Xiang Kun carefully looked at the mouthparts that he had torn off in his hand, and looked at some organs and tissues attached to its ends, and couldn't figure out what these organs and tissues were for, because they were not quite similar to the organs in various biological and medical books he had read before.

He examined the dead spider's body again, carefully snapped its head, tapped its eyes, and switched to infrared imaging mode to observe.

It's almost certain that this mutant spider is GG.

It seems that this obviously very hard mouthpart should be the lifeblood of this mutant spider, and as soon as it is pulled out, it immediately burps.

It can also be seen that this mutant spider just now is really at the end of its rope and has nothing to do.

But if you are really stabbed in the eye by its mouthparts, Xiang Kun estimates that it is light to blind a glance, and if you get closer, it is not impossible for your brain to be pierced directly.

Xiang Kun put the mouthpiece on the side of the spider corpse, then picked up his mobile phone and began to take pictures - from the moment he entered the mountain, he switched his mobile phone to airplane mode + deep power-saving mode, and he couldn't receive a signal here anyway. Except for a few photos, I basically haven't taken it out, so there is still power support until now.

I turned on the flash and took several pictures, including the inside of the spider's corpse, and now it had a wide open belly and didn't even need to be dissected.

The structure of this spider is really a bit complicated and weird, and I need to find time to study it carefully to see how it mutated and evolved to the way it is now.

Putting away the phone, Xiang Kun looked at the corpse of the spider but was a little difficult, according to the law, after the mutant creature dies, the body tissue should soon turn to ashes, and you have to drink blood quickly.

But how does this go down?

And this spider was a little seriously injured before, and it was beaten a little badly, and its body was half broken by stones, and it lost a lot of blood.

Xiang Kun carefully pulled the spider's corpse, and he had discovered before that the blood of this mutant spider was also red, not green, cyan, blue, or other colors as he thought.

Looking at the blood, his urge to drink blood immediately surged, and the cells in his body seemed to be cheering, waving chopsticks and knives and forks, making him drink blood quickly.

When he was pulling the spider and looking for a place to drink blood, he inexplicably had the feeling of eating a crab for the first time when he was a child......

According to the scheduled time, his blood drinking period this time should be tomorrow at noon, so even if he leaves for the return now, when the hunger pangs come, he will definitely still be on the way. But from previous experience, if he drinks the blood of mutated creatures, the sleep period will be greatly shortened, and it can be guaranteed that he will not have problems on the way back.

However, the size and weight of this mutant spider can be regarded as a behemoth compared to other spiders, but it is still far worse than that of mutant owls. AFTER BEING INJURED, HE LOST A LOT OF BLOOD, SO XIANG KUN TOSSED FOR A WHILE BEFORE DRINKING A LITTLE BLOOD, AND MOST OF IT WAS MIXED WITH RAINWATER, IF YOU SIMPLY COUNT THE BLOOD, IT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH FOR 50ML.

If it was rabbit blood, it was not even appetizing, but now he already felt happy and full, and even began to feel sleepy.

Xiang Kun stood up, wiped a handful of rain and blood stains from his face, stretched out his hand to let the rain wash away the stones that had just been taken out of the spider's body, and thought about where he was going to fall into a deep sleep.

Under normal circumstances, if he falls asleep after drinking blood, it is about 25 hours. However, after drinking the blood of mutated creatures, the sleeping time will be greatly shortened, and after drinking the blood of a giant owl for the first time, the sleeping time is more than an hour. The second time Guo Tianxiang's blood was 30 to 40 minutes. The difference in sleep time may be related to the degree of variation in the source of the blood.

He originally thought that this time he only drank such a little bit of spider blood, it might not be enough, and he needed to find other animals to hunt and collect blood, but he didn't expect that he directly had enough joy and satisfaction, is this because this spider has a high degree of mutation, or because it has been hung up, or this part of the blood happens to be more important and particularly efficient?

It stands to reason that since he has already become sleepy, he should not sleep for too long this time, if it is fast, it may be within half an hour, and if it is slow, it should not exceed two hours.

