What It’s Like Being a Vampire

If he hadn't seen the big mutated bird from a distance on the plane yesterday, Xiang Kun would not have thought of the mutated bird when he heard Chu Xiuwen and others talking about it just now.

Just like ordinary birds rarely attack humans, the probability of mutated birds attacking humans is also very, very small, especially in this kind of scenic spot with a lot of people in broad daylight.

At least from his experience, whether it is a giant owl or a mutant spider, subjectively, they all have strong vigilance and fear of human society, and will consciously avoid crowds, which is also one of the manifestations of their IQ improvement.

But judging from the time and area where Xiang Kun saw the mutated bird, there was a possibility that the mutated bird appeared in the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area this morning.

If it was really a mutant bird, then it must have had a reason to take the risk to appear in front of people.

Of course, it is more likely that those are ordinary eagles and ordinary birds.

Xiang Kun naturally followed this topic and asked a few questions. He didn't show any special interest, but he managed to guide the discussion of the other three people. They all had their own channels of news, and they were all interested in what happened in the scenic spot. Things have been heard to varying degrees.

Although Chu Xiuwen, Liu Feibao, and Liu Caifu can be said to be well-informed in Tongshi Town, so You Meng only knows that some tourists fell down the mountain, but they can know some reasons for the fall.

But what happened in the scenic spot today, because the witnesses were all tourists at the time, and the scene was very chaotic. There are many contradictions and obvious exaggerations.

Whether it was a mutated creature or not, Xiang Kun had to get an on-site "inspection" to confirm.

Back then on the plane, Xiang Kun didn't think about tracking down the whereabouts of the big bird after he judged from a distance through his infrared vision mode that the big bird was probably a mutant creature because it was too difficult and too possible. many.

But if you have the exact location and the distance is not too far away, then if you don't confirm the suspicion in your heart, you will never let it go.

So after finishing supper and leaving the hotel, Liu Caifu drove him to the door of the hotel where he was staying. Instead of going back to the hotel room to rest, he called a motorcycle to leave.

Naturally, Xiang Kun would not directly ask the motorcycle driver to go to the scenic spot. Although this place is not far from the scenic spot, it would be too weird to run there in the middle of the night, and it would easily impress the motorcycle driver.

He just asked the motorcycle driver to drive him through the route in the town, and after paying the fare, he started running to the scenic spot.

Xiang Kun's average running speed was about 30km per hour. He ran very easily, far from doing his best. With the current instantaneous speed, many strong people can also run in short and medium sprints. But it is very difficult to maintain this speed for a long time without rest.

Moreover, Xiang Kun can adapt to more terrain than ordinary cars. He can directly leave the paved road and take a shortcut, which saves a lot of time. He can also use this to avoid traffic cameras and vehicles on the road. After arriving at the scenic spot, it is actually better than driving. Not too slow.

At this time, the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area has naturally closed long ago. What happened in the morning itself has also been closed early.

Naturally, Xiang Kun would not go through the passageway that normal tourists would take. Instead, he used his climbing ability directly, and quickly climbed to the halfway up the main peak from the steep mountain wall next to it.

In the restaurant before, he had already heard Chu Xiuwen tell which mountain the accident occurred on.

As for the specific place where the accident happened, he found it easily after he climbed up. In night vision mode, you can see an area still surrounded by isolation belts at a glance. Judging from this posture, it is estimated that this side will not be open tomorrow.

No one was guarding it at night. The accident happened in the morning. Someone should have come to investigate in the afternoon when the investigation was due. This is not a murder scene, and no one will keep an eye on it all night.

After switching between night vision and infrared thermal imaging modes and observing the surroundings for a period of time in turn, and collecting sound and smell information, Xiang Kun determined that there were no "suspicious" creatures nearby.

Although this was reasonable and expected, he was still a little disappointed.

Xiang Kun approached the area where the accident occurred, carefully observed the traces on the ground, and sniffed the surrounding smell, but found nothing.

