What is the experience of becoming a vampire

Chapter 37 A Dead Mouse

This is a smell that Xiang Kun has never smelled before, not a cat, not a dog, nor any other animal he knows, but he is not surprised, after all, his smell "database" is still very limited, and they are basically all "Collect" in the downtown area.

What kind of animal is it?

Xiang Kun suddenly became a little curious, and when he was curious, he had to find the result.

He turned his head back, turned on the phone light again, took a branch, and checked the mouse's body.

There are many bugs that Xiang Kun can’t name on the mouse’s corpse. Under the twigs of the branches, these bugs ran away under the light of the mobile phone. Some went into the grass, some into the soil, and on the mouse’s corpse, There are also quite a few tiny maggots crawling.

If it were before, Xiang Kun would have felt numb and nauseous in his scalp when he saw this scene, but now he doesn't feel anything. He can even discern the smell of these insects and the sound they make when they squirm.

After checking, the mouse should have been dead for a while, but he didn't know how to judge the exact time of death based on the degree of decay.

Xiang Kun sniffed it carefully again. The source of the smell that made him feel strange just now should have already left. It is not here. The smell is very indistinct, and it is about to dissipate.

It is very likely that the source of the smell was the predator of the mouse that was killed.

But what made him a little strange was that although the dead mouse had a miserable death, it did not lack arms or legs. It was relatively intact. It seemed that the internal organs had not been eaten after being opened. Then the hunter killed it. Animals, just look at them as unpleasant, or treat them as toys?

But the smell is neither a cat nor a dog. Besides cats and dogs, what other animals do this?

Xiang Kun took a few more deep sniffs, looking for the direction of the smell that caught his attention, but after walking a few steps, he found that he couldn't find the direction of the smell.

Maybe because it's been too long?

Xiang Kun took the cell phone and carefully illuminated around the dead mouse, checking the traces on the ground, trying to see if there were any remaining footprints, but he found that the cell phone was running out of power, and he did not find any useful information. Apart from his son's footprints, there is no useful information around him—or information he can see.

Turning off the phone’s flashlight, Xiang Kun sat down next to him, took a deep breath, relaxed his muscles, closed his eyes, let go of the senses, and continued to explore the surroundings with smell and hearing.

Xiang Kun is not only practicing, he is also searching.

The smell that caught his attention made him very curious. Even if he couldn't find the source of the smell, he hoped to find the same smell in the forest, and then tracked it away to determine what kind of creature the smell was left behind. of.

The smell of each individual organism is different, and the smell of each group of organisms also has its own characteristics.

The special smell just now, mixed with other smells, is actually not obvious.

But when Xiang Kun was about to leave, he smelled the scent very accurately and was attracted by the scent, and the scent was not in his "database", it was a scent he had never smelled before.

This seemed to be an instinctive reaction, as if the body was telling him that he should pay attention to the smell.

Xiang Kun sat in the mountain until the sun came out, just five meters away from the dead mouse.

If it is an ordinary person, sitting in a mountain forest where you can't see your fingers at night, even those who are bold enough will inevitably feel uneasy and nervous, or at least worry about bugs crawling on them.

But even though Xiang Kun closed his eyes, he couldn't see anything. He was very clear about everything within a dozen meters of surrounding area. There was an earthworm burrowing in the soil, a bug was hunting, and a spider was weaving a web. There were a few ants marching in groups...Oh, a beetle fell on his shoulder and flew with his fingers.

Fortunately, the mosquitoes are not interested in him. Since the mutation, they have not been bitten.

All night, Xiang Kun did not wait for the smell to appear.

Of course, sitting there, he couldn't search the whole mountain with smell and sound, even though it was small.

So after he got up, he began to search the mountain.

The reason why he didn’t do this last night is because although he has far superior hearing and smell, it’s okay to walk with his eyes closed on the familiar streets, but on a mountain where there is no road, he might hit a tree before taking a few steps. Or step on empty.

It took Xiang Kun all morning to search this small hill.

At one noon, he finally left, ran back home, changed clothes stained with various stains, took a shower, and Xiang Kun went to the largest zoo in the city.

Xiang Kun has always been a little bit unable to let go of the smell. He has always attached great importance to the "signal" the body gives him, even if the "signal" is not obvious, because it might help him understand his body better.

Therefore, when he comes to the zoo, he is naturally not for recreation, but to enrich his "database".

He wanted to see if there were any similar samples of that smell in the zoo.

After Xiang Kun bought the ticket, he went all the way in without missing any premises or cage, and collected the scents of each animal.

Even if some animals have been shrunk in the house and did not appear in the outside activity area for visitors to watch, it does not prevent Xiang Kun from "catching" their smell.

It wasn't until the park was closed at 6 o'clock in the afternoon that Xiang Kun could distinguish the smell of all the animals in the park in detail.

But unfortunately, it did not belong to the same special smell he smelled last night.

This made Xiang Kun even more curious.

After returning home, he took a flashlight, went to the hill again, and accurately found the dead mouse.

It was already past 8 o'clock in the evening, and Xiang Kun held a flashlight in one hand and a small wooden stick in the other, carefully examining the dead mouse again.

Although the decay became more serious, Xiang Kun still found two penetration wounds, which seemed to be penetrated by claws?

It's just that the claw is as thick as his index finger, right?

Big cats?

But it's not right. He has smelled tigers, leopards, and lions in the zoo today, and the smell is not the right kind.

And this is not deep mountains, old forests or undeveloped areas, there can be no such beasts, at most wild cats and dogs.

To take a step back, if there is that kind of large carnivorous beast preying here, there will not be just such a dead mouse, there should be more traces, and it is impossible to find it.What's more, there are no footprints left beside the dead mouse, which is unreasonable.

Xiang Kun searched around the hill and the lake all night, but still found nothing, or there was no trace of the smell.

After daybreak, he went up the mountain again, centered on the place where the dead mouse was, and carefully searched the surroundings again, until after five o'clock in the afternoon, there was still no clue, and no beasts appeared on the mountain. sign.

Xiang Kun also began to feel that he was a little too paranoid?

Maybe the smell is actually just about to dissipate, and I didn't make an accurate judgment. Did it smell "off"?

When I went home and entered the corridor, I was seeing the husky-raising Miss Yang walking out of the elevator quickly, frowning, she seemed a little anxious.

She ignored Xiang Kun, and naturally Xiang Kun would not say hello. The two passed by like they hadn't seen each other.

But when Xiang Kun pressed the floor in the elevator, Miss Yang suddenly turned back and blocked the elevator door.