What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 520: Chapter 520: Lingguo’s Love for Xia

A giant hand gripped the Weird Big Bird’s wing, followed by another, and another, until there were eight in total…

Eight giant hands completely enveloped the bird, wrapping it up like a trussed chicken ready to be buried in the soil.

The black monster’s eight arms wrapped around the bird and pulled it down. The bird’s wings were immobilized and just as it looked like it would be dragged down, spiked appendages similar to those of an arthropod suddenly burst through layers of black gravel.

Apparently, the black gravel had limited cohesion. The Weird Big Bird, with a dozen appendages protruding, quickly tore through it and took flight again.

If it wasn’t invisible, if there wasn’t a thick fog surrounding the area, and if anyone witnessed the Weird Big Bird at that moment, they would surely be shocked. It no longer looked like a bird, but rather like a composite monster taken over by a creature emerging from the abdomen of some arthropod.

After the gravel hands were torn apart, the black gravel scattered and then regrouped to form hands, reaching out in the direction of the escaping bird.

After the bird extended its numerous appendages, its speed reduced drastically. Therefore, it wasn’t able to create distance after struggling free and was soon caught again.

Within the range of Chongyun Village, under the influence of countless “Super-connected object matrices”, no matter how fast or slow, how the Weird Big Bird ran or flew, the floating black mass could always follow tightly as if it was being towed.

The bird’s invisibility was utterly useless against this creature of black gravel.

The Weird Big Bird was continually seized by the black monster. Despite its efforts to release itself using its heavily-proportioned appendages, whenever it attempted to escape the village, it was dragged back by the black figure.

The black gravel forming the monster had a relatively loose structure mostly hollow inside. Thus, direct physical attacks were found to be ineffective against the powerfully beat Weird Big Bird. The black monster could only rely on its interminable and persistent grappling, trying to get the bird grounded.

Occasionally, sparks would emit from the black gravel, but Alice clearly noticed that the Weird Big Bird was not particularly afraid of electricity.

The sparks from the golden anklet only pinched its courage previously, but now that it was accustomed, slight electric shocks couldn’t even make it flinch momentarily.

Within a brief minute, the black monster, formed from gravel and five coins, fought seven rounds of capture and struggle with the Weird Big Bird.

As time passed, whether it was the Little Fatty Girl who built the black monster using Xiao Pingguo as an intermediary, or Alice who directly controlled the black monster during the fight, their movements became increasingly adept and smooth. The village was indeed an indomitable home field advantage!

After once more being shaken off by the Weird Big Bird, the eight-armed black monster wrapped around the bird’s leg. Its entire body suddenly disintegrated, then quickly reassembled, not into a grasping “hand” but its entire body attempting to “swallow” the bird!

Almost instantly, the Weird Big Bird was completely enveloped by layers of black gravel, forming a huge sphere that plummeted towards the ground.

More so, numerous gravels and several tungsten steel balls embedded inside intended to drill into the Big Bird’s nostrils, mouth, and ears, while the five coins were wedged at its major joints to limit its struggle.

Just as the giant sphere was about to hit the ground, the Big Bird let out a piercing, high-frequency scream, with sparks erupting, and then it broke free once again.

Almost all its feathers were plucked out and trapped in the black gravel. One of its eyes was blinded, and it had nearly received a tungsten steel ball in the brain.

It emerged from its invisibility status, blood covering its body. It relied on its multiple limbs to move swiftly, climbed onto a nearby building, and then leapt into the air. It had shed its layer of flesh and fur, making its body significantly smaller. Both of its wings had vanished. It now looked like a bizarre insect with a bird’s head, swiftly bouncing between the buildings of Chongyun Village, seemingly trying to elude the pursuit of the black monster this way.

The black creature made of gravel couldn’t clung as closely to it as before, as it might destroy the buildings. But then, Alice co-manifested.

Within the mist, the strange big bird, or it should now be called a strange insect, sensed that a person appeared in front of it. Subsequently, an irregular, fist-sized object was rapidly flying towards it.

If it hadn’t been for the dense fog, it would have seen a somber yet excited Alice, dressed in a white dress, in the near front, who, after co-manifesting, was fiercely throwing a crispy pig’s trotter towards it with her right hand.

With the flight speed of the crispy pig’s trotter, the bizarre insect, which had molted a layer of flesh and blood, could easily dodge it. However, to its surprise, the pig’s trotter disappeared halfway in its flight, only to be followed by a tungsten steel ball, so small it was almost undetectable, rushing at it at an alarming speed, hitting it in an instant.

