Chapter 379: It's hard work
Being able to see this video in this flower shop was unexpected by Xiang Kun.
When Alice searched for information about "vampire patients", she didn't find this video.
Either the female clerk who took the video was not uploaded to the Internet, or there was no popularity on the Internet or the keywords had no connection with the case of the "vampire patient".
Xia Libing also looked curious, and came over with the other clerks to watch the video on the little girl's mobile phone.
Even the proprietress who had already seen it couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh when she saw the drunk being dragged and screamed for help by three young people again.
Although it is a very serious and bad thing, the audio-visual performance in this video is indeed an inexplicable sense of joy.
The other girls in the store also laughed when they saw it.
Xiang Kun and Lao Xia, who didn't feel anything funny, saw that everyone was laughing, and they also smiled with a smile on their faces, hehe.
When others watch this video, their attention is naturally focused on the "funny" process of the three young men pulling the drunk into the car at the beginning.
But Xiang Kun's focus is not here, because he knows very well that in this process, the "mutant parasite" is still in the body of the "vampire patient".
After the police car appeared and the police escorted everyone in the van down, it was Xiang Kun who really paid attention to it.
In this part, the little girl in the flower shop also filmed a part.
It can be seen that as soon as the van was stopped by the police car, it immediately stopped, and there was no attempt to escape from the road, and the process of rescuing the drunk man and arresting the three young people was also very smooth.
It wasn't until the arrest of the "vampire patient" that there was a fight, and it took some effort for the police to remove the knife from her hand, take her out of the car, and take her to the hospital.
After the "vampire patient" was taken out of the car, Xiang Kun's eyes were always under the van, but the little girl who took the video was not the photographer he hired, so it was naturally impossible to take care of that position from time to time, and it was more important to follow the arrested suspect.
After watching the video, Xiang Kun followed the emotions of the flower shop proprietress and the clerks and said: "This is a farce at all!"
Lao Xia also nodded in response: "Yes, it's so funny." ”
The little girl who took the video said: "I posted on Moments before, and the people I saw were saying that the acting was a good fake ......"
After chatting for a while, and after almost knowing the information he wanted to know, Xiang Kun motioned to Lao Xia to choose a box of roses and two handfuls of carnations and left the flower shop.
After putting the flowers in the back seat, Xiang Kun stood on the side of the street for a while before getting into the co-pilot and said to Lao Xia: "Let's go to Zihuan Mountain." ”
After the car started driving, Xiang Kun began to explain without Lao Xia asking: "If the 'mutant parasite' wants to leave Nanhua Street, it definitely needs a way. From the previous dream-within-a-dream, it can be preliminarily judged that the insect has a certain ability to move independently when it is separated from the host, relatively speaking, it has a strong ability to move in the water and is clumsy on land.
"Judging from the video taken by the flower shop clerk, it didn't leave the van immediately after it came out of the 'patient' in your hospital, and was still in the car.
"As I guess, its next parasitic target must be humans. But with the IQ it embodies and the mode of judging external information, it naturally will not directly 'invade' the host when other people are paying attention.
"The first option is that when the police or passers-by around the van are not paying attention, it will get out of the van, enter the sewer through the drain on the side of the road, and then look for the host through the sewer system;
"The second option is to wait for someone to touch the van alone, for example, after the police have completed the on-site investigation and evidence collection, they will drive the car back to the parking lot of the police station.
"The third option, about a minute after I saw the 'patient' in the video in the flower shop, a man approached the van, looked at the window for a while, and was scolded by the police officer before leaving. Because the footage was not taken on him all the time, it is not certain whether he was hitched on the car by a 'parasite' and clinged to him, but theoretically, it is possible;
"If it doesn't have a cleanliness habit and chooses the first way to leave, we can't track it accurately for the time being, so we can only use other ways to investigate it in the future.
"If it's the latter two options, we still have a way to determine and rule them out.
"But it's been almost a year anyway, and these investigations are not in a hurry, and I will start again when I finish my next blood drink.
