Chapter Forty-Seven: The Owl Seniors

Xiang Kun originally thought that the owl's mutation direction should mostly rely purely on animal instinct and original habits, unlike his deliberate training and guidance.

But not far from the owl's cliff nest, a rock full of claw marks next to a stream in the forest made Xiang Kun realize that this owl was actually conducting targeted training.

Xiang Kun did not see the picture of the owl grinding its claws in the memory picture of the owl, but determined that these claw marks were left by the giant owl according to the claw spacing that left marks on the rock.

Judging from the traces on the rock, it is not only grinding its claws on this stone, but also has a large number of scratches, thorns, and jujube attacks, and the traces of the claws that can be seen in the early stage are very shallow, and the later stage is getting deeper and deeper, which is obviously attacking this stone as an imaginary prey, Xiang Kun can also imagine that at the beginning, its claws must be scarred and even often broken, but it has the ability to recover and lay the foundation, which has no impact on survival, and after the blood-drinking mutation, the sharpness and hardness of the claws will definitely be greatly improved.

The huge and sharp claws of the giant owl were mutated and strengthened again and again.

After discovering the owl's training method, Xiang Kun also had an idea, can he also imitate the owl and sharpen his nails? If he also had a sharp claw before, he wouldn't need any weapons, and he would have a lot of lethality in the face of the giant owl with a direct move to dig out the heart of the black tiger......

But almost instantly, he dismissed this idea, after all, the claws of birds are different from the structure of human hands, and the main function of human hands is to use tools. If you can mutate ten "iron claws" that can be retracted freely, if you can directly mutate your nails into sharp claws like beasts, or if they are hard and long, it is not only easy to attract attention, but it is also inconvenient to do things on weekdays, and it is easy to get stuck when you type on the keyboard.

Xiang Kun also found a bunch of small pebbles in the cave nest on the cliff wall of the owl, at first he didn't understand what the owl was going to do with this pile of stones, and it didn't look like it was laying a nest, could it be that this owl would give his nest a "landscape"?

But after retrieving the owl's memory and finding that there was a picture of hunting and drinking blood and actively swallowing stones, Xiang Kun had a guess:

Could this be the owl's way to suppress its sleepiness after drinking blood, and return to the nest to sleep again?

You must know that the wild is not like the city, and there are all kinds of dangers in the deep mountains and dense forests.

Xiang Kun is a meat rabbit bought in the vegetable market, raised at home, when needed, he directly slaughtered and drank blood, and after drinking, he fell asleep when he was sleepy, unless his relatives and friends had an urgent matter to find him and could not be contacted, it was possible to find the door, otherwise there would generally be no one to disturb, let alone any danger.

But the owl wants to drink blood, and it needs to hunt it himself. Because if the blood leaves the body for too long, or if the prey dies for too long, it will have no effect, so it will basically drink blood directly on the spot or move to the nearby area to drink blood, rather than specifically catching the prey back to its lair - after all, many of the prey it hunts after mutation is not small.

In this way, assuming that this owl, like Xiang Kun, will have a strong sense of sleepiness after drinking blood, and will sleep for a long time and will not be easily woken up, then it will be dangerous to find a random place to sleep in the wild.

So it swallows the pebble into its stomach to suppress its sleepiness, and it flies back to its nest and spits out the pebble in its belly before it sleeps peacefully.

Otherwise, it really can't explain why it swallows stones, and it happens to vomit in its nest on the cliff wall, after all, it only drinks blood after mutation, and cannot eat other food, and does not need to swallow stones to promote digestion.

As for why it is a stone, rather than something more suitable for "eating" such as meat or other plants, Xiang Kun guessed that it may be that the stone is more single and denser, and it is easier to be suppressed when there is a feeling of vomiting, and it is easier to vomit at once when you want to vomit.

Of course, these are all just Xiang Kun's reasoning and speculation, whether this is the case or not, he is going to wait until he goes back to do the experiment in person.

If it works, it's also an occasional emergency response.

It's like after the battle with the owl that day, if he can rely on this method to stay asleep for a while, he may be able to see the process of the owl's corpse disappearing, which is very helpful for him to understand the mutation factors in himself and the owl.

Of course, it is more important to avoid sleeping in an unsafe place for a long time.

Although the reason for the owl's mutation could not be found this time, exploring its mutation process from the various traces of its habitat and the comparison of memory images also helped Xiang Kun understand himself a lot.

After all, if you look at the number of times this giant owl mutates more than Xiang Kun after a hunt and drinking blood, there will be a deep sleep and mutation.

No matter in terms of the number of mutations or time, it is Xiang Kun's "big predecessor".

Moreover, these four and a half days of life in the mountains also allowed Xiang Kun to better experience the improvement and changes in his physical functions after this mutation, and further familiarized and trained.

In addition to the night vision obtained from the blood of the owl, his dynamic vision, hearing, and smell have been significantly enhanced, and this enhancement is not only an increase in sensitivity.

In the mountains and forests, he has a strong instantaneous ability to distinguish the sounds and smells caused by many other creatures, which Xiang Kun, who has been living in the city, did not have before - it is equivalent to him directly owning the owl's hearing and smell "database".

This made it very easy for him to survive in the mountains and forests, and he often even felt that the world was under my control.

Sometimes he even thinks that he would be able to fly an owl as well.

Of course, this is just to think about it, if he really wants to mutate a pair of big wings now, then he can really only live in seclusion in the mountains and forests.

......

Xiang Kun, who was running wildly on the road around the mountain, suddenly stopped, stood still on the side of the road, and looked back at the mountain.

This side is naturally not a "deep mountain", it is far away from the area where he is in the past few days, although the degree of development is still not high, there are few people, but at least the winding mountain road has been built, there are villages and temples on the mountain, occasionally villagers drive up and down the mountain, and there are also pilgrims who go to the temple to make incense.

The reason why Xiang Kun stopped was that he heard the sound of a car, and more than ten seconds later, an SUV appeared around the corner.

He raised his right hand and gestured to his thumb to ask for a ride.

To be honest, he didn't really have much hope, and there were already four cars going down the mountain past him, all of which had no reaction to his outstretched "thumbs up", and had no intention of stopping.

Of course, he has nothing to complain about this, even if the position changes, it is he who is driving, and he will not stop when he sees such a tall, dusty, barefoot, bald man on the side of the road stopping the car.

Anyway, he ran all the way down, and from time to time "took shortcuts", and it would not be too slow than hitchhiking - this mountain road has too many curves and too fast, and no one dares to drive fast even if it is going down the mountain.

He had checked the map before when there was a signal on his mobile phone, and there was a big village at the foot of the mountain, so he should be able to hire a car to send him to the county seat or town where he could buy a ticket to go home.

But this time he was lucky, the SUV actually slowly stopped beside him.