The tungsten steel ball’s attack was too rapid and fierce, penetrating the bird-headed insect’s blind eye and exiting through the back of its head in an instant.

The strange insect paused for a moment, let out an even more horrifying scream, but still didn’t die, continuing to leap and crawl towards the distance, paying no attention to Alice.

However, Alice didn’t have to chase it. After disappearing on the spot, she reappeared not far in front of the bizarre insect, holding a crispy pig’s trotter in hand, ready to throw again.

Suddenly, the bird-headed strange insect was set aflame, splitting in two amidst the thick fog, as if it had been hit by a shell.

Through the super sensory information received via the “super-connected objects” scattered throughout Chongyun Village, Alice instantly realized that the strange insect hadn’t died. Both halves of what exploded continued to run, but it was obvious that one half moved awkwardly, while the other half increased its speed substantially.

“In Chongyun Village, no man… no bird… no insect can escape from Alice’s clutches!” Alice lifted her chin slightly, setting a flag for herself, and hurled the crispy pig’s trotter towards the faster “fireball”.

The pig’s trotter changed into a sphere in mid-air, accelerating. It again accurately and unhindered pierced through the half of the strange insect that was on fire.

It screamed terribly once more but continued to sprint without having suffered a fatal blow.

Alice’s figure disappeared and once again co-manifested next to a super-connected sphere. Then using the crispy pig’s trotter, she threw out the sphere.

By this time, the strange insect had reached the edge of the mountain, about to escape from the influence of the super-connected object matrix of Chongyun Village.

A dozen birds of various colors flew out of the forest and frantically rushed towards the village.

They flew aimlessly. They could not distinguish between directions and objects in the dense fog, rushing and bumping about blindly. Some even died on the spot from crashing into buildings.

The tungsten steel ball was obstructed, and after piercing through a bird, its speed decreased, and its direction slightly deviated, missing the strange insect and allowing it to escape into the mountain.

Then, a bolt of lightning fell, thunder roared.

Followed by another one.

Again.

Five consecutive bolts of lightning struck in the mountains.

Alice, standing on the roof of a building, gritted her teeth and stamped her foot angrily. The moment her foot hit the ground, she disappeared.

Next, the raindrops fell like beans, the heavy fog in Chongyun Village dissipated instantly, and electricity and all kinds of signals returned to normal.

…

Li Bing, standing by the window, took her eyes away. She shook her slightly aching hand and rubbed the space between her eyes. Then she turned back and picked up Liu Shiling, who was still standing on the chair wearing her coat’s hood, her eyes closed, and her two little fists clenching in front of her chest.

“Xiao Lingdang, it’s over.” Li Bing gently pinched her cheek and said.

Liu Shiling opened her eyes, looked up at her and asked, “Sister Roasted Chicken Wing, did we defeat the monster?”

“We can’t be sure for now, but at the very least it was driven away injured. You did a great job.” Li Bing said.

The “invader”, which had just transformed from a weird big bird into a weird insect, then into a half of a “burning weird insect”, was just about to leave the vicinity of Chongyun Village, escaping from Alice’s control and attack range. As a result, the little fatty girl, somehow, via an invisible connection with Apple, was able to draw down lightning, landing five direct hits.

Of course, it was still uncertain whether the “half of the weird insect” was struck dead.

However, the strategy Li Bing implemented, coordinating “Bell”, “Apple”, and “Alice”, appeared to be quite successful.

While Alice was under certain conditions able to draw upon Emotion Infused Objects and Super-connected Objects to transmit some cognitive information to Li Bing, Apple and Little Fatty Girl, for example, allowing her to sense the emotional projection illusion of the infused emotion item on her wrist on the night of her birthday and see that sky full of fireworks.

However, this mode of information transmission was quite limited, unstable, and one-way, the only one who could communicate to some degree with Alice in a two-way manner was Apple.

Li Bing then remembered the experience of Apple and Alice jointly conducting the remote projection of the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wooden Sculpture Emotional Projection, and what Xiang Kun had said when he discovered the second level network of Emotion Infused Items: In the “Super sensory Item System”, Little Fatty Girl exists as an enhanced version of “Super-connected Object” + “Emotion Infused Object”, possessing both features.

