Chapter 538 - Chapter 538: Chapter 538: The Boss Is Not Afraid (1/2)

Chapter 538: Chapter 538: The Boss Is Not Afraid

Inside Chongyun Mountain, when Joel, who now barely resembled a human, having transformed into a monstrous mixture of plants, beasts and humans, began to slowly crumble and fade into ashes.

In his room in Chongyun Village, Xiang Kun had already entered the “Super Sensory State”. Using the “Emotion Infused Objects” he had previously buried deep within Chongyun Mountain, the black circle graffiti, he descended, and under Alice’s guidance, he pinpointed the cognitive information that represented Joel.

He now understood and could interpret cognitive information much more effectively than before. Especially in the realm of super sensory information, with Alice’s assistance, he could convert the cognitive information into images, sounds and other traditional sensory information in his consciousness for certain straightforward scenarios.

Moreover, this reconceptualization was even more “direct” compared to the traditional sensory perception.

It was like when he perceived a regular person’s cognitive information, he could know the target’s internal organs, blood, bones, soft tissues and many other internal parts of the body through the analysis of this information. It was much more direct than the information he obtained through the infrared thermographic vision mode and enhanced smell and hearing.

If Xiang Kun were to become a doctor, he would easily earn the title of “Xiang Bianque” or “Kun Hua Tuo”.

He could even perform some simple treatments combining “Super-Connected Objects”. With greater understanding of cognitive information, he believed that it would not be impossible to directly influence cognitive information through “Super-Connected Objects” to cure some difficult and complicated diseases in the future.

At this moment, Xiang Kun was focusing intently, his brain was operating at high speed, digging into Joel’s cognitive information as much as he could.

From his previous experiences with Mr. Liang and John, Xiang Kun realized that perceiving the cognitive information of a “mutant” was like peeling an infinite layer cake—no matter how much he peeled, he couldn’t get to the core.

Or, it could be likened to a dataset with an unknown size and countless subdirectories. At first glance, it seemed like the file was not that large, but upon opening it, it revealed many subdirectories. Each subdirectory again contained countless other subdirectories, making the cognitive information endless and bottomless.

Hence, Xiang Kun did not attempt to dig in one direction. Instead, he regulated his perception of Joel’s cognitive information to remain within the limit of what he and Alice could handle together.

A month ago, Xiang Kun had perceived the changes in John’s body cognition after he had swallowed a “mutated giant snake”. Then, John swallowed another “mutant”, which allowed Xiang Kun to perceive the changes in a “mutant’s” cognitive information from death to disintegration. He also learned about the cognitive information displayed by John, the devouring party.

Those two times of super sensory perception and deep observation gave him many insights.

This time, to perceive a “mutant’s” self-destruction at the limit stage was a rare opportunity.

He believed that this super sensory perception would undoubtedly help to further complete his understanding of the root cause of “mutants”.

Just to ensure that Joel self-destructs while at the limit stage, without being influenced by external factors or falling too early into despair and self-destruction, Xiang Kun had not appeared or approached from start to end. He didn’t even confine Joel’s personal freedom. Instead, he “guided” Joel to Chongyun Mountain, trapped him there, and always retained a sliver of hope for him, so that Joel had no clear understanding of the power difference between them and couldn’t accurately identify who the enemy was or their location.

Of course, this was also because Xiang Kun knew very well that near the phase limit, Joel would not dare to touch human blood and would deliberately avoid bloody scenes. Therefore, normal people who came into contact with him were temporarily safe.

As for Joel… a so-called “Bloodline Vampire” who carried the lives of hundreds of, or even more, individuals, decided life and death casually and used human blood as a basic blood source had finally met his end in this manner. Xiang Kun felt that he had been incredibly merciful.

He even considered, if he had time later, he would make a trip to Slovakia to get rid of the “Red Rose” and tidy up the rest.

As for John, interpreted from secretive documents laboriously brought by Alice, it was basically impossible for John to have a chance to leave freely.

Unless John could eliminate Mr. Liang with the abilities gained from devouring the two “mutant” creatures.

But considering Mr. Liang’s style, that possibility was laughable.

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Time ticked by, and Joel’s body had completely turned into gray powder and dissipated into the mountain. Apart from his torn clothes, shoes, and items like his phone, there were no traces left.

Xiang Kun did not immediately exit the “Super Sensory State”. Drawing on his past experience when observing the disintegration of a “mutant”, he knew what direction he should perceive and search. He had now successfully “captured” some crucial cognitive information.

This cognitive information originally belonged to Joel. However, it had not completely changed its attributes. Instead, it had merged with the surrounding environment and was quickly disappearing.

With Alice’s help and through a large number of “Super-Connected Objects” spread out in Chongyun Mountain, Xiang Kun could track and perceive this cognitive information, identifying that it did not move with the very fine grey powder that Joel turned into, but instead changed in a non-physical way.

About ten minutes later, Xiang Kun opened his eyes, picked up a large sack, left the room, and entered Chongyun Mountain in the glow of the morning sun—he was going to clean up all of Joel’s belongings.

On his way up the mountain, Xiang Kun was reflecting on the information he had obtained from his recent perception and observation.

