Chapter 357: The Cause of the Mutation (I)
Xiang Kun originally thought that Lao Xia would sleep for two more hours, after all, she was indeed too tired during this time, and she had not been sleepy.
However, he heard Lao Xia's stomach growling, and it was likely that he woke up hungry......
Lao Xia, who was disheveled, sat up from the bed, and was stunned for two seconds before lifting the quilt and getting out of bed to put on shoes.
Xiang Kun, who was sitting in front of the computer, turned the computer chair, looked at Lao Xia in shoes, and said: "When you just fell asleep, Zhen'er called your mobile phone, I guess it should be to ask you to eat and play games together, and she called me later." β
After Xiang Kun fell asleep, Lao Xia's mobile phone was always silent, so naturally he would not be woken up by the ringtone, and Xiang Kun also speculated that Yang Zhen'er was not in a hurry to find Lao Xia - otherwise he would have called the second one.
Xia Libing took his mobile phone and looked at it, sent a panda to Yang Zhen'er's WeChat, sat up from the bed, and then smiled evilly.
Ten seconds later, Yang Zhen'er sent a shocked expression, and then sent another message: "You didn't get up until now? You can't sleep all afternoon, right?"
But she didn't wait for Lao Xia to reply, and continued to send messages: "If you wake up early, you can come and have dinner with me and Nana, now that we're all finished, I don't have your share!"
Yang Zhen'er sent a photo of the dining table, on which were several takeaway boxes, but the contents had already been eaten.
Then another message was delivered: "Do you want to play the voice game developed by Chef Xiang?" and Chef Xiang said that he was still busy, as if he wanted to make changes based on our comments the night before. Come here, let's play by ourselves, Sister Baoting and brother-in-law are here, you come here, we can play with five people!"
Xia Libing replied with an expression of a panda burying his head and eating noodles.
Yang Zhen'er understood what she meant in seconds: "Come over after eating?"
Xia Libing replied with a panda shaking his head.
Yang Zhen'er: "Don't post this expression again! Otherwise, the next time we meet, I'll wash you!"
Xia Libing replied with a panda nodding expression.
Yang Zhen'er was depressed for a few seconds, and then replied with an expression on Jacky Zhang's face, with a line of captions: "You are about to lose your sister." β
Xiang Kun waited until Lao Xia and her cousin finished fighting before saying, "Go as planned?"
Lao Xia nodded: "Go as planned." β
When he decided to come back with Xiang Kun, Lao Xia had already arranged the schedule with him for the next few days after he returned. According to the plan, after Xiang Kun woke up from his slumber today, after doing some basic tests and analysis with Lao Xia, he would review and investigate his experience on the evening of July 11 last year.
For Xiang Kun, July 11 can be said to be a turning point in his life, before July 11, he was just an ordinary office worker, and after July 11, he became a "vampire" and "mutant creature".
All the changes began on the evening of July 11, 2019.
Since the beginning of the mutation, Xiang Kun has been constantly investigating and looking for the cause of the mutation, tracing what happened on the night of July 11, which caused him to have undergone such a big change in his body after waking up on July 14.
But judging from his findings, nothing special happened that night, either outside or at homeβat least not in the light of him.
Especially with the increase in the number of blood drinks, under his deliberate guidance and training, his memory is getting stronger and stronger, and he can look back on various details, calculate various possibilities, and analyze various doubts about what has happened like watching surveillance videos. Although the memories of what happened before the mutation were relatively limited due to the limitations of unevolved and expanded sensory abilities, it was enough for him to make basic judgments.
He thinks that there should be no omissions, the points that should be checked, and the places that should be paid attention to, have basically been checked, but Lao Xia wants to investigate again, and he has no opinion, which itself is also where he hopes Lao Xia will help him - use different perspectives and ideas to help him think.
Before going out, Xia Libing glanced at the camera on the computer desk that had been turned back to the correct position, and said, "Last night, this camera started by itself. β
Xiang Kun said: "Oh, it's okay, this is the setting I made before, at a certain time, the camera will be automatically started, don't worry about my computer being hacked, my home network is very secure." β
"Your computer is running something very important, so you have to make sure that the power can't be cut off?" Xia Libing pointed to the small generator in the corner of the living room, which had been connected to the wiring and set up.
Xiang Kun nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, something very important." β
Xia Libing nodded thoughtfully.
Because Xia Libing wanted to actually go through Xiang Kun's itinerary that night, the two took a taxi directly to the food stall on the evening of July 11 to borrow wine from Xiang Kun to relieve his sorrows.
However, they did not get off directly at the location of the food stalls, but went to the exit of the subway, walked through the subway exit first, and retook the route to Kun that night.
On the way, Xiang Kun briefly told her about his visit to work on July 11, the fact that the company went bankrupt, and everyone went back to their homes, how he felt on the subway, and the situation of other passengers on the subway.
When he arrived at the food stall, Xiang Kun ordered the exact same side dishes as that night, and even ordered beer - of course, neither he nor Lao Xia was ready to drink it, and he just returned it at the checkout.
In addition, Lao Xia also ordered noodle soup for two, which was her dinner.
Lao Xia was eating noodles and side dishes, and told Kun about the situation when he was drinking. Although when he was in Thornton City, Xiang Kun had already roughly told Lao Xia about the fact that he borrowed wine to kill his sorrows that night and then slept for two days, and then his body began to mutate, many details have not been said.
When he first mutated, Xiang Kun didn't remember very well what happened after he got drunk on the night of July 11, but now he can accurately retrace the situation at that time, as long as it is the picture he saw, the sound he heard, the smell he smelled, and the taste he tasted, he could recall it, but these sensory information were not the sensory information strengthened after the mutation.
Lao Xia stopped her chopsticks from time to time, asked some of her questions, and then answered them to Kun from memory.
Xiang Kun also understands that one of the most important purposes of Lao Xia's "field trip" is actually to help him retrace his memories on the spot and explore possible doubts from more angles and directions.
They didn't stay long in the food stalls, and after eating noodles in Lao Xia, they returned the wine and paid the bill and left.
Xiang Kun still called a taxi through the taxi software and went to the place he rented before.
"What about the driver?" asked Lao Xia while waiting for the car.
"I checked, and there was no problem. Xiang Kun knew that what she asked was about the driver who drove him back on the evening of July 11, and later he had secretly investigated the driver, and he could basically determine that the other party was an ordinary online car-hailing driver, and from his body, there was no smell or other suspicious points related to mutated creatures.
As he spoke, Xiang Kun carefully told Lao Xia about the process of his investigation of the driver, and at the same time helped himself to review and confirm it again.
Xiang Kun's previous rented room had been rented out by the landlord after he moved out, but before the Chinese New Year, the tenant had quit the lease again, so the room was empty now.
Xiang Kun contacted the landlord and asked the landlord to take the key to open the door and take a look on the reason that a friend wanted to rent the room.
When the landlord saw the tall Xia Libing next to Xiang Kun, he asked a little confused: "Mr. Xiang, the friend you said you wanted to rent my house is this young lady? She is so tall and beautiful, can't she be a model?" Although Lao Xia is still wearing sneakers, cargo pants, and a dark down jacket, his tall figure and delicate facial features, as well as his special indifferent temperament, will still make people's eyes shine, and they can't help but want to take a few more looks.
"I'm not a model, I'm a poor student, just working, I'm strapped for money, I said the location is good, it's cheap, and the landlord is very good, so I took her to see it. Xiang Kun said casually.