What is the experience of becoming a vampire

Staring at the face with a slightly surprised expression on the screen of the phone for a long time, Joel's thinking was a little confused for a while, he looked back at the side, then at the phone, and then at the side.

Judging from the scene and angle of the photo, it was taken just now, that is, there is nothing wrong with this position, but what's the matter with that face?

Joel touched his face subconsciously. For a moment, he even forgot his looks. Could it be that in his own perception, he actually looked the same as John?

Or, in fact, the John he always thought was himself?

But this was just a momentary confusion. He immediately sorted out his thoughts and looked at the picture again to make sure that it was John, not himself.

what's going on?

In the current environment, with the faint moonlight above his head, he can clearly see the surrounding environment, and can also judge whether there are other creatures nearby through the sound and smell.

He was pretty sure that there was nothing unusual around here, except for himself, there were no birds around.

Is it an illusion again?

Joel closed his eyes and thought, then turned on the phone again, and the picture he saw was still John's face.

So he turned on the video mode of the phone, turned on the fill light, and then took his own face to record, and turned over to view the video after recording.

Seeing the "John's face" in the video that was doing the actions he just squinted, turned his head, nodded, and so on, Joel almost squeezed the phone by accident.

Joel tried it again and again, whether it was taking pictures or videos with the front camera, or looking for a view with the front camera through the moonlight, all he saw was John’s face, with expressions, movements, clothes, and background. All can be matched.

This makes Joel's cognition chaotic again. Could it be that he had previously unknowingly changed his face to when he was young, and his appearance when he was young was actually the same as John?

Or maybe, the appearance of John in his memory has been deviated and remembered as his own appearance?

Joel once again appeared hesitant and uncertain about his own memory, but this is not entirely the influence of the phone photos and videos at this time. He has always been sorting out and looking back on his memories, and there has been some confusion. This It is also the disadvantage of living too long and often sleeping for a long time.Sometimes, after waking up after a few months or even years of deep sleep, he will even forget the memory of one of the stages, or remember the order in which they happened, and it will take some time to get over.

But when he found the reason for himself, he looked at the phone again, only to discover that in the photos and videos he took, his appearance returned to that of the elegant old man.

Joel was stunned, feeling a bit cold unexpectedly.

The hypnotic cues I received would have such a big impact and such a big effect?

He suddenly thought of seeing the little girl in the white skirt who was not recorded on the real-time monitoring screen in the restaurant in Liucheng, and the situation of Wu Shushan after opening the mobile map inexplicably.

Perhaps along the way, he has seen a lot of such hallucinations, and perhaps many of the sounds and images that he thinks are ordinary and normal are deceived by his brain. They are fake and illusions.

Have you been hypnotized to such a deep level?

In this case, what is true of what I have seen and heard?

Will the surrounding mountains and forests also be fake?

Normally, when consciousness is hypnotized and knows which hallucinations and illusions are, it should be able to get out of the hypnotic state to a certain extent. Why is it still constantly producing such deep hallucinations that make him unable to judge the true and false?

When his thinking became more and more chaotic, his emotions became more and more nervous, and his bloodthirsty and mania were about to be unquenchable, Joel suddenly fell on the ground, burying his face deep in the dirt and weeds on the ground.

He perceives the "prosthetic tissue fluid" he has left in advance all the way into the mountain, and relies on the "prosthetics" parasitic on various plants to make an overall judgment on the creatures of this mountain forest, and once again confirm that there is no "blood", "Blood beast" or "blood plant" exists.

The "prosthesis" produced by his "prosthetic tissue fluid" does not give him the most intuitive sensory feedback, but it can give him an "intuitive" judgment.

He believes that this "intuition" cannot be wrong and will not be affected by hypnosis and suggestion.

This judgment made him a little relieved.

Then he turned his attention to himself again, and he no longer delved into when and how he was hypnotized and suggested, but instead turned to thinking about how to respond and what the other party wanted to do.

In his original understanding, as soon as he arrives at Wu Shushan, there should be related "bloods" or "bloods". In the worst case, they are people who know the inside story. Then they should deal with himself or have friendly exchanges. There is a result.

But what he didn't expect was that he finally rushed to Wu Shu Mountain, and was "leaded" from Wu Shu Mountain to Chongyun Mountain. After entering the mountain overnight, he was still in the mist without finding any answers.

Joel thought of the illusion he had just produced. If the hypnotism and suggestion he received were to come to Wu Shushan and Chongyun Mountain, then when he was here, the cell phone that produced him photographed himself as John. What is the hallucination?

He thought of the idea that came up before he noticed the phone.

Is this illusion also reminding myself that I did not come to Chongyun Mountain when I found the wrong place, but I was still in Wushu Mountain?

"SHIT!"

"FUCK!"

