If you didn't see the mutant bird from a distance on the plane yesterday, and just heard Chu Xiuwen and others talk about it, Xiang Kun would not think of the mutant bird.

Just like ordinary birds rarely attack humans, the probability of mutated birds attacking humans is also very, very small, especially in such scenic spots with broad daylight and many people.

At least from his experience, whether it is a giant owl or a mutant spider, subjectively, they are very alert and fearful of human society, and will consciously avoid crowds, which is also one of the manifestations of their IQ improvement.

But judging from the time and area when Xiang Kun saw the mutant bird, the possibility of the mutant bird appearing in the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area this morning does exist.

If it is really a mutant bird, then it takes a risk to appear in front of people, there must be a reason for having to do so.

Of course, it is more likely that those are ordinary eagles and ordinary birds.

Xiang Kun naturally followed this topic and asked a few questions, and did not show any special interest. However, he successfully guided the discussion of the other three people. They all have their own news channels, and they all have their own news channels. There are varying degrees of hearing about things.

Although Chu Xiuwen, Liu Feibao, and Liu Caifu are all well-versed people in Tongshi Town, You Meng only knows that there are tourists who have fallen from the mountain, but they can know some of the reasons for the fall.

But what happened in the scenic spot today, because the witnesses were all tourists, and the scene was very chaotic. There are various opinions. The information they got was also passed on by the staff of the scenic spot, so the details were specific. There are often contradictions and obvious exaggerations.

Whether it is a mutant creature, Xiang Kun must be "investigated" on the spot to confirm.

At that time on the plane, after judging that the big bird was a mutated creature from a distance through his infrared vision mode, Xiang Kun never thought of going after the big bird—because it was too difficult, maybe Too much sex.

But if you have a precise location, and the distance is not too far, then you can't let it go without confirming the suspicion in your heart.

So after finishing the supper and leaving the hotel, Liu Caifu drove him to the entrance of the hotel where he was staying. Instead of going back to the hotel room to rest, he directly ordered a motorcycle to leave.

Naturally, Xiang Kun would not directly ask the motorcycle to go to the scenic spot. Although it is not far from the scenic spot, it is too weird to run over in the middle of the night, and it is easy to impress the motorcycle driver.

He just asked the driver of the motorcycle to drive him through the route in the town, and after paying the fare, he began to run to the scenic spot.

Xiang Kun runs at an average speed of about 30KM per hour. He ran very easily and was far from doing his best. At the current instantaneous speed, many physically strong people can also run in short and medium runs.But it is very difficult to maintain this speed for a long time without rest.

Moreover, Xiang Kun can adapt to more terrain than ordinary cars. He leaves the paved road and takes shortcuts, which saves a lot of time. You can also avoid some traffic cameras and driving vehicles on the road. After arriving at the scenic spot, it is actually better than driving. Not much slower.

At this time, the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area had naturally closed its doors long ago, and it had already closed ahead of schedule when something like that happened in the morning.

Naturally, Xiang Kun would not go through the passage that normal tourists walked. He directly used his climbing ability and quickly climbed halfway up the main peak from the steep mountain wall next to him.

In the restaurant before, he had heard Chu Xiuwen say which mountain peak had the accident happened. As for the specific place where the accident happened, he could easily spot it after climbing up.In the night vision mode, you can see an area still surrounded by the isolation zone at a glance. Looking at this posture, it is estimated that this side will not open tomorrow.

No one was guarding this at night. The accident happened in the morning. Someone should have come to investigate on the spot in the afternoon of the investigation. This is not a murder scene, and no one will watch it all night.

After switching the night vision and infrared thermal imaging modes, taking turns to observe the surroundings for a period of time, and after collecting the sound and smell information, Xiang Kun determined that there were no "suspicious" creatures nearby.

Although this was reasonable and expected, he still had lost hope.

Xiang Kun approached the area where the accident occurred, carefully observed the traces on the ground, sniffing the surrounding odors, and found nothing.

