What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 662: Invader (End Part)

Chapter 662: Chapter 662: Invader (End Part)

Playing with co-manifestation objects, enlarging them and then displacing them was originally a game invented by Alice and Little Fatty Girl.

The ability to enlarge co-manifestation objects had just been developed by Xia Libing. Alice and Little Fatty Girl would often play with it, using it within their Chongyun Village home. They would skip climbing the stairs altogether. Alice would co-manifest an object, crouch on the ground, let Little Fatty Girl stand on her palm, and then enlarge herself to the height of a building and lift Little Fatty Girl to the third floor window to enter the house.

However, this spectacle was instantly prohibited once Tang Baona witnessed it. Little Fatty Girl was promptly spanked, and three days later, Xiang Shinran received the same punishment.

Nevertheless, their innovative use of this ability provided inspiration for Libing, who considered employing it not only for short-distance displacement for her convenience but also for extreme long-distance rapid travel applications. However, she realized there were too many limitations and then decided not to “play” further with it.

As for now, using the co-manifested surgical scalpel to effortlessly enlarge and ascend the building was a breeze for Xia Libing. It served not only to get her to her destination in the quickest possible time but also to intentionally show the people in the parking lot.

Excluding Old He’s and Liu Shiling’s van, the members of the action team for this mission occupy the remaining modified vans. Like Old Qian and Korowin, most of them have taken a “spiritual test” and have studied “Spirit Control Theory.” They are future field investigator department members gearing to be cultivated into “Spirit Controllers”.

By astonishing them, it allowed them to unleash their imagination, to understand what “Spirit Control Theory” is capable of, and what type of abilities it can unlock.

As Xia Libing leaped onto the rooftop, “Hetero-dimensional One” just happened to charge onto the rooftop, seemingly ready to escape upwards – it had already tried escaping through the surrounding windows. But even when it was smashed into meat pieces, it was still unable to escape and was circled back by an invisible force, which is why it was constantly forced to run upwards.

As soon as Xia Libing arrived, she threw a crispy pig’s elbow at it. The super-connected coin appeared behind the pig’s elbow and pierced a large hole through it.

“Hetero-dimensional One” was obstructed and fell back to the ground.

Its enormous mouth on its belly roared, its entire body was covered again in scales, then it went turbulent and charged at Xia Libing at high speed.

However, no sooner had it moved than it was thoroughly covered in a thick layer of cream, turning into a white humanoid. Since its body had a vast head, lean, elongated limbs, and was covered in cream, it seemed cartoonish. As it moved, the cream on its legs plopped onto the ground.

With its speed significantly reduced and its camouflaging ability no longer effective, it still charged towards Xia Libing. But before even reaching her, Xia Libing had already co-manifested a surgical scalpel and threw it forward.

As the scalpel flew through the air, it quickly enlarged and the blade stretched out, instantly splitting the un-avoiding “Hetero-dimensional One” into two halves.

Just as this happened, Mr. Liang, enveloped in “Black Armor,” arrived on the scene, bearing witness to the giant scalpel, and instinctively shrank his neck in fear.

He had heard of Xia Libing’s “Giant Surgical Scalpel,” but this was the first time he was witnessing it.

Indeed… it was very formidable.

After the gigantic scalpel spanning the entire rooftop had disappeared, the monster’s bisected body continued its charge at Xia Libing, and when it neared her, it reintegrated and opened its mouth wide, spewing out a gush of black liquid.

A three-meter-tall “Gigantic Little Girl” emerged in front of Xia Libing, blocking all the black liquid.

Naturally, this “Gigantic Little Girl” was Alice. She looked down at her white dress that had begun smoking due to corrosion from the black liquid and with a look of disgust, gave “Hetero-dimensional One” a boot, kicking it away.

Once the “Alice Shield” vanished, Xia Libing casually stepped forward, lightly lifted her hand, and several co-manifested surgical scalpels stabbed downwards at a high speed and enlarged. Each scalpel was half a meter long, going through the “Hetero-dimensional One’s” four limbs and nailing it onto the rooftop floor.

Looking at Xia Libing approaching it, the huge mouth on its stomach began laughing loudly, “You… can’t… kill… me!” Although its pronunciation was still slightly odd, the words were coherent, a significant improvement from its previous attempts in the basement and the mortuary.

