Three Experiments (2)

After more than a minute, Xiang Kun filled all four containers with stuff and stuffed them.

Then, she set up her phone and started filming.

The first glass container labeled x-001 contained more than 20 milliliters of blood.

The second glass container with the serial number r-001 contained a small piece of flesh weighing about 3 to 4 grams.

The third glass container labeled k-001 contained saliva.

In the fourth glass container with the serial number t-001, one had to look carefully to discover that there was a strand of black hair that was a leg hair.

All four of them had one thing in common. They all came from Xiang Kun.

Yes, he had given himself blood and flesh again. This time, he directly cut off a piece of flesh that was even larger than the last time.

Logically speaking, when Xiang Kun was fighting with the gigantic owl, he had suffered much more serious injuries than when he had cut off such a small piece of flesh. Ordinary people would probably have died. However, perhaps it was because he had not been paying attention to Xiang Kun at that time and had released a lot of adrenaline, the pain was much less than now.

After gritting his teeth and cutting off the piece of meat, Xiang Kun's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably. He cursed himself for being an idiot…

However, he still continued doing what he had to do.

The pain came and went quickly. He quickly focused on the glassware.

Previously, when he was testing the recovery speed of his wound, he cut off a piece of meat the size of a rice grain on his little finger. In the end, that piece turned into powder not long after. This also made him notice that after his blood left his body for a period of time, such a change would also happen.

However, at that time, Xiang Kun did not realize that something like that would happen. Therefore, he only paid attention to the wound. He did not observe the process of the flesh and blood change, nor did he record it.

After encountering the gigantic owl and realizing that the owl's feathers would disappear along with its corpse, Xiang Kun became interested in this phenomenon again.

Although the owl was "dead" and there was no time for him to "perform" again, he could observe himself.

Time ticked by.

The wound on his thigh was healing rapidly and the contents of the sealed glassware began changing.

The most obvious thing was the piece of meat and blood. It was obvious that the blood had begun to congeal. Then, the color first became extremely deep, and then it began to fade. The piece of meat was the same. Its volume shrank a little, transitioning from dark red to dark gray.

On the other hand, the saliva became a little clearer, but its volume had also clearly decreased.

Only the leg hair did not change. Moreover, the part where Xiang Kun cut off the leg hair did not regenerate like the skin and muscles.

When the timer that Xiang Kun had bought in the morning showed 00: 10: 57, the wound on his thigh had completely healed. The flesh that he had cut off was still changing slowly. It looked like a rock, and his blood looked like a pile of dark gray, sticky sand.

The saliva almost disappeared, and only a thin layer of dark powder could be seen at the bottom of the container.

As for the leg hair that he thought had almost no change, it had clearly changed color. It had become… a gray or nearly white leg hair?

After a few more minutes, the flesh had turned into a piece of sandstone. Xiang Kun flicked the glass wall lightly with his finger, and the slight vibration caused the "stone" to instantly collapse, turning into powder and scattering at the bottom.

The blood in the X-001 container also turned into a pile of gray powder. Its volume was much smaller than the original blood.

The saliva in the K-001 container was completely gone. There was no liquid left, only a small amount of gray powder.

Even the leg hair in the T-001 had disappeared. There was only a barely visible gray trace left. Xiang Kun shook the container slightly and the "trace" gathered into a small pile of gray powder. However, it was very light and scattered in the bottle.

The time on the electronic watch was 00: 14: 46. Although he did not count the time when he cut off the flesh on his little finger last time, the recovery time of the wound at that time was 13 minutes, and his piece of flesh completely turned into powder after that, about this time period.

Therefore, it could be determined that the time when the body tissue that left his body turned into gray powder didn't increase correspondingly because of the speed at which his wounds healed.

There were four bottles placed in front of him. Apart from the different quantity, there was basically no difference. They seemed to be the same gray powder.

If it were anyone else, they would definitely not be able to recognize the gray powder in the four bottles.

Apart from the four serial numbers, Xiang Kun only marked the date of the day and nothing else.

It was impossible for others to guess that the serial number x represented blood, the serial number r represented flesh, the serial number k represented saliva, and the serial number t represented leg hair…

Xiang Kun looked at the powder in the four bottles with a complicated expression.

A question popped up in his mind. "Can I still be considered a human now…"

After Xiang Kun smelled the scent of the gigantic owl, he had gone to the zoo to collect the scents of various animals to determine what kind of animal the "special scent" belonged to.

Back in the zoo, he had seen owls before and memorized their scent.

However, he was certain that the scent left behind by the gigantic owl was different from the scent he smelled in the zoo.

After Xiang Kun found other owls of the same species in the mountains a few days ago, he confirmed that the owl was no longer an owl after its mutation.

Perhaps, after so many mutations, he was getting further away from human beings?

However, these complicated and strange emotions only lasted for a few seconds before they were chased out of Xiang Kun's mind. He did not have any abnormal organs, nor was he too sick to get out of bed. Instead, his bodily functions had improved tremendously. It would be too pretentious of him to feel remorseful.

Xiang Kun picked up the four bottles and shook them. After confirming that the powder had not changed, he kept them in a cardboard box.

Then, he checked the video recorded on his phone. Although he had taken four bottles at once, the performance of the red rice cell phone was quite good. At least, he had taken a clear picture of the changes in the four bottles.