Therefore, she had Apple sense the black circle graffiti that Alice was connected to, and establish a connection with Alice. Then, using the minions, they sensed Little Fatty Girl’s emotion, and next, using the method of remote projection of emotional projections, they projected her emotional projections towards Alice, essentially allowing Little Fatty Girl to “descend” onto Chongyun Village, likewise granting Alice the ability to control the five super-active-state coins held by Little Fatty Girl. Thus, combining it with the whole “Super-connected object matrix” of Chongyun Village, it was able to play a bigger role.

Of course, all of this was only in theory. Without experimental verification, for it to work, the cooperation of Xiang Kun was required.

Li Bing was very clear, just as she knew Gold Flash was attacked and injured, Xiang Kun must have known too.

Given her understanding of Xiang Kun, he would definitely enter the “Super Sensory State”, and monitor and protect Gold Flash, Chongyun Village, as well as herself, Little Fatty Girl and Apple.

Upon realizing her strategy, Xiang Kun would certainly assist to the best of his ability to increase the chances of success.

From the moment five coins left the bedroom and were able to maintain a stable superactive state, from how easily the five coins managed to gather all sorts of grit, to how swiftly Little Fatty Girl was able to make the direct lightning chase the weird insect; It was clear that Xiang Kun made a significant effort, he coordinated everything whilst in “Super Sensory State”.

As for the dense fog covering the sky, it was a co-manifestation from Li Bing.

Or strictly speaking, she co-manifested a small part of the bedroom’s atmosphere, while Alice copied the co-manifested fog and spread it throughout Chongyun Village according to her needs.

This fog was actually the steam rising from various hot foods and cold dishes such as soup, roasted meat, and ice cream that Li Bing co-manifested in her dreamland. She independently extracted the steam and expanded the co-manifestion.

This method of co-manifestation in comparison to conjuring up a large number of crispy pig’s elbows or roast chicken wings, ice cream is much easier. This imposes a smaller burden on Chongyun Village’s “super-connected object matrix” and Alice.

Along with the changes in the magnetic field of the heavens and the earth at this moment, the change in humidity within the physical environment. The air filled with numerous charged particles, allowing these fog particles to interact with each other and blend in more naturally, and making the co-manifestation easier.

Of course, it is essentially different from the natural heavy fog in the real world, but it can also obscure the line of sight.

It’s just that occasionally, the fragrant smell of roasted meat might be faintly smelt.

Li Bing checked on Gold Flash’s condition and pulled out her mobile phone, saying, “Alice, connect me to Xiang Kun.”

Then she dialed Xiang Kun’s phone. He answered immediately and without waiting for Old Xia to speak, Xiang Kun said directly: “There’s a first aid kit in the closet of my room on the first floor. Use the things inside to clean up Gold Flash’s wounds, treat the feathers around the wounds, and then put five balls in each wound. I will deal with it later. Old Xia, can you help to stitch the wounds?”

Nobody objected to this strange arrangement. Li Bing immediately went to boil water, while Little Fatty Girl and Apple cleared off the table. Under the guidance of Xiang Kun on the phone, they prepared the “operating table”.

The two girls, one older and one smaller, completely believed that since Uncle Xiang/Bald Uncle had spoken, Gold Flash should be saved for sure.

A few months ago, Xiang Kun was already able to deal with minor ailments like bruises. When his father fell and bruised his buttocks, he managed to help him recover quickly through Super-connected Objects.

Now, theoretically he can handle more complex ailments and wounds in “Super Sensory State” because his ability to decode the cognitive information of various organisms has improved significantly, his control of Super-connected Objects has deepened, and he is also assisted by Alice, enabling him to do more complex and tedious operations.

Now when it comes to treating people’s diseases, pains or wounds, he probably isn’t 100% certain. However, for Gold Flash, this untypical canary that had been by his side right after his mutation, which he had observed in various ways, and had already been incorporated into the “Super Sensory Item System”, there’s a very high presumption of success.

Of course, Xiang Kun did not miraculously heal Gold Flash and restored it to its original state, he is not that magical.

Gold Flash was suffering from penetrating injuries, Xiang Kun’s method of handling these injuries is simple. It is to perform a microscopic surgery using Super-connected Objects, perform internal wound cleaning, stop the bleeding, assist in establishing the body’s own healing rhythm, stabilize bodily functions, guard against possible infection.

Gold Flash’s critical organs such as the heart were not injured, it is a robust bird. As long as the situation is managed properly, it would survive.

After preliminary preparation was completed, the entire “treatment” process concluded swiftly. After Apple fed the bandaged Gold Flash some food and water, she put it to rest in a new nest by the edge of the table.