Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Records (1/2)

Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Records

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Chapter Four Documentation

Xiang Kun had tried everything edible and drinkable in his house.

Then he documented it:

Solid food: Instant noodlesX, chipsX, oatmeal cookiesX, OreosX;

Liquid beverages: Boiled water√, purified water√, pure milkX, Red BullX;

Recalling that on July 14th he had eaten some plain porridge and vegetables at a small outside shop and vomited it all up as well, he added to the solid food:

Plain porridgeX, stir-fried bean sproutsX, picklesX.

After performing a self-examination and records, Xiang Kun glanced at the time, it was already half past one in the morning, so he washed up and went to bed, ensuring a good sleep and rest.

But after tossing and turning in bed for almost an hour, Xiang Kun was not the least bit sleepy. He thought it might be because he had just slept for more than twenty hours so he did not feel sleepy, so he got up and reopened his laptop.

Earlier, when he had used his physical changes as keywords for a search, most of the search results pointed to “vampire”.

So, Xiang Kun prepared to gather some information with “vampire” as the target.

Of course, literary works like “Twilight”, “Interview with the Vampire”, and “The Vampire Diaries” would not be his targets for gathering information.

He again saw that question on Zhihu: “What does it feel like to become a vampire?”, apart from the answers of vampire novelists who clearly made things up, there were also some that seriously gathered information and discussed the origin and scientific explanation of vampires.

About the origin and scientific explanation of vampires, most of the answers were actually quite similar, believing that the origin of the vampire legend lies in Eastern and Central Europe of the eighteenth century.

Those who became “vampires” were usually people who died from accidents or sudden diseases.

Their relatives either got seriously ill or died one after another from other accidents. And in the days before their deaths, they would all dream of the deceased becoming a vampire and drinking their blood.

In the final analysis, when they encountered disasters or epidemics, or other misfortunes, they would attribute all these to the deceased members of the family.

The treatment at that time was usually to open the coffin, remove the deceased’s heart, and burn it. Because the corpse bloated and made strange noises in a short time, and the contraction of the tissue made the nails seem to grow after death, the legend of the “vampire” was furthered.

Latter, with the development of medicine, various phenomena were explained and “vampire” became more and more romanticized, with more images and features added, and even given superpowers and immortality.

Sometimes sufferers of rabies, pica, and porphyria are used to scientifically explain modern “vampires”.

Xiang Kun specifically went to watch a vampire analysis program made by National Geographic called “Vampire Forensics”, but it also talked about those same things and there was nothing that could explain the series of changes in his body.

It was the descriptions in some unreliable literary works that coincided more with his situation.

Unknowingly, it was already dawn, and Xiang Kun was still energetic, so he decided to go out and buy some things.

He went to the bathroom and washed his face and checked his mouth, finding his teeth had almost grown back. At least when he smiled, other than finding his teeth very white, people shouldn’t notice anything.

What relieved him was that his newly-grown teeth were very normal, without any terrifying fangs.