What It's Like Being a Vampire - Chapter 502
Chapter 502: 502
“Sister Xiao Pingguo, you take off first, then my plane flies, then it goes on like this, um, Alice knows the details, then my plane chases yours, your plane flies chaotically, and I chase after it hard, if my plane’s nose hits your plane’s tail, then I win! If my plane can’t fly anymore and falls down without hitting your plane, then you win.” Liu Shiling carefully explained her paper airplane chase game, a sudden “flash of inspiration” she had during dinner.
Squatted beside Little Fatty Girl with a smile on her face, Xiao Pingguo listened attentively to her explanation, holding the paper airplane made of crumpled A4 paper as if it were a treasure. She didn’t think the game was childish at all, instead, she was looking forward to it and feeling excited.
After the introduction of the rules by Little Fatty Girl, Xiao Pingguo laughed and said, “So what’s the punishment or reward for losing or winning this game?”
Liu Shiling scratched her head, “If Sister Xiao Pingguo wins, then I will eat one less meat bun made by Uncle Bald tomorrow morning and let you eat one more. If Sister Xiao Pingguo loses… then… let me take a bite of your bun tomorrow?”
Xiao Pingguo burst into laughter and hugged Little Fatty Girl, “Xiao Lingdang, you are too adorable! Regardless of win or lose, you can take as many bites from the meat bun as you want!”
Xiao Pingguo paused, then said, “How about this, if I win, you sing a song as per my request, if you win, you command me to sing a song, okay?”
Liu Shiling nodded over and over: “Sure, sure!”
“So, I am going to throw… um… I mean, I am launching this plane now?” Xiao Pingguo stood up with the airplane in her hand.
“Sure!” Right after Liu Shiling nodded her head, she quickly added, “Wait, Sister Xiao Pingguo, you should name this plane.”
Xiao Pingguo thought for a moment, then said, “Let’s call it ‘The Wings of Moonlight’!”
Liu Shiling nodded thoughtfully, “Is that one million times a million? Impressive indeed!”
“Not that kind of billion, it’s the wing, the wing of an airplane! Let Alice write it down for you when we get home.” Xiao Pingguo laughed, “And how about you, Xiao Lingdang, what’s the name of your airplane? Don’t tell me it’s called ‘Meat Bun’!”
Liu Shiling was taken aback, “I can’t?”
Xiao Pingguo laughed, “No food names.” Liu Shiling had introduced her to the five “Little Spirit Guardians” last night, all of them were food items, including the name of the “Custard Pie”. The little girl’s habit of naming was too predictable, and Xiao Pingguo deliberately wanted to see what name Liu Shiling would come up with if she didn’t use food.
Liu Shiling looked down at the giant paper plane in her hand, thought for a while, and finally said shyly, “Then… let’s call it a Frying Pan?”
“Frying Pan? Hahaha, Xiao Lingdang, you’re too adorable!” Xiao Pingguo immediately hugged Little Fatty Girl and kissed her cheek.
Then, the “Paper Airplane Chase” began. Xiao Pingguo launched the crumpled paper airplane, “Wings of Moonlight” as she said she would.
Even though the plane looked a bit scrappy, crumpled and as if it was soaked in water, the moment it left Xiao Pingguo’s hand, it seemed exceptionally nimble, maintaining a very stable flight in the air.
After the “Wings of Moonlight” was launched, Liu Shiling, standing behind Xiao Pingguo, immediately put on a serious and focused expression, eyeing the paper airplane intently, and closely launched her “Frying Pan” after it.
Despite her small stature and short arms, her throwing motion was incredibly smooth and effortless. The paper airplane, which was larger than the “Wings of Moonlight”, looked like a javelin piercing through the night sky, closely following the “Wings of Moonlight”.
If they were ordinary people playing a paper airplane game, the playable section would have ended at this point. After that, it will be up to each paper airplane to perform in the air. Or, to put it another way, their fate and trajectory had been largely determined from that moment onwards, and they could only “leave it to fate”.
But for Little Fatty Girl and Xiao Pingguo, the game had just begun.
Little Fatty Girl did not stick coins or other “super-connected objects” to her airplane. Her control over the paper airplane partly relied on structural pre-settings when folding the paper airplane, controlling the center of gravity during the throw to master the direction and initial trajectory of the flight.
But the specific control in the air came through Xiao Pingguo’s paper airplane, the “Wings of Moonlight” — because that A4 paper was the “magic paper” she could control.
