Judging from the voice, it's a girl, and quite pleasant-sounding at that.
A few simple onomatopoeic words were not enough for Gao Ang to identify who it was. He just felt that the voice was very close, as if it were right next to his ear, making him feel itchy.
"Could it be that the hearing system has mutated as well?"
Given the premise of variations in the visual and olfactory systems, Gao Ang was not particularly surprised by his own conjecture.
If the white spheres truly improve the human body, it should be comprehensive. It's impossible that vision, smell, and other senses are mutated while the hearing system is left unmutated, right? That would be unfair.
He didn't have time to investigate the principles behind the mutation; he was simply very curious about the alluring voice.
Turn off the speaker, put your phone on vibrate, close your eyes, and strain your ears to carefully distinguish the sound.
He had just heard the sound by chance, and when he focused his attention on his auditory nerves, he immediately felt as if he had entered a new world.
The chirping of insects and birds, the purring of a wildcat, the silly sounds of a husky tearing at the sofa, and the sounds of collisions and panting from the couple's activities... all sorts of noises entered his ears. He had experienced this feeling before, during his last olfactory experiment, the same 'scene', just a different experience.
Fortunately, he had experience and immediately controlled his auditory nerves to actively cut off many unwanted sounds, focusing intently on finding the groaning sound that haunted his dreams and made his heart race.
These different sounds and smells were clearly distinct in his personal perception. Although his nervous system contained thousands or even tens of thousands of pieces of information, he could still accurately find the information he wanted. He didn't know how to explain this phenomenon. To put it simply, his brain seemed to have become a super brain, able to quickly analyze and process information, and accurately select the information he wanted based on his instructions.
If we delve any deeper, things become much more complicated, and Gao Ang doesn't want to think about it any further right now. What he needs to do now is to 'chase' that voice and see how much his hearing has changed.
After he blocked out all the other random information, the sound became exceptionally clear, like a firefly in the dark, or a searchlight in the night. He could clearly 'see' the 'route' of the sound.
Although the approximate location of the sound had been determined, Gao Feng still couldn't pinpoint exactly where it was coming from because he had no reference point.
Thinking of this, he stretched out his fingers and gently stroked the computer desk.
As for why it's rubbing instead of knocking, the answer is simple: because he's very close to the computer desk, although the knocking sound is soft, if he opens his hearing system, he will absorb the sound, and the effect transmitted to his ears will be amplified many times. At that time, the knocking sound might be as loud as a thunderclap.
Even though he had reduced the effort he was putting into exploring as much as possible, the sound that reached his ears had almost the same effect as fingernails scraping across a blackboard.
In the past, Gao Ang might have been terrified and gotten goosebumps all over, but now he barely reacted to the sound. It was just like a normal sound, only a little louder and a little strange.
After visually estimating the distance between himself and his fingers, Gao Ang closed his eyes again and continued to explore the approximate location of the sound.
"Um?"
Gao Ang was a little stunned. His brain concluded that the person who made the sound was only 3.5 meters away from him in a straight line.
Looking left, right, up, and down, Gao Ang was surprised to realize that the sound was coming from upstairs.
There will only be one person upstairs, and that is Xia Weiwei.
After pinpointing the location, Gao Ang tried to explore other sounds in Xia Weiwei's direction, but the sounds he heard became increasingly strange.
“It sounds like it’s in pain, but there’s no ‘buzzing’ sound…” Gao Ang dismissed some of his other bad guesses and rubbed his chin.
"Oh no, could it be that my period has started?"
Reactivating the sense of smell...
Sure enough, there was a faint, lingering smell of blood...
This is awkward; it turns out it was just her period.
Fortunately, no one noticed his embarrassment. Gao Feng reluctantly shut down all his abilities to explore Xia Weiwei, including his sense of smell and hearing. He was afraid he would die of embarrassment if he continued.
Having gained a new special mutation ability, Gao Ang immediately lost interest in continuing to play chess. He greeted his viewers and ended the stream.
After turning off the lights and getting into bed, Gao Feng began to explore the limits of his hearing.
Relax your whole body, let every cell be relaxed, and then focus your energy on your auditory nerves. The world in your ears will suddenly become lively.
Filter out the most chaotic parts of the sound, and then remove the loudest part from the remaining sound...
Following this procedure, Gao Ang blocked out most of the junk information, until finally only a faint sound, like the buzzing of a mosquito, reached his ears.
