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Chapter 404: Chapter 404: Xiao Zhao’s Confession

All afternoon, right up until dinner, Xia Libing sat in front of her laptop, watching the comedy videos in the folder Xiang Kun had previously bookmarked, almost re-watching all the videos.

She even asked Xiang Kun to find some more similar comedy videos, to exclude the effect of having seen the previous videos before.

After hearing Xiang Kun’s “analysis” and “advice”, Xia Libing did not imitate her previous laughter, she simply tried to provoke that emotional experience again.

However, for the whole afternoon, Xia Libing couldn’t laugh again.

Without the guidance of Xiang Kun’s “Emotional Assimilation”, she was indeed unable to generate any “funny” or “happy” emotions from these comedy videos, which were short as dozens of seconds or as long as tens of minutes.

Even those few videos that had made her laugh so heartily when she had watched them with Xiang Kun, now made her feel nothing when she watched alone.

She constantly recalled the feelings she had when watching these videos with Xiang Kun.

But even though she could recall those feelings and emotions, she could not reconnect those with the videos in order to generate those emotions when she watched the scenes again.

This feeling was very disjointed, like seeing a baked chicken wing in front of you, but you just can’t seem to reach it, every time you reach out, the position seems off, as if it’s not even in the same spatial dimension.

This experience made watching videos extremely exhausting for Xia Libing.

Sometimes she tried to correlate the previous emotions with the current video, sometimes she tried to find the funny points in new videos, sometimes she compared the time points when Xiang Kun was laughing in the recorded video, finding the corresponding clips and analyzing why those scenes and sounds would make Xiang Kun laugh, even asking him very seriously why he was laughing.

Knowing that the perception of emotion was very important to Old Xia, just as important as exploring the cause of mutation for him, Xiang Kun fully cooperated to answer all her questions when Old Xia tried various methods to regain that joyful emotion.

Other than that, he was also considering whether there were any other ways he could assist Old Xia.

Especially since he had just ingested that mutated parasite, he could perhaps develop or derive some abilities to assist or guide in the formation of emotions.

But that would be something to consider in the long run.

In the short term, there were other ways he could “support” Old Xia, such as… cooking dinner.

Xiang Kun made Old Xia’s favorite “Crispy Pig’s Elbow” for dinner. After completing the second “Emotional Assimilation” in the afternoon, he ordered the pig’s elbow and other ingredients through the local supermarket’s fresh food ordering app.

He didn’t buy much, but everything he bought was what Old Xia loved.

Adding the rabbit meat that was processed after the last blood drinking episode in the fridge, the dinner was certainly sumptuous.

At seven in the evening, Xiang Kun set the dishes on the table one by one and called Old Xia to the dining table. Before she started to feast, he advised:

“When you’re eating, try to experience the difference in perception between this delicious, satisfying hunger emotion and the funny, particularly joyful emotion you feel when I’m ’emotional assimilating’ you. When you’re eating, I’ll also go into a ‘Super Sensory State’ to sense any changes in your cognitive information.”

Xia Libing nodded seriously, then went and washed her hands, resettled at the table and started on the feast.

When being affected by Xiang Kun’s “Emotional Assimilation”, Xia Libing couldn’t compare how she felt when she was eating, and similarly Xiang Kun couldn’t enter “Super Sensory State” to sense cognitive information when he was immersed in emotions.

Only when Old Xia’s emotions are “spontaneously” happening can they both conduct “checks” via the two states separately.

So, from noon straight through to late at night, from lunch to dinner then to supper, Xiang Kun and Old Xia were both digging into the “subject” of “Emotional Perception”.

Although they didn’t make any substantial progress, Old Xia still hadn’t found a way to perceive those emotions without relying on Xiang Kun’s “Emotional Assimilation”, but her cognition of emotions like “joy”, “funny”, “hilarious” had formed a relatively clear concept, which could be seen as progress.

After one in the morning, Xia Libing went to bed after washing up.

But this doesn’t mean that their day is over, it’s just the beginning of another “topic”, but this “research location” is in the dreamland.