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

Just as 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 large number of people in broad daylight.

At least from his experience, whether it is a giant owl or a mutant spider, subjectively, they are very wary and afraid of human society, and will consciously avoid crowds, which is also one of the manifestations of their increased IQ.

But judging from the time and area where Xiang Kun saw the mutant big bird, the possibility that the mutant big bird appeared in the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area this morning does exist.

If it is really a mutant bird, then it must have to do it for a reason to take the risk of appearing in front of people.

Of course, it's more likely that those are ordinary eagles, ordinary birds.

Xiang Kun naturally followed this topic and asked a few questions, and did not show any special interest, but successfully guided the other three to talk, they all had their own news channels, and they all heard about what happened in the scenic spot to varying degrees.

Although Chu Xiuwen, Liu Feibao, and Liu Caifu can all be said to be proficient in news in Tongshi Town, You Meng only knew that there were tourists who fell from the mountain, but they could know some of the reasons for the fall.

But what happened in the scenic spot today, because the witnesses were all tourists at that time, and the scene was very chaotic, there were all kinds of theories, and the news they got was also passed on by the staff of the scenic spot, so when it came to the details, there were many contradictions and obvious exaggerations.

Whether it is a mutant creature or not, Xiang Kun must be "investigated" on the spot to confirm.

At that time, on the plane, after judging that the big bird was most likely a mutated creature through his infrared vision mode, Xiang Kun didn't think about tracking down the whereabouts of the big bird - because it was too difficult and there were too many possibilities.

But if you have an exact location and it's not too far away, then you can't let go of the suspicions in your heart if you don't make sure of it.

So after finishing the supper and leaving the hotel, Liu Caifu drove him to the door of the hotel where he was staying, he did not go back to the hotel room to rest, but directly called a motorcycle to leave.

Xiang Kun naturally will not directly call the motorcycle to go to the scenic spot, although it is not far from the scenic spot, but it is too weird to run over in the middle of the night, and it is easy to form a deep impression on the motorcycle driver.

He just asked the driver of the motorcycle to take him through the route in the town, and after paying the fare, he began to run to the scenic spot.

Xiang Kun's average running speed is almost 30KM per hour, he runs very easily, far from doing his best, and now the instantaneous speed, many people who are physically fit can also run out in the short and medium runs. But it's hard to keep this pace going for a long time without resting.

And Xiang Kun can adapt to the terrain more than ordinary cars, directly off the paved road to take a shortcut, saving a lot of time, you can also take advantage of this to avoid some traffic cameras and vehicles on the road, after arriving at the scenic spot, it is actually not much slower than driving over.

At this time, the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area has naturally been closed a long time ago, and what happened in the morning itself has also been closed in advance.

Xiang Kun naturally did not pass through the passage taken by normal tourists, and directly exerted his climbing ability, and soon climbed from the steep mountain wall next to him to the halfway point of the main peak.

In the hotel before, he had already heard Chu Xiuwen say which mountain the accident was, and as for the specific place where the accident occurred, after he climbed up, it was easy to find out. In night vision mode, you can see an area that is still surrounded by a quarantine zone at a glance, and looking at this posture, it is estimated that this side will not be open tomorrow.

There was no one on it at night, the accident happened in the morning, and someone should have come to investigate in the afternoon of the investigation, and this is not a homicide scene, and no one will be watching all night.

After switching between night vision and infrared thermal imaging modes, he took turns observing the surroundings for a while, and after collecting information about sounds and smells, Xiang Kun determined that there were no "suspicious" creatures nearby.

Although this was reasonable and expected, he still had a loss of hope.

Xiang Kun approached the area where the accident occurred, carefully observed the traces of the ground, sniffed the surrounding smells, and did not gain anything.

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

The so-called "giant eagle", if it was really the 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.

The mutant creature may be a mutant bird that inhabits this mountainous area, so it will say, "Some small birds are attacking tourists on the mountain road, and the giant eagle will drive away the birds", maybe there are also mutant birds among those "small birds", it is not to attack tourists, but it feels threatened, and is driven away "in a panic" and accidentally bumps into tourists.

Just like what his old classmate Xie Jun told him about the time when he was testing in the field, he hit the "horned wolf" in another car.

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

But he has just searched under the cliff, the place where the tourists fell, and there is no special discovery, and he has also searched for local news through his mobile phone, knowing that the remains of the two tourists who fell from the mountain have been found, if it is really the second case, the two tourists who fell from the mountain are definitely not "vampires", it is likely that they are just unlucky ghosts who have been implicated, and the main owner may have left among other tourists.

Of course, this is all based on the premise that the big bird that caused the accident is a "mutant bird".

More likely, there are no mutated creatures here.

After finding nothing at the place where the accident occurred, Xiang Kun was not discouraged and continued to explore the surroundings.

From the moment he first climbed the mountain, he had a gut feeling that the mountain seemed to be a little strange, and the longer he stayed on the mountain, the stronger this feeling became.

He knew very well that this feeling was not metaphysical, but derived from his various sensory abilities, and a "subconscious" feedback signal synthesized from collecting various information around him all the time.

After walking for a while, Xiang Kun leaned against a tree, closed his eyes, and began to concentrate on his sense of smell and hearing, spying on the situation of the entire mountain, first investigating from these two sensory information to determine the cause of the strange feeling.

