Xiang Kun opened his eyes. With a slight strain to his midsection, his upper body sat straight up from the ground.
Looking through the gap in the bedroom curtains, he could see that it was still pitch black outside. It was still the dead of night.
Old Xia was not in the bedroom. Judging from the sounds and smells, she was currently sitting on the living room sofa, operating her laptop.
Xiang Kun stood up and checked his body, only to find himself standing still for nearly ten minutes.
Before his blood-drinking period after returning from Burma, he had some premonitions. He felt that he might have some special gains after this blood-drinking period. The large-scale ability use he applied over the sea in Burma and in Myitkyina was equivalent to a special guiding training method. It likely helped him further digest, absorb, reconstruct, and enhance the powers of the "mutated parasite" that he had eaten earlier.
