was observed that some small spiders would climb to high places, their abdomen, shoot out spider silk, and then the wind would "pull" the spider silk and drag the spider into the air. It is believed that the spider's flight behavior is the use of air currents, and the spider silk acts more as a parachute-like role.

But last year, researchers at the University of Bristol, Y and Daniel Robert, used artificial electric fields to prove that spiders fly not only by air currents, but also by geodetic electric fields.

They placed the spider in an airtight container that was isolated from air movement and an external electric field, and then applied an electric field inside with the same intensity as in the natural environment.

They then observed that the spider was still flying in the absence of air currents, and they could also control the spider's flight speed by adjusting the electric field strength.

Through further observation and experiments, they found that the spider's leg hair should be able to sense the electric field, and then, at the right time, "shoot" the spider silk into the air, at this time, the tip of the spider silk carries a large amount of negative charge, borrowing the ambient electric field to fly, and travel against the electricity.

However, there is a premise for this, that is, only a very small spider can do it, after all, the lifting force obtained by relying on spider silk to borrow electricity is actually quite limited.

And that mutant spider is definitely not in the ranks of "little spiders", and its body tissue has not been lightweighted to a certain extent, so the force required for it to fly is far many times stronger than that of ordinary small spiders, and it is not something that can be brought up by casually pouting its ass and shooting down spider silk.

Therefore, when the mutant spider was chased by Xiang Kun before, there was no way to directly take off into the air, and it needed to run to the edge of the cliff, and after taking off directly, it would find a way to borrow electric field power to help it glide.

But when there was a thunderstorm that night, the mutant spider had a stronger source of motivation.

The electromagnetic loop between the Earth and the ionosphere is called the atmospheric potential gradient, which is 100 V/M in normal times and can reach 10,000 V/M or more during thunderstorms.

The mutant spider must have evolved a special structure that can "recharge" itself during a thunderstorm, so that the surface of its body can carry enough charge, and then use the force to rise, and the powerful charge ionizes the surrounding air, so that it will emit light, and it looks like a UFO.

And judging from the state of its flight, it is obvious that it can control the direction and state of flight very precisely.

Although there is also a picture of it traveling against electricity in the memory fragment of the mutant spider obtained by Xiang Kun, it is not known how it "charges", how it controls flight, and how this ability evolves.

However, Xiang Kun knows that if you want to fly, the two most important points are to perceive the electric field in nature, and the other is to "recharge" yourself, get enough charge, and then take advantage of the situation.

And compared to the weight of the mutant spider, Xiang Kun's current weight of more than 100KG requires much more force to fly, and the charge he needs to carry is naturally much greater.

The first is to perceive the electric field, in the information that Xiang Kun sees, the spider perceives the change of the electric field through the change of the tiny fluff on its legs, assuming that the mutant spider is also in the same way, so how can Xiang Kun imitate it?

As soon as he thought of this, he rolled up his trouser legs, observed his crooked leg hair, and then looked at his obedient and honest hand hair, although it is all body hair, but in fact, the structure and function are completely different, the spider's leg hair itself is one of their sensory organs, and now his hand hair and leg hair are not like they have mutated and changed, and there is no perceptual feedback through leg hair and hand hair.

He felt that it was necessary to understand the principle of the flight of mutant spiders, because some of the "energy" obtained in his body was the root of those mutations, but to imitate and reshape those abilities, it was not necessary to completely follow its original structure. Just like the same internal combustion engine is used as a means of transportation, which can be made into a two-wheeled motorcycle, a four-wheeled car, a tracked tank, or an airplane.

Therefore, after the last blood drink, Xiang Kun first established a cognitive model of "Royal Electric Flight" in his mind based on his experience of witnessing the flight of the mutant spider, the flight memory fragments related to the mutant spider, the information found on the Internet, and the realization principle deduced.

And then in reverse, apply this cognitive model to yourself to see what is still lacking and what details need to be improved.

It's like setting up a strategy goal and then proposing tasks to make yourself tackle.

And when he tried to make a cognitive model of his specific situation, his eyes went black and he lost consciousness in an instant.

This brief fainting was actually very fast, only a few tenths of a second, so when he was standing, he didn't even fall but only lost his balance slightly.

BUT THIS FEELING MADE HIM REALIZE THAT TO BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE MODEL FOR HIMSELF, THE AMOUNT OF DATA SHOULD BE TOO LARGE, AND JUST THIS THOUGHT WAS PROTECTED BY THE BRAIN.

Maybe when he has this ability, he can directly control his mutation, and even find the root of his mutation.

