After walking carefully through the forest for nearly an hour, carefully examining the ground and surrounding traces, he found nothing that could be determined to be the "peculiar smell".

But since he could smell it clearly, it was impossible not to leave it without any traces.

Xiang Kun stopped, closed his eyes, and reconstructed the scene he had just seen nearby, supplemented by information such as sounds and smells.

He even began to try to use the special cognitive model of the little apple, relying solely on smell to construct the environment.

Although he has not yet fully grasped Apple's cognitive model, he is not able to use her cognitive model to build a cognitive model at any time, and he is in a situation where it does not work. However, perhaps his nerves are too sensitive to that special smell, sensitive enough to discard the influence of other sensory information, so this time he used the little apple method in his brain to construct cognition, but the effect was good.

A few minutes later, Xiang Kun opened his eyes, took a few steps back, put the compound bow in his hand back on his body, put the arrow back into the quiver, and then hugged a tree, and jumped to the horizontal branch in two seconds, looking more sharp than a monkey.

Xiang Kun searched for a while, then locked on a leaf and ripped it off, put it on the end of his nose and sucked it hard, then tore the leaf from the middle, observed its texture, and licked the torn place again.

After a while, Xiang Kun stuffed the torn leaves into one pocket of his cargo pants, picked a few more pieces, and jumped directly from the tree.

Following the smell, Xiang Kun walked for a while, picked some leaves, wildflowers, and weeds, and before picking, he would take out his mobile phone to take a photo.

At first glance, these leaves, grasses, and flowers are nothing special, but Xiang Kun is now very sure that the special smell comes from them—or the surrounding plants.

But the amazing thing is that the special smell only comes from one part of these plants, such as some branches, such as one or several of the same grass, such as one or several of several flowers.

It is precisely because of this that Xiang Kun has always felt that the smell should be left by the mutant creature when it passes by, so he also suspects that the mutant creature is likely not too far away, or there are traces such as the remains after eating, after fighting, etc.

If it weren't for the cognitive model of Little Apple, which reconstructed the surrounding environment in his brain based on that particular smell, he probably wouldn't have been able to discover this so quickly.

After all, the smell was so faint that it didn't seem to come directly from those plants, and those plants themselves also emitted normal smells.

Xiang Kun had also wondered if there would be mutated plants before, but judging from the three examples of himself, the giant owl and Guo Tianxiang, fresh blood was the most important and indispensable "food" for their mutated creatures, and plants did not have blood.

However, it seems that the absence of blood itself does not mean that it cannot "suck blood", and mutated creatures may not be limited to animals.

But this mutant plant is also very strange, not the whole plant, but only a small part. It can't be just a small number of mutations, right? And Xiang Kun doesn't believe that there will be so many mutated plants that appear at the same time in such a small range.

He felt that these plants were likely to be "doppelgangers" that "extended" from one plant and "parasitized" on other plants, as if he had established "extrasensory connections" and "emotionally injected" objects.

As for their function, it may be perception, or something else.

Thinking of the video of the wild boar carcass that I had seen before and posted on the Internet by Anchor Xue, as well as the news after the bodies of Anchor Xue and the other three people were found, Xiang Kun guessed:

The mutated plant, the way to "hunt" and drink blood, is likely to be disguised as an ordinary plant fruit through some method, so that wild boars and humans can "eat it by mistake", and then hallucinate, or lose the ability to move.

Didn't it be said in the news that the three Xue anchors may have accidentally eaten poisonous wild fruits and hallucinated, so they finally died of starvation, and they also abandoned all kinds of equipment, making it difficult for search and rescue personnel to find them.

Thinking back to the video of Anchor Xue finding the carcass of a wild boar, not only the wild survival expert who was with Anchor Xue, but even Xiang Kun was looking for the footprints of other animals or human activities before. But if the "murderer" is defined as a plant, then many of the circumstances can be explained.

However, from the footage of the video, next to the carcass of the wild boar, there seems to be no obvious or strange plants.

Or is it that the mutated plant can also "move"?

