Chapter 40: The Prey

When he saw the claw, Xiang Kun realized that the picture he saw was the perspective of the giant owl, and it should not be real-time.

In other words, what I just saw was the picture in the owl's memory?

In Xiang Kun's understanding, the memories of ordinary animals should be stored in various neurons of the brain, and he just swallowed a little bit of blood, not the brain of an owl, what is the principle?

Putting aside the speculation about the principle for the time being, this short picture of more than 1 second also contains a lot of information.

The rabbit in the torn garbage bag seems to have been killed when he drank blood.

Xiang Kun couldn't help but think of the legends in various vampire literary and artistic works, and those who have been bitten by vampires and don't die will also be transformed into vampires. It's as if there is a virus in the saliva of a vampire, and the person who gets infected with it will be transformed. Maybe this owl has mutated because it ate a rabbit that was stained with his saliva?

But Xiang Kun immediately denied this speculation, because:

1, when he took rabbit blood, he put it in a container and drank it, and he didn't let his saliva get on the rabbit.

2. In the picture he saw, the claws of "himself" were already very huge, and they were obviously giant owls that had been mutated.

Xiang Kun recalled the surrounding scenery in the picture of more than 1 second he saw, and made a judgment that it should be in the garbage dump.

Could it be that this giant owl became interested in the rabbit by chance and came to him?

But if that's the case, the owl should just attack itself, why would it be a rat catcher and a dog?

He met the dead mouse, and was interested in the peculiar smell of the owl on the dead mouse, but it was all an accident, and if he wanted to deliberately attract his attention, the dead mouse should have thrown it on his balcony. Besides, if he really wants to find a remote place to attack him, then when he is in that hill these nights, it will be a better opportunity.

This owl, which should be the same as him, is a creature that has mutated for some reason?

As for why he was attacking him, Xiang Kun also understood after tasting the blood of the giant owl - this was treating him as food.

He also suddenly realized why the dead mouse died miserably but was not eaten, this owl, probably like him, had a mutated entire digestive system, drinking only blood and not meat.

Such a huge body should also be the result of mutation.

And the owl threw the carcass of a mouse into the mountains and the carcass of a husky into the lake, perhaps...... Is it destroying corpses?

Xiang Kun looked at himself by the moonlight, his body was covered with mud and blood, his T-shirt had been taken off, and he was naked?...... Or take a video and post Tik Tok?

Although it was already past the wee hours of the morning, it was not without people on the road.

And when he goes back to the community, he will definitely attract the attention of the security guards, which is a situation he does not want to see.

After thinking for a while, Xiang Kun walked towards the lake not far away, jumped directly into the lakeside talk, and his body immediately sank into the mud, directly up to his waist.

I simply washed the blood stains off my body with the lake water, and then climbed up from the lake, and my pants were also covered with mud, and I couldn't see the blood stains on them at all.

returned to the community where he lived, and such an embarrassed appearance naturally attracted the attention of the security guard at the door.

Xiang Kun smiled bitterly: "I went for a run and accidentally fell into the lake." ”

The security guard looked confused, and then looked at Xiang Kun's back as he walked into the community with sympathy and caring eyes.

Returning home topless, muddy and wet, Xiang Kun quickly threw his wet pants and shoes directly into the trash, then took a simple shower and sat down in front of his laptop.

From the search engine, Xiang Kun learned that the world's largest owl is the hairy-legged fish owl, with a body length of 70-77cm and a weight of 1.5-5.5kg.

It is not uncommon for birds to reach a length of 1.5 or 1.6 meters and weigh tens of kilograms, such as ostriches, emus, cranes and ostriches, but these birds may run fast on the ground, but they can't fly because they are too heavy.

Xiang Kun searched for pictures of various owls again, and felt that the appearance of the giant owl was more similar to that of the Ulin Owl, with a large and round head, a very obvious face plate, and no ear tufted feathers. However, compared to the picture of the Ullin Owl he found, the giant owl he saw had significantly darker feathers and no white spots, and it was very difficult to spot in the dark at night.

Such a large owl, appearing near the city, as long as it is seen, will definitely attract great attention!

Now there is so much surveillance on the street, almost everyone has a mobile phone, and almost all mobile phones can take pictures and record videos, as long as they are seen, they will be easily photographed.

So Xiang Kun searched on the Internet with keywords such as giant birds, giant owls, and strange birds, and after not getting the desired results, he further expanded the search keywords, and used crawler scripts to assist in local forums and post bars in the city and several surrounding cities to search and scrape information.

But judging by the results, no one found the giant owl.

The only thing that Xiang Kun felt that might have some connection was a post on a post bar in a neighboring county, saying that at night he saw a person standing on a tree in their village looking at him, he was startled and wanted to take a mobile phone light to shine it, and the person was gone.

Judging from the description, it is likely to be the giant owl, and Xiang Kun almost mistook it for a person in an overcoat standing on a tree before.

It's a pity that the man was a little slower to react and didn't get a picture.

Judging from the previous tracking of the giant owl and the more than 1 second of the picture he saw, Xiang Kun felt that this giant owl should have an IQ far beyond its peers, and it was deliberately avoiding humans, and it was likely to only appear around the city in the middle of the night, and hide in some hidden places during the day without appearing.

This giant owl has either just mutated and become such a giant not long ago, or it should have lived in the deep mountains and old forests before, and it is understandable that it was not discovered when it deliberately avoided humans.

Otherwise, if you stay around the city for a long time, no matter how careful you are, it will be difficult for such a large giant bird to completely escape the sight of humans.

If it came out of the deep mountains and old forests, then what was the reason for its emergence? Was the owl deliberately looking for the rabbit corpse that Xiang Kun had thrown away in the garbage heap, or was it just an accidental discovery?

There are no answers to these questions for the time being.

The giant owl had taken Xiang Kun as its prey before, and now Xiang Kun was also interested in the giant owl.

He felt that perhaps from this owl, he could find the reason for this series of changes in himself.

Of course, the blood of that owl was also very much needed by him, and he was sure that the blood of this owl was far more powerful to his body than rabbit blood, chicken blood, duck blood, and any other blood he had tasted before.

According to the original law, today he will have a feeling of hunger, and then drink blood, and the family has already bought three meat rabbits, this time he will increase the amount of blood he drinks, and take the blood of two rabbits.

He could have advanced the time to drink blood, start now, and wait until he woke up, if it was still 25 hours, it would be tomorrow morning, just in time to go out and look for the giant owl at night.

One more time to drink blood, one more mutation, no matter the strength, recovery ability, and sensory ability will also be improved to a certain extent, which can be of great help to him and the owl confrontation.

But Xiang Kun was a little worried, if after this fierce fight at night, the owl was frightened, or felt that his prey was too difficult to deal with, so he gave up and left, what should he do?

If it plunged back into the deep mountains and old forests, tens or hundreds of kilometers away, Xiang Kun was not sure that it would be able to track it.