Xiang Kun walked directly to the river, dodging surveillance cameras everywhere along the way - now he doesn't even need to switch the infrared thermal imaging visual mode to observe, and directly through the "sixth sense" can help him determine the location of the camera, as well as the approximate recording area, and then through calculation, he can avoid the camera range like avoiding the light.

Based on his observations on the way back and the analysis of the online map, he found a remote, dim area by the river that was not covered by cameras.

Xiang Kun climbed over the river embankment, first carefully inspected the grass by the river with various senses, and then began to strip his pants, shoes and socks, leaving only a pair of shorts on his body.

Put his clothes, mobile phone, and room card in a dry place where he has been observed, and then slowly walk towards the river.

Around him, six coins and twenty tungsten steel balls floated in the air—the "super-conjugs" he had always carried with him.

Stepping into the icy river water, Xiang Kun slowly leaned down, letting the river completely cover himself above his head, and the twenty-six "super conjugators" also entered the water with him.

On the surface of the river, there were only a few ripples, and then there was no movement, and there were not a few bubbles, which was calmer than a sinking stone.

Under the surface of the river, Xiang Kun opened his eyes and looked around, but he didn't seem to be holding his breath with his mouth puffed out, as if he was on the ground, and seemed to be very comfortable and calm.

Yes, Xiang Kun doesn't need to hold his breath to maintain his activity needs now, his current body can actually "breathe".

Since the mutation last year, Xiang Kun has carried out many experiments and training on breath-holding, and has always recorded the breath-holding time.

Although he held his breath for longer and longer, he was still very sure that even after a large change in his body, he still needed oxygen.

Just after walking back to the hotel along the river with Lao Xia, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhen'er, Xiang Kun had some "inspiration", so he filled the sink with water, exhaled, and then immersed his head in it.

Then he found that after holding his breath, he could turn on an "anaerobic mode" that he had not seen before, and he stopped breathing, but there was no difficulty in breathing or hypoxia reaction, as if his body did not need oxygen at once.

However, Xiang Kun felt that it was not that his body did not need oxygen, but that he had evolved other ways of "breathing" after devouring the "mutant parasite".

Because the hotel does not have a bathtub and cannot experience the feeling of being in the water, Xiang Kuncai simply sneaked out of the hotel and directly sank into the river at night.

Relying on his already light weight, Shen Jiang was quite smooth, and in the water, Xiang Kun once again experienced the feeling of stopping breathing in the hotel bathroom after switching to the special "anaerobic mode".

Xiang Kun carefully sensed the changes in his body, swaying under the water like an abandoned stone sculpture.

Then he found that after switching the breathing mode, his body function decreased to a certain extent, but this did not affect the various sensory abilities and the brain's thinking, obviously the body automatically gave the main guarantee in this regard.

Most of the declines are in terms of strength, endurance, and explosiveness, of course, he only has a rough estimate of the specific degree of decline, and there is no accurate judgment without actual tests and experiments.

However, there is no noticeable change in the sensation of muscle exertion, other ways of working in the body, and the ability to breathe normally.

It's like an electrical appliance, the screen can still be turned on, but the brightness of the screen has decreased, and the internal operation does not seem to have changed substantially.

So Xiang Kun guessed that what he switched after holding his breath underwater was not the "anaerobic mode", but the "oxygen-saving mode".

So, where does oxygen come from?

Xiang Kun knew that the fish breathed underwater by relying on their gills.

The fish can rely on the gill pieces to capture the dissolved oxygen in the water, and also excrete carbon dioxide through the gill pieces.

But the truth is that he doesn't need to open his mouth underwater and doesn't need to filter water.

Xiang Kun immediately thought of his observations after he caught the "mutant parasite".

Most of the world's internal parasites rely on glycolysis for energy and do not need oxygen.

But obviously, the "mutant parasite" is not among them, it can still survive after breaking away from the host, has a certain ability to move, and is far more mobile and adaptable in the water than on land, so it should need to breathe.

However, in Xiang Kun's observation, that guy did not have a structure similar to gills.

So how does it breathe?

Xiang Kun continued to perceive carefully, and then noticed a slight cold feeling on his skin, which he had actually noticed at the beginning, but he initially thought it was just because the water was cold.

At this time, I carefully recalled the subtle differences before and after completely sinking into the water and turning on the "oxygen saving mode", and immediately realized that this slight cooling sensation all over the skin of the whole body may be the skin "breathing".