Previously, he had made a preliminary guess based on several descriptions by Chu Xiuwen and others.

If the so-called "huge eagle" was really the big mutated bird he saw on the plane, then it came here and appeared in front of people, most likely to find and kill another mutated creature.

That mutated creature might be a mutated bird that originally inhabited this mountainous area, so it would say, "Some small birds are attacking tourists on the mountain road, and the huge eagle drove the birds away", maybe one of those "little birds" There are also mutated birds, which did not intend to attack tourists, but felt threatened, and were driven into a "panic" and accidentally bumped into tourists.

Just like what old classmate Xie Jun told him before, during the field test, the lead car hit the "horned wolf".

There is another situation, those "little birds" are ordinary birds that were disturbed and scattered, tourists were attacked by "big birds" and fell off the cliff because the tourists themselves are "vampires" and "mutated creatures" .

But he just searched under the cliff, where the tourists fell, and found nothing special, and he also searched the local news on his mobile phone, knowing that the remains of the two tourists who fell down the mountain have been found, if it is really the second case Well, the two tourists who fell into the mountain were definitely not "vampires", they were probably just unlucky ghosts who were implicated, and the owner might have left with other tourists.

Of course, these are all based on the premise that the big bird that caused the accident was a "mutated bird".

More likely, no mutated creatures appeared here.

After finding nothing at the accident site, Xiang Kun was not discouraged and continued to explore around.

From the moment he went up the mountain, he had an intuition that this mountain seemed a bit strange, and the longer he stayed on the mountain, the stronger this feeling became.

He is very clear that this feeling is not metaphysics, but a "subconscious" feedback signal derived from his various sensory abilities when he collects various information around him all the time.

After Xiang Kun walked for a while, he leaned against a tree, closed his eyes, and began to focus on the sense of smell and hearing to spy on the situation of the whole mountain. First, he checked the information of these two senses to determine the weird feeling s reason.

This mountain is naturally much larger than Xiang Kun's small dirt mountain not far from the community where he lives. There is no way to anchor, so he can directly spy on the whole area, so he changes positions from time to time and scans by smell and hearing.

After nearly an hour, Xiang Kun not only knew the reason for his weird feeling, but also smelled a faint "special smell".

He has smelled this "special smell" many times before, and the specific details are actually quite different every time, but as soon as he smells it, he knows that it is the smell left by mutant creatures.

The smell came from the ground.

It was because he changed positions several times, and just happened to stand above the source of the smell, that he finally found out.

As for the strange, strange feeling, it is because there are very few ants on this mountain!

Ants seldom come out to move in winter, but they don't hibernate either. Instead, they huddle in their caves and survive the winter on the food stored before winter.

Even in the cave, Xiang Kun could still feel their existence through a very subtle sense of smell and sound as long as he paid enough attention.

But on this mountain, except for some areas at the foot of the mountain, there are no ants in most areas of the mountain!

If only relying on large-scale information collection and search and investigation, he may not be able to realize the problem of ants so quickly, because even if there are only two sensory information, smell and hearing, when the details reach a certain level, the amount of information to be analyzed and checked It is also very large.

However, Xiang Kunping often practiced the detection and collection of various sensory information on the small soil mountain, and stayed in the deep mountains and old forests several times, so he has a relatively comprehensive understanding of the ecology in this environment.

We often feel that if some inconspicuous small animals disappear, the impact will not be great, and there may even be benefits, such as flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and ants.

In cities and urban environments, this effect may not be significant, because human beings have too much influence and change on their living environment. But in the wild environment, each organism has its ecological niche. Once it is greatly reduced, other organisms will be needed to fill this ecological niche, and the distribution and number of related organisms will undergo chain changes.

It was by comparing the information with other mountainous areas that Xiang Kun found out about this change and noticed the ants. Then, through the information scanning of hearing and smell, he confirmed the absence of ants on this mountain.

Moreover, it was obvious that a large number of ants on this mountain had been missing for some time before it caused an impact that Xiang Kun could quickly notice.

