Chapter 257 - Chapter 257: Chapter 257: The Developer who Thinks Out of the Box (1/2)

Chapter 257: Chapter 257: The Developer who Thinks Out of the Box

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The passenger plane was flying stably in the sky. Some passengers were engaged in low-voiced conversations, others were resting with their eyes closed, and still others were using electronic devices such as tablet computers and laptops.

Xiang Kun, sitting in an aisle seat, was covered with a blanket, his head tilted as if he were asleep.

To his right, Yang Zhen’er was sitting in the middle, while Tang Baona was by the window. At that moment, the two of them were watching a video made by Yang Zhuo together, with earphones on.

Yang Zhuo and his girlfriend Xiao Min were sitting in the row in front of Xiang Kun. Beside them, Zi Cheng was chatting about the amusing experiences they had when they went to Citong City to find Xiang Kun with Brother Bin many years ago.

Across the aisle sat Zhang Qian and Yang Jie.

Zhang Qian was sleeping with her head leaning on her best friend’s shoulder, while Yang Jie was reading a Kindle book with a helpless look.

They were all there at the invitation of Xiang Kun to visit Tongshi Town. Originally, Xiang Kun only planned to bring Yang Zhuo and his girlfriend, who were on winter vacation, to explore ideas for the upcoming videos. However, after Tang Baona found out, she said that their company accounts had been settled and they were ready to take a holiday. Then she very delicately asked if they could join them on the trip, to which he had to respond affirmatively.

Once Tang Baona was going, Yang Zhen’er also wanted to go. The end-of-year financial work at her company was mainly handled by an accounting firm, so they would not miss her.

Zi Cheng, who had been staying on after the wedding ceremony, naturally joined the trip as well.

Yang Jie was persuaded by Zhang Qian to accompany her.

Xiang Kun wasn’t really sleeping at this time, he was in a “Super Sensory State”, temporarily rejecting his normal sensory abilities and exploring the cabin using this special mode of perception.

After the blood drink this time, he felt that his perception clarity and the amount of information he could access in the “Super Sensory State” had both improved, and the limit for maintaining this state had extended considerably.

The reason he entered the “Super Sensory State” was not for any particular purposeful investigation. If he wanted to specifically detect anything, his own hearing and olfactory senses would suffice to perceive the situation on the plane, providing much clearer information than in the “Super Sensory State”.

The main reason was that under conditions such as “normal cruising flight aboard an airplane”, entering the “Super Sensory State” could help him minimize the influence and interference of various sounds, confine his perceptual area to the plane, creating a clear “boundary”, and ensuring that there wouldn’t be significant changes in people and objects within a short period, making it easier to compare sensory information after exiting the “Super Sensory State”.

In the “Super Sensory State”, Xiang Kun focused on observing the changes in two special sensory information hub areas – because he knew that these two hubs represented Yang Zhen’er and Tang Baona, focusing mainly on their brain parts.

He toggled between multiple perception ranges where the information feedback from their tablet computers and other electronic devices was minimal compared to the feedback from them themselves.

Detecting, distinguishing, and analyzing the variations in this information, and comparing this information with similar sensory data he remembered from past “Super Sensory State”, Xiang Kun speculated:

Could these possibly be some forms of brain activity?

Xiang Kun found that he could not discern what Yang Zhen’er and Tang Baona were thinking based on these sensory information changes, but he could clearly comprehend their emotions. It was obvious that the video they were watching made them very happy.

Xiang Kun wondered if the fundamental basis of his ability to sense others’ emotions through “Emotional Infusion” was the interpretation of this kind of information.

On ordinary days, he senses others’ emotions using this ability, like a user using an application software.

But now, facing these pieces of information directly, it felt like looking at binary code, or peering further at the condition of transistors in the CPU and other integrated circuits in a microscopic world.

Xiang Kun’s consciousness kept “roaming” all over the plane. He intermittently disconnected from the “Super Sensory State”, rested for a while, and then re-entered it. He used some definite items in both states as references to anchor his orientation, clearly knowing the source of the information he sensed under normal conditions.

Clearly, dead objects are much easier to “understand” than living ones.

Just like this Boeing 737, which he had already studied in great detail and observed with his normal senses beforehand, when entered into a “super sensory state,” he could comprehend the working conditions of all the electronic components, the status of the turbofan engines, and even observe at a very microscopic level without interruption.

After being able to understand the specific meanings of the information he sensed, Xiang Kun in his “super sensory state” could easily gain a very clear and detailed understanding of a device’s working condition.

This feeling existed even after leaving the “super sensory state”, similar to his previous understanding of the items he established “super sensory contact” with, like the understanding that comes as naturally as moving one’s own arm.

Of course, there is a significant difference in degree.

He felt that this might also be the actual implementation method and principle of “super sensory contact”. When observing those items with “super sensory contact” in a “super sensory state”, the feedback of that information also confirmed this guess to a certain extent.

However, this does not mean that he could pilot the plane better than all pilots just by perceiving it in a “super sensory state”. After all, piloting an airplane is fundamentally different from flipping a coin or flying a paper airplane.

When Xiang Kun felt that his recovery speed from the “super sensory state” fatigue slowed down significantly, he stopped this kind of perception judgement.

However, he did not wake up and open his eyes; instead, he sensed the twelve minion wood carvings in his suitcase on the overhead luggage rack.

Normally, he could only sense one minion wood carving at the same time.

Given the many barriers and the distance between the carving and the people around, it was impossible for him to receive any emotions, let alone influence others through the carving itself.

But this time, after drinking blood, Xiang Kun had clearly felt a significant increase in some of his abilities. So, he started to guide Xiao Pingguo through WeChat to use the “object sensing” method to establish contact with the twelve minions at his end using the minion wood carving she held as a springboard, just like he did with the “eight-armed, eight-eyed wood carving”.

Previously, Xiang Kun could only sense one “emotionally infused” item at a time, which was why he had never really used his “Twelve Yellow Man’s Formation” since its inception.

However, now he can sense all “emotionally infused” items that Xiao Pingguo has connected with at the same time.

These items, compared to before, had gained some “subjective initiative” and the ability to actively “comply”.

Just like before when Xiang Kun was pushing a cart full of his belongings, as he had to steer the cart with one hand, he could only take one item at a time with the other. But then, he got a shopping basket and put it in the cart, so he could pick up multiple items at once by simply lifting the basket.

It seemed that Xiao Pingguo had set up a special connection between these “emotionally infused” items, on top of the existing link.

Now, he could sense the twelve minion wood carvings that were infused with “joy” emotion simultaneously.

As expected, even though they were placed in the overhead compartment and inside his suitcase, Xiang Kun sensed very clear emotional feedback from multiple minions simultaneously.

Xiang Kun carefully sensed these emotions, trying to distinguish his acquaintances’ emotions from them.

Based on the closest range to the “Twelve Yellow Men”, apart from Zhang Qian and Yang Jie, other friends on the same flight were within range.