What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 46 Entering the Mountain

By the time we reached the village, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Xiang Kun's original plan was to explore the tree that the poster mentioned first at night, to make sure that what he saw was the giant owl at that time, let the car that brought him wait for a while, and go to a nearby town to find it at night. Rest in a hotel or hotel for one night, and then go into the mountains to search tomorrow.

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

Because he suddenly discovered that his visual ability at night has been greatly improved or mutated.

When the light is weak, he can actively switch to a new visual mode, as if there is an extra layer of "lens" on the retina, and the already dim environment will instantly become extremely clear, even better than he used to The pictures of those night vision devices seen in movies and TV are even clearer.

But the scenery seen in this mode is different from the normal situation, because there is no color, the whole world is composed of black and white, or to be precise, it should be composed of different degrees of light and darkness, but this mode can make people He clearly judges moving objects and distances.

This is no longer a simple visual improvement, this is a completely new model.

He knew very well that this was not the reason for his training and influencing the direction of mutation, but ninety-nine percent of it was because of drinking the blood of that giant owl.

He had read the information, and TripAdvisor's night vision ability was very strong.

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 when he arrived at the place, Xiang Kun directly let the car that brought him go back.

Most of the young people in the village went to the city to work or study, and most of the people left behind were old people. There are no street lights in the village. 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 biggest 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 climbing the tree, Xiang Kun switched to the normal visual mode, then turned on the flashlight, and carefully checked the approximate location of the "figure" that the poster said.

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

After rustling around the tree for twenty minutes, Xiang Kun found the paw prints.

He knew that if the figure on the tree that the poster saw a month ago was the giant owl, with its weight, plus the enlarged and sharp claws, it would definitely leave a relatively deep paw print, and it would definitely be on the ground. On thicker branches.

Within a month, the owl's smell had dissipated, but the paw prints remained.

After finding the paw prints, Xiang Kun was refreshed. His analysis and judgment and first instinct were not wrong, and the journey was not in vain.

After Xiang Kun got 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, Xiang Kun had already done a survey on the way here. Although the village is on a mountain, it is far from being a deep mountain. It is only a 40-minute drive from the nearest town, and the road conditions are not bad. There are not many cars coming and going, and this place is at most just the foothold of the owl after leaving its original habitat.

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

On the map, to the east and south of this village are more and more plains and cities, which are becoming more and more prosperous.

There is a big mountain to the north, but after crossing the mountain, there are also densely populated towns.

Only to the west, the more westward, the more and denser the mountains and forests, the lower the degree of development, all the way to the neighboring provinces.

Xiang Kun speculated,

The place where the owl lived before should be in that area.

He didn't stay nearby, and didn't find a place to rest for the night. Instead, he carried his backpack and headed west, stepping into the mountains at night.

In his backpack are two sets of clothes, several pairs of socks and underwear, a charging treasure, a flashlight and a row of spare batteries, a Swiss Army knife, and a water bottle.

If a fan of outdoor survival saw these things that Xiang Kun brought, he would shake his head. There are too few of them, and many basic necessities are missing.

But for Xiang Kun, these things were enough.

In fact, because of the newly discovered night vision ability, Xiang Kun didn't even need a flashlight when walking at night.

He doesn't always walk along the road, nor does he go all the way to the west. He often stops to find a taller tree to climb up, or climbs to other high points with a better view, and looks around.

Xiang Kun was comparing the surrounding scenery with the images he saw in the owl's memory, so as to trace the owl's footprints and habitat, and look for any traces it left behind.

...

At two o'clock in the afternoon on August 16, a bald backpacker was running at high speed on the road around the mountain.

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

The height of the up and down was at least two stories high, but after the bald head fell down and rolled on the road, it lost its strength and continued to run with all its strength.

If someone saw it, they would definitely be surprised, not only at the bald man's running speed and jumping from such a high place, but also at... this guy's bare feet.

The bald head was naturally Xiang Kun. On the fifth day after entering the deep mountain alone, he decided to end the journey and go home.

Although he was doing his best, Xiang Kun only spent four and a half days in the mountains, almost 110 hours. But he is different from ordinary people. He has basically never stopped to rest during these 110 hours, and he has been constantly moving no matter day or night. No need to find food, cook, rest, sleep, or even find a place to laze. Therefore, his actual utilization rate of these four and a half days may be better than that of ordinary people for fifteen days.

So he even rotted his shoes, and he brought replacements in his backpack, but there was nothing he could do with the shoes. It can only be a pair of leather feet walking around the world. In the beginning, the feet were bloody and bloody, with countless scratches and bruises. However, the recovery ability is strong anyway, so I didn't pay much attention to it. I just 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. According to those memory pictures, he even found the skeleton of a beast that died at the hands of the owl. The marks left behind also showed how horribly deadly that owl's claws were.

Also found the owl's mutated nest - a cave on the cliff.

Xiang Kun also determined the hunting and living range of the owl before it mutated, and many scenes corresponded to the memory pictures he had obtained.

Unfortunately, no clues were found as to why the giant owl mutated.

In addition, Xiang Kun also hunted a few wild animals in the mountains. Although he only brought a Swiss army knife, it was difficult to deal with medium and large animals such as wild boars with rough skin and thick flesh, but it was still necessary to catch hares, pheasants and the like. Very simple.

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

The result is that it is no different from the ones bought in the vegetable market.

However, this trip in the mountains was not in vain.