Chapter 398: Chapter 398: Parasitic Thought Process
After eating the âmutated parasiteâ in the wee hours and waking up after a short sleep, Xiang Kun discussed his situation with Xia Libing via his cellphone, booked the next available flight, took a taxi straight to the airport and prepared to fly back to Citong.
At the airport, Xiang Kun sat in the waiting hall, appearing to be dozing off.
To others, it seemed understandable to be sleepy this early in the morning while catching a flight.
However, in reality, Xiang Kun was completely focused on feeling the changes in his body, especially when it came to his senses, carefully verifying whether there was any mutation.
The âdreamâ he had after drinking blood gave him a hunch that the âmutated parasiteâ could enhance and boost his senses.
Intuitively, he believed that his traditional five senses â vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch â had all experienced subtle improvements.
Of course, because his baseline capabilities were already incredibly robust, the extent of this improvement was quite small. He was only able to approximately determine this through his unique method.
However, he felt that even if he hadnât eaten that âmutated parasiteâ and had only been drinking blood according to the usual cycle, the natural enhancement after the next âBlood-drinking Periodâ would have been of similar magnitude.
While there were no dramatic changes in his conventional five senses, his âsixth senseâ had seen a clear boost.
Now Xiang Kun could close his eyes without entering the âSuper Sensory Stateâ and could feel the magnetic and electric fields around him very clearly.
Then, based on these sensations, he could inadvertently determine where there were electronic devices, where there was an electric current, where the current was strong, where the current was weak, where alternating current devices were used, and where direct current devices were used.
Moreover, based on these judgments, he could further infer which devices were cell phones, lamps, computers, electric cars for transporting luggage at the airport, and which ones were connected to the internet.
With careful sensory input, he could even vaguely use these electromagnetic data to pinpoint the exact locations of individuals and creatures â however, this clearly integrated auxiliary information given by other senses and the details inferred after knowing the results.
The fact that such a distinct evolution occurred immediately after his âBlood-drinking Periodâ when he had just consumed the âmutated parasiteâ was ample evidence that this âmutated parasiteâ certainly had the ability to perceive its surroundings through changes in magnetic and electric fields.
However, based on what Old Xia and he had learned before, from âDream in A Dreamâ of the actual memories of several hosts of the âmutated parasiteâ, Xiang Kun knew that when this âmutated parasiteâ was in a hostâs body, it relied on more than just this magnetic field sensitivity to judge the external information and hostâs situation. It must also have accessed the hostâs perceptions or emotions.
Otherwise, it couldnât have chosen to escape just before the âVampire Patientâ was about to be arrested, and it wouldnât have guided its host in Yangcheng who was about to be arrested to jump off a building and escape.
Xiang Kun leaned towards the idea that the âmutated parasiteâ could perceive subtle changes in the hostâs emotions through the hair-thin, densely-packed âtentaclesâ it extended after parasitizing the hostâs body, and thus judge the hostâs situation.
Thinking this, Xiang Kun couldnât help but look at his own fingers, wondering whether he could also âextendâ these fine tentacles from his hands and sense other peopleâs emotions or share in their sensory information without needing to rely on âEmotion Infused Objectsâ just by touching them?
However, after staring for a long time, no tentacles extended from his hand.
Of course, if he really could mutate and extend the tentacles of that âmutated parasiteâ, heâd prefer if⊠the tentacles could extend from the top of his head?
Uh, wouldnât that image be strangely eerie?
But Xiang Kun also knew that the tentacles of the mutated parasite worked inside the hostâs body. If he could really mutate and extend such tentacles, to gain knowledge of anotherâs emotions, he would probably need to penetrate the other personâs body and let the tentacles enter the body. Simple skin contact wouldnât suffice.
In this case, his âEmotion Infused Objectsâ were actually better, at least theyâre âwirelessâ!
Xiang Kun entered the âSuper Sensory Stateâ again and perceived all kinds of cognitive information in this state.
As the âSuper Sensory Stateâ itself is built on the basis of the âsixth senseâ, and the âsixth senseâ had made a clear improvement, Xiang Kun experienced significant changes in his perception during the âSuper Sensory Stateâ.
This feeling was akin to the experience when he had just mutated and removed his glasses, the world had suddenly become much clearer.
However, this wasnât because his perceptual range had broadened in the âSuper Sensory Stateâ, but the initial depth of his perception had improved.
In the past, when he was perceiving a certain cognitive information in-depth, he would slowly gain more and more cognitive information, but this required him to concentrate on one thing, and after a certain extent, his brain couldnât handle it and it would forcibly exit the âSuper Sensory Stateâ.
But now, without delving in, he received more first-layer cognitive information when he noticed something in the âSuper Sensory Stateâ than what he used to get after much effort.
Just like looking at a pool, the amount of information hasnât changed, but before, he could only see 20 cm below the surface, to see deeper, he had to dive, but now he could see 80 cm deep at first glance, and by diving a bit, he could see to depths of 2-3 meters.
From the perceptual information in the âdreamlandâ after blood-drinking, Xiang Kun felt that the sensing abilities of the âmutated parasiteâ were somewhat similar to his âsixth senseâ, but they were substantially different on the whole.
The way it processed the sensed information was also vastly different from his cognitive information in the âSuper Sensory Stateâ.
To use an analogy, the âmutated parasiteâ could be said to be using a lens similar to Xiang Kunâs, but the âmutated parasiteâ was like an old-fashioned camera, while Xiang Kunâs was a super recording and image processing device connected to a top-of-the-line chip with various electronic components.
Of course, now the âmutated parasiteâsâ lens had been stripped off and modified by Xiang Kun to be used on himâŠ
On the plane, Xiang Kun frequently entered the âSuper Sensory Stateâ for various types of sensing and testing.
He certainly couldnât parasitize other creatures like the âmutated parasiteâ.
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There are many abilities that he probably couldnât apply, wouldnât evolve or could only be used to help him understand his own body.
But he suddenly had a strange thought: could he⊠consider himself a âparasiteâ and regard the environment as a host to âparasitizeâ?
After getting off the plane and getting into Old Xiaâs Camry, Xiang Kun first summarized the results of his self-examination and perception in a format with columns 1, 2, 3, 4 for Old Xia.
Then, he brought up his idea about âparasitizingâ the environment.