However, she did not directly control the “Wings of Moonlight”, doing so would be considered cheating. Instead, she used the “Wings of Moonlight” to subtly affect her “Frying Pan”, helping it to target the tail of “Wings of Moonlight” and initiate a chase.
As for the flight of the “Wings of Moonlight”, it was not controlled by Xiao Pingguo herself. Her perception of “super-connected objects” was not as strong as emotion infused objects, and she couldn’t effortlessly control “super-connected objects” flying around like Little Fatty Girl, nor did she have the related derivative abilities to manipulate electricity or magnetic forces.
But Xiao Pingguo had Alice. They could cooperate to control it. Xiao Pingguo controlled the direction and speed, while Alice carried out the specific operations, and also transferred related environmental information to Xiao Pingguo for her to judge the situation.
It was after knowing about this cooperative relationship between Xiao Pingguo and Alice that Liu Shiling came up with this game idea at night.
Generally speaking, Liu Shiling’s “Frying Pan” would certainly be at a disadvantage. This was because the “Wings of Moonlight” had a stronger flight power in Chongyun Village and could perform more precise flight control, while the flight power of the “Frying Pan” was limited. Each maneuver following the “Wings of Moonlight” is a consumption of its power. It would definitely land earlier than the “Wings of Moonlight”. It all comes down to whether it could hit the “Wings of Moonlight” before landing.
Xiao Pingguo and Alice were also very engaged in this game, the two of them didn’t want to lose either. They controlled the “Wings of Moonlight” to carry out large-scale changes of direction and maneuvers. In just a few seconds, they led the “Frying Pan” to lose balance, and the nose of the plane dived directly downwards. It looked like the first game was going to end with Group Guo’Ai’s victory.
However, when the nose of the “Frying Pan” was diving, a gust of wicked wind suddenly blew across the village, lifting its nose up a bit, slowing down the trend of falling. Then another gust of wicked wind blew across, and the nose lifted up a bit once more.
The “Frying Pan” that was about to lose, unexpectedly struggled to fly again, like a drunk man, staggering and swaying.
Xia Libing, who had been silently watching the two of them play, suddenly got excited. She stepped forward and stared intently at the trajectory of the paper airplane.
Her peripheral vision also noticed that Liu Shiling, standing next to Xiao Pingguo, had her eyes wide open and her fists clenched at her sides, her tiny mouth tightly pursed, she was making effort as if controlling the plane in the air.
Apparently, the sudden gusts of wind that appeared low in the sky over Chongyun Village were not a coincidence.
Moreover, that “devilish wind” not only appeared twice but also appeared continuously afterwards. It interfered with the flight of the “Wings of Moonlight”, gave a boost and acceleration to the “Frying Pan”, and helped it change direction.
However, under increasingly skilled maneuvers by Xiao Pingguo and Alice, the “Frying Pan” eventually crashed into a tree under the guidance of the “Wings of Moonlight”, landing in a family’s yard.
After the “Frying Pan” fell, the “Wings of Moonlight” also “landed” slowly not far away. Gold Sparks and Custard Pie, who had flown over as soon as the both paper planes were launched, reached the location where the paper planes fell, picked up their masters’ planes, one flew back flapping its wings, the other ran wildly along the wall.
The yard where the “Frying Pan” fell in, the owner was watching TV in the house, and there was a big dog dozing in the yard.
Originally, when the paper airplane fell, the big dog was quite startled and was about to instinctively bark, but seeing a big ginger cat jumping in from the wall holding the paper airplane in its mouth and glancing at it, the dog immediately swallowed its barks and laid quietly.
Even though Custard Pie ran back wildly with the paper airplane by taking shortcuts along the eaves and walls, it was still slower compared to Gold Sparks who were coming directly from the sky.
But Liu Shiling, who got the paper airplane back, was very happy. She rubbed Custard Pie’s head and fed it nutritional paste from her pocket.
While feeding Custard Pie, Liu Shiling said to Old Xia next to her, “Did you see Sister Roast Chicken Wings? The wind! The few times it blew the ‘Frying Pan’ up, whoosh~ whoosh~, I used wind! That was Wind Magic!”
Xia Libing nodded, “I saw it, how did Xiao Lingdang achieve that?”
Xiao Pingguo also came over with the “Wings of Moonlight” and squatted down, saying, “Alice also felt it. Xiao Lingdang, you’re amazing.”
