What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 568: 568: Bird Catching Plan

Chapter 568: Chapter 568: Bird Catching Plan

If it had been usual days, should only Yang Lao San behaved so nervously at night, Tang Baona would undoubtedly have tried to investigate. And if it was only Tang Baona always daydreaming, suddenly singing a song she had never sung before, Yang Zhen Er would surely have sensed something unusual, trying to tease Nana, trying to discover her “secret”, and then fantasizing a “behind-the-scenes truth”.

But tonight, after a near plane crash, Tang Baona and Yang Zhen Er both made significant “discoveries.” One discovery was within themselves, another was from Old Xia, but their attentions were now entirely on their respective “discoveries”.

After eating their late-night snack and helping Xiang Kun wash the dishes, clean up the kitchen, everyone returned to their rooms to sleep.

Yang Zhen Er strongly invited Old Xia to sleep in her and Nana’s room, suggesting they have a long conversation, but she was declined. She then proposed to sleep in Old Xia’s bedroom, but was declined again.

However, despite Yang Zhen Er’s excitement, after returning to her room and finishing her nightly routine, she fell asleep within 30 seconds.

On the other side, Tang Baona wasn’t faring much better. She had just lain down and was thinking about creating lyrics for the song she had decoded from Yang Lao San’s emotions. Fiddling with her phone, she fell asleep before she could think of a single line of lyrics. Her phone fell and hit her in the forehead, causing her to scream out.

Tang Baona rubbed her sore forehead, the two lines of lyrics she just thought of were gone, unable to recall them, decided not to think about it anymore, and threw her phone aside to sleep.

Sitting in the living room downstairs, Xiang Kun only got up and went out when he sensed that Tang Baona, Yang Zhen Er, and Old Xia had gone to sleep. He walked to the courtyard.

“Where is it now?” Xiang Kun couldn’t be bothered to enter the “Super Sensory State” to sense and search, so he asked directly.

Alice’s voice came from the phone: “It’s here, boss! I’m watching it!”

Xiang Kun looked down at the map location Alice sent, which was in a forest at the junction of Haixi Province and Jiangyou Province.

The sky indeed was Xiang Kun’s “blind spot” for the “Super-connected Object Network.” Otherwise, the “mutated big bird” wouldn’t have been able to successfully attack the plane. But as long as the “mutated big bird” emerged, with Alice’s current calculation and deduction capabilities, and the coverage range of the “Super-connected Objects” that have been deployed, plus the distribution area of “Xiao Luobo’s” “offspring plants,” it could completely analyze its flight trend, use the method of elimination to guess its possible landing area.

According to the type of birds brought and driven, Alice guessed the area where the “mutated big bird” wrapped and drove these birds, knew where it might have hidden before;

According to its past behavior pattern, the cognitive model of it established by Xiang Kun and Alice inferred that it had a safe flight range. After failing to attack the passenger plane, it would have a certain escape distance if not immediately pursued. It would feel safe enough to land after flying far enough;

If it fell in an area with “Super-connected Objects” distribution, whether it was a city or a mountainous area, needless to say, Alice could immediately locate the position;

If it had not appeared in the area with “Super-connected Objects” distribution within the flight time calculated by Alice, there is a high probability that it was in the place where “Super-connected Objects” had not been deployed yet – mostly in the forests;

Of course, if it could fly long distances across several provinces, this method would be much more difficult. Even if it found it, it would take a long time. But according to the model established by Xiang Kun and Alice, not to mention whether the big bird has such strong long-time flight ability, it would not fly so far at one time based on its behavior style.

In the end, Alice was able to locate the “mutated big bird” by deploying “Xiao Luobo’s Offspring Plant Group” in Haixi and Jiangyou provinces with the assistance of the fourth and fifth level ant colonies to make a directional range seed throw, and increase the “offspring plant” throw in several mountainous areas where the “mutated big bird” may land. Then, when Xiang Kun was making a late-night snack for Nana, the exact location of the “mutated big bird” was identified.

In the past few months, “Xiao Luobo’s” “offspring plants” have been deployed on a large scale, but the main direction is within Haixi Province, and then it started to expand along the coastal cities, to the northern Zhi Jiang Province, to the southern Guangdong Province, Gui Hai region; most of the mountainous areas are full of “offspring plants,” and some parts of Jiangyou Province are also under the control of “Xiao Luobo.” However, considering the control limit of “Xiao Pingguo” itself over the “offspring plants,” Xiang Kun didn’t dare to let it expand and occupy the territory all at once, so there is still space for the “mutated big bird” to hide.