Before, he had a preliminary guess based on several descriptions by Chu Xiuwen and others.

The so-called "giant eagle", if it was really the mutant big bird he saw on the plane, then it came here and appeared in front of people, most likely to find and kill another mutant creature.

The mutated creature may be a mutated bird that inhabits this mountain area, so it will say, "Some birds are attacking tourists on the mountain road, and the huge eagle will drive away the flock of birds." Maybe among those "little birds" There are also mutated birds. It was not intended to attack tourists, but felt threatened. It was driven into "panic" and accidentally ran into tourists.

It's like what Xie Jun, a former classmate, told him about the "Longhorned Wolf" that the lead car hit during the field test.

There is another situation. Those "little birds" are ordinary birds and they are disturbed and scattered. The tourists are attacked by the "big birds" and fall off the cliff-because the tourists themselves are "vampires", they are "mutations". biological".

But he just searched under the cliff, where the tourists fell, and found nothing special, and he also searched local news on his mobile phone, and knew that the bodies of two tourists who fell from the mountain had been found. If it is really the second case , The two tourists who fell down the mountain were definitely not "vampires", they were probably just unlucky ghosts who were implicated. The Lord might have left among other tourists.

Of course, these are all based on the premise that the big bird that caused the accident is a "mutated bird."

More likely, there is no mutant creature here.

After finding nothing at the accident site, Xiang Kun was not discouraged and continued to explore the surroundings.

As soon as he went up the mountain before, he had an intuition that the mountain seemed a bit strange. The longer he stayed on the mountain, the stronger the feeling.

He is very clear that this feeling is not metaphysics, but is derived from his various sensory abilities, which is a "subconscious" feedback signal that he synthesizes when collecting various information around him all the time.

After Xiang Kun walked for a while, he leaned on a tree, closed his eyes, and began to focus on smell and hearing, and spied on the whole mountain. First, he checked the two sensory information to determine the weird feeling. s reason.

This mountain is naturally much larger than the small earthy mountain not far from Xiang Kun's residential area. There is no way to anchor it, so he spies the whole area directly, so he changes its position from time to time and performs olfactory and auditory scans.

After nearly an hour, Xiang Kun not only knew the cause of his weird feeling, but also smelled a very weak "special smell".

He had smelled this "special smell" many times before, and the specific details were actually very different each time, but as long as he smelled it, he knew that it was the smell left by the mutant creature.

The smell comes from the ground.

Or he changed several positions, just standing above the Weiyuan, and finally found out.

As for the strange and weird feeling, it is because there are very few ants on this mountain!

Ants seldom come out in winter, but they do not hibernate. Instead, they shrink in their respective burrows and live by the food stored before winter.

Even if they stay in the cave, as long as they pay enough attention, Xiang Kun can still be aware of their existence through subtle smells and sounds.

But on this mountain, except for some areas at the foot of the mountain, there are no ants in most areas of the mountain!

If only relying on large-scale information collection and search and investigation, he may not be able to realize the problem of ants so quickly, because even if there are only two kinds of sensory information, smell and hearing, when the details are to a certain extent, the amount of information to be analyzed and checked It is also very large.

However, Xiang Khunping often practiced the exploration and collection of various perceptual information on the small earth mountain during the day, and spent several times in the deep mountain and old forest, so he has a more comprehensive understanding of the ecology in this environment.

We often feel that if certain inconspicuous small animals disappear, they will have little impact and may even be beneficial, such as flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and ants.

In the city, under the urban environment, this kind of influence may be small, because the influence and change of human beings on the living environment is really too strong.But in the wild environment, every organism has its niche. Once it is greatly reduced, other organisms are needed to fill this niche, and the distribution and number of related organisms will undergo chain changes.

It was through comparison with information from other mountainous areas that Xiang Kun was aware of this change, and then he noticed the ants, and then through hearing and smelling information scanning, he determined the lack of ants on this mountain.