A month ago, not only did he perceive and observe a “mutant” dying and disintegrating, and a “mutant” devouring another one, under Alice’s timely notification, but Alice also helped him extract all the remaining secret documents from the storage device under the Brilliant Fortune Building.

Among the remaining secret documents, one was presumably Mr. Liang’s summary and reflections on the origin of the mutations. At the beginning of the document, it was even noted, “If you are not a ‘blood-eating creature’, there is a high risk in reading this document. Be sure to be prepared, and only one person should read it.”

In that document, Mr. Liang referred to the matter that caused and brought about continuous mutations, making “blood-eating creatures” different from ordinary creatures, as “high-dimensional factors.”

Xiang Kun was not seeing this term for the first time. He had learned about high-dimensional factor models when he studied machine learning and statistics related content before.

However, it’s clear that the “high-dimensional factors” Mr. Liang mentions in the document are not those of mathematics, but a term given another meaning.

Mr. Liang believed that there is a special particle, as yet undiscovered by humans, or a substance whose existence in a way humans could not yet comprehend, capable of entering a higher dimension of space, or even initially existing in a higher dimensional space, which he referred to as “high-dimensional factors.”

“High-dimensional factors” can ignore distances in three-dimensional space and move from one point to another in an alternative way–or, for them, the change in distance in three-dimensional space appears more like a change in the “state”.

Under certain conditions, “high-dimensional factors” may have a small likelihood of influencing the fundamental particles within a living body, causing mutations in the entire living unit.

It doesn’t rule out that “high-dimensional factors” could also affect non-living bodies, but so far no specific examples have been discovered.

Not only did Mr. Liang have the document, but he also included several videos, and a few experimental records to verify some of the conjectures he had made using himself as the test subject.

Of course, at the beginning of these videos, the already disfigured Mr. Liang would warn in his raspy metallic voice, “extremely dangerous, if you are not a blood-eating creature, be prepared to sacrifice yourself before viewing.”

Mr. Liang compiled some summarizations of the characteristics of “high-dimensional factors” in the three-dimensional space that humans can comprehend, based on his observations and studies of a large number of “blood-eating creatures,” and his personal experience.

He believed that once the “high-dimensional factors” produced dominant influences on a creature, it would continue to trigger mutations in that creature by changing its microstructure, constantly driving them to seize the survival ability of other creatures as “fuel” for their influence on the host.

Based on his previous observational experiments, Mr. Liang proved that the energy for the movement and growth of “blood-eating creatures” did not come from the blood they ingested. They have a unique energy circulation system, which operates in different ways according to the different mutation bodies of the “blood-eating creatures.”

As for their thirst for blood, it is actually the need of the “high-dimensional factors” inside the “blood-eating creatures.”

In essence, the material they need is not entirely in the blood. Blood-drinking itself is a ritual of seizing the survival ability of living creatures. When this act is accomplished, the “high-dimensional factors” can obtain what they need from the seized living creature.

“High-dimensional factors” are also the survival of the fittest among themselves. When a “blood-eating creature” kills another “blood-eating creature” and enters the blood-drinking phase, it doesn’t need to drink all the blood. As long as their “high-dimensional factors” judge that the robbery was successful, it can devour the other’s “high-dimensional factors.” Moreover, the other’s “high-dimensional factors” will also record the entire mutation process information of the opponent, which can then help the devourer in its mutation transformation.

Drinking blood is like seizing a piece of paper with the bank account and password written on it. If you seize a bit, you can see a bit of information, and if you grab it to a certain extent, you can see the account number and password. However, you don’t need to seize all of it. But knowing the account number and password, and needing the other party to die before you can get the money in their account. Otherwise, having the account number and password would be useless.

Therefore, the blood they drink itself is not important, the process of blood-drinking and the state of the creature being drunk from is what’s important.

Thus, for some plant “blood-eating creatures” that don’t even have “blood,” their tissue fluid can also be the target of ingestion.

“High-dimensional factors” are not the same and equal among themselves, they also have levels of high and low, strength and weakness. After devouring other “mutant creatures”‘ “high-dimensional factors”, they will undergo a qualitative change as a whole, elevate in level, thereby bringing more powerful mutation influences to the host life unit.

But afterwards, the “fuel” needed for “high-dimensional factors” to continue to mutate also needs to be upgraded accordingly, and similarly needs to devour relatively high-level “high-dimensional factors.”

If they are unable to obtain it, under the continuous mutation, they will tend towards the collapse and extinction of life, and the “high-dimensional factors” will also disperse and disintegrate, returning to their initial state.

So only when “high-dimensional factors” produce an influence within a life unit, the only way for it to continue to survive is to continuously satisfy the ever-increasing “fuel demands” of the “high-dimensional factors.”

In another document, Mr. Liang also classified all the “blood-eating creatures” into levels, including “Blood source,” “Ordinary blood-eating creatures,” “Predator,” “High-level predator,” and “Ultimate predator.”

However, Mr. Liang’s “rating” seemed very strict. Most of the “blood-eating creatures” he found were classified as “ordinary blood-eating creatures,” and even the old European blood clan were only classified as a “Blood source.” There are very few who made it to the “predator” level.