But how exactly she did it, Liu Shiling couldn’t say clearly. She vaguely knew that she wanted to keep the “Frying Pan” flying, didn’t want it to fall, and it seemed like she was controlling the five coins on her body like the many “magic tools” in Chongyun Village, and then somehow, blew up the plane.
Of course, despite her prowess, Little Fatty Girl still lost the game, so according to Xiao Pingguo’s request, she had to sing the nursery rhyme “I Have a Little Donkey”, except that the “little donkey” had to be changed to a “little kitty”.
As Xiao Pingguo and Liu Shiling started the second round of “Paper Airplane Chase”, Xiang Kun, who had just exited the “Super Sensory State” and finished spying on the Brilliant Fortune Building, came to the rooftop, looking thoughtfully at the flying paper planes in the distance.
Just now in his “Super Sensory State”, he felt the weird activation of abilities by Little Fatty Girl, Xiao Pingguo, and Alice, realizing that they have a new way of summoning abilities.
Looking now, he found that the source was Little Fatty Girl.
This kid, although her strong control over “Super-connected Objects” requires a sufficient amount of time for familiarity and collaboration with “Super-connected objects”, such as her five coins and A4 paper.
But in Chongyun Village, she could influence the countless “Super-connected Objects” spread across the village in a special way through her five coins and A4 paper, achieving a composite effect.
Xiang Kun could certainly achieve this effect, but the previous Xiang Kun, if he wanted to create wind, it would definitely cause a big scene, thunder and lightning, storm sweeping, just like the previous lightning storms, like the super hurricane on the Burmese sea.
But Liu Shiling did it casually and vaguely, demonstrating this precise operational gale or breeze created by using the “Super-connected object matrix”, adding practical tools to Xiang Kun’s “Applicability Supermarket” and “Weapon Library”.
If we say Xiang Kun’s wind is a nuclear weapon, then Little Fatty Girl’s wind is a sniper rifle, with more application scenarios.
Although Little Fatty Girl herself doesn’t understand how she did it, she just simply didn’t want the paper airplane to fall to the ground.
Xiang Kun stood on the roof, closed his eyes, and using the positioning of the A4 paper, sensed the changes in Super Sensory Information when Little Fatty Girl created the “devilish wind” in the Super Sensory State, trying to grasp its fundamental pattern.
Late, Xiang Kun also found that not only did Little Fatty Girl suddenly master the ability to create “devilish winds” in Chongyun Village, Xiao Pingguo and Alice’s collaboration and connected tacit understanding through this game have also increased tremendously.
Furthermore, once Xiao Pingguo becomes skilled in controlling “Super-connected Objects” and using the abilities of “Super-connected Objects” with Alice’s help, her ability to project emotions remotely through “Emotion Infused Objects” with Alice will further improve.
Originally, Xiang Kun felt that Xiao Pingguo living in Chongyun Village, with her previous contact and understanding with Alice, as well as her application ability for the “Super Sensory Item System”, would surely improve gradually.
But he didn’t expect that this just a paper airplane game created by Little Fatty Girl would drastically speed up their progress.
Moreover, Xiang Kun is certain that Little Fatty Girl didn’t intentionally want to understand new abilities or help Xiao Pingguo and Alice strengthen their link, she simply thought the game should be fun, and wanted to play with her Sister Xiao Pingguo.
Thinking of all the games that Little Fatty Girl told him about during dinner, including “Coin Hide and Seek”, “Playing House on the Mountain”, “Establishing a Playground for Cats and Birds”, the “Custard Pie Cheetah Development Plan” and so on, Xiang Kun couldn’t help but laugh. Not only for Xiao Pingguo, but also for Little Fatty Girl, Chongyun Village was a buff and a “home field”.
He was really looking forward to it. He wondered if Little Fatty Girl happily playing in Chongyun Village would bring him more “Super-connected Object” application inspiration and methods.
When Xia Libing brought back a tired Xiao Pingguo, Little Fatty Girl, a cat, and a bird, and after they had all taken a bath, dried their hair, dried their fur, and settled down to sleep,
Xiang Kun went to find her and relayed his findings from his observation of the Brilliant Fortune Building tonight.
Today, he found that in the secret space under the Brilliant Fortune Building, the quantity of “mutants” had changed, and one of the “mutants” had entered hibernation.
It was clear that one “mutant” had devoured another “mutant”.
Xiang Kun successfully triggered the “mutant’s” dream state and gleaned some information.
Next, he planned to take a trip to Pengcheng City.
