What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 47: Senior Owl

Xiang Kun originally thought that the direction of the owl's mutation should mostly rely purely on animal instinct and original habits, instead of deliberate training and guidance like him.

But not far from the owl's cliff nest, a rock covered with claw marks beside a stream in the forest made Xiang Kun realize that this owl was actually undergoing targeted training.

In the owl's memory, Xiang Kun didn't see the picture of it sharpening its claws here, but based on the distance between the claws left on the rock, it was determined that these claw marks were left by the giant owl.

Judging from the traces on the rock, it is not only sharpening its claws on this rock, but also has a lot of scratching, stabbing, and jujube attacks. The traces of "chiseling" of claws that can be seen in the early stage are very shallow, but in the later stage, it becomes more and more serious. As it got deeper, it was obvious that it was attacking this stone as an imaginary prey. Xiang Kun could also imagine that its claws must have been scarred and even broken frequently at the beginning, but it has the ability to recover and has no effect on survival. After drinking blood and mutating, the sharpness and hardness of the claws will definitely be greatly improved.

The huge and sharp claws of that giant owl were strengthened through such mutations.

After discovering the owl's training method, Xiang Kun also had an idea, could he also imitate the owl and sharpen his nails? If he also had sharp claws before, he wouldn't need any weapons. Facing the giant owl, he could do a lot of damage with a direct move from the black tiger's heart...

But he dismissed the idea almost instantly. After all, the structure of the claws of birds is different from that of human hands, and the main function of human hands is to use tools. It would be fine if we could mutate into ten "iron claws" that could be stretched freely, but if we mutated our fingernails into beast-like sharp claws, or were hard and long, it would not only attract attention, but also be inconvenient to do things on weekdays. The keyboard is easy to get stuck.

Xiang Kun also found a pile of small stones in the owl's cave nest on the cliff. At first, he didn't understand what the owl was doing with the pile of stones, and it didn't seem like it was building a nest. Get a "landscape" in your own nest?

But after retrieving the owl's memory screen and found a picture of hunting, drinking blood and actively swallowing stones, Xiang Kun had a guess:

Could this be the owl's way of suppressing its drowsiness after drinking blood and returning to its nest to sleep again?

You know, the wild is not like the city, there are all kinds of dangers in the deep mountains and dense forests.

Xiang Kun is a meat rabbit bought at the vegetable market. He keeps it at home. When he needs it, he kills it and drinks its blood. After drinking it, he falls asleep when he is sleepy. Come to the door, otherwise there will be no disturbance, let alone any danger.

But if the owl wants to drink blood, it needs to hunt by itself. Because if the blood leaves the body for too long, or if the prey dies for too long, it will have no effect, so basically they will drink blood directly on the spot or move it to a nearby place to drink blood, and will not specifically catch the prey back to their lair— —After all, many of the prey it mutated hunted were not small in size.

In this way, assuming that the owl, like Xiang Kun, would feel strongly sleepy after drinking blood, and would sleep for a long time without being easily woken up, then it would be dangerous to find a place to sleep in the wild.

So it swallows stones into its belly to suppress its drowsiness, and then it flies back to the nest and spits out the stones in its belly before falling asleep peacefully.

Otherwise, it is really impossible to explain why it swallowed stones, and it just happened to spit them out in the lair on the cliff. After all, after it mutated, it only drank blood and could not eat other food. It did not need to swallow stones to promote digestion.

As for why stones are more suitable for "eating" instead of meat or other plants, Xiang Kun guessed that stones may be simpler and denser, and they are easier to be suppressed when they feel vomiting.

It is also easier to vomit all at once when you want to vomit.

Of course, these are all just Xiang Kun's reasoning and guesses. Whether this is the case, he plans to do experiments to verify it himself when he goes back.

This is also an occasional emergency solution, if it works.

It was as if after the battle with the owl that day, if he could stay awake for a while with this method, he might be able to see the process of the owl's body disappearing. This would help him understand the mutation factors between himself and the owl. There is no small help.

Of course, the more important thing is to avoid sleeping for a long time in an unsafe place.

Although the reason for the mutation of this owl could not be found this time, exploring its mutation process from the various traces of its habitat, combined with the comparison of memory pictures, was also of great help to Xiang Kun's understanding of himself.

After all, according to the fact that after hunting and drinking blood, there will be a sleep and mutation, this giant owl has mutated far too many times than Xiang Kun.

No matter in terms of the number of mutations or the time, it was Xiang Kun's "big predecessor".

Moreover, the four and a half days of living in the mountains also allowed Xiang Kun to better experience the improvement and changes in physical function after this mutation, and further familiarized and trained him.

In addition to the night vision ability obtained from the owl's blood, his dynamic vision, hearing, and smell have all been significantly enhanced, and this enhancement is not just an enhancement of sensitivity.

In the mountains and forests, he has a very strong ability to instantly distinguish the sounds and smells caused by many other creatures. This is something that Xiang Kun, who has been living in the city, did not have before - it is equivalent to him directly possessing the hearing and smell of an owl. "database".

This makes his survival in the mountains and forests very easy, and he often feels that the world is under my control.

Sometimes he even thought, if only he had the ability to fly an owl.

Of course, this is just a thought. If he were to mutate into a pair of big wings now, he would really have to live in seclusion in the mountains.

...

Xiang Kun, who was running wildly on the road around the mountain, suddenly stopped, stood still by the side of the road, and looked back up the mountain.

Naturally, this place is no longer a "deep mountain". It is far away from the area he has been in these days. Although the development rate is still not high and there are no people, at least a winding mountain road has been built. There are villages, temples, and occasionally Villagers drove up and down the mountain, and some pilgrims went to temples to offer incense.

The reason why Xiang Kun stopped was because he heard the sound of a car. Ten seconds later, an SUV appeared at the corner.

He raised his right hand, compared his thumbs, and made a gesture of asking for a ride.

To be honest, he was not very hopeful. There were already four cars going down the mountain passing by him before, all of them didn't respond to his "like hand" and had no intention of stopping.

Of course, he didn't have anything to complain about. Even if his position changed and he was driving, he would not stop when he saw such a tall, burly, dusty, barefooted bald man blocking the car on the side of the road. down.

Anyway, he ran all the way down, "cutting corners" from time to time, and he would not be much slower than hitchhiking - this mountain road has too many curves and is too fast, even if it is going down the mountain, no one dares to drive fast.

He had checked the map before when his mobile phone had a signal. There was a fairly large village at the foot of the mountain. He should be able to hire a car to take him to the nearest county or town and buy a ticket to go home.

But this time he was lucky, and the SUV slowly stopped beside him.