Then, by pairing the distance model of Xia Weiwei's voice from before with the distance model of this voice now, and multiplying it by the attenuation coefficient caused by the gradual reduction of sound, Gaoang automatically calculated the extreme distance of this voice: 713 meters.
The sound resembled the nibbling of some kind of animal, without any particularly strong breathing or heartbeat; it must be some small animal.
The object being gnawed on must be something slightly loose, yet with a certain texture—a hard object.
No matter how much information there is, Gao Feng cannot make any predictions.
"Could we add the sense of smell? If we had the help of scent, we should be able to determine the location or the type of animal, right?"
With this guess, Gao Ang couldn't wait to activate his olfactory system. His previous tests had only confirmed that his sense of smell had indeed mutated, but he had never done tests like those on his hearing.
He wasn't sure if his mutated sense of smell could detect scents from 700 meters away.
Locking onto the sound, Gao Yang followed the previous steps to filter out the strongest scent layer by layer. With a rough location in mind, the filtering was much more efficient this time. Before long, only a few faint scents remained emanating from that direction.
The smell was rancid and rotten, containing hydrogen sulfide, methane, ammonia, and other compounds. This conclusion was reached solely because these odors were present in Gao Feng's memory. Therefore, it could be determined that the sound originated from a garbage dump, not a sewer, because Gao Feng didn't hear any running water.
The smells had almost disappeared when they were still more than 300 meters away from that location, at which point Gao Ang had no choice but to abandon the experiment.
This result is understandable. Although the transmission of sound is weakened by the attraction of many objects, the factors that affect odor are relatively more numerous.
The principle of sound transmission is vibration. Theoretically speaking, the vibration of any object will cause resonance in other objects. However, the vibrational fluctuations caused will vary depending on the mass and material of the different objects, which is the loudness of the sound. Theoretically, as long as there is some kind of material that can accept all vibrations, even the most minute ones, then all sounds can be 'heard'.
Odors are different. Odors are a reaction caused by the olfactory nerve absorbing certain molecules emitted by an object. This reaction is transmitted to the cerebral cortex, and then, based on the memory factors that humans have had since ancient times, the type of odor is determined. If the molecules emitted by an object cannot reach the olfactory nerve, the odor will not exist.
Having figured this out, Gao Ang immediately got up, opened his diary, and began to write it down:
[June 24th, light rain turning into moderate rain. It suddenly started raining in Shanghai at night, instantly making the slightly stuffy air more humid.]
The white sphere's new mutation effect: a hearing mutation, allowing it to hear sounds from up to 700 meters away;
It also verified the extreme range of the sense of smell, which is close to 400 meters.
Furthermore, the white spheres appear to enhance the brain's judgment abilities, suggesting the formation of a 'superbrain'.
Gao Ang put "super brain" in quotation marks because he was unsure whether his current judgment ability could be considered a superpower.
Because he hears and smells a lot of information, which is stored in his memory bank, he can even recall every feature of it very clearly.
For example, it's like taking out the movies stored on your computer one by one from the D drive.
After writing this, Gao Ang took a shower and planned to go to bed.
He found that his energy seemed to have increased significantly. Although he often stayed up late before, he would always feel tired to some extent, but he didn't feel that way at all these past few days.
The reason he still needs to sleep is purely out of habit, and another reason is that he doesn't want to become too different from others.
The next morning, Gao Ang got up very early and, following the video tutorial on his phone, prepared some blood-nourishing breakfast for Xia Weiwei in advance: steamed egg custard, lotus seed porridge, and a cup of yogurt.
After finishing his work, Gao Ang left a note on the dining table and drove off to buy groceries in his MINI.
Because it was her period, and she had been working too hard, Xia Weiwei felt particularly uncomfortable. She didn't even want to get out of bed and just wanted to get some sleep.
But when she thought of her deep-seated hatred and the fact that the people who killed her parents were still at large, she could only force herself to get up, dress herself, and then go out.
As she passed by the open kitchen, she noticed something strange on the dining table. Upon closer inspection, she found a note that read: "Eat before you go to work. There's no braised pork for lunch, not this week!"
Furious, she immediately ran to Gao's room, only to find no one there, and he didn't reply to her WeChat messages.
Meanwhile, Gao Feng was leisurely enjoying the fun of bargaining with others in the market, and he could also collect more scents. He realized that to confirm the whereabouts of anything he smelled or heard, he needed a 'sample'.
Without samples, his abilities would be completely useless.
Just as he finished putting his things away and was about to drive away, he discovered something interesting.
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