Joel couldn't help but yelled bitterly, grabbed his blond hair hard, and forcibly controlled his madness, took a few deep breaths, and prepared to go outside the mountain.

But after not taking a few steps, there was a sudden movement of the grass being trampled on behind him. He suddenly turned his head and found a white shadow flashing in the forest.

Joel lifted his spirits and subconsciously said: "WAIT..."

His bodily functions were exerted to the limit, and he rushed to the direction where the white shadow appeared.

However, in a few seconds, he had reached the spot where the white shadow appeared, and looked around, but did not find the white shadow's whereabouts.

He sniffed the surrounding air deeply, and was taken aback for a moment. He couldn't smell any human or beast, let alone the breath of "blood race" or "blood beast".

How is this going?

Is it an illusion again?

Joel got down and observed carefully where he saw the white shadow, and found that there were indeed faint traces of trampling. Judging from the traces, it was a pair of small flat-bottomed leather shoes, which seemed to be worn by a child?

He immediately matched the white shadow with the little girl in the white skirt that he had seen on the surveillance video and real-time surveillance of the restaurant in Liucheng.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously, then looked at the trace again, and it was still there.

But there was no smell left, but it still made him doubt whether this was a real trace or an illusion he had produced.

There were not many footprints, and it seemed that the white figure had just disappeared except for the flash that he saw.

After going around and checking around a dozen square meters nearby, Joel, who had found nothing, was a little confused and confused.

Originally, he managed to straighten out his thoughts and determined his strategy. He wanted to ignore the illusionary influence of the picture of John on the phone, and went back to Wu Shushan to check it. However, the current situation has completely confused his thinking.

If the white shadow just now was the phantom of the little girl in the white skirt that Liu Cheng saw, it would prove that his way to Wu Shushan and Chongyun Village was implied, and it was related to the little girl.

But after thinking back and forth, he is now unsure again, because he suspects that seeing the white shadow, seeing the traces on the ground, and the illusion on the phone, is it just that he is constantly entangled in his heart after being hypnotized. The result-I saw myself become John on the phone because he came here to find the reason why John lost contact, and found a way to find John and solve the "blood source" problem. I saw the white shadow because he was subconscious. Li thought that the little girl in the white dress was behind the scenes.

His mind just kept hitting the wall like a ghost, and then couldn't help but yell at the surroundings.

This time not only in English, but also in Spanish, German, French, and even Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese.

Obviously, he is already on the verge of losing control and running away, and some can't suppress the mania caused by the stage limit.

But just when he made up his mind to leave Chongyun Mountain and go directly to Pengcheng regardless of everything.

The little girl in the white skirt appeared again, this time, standing next to a tree ten meters in front of him, tilting her head, holding a scalpel in her hand, and staring at him blankly.

Moonlight spilled through the cracks in the branches and leaves above the head, covering the little girl's white and delicate face with a layer of cold mottled silver, which looked incredibly real, yet incredibly eerie and strange.

Joel felt his breathing stop again, and before he could react, the little girl in the white skirt flashed behind the tree and disappeared again.

He hurried to catch up. As expected, there was no figure of the little girl in the white dress again, as if she had disappeared out of thin air, without smell and no sound.

"Ah!" Joel angrily pushed his head against the tree.

...

A few hours ago, when Joel was guided by all sorts of seemingly fragile information, he entered the Chongyun Mountain area.

In the small courtyard where Xiangkun of Chongyun Village often used to drink blood and sleep in the name of "retreat", he and Xia Libing were sitting in a room with multiple display screens, watching the surveillance on one of the screens. Picture, what is being discussed.

"Lao Xia is still very good, and he used the'reverse operation' to lead him over. Hey, I had known that I had hinted to him to go to Pengcheng at the beginning to arouse his vigilance, and then let him find out that John is in fact in a proper way. Chongyun Mountain." Xiang Kun looked at Joel, who was heading to Chongyun Mountain on the monitor, and said, touching his chin.

Xia Libing shook his head, "If this is the case, the effect may not be good."

Xiang Kun thought for a while and nodded: "That's right. In fact, the best way is to hide the clues in various details, let him dig it out and discover bit by bit. He is sure to come to Chongyun Mountain. It's the best. It's a pity, time is still too tight, and there is no way to make all the arrangements. I can only use this kind of forced method to'lead' him."

At this time, Alice's voice came out from the speaker: "Alice controls everything!"

Xiang Kun nodded perfunctorily: "You know, you are the best, this time it is all up to you."

Although his tone was perfunctory, he was really satisfied with Alice's performance, and it could even be said to be a surprise.

From the beginning of May, the large-scale launch, layout, and association plan of "Superlinks" began. With the assistance of Alice, the progress can be said to be rapid and very rapid.

