Chapter 46 Into the Mountain

When I arrived in the village, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Xiang Kun's original plan was to explore the tree mentioned by the poster at night, to make sure that what he saw at that time was the giant owl, and ask the car carrying him to wait for a while, and then go to a nearby town to find a hotel or inn to rest for the night, and then go into the mountains tomorrow to search.

But after it got dark, Xiang Kun changed his mind.

Because he suddenly found that his visual ability at night had greatly improved or mutated.

When the light is low, he can actively switch to a new vision mode, as if he has an extra layer of "lenses" on the retina, and the already dim environment will instantly become extremely clear, even clearer than the night vision devices he has seen from movies and TV.

But the scenery seen in this mode is different from the normal situation, because there is no color, the whole world is like black and white, or to be precise, it should be composed of different degrees of light and dark, but this mode allows him to clearly judge the moving objects and the distance.

It's not just a visual boost, it's a completely new model.

He knew very well that this was not the reason for his training and influencing the direction of the mutation, nine out of ten was because he drank the blood of that giant owl.

He had read the information that TripAdvisor's night vision was very strong.

And with this ability, Xiang Kun also has the ability to move in the mountains at night, and many things don't have to be done during the day.

So after arriving at the place, Xiang Kun directly asked the car that carried him back.

Most of the young people in the village have gone to the city to work or study, and most of those who stay behind are the elderly. There are no street lights in the village, and unless there is something lively, the rest is very early, and there will not be many people on the road.

So Xiang Kun was not disturbed in any way, and quietly found the largest tree at the entrance of the village that the poster said.

Although Xiang Kun had never climbed a tree before, compared to his current physical fitness, this was naturally not a problem.

After three times five divided by two on the tree, Xiang Kun switched to the normal visual mode, and then turned on the flashlight, carefully checking the approximate location of the "figure" mentioned by the poster.

It's not that you can't see clearly with night vision mode, but some traces still need color discrimination, and it's easier to see details in strong light.

After squirming around the trees for more than twenty minutes, Xiang Kun really found the paw prints.

He knew that if the figure in the tree that the poster had seen a month ago was the giant owl, its weight, combined with its larger, sharper claws, would have left a deeper paw print, and it would certainly be on a thicker branch.

After a month, the smell of the owl had dissipated, but the paw prints remained.

After finding the paw prints, Xiang Kun was in good spirits, his analysis and judgment and first instinct were not wrong, and the road was not in vain.

After Xiang Kun came down from the tree, he took out his mobile phone, called up the map APP, and observed the situation around the village on it.

In fact, on the way here, Xiang Kun has already done a survey, although this village is on the mountain, but it is far from the deep mountain, it is only more than forty minutes' drive from the nearest town, the road condition is not bad, there is not a lot of traffic, at most it is just the foothold of the owl after leaving its original habitat.

Not to mention that there is no smell of the owl at all now, even if there is, it is impossible for Xiang Kun to start tracking the smell from here.

On the map, the village is facing more and more plains and cities to the east and south, becoming more and more prosperous.

There is a large mountain to the north, but it is also a densely populated town after climbing the mountain.

Only to the west, the farther west, the more mountains and forests there are, the denser and denser, the lower the degree of development, all the way to the territory of neighboring provinces.

Xiang Kun speculated that the place where the owl lived before should be in that area.

He didn't stay in the neighborhood for long, didn't find a place to rest for the night, but walked directly to the west with his backpack on his back, and walked into the mountains at night.

His backpack contained two changes of clothes and a few pairs of socks and underwear, a power bank, a flashlight and a row of spare batteries, a Swiss army knife, and a water bottle.

If it is a lover of survival in the wild, when he sees these things brought by Xiang Kun, he is afraid that he will shake his head, there are too few, and many basic necessities are not available.

But for Xiang Kun, these things are enough.

In fact, because of the night vision ability that he had just discovered, Xiang Kun didn't even need a flashlight when he traveled at night.

He didn't always follow the road, nor did he go all the way to the west, but he would often stop to find a relatively high tree to climb up, or climb to other high points with a better view, and look around.

Xiang Kun was comparing the surrounding scenery with the images in the memories of the owls he saw, in order to trace the owl's footprints and habitats, looking for any traces left by it.

......

At two o'clock in the afternoon of August 16, a bald backpacker was speeding down the mountain road.

He doesn't just run on the road, he even jumps straight down from above to take a shortcut when he takes some turns.

The height up and down was at least two stories high, but the bald head fell and rolled on the road before unloading the force and continuing to run with all his might.

If anyone saw it, they would be amazed, not only by the speed at which the bald head could run and jump from such a height, but also by the ...... This guy is barefoot.

This bald head is naturally Xiang Kun, and on the fifth day after entering the mountains alone, he decided to end this journey and go home.

Although it was full, Xiang Kun's time in the mountains was only four and a half days, almost 110 hours. But he is different from ordinary people, he has basically not stopped to rest for 110 hours, no matter day or night, he has always been moving. There is no need to find food, no need to cook, no need to rest, no sleep, or even find a place to laze. Therefore, his actual utilization rate in these four and a half days may be stronger than that of ordinary people in fifteen days.

So he even wore his shoes and brought a replacement in his backpack, but there was no way to do it. It can only be a pair of leather and fleshy feet to walk the world, and it didn't take long to walk on the feet with blurred flesh and blood, and there were countless bruises and bruises, but anyway, the recovery ability was strong, and I didn't care much, so I regarded it as a targeted training for trauma recovery.

In the past four and a half days, Xiang Kun found a lot of traces left by the owl, most of which were paw prints left in various places, and even according to those memory pictures, he found the skeleton of a beast that died at the hands of the owl, and the traces left on it also showed how terrible the claws of the owl were.

The owl's mutated nest was also found, a cave in the cliff wall.

Xiang Kun also determined the range of hunting and survival of the owl before the mutation, and many scenes corresponded to the memory images he obtained.

Unfortunately, no clues were found as to the cause of the giant owl's mutation.

In addition, Xiang Kun also hunted a few wild animals in the mountains, although he only brought a Swiss Army knife, it is difficult to deal with wild boars and other medium and large animals with rough skin and thick meat, but it is still very simple to catch a hare, pheasant and the like.

Xiang Kun mainly wanted to try the blood of some of these wild things, and what was the difference between them and the poultry and livestock bought in the vegetable market, but he licked them all slightly, and didn't dare to taste more, so as not to fall asleep after ingesting too much blood.

As a result, it is no different from what you buy at the wet market.

However, this trip to the mountains was not without results.