But during this time, it was still the most vulnerable time for him, he had no ability to resist, so he had to choose a good place to sleep, or he could go to the nest before the mutant spider, the hidden cave on the cliff wall?

However, it is a bit far away, and it will take a long time to walk there, and it is not safe to say that it is safe there.

Or climb into a tree and nest in the hope that you won't be struck by lightning.

I watched as the body of the spider on the ground and various parts of its body tissues dissipated little by little in the rain, turning into gray powder, immersed in water and soil, as if "melted" by the rain.

Xiang Kun did not choose to find a random place to sleep immediately, but swallowed the stone into his abdomen, relying on the discomfort in his abdomen to temporarily "suppress" sleepiness.

He followed the route he had followed all the way back, quickly checking the trails along the way.

Xiang Kun faintly felt that something was not quite right just now, although he didn't figure out what was wrong for a while, but he knew that if he felt this way, it would definitely mean that he had obtained some special sensory information, but the processing power of the brain was not enough, and he had not yet "calculated" the specific result, but only gave a warning from intuition in advance.

As he walked back, he kept observing the traces on the road, remembering the process of tracking, and then having to fight the pain caused by sleepiness and suppressing the stones in his abdomen.

But if he wasn't sure, Xiang Kun really didn't dare to fall into a deep sleep at will.

For him now, sleeping in this kind of deep mountain and old forest, what he is most worried about is not beasts, poisonous insects or anything - his body temperature is relatively low, and the smell is different from ordinary creatures, even when he is asleep, ordinary poisonous insects and beasts are unlikely to pose a threat to him.

Only other mutated creatures and humans are the ones he has to think about, and there will be a real threat to him.

Racing through the rain, he made his way back to the place where he had avoided the mutant spider spewing venom from the sky, picking up the first stone he had thrown, as well as the bow, bow bag, and torn pieces of clothing that had been thrown to the side.

Then not far from the place where the mutant spider was knocked down by the stone and fell to the ground, in the infrared imaging vision mode of Xiang Kun, he found a waist-length bush with a little bit of blue.

In this visual mode obtained from Guo Tianxiang, this color basically means that it is a mutated creature.

Xiang Kun walked closer, and his vision switched to night vision mode, which was a little bit blue, some small red beads the size of pearls, with a film on the outside, looking like blood inside—it could actually be blood.

Before tracking the mutant spider here, when the rain hadn't started yet, Xiang Kun judged by the smell that a small part of the bush was a "branch" of the mutant spider, but he was very sure that there were no these tiny beads on the shrub at that time, and there were no blue dots in the infrared imaging mode.

In other words, the blue dots only appeared after he chased the injured mutant spider away.

Xiang Kun's gaze fell on the place where the mutant spider fell before, where there was a lot of its body tissue and blood left before, and naturally it was not visible at all at this time, it should have turned into gray powder and was washed away by the rain.

The contents of the little beads on the bush must have been extracted from the remaining tissues and blood by some means, but why didn't they disappear or turn gray? Even after the mutant spider died? Could it not be completely dead, but existing in a new form?

Xiang Kun stood in front of the bush, the branches and leaves with small red beads swaying under the beating of the rain, as if he was trembling and afraid.

He speculated that the pearl-sized, bead-like objects were some way for the mutant spider to continue itself when it knew it was going to die, perhaps from the same source as its ability to make and control "branches". I just don't know if these things are finally born, whether they are counted as their "doppelgangers", or their "offspring", or if they are a new mutated creature?

Xiang Kun actually wanted to keep these tiny red beads and slowly observe their changes to see what they would become, which would definitely be of some help to him to find the root cause of the mutation and understand the mutation pattern.

And for his part, he was curious about it.

But now he is in a desperate state of distress after drinking blood, and he doesn't want to be "killed" by this thing while he is asleep, and the ghost knows what it will become, and how long it will be a threat.