"As for going to Zihuan Mountain, it is to investigate its past, what it is, where it comes from, and what characteristics it has. ”
Xia Libing nodded: "Understood." ”
After driving for more than an hour, when he arrived at the foot of Zihuan Mountain, Xiang Kun asked Lao Xia to stop: "I didn't tell my family when I came back at night, I will stay in the mountains tonight, and you go back by yourself." Tomorrow help me send a bouquet of flowers to my mother, and you can give the rest of the carnations to your third aunt. I'll call you to pick me up until six o'clock tomorrow night. If you don't get my call before six o'clock, call me, and if you can't get through, just drive over and wait for me here. ”
Xia Libing knew that with Xiang Kun's current vision, various sensory abilities, and motor abilities, there was almost no difference between night and daytime investigations, and even in some cases, it was more convenient for him at night.
"Good. Xia Libing's answer was still very simple, she knew that it didn't make any sense to follow her into the mountain, but it would become a drag, which would greatly affect Xiang Kun's investigation speed.
So Xiang Kun not only left the luggage he brought back this time, but also took off his coat and shoes and socks and put them in the car, so as not to get dirty and broken on the mountain at night.
For him, it is more comfortable to move around in the mountains barefoot than to wear shoes.
"By the way, if you have time tomorrow, help me prepare the meat rabbit in advance, so as not to be too rushed the day after tomorrow. After getting out of the car and closing the door, Xiang Kun leaned on the window and said to Xia Libing.
"Good. Xia Libing nodded.
After explaining, Xiang Kun patted the roof of the car: "It's hard work." ”
Xia Libing circled the index finger and thumb of his right hand and made an OK gesture.
Seeing Camry turn around and leave, Xiang Kun began to run towards Zihuan Mountain.
He did not take the winding mountain road or the scenic stone steps, but climbed directly according to the shortest distance, and the speed was extremely fast, and the monkeys could not compare.
Zihuan Mountain is the name of an entire mountainous area, and Xiang Kun has used satellite maps to combine the previous dream of the "vampire patient" with the situation in the dream, and probably delineated the location where she was attacked and hit by the "mutant parasite".
In the deep mountains at night, Xiang Kun has his own set of methods for identifying directions, without the need for mobile phone navigation or looking at paper maps, coupled with the ability to climb and jump in all terrain, before three o'clock in the morning, he has already arrived at the creek where the "vampire patient" was tricked.
In general, the selection of hosts by parasites is targeted, and the different characteristics of each parasite determine the different hosts they choose.
The characteristics of the "mutant parasite" on the "vampire patient" made Xiang Kun deduce that it was definitely not the first time it had parasitized humans, and it was likely that it had already evolved and mutated in other human hosts before.
In its parasitic mode, it is obviously not simply sucking the host's blood, but at the same time inducing the host to actively obtain fresh blood, and then absorbing this blood by "connecting" the host's digestive organs in some way.
In this way, after experiencing the human being, the current "ruler" at the top of the food chain on the earth, as a host, it is generally difficult to accept other hosts with the intelligence displayed by the "mutant parasite".
In Xiang Kun's view, its goal should be to parasitize on a human being with a huge amount of wealth and power, and then it will really lie down and "feed" directly. Instead of going through the trouble of "kidnapping tickets" like "vampire patients", they ended up planting themselves and forcing it to "escape" temporarily.
Xiang Kun suspected that the reason why the "mutant parasite" appeared in the creek of Zihuan Mountain and parasitized the "vampire patient" was probably because something happened here that changed the parasitic plan, and his previous host might have died here.
Alice did not find any news about the discovery of the unexpectedly dead body in Zihuan Mountain in the last two years, if it was really as he guessed, the previous host of the "mutant parasite" was buried in Zihuan Mountain, then the body should not have been found.
If the "mutant parasite" is found in the water, then the corpse should also be in the area near the water or just below.
Zihuan Mountain is not the kind of deep mountain forest in the Qinling Mountains, even if it is a relatively deep area, there are often tourists and local mountain people to set foot in, if there is a body and has not been found for a long time, it will definitely not be in those easy to reach places.
Of course, it is also possible that Xiang Kun's conjectures and assumptions are wrong, that the "mutant parasite" arrived at Zihuan Mountain through other non-human hosts, or that the former human host did not die, as in the case of the "vampire patient", some accident occurred, so that it had to temporarily decide to abandon the host.
At four o'clock in the morning, Xiang Kun, who was running fast in the mountains and constantly collecting various sensory information, although he had not yet found the corpse that he "assumed" existed, he suddenly smelled a trace of "familiarity" - it was the unique smell of "mutated creatures".