Yang Zhen Er was stunned for a moment. She said, “Didn’t the bald head reject you? And told us to play by ourselves? Then we need to get another person, how about Xiao Qing?” Xiao Qing was Tang Baona’s high school classmate. She was a local and often played with them.
Tang Baona shook her head. “Don’t need to call anyone else, Xiang Kun is coming.”
Yang Zhen Er widened her eyes. “Didn’t he reject you before?” Then she paused for a moment as she realized something. “Nana, did you… contact him again?”
Tang Baona’s eyes darted around. “No, he contacted me!”
“Really? Pass me your cell phone, let me see your chat history.” Yang Zhen Er was suspicious.
“He called…”
“When did he call? Let me see your call history.”
Tang Baona lost and admitted, “Alright, I contacted him first, but when we were doing yoga two days ago, Sister Yun said that Trainer Shen from the gym and Instructor Yang from the martial arts gym were looking for Xiang Kun. I was just helping them ask him.”
“Rubbish! The gym definitely has his contact number. He definitely has to leave his contact number behind when he signs up for a membership!” Yang Zhen Er frowned. “Nana, his attitude towards you is obviously…”
Tang Baona interrupted her and said, “I know, I know, he is not interested in me. I didn’t say that I like him. I am purely curious. Weren’t you curious last time and said that he is a mysterious person. You also keep asking me to ask him out. You were the one who brought up the idea of asking Xia to meet him and play cards together. Anyway, we are normal friends. If we are not free, we do our own things. When we are free, we can play together. That’s very normal. He wasn’t free back Then but now he is free.”
“You are not wrong. I was curious about him initially, especially that hiking trip… However, he keeps rejecting you and expects you to initiate the meeting. I feel sorry for you…”
“Since we are normal friends, who cares about who initiates the meeting, or whether he deserves it or not. It is normal if he rejects me because he is busy. Nobody has the obligation to be always free. Xia is your cousin and shared a bed with you when she was young. Now that we want to arrange for a meeting, you are also the one who initiates the meeting and often gets rejected.”
Yang Zhen Er looked at her with a strange expression. “After the hike, when he carried you back, I told you to ask him out. Didn’t you say ‘we will not meet in the future’? Do you have a crush on him?”
Tang Baona rolled her eyes. “How many times must I repeat myself? I only met him once more than you, we also didn’t really chat on WeChat. He is not some stunningly handsome man or a super talented guy. I have met many flirty guys, I’m not so naive.”
Yang Zhen Er mumbled softly, “Maybe the more he ignores you, the more you fall for him…”
“Huh?!” Tang Baona stared at her.
Yang Zhen Er suddenly said, “Wait a minute, do you think the bald head… Saitama-sensei is gay? He is over 30 and remains unmoved when a beauty like you gives him signals. Moreover, you mentioned that he is a very picky eater and doesn’t eat with others. He also loves to gym and takes note of his figure. He also doesn’t sweat and his head is always so clean. Perhaps he has obsessive compulsive disorder too…”
“Stop making wild guesses.” Tang Baona shook her head helplessly.
Yang Zhen Er suddenly became excited and said as she dialed a number on her cell phone, “That’s right! Let Xia meet him and analyse if he is a gay! Hello, Xia? It’s your sister!”
…
After agreeing to play the game with Tang Baona, Xiang Kun went to the kitchen to check out his rabbits. He obviously did not know that Tang Baona and Yang Zhen Er were discussing whether he was gay or not.
The four rabbits looked the same. It seemed that apart from creatures who had undergone transformation, other organisms were unable to absorb his blood.
Perhaps his blood had turned into gray powder after getting injected into the rabbits’ bodies.
However, it seemed that even if the blood had turned to gray powder, it did not have any fatal effect on the rabbits.
Or rather, should he try feeding them from their mouths?
Anyway, all four rabbits could still eat and poop. After a day, there was a lot of poop in the cage.
After cleaning the cages and refilling their food, Xiang Kun checked the recording on the rabbits for the past 25 hours. After confirming that nothing much had changed, he began to do his routine after waking up—take his body measurements.
