Chapter 5: Hunger
"Hey, Linzi, why are the clothes and pants in your cabinet the same style?"
"You don't have to pick it out when you wear it like this!"
"Is there any hairspray?"
"Nope!"
"Where's the comb?"
"Nope!"
"I'm cΔo, you have such a sloppy image, who would use you when looking for a job before?"
"I'm the boss myself!"
"What about business?"
"Chen Taotao, my apprentice will go on my behalf! You know, he's eloquent and has a better image than I do! β
"What about big business? You've got to do it yourself, right? β
"At that time, I would go to the beauty salon to pack it up"
"Well, let's go to the hairdresser and pack it, but fortunately, we still have enough time to buy some decent clothes."
***
Three hours later
In a nearby restaurant, a large square table is stacked with roast chicken, roast duck, pork chops, beef, etc., a large plate of food that ordinary people can eat at once, the amount of food is enough for an adult to eat for several days, but so much food is still not enough to fill the stomach of a diner.
"Lin Zi, don't you eat like this, aren't you afraid of bursting your stomach? You're eating too much! β
"Don't bother me!"
In this restaurant, Lin Feng was not the only one who let go of his belly and did gluttonous gluttony, on the two tables next to him, the other two diners were also like him, like hungry ghosts who had not eaten for thousands of years, smashing the mountains of food on the table at an extremely fast speed. The spectacle stunned the other diners around them.
Lin Feng's face was stained with grease, and he was frantically smashing a huge pig's trotter at this moment.
A qiΔ first went back to three hours ago.
Three hours ago, Fang Yu pushed Lin Feng out of the door and sent this "sloppy patient" to the nearest high-end hairdresser, so that a professional beauty salon could help him deal with his appearance. An hour and a half later, Lin Feng, who had a new image, was pushed out of the beauty salon by him, ready to buy related clothes.
Who knew that not long after stepping out of the gate, Lin Feng was unbearably hungry, and then he jumped up in the stunned eyes of his old friend, actually stood up from his wheelchair, and then rushed into the nearest restaurant with a speed that was so fast that even the other party could barely catch up. Then, as soon as he entered the door of the restaurant, he turned into a hungry ghost, and without waiting for the food to be served, he took out a hundred-dollar bill in his hand, slapped it on the table of a diner who had just served a meal, and then snatched their food and began to eat and drink wildly.
"Here comes another one, the third!"
Lin Feng's earth-shattering move only got the strange exclamations of the spectators in the hotel. Reason: The two diners on the side who were racing against him had already done something similar before him. Then, the three of them were like food grinders running at full power, frantically "crushing" a qiΔ.
These three "food grinders" have been running continuously for more than an hour, and there is no sign of stopping until now. During this period, Fang Yutong guΓ² chatted with the family members of the two crushers on the side and learned that they, like Lin Feng, were cancer patients, and after a strange circle of light appeared in the sky at noon, their condition also improved quickly and was cured. But what no one expected was that after a few hours, they all turned into gluttons as if they could never be fed.
This strange thing is not only happening here, but when the three grinders are working frantically, the news report on the TV on the side shows that the world has suddenly exploded at the same time with tens of millions of "food grinders" at the same time, and these grinders are all cancer patients without exception. During this time, Fang Yu received a call from his mentor to ask about Lin Feng, and from his mouth, Fang Yu learned that the city's hospitals and medical schools had made a fuss about today's strange phenomena, and Old Man Li was hurriedly urging Lin Feng to hurry over for a full body examination.
"Whew! Finally a little full! β
Finally, after destroying several bowls of rice, four roast chickens, three ducks, six pig's feet, two fish, and a pot of beef, Lin Feng stopped eating, and then patted his belly, which was only slightly bulging, in satisfaction.
"Something seems wrong in terms of volume!"
Fang Yu looked at the mess on the table, and then at Lin Feng's lower abdomen, which had not changed much, and he didn't understand where all the food stuffed in it went.
