Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
After returning home, Xiang Kun summarized his recent training plans and made some changes. He would not “patrol” the streets overnight anymore. There were many other methods to train his senses of smell and hearing.
Moreover, after drinking blood, his sense of smell and hearing had improved tremendously. Even after the suppression in the day, those skills were still very strong and he would not be distracted by other sounds and smells in the busy city.
Just like how he had identified the suspect based on the smell in the busy city that day.
Xiang Kun recorded the different data based on the changes in his body on his laptop and added security features to his document. Initially, he had already done some adjustments, such that people would not be able to find his documents after opening his laptop. The document would not appear in “quick access” or “history”.
Moreover, he would automatically clear his web browsing history before closing the browser.
However, if an expert were to investigate, he would easily find the documents despite these security features.
After the incident today, especially after his “patrol” behavior was found out, Xiang Kun felt that he had to be more cautious.
He added more security features to the folders containing the documents regarding the changes in his body. They looked like dll documents under a certain programming folder, and a password was required to open them. Although there were only six characters to the password, if one entered two incorrect passwords, the documents would be rewritten randomly.
Xiang Kun was thinking about what would happen if his condition was exposed. However, there were too many possibilities, and he could not refer to any past examples.
Therefore, Xiang Kun decided to try to hide his condition until he found other “similar cases”.
Then Xiang Kun took a knife and made a cut on his finger before starting the timer.
The cut was a few millimeters long, and after the blood oozed out, it hung outside the cut like a red fruit.
After wiping the blood off, Xiang Kun looked at his cut and took photographs in fixed intervals.
Before drinking blood, Xiang Kun had realized that his self-healing ability was extraordinary. Therefore, with the intention of “target training”, he “self-harmed” the entire night.
However, afterwards, he placed his focus on the sense of smell and hearing and did not focus on this particular training.
After he had woken up, Xiang Kun had not found the time to check if his healing ability had changed.
After 13 minutes, the cut on Xiang Kun’s finger had almost disappeared.
Then Xiang Kun changed the area and made cuts of various deepness and lengths on his other arm and thighs. They took 13 minutes to recover too, and the time difference was less than five seconds.
He could almost confirm that his healing ability had improved. Based on the assessment last time, after sunset, the time taken was about 15 minutes.
However, Xiang Kun could not really confirm if his “self-harm training” would help in the improvement of his healing ability.
After thinking about it for a while, Xiang Kun decided to factor in this “self-harm training” into his plan for target training.
Anyway, he would no longer go out in the night to “patrol” and could train at home.
This time around, he would use harsher “self-harm” methods to discover and train his healing ability.
As for the training plans in the day, he was contemplating on whether he should learn martial arts. Officer Chen thought that he had practiced martial arts since young and had the foundations, but Xiang Kun had never done those.
Be it the kick he had given the culprit who had attacked the couple last time or the flip he had done to take down the suspect that day, Xiang Kun had done those out of natural instinct.
Although both of them had knives, Xiang Kun did not feel threatened at all when facing them. He was not afraid or nervous at all. Moreover, their actions were in his vision and he could easily make judgements. Moreover, since Xiang Kun overpowered them in terms of strength, he did not have to use any techniques.
Strength, reaction, and speed—Xiang Kun had clearly reached the peak of mankind. If he added in the sensory abilities, he would probably have surpassed ordinary mankind.
If he worked on his fighting techniques, could the advantages he already possessed be better executed?
After giving it some thought, he decided to take a look at the martial arts school below the gym the next day. People said that there was an instructor who had placed in the top three in the martial arts competition in the province. He could go and take a look and see if he could register for a short-term class.
After making his training plans, Xiang Kun felt that time was tight even though he did not need to sleep if he did not drink blood. The time he had between the blood drinking sessions was only five days.
Judging from the dates, the next time he would feel hungry would be in two days, on the 5th of August.
He had made plans to go hiking with Tang Baona on the 4th of August. Based on what Tang Baona had said earlier on, he would spend at least one whole day on that.
That meant that he had very little time left to conduct his target training before he needed blood again.
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On the morning of August 4th, Sunday, at 6:30 AM.
Yang Zhen Er drove her MINI with Tang Baona in the car and headed to pick Xiang Kun up.
Because of the “misunderstanding” on the street the previous day, and seeing how Xiang Kun had “KOed” the armed suspect personally and finding out that he was the bald “expert” in the video, Yang Zhen Er’s attitude towards Xiang Kun had obviously changed.
The middle-aged unemployed programmer had suddenly become more mysterious.
However, seeing how Xiang Kun had appeared downstairs in sport shorts, white canvas shoes, and carrying a multi-purpose laptop bag, Yang Zhen Er rolled her eyes uncontrollably.
“Why are you wearing that?” asked Yang Zhen Er after greeting Xiang Kun in the car.
Xiang Kun was stunned, “Didn’t you say that we were hiking and I should dress comfortably?”
Tang Baona replied, “Forget it, we are not planning to stay overnight on the mountain anyway. Moreover, the route is relatively easy.”
Yang Zhen Er did not continue making comments about Xiang Kun’s attire. She said as she reversed, “Mr. Xiang, don’t you own an apartment? Why are you living here?”
The building that Xiang Kun had walked out of was obviously a rented apartment.
“The house I bought is not here, it is somewhere further from the city. This apartment is closer to the company I used to work in,” replied Xiang Kun. He was not curious about why Yang Zhen Er had found out about his apartment. When he was chatting with Tang Baona the previous night, he knew that Yang Zhen Er was her best friend and they lived together. It was normal for her to know about these facts that Wang Han told Tang Baona about.
“Is your apartment still under construction?
“I bought it a long time ago and rented it out.”
“Why are you renting it out instead of living there? You rented a place instead? The environment here doesn’t look that great.” Yang Zhen Er could not understand.