He was 96.1kg and his body temperature was 27.2 degrees Celsius. There were not many changes in his height and both his thighs and calves were slightly wider than before. His injuries took only eight minutes and 18 seconds to heal. Perhaps the injuries in the mountain and the experiment he had done the previous day where he cut a piece of flesh made his body enter a “frequently injured” and “poor living conditions” mode.
After taking photographs and saving them in his document, Xiang Kun did a planche push up and a handstand push up. He moved very slowly but stably for both. He felt the coordination between his body muscles and energy to gauge the improvement after drinking blood. With his current weight, it was very impressive for him to master these two moves.
Then he did a simple test to each of his sensory organs, including his night vision. He could tell that all of them had significant improvements.
Xiang Kun recorded them in his document in his laptop while thinking about whether he should purchase a bench press machine and some exercise mats, transforming his empty room into a simple gym. Then he would be able to conduct strength training in his home. He could develop different training methods with the weights. Moreover, he could have a more accurate measure of his strength after drinking blood.
However, he gave up on the idea quickly as he was unsure of how long he would stay in the city. He might need to sell the apartment soon and return to his hometown. If that happened, it would be difficult to move the heavy equipment away. Moreover, it would be difficult to sell them and earn back the money.
Xiang Kun did not leave the house until the next morning. He did not continue any training. Instead, using the data based on his body measurements and tests, as well as the training he had done, the type and volume of blood he had drunk, he used a “vampire transformation model” using python[1].
Based on that model, the strength, repetitions, and time had a positive correlation to the amount of times he drank blood, the volume and quality of blood, as well as the extent of transformation after drinking blood.
However, there was a threshold to the training time, number of training sessions, as well as the volume and number of times he drank blood. Before reaching the threshold, an increase in any of these would obviously increase the extent of his transformation.
However, after reaching this threshold, despite increasing those variables, there was a limit to his transformation. He had to increase the intensity of training as well as the quality of the blood before there was an effect.
For example, the volume of blood. Once he drank until he no longer felt hungry, the improvement from more intake of blood was very small. Unless he drank the blood of other creatures who had also undergone the transformation—like the blood of the gigantic owl—he would then see a significant improvement.
If the gigantic owl’s data was added into the model, he realized that based on the calculations, the extent of the transformation of the owl definitely surpassed Xiang Kun’s.
In theory, the owl should easily thrash Xiang Kun.
Based on the deduction from the “vampire transformation model”, the gigantic owl’s transformation efficiency was very low. The critical factor should be the training in between every transformation.
Although the owl knew how to sharpen its claws on the rocks to improve the sharpness and hardness of its claws, it did not know how to conduct full body targeted training like what Xiang Kun had done.
Moreover, the frequent hunting and drinking of blood of the owl might also affect the efficiency.
It did not sufficiently make use of the time between each blood intake.
The biggest difference from Xiang Kun was that the owl acted based on its instincts. while Xiang Kun could think, control, and make his choices independently.
Of course, the model was not foolproof. There were only 1.5 samples, one from Xiang Kun, while the owl was considered to be 0.5. After all, most of the statistics were inferred from Xiang Kun’s memory clips of the owl and the information he had obtained from the mountain.
Moreover, even Xiang Kun was unable to fulfil high precision for his own data. For example, the extent of improvement in his vision, sense of hearing and smell, the agility, sense of balance and coordination. All of these were difficult to quantify.
Moreover, until now, he had not undergone more than ten transformations. There was too little data.
However, he believed that as time passed and he achieved a greater understanding of himself, he would obtain more data and have more samples. This would allow his model to be improved to a greater extent.
By then, he would be able to arrange for training and blood drinking more efficiently through the aid of the model. He could make use of the time period between each transformation to boost his improvements and adjust his transformations accordingly.
Xiang Kun saw that it was sunny outside and took a look at the time. It was 9:45 AM.
The police station should be opened. Xiang Kun changed and headed out to claim his cash reward.
[1] a programming language