If Xiang Kun really starts to put effort and resources into search, unless the “mutated big bird” can stay in the sky all the time, or live in the sea directly, it would be impossible for it to hide.

According to the location of the “mutated big bird” determined by Alice, if an ordinary person from Chongyun Village wants to go there, undoubtedly, the first step is to drive through the provincial highway to enter Jiangyou Province, then get off the highway at the nearest exit to the mountainous area, and drive to the closest place a car can reach, and then get off the car to climb the mountain. The entire process would take at least tens or even more than twenty hours, especially the last step of climbing the mountain depends on the individual’s ability.

But for Xiang Kun, there is a “shortcut” if he wants to rush over.

Because Chongyun Mountain is connected with the mountainous area where the “mutated big bird” is, he can enter directly from Chongyun Mountain, and “cross the mountains” in his way.

Carrying a large amount of “Super-connected Objects” on his body, and there were ‘super-connected objects’ that had been previously deployed in the surrounding mountains, as well as the “offspring plants” of “Xiao Luobo,” so Xiang Kun could create a very suitable Super-connected Object application environment. He could call up the “Electric Mastery Flight” ability without needing to make large-scale disturbances to the weather and affect changes in the potential of the atmosphere.

While this invocation of ability could not make him fly, it could let him glide and leap in the mountains, using the difference in terrain to make some aerial movements, coupled with his own super-strong mountain cross-country, running, and climbing ability, greatly improved his moving speed in the mountains.

Leaving in the early hours of the morning, he estimated he could reach the location of the “mutated big bird” before dawn.

During the time he’s rushing over, besides continuing to monitor the “mutated big bird,” Alice also had a lot to do.

According to Xiang Kun’s plan, dealing with the mutated big bird mainly has several stages:

First, locating; Second, clearing the space; Third, deploying Super-connected Objects to create home-field; Fourth, Xiang Kun enters; Fifth, resolving the conflict and the subsequent cleanup.

The first, second, and third stages are all solved by Alice. As for “Location,” it is using the “super sensory item system” to call upon all resources to find the location of the “mutated big bird.”

For “Clearing the space,” Alice uses her control over the network and all electronic products to guide people who may appear around the target to create an undisturbed and non-invasive area.

“Creating home-field,” naturally, is deploying “Super-connected Objects” in the target area. Although there were plenty of “offspring plants” of “little radish” used for location before, their absolute number was not enough. To be foolproof and to prevent the target from escaping using its flight ability again, a large number of “Super-connected Objects” are required.

Alice directly called up unmanned drones from various secret agencies including “Divine Technology,” and used a fake command to get their staff to load the airtight boxes filled with “Super-connected spheres” that she had prepared, and rushed to the outer area of the target to deploy overnight.

Xiang Kun and Alice have not only established a “Super-connected Object Network” that spans the entire country and will eventually cover the globe, but they will also develop a flexible deployment mode for “super-connected objects”. When a particular region needs to exert a strong interference or impact, it’s done by mass accumulation from the nearest “super-connected objects” and actively move and deploy “super-connected objects” to that area to secure home-field advantage in advance.

However, at present, only a small part of the country has established this mechanism, and mostly utilizing the mobile network of “Divine Technology”. After all, “Divine Technology” is secretive, their staff of high quality, known for their confidentiality, they won’t scrutinize the details of such actions, and Alice has complete control of Thyra, she can precisely control all commands and their dedicated communication network.

At four-thirty in the morning, eleven drones from “Divine Technology” released a large number of “super-connected spheres” around the target area.

At four-fifty, Xiang kun’s straight-line distance to the “mutated big bird” was only two kilometers away.

A large number of “super-connected objects” began to accept Xiang Kun’s control under the assistance of Alice, creating a range of impact, then slowly moving towards the location of the “muted big bird”.

Because the appearance of drones during deployment might scare the mutated big bird and make it run away, Alice asked the people from “Divine Technology” to deploy drones in an area far away from the mutated big bird.