This mountain is naturally much larger than the small dirt mountain not far from Xiang Kun's residential area, and there is no way to anchor it a little, so he directly peeks into the whole area, so he changes the position from time to time to conduct olfactory and auditory scans.

Nearly an hour later, Xiang Kun not only knew the reason for his strange feeling, but also smelled a faint "special smell".

He had smelled this "special smell" many times before, and the specific details actually varied greatly each time, but as soon as he smelled it, he knew that it was the smell left by mutated creatures.

The smell came from the ground.

It was he who changed several positions and happened to stand above the source of the flavor before he finally found out.

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

Ants rarely come out in winter, but they do not hibernate, but huddle in their burrows and survive the winter on the food they have stored before winter.

Even if they stay in the cave, their existence, as long as he pays enough attention, Xiang Kun can still know through the subtle smell and sound sense.

But on this mountain, except for some areas at the foot of the mountain, most areas of the mountain are not even ants!

If he only relied on a wide range of information collection and search and investigation, he might not be able to realize the problem of ants so quickly, because even if there is only two senses of smell and hearing, when the details are more than a certain level, the amount of information to be analyzed and investigated is very large.

However, Xiang Kun often practiced the exploration and collection of various perceptual information on that small dirt mountain on weekdays, and spent several times in the deep mountains and old forests, so he has a relatively comprehensive understanding of the ecology in this environment.

We often think that if some inconspicuous critters disappear, they will have little impact and may even have benefits, such as flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and ants.

In a city, in an urban environment, the impact may not be significant, because the influence and change of human beings on the living environment is simply too strong. However, in the wild, every organism has its niche, and once it is greatly reduced, other organisms are needed to fill this niche, and the distribution and number of related organisms will undergo cascading changes.

It was through the comparison of information from other mountainous areas that Xiang Kun learned about this change, noticed the ants, and then determined the lack of ants on the mountain through the scanning of auditory and olfactory information.

Moreover, it is obvious that it has been a while since the large number of ants on this mountain has been missing, and it will cause an impact that can be quickly detected by Xiang Kun.

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

Could it be because of the influence of the "mutant creatures"?

That thing eats ants?

This is also too strange, although ordinary ants also have blood, but the content is too small, and there are many skilled ants. If it's just to satisfy the need to drink blood, you can target larger animals?

Even if you like the smell of insect blood, there is no need to stare at the "sheep" of ants, and directly purr!

Or is it an ant itself?

Xiang Kun didn't dig too deep to find the source of the smell, but after switching between the night vision mode and the infrared thermal imaging mode, nothing special was found, and the smell began to dissipate very slowly.

He knew that this was the place where the mutant creature had been staying for so long.

Structurally, it seems to be an ant nest, and it looks like the ant should be quite large, at least as thick as his thumb.

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

So where does it go now?

Xiang Kun had just wandered around a lot of places on the mountain, conducting detailed auditory and olfactory snooping, coupled with the scanning of infrared thermal imaging visual mode, it was basically determined that the "owner" of the nest, the mutated creature that might have become an ant, was not on the mountain.

Could it be that he was hunted by the big bird?

So why did the big bird suddenly appear again during the day today, scaring ordinary tourists into falling off the cliff?

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

......

In Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er's room, in addition to the two of them at this time, Xia Libing was also there.

Because when Xiang Kun went to see Liu Caifu, he was not sure when he would come back, so he asked them to go back to the hotel first after supper, and the two cars were left for them anyway.

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.

At this time, they are on an audio call with Apple, telling interesting stories about the past two days.

"The dishes cooked by Uncle Xiang are really delicious, especially the rabbit meat...... I want to drool just from what you say......" Listening to Yang Zhen'er talking about the dishes made by Xiang Kun that she ate in the "Youlong Hotel" last night, Little Apple said with envy.

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

"Flip the coin?"

"It's just to put the coin on the back of your hand, let the coin flip between your fingers, oops, it's not clear, you go find a coin, and then let's open a video, and I'll tell you how to do it. Yang Zhen'er said.

So Little Apple turned off the audio call, turned on the video directly, and as for the coins, they had them in their hands.

Naturally, she couldn't see Yang Zhen'er's picture, but under Yang Zhen'er's command, she put her phone on the stand to fix the camera angle, so that they could see her hands and coins.

Under Yang Zhen'er's instructions, Little Apple knew what the so-called finger flip over the coin was all about.

"Let's have a competition, let's see how many of us, who learns first! The first to learn can get a gift from others, how about it?" Yang Zhen'er said with great interest.

After ending the video with Little Apple, Yang Zhen'er began to instigate Xia Libing again: "Old Xia, you try, I think your fingers are relatively long, it should be easier to do." ”

Xia Libing took a one-yuan coin she handed over, and while trying it, he asked casually, "Why did you suddenly play with the coin?"

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

"But you're more active than I am!" said Don.

"Isn't this here to help you study?" Yang Zhen'er said, "We can't be worse than the kindergarten children." ”

She said, showing Xia Libing the video of the "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 she also taught Xiang Kun to turn over coins. Kindergarten children can learn it, there's no reason why we can't learn it!"