What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 40 Prey

When he saw the claw, Xiang Kun realized that what he saw was from the perspective of the giant owl, and it shouldn't be in real time.

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

In Xiang Kun's understanding, the memory of ordinary animals should be stored in the neurons of the brain, but he just swallowed a little blood, not the owl's brain. What is the reason for this?

Temporarily putting aside speculation about the principle, this short picture of just over 1 second also contains a lot of information.

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

Xiang Kun couldn't help but think of the legends in various vampire literary works. People who were bitten by vampires and survived would also be transformed into vampires. It's as if there is a virus in the vampire's saliva, and those who are infected will be transformed. Maybe this owl mutated because it ate the rabbit that had his saliva on it?

But Xiang Kun immediately denied this guess, because:

1. When he took the blood from the rabbit, he put the blood into the container and drank it, and he didn't let his saliva get on the rabbit.

2. In the picture he saw, the claws of "myself" were already very huge, obviously it was a mutated giant owl.

Xiang Kun recalled the surrounding scenery in the 1 second-plus screen, and judged that it should be in the garbage dump.

Could it be that this giant owl became interested in the rabbit after finding it by chance, so it came here?

But if this is the case, the owl should attack him directly, why is it catching mice and dogs?

You can't use this behavior to attract him deliberately, and lure him to this remote place to attack, right? He met the dead mouse and was interested in the special smell left by the owl on the dead mouse, but it was completely accidental. If he wanted to deliberately attract his attention, the dead mouse should be thrown on the balcony of his house. What's more, if you really want to find a remote place to attack him, then when he is in that hill at night these few days, it will be a better opportunity.

This owl, like him, should be a mutated creature for some reason?

As for why he attacked him, Xiang Kun also understood after tasting the giant owl's blood - it was treating him as food.

He also suddenly realized why the dead mouse died miserably but was not eaten. This owl, like him, probably had its entire digestive system mutated and only drank blood instead of eating meat.

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

And the owl threw the corpse of the mouse into the mountain and the corpse of the husky into the lake, maybe... it was destroying the corpse?

Xiang Kun took a look at himself in the moonlight. His body was covered with mud and blood. His T-shirt had been taken off and his upper body was naked. With this appearance, if someone saw him while walking on the road, he might have to call the police? ...or make a vibrato when shooting a video?

Although it was already past midnight, there was not a single person on the road.

And when he returned to the community, he would definitely attract the attention of the security guards, which was something he didn't want to see.

After thinking for a while, Xiang Kun walked to the lake not far away, and jumped into the shallow chat by the lake. His body immediately sank into the mud, reaching his waist.

I simply washed off the blood stains on my body with lake water, and then climbed up from the lake. My pants were also covered with mud, and the original blood stains on them could not be seen at all.

Back in the community where he lived, such a distressed appearance naturally aroused the attention of the security guard at the door.

Xiang Kun replied with a wry smile: "Going for a run, I 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 sympathetic and caring eyes.

Back home bare-chested, muddy and wet, Xiang Kun quickly threw the wet pants and shoes directly into the trash can,

Then he took a brief shower and sat down in front of his laptop.

From the search engine, Xiang Kun learned that the largest owl in the world is the Owl, with a body length of 70-77cm and a weight of 1.5-5.5kg. As a bird, it is already very big, but compared to Xiang Kun at night The giant owl I met was still several times smaller.

There are birds with a body length of 1.5 to 1.6 meters and a weight of tens of kilograms, such as ostriches, emus, cassowaries, etc., but these birds may run very fast on the ground, but they cannot fly because they are too heavy up.

Xiang Kun searched for pictures of various owls, and felt that the giant owl looked more like a black forest owl, with a large and round head, a very obvious face plate, and no ear tufts. However, compared to the picture of the great owl he found, the feather color of the giant owl he saw was obviously darker, and it didn't have any white spots. It hid in the dark at night and was very difficult to find.

Such a big owl appears near the city, as long as it is seen by people, it will definitely attract great attention!

Now that there are so many surveillance cameras on the street, almost everyone has a mobile phone, which can almost take pictures and record videos. As long as they are seen, they will be photographed easily.

So Xiang Kun searched on the Internet with keywords such as giant bird, huge owl, strange bird, etc., and after failing to get the desired results, he further expanded the search keywords, and with the help of crawler scripts, he searched several places in the city and surrounding areas. Search and grab information from local forums and post bars in a city.

But judging from the results, no one found this giant owl.

The only thing that made Xiang Kun feel that there might be some connection was a post on a post bar in a certain county in a neighboring city. Someone said that they saw a person standing on a tree in their village at night looking at him. He was taken aback. I tried to take a light on my phone, but the man disappeared.

Judging from the description, it was probably the giant owl. Xiang Kun almost mistook it for the man in the coat standing on the tree before.

It's a pity that the person's reaction was a bit slow and no photo was taken.

Judging from the previous tracking of the giant owl and the 1-second-plus screen he saw, Xiang Kun felt that this giant owl should have an IQ far superior to that of its kind, and that it was deliberately avoiding humans. It appears around the city late at night, and hides in some hidden places during the day without showing its head.

This giant owl either just mutated and became so huge not long ago, or it should have lived in the deep mountains and old forests before. It is understandable that it was not found while deliberately avoiding 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 huge bird to completely escape the sight of humans.

If it came out of the deep mountains and old forests, what is the reason for it? Did the owl find the rabbit carcass discarded by Xiang Kun in the garbage dump on purpose, or did it just happen to find it?

These questions have no answers for now.

The giant owl used to regard Xiang Kun as its prey, and now Xiang Kun is also very interested in that 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 is also what he needs very much. He can be sure that the blood of this owl is far more powerful than any blood he has tasted before, such as rabbit blood, chicken blood, duck blood, etc. It provides much greater energy to the body. many.

According to the original rules, today he will feel hungry and drink blood. 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 can advance the time of drinking blood, start now, and then wait until he wakes up, if it is still 25 hours, it should be tomorrow morning, just in time to go out to look for the giant owl at night.

One more drink of blood, one more mutation, regardless of strength, recovery ability, and sensory ability will also be improved to a certain extent, which will be of great help to him in fighting against that owl.

But Xiang Kun was a little worried. What if the owl was frightened after the fierce fight at night, or felt that its prey was too difficult to deal with, so it gave up and left?

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