Or is it by some other means, such as very long rhizomes and branches that spread over and "drink blood"?

Xiang Kun guessed how the mutant plant's possible attack methods, including the wound on the boar's body, were caused.

For Xiang Kun now, what he is more afraid of is still a powerful physical attack.

For example, when he realized that Guo Tianxiang was following him, if he smelled that Guo Tianxiang was carrying a firearm, it would be needless to say, it must be at all costs...... Let's run away.

He walked carefully for some distance, picking almost all the plants he could perceive and emitting a "special smell", some of which were easy to carry, he stuffed them directly into the pockets of his cargo pants, and most of them were crushed by hand and thrown to the ground.

Xiang Kun checked the bag that first contained the leaves and blades of grass that had been picked, and found that there was a wildflower missing from it, and his hand groped under the pocket, staining it with some fine gray powder.

The powder was fine and dry, Xiang Kun raised his hand to observe it, and the slightest breeze blew it away.

This gray powder is no different from the powder form that Xiang Kun's body tissue turns into when it leaves the body, which can also show that those plant parts do come from a creature that has mutated due to X like Xiang Kun.

However, the other parts of the plant that also had that "special smell" did not turn gray, and it was clear that they were different levels of structure to the mutated creature.

Xiang Kun guessed in his heart that the wildflower might have been directly "planted" by the mutated plant, and the other plant parts were "affected" by it in other ways.

After nightfall, Xiang Kun sat down cross-legged directly on a large rock halfway up a low mountain, took off the compound bow and quiver and put it aside, took off his shoes and socks and put them on the side, sometimes using night vision mode, sometimes using infrared imaging mode to observe the surroundings, at the same time, the hearing and olfactory organs are also operating to the extreme, collecting all kinds of "wind and grass".

After sunset, all bodily functions and sensory abilities are stronger than during the day, plus the environment is relatively quiet at night, and all kinds of movements are easier to spread, so Xiang Kun believes that whether it is an ordinary beast or a mutated creature, if he wants to get close to him, he can find it in advance.

Although judging from the "special smell" of grass and trees and leaves he found, he was likely to have been detected by the mutant plant in advance, but he was not very worried now, because after evaluating various known situations, he thought that he should be able to deal with the mutated plant's "predatory" methods.

And most importantly, he felt that the mutant plant's "IQ" should not be high, if it had.

After the giant owl mutated, although it could feel that its IQ had increased greatly, it was still far from humans, let alone plants that didn't even have brains.

Xiang Kun even began to wonder if he "subdued" that mutant plant, how would he bring it back?

But how do you solve the problem of a plant? It has no blood? Or is it because of mutation, it is no longer the physiological form of a plant, but already has certain animal characteristics?

For example, it no longer needs to rely on rhizomes to absorb nutrients from the soil, so it can "run" around?

For example, it may no longer photosynthesize, or even start to avoid light and darken?

What will be the direction of mutation and evolution of plants?

What will it look like now?

A big tree that can wriggle around?

Or is it a mass of strangely shaped branches?

What kind of capabilities will it have?

And if Xiang Kun "absorbs" this mutant plant, what abilities can he obtain?

Will it also be possible to "graft" some parts of various plants?

The more Xiang Kun thought about it, the more he looked forward to it, the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and even a little impatient to see the mutant plant, as for the possible dangers involved, he was already ready to meet it.

Xiang Kun felt that he had come all the way and had lost so many "branches" of the mutated plant, no matter whether those "branches" had the ability to detect and perceive or not, it should not have been unnoticed.

It's like the item he has established a "super sensory connection", although he can only locate and determine the direction, and he can't perceive the actual situation nearby, but if the connection is suddenly cut off, when he can't perceive it, he will definitely guess what happened to the item, and like the little chubby girl's coins and A4 paper with reduced sensitivity, he can also be aware.

Even if no one in the plant is that smart, this perception will not be unaware.

Moreover, Xiang Kun also deliberately left a few "branches" around him without processing, just to make the mutated plant more sure to lock into his position.