"Don't look at it, it's all turned into energy, and it's provided to various organs for them to strengthen. As soon as the food enters, it dissolves as quickly as if it had been soaked in aqua regia, and then it is absorbed, leaving almost no scum left! β
Lin Feng moved his gaze to the two peers on the side, one of them was a middle-aged man, and the other was a woman in her thirties, who were still gobbling up at this time.
"Aqua regia?"
"My stomach acid's melting ability is almost as good as aqua regia! I can feel this body, it's being strengthened, every cell in the body is being strengthened. Gluttony is just to replenish the energy needed for strengthening! β
"Strengthen?"
"Just like those sci-fi movies, I'm being reinforced, and the better way to call it evolution, and the bad way to call it mutation, I guess they're in a similar situation to me."
As he spoke, Lin Feng's face and tone were becoming more and more strict, especially the sharp eyes, which made Fang Yu gasp one after another.
The voice has changed, the tone has changed, and the eyes have changed! It's back, that humanoid thinking machine, it's back! In just a few hours, the guy I really didn't like was back!
"Are all the cancer cells gone?"
"Don't ask questions you already know the answers to! Help me settle the bill, I'm going to find something! β
Leaving Xia Yu to settle the account, Lin Feng walked straight to the dining table on the side, the middle-aged uncle was still eating frantically, and his wife was watching in surprise and fear on the side, and it was true that everyone would be afraid of this way of eating.
Pulling a chair and sitting next to the middle-aged uncle, Lin Feng's face was filled with a perfect smile, and anyone who saw it would have a smile like a spring breeze.
"Introduce yourself, Auntie, I'm a cancer patient, and it's terminal! Liver cancer is in an advanced stage and has spread to a large area, and after that aperture appeared at noon today, I was fine! β
"Me too, but he's a lung! Same with you. β
It was the middle-aged uncle's wife who was talking, and Lin Feng became very gentle and friendly at this time, but Fang Yu understood that this was fake, this was not his natural voice, it was "simulated" by the humanoid machine as needed.
"Auntie, I'm a Chinese medicine doctor, can you help your husband take the pulse. As you know, my situation is very similar to his, and I am also scared after eating so much food. β
"Yes, of course! I'm worried."
"Don't disturb me eating!"
However, the one who was gobbling it up was annoyed by his kindness.
Lin Feng smiled very affectionately and said, "It's okay, I won't affect your eating, you just have to eat by yourself, uncle!" β
Lin Feng's smile made Fang Yu on the side tremble.
"The human face is made up of 44 muscles, blood vessels and nerves are intertwined with cartilage and bones, smooth and taut skin is attached to the bones, they are interconnected, interact, can push, pull, twist all kinds of movements, I have studied, there are 18 types of smiles. Each smile uses a different combination of facial muscles."
Lin Feng would also laugh when he was a "normal person" in the past, but he would never smile so affectionately as he does now, and his facial muscles could not make such facial expressions naturally because of his personality. However, after cutting off the "excess part" of his body, Lin Feng, who can't cry or laugh, can perfectly drive the muscles of his face to simulate any expression as needed.
Fang Yu shouted in his heart: "We have played together to a big day, you can deceive others, even yourself, but you can't deceive me!" That masked youkai is back! β
Before "self-cutting", Lin Feng didn't know how to do things, reacted too quickly, hated stupid people and stupid people, but he was a real person, he was sincere to others at that time, and after cutting, he was completely a person with a mask all over his body.
Fang Yu still remembers the quarrel between the two sides at that time.
"People in this world, who are not living wearing various masks. The biggest tragedy of my father's life was that he was taught to do things in a down-to-earth manner and to be an honest man. He doesn't wear a mask or doesn't wear a mask, it's real, it's a good principle of being a person, isn't it? But times have changed, and in the current era, people have to wear various masks to survive! My father is not Mao Taizu, he can't defy the sky like him, he can transform the whole world to adapt to himself, and he can't transform himself to adapt to the world, so he was eliminated in the end! β
"I saw his mistakes, I saw the root cause of his failures, and at the same time I realized my own flaws! I have accepted too many wrong things since I was a child, and I am also outdated and backward to this society! If you don't want to be eliminated, you have to change yourself to adapt to this society! But the big mistake has been made, my nature is hard to change, and many things have been deeply rooted in my soul! It's too hard and too troublesome to change them in the usual way! But I can have major surgery on myself from a different angle! β
"Personality is a chemical reaction, as long as I change the various chemical reactions about personality in my own body, I can change my personality, and even manipulate and control my own personality!"