Xiang Kun carefully observed his skin in the water, and through the continuous switching of low-light night vision and infrared thermal imaging vision modes, he could still give full play to his visual advantages even in the water.

Many times, some cosmetics advertisements will promote "human skin can breathe" and "pores can breathe", but in fact, pores do not have the function of "breathing".

However, it seems that in Xiang Kun's body, those advertising slogans have come true, he seems to be through the pores, breathing a very low degree, ingesting oxygen in the water, and excreting the metabolized carbon dioxide through the pores, but in the water, this process is reduced to zero, and all kinds of small reactions are not only difficult to observe visually, but even difficult for him to perceive clearly.

After determining his breathing pattern in the "oxygen saving mode", Xiang Kun began to expand his attention outward and let go of his perception.

Following the "inspiration" when they accompanied Lao Xia and the others to walk by the river before, Xiang Kun once again used the mode of "parasitic everything" to perceive the surrounding river.

Then he found that while "breathing" through his skin, he also had a new sense of perception in the water - his skin seemed to have a more acute perception of water fluctuations, and could judge the movement trajectory of living creatures in the water more than ten or even twenty meters away through this perception, and the position of dead objects in the water.

Xiang Kun carefully perceived this information, believing that this was not only due to the ability evolution brought by the "mutant parasite", but most of it was due to his own super sensory ability, information processing and judgment ability, and under the combination, he would have this ability to comprehensively scan information in the water.

Then Xiang Kun no longer "went with the flow", but began to swim actively in the water.

He had only learned frog pose before, and he swam very ordinarily, but now in the water, when he moves, he swims according to an "instinct".

His swimming posture is like that of a fish, similar to the posture of butterfly-legged diving, but compared to human butterfly-legged diving, it is much more comfortable and relaxed, and his hands are stretched out from under his chest from time to time, controlling the direction, so that he can use the current and water potential to save more effort.

After swimming in the water for a while, Xiang Kun found that the connection between himself and the river seemed to become closer again, as if a pair of shoes had just been put on his feet, and after wearing them for a while and exercising for a while, they fit more and more.

As a result, Xiang Kun's movements in the water became smaller and smaller, but the speed and flexibility of swimming became higher and higher.

After swimming in the water for more than an hour, Xiang Kun regained his static, and then controlled twenty-six "super-associations" that followed him down the river to gather around him.

Just after he started swimming, he half-let go of his control over these "super-couplings", and only after swimming a certain distance, he gathered them again, so as not to turn back and be carried out too far by the river, out of his control, and it would be too troublesome to find them one by one.

But at this time, Xiang Kun "sent" these twenty-six "super-associates" far away under the water, and the farthest was even hundreds of meters away.

Originally, at this distance, he could sense it, but he definitely couldn't control it, and he had to enter the "super sensing state" and accurately locate it before he could operate accordingly.

But now in the river, Xiang Kun found that the river water was like a glue, and the single magnetic field of the twenty-six "superconjugs" was assembled into a whole in Xiang Kun's perception.

With the help of this "super-linked" matrix, Xiang Kun's perception in the water has once again been expanded on a large scale, reaching as far as more than 100 meters away, and the details of the perception are also richer.

He can perceive the small boats moored on the opposite side of the river, the fish swimming around, the snails of different sizes hidden at the bottom of the river, and other plankton.

Slowly, Xiang Kun discovered that he could not only perceive, but also have a certain ability to "manipulate".

Through the influence of the "super-linked" matrix, he re-assembled the twenty-six "super-linked objects", and then tried to intervene in the flow potential of the river and find the force point that could be borrowed to carry out the influence of the water flow.

After repeated attempts, he finally formed a tiny whirlpool in the water.

But what Xiang Kun in the water didn't know was that when he was conducting these experiments, there were some anomalies on the river.

The wind seemed to change direction slightly, and it also became a little stronger, and on the surface of the river near the whirlpool, there were layers of very light mist, but because there was very little, it was blown away by the wind in the blink of an eye.

Of course, no one can see this scene on the river in the middle of the night.

And Xiang Kun in the water is still obsessed with research and experiments to control the river water.

At this time, nearly three hours had passed since he sank into the river.

Just when Xiang Kun had found the doorway through research and experiments, and found the use of the "super-link" matrix to better control the flow of water by borrowing the momentum of the water flow, more than sixty meters away from his location, a small object fell into the river, accompanied by a series of women's screams on the shore.