Xia Libing didn’t pay any attention to what it wanted to say. While it was talking, she co-manifested a crispy pig’s elbow and shoved it into its mouth, then quickly retreated.

The next second, the crispy pig’s elbow rapidly enlarged, causing “Hetero-dimensional One” to explode akin to a bomb going off.

Pieces of its meat, which seemed to possess life, fled in all directions. Just like earlier when it attempted to escape from the rooftop, they were caught in a void of invisible force that circled them back as if carried by the wind.

The meat pieces that were tossed around eventually dropped onto the rooftop in resignation and started grouping together again.

From the rooftop entrance, Mr. Liang saw the huge crispy pig’s elbow explode the monster and then disappear. Underneath his black mask, his eyes and mouth were wide in shock; he hadn’t anticipated that Dr Xia’s abilities could be used in such a bizarre way.

“Old Liang, how’s the situation? Has Dr Xia won?” A woman’s voice came from downstairs.

Without looking, Mr Liang knew that it was Miss Yang, Yang Zhen’er. He turned his head and planned to say, “Can you stop calling me Old Liang?” but hesitated for a second and ultimately said nothing. He flew onto the rooftop, prompting them to come and see for themselves.

Seeing this, Yang Zhen’er turned towards Tang Baona, Xiao Pingguo, Li Shibao, Yang Zhuo, and Liu Zhengyi and declared, “With Dr Xia here, there’s nothing to fear! Follow me, let’s charge!”

Yang Zhen’er quickly ascended the stairs. However, upon reaching the doorway, she sneakily poked half her head out to assess the situation first. Seeing that Dr. Xia was indeed present, she sauntered out with a grin. Just after walking a few steps, a thunderous noise sounded above, causing her to shrink her neck and hurriedly glance back. She then bumped into Tang Baona who was behind her.

Like everyone else, Xia Libing also looked towards the sky. The thick clouds overhead were filled with flashing lightning. She recognized this familiar sight but was slightly taken aback.

She had assumed that Kun was working remotely, but now, it seemed that he was coming back?

The “Hetero-dimensional One,” regathered again, laughed strangely using the same tonality as before with the large mouth on its belly, “You…. are.…. wast…ing… energy…..”

This time, Xia Libing did not attack it and merely retreated slowly.

Tang Baona, Yang Zhen’er, and others who had just arrived on the rooftop also retreated to the side of the staircase under the direction of Alice, who had been co-manifested.

Alice or Xia Libing didn’t need to explain. All of them, noticing the sudden change in the weather and the electric dragon surging in the sky, understood what was happening.

The peculiar atmosphere on the rooftop also alerted the “Hetero-dimensional One.” It lifted its long and flat head, its eyes, a pair of pure black orbs with no whites, gazing towards the sky.

…

This sudden change in weather affected the entirety of Yangcheng City.

Not just Xia Libing, Tang Baona, and Mr. Liang; in fact, people all over the world remembered this weather of flashing thunder and lightning vividly.

After all, five years was not a very long time. For many, they would never forget the apocalyptic period.

And since the illusion of the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant appeared simultaneously in most heavily populated human areas worldwide, it was often accompanied by similar weather phenomena, further deepening their impression.

So when they suddenly saw this spectacle, people were somewhat panicked.

Especially the people in and around Zhongshan Hospital felt it more intensely because they thought the clouds above the hospital seemed to be thicker than elsewhere.

Those dark clouds were like a gigantic mountain hanging upside down in the sky, and the peak of that mountain was right above the hospital.

There was also fog in the hospital that other places didn’t have. It covered everything, and visibility was extremely low; but it was noticeably better once one left the hospital grounds, which was quite surprising.

Suddenly, a lightning bolt struck the main building of the hospital that was under renovation. The doctors, patients, and staff in the new building were all startled, and many subconsciously gathered at the windows to watch.

Then, another bolt of lightning fell and struck the main building again. The echoing thunder was so loud that the surrounding buildings vibrated. Everyone in the hospital instinctively braced themselves.