Not only Chongyun Village, Chongyun Mountain, Tongshi Town, Bian Towns, Mountains, and Villages, but basically most areas of Jianzhou City, and most of the urban area of ​​Citong City, have been deployed and connected with a large number of " Hyperlink has become the de facto “home of Hyperlink”. Even some other places, such as Pengcheng, Yangcheng, Shenhai, and other areas where Xiang Kun and his friends will frequent activities, are also arranged and connected. Sufficient "hyperlinks".

Even in the land borders of the southwest and northwest, and the southeast and other areas where it is possible to sneak into the country, Xiang Kundu and Alice used the method of remote deployment of "love objects" and "hyperlinks" to carry out a large number of remote "hyperlinks". "Relation, so that Xiang Kun does not need to go to the border to walk around, and most of the basic border must pass through, included in his "super-connected things monitoring network"-there is Alice 24 hours without rest Through super-sensing information monitoring without interval, even a bug, as long as it is a "mutated creature", passing through an area full of "super-connected objects", she can immediately spot it.

The reason why he attaches so much importance to the border area is because, on the one hand, he learned about the illegal entry method of John Cavendish, a European "vampire", and on the other hand, these places are mostly inaccessible, and they are also wild beasts "mutant creatures" entering human settlements. One of the paths of the district, he can use this to "monitor" possible "mutant creatures" and find research targets.

But I didn't expect that the first "mutant creature" Alice discovered through the border "super-connected thing monitoring network" turned out to be the "Earl Joel" of the same organization as John.

As for why Xiang Kun knew that it was "Earl Joel", it had to be said more than a month ago.

After Alice found out that John under the Shouwang Mansion was locked up with other "mutant creatures" again, fought desperately and notified him, he performed real-time monitoring in the "super-sensing state" and observed a "mutation" throughout the process. The organism" is killed, the body tissues disintegrate and dissipate, and the blood is changed by the cognitive information captured by another "mutant organism".

The fight this time was more tragic than the last fight between John and the "mutated snake", but it was John who survived in the end.

Xiang Kun once again perceives John’s dream this time, and this time, it is no longer the kind of illusory, allegorical dream of monsters with eight arms and eight eyes. Instead, there are many Johns in Europe and in the "Red Rose" organization. Among the pictures in, the one that appears the most is Earl Joel.

Not only did Xiang Kun know about Earl Joel's appearance, personality, and some habits, he also knew that Guo Tianxiang was his "blood" and the "blood source" he prepared for himself.And the reason why John came to China was also because Earl Joel had reached the stage limit. Without qualified "blood source", his body would disintegrate and die-of course, according to the rules of "Red Rose", he was dying Before, before confirming that he could not break the limit, he had to contribute his own blood in a special way and become the nourishment for other "bloods" to survive the long sleep period.

However, it seems that Joel did not intend to act in accordance with tradition. He did not pin all his hopes on John's return in time, but came to China by himself.

Xiang Kun knew from John's dreams that these old European "bloods" were all brutal and inhuman monsters, and everyone had more than three digit lives in their hands.

Compared with the "mutated creatures" Xiang Kun had come into contact with before, John, Joel, and even Guo Tianxiang, compared to "giant owls" and "mutant spiders", pose a much greater threat to humans.

Even if they still seem to be humans, they haven't changed much, but in terms of performance, they are not as good as bugs.

So naturally, Xiang Kun took Joel to do an "experiment," without any psychological burden.

But the "experiment" he wanted to do was not to lock up Joel and conduct various tests or observations.

Joel is now in a very special state-he has reached the so-called "phase limit" and needs the blood of other "mutant creatures" to break through this limit.

Xiang Kun has now observed the cognitive information changes of the body tissues collapsed after the "mutated creature" is killed in the "super-sensing state", and has also observed the cognition of body mutation after the "mutated creature" grabs the blood of other "mutated creatures" Information changes, but he has not observed changes in cognitive information that “mutated creatures” self-destruct after reaching the stage limit.

Now Joel is an excellent "observable target".

What he has to do is to let Joel enter a state and environment suitable for his observation, and then naturally enter the collapse process that reaches the stage limit.

There is no doubt that it is already full of "super-connected objects", there are usually no people, and a large area around is under the control of him and Alice. The deepest part of the Chongyun Mountain area, which can perform various "adaptive" operations, is the most Great place.

So since Joel thought he had sneaked into the border quietly, Xiang Kun, Alice, and Lao Xia had already started a "round table meeting" to discuss how to get Joel to come to Chongyun Mountain by himself.

Including the "HELPJ" stone scratches, the restaurant ticket below, and the surveillance video of John leaving the restaurant with the little girl in white skirt Alice, they all arranged in advance.

In fact, the various clues "packages" they prepared for Joel are far more than these. If he goes to Pengcheng City or starts investigating from other possible clues, there will be a series of other information waiting for him to "discover" ".

In the end, no matter what, he will be led to Wu Shushan and then to Chongyun Mountain.