Xiang Kun lay on the ground, and while following the direction of the "special smell", he began to dig the soil with his bare hands, while thinking about the reason for the lack of ants.

Could it be because of the influence of the "mutated creature"?

That thing eats ants?

This is too strange, although ordinary ants also have blood, but the content is too small, and there are many of them. If it's just to satisfy the need of drinking blood, it is completely possible to target larger animals?

Even if you like the smell of insect blood, there's no need to stare at the ants as a "sheep" and get bald!

Or, is it itself an ant?

Xiang Kun found the source of the smell without digging too deep, but after switching between night vision mode and infrared thermal imaging mode, he didn't find anything special, and the smell began to dissipate very slowly.

He knew that this place should be the place where the mutated creature had stayed for a long time.

From the structural point of view, this seems to be an ant nest? And it seemed that the ant should be quite big, at least as thick as his thumb.

So the lack of ants on this mountain is because of a "mutated ant"?

So where is it now?

Xiang Kun has just wandered around a lot of places on the mountain, and through detailed auditory and olfactory prying, coupled with the scanning of the infrared thermal imaging visual mode, he can basically confirm that the "owner" of the nest may be a mutated creature transformed from an ant , not on the hill.

Could it have been hunted by that big bird?

So why did the big bird suddenly appear again during the day, scaring ordinary tourists to the point of falling off the cliff?

Xiang Kun raised his head, frowned and looked at other mountains and forests in the distance in the night, thinking about whether to continue to investigate and the plan for the investigation.

...

In Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er's room, besides the two of them, Xia Libing was also there.

Because when Xiang Kun went to see Liu Caifu, he wasn't sure when he would come back, so he asked them to go back to the hotel after supper. Anyway, both cars were left for them.

After returning to the hotel, Yang Jie, Yang Zhuo, and Zhang Qian continued to play with pesticides, while Yang Zhener took Lao Xia to their room to play.

They were having an audio call with Little Apple at this time, talking about interesting stories of the past two days.

"Uncle Xiang's dishes are really delicious, especially the rabbit meat... just listening to you, I want to drool..." Listening to Yang Zhen'er talking about Xiang's meal in "Youlong Restaurant" last night The dishes made by Kun, Little Apple said enviously.

"I told the chef, next time I come to play, I will bring you with me." Yang Zhen'er said, suddenly thought of something, and then asked: "By the way, little apple, can you flip coins with your fingers?"

"Flip a coin?"

"Just put the coin on the back of your hand, let the coin flip between your fingers, oops, I'm not sure, you go find a coin, then let's start the video, and I will tell you how to do it." Yang Zhen'er said.

So Little Apple turned off the audio call and turned on the video directly. As for the coins, he had them at hand.

Naturally, she couldn't see the pictures of Yang Zhener and the others, but under Yang Zhener's command, she put the phone on the bracket and fixed the camera angle so that they could see her hands and coins.

Under Yang Zhen'er's instruction, Little Apple knew what the so-called flipping coins with fingers was all about.

"Let's come to the competition, let's see how many of us, whoever learns it first! How about getting a gift from the others who learn it first?" Yang Zhen'er said enthusiastically.

After finishing the video with Little Apple, Yang Zhener began to instigate Xia Libing again: "Old Xia, try it, I think your fingers are longer, so it should be easier to do it."

Xia Libing took a one-yuan coin she handed over, and while trying it out, asked casually, "Why did you suddenly start flipping coins?"

"Nana said that Xiang Kun can flip coins, so she has to learn too!" Yang Zhen'er said.

"However, you are more active in learning than me!" Tang Baona said.

"Aren't I here to help you study?" Yang Zhen'er said, "We can't be worse than kindergarten children."

She said, and showed Xia Libing the video of "Little Girl Flipping Coins" circulating on the Internet: "Do you remember this little sister? She used to live next door to Xiang Kun's house, and Xiang Kun taught her to flip coins. Look at it." It’s more than six. Kindergarten children can learn it, so there’s no reason we can’t learn it!”