If one were to look down from the air and mark all the super-connected objects as red dots, they would see a large circle of red dots forming around the mutated big bird, gradually moving towards the circle’s center point.

The night sky in the woods began to become turbulent, winds rose, and their direction became unpredictable.

The clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, heavy clouds overwhelmed the sky, lightning surged, and distant thunder could faintly be heard.

The “mutated big bird”, which had been resting in the forest, looked up at the sky. It seemed to remember a certain past experience, recalling that awful, terrifying experience, it began to feel uneasy.

So, instead of instinctively seeking shelter from the imminent rain, it changed its mind, wanting to spread its wings and leave this place before the heavy rain descended.

But as soon as it thought to fly up, another will within its body warned it. It got a shock, calmed down again, and hid in a clump of bushes in the forest. It blended in so well that it looked just like part of the bushes.

There was danger approaching. If it took to the skies now, it would expose itself.

This was the information it got from the warning. The other will existed coequally with it, and it had no choice but to trust the other’s judgment.

However, a few minutes later, it sensed a familiar presence. Then it saw a familiar figure, a shirtless man barefooted, walking through the forest. It instantly understood the meaning of the warning – it wasn’t telling it that it would be spotted if it flew up, it was telling it that danger was already close at hand, and it needed to be prepared – whether it flew or not, it had been discovered.

If this mutated big bird knew how to curse, it would probably be using a continuous stream of profanities to curse the other will inside it right now. Since whether it flew or not it had been discovered, it should have taken flight and left long ago, which would have obviously made escape easier.

It knew very well that this guy could fly, and once he did, it was terrifying. However, it also believed its flying stamina should outdo his. It could escape by simply maintaining a distance.

Seeing the bare-chested man suddenly radiating light from the back of his head, emitting strands of lightning “hair”, and his body being enveloped by a layer of phosphorescence, the mutated big bird didn’t hesitate any longer. It flapped its wings and took off from the bushes, immediately pushing its body to its limits as it soared into the sky.

But at the same time, it kept a close eye on the man with the lightning “hair”, preparing to counter any attack, even prepared to endure a lightning strike.

Sure enough, the next second, lightning dragons danced wildly in the clouds and streaks of lightning were connecting heaven and earth. In a small area, a lightning storm formed.

The “mutated big bird” was accurately hit by the lightning, but its body had been specially modified to not only withstand high temperatures, but also form a vacuum between its shell and body at the moment of impact, forcing it to shed its skin.

After being hit, its charred feathers, epidermis, and even its beak shattered and fell off. But as it continued to flap its wings, and the ashes scattered, it turned into a slightly smaller bird. However, this bird looked rather weird, as if it hadn’t fully developed.

The mutated big bird tried hard to fly in the sky. It thought about its previous escape experiences. After being struck by lightning, it kept an eye on the position of the man with the electric hair. As long as it could get rid of him, it should be able to survive.

But to its surprise, the man remained standing on the ground and didn’t take off.

Just when it breathed a sigh of relief, believing the man realized he couldn’t catch up to it, and thought it could escape this time, a dense wall-like, impenetrable object suddenly surged from all directions, giving it no means to evade.

Standing on the ground, Xiang Kun was enveloped in a faint halo with electric “hair” fluttering on his head. At the tip of this “hair”, arcs of electricity were released, and a dense network of electricity was formed on the ground. They kept extending outward and eventually sank into the ground and disappeared in the distance.

The current Xiang Kun began to create an electric field for his Electric Mastery Flight. Not only was his control much stronger than before but due to the extensive coverage of the “super-connected objects”, his flight distance was much longer and it was not easy for the mutated big bird to “shake him off” like it did in the past.

But his present large-scale full-force stimulation of “super-connected objects”, creating anomalies in the land and skies, was not to make himself fly.

Under this environment, his ability to fly and control himself would get stronger. But at the same time, the control over the “super-connected objects” themselves would also strengthen.

The super-connected objects he carried with him, and the countless super-connected objects Alice had deployed around him beforehand, rose from the ground like a dense wall and in the blink of an eye, enveloped the taking-off mutated big bird.

The lightning strike just now was not meant to keep the mutated big bird down or hurt it, but to apply a “strong tag” to it, so that the super-connected objects could adhere to it more accurately.

But in the blink of an eye, the mutated big bird was turned into a huge iron ball by the super-connected objects.