Several bolts of lightning struck one after another, all targeting the uninhabited main building. Almost everyone rushed to the windows to observe. They were relieved that it was the old building under renovation being targeted and not the new building they were in.

However, the old building was enveloped in a thick fog. Other than seeing the lightning striking incessantly from the sky, making the windows shake and tremble so much that one wanted to cover their ears, they couldn’t see anything else.

A lot of people were wondering what’s happened after the building was struck consecutively. What could be the reason?

Could it be that a “superhuman” did something there to provoke this “heavenly calamity”?

Or some equipment or device malfunctioned?

In recent years, although the news of “mutants” has not been widely publicised for the public to know, and the convening of the “Citong Conference” and the signing of the “Citong Agreement” were all carried out in secret, various rumors kept emerging. After all, many people had seen the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant illusion and the monster dominating the Antarctic. They knew there were a lot of things in the world beyond their conventional cognition, so now whenever they saw an abnormal phenomena, they naturally thought of extraordinary things.

So, naturally, many people took out their phones or even their cameras to take pictures or videos to post on the Internet.

But as soon as they picked up their electronic devices, without exception, they found that either the screen went black and unresponsive, or the camera malfunctioned and failed to form an image.

Out in the hospital’s parking lot, when Liu Shiling heard the continuous, earth-shaking thunder caused by the lightning that struck the roof, causing the echo of thunder and lightning to resonate in the parking lot and making their car quake slightly, she cowered, clutching her fists to her chin, and obviously looking scared and tense, but her eyes were wide open, and her pupils shone brightly, revealing her excitement and anticipation.

Old He, who was next to her, was also very nervous. Just after hearing Liu Shiling’s words that sounded like a prophecy, this thunderous spectacle appeared. Associating it with the rumors about Liu Shiling’s abilities, his first reaction was that she caused this phenomenon.

However, before he could vocalize his thought “The kid should withdraw her divine powers,” he then judged from Liu Shiling’s expression that it wasn’t she who summoned the weather change or the continuous lightning. She might have sensed it beforehand.

So, Old He couldn’t help but quietly asked, “Is it… the Barbie Warrior?”

Every time he mentioned this code name, Old He couldn’t help but laugh, feeling as if he had become “years younger” all of a sudden. He suspected that ordinary folks wouldn’t have thought that the “eight-armed, eight-eyed giant illusion,” hailed as a deity-like entity popping up around the world, was referred to by the people who truly created and controlled it as the “Barbie Warrior.”

“Uncle He, what did you say? I didn’t catch that!” Liu Shiling turned her head and asked loudly.

So Old He also shouted back, “I asked if the lightning was caused by the Barbie Warrior!”

Liu Shiling yelled back, “No! It’s…”

But her voice was drowned out by the thunder outside, and Old He instinctively yelled back, “What?”

Just as Liu Shiling was about to repeat herself, she suddenly felt something and stood up from the seat, opened the car door, and jumped out. She looked up at the area above the main building and yelled out loud, jumping and waving her hands as she yelled.

“Danger!” Old He was startled and wanted to follow her out to pull her back, but he quickly thought that this child also had the ability to manipulate thunder and lightning, which set her apart from ordinary people like him. So he listened carefully to what she was yelling.

Because the continuous thunder was in fact so loud, all he could faintly make out was that Liu Shiling seemed to be yelling something like “pig”?

Could she be yelling to the “Exotic Pig No.1” on the roof?

But judging by her excited and expectant expression, it didn’t seem like it.

Old He was puzzled and looked up at the sky, but the constant lightning still made his heart jump each time, making him want to avert his eyes.

With people like Dr. Xia, Mr. Liang, and Miss Tang up there, who were top-tier powerhouses in his concept, he wasn’t worried about their safety. He just wondered:

What on earth… had happened up there?

…

The people on the rooftop were at the center of the lightning strikes. Logically speaking, even if they weren’t directly hit or harmed, the sonic boom and dazzling light would be enough to scare them into crouching down.

Yet, in actuality, those near the stair entrance on the rooftop witnessed the gentlest scene. The intensity of sound and light was toned down drastically. It was quite clear this was Alice’s protective shielding. Inside this massive building, where numerous “super-connected objects” and “super coins” had been pre-positioned, Alice was omnipotent.

