Chapter 41: The Hunt

After looking at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the morning.

Xiang Kun didn't know if the giant owl had the same quick recovery ability as him, so now he found a place to rest, lick his wounds, and wait for the opportunity to hunt him again, or fly away directly after resting.

But if you want to find the owl, it should be easiest before dawn.

After all, at this time period, the residual smell of the owl has not dissipated, and the physical function and sense of smell of Tianming Qianxiang Kun are also at their peak.

What's more, the owl was afraid of people and didn't dare to act during the day, and Xiang Kun also didn't want to be bumped into by someone in the process of hunting the owl.

If possible, Xiang Kun even hoped to capture the giant owl alive.

If it really has a strong recovery ability, then it can take some blood every once in a while and turn it into a long-term "meal ticket", which is definitely more cost-effective than a hammer deal.

What's more, he also wanted to observe and study the giant owl to see why it had become so big, whether it was a new species, or if it had suddenly mutated like himself, and what was the reason for the mutation.

But this is just a thought, he does not have the equipment and ability to catch the owl alive, nor does he have a place to raise and study. After really finding the owl, it must be a fight that can't be spared.

made a decision, but Xiang Kun didn't go out immediately.

Because there is another very important question: even if you find the giant owl, how to catch it?

The short fight with the owl by the lake before was actually only a short ten seconds, and he was basically sure that if he dragged it to the ground, his strength would not be inferior to that of the owl, and even if he was barehanded, he could beat the owl half to death - he was very sure that he had blinded the owl in one eye at that time, of course, whether it could recover or how long it could recover, it was unknown for the time being.

If you carry a tool, even if it is just a short knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, etc., it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness and lethality.

But the owl can fly......

This determines that the initiative to fight or not to fight lies with the owl.

It was the owl that took the initiative to attack him by the lake before, so he pressed him to the ground and beat him.

What if the owl is bent on running?

Xiang Kun thought about it, and he definitely didn't even think about shotguns, tranquilizer guns, or anything. The question is where is he going to get a bow or a crossbow in the middle of the night? And if he gets it temporarily, he has no practice and familiarity, and there is no guarantee of accuracy. If ordinary arrows are not modified, their lethality is limited, and even if they can really be shot, they may not be able to cause enough damage to make such a large owl lose the ability to fly.

Moreover, Xiang Kun just searched for the relevant characteristics of owls, and found that owls not only have strong night vision, but also have a well-developed sense of smell and hearing. If, like him, it has been mutated and strengthened, it will be even more terrifying. If you want to sneak up on the sneak attack, you may not be able to do it.

So Xiang Kun came up with an idea, maybe ......

Call the police, right?

Such a big owl can hunt adult huskies, which is quite threatening. And it can also be said that it is a rare species that needs to be protected.

At that time, whether it is the police department, the garden bureau or any department to send people, there will definitely be more professional equipment and personnel to capture.

After capturing the giant owl, it will definitely be sent to a professional institution for corresponding research and observation, and maybe you can find the reason why it can grow so big and find the factors that cause the mutation.

But Xiang Kun also quickly gave up this idea, first, it was difficult for him to convince the police station or other departments to have such a big owl to attract their attention, and second, it was unlikely that he would send people to hunt according to his command, after all, he couldn't tell others that his scent tracking ability was stronger than that of a hunting dog, and third, even if the owl was really caught, it really had the value of research and protection, and even if he was the first to discover it, he might not be eligible for the progress and report of the research. And he certainly won't have a chance to get blood from the owl to drink it then.

Generally speaking, Xiang Kun likes to plan and then act, prepare first and make a plan, but when it is really time to prepare at the end of the day, he also has the decision to do it first and then talk about it.

So he didn't think about it anymore, and if he thought about it any longer, it was about to dawn, so he went out with a Swiss army knife, a flashlight and a screwdriver.

Naturally, I don't have time to prepare any weapons now, but I have a knife at home that I bought to kill rabbits, but against the giant owl, this knife is not necessarily much stronger than a screwdriver. On the contrary, going out with a knife is easy to misunderstand and bring unnecessary trouble.

At 3:21 a.m., Xiang Kun came to the lake again where he had encountered the giant owl before.

Xiang Kun found that the feathers of the giant owl that had fallen to the ground during the fight with him were no longer visible at this time.

Generally speaking, when you see this situation, you will think that someone should have just come and picked up those feathers. Or the wind is strong and blows to other places.

But when Xiang Kun left before, he put a few feathers in his trouser pocket, but he couldn't find them when he got home.

At the time, he wondered if he had lost it when he went to the lake, but now that all the feathers on the lake were gone, he thought of the experiment he had done on himself before - cutting off a piece of meat the size of a grain of rice on the belly of his little finger, and then not long after, after his wound healed, the piece of meat also turned into powder.

These feathers, perhaps like the flesh on his little finger, turned into powder and dissipated into the air after leaving his body?

Xiang Kun followed the scent left by the giant owl and began to track, although the owl and his grappling were only for more than ten seconds, both sides were extremely badly injured and shed a lot of blood, so there were a lot of residual smells on both sides.

And because of the injury, the owl was not able to fly too fast at that time.

Under the influence of the wind, the direction of the smell in the air will be a little fluctuating, but Xiang Kun does not rely solely on the smell tracking, he judged that with the owl's action style, even at night, it is unlikely to fly in the direction of high crowd density, and it must still flee in the direction of more mountains, more trees, fewer buildings, and more deserted.

An hour later, Xiang Kun pinched a leaf and sniffed deeply, then looked up at the bushes on the hillside dozens of meters away, although he could only see a shadow of a tree from this angle, he knew that the owl was there.

The location he was in now was the same place where the dead rat had been found.

He didn't think that there was a temporary nest for the giant owl, because he had searched the hill in detail before, and there was no smell of the owl left, and even the dead mouse must have been thrown from the air, and it never entered.

As for running here now, it is estimated that it is only because this lonely mountain is the closest distance, the most suitable place for it to hide and recover.

Xiang Kun squeezed the screwdriver in his hand and slowly walked over there.

When Xiang Kun came out from behind a tree and looked at the giant owl standing on a huge rock, the owl was also staring at him with bowl-wide eyes.

Obviously, when Xiang Kun determined the owl's location, the owl also noticed his arrival.

Xiang Kun didn't rush forward, because he observed through the moonlight that the owl's head was injured and the eye that he had blinded had recovered most of it.

Obviously, although its recovery speed is not as fast as Xiang Kun's, it is also far superior to other animals.

The owl stared at Xiang Kun tightly, its huge body slightly adjusting its position as he moved, keeping it facing head-on, and its wings were also half-open, ready to take off at any time - the position it was in, directly above it was not covered by branches, and it could fly away directly.