The real Lin Feng will not take the initiative to talk to strangers, because he has a slight disorder of communicating with strangers. Asking him to take the initiative to talk to a stranger would be as uncomfortable as picking his skin.
Fang Yu on the side looked at Lin Feng who was talking, and shook his head secretly, the current Lin Feng was completely simulating the demeanor of his apprentice Chen Taotao. That person's greatest ability is to walk on the street, and he can talk to a strange passer-by at will, and after three or two sentences, he can be called a master of communication with full diplomatic ability.
"Uncle, you can eat with confidence, I just need to put my hand on the back of your neck and check the pulse, it won't have any effect."
After obtaining the consent of the other party and his family, Lin Feng smoothly put the index finger and middle finger of his right hand on the back of his neck, and after the fingertips made contact with the skin of the neck, Lin Feng closed his eyes.
"Clear the irritability in your head first!"
"Cleared complete! Stimulate his pituitary gland and let it secrete the chemical ingredients of patience and calmness to complete! β
"Parsing begins!"
"Sure enough, just like me, food is quickly dissolved into liquid within seconds as soon as it enters the stomach, and then enters the small intestine for rapid absorption! The whole process only takes three minutes! β
"The metabolism rate of cells is three times that of normal people, and the vitality and activity of various organs are increased exponentially, and this situation is still increasing."
"The muscle fibers are strengthening all over the body, and I've found what I'm looking for! Sure enough, as I calculated"
"It's just that this thing, incomplete, very incomplete, like a half-finished product, a mutilated embryo. The one on the side gives me a similar feeling, at most it is an unfinished or defective product, and it is useless! β
Lin Feng's fingers were on this for a few minutes, and then he let go under the puzzled gaze of the other party's family.
"Uncle's body is very healthy! His heart was beating so hard that the health of his heart was no different from that of a young man of twenty! β
After coping with an apologetic smile, Lin Feng returned to the table with a little regret.
Fang Yu asked, "What did you find?" β
"There were some discoveries, but I didn't find what I was looking for. It's almost time, let's buy clothes. β
Two twenty-eight or nine-year-old, quasi-uncle-level men are far more efficient than women when they visit fashion stores. Come in, pick, try on, pay, and ten minutes later!
People rely on clothes, and they have regained their health, and Lin Feng, who has been repacked and "packaged", looks different from the one when he squinted his face on the fat man's side. His changes are not only in appearance, but also in spirit and temperament. Lin Feng before "self-cutting", he was very naΓ―ve in many places in his personality, and he had no image in appearance, at most he was just a strengthened version of the otaku, and what was appreciated was that he had an enviable good technique, as for what kind of masculinity, manhood, and the demeanor that attracted women had nothing to do with him at all.
And during the period from the cut to the time before the illness, he was a demonic being. At that time, Lin Feng always showed the most appropriate expression in the right place and said the most satisfying and appropriate words. However, its essence is the nature of the stone heart, and the joys, sorrows, and sorrows expressed by a qiΔ are all temporarily created according to needs.
Looking at the mirror, looking at the brand-new image of himself in the mirror a little narcissistically, Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction. The hair cut into a board is like a needle, and the face is angular and linear, which is a good expression of the rigidity of a man. As for those eyes, there was a deep tunnel of sophistication, and that was the part he was most satisfied with.
He said to himself in the mirror, "From now on, you can finally see through the things that you couldn't see through before!" β
Fang Yu said behind him: "There is still half an hour left, Taozi is going to bring her over, are you going to see her like this?" β
"I know what you're trying to say! You think it's not me, you're wrong! You've been getting one thing wrong since you left the house, and I didn't cut those things off! Once upon a time, "cutting" was only because of my limited abilities, and I could only simply seal them completely! And now I"
Lin Feng stretched out his left hand and pointed the tip of his index finger on his forehead in the mirror.