The chain of lightning strikes all accurately hit “Hetero-dimensional One” and then, as if there were a void passage within its body, absorbed all its electrical energy. There was no dispersal; it all vanished.

However, “Hetero-dimensional One” underwent severe transformations. With the first strike, its body blew up momentarily before every piece instantly recombined, ready to take on the second strike.

With the continuous bombardment, the body of the “Hetero-dimensional One” was charred, vaporized, then re-solidified and mixed together. The shifting forms were eerie to behold.

When the lightning strikes stopped, a figure glowing with a gentle aura descended slowly from the sky.

The position and direction of his descent created the illusion that he had unleashed and dropped those lightning bolts from the clouds, giving off an overpowering aura.

However, as soon as everyone on the rooftop looked up and recognized the facial features of this figure, their faces lit up with surprise and excitement — because they all knew him!

The one descending from the sky was naturally Xiang Kun.

At this moment, the glow around Xiang Kun was much softer compared to when he had emerged from Antarctica, allowing those below to see him clearly.

Compared to when he had set off for Antarctica five years ago, Xiang Kun now looked like he was wearing the same clothes – his original garments had completely dissipated and become particle-like. However, as a result, this outfit had become something that he could effortlessly co-manifest with.

Still, to others, he seemed markedly different because he now had a dense head of dark hair rather than just the dynamic electric lightning hair he had when flying.

Naturally, this was one of the autonomous transformations that Xiang Kun had made to his own body. Strictly speaking, he could now completely reshape his body like Mr. Liang to gain even greater physical strength, which would more conveniently bring into play certain physical capabilities.

However, Xiang Kun had an obsession with his own body and didn’t wish to rebuild it completely. After all, he possessed the “Super Sensory Item System,” a “tool” with which he could exert his abilities externally. If there were abilities he couldn’t use, he could have Alice co-manifest them instead, which wouldn’t make any difference — like turning into a giant, or teleportation.

And for this very reason, he had taken quite a bit longer to return from Antarctica — the fastest speed his physical strength could endure was still limited.

Seeing Xiang Kun descending from the sky unexpectedly at this moment, and in such a god-like fashion, everyone on the rooftop was enthralled.

But the most stirred was Liu Zhengyi. At the sight of Xiang Kun, he was in tears, and subconsciously wanted to kneel down. But Yang Zhuo and Li Shibao beside him thought he’d been injured during the fight with the monster just now, so they instinctively each gripped one of his arms, supporting him and preventing him from kneeling down.

Regarding Xiang Kun’s appearance, even Xia Libing, who was well versed in the whole plan from the beginning, was taken aback.

According to Xiang Kun’s plan, during the entire process of “Hetero-dimensional One” being active in the “native world,” his consciousness should have been wholly engaged in “super sensory information” monitoring.

However, seeing Xiang Kun surface, Xia Libing understood at once – he had already collected enough information, allowing Alice to complete the primary cognition modeling of the “Hetero-dimensional World.” There was no need for him to constantly maintain super sensory information monitoring anymore, or it could already be delegated to Alice to complete.

After Xiang Kun landed gently, “Hetero-dimensional One”, which had been changing its physical form due to the chain lightning attack and was now a semi-transparent lump of flesh, began to undergo dramatic transformations again.

The color of the lump deepened, and then it started to inflate slowly. A massive mouth slowly emerged, the corners slightly upturned, as if mocking Xiang Kun: uproariously loud lightning attacks, so what? If you didn’t kill, you didn’t kill.

Xiang Kun merely smiled and lifted his hands in the air. Suddenly, countless tungsten steel balls appeared out of nowhere around “Hetero-dimensional One.” They were dense, suspended in the air like a swarm of flies about to descend on their food.

“Hetero-dimensional One” too sensed something was wrong, but just as it tried to move, the tungsten steel balls that had appeared out of nowhere all pounced towards it, completely covering it in an instant.

These tungsten steel balls squeezed tighter and tighter, as if there were a massive attraction in the middle of “Hetero-dimensional One.”

As a result, this big tungsten steel ball-wrapped sphere kept shrinking, quickly became no bigger than a volleyball, and hung in the air, glowing white.