He believed that the mutant creature would come to investigate it himself, whether he realized that Xiang Kun was of the same kind or not.

Xiang Kun wasn't sure if he could see the abnormalities of the mutated plants from Guo Tianxiang's infrared thermal imaging visual mode, after all, he had used this mode before, but he didn't see any difference between those "branches" with "special smells" and parts of other plants.

Therefore, the focus of Xiang Kun's perception at night has always been on smell and sound.

If there is really a plant that can move, then in the process of moving, it will definitely make a sound to some extent, causing a certain amount of movement, and the sound and movement will definitely be very special.

As for the smell, not to mention, since the various "branches" it left behind could be smelled by Xiang Kun the "special smell" of that mutated creature, then its body would definitely have a strong taste.

But what Xiang Kun didn't expect was that in the end, what made him find the abnormality for the first time was still vision, and it was the visual mode of infrared imaging.

At about three o'clock in the morning, Xiang Kun, who was sitting on a boulder, found a blue dot in the red dots scattered in the forest in the distance in the visual mode of infrared imaging, which was moving rapidly in the direction where he was.

It's finally here!

Xiang Kun's heart was a little excited, and he was even more looking forward to and excited than the first blind date.

The mutated plant did seem to have changed a lot, and judging by its form and the speed at which it moved, it was more like an animal than a plant.

Xiang Kun didn't make any moves, just watched the movement of the blue dot with blazing eyes, slowly waiting for it to approach.

However, as the distance closes, Xiang Kun, who has super vision, night vision, and infrared imaging modes, feels that something is not quite right after switching the visual mode a few times.

Because of the "blue dot" that came quickly, he could already roughly judge its size, which should only be the size of a normal basin, and it moved in a strange way, sometimes like crawling on the ground, and sometimes like jumping and "throwing" itself.

What kind of weird thing is this?

The more Xiang Kun looked at it, his brows furrowed tighter, and his left hand began to slowly reach the compound bow next to him.

When we reached the bottom of the mountain, the "blue dot" stopped moving in infrared imaging mode.

Xiang Kun frowned, what is this thing doing? it can't attack there, it doesn't have a mortar......

When he was puzzled, Xiang Kun suddenly found that the "blue dot" began to move rapidly to the left of Xiang Kun's position, and after moving for a while, it stopped, then moved to the right, returned to its original position, stopped, and then continued to move to the right.

Xiang Kun was confused, what is this thing doing?

After moving to the right for a while, the "blue dot" began to turn around, moving quickly and seemingly leaving?

Xiang Kun was stunned for a moment, didn't have time to think about it, picked up the compound bow with his left hand, pulled out two arrows from the bow bag with his right hand, one in his mouth and the other in his hand, and rushed down the mountainside directly with his bare feet - in the mountains and forests, he ran barefoot faster than wearing shoes, and he was also better able to cope with all kinds of complex terrain. Of course, even with his current physique, the flesh and blood on his feet would be blurred if he didn't run far, so he could only endure the pain and wait for it to heal itself.

Xiang Kun rushed down from the mountainside, and a large distance was basically directly jumped, because of the rich experience of "rushing to the mountain", as well as the special stepping point and observation when he came over in the afternoon, he had already planned the fastest route down the mountain, so the speed of the descent was extremely fast.

But the "blue dot" was just as fast, speeding through the forest.

After rushing down the mountain, without the advantage of high points, Xiang Kun's infrared imaging mode has a limited penetration distance, and it is no longer possible to directly lock on to the target, so he can only rely on odor tracking.

He had already smelled the mutated creature's "peculiar scent", the same scent he had smelled from those "branches" during the day!

Although he ran wildly with all his might, when he was about to reach the position where he stopped before the "blue dot", Xiang Kun still began to slow down and switch to the visual mode to observe.

Xiang Kun thought that if the mutant creature was a plant before, then its IQ should not be much higher, but after all, it was just his guess, and the caution that should still be needed, otherwise if it was planted in a trap set by a "plant", it would be a small loss of face, and a small loss of life would be a big deal.

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