Chapter IV Records

Xiang Kun tried everything he could eat and drink at home.

Then make a note on the document:

Solid foods: instant noodles X, potato chips X, oatmeal cookies X, Oreo cookies X;

Liquid drinks: boiled water √, purified water √, pure milk X, Red Bull X;

Thinking that on July 14, he had eaten porridge and side dishes in a small shop outside, and he vomited all of them, so he added to the solid food:

Clear porridge X, fried bean sprouts X, mustard X.

After checking and recording himself, Xiang Kun looked at the time, it was already half past one in the morning, so he washed up and prepared to go to bed first to ensure good sleep and rest.

But after lying on the bed for nearly an hour, Xiang Kun was not sleepy, thinking that he might have just slept for more than 20 hours before and did not feel sleepy, so he turned on the laptop again.

Previously, he searched for keywords based on his own body changes, and most of the search results pointed to "vampire".

So Xiang Kun is going to use "vampires" as the target to collect information.

Of course, literary works such as "Twilight", "Interview with the Vampire", and "The Vampire Diaries" will not be the target of his collection.

He saw the question "what is it like to be a vampire" on Zhihu, in addition to the answers to those obviously brain-opening vampire novels, there are also some answers to the very serious collection of information to explore the origin and scientific explanation of vampires.

As for the origin and scientific explanation of vampires, most of the answers are actually similar, believing that the origin of vampire legends is Eastern and Central Europe in the eighteenth century.

Those who become "vampires" are usually those who have died from accidents or violent illnesses.

His relatives either contracted a serious illness or died one after another in other accidents. And a few days before they die, they dream in their dreams that dead people turn into vampires to suck their own blood.

In the end, it is a calamity or an infectious disease, or some other unfortunate event, and then it is written down to a deceased family member.

At that time, the treatment method was usually to dig out the heart of the corpse and burn it after the coffin was opened, and because the corpse made a strange sound due to the flatulence and tissue contraction in a short period of time, the nails looked as if they had grown after death, which further enhanced the legend of "vampires".

Later, with the development of medicine, various phenomena were explained, and "vampires" became more and more literary, adding more images and characteristics, and even having superpowers and immortal bodies.

Sometimes patients with diseases such as rabies, pica, and porphyria are also used as scientific explanations for modern "vampires".

Xiang Kun also deliberately went to watch the vampire analysis program "Vampire Forensics" specially produced by the National Geographic Channel mentioned in the next few answers, and it was about similar things, and there was nothing that could explain the content of this series of changes in him.

However, some descriptions and descriptions in some unreliable literary and artistic works are more consistent with his situation.

Before he knew it, it was already dawn, and Xiang Kun was still in good spirits, so he decided to go out and buy some things and come back.

I went to the bathroom to wash my face, opened my mouth to check it, and found that the teeth had almost grown, at least when he smiled toothy, other people should not be able to see anything except that his teeth were very white.

To his relief, his newly erupted teeth were normal, and there were no terrifying fangs.

After Xiang Kun went out, he first bought a few kinds of food, fritters, soy milk, pancakes, bread, etc., and only tried to eat one bite of each, trying the same, but there were no exceptions, and they all spit out in the end.

However, eating less, nausea, and discomfort when vomiting will also be alleviated a lot.

Xiang Kun hitchhiked to the shopping mall and bought some things, including a variety of food and drinks, an induction cooker and a matching small pot, cleaning tools, a scale, a meter ruler, and so on.

When I got home, it was already more than 10 o'clock in the morning, and the sun was very big, so Xiang Kun subconsciously avoided the sun.

July was the hot time, but Xiang Kun didn't feel the heat at all, he went out to buy things, squeezed the bus, carried a few bags and estimated that there were dozens of pounds of things, and he didn't sweat much.

Although his body instinctively seemed to subconsciously avoid the sun, after noticing this, Xiang Kun deliberately stood in the sun and let the scorching sun shine directly.

But in his senses, there was no obvious discomfort from standing in the sun, not even the burning sensation of being exposed to the sun that should normally be felt.

He looked up at the sky again, and he couldn't open his eyes because of the sun, but ordinary people are the same, right?

Although he didn't understand the specific reason, he could still feel his body's instinctive rejection of the sun and the scorching sun.

According to the information he had seen last night, the degree of photophobia of "vampires" can be much more serious, and when exposed to the sun, the skin will be quickly burned and oxidized and blackened.

The so-called closest to the "vampire" disease porphyria, when exposed to the sun, there will be photosensitive dermatitis, itching, chickenpox symptoms.

In contrast, although his body instinctively wants to avoid the light, he does not have any obvious symptoms or reactions in the sun, and is even more heat-resistant than before?

When he got home, Xiang Kun directly moved a chair and sat in the bathroom and began to drink.

Take a sip of Coke, and after more than twenty seconds, vomit.

Take a sip of Sprite, and after more than twenty seconds, vomit.

Take a sip of orange juice, and after more than twenty seconds, spit out.

......

But after drinking the coffee brewed by Nestle's gold medal freeze-dried coffee powder, Xiang Kun didn't spit it out for a few minutes, which made him vaguely find a way, because he had drunk Nestle's three-plus-one instant coffee before, and he also vomited for more than 20 seconds, what is the difference between the two? What is the difference between the two and those drinks he drank before?

Xiang Kun made boiled eggs and ate them again, but there was no reaction. Then I boiled the beef fillet in water, and I had no problem eating it.

So he began to think, is it because of the sugar content of the food?

Although black coffee, eggs, and beef also contain trace amounts of sugar, they can be said to be much lower than other foods and beverages.

But why sugar? Xiang Kun has learned before, and knows that most of the energy needed by the human body is provided by sugar.

Just when Xiang Kun was recording in front of his laptop, he suddenly felt a twitch in his stomach again, and rushed to the bathroom again.

Xiang Kun wiped his mouth helplessly, washed his face, returned to the computer, and made a note in the document: food or drink with low sugar content can stay in the stomach for a longer time, but after twenty minutes to half an hour, it will still vomit.

Then he began to undress, and after only a pair of boxer shorts were left in his body, he stood on the electronic scale he bought back and weighed himself, measured his chest circumference, waist circumference, arm circumference and other data with a meter ruler, and set up his mobile phone to set up a delay to take a picture of himself.

He's going to start keeping track of how he's changing.