What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 19: Discovery of New Power

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

The knife was very sharp. Xiang Kun’s finger was slit immediately. Then blood flowed and he felt the pain.

It seemed he was not invincible…

Xiang Kun licked his finger. His own blood did not seem to have any effect.

Just as he was about to get up to find a band-aid, Xiang Kun suddenly had an impulse. He looked at his injury carefully under the light and sat down.

After licking off the blood on his finger earlier on, blood had not continued to flow. The six to seven millimeter slit was healing?

He touched the cut with his fingernail but could not feel the pain.

Xiang Kun pulled open the cut and it was forced open, causing some transparent liquid to ooze out. Using his thumb, he pressed hard around the injury and blood began to flow from the cut again.

Evidently, his injury was healing much faster than a normal person’s.

Xiang Kun did not continue to “self-harm”. He used his cell phone to take a photograph of his injury every minute. After 13 minutes, the injury had almost disappeared.

Although the cut was very small and shallow, he was very certain that it would not have healed so quickly before the changes in his body happened.

The fast recovery from injuries should also be one of the changes in his body.

After a while, Xiang Kun took out his knife again and cut one of his fingers. It was also a six to seven millimeter slit.

This time, he did not lick the blood. Instead, he used cotton buds and alcohol to clean the wound. He wanted to check if his own saliva could help in the recovery.

Then he started the timer. After about 15 minutes, his injury healed again.

Earlier on, if he had started timing it from the start, it also would have taken about 15 minutes for his finger to heal. The time taken was likely the same.

Xiang Kun recorded this data onto the document and pointed the knife at his palm.

After some measurements, he made a cut that was 3.2 cm long and deeper than before.

The amount of blood that flowed out was still quite little. After cleaning the blood, Xiang Kun looked at the cut on his palm and purposely forced the skin apart so that it could not stick together.

However, what surprised Xiang Kun was that the inner layers of the injury began to automatically stick towards each other. After a few minutes, the surface of the skin was also stuck together and only a light scar was left.

Xiang Kun used some strength to force the skin apart, and some bodily fluids flowed out.

After repeating this a few times, his injury completely recovered in about 15 minutes and 17 seconds.

It seemed like the speed of recovery had nothing to do with the size and depth of the cut.

Xiang Kun gritted his teeth and began to “experiment” with his thighs. He made a deeper and longer cut…

For the entire night, Xiang Kun was cutting himself. If anyone saw him, they would definitely think that he was self-harming.

At about eight in the morning, Xiang Kun had tried cutting himself with over 30 different variations of cuts and had lost quite a lot of blood.

In the first few hours, no matter how big the cut was, the speed for recovery was between 14 minutes 50 seconds and 15 minutes 30 seconds.

That included one time when Xiang Kun decided to stick the knife through his palm. It still took 15 minutes to recover.

However, for the last two hours, the time taken for the recovery became longer. It had taken about 17 to 18 minutes to recover, even for cuts that were a few millimeters long.

Xiang Kun had some speculations. First, he had lost quite a lot of blood as he had made quite a few cuts that night, causing the self-recovery power to decrease. Second, after sunrise, his bodily functions were suppressed and his self-recovery power was also affected.

Comparing the two, Xiang Kun thought the second speculation was more likely. After all, the slowing down of recovery happened after sunrise.

Xiang Kun did not continue to “experiment”. However, he thought that since he had proven that he could train certain parts of his body targetedly, perhaps… he could continuously experiment and tell his body to improve the self-recovery ability. Would he see the effect the next time he drank blood?

Perhaps after a few rounds of blood-drinking, he could bring down the time taken for self-recovery to between two and five minutes?

This ability was very attractive to Xiang Kun. Although it was not usually needed, nobody could expect accidents to happen, right?

An ability that could increase his chances of survival was crucial.

At about nine in the morning, when Xiang Kun was about to head out, someone knocked on his door.

It was a female reporter and cameraman. They had come over to interview him about the incident last night. They had heard from the boss of the shop that Xiang Kun was the brave young man and had come over. Xiang Kun’s landlord was tagging along too.

However, Xiang Kun declined the interview. Initially, he claimed that he ought to help and it was not that big of a deal.

However, the female reporter was pestering him, and his landlord was helping her. That forced him to say that he did not want to be interviewed, as he was afraid that the culprit would take revenge.

The reporter told him that they could change his voice and avoid filming his face.

Then she hinted that he would receive some remuneration for this interview.

Xiang Kun hesitated and declined.

He only wanted to remain low-profile and did not want anyone else to know that he had done it.

The reporter did not give up. “Mr Xiang, this is really a good deed worth promoting. Rest assured, the culprit has been captured by police and will be sentenced to at least three years in jail. He will not be able to find you. Moreover, the video clip of your deed yesterday is already trending on the internet and has reached top ten in the local forums.”

Xiang Kun was stunned. “Video clip?”

“You don’t know about it?” The female reporter took out her cell phone and opened the largest social media platform of the city and showed Xiang Kun. “Look, the video clip has millions of views and thousands of comments. It is still rising in popularity. Moreover, many people have reposted this clip on Weibo. You will probably be the top searched topic on Weibo soon…”

From the angle of the video clip, it must have been filmed by someone living upstairs nearby. At the start, the culprit attacked the couple with a knife. Then the boss of the shop came out to stop him with a mop. However, he was afraid to go near the culprit. After that, someone charged out from the door of a nearby house and kicked the culprit, causing the culprit to fall onto the floor, sending his slippers flying. Then the person pinned the culprit down and punched him, causing the culprit to faint.

The entire process was about two seconds long. It looked like an action film. The person who had charged out with large-sized sporting shorts and a bald head looked as though he was a hermit with special powers…