Therefore, Xiang Kun can only simply start from the established cognitive model of "Royal Electric Flight", and slowly perceive the parts he needs to improve according to the required conditions.

At the same time, an attempt was made to establish a cognitive model of the electric field between heaven and earth.

Then it is to "charge" himself, Xiang Kun used the socket at home to touch the electricity before, tested his feeling of "electricity", and then was very sure that if he was directly electrocuted, he would burp and would not "charge" directly. (※ Do not imitate SB behavior)

Therefore, he still pins his hopes on his new cognitive model, trying to establish a cognitive model that "recharges" himself.

During this time, Xiang Kun often went to the rooftop of the top floor to experience his body and the surrounding environment more, and to find ways to improve several related cognitive models.

Through this gathering at Tang Baona's house tonight, Xiang Kun has more experience on how to deal with a more complex cognitive model - in the case of a large number of variables and a lack of accurate data, it can be divided into multiple relatively simple cognitive models first, and then by influencing more familiar cognitive models, the operation of the entire system can be promoted, so as to collect data and improve other cognitive models.

For example, tonight's chat scene of ten people can be classified into a whole cognitive model, Xiang Kun can subdivide the other nine people except himself into nine cognitive models, and then subdivide everyone's taste for food into a new cognitive model, influence them through food, make an entry point, and then further affect the whole chat through a few people who are more familiar with him, and each link can be continuously subdivided and established.

In this way, Xiang Kun, who was standing on the rooftop, also faintly discovered that he could perceive the electric field between heaven and earth - vision, smell, and hearing, and a single sense could not establish a detailed cognitive model of the surrounding electric field very clearly. But that doesn't mean that this sensory information doesn't have any feedback about the electric field.

As I said before, a lot of information is actually received all the time, but you don't really understand that information when you don't have the corresponding "decoder".

And now, benefiting from the blood of the mutant spider, he is integrating a comprehensive cognitive model of the electric field by establishing a cognitive model of the electric field by each sense.

There is light rain in the weather forecast tonight, although there are few thunderstorms in their city this season, the electric potential will still change greatly, and Xiang Kun feels that this is a good opportunity for the cognitive model to make a breakthrough.

......

Tang Baona's home.

Before leaving, everyone simply cleaned up together, and even washed the dishes and chopsticks together, so now there is nothing to clean up except for taking out the garbage.

Yang Zhen'er was lying on the sofa and was talking to Lao Xia again: "Oh, the crispy pork knuckle made by the chef tonight has improved a lot, that taste is really, tsk, there is no left, do you see those bones I shot just now, clean and clean, hehe, everything I have eaten is great! My dear old sister, Merry Christmas!"

"You're too much of a sister, aren't you!" Tang Baona took the bag that Xiang Kun brought over today, and was about to go back to the room, and spit out casually.

"Just a bean sack!!" Yang Zhen'er jumped up from the sofa after sending the voice, approached Tang Baona's side, and looked into the bag: "What is it? I found out before, there is a wooden box in the bag I brought to the chef! Could it be a Christmas gift?"

"Hey, hey. Tang Baona said, and walked into the room.

"Hey, hey, a yarn! Stop! Chef Xiang actually only gave you a Christmas present??" Yang Zhen'er hurriedly followed, "Is there any heavenly reason, is there any royal law?"

"He said he hadn't noticed Christmas, he didn't have time before, he only made this one, and yours will go back and make up for it. Also, isn't your birthday coming soon......" Tang Baona said as she took out the wooden box from the bag.

"Christmas gifts are Christmas gifts, birthday gifts are birthday gifts, you can't mix them together!" Yang Zhen'er leaned over and asked curiously, "What is it for this time?"

The wooden box was obviously also handmade by Xiang Kun, and after Tang Baona opened it, she saw the wood carving lying inside.

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er looked at the wood carving, their expressions were a little surprised.

Because of the palm-sized small wood carving, although it looks very similar to the Q version of the big head style in various anime, it is very cute, but they can see at a glance that this wood carving with a fat face, wrapped in a quilt, tied with a double ponytail, wearing round-framed glasses, and drooping eyelids is clearly the Q version of Tang Baona!

"Hahaha! It's a bit like it! What are these glasses made of? Are they wood or plastic? I'll go, Xiang Chef is amazing! Ouch, I'm laughing at me, come on, I'll take a picture!" Yang Zhen'er said happily as she picked up her phone and took a picture.

At the same time, in Thornton City, after listening to the voice sent by his cousin, Xia Libing replied with a sentence of "Merry Christmas, you have gained five pounds again", then quit WeChat with an indifferent expression, opened the "video" recorded before, and slowly looked back.