He had already thought about it. If he could find trustworthy and cooperative researchers or organizations in the future, these things would be his first test.

He would not expose his mutation. He would let others help him figure out what the gray powder was first.

Anyway, with Xiang Kun's current knowledge level, he could not understand the reaction of the body tissues in the bottle. However, it was definitely not a simple oxidation reaction.

Not to mention anything else, where was the moisture in the flesh, saliva, and blood? There was no water vapor on the glass wall. Could it have been broken down into h atoms and o atoms and contained in the gray powder? Also, the rapid reaction in the past ten minutes did not seem to have any change in temperature.

Without professional equipment and a large amount of knowledge, Xiang Kun could only speculate based on what he could observe.

Based on the information he had obtained, the body's tissue could not last long in the external environment. After 15 minutes, it would turn into gray powder. After death, the corpse would probably undergo the same change. Previously, Xiang Kun had done an experiment. If he drank the rabbit blood five minutes after it left the body, the effect would be greatly reduced.

Xiang Kun speculated that there might be a special component or energy in the blood of animals. He temporarily defined it as Z. After the blood left the body and was exposed to the environment, Z quickly dissipated.

As for Xiang Kun and the other mutated creatures, their digestive system had mutated and they could absorb Z from the blood of animals. Z was also the main reason why his body was consumed, reconstructed, and mutated. After his body's tissues left his body, Z also disappeared.

It wasn't like other animals' blood. After losing Z, it didn't seem to change much from its appearance. The body structure of mutated animals was based on Z, so after losing Z, it would quickly disintegrate and turn into gray powder.

This made Xiang Kun suspect that if he could not ingest enough blood and Z did not provide enough for his body, his entire body would disintegrate into powder.

Therefore, he had to figure out the composition of the powder first. It might help him verify his speculation.

At 3: 20 in the afternoon, Xiang Kun, who was sorting out the experiment records, videos, and pictures on his computer, suddenly felt a sense of hunger coming from the bottom of his body.

He expertly packed, encrypted, and hid the various documents, then got up and walked to the kitchen.

In the cage in the kitchen, the four rabbits did not have any special reaction. Xiang Kun looked at them and walked towards the remaining four rabbits and took out three.

Previously, he only drank the blood of one rabbit each time and deliberately controlled the amount of blood he drank. However, after drinking the blood of the rabbit last time, he clearly felt a strong sense of hunger. And after sleeping for 32 hours, he realized that he really did not drink enough blood.

According to his plan, it should have been enough to go from one to two.

However, he wanted to test it out this time and see if it would shorten his sleep time by drastically increasing the amount of blood he drank. Therefore, he planned to drink the blood of three rabbits at once.

Very skillfully, he finished the rabbit, distributed the blood to the measuring cup, and drank it quickly.

This time, he had drunk 450ml.

Then Xiang Kun started his third experiment.

He picked up a small stone from a plate on the kitchen counter. These stones were the decorative pebbles he bought at the flower bird market today. Each one was only the size of a fingernail.

These stones had all been washed clean by him, and he had also used boiling water to clean them. The reason why he had to do this was because these stones were what he wanted to swallow.

Yes, his third experiment was to verify the hypothesis that had emerged from the giant owl's nest deep in the mountains.

He wanted to see if the stones that the owl swallowed could help it resist the sleepiness after drinking blood.

Xiang Kun only swallowed one stone. Although the stone was small, the process was uncomfortable. He could clearly feel a hard object coming down his esophagus.

In less than ten minutes, Xiang Kun felt nauseous and wanted to spit out the stone.

However, Xiang Kun realized that he could indeed suppress the feeling of vomiting. It was not as disgusting and hard to suppress as other foods.

However, the stone in his stomach made him feel extremely uncomfortable. He could even clearly feel his stomach twitching from time to time, as if it was protesting loudly.

But miraculously, perhaps because of the discomfort in his stomach, Xiang Kun's sleepiness was greatly reduced.

The countdown started at 3: 30 pm and continued until 7: 45 pm. Xiang Kun did not fall asleep.

One had to know that the last time he tested his resistance against drowsiness, he was already somewhat delirious after an hour and a half. He even forgot how he slept.

But now, four hours had passed. If he needed it, he could continue to hold on.

However, he didn't look too good either. His expression was even a little ferocious because the feeling in his stomach was really… quite uncomfortable.

Even though he had proven his speculation that the gigantic owl had swallowed a rock and returned to its nest to sleep, he still decided that this was only a last resort. He would normally sleep after drinking blood. The feeling of the rock churning in his stomach was too painful. He would rather cut another two pieces of meat on his thigh than continue swallowing rocks for another four hours.

At 7: 58, Xiang Kun spat out the stone and fell asleep on the bed.

At 9: 14 PM on the 18th of August, Xiang Kun sat up in bed and looked at the timer on his phone. He confirmed that he had slept for about 25 hours and shook his head regretfully.

He glanced at the missed calls. Among the six missed calls, four of them had no names and seemed to be advertising numbers. The other two were from Officer Chen.

Why was Officer Chen looking for him?

Xiang Kun was puzzled. After thinking for a few seconds, he called Officer Chen.