This attack aimed to destroy its existence structure directly from the high-dimensional factor level. It was tough, almost impossible, for other people or creatures. Even other “mutants” couldn’t do it, but it was easy for Xiang Kun because “Hetero-dimensional One” could appear in the “native world” and devour Gerald due to Xiang Kun’s manipulations.

The entire process of the changes in its super sensory information, the connection between Gerald’s high-dimensional factors and the “hetero-dimensional high-dimensional factors,” were all under Xiang Kun’s surveillance, and couldn’t be clearer.

“Hetero-dimensional One” apparently knew Xiang Kun was different, but it was not afraid, only angry, because it thought its consciousness’s main part was in the “hetero-dimensional world.” Even if the “outpost” it had painstakingly established in this world were to be destroyed, it shouldn’t be too hard to make a reappearance next time after having gained experience. Unfortunately, it had been completely wrapped in tungsten steel balls and couldn’t express its indignation.

As the connection between “Hetero-dimensional One” and the “native world’s” high-dimensional factors was about to be interrupted, Xiang Kun, who had been subconsciously lifting his hands, closed his eyes. His consciousness directly turned into Gerald’s high-dimensional factors, “hetero-dimensional high-dimensional factors,” following the cognitive model that he and Alice had built over the past couple of months.

…

In a world without ground or sky, with just a backdrop of black void and various colored vapors.

A white gas cloud swayed and jumped around as if furious.

It was “Hetero-dimensional One,” trying to invade the “native world” where Xiang Kun was. It had thought that it was more than half successful and that it could soon use the discrepancy in strength and knowledge in that world to freely seize high-dimensional factors of its own growth. Still, it did not expect to be killed right after its physical construction was completed, which infuriated it quite a bit.

However, the composition of the beings in the “native world” and Gerald’s high-dimensional factors were very beneficial to it. It felt as if it had discovered a place teeming with resources just waiting to be harvested. It was preparing to use the previous method to invade once again. As long as it avoided opponents like the “electric man” before, it should be invincible.

Of course, even if it did encounter them, it didn’t matter; the worst that could happen was losing its “carrier” in the “native world.” Its consciousness would forever remain unscathed.

But just as it was considering how to invade the “native world” again, a colossal force burst out from within it.

The white gas that made up “Hetero-dimensional One” kept changing and expanding, like it was distorting and struggling.

A human-like giant hand stretched out from the white gas, followed by another. It seemed like it was burrowing through a hole, pushing forcefully outwards.

The next moment, a figure jumped out of the white gas, looking exactly like Xiang Kun, even his clothes were identical.

Once Xiang Kun emerged, the white gas seemed to be devoured by him, merging into his body, and completely disappearing.

Standing in the void, Xiang Kun looked at the colorful gases around him shifting to the side, as if they had seen a ghost, and began to laugh heartily, but no laughter was heard.

A cloud of gas suddenly appeared out of nowhere, changing and shifting, then a little girl in a white dress appeared, it was the “miniature version of Old Xia’s Alice.”

Alice excitedly looked around, then shouted at Xiang Kun, but she opened and closed her mouth without making a sound.

Xiang Kun knew what she was saying –

“Boss! We succeeded!”

While this “other dimensional world” seems very strange, even bizarre, strictly speaking, it is not what they both see and perceive. Its existence, its form is not something that the visual, auditory, olfactory perception information in the cognitive system of “this world” human beings can construct. Its spatial structure is different from “this world”.

The world they both see now, is the result of their real-time simulation through the “other-dimensional world” cognitive model they have built. Just like a programmer understands binary, but for convenience, they use “high-level programming languages” to program, instead of directly dealing with high and low voltage signals.

This is why Xiang Kun needed to monitor the process of “Hetero-dimensional One” invading “this world” through the super sensory state, observing and analyzing the changes in the super sensory information during the fusion of the “Hetero-dimensional high-dimensional factors” and the “this world”, gradually constructing the transition system to perceive two different worlds.

The adaptation and mutation process of “Hetero-dimensional One”, gave Xiang Kun an excellent opportunity to model and learn.