So after Xiang Kun took out his mobile phone and took a photo, he picked up a small bead, pinched it directly, sniffed the thick red liquid that burst out of it, licked it, and determined that it was the blood of the mutant spider.

Smacking his mouth, Xiang Kun didn't feel anything wrong with this blood, so he simply ate all these little beads.

After eliminating the blood in those little red beads and destroying the "branching" part of the bush, Xiang Kun's previous feeling of something wrong disappeared, although he was still not sure how he realized that something was wrong, and what information he drew the warning from, but the source was obviously these small beads.

After checking the surroundings again and making sure that there were no other blue spots, Xiang Kun walked for more than ten minutes, found a shallow pit on the side of the mountain that could shelter from the rain, lay down, spit out the stones in his stomach and put them away, set the start timer twice on the outdoor electronic watch specially purchased on his wrist before this trip, and then fell asleep in seconds.

......

When Xiang Kun woke up, the rain hadn't stopped, it had only become a little lighter, but the sky was already a lot brighter.

He glanced at the timer on the electronic watch on his wrist, 33 minutes, within the previously expected time frame.

He immediately got up from the ground and checked his changes.

He didn't grow eight arms, didn't grow several eyes, didn't grow weird green stripes, and didn't grow weird green bars or vine whiskers, and on the surface, he was still a very normal man.

However, Xiang Kun clearly sensed that his body had undergone a lot of changes, and the sensory ability of the whole person seemed to have been greatly improved, so that he even felt a little dizzy.

After a short period of adaptation, Xiang Kun checked his various sensory abilities again, and looked into the distance, his simple vision did not seem to have improved very much, and the night vision mode and infrared thermal imaging mode had not changed much.

I used my sense of hearing to perceive the movement around me, and I strengthened the sensitivity in distinguishing the type and direction of the sound, but it was not very obvious.

The same is true for the sense of smell, which has not changed by leaps and bounds.

Xiang Kun couldn't help but be a little puzzled, the feeling of enhanced perception of things around him and a large increase in the collection of information was very clear, there should be no mistake, this feeling was the first targeted training of hearing and smell after he mutated, and then completed a blood drink, and after the sensory ability was evolved, he had it.

Xiang Kun didn't get entangled, he looked back and thought about these things slowly, he continued to check the other changes in his body, and looked at his wrist carefully, there were no hidden small holes for spinning silk, and there were no strong suction cups on his fingers. I felt the oral cavity, and there was no new structure. There is no such thing as spider silk in the abdomen, and it seems that there are no organs such as spinning organs and silk glands.

jumped up and down, left and right, the bouncing power has been very significantly improved, as if the whole person has become lighter, the core strength of the thighs, waist and abdomen has become a lot stronger, and the joint tissues should also be strengthened accordingly.

He walked into the rain, walked over to some bushes and weeds, stretched out his hand to feel them carefully, then plucked another stick of grass and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly for two or three minutes before swallowing the branches and leaves.

After more than twenty seconds, he spit out what he had just swallowed again, and looked at the green scum on the ground, and couldn't help frowning.

As he slept, he dreamed again, just as he had eaten the blood of other mutated creatures twice. This time the dream is even more bizarre, and there are many pictures.

He now naturally knew that those pictures were part of the memories of the mutant spider, and these memory fragments were much more than those of the giant owl, but they were still a few levels worse than Guo Tian's.

Xiang Kun still needed to sort out the chronological order of those memory fragments to help him understand, but he was almost certain that the mutant spider was not only a mutant creature itself, but had also devoured at least two mutant plants—which also verified Xiang Kun's previous speculation about the existence of blood-sucking mutant plants.

In the memory of the mutant spider, there are a lot of pictures of life and death fighting with those two different types of mutant plants, which also let Xiang Kun know many special abilities of those two plants.

And the ability to establish "branches" should also be obtained from one of the two mutant plants.

Xiang Kun knew from the memory screen that there were two kinds of "branches" made by the mutant spider, one was that after it ate a part of the plant, it immediately "continued" an almost identical part from its mouth, and Xiang Kun called it a "transformation branch".

