A New Feeling

Xiang Kun opened the window, and the sounds from outside immediately entered his ears even more clearly. The noise was so loud and mixed that it made him uncomfortable and even made his ears ring.

It wasn't just the sound, but also all sorts of strong stimulating smells that almost made him cry.

Xiang Kun quickly closed the window and frowned. Wasn't the improvement in his sense of smell and hearing too much?

If they were all so sensitive, wouldn't living in a city be a form of torture?

Fortunately, his worries did not last long. After adapting for a while, Xiang Kun realized that the effects of his acute sense of hearing and smell were soon reduced.

Only when he focused his attention on his sense of hearing or smell would he be able to sense the mixed sounds and smells clearly again.

Just like after drinking blood for the second time, his hearing had actually improved to a certain extent. However, if he hadn't closed his eyes on the rooftop one night and suddenly heard a sound that he thought he couldn't hear, he might not have realized it.

The human brain would filter and even block the information obtained by the senses, only receiving what people wanted and needed.

Compared to the improvement in strength, vision, and lung capacity, it was harder to quantify and calculate the improvements in hearing and smell.

In his own room, Xiang Kun closed his eyes and tried to focus all his attention on his sense of hearing.

After his sense of hearing had been greatly enhanced, the information Xiang Kun obtained about sound and his judgment of time had undergone a huge change. It was not as simple as enhancing all the sounds. All kinds of messy sounds filled his brain. For a short period of time, he had to identify the source and attributes of all the sounds. For a moment, he felt like he could not "hear" them.

After some time, Xiang Kun suddenly felt dizzy and wanted to vomit. He quickly opened his eyes and took a deep breath to distract himself.

Could it be that he was still not used to the improvement of his hearing?

However, after recalling the feeling just now, he quickly realized that perhaps it was not because of his hearing, but because his brain could not cope with too much sound information.

The human brain was constantly thinking about slacking off. Of course, slacking off was also a form of self-preservation.

The sensory organs are timeless in gathering information, but this information has always been "chosen" according to the need. Most of the time we see, hear, smell, and feel far more than we think.

It was just like the pictures of blind spots. At first glance, people often did not discover any strange points. After seeing the hints, they would realize that they had actually seen those strange points all along, but their brains had overlooked them.

Now, although Xiang Kun's senses had evolved and he had received several times more information than before, his brain did not seem to have evolved enough to process the information. After all, he had not received so many voices during his training.

Therefore, after resting for a while, Xiang Kun changed his mode and focused on the individual voices.

…

Amidst the sounds of cars, shouts, and music, Xiang Kun carefully searched for the nearest voice…

Drip. Drip. Was that the sound of the bathroom tap running? No, that wasn't his water tap. It was the one next door.

There was a cacophony of splashing noises that surged through the pipes. It was the sound of the upstairs pressing down on the toilet bowl and the waste water flowing down the drain.

A crisp gunshot? Was that a young man upstairs playing a gunfight or watching a movie?

She could vaguely hear someone speaking. It seemed to be a woman's voice, but it was soft and buzzing. She couldn't hear clearly what was being said.

…

Xiang Kun walked out of his room and walked along the corridor with his eyes narrowed. Then he went down the stairs and searched for the source of the female voice.

This ability to determine the source of the sound was something that he had been training hard for the past few days. It seemed like the results were pretty good.

A few minutes later, Xiang Kun finally found the source of the female voice. It was not in their building but in the grocery store diagonally opposite. The daughter of the grocery store owner was talking to someone on the phone.

At this moment, Xiang Kun was standing on the opposite side of the street, more than ten meters away from the convenience store. The daughter of the shop owner was on the second floor, so he could not see her at all. There was even a wall between them.

However, Xiang Kun could already hear the conversation between the daughter of the shop owner.

At this moment, the entire world seemed to have been muted except for the female voice.

However, this required Xiang Kun to pay close attention. Once he relaxed and diverted his attention, such as when the boss of the grocery store greeted him, the voice of the daughter of the boss of the grocery store became unclear. That was because the different voices from other directions would immediately occupy his mind.

However, Xiang Kun was still very surprised by his improved hearing.

This was far beyond his expectations.

After all, when he was training his body's strength, after drinking blood twice, his improvement was still within the scope of a normal person. Other than his recovery speed and endurance being abnormal, his absolute strength was not beyond what a normal person could achieve.

But now, after five days of training, Xiang Kun's sense of hearing had far surpassed that of an ordinary person. He did not believe that an ordinary person could reach such a level through training.

However, Xiang Kun guessed that his sense of hearing and smell had not improved too much. Instead, his sense of smell had not been fully developed.

Xiang Kun was still following the night sky. Just like the previous few nights, he strolled around and tested his hearing and sense of smell, which had been enhanced through targeted training.

If Xiang Kun was afraid and worried when he first felt the series of changes in his body, now he was more curious and excited.

After realizing that his life was not in danger for the time being, although it was not convenient for him to do so, the few mutations brought about improvements to his bodily functions. This made Xiang Kun more enthusiastic and proactive about mutating his body. Since he was going to mutate, why not mutate in the direction he wanted?

For the past few days, Xiang Kun had been traveling through the night almost every night. The nearby streets were all familiar to him. However, when he walked on the streets again tonight, he had a completely different feeling. It was just like how he felt when he first went out in the middle of the night a few days ago.