Just like before learning English, he asked a British lad to figure out how to learn Chinese on his own. Once the lad learned Chinese, Xiang Kun took over all of his knowledge, applied it in reverse, and achieved twice the result with half the effort.

Of course, when the British lad was learning Chinese, Xiang Kun would quietly help him, correcting his pronunciation, finding opportunities for him to practice, making him feel accomplished as if he were a master of Chinese. Furthermore, when applying things in reverse, he would use his own methodology to translate knowledge points that the British lad didn’t have, further filling in the gaps.

For this reason, he wanted “Hetero-dimensional One” to continue to grow and mutate in “this world”. He arranged for it to have multiple transformations and chose the old veteran vampire Gerald, who is “rich in high-dimensional factors”, as the sacrifice for the slaughter. After it completes the slaughter, Old Xia will lead the “research base” battle group to fight in turns, forcing it to further integrate the “Hetero-dimensional high-dimensional factor” and “this world high-dimensional factor” in a short period of time, enabling it to get a firm footing in “this world” and familiarize itself with various spatial structures and energy systems.

“Hetero-dimensional One” thinks it’s an invader of “this world”, but in fact, it’s the “bridge” for Xiang Kun to invade the “other dimensional world”.

Xiang Kun is the real invader.

From the moment it was discovered by Xiang Kun, its fate of being devoured was already sealed.

In the midst of the void, Xiang Kun opened his arms and his body began to grow larger.

Simultaneously, the ground appeared beneath his feet. At first, it was a flat, undulating yellow land, but soon, hills appeared, vegetation appeared, rivers appeared and various creatures began to appear.

Both the vegetation and creatures are totally different from those on Earth, but still, they lie within the realm of human cognition, and we can tell what type of existence they are.

These aren’t illusive projections that Xiang Kun conjured out of thin air, they are the real elements of the “other dimensional world”. He and Alice used the cognitive model they built, to construct these elements in a way that humans can understand.

With this model, normal people can also comprehend the “other dimensional world”.

This model is like a translation software, translating a book’s worth of English content such that they can fully understand in Chinese.

Now, only Xiang Kun and Alice can exist in this world, but once they have established the model more completely, Xiao Luobo will be able to experience it next, followed by Xiao Pingguo.

As long as there’s enough “other dimensional high-dimensional factors”, any creature form that complies with the spatial rules of the “other dimensional world” can be constructed here.

Every consciousness from “this world” that enters here and adapts, will further improve the entire “other dimensional world cognition model”, making it easier for other people to adapt when they enter.

As for the “other dimensional high-dimensional factor” of the “other dimensional world”, or the “alien mutant creatures”, Xiang Kun is not worried, he has already evaluated them, because the “super sensory item system” exists, his ability to integrate high-dimensional factors far exceeds the individual soldiers of the “other dimensional world”. He is bringing a completely dimension reduction attack.

This world will become their test field for further development and integration of high-dimensional factors. They can develop and gain some abilities that are like dimension reduction attacks in “this world”.

Of course, they will undoubtedly have to further cast the “super sensory item system” into this world, looking for suitable “super-connected objects” and “emotion infused objects” in the “other dimensional world”. High-dimensional factors can penetrate both realms, they are equivalent to controlling the power of both realms no matter where they are.

It seemed like she felt what he was thinking, Alice stood on his shoulder, spread her arms wide and shouted loudly:

“We are unbeatable!!!”

This time, the sound came out clearly, the air of the entire “other dimensional world” seemed to vibrate and countless animals and plants were frightened and ran away – yes, the “plants” in this world also have the ability to move.

Xiang Kun looked up at the sky, reached out his hand, and bright light tore through the void, lighting up the entire world.

However, the huge light source looked like some kind of creature, it moved slowly, sinking towards the ground, and quickly burrowed into the ground, disappearing from sight.

Then another light source appeared, taking its place, and a different color of light lit up the world.

This scene looked a bit strange, Xiang Kun scratched his head and decided not to change it for now. Let the others come and complete it further later. Anyway, he had already built the “basic system”, and how to design and perfect it, can be left to the wit and ingenuity of others.

After all, they weren’t really affecting this world, they were just changing the manifestation of the “other dimensional world” in the senses of the “this world”, which can be modified at any time.