The other is that the mutant spider directly removes a part of the plant, and uses the mouthparts, tail organs, and special organs of the feet to help secrete a large amount of juice and fibers to "reconstruct" a new plant part, which is "grafted" on the original plant, which Xiang Kun calls "reconstructed branches".

Both kinds of "branches" can smell that "special smell", but only the "reconstructed branches" can bear fruit, and the previous mutant spiders built fake nests on trees, which were actually used to design Xiang Kun's traps, and they were mainly used to "reconstruct branches". After being intercepted, it will turn into gray powder, like a mutated biological tissue, which is also a "reconstituted branch".

As for the "transformation branch", in the many memory pictures of the mutant spider, there is no specific role, but the mutant spider is still "made" in large quantities, to Xiang Kun's speculation, their existence may be used to detect information and help the mutant spider control the "reconstruction branch", just like a "base station", responsible for transmitting signals.

Xiang Kun believes that the type of fruit that can be produced, the type of venom secreted, and the way of growth that can be produced by the "reconstructed branch" have been determined after the reconstruction is completed, just like a pre-set program. However, when it will be activated and when it will start to "run", the mutant spider will give out specific instructions. In order for the command to be transmitted to the "refactoring branch" over the air, it needs the assistance of other "transformation branches".

Of course, these are only Xiang Kun's speculations based on the pictures of the memory fragments for the time being, and they need to be further confirmed.

He just chewed on that grass, trying to mimic the mutant spider's "transformation branch", but apparently failed, he didn't seem to have mutated the corresponding abilities, or those abilities didn't exist in the same way.

Although the main purpose of this trip has been accomplished, Xiang Kun did not leave this mountain forest immediately.

He first went to pick up the arrow that shot before and didn't hit the mutant spider, and then went to the cave near the mutant spider to retrieve the shoes, and then went into the cave for a walk, carefully examined it, and used the field to compare the memory picture of the mutant spider to anchor the specific memory.

After "eating" the mutant spider, his blood drinking period is "refreshed" again, and he has a full 5x24 hour time to consume.

So he spent two days in this mountain forest to test and test his mutation after drinking blood this time, the degree of improvement of various qualities, whether he had newly acquired any abilities, and with the help of field comparisons, he helped him sort out, understand and interpret the memories of mutant spiders.

Two days later, he set out on his return journey, and it took him more than a day to return to the place where the bow box was hidden.

He was mostly barefoot when he walked, climbed, and pursued through the woods, so his shoes were still in good condition. However, the T-shirt that had been worn in the mountains had been sprayed with corrosive liquid and torn, and the pieces were stuffed in his trouser pockets. As for the cargo pants, although they are a relatively wear-resistant material, when he entered the mountain, he basically used his body directly to open the road all the way, which was seriously damaged, and he was also stained with corrosive liquid before, and his buttocks were broken with several holes, which looked dirty and broken.

Such a topless appearance and wearing a pair of tattered pants, if you return to the town, I am afraid that it will be shocking and leave a deep impression on people.

However, he had thought about this before he came, so he also brought a set of clothes with him in the bow box, as well as the coat he had taken off before, and after changing into it, he did not throw away the torn clothes he had changed, but still put them in the bow box - on the way back, he also took all his belongings with him, except for a ball left near the mutant spider cave to locate when he revisited the old land in the future.

Hearing the words of the two people who left after boarding the Prado, Xiang Kun suspected that the "company" they were talking about might have some understanding of the existence of mutant creatures. Maybe they could really find something after testing the samples they had brought out of the mountains and the carcass of the wild boar, and then send someone back into the mountains to investigate.

He didn't want to leave any traces of himself and let the other party track him down.

Xiang Kun was still the same as when he came, he did not choose to stop the car on the side of the road, but walked back to the town directly by shortcut. After washing his face with the water from the public sink and tidying up his clothes, Xiang Kun went to find a beverage store, charged his mobile phone, and booked a ticket back.