"It's already possible to control and manipulate! In a sense, I am now a mixture of two of my past mes. The one you don't like very much is actually just my unfinished product, and now I am the real finished product! β
Lin Feng's fingertips pressed against the glass and began to draw spiral-shaped circles.
"You know what? Fang Zai, the world is changing! My ability tells me that there will be a storm in this world in the coming days! There will even be a big reshuffle! I already hear the thunder before the storm comes! β
"You mean there will be unrest? What do you mean? β
"These days, I think we're probably going to be very busy, okay, it's almost time, she's coming soon, let's go back and wait for him first!"
Lin Feng turned his head and looked at Fang Yu behind him, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, pulling several muscles, and then he smiled, that smile was very kind.
Fang Yu felt that the air around him seemed to drop a few degrees.
"Fang Zai, my laughter is an instinctive laugh, not made according to the needs of the scene."
Lin Feng's low, lukewarm voice made him feel even colder, was this true? Dude, is that what you want?
***
"Fang Zai, actually, Lin Feng, who you knew before, died in his sophomore year, the day my mother died of illness! That day was also the same day that my power was awakened! I saw myself the same day! Since then, I've been trying to create a new self. β
"At that time, I was still a student, and I didn't know Taotao, this new me was completely made based on your personality! Compared with me, you have a good temper, treat people tolerantly, don't like to be sexual, respect the upper class enough, and can be tolerant to the bottom, even a guy like me who is very difficult to get along with, you can become good friends with me! You know, brother, I've been watching your back! β
"You've been mistaken all along, I didn't think of turning myself into a complete humanoid thinking machine, and the life of a humanoid thinking machine is too boring and boring! My original idea was to use that humanoid machine to turn into my second leg and handle the annoying relationships for me! Although, in a sense, it's a split personality. β
"The creation of human character is too complicated! I'm afraid my ability to interpret him is not even scratching the surface. Although I have a reference, it is impossible to shape my own imaginary things, and even now I can't do it. β
The only thing I didn't expect was that after I went down "one size fits all", I couldn't recover! My planned second leg became my brain and completely replaced me - and in retrospect, it was reckless. If it weren't for this cancer, I would probably have lived such a boring life! β
"But now, my plan has worked! In the past, I cut off all my emotions and created a bunch of virtual masks on different occasions to face the world. Now I use my own subjective will, when I need it, like closing a floodgate, to turn off those unfavorable things when I need them, and then leave a useful part to face the world. To put it simply, I used to be fake, but now I'm filtering out impurities. β
On the way back, almost all of them were Lin Feng talking, but Fang Yu had been playing the role of a listener.
"You've been talking a lot!"
"Because you can't make it clear! Starting from the hotel, I can feel your alienation. If I want to continue our friendship, I have to make it clear, I know you don't like me very much! You've been helping me all this time when I've been seriously ill, and that's what a true friend does! I have very few friends, to be exact, you are the only one! β
"Is there a difference between what you are talking about now and the person you were talking about back then?"
"Yes! The former me was an absolutely rational humanoid machine, and there was no human emotion on me! And now I am happy, angry, sad and afraid, all seven emotions and six desires! The only difference between me and me before noon is that I am calm when I need to be - provided that I can be rational and not be influenced by my own emotions! β
"What if you can't be rational?"
"Then I'll be the fool I was in high school and college!"
"Fool? Fools like that are cute! β
"How's it going, satisfied?"
Lin Feng stopped, then stretched out his right hand towards Fang Yu.
"Get out! It's on the road! I don't want people to think we have a base! β
"Hahaha! Xiaoli, that rotten girl, used to gossip about us all day long! β
"Stay away from me! Your hand is so horrible that you'll have nightmares for the rest of your life when you touch it. β
The transition between strict communication and foolish ridicule is quick, but it's normal for the two. Friends, sometimes that's it.