The twenty-six "super-couplings" that were originally gathered around Xiang Kun instantly followed his will and shot out of the water, like torpedoes, rushing away like the place where they fell into the water.

Xiang Kun soon discovered that it was an adult male who fell from the embankment, and it was a woman who was shouting on the shore.

Falling overboard?

Xiang Kun quickly made a judgment in his mind, and when he could do his best, he still had to save people. At this distance, at his speed, it should still be too late to swim over and rescue people.

But he has been sinking in the water, and there is no process of jumping from the side, and now in the middle of the night, there is no one else around, and there is no boat on the river, so he suddenly came out of the water and rescued people, which seemed too abrupt.

You can't just shout "the light of the righteous path" and then turn your head and jump back into the water and sink and disappear without a trace, right? That would scare people terribly.

And maybe there will be a big news tomorrow, attracting a bunch of attention and investigations that he doesn't want.

So Xiang Kun's decision was to swim over there while using the "water control" method he had just touched the doorway to save people.

......

A few minutes ago.

Riverside.

A sedan pulled up on the side of the road.

The backseat door opened, and a young girl with short chestnut hair grunted out of the car and headed for the river.

On the other side of the back seat, a handsome young man also quickly opened the door and followed quickly, calling the girl's name as he ran to take her hand.

Apparently, it was a young couple who had a fight.

The two people in the car looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, lowered the window, and began to chat, waiting for the little couple to come back after arguing, as friends, they have seen this kind of scene countless times.

But things were going a little differently, and the young man seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, and was a little agitated, and after arguing with the girl for a few words, he yelled: "How the are you going to believe me? Do you want me to jump from here to believe me?"

The girl was already angry, and she also took the opportunity to say: "You ...... it"

She saw that the wide river suddenly had a spirit, and wanted to brake, but she didn't finish shouting, but it was too late, and the young man on the top of the alcohol shouted "Jump, jump!" and jumped into the river.

"Ahh!!!!——h

When the two companions in the car realized that something was wrong and hurriedly got out of the car and rushed over, they saw a scene that surprised them with the girl who was already crying with snot and tears.

The young man who had fallen into the water spun on the surface of the river and moved rapidly towards a beach not far from the shore, and from his position in the water, it was certain that he was not swimming.

After seeing the young man being carried by the river to the shore downstream, the three of them hurriedly ran over.

When they arrived, the young man was lying on his stomach in a patch of water and weed, crying and crying, and climbing up the embankment.

It took a lot of effort for the three of them to pull their companions up.

"Damn, you guy who almost drowned in a one-meter-five pool, how dare you jump into the river? Are you stupid......" The man who was driving scolded with a frightened face.

The young man's girlfriend also kept crying, crying while asking her boyfriend if he was hurt or if he wanted to call 122.

"Fart 122, it's 120!" The man driving helplessly scolded the girl, and said to his companion who was sitting in the passenger seat before: "You call his brother, you have to let his brother know, and we will send him to the hospital again...... Hey, why are you stunned?"

He looked up and saw his companion standing next to him, looking at the river in a daze, and couldn't help but wonder.

But when he followed his companion's gaze and looked at the river, he was also stunned.

The surface of the river on the opposite bank, which had just been clearly visible in the moonlight, was now covered with a whole mist, and this mist was only between where they were and where the young man had jumped into the river.

Dozens of seconds, or even a few minutes later, the fog quickly dissipated, and a cold wind blew, making several people by the river shiver.

At this moment, the surrounding street lights suddenly brightened, and then they suddenly realized that the street lights had dimmed a lot just now, but they were in a hurry to save people at that time, and they didn't pay much attention to it.

Now it's not brightening, just restoring?

At this moment, the man who was lying on the ground, wet, crying and humming for a long time, suddenly raised his head and shouted to his girlfriend and two companions: "Run...... Run, there's something in the water...... There's something in this water!!"

The three of them, who were already a little hairy in their hearts, were all frightened by his voice.

When the three of them stumbled away with the man who jumped into the river, on the river near the shore, half of his bare head slowly rose.

Xiang Kun looked at the four people who ran to the roadside car in a panic, his eyes were a little helpless, he wanted to try his best to make it seem like an "accident", and the man who fell into the water was "lucky" to be washed up on the river beach, but he didn't expect that the operation was not skillful enough, and he was still scared.

(End of chapter)