Moreover, it is obvious that the absence of a large number of ants on this mountain has been around for some time before it will cause an impact that can be quickly detected by Xiang Kun.

Xiang Kun lay down on the ground, while following the direction of the "special smell", he began to dig the soil with his bare hands while thinking about the reasons for the lack of ants.

Is it because of the influence of the "mutated creatures"?

That thing specifically eats ants?

This is too strange. Although ordinary ants also have blood, the content is too small and the number is large.If it's just to meet the demand for drinking blood, can you target bigger animals?

Even if you like the smell of insect blood, there is no need to stare at the "sheep" of ants, and go bald!

Or is it an ant itself?

Xiang Kun didn't dig too deep and found the source of smell, but after switching between night vision mode and infrared thermal imaging mode, nothing special was found, and the smell began to dissipate very slowly.

He knew that this place should be where the mutant creature had stayed for a long time.

From the structure point of view, this seems really an ant nest?And it seems that the ant should be quite big, at least as thick as his thumb.

So the ants on this mountain are missing because there are only "mutant ants"?

Where is it now?

Xiang Kun has just wandered many places on the mountain, conducted detailed auditory and olfactory snooping, coupled with infrared thermal imaging visual mode scanning, basically confirmed that the "owner" of the nest, that may be a mutant creature turned into an ant , Not on the mountain.

Could it be hunted by that big bird?

So during the day today, why did the big bird suddenly appear again, frightening ordinary tourists to fall off the cliff?

Xiang Kun raised his head, frowned and looked at the other mountains and forests in the distant night, thinking in his heart whether he wanted to continue the exploration and the plan for the exploration.

...

In Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er's room, besides them, Xia Libing was there at this time.

When Xiang Kun went to see Liu Caifu, he was not sure when he would be back, so he asked them to go back to the hotel after supper. Anyway, both cars were left for them.

After returning to the hotel, the five of Yang Jie, Yang Zhuo, and Zhang Qian continued to play with black pesticides, while Yang Zhener took Lao Xia to their room to play.

At this time, they are having an audio call with Little Apple, telling interesting stories of the past two days.

"Uncle Xiang's dishes are really delicious, especially the rabbit meat... Just listen to what you said, I want to drool..." Listening to Yang Zhener talking about what Xiang had eaten in the "Youlong Restaurant" last night Little Apple said enviously about Kun's dishes.

"I told the chef, next time I come to play, I will bring you with you." Yang Zhener said, suddenly thinking of something, and then asked: "By the way, Little Apple, would you flip the coins with your fingers?"

"Flip the coin?"

"Just put the coin on the back of your hand and let the coin flip between your fingers. Oh, I'm not very clear. You go find a coin, and then let's start the video. I will tell you how to do it." Yang Zhener said.

So Little Apple turned off the audio call and turned on the video directly. As for the coins, you can easily pick them up.

Naturally, she couldn't see Yang Zhen'er and the others, but under Yang Zhen'er's command, she put the phone on the holder and fixed the camera angle so that they could see her hands and coins.

Under Yang Zhen'er's instructions, Little Apple learned what the so-called flipping of a coin is.

"Let's come to the competition, see a few of us, who will learn first! How about getting a gift from others if you learn first?" Yang Zhener said enthusiastically.

After finishing the video with Little Apple, Yang Zhen'er started to instigate Xia Libing again: "Lao Xia, try it. I think your fingers are longer and should be easier to do."

Xia Libing took a one-yuan coin she handed over, and while trying, she asked casually: "How come you suddenly play flipping the coin?"

"Nana said Xiang Kun would flip the coin, so she should learn too!" Yang Zhener said.

"Yet you are more active than I learned!" Tang Baona said.

"Isn't this to help you study?" Yang Zhener said, "We can't be worse than the kindergarten kids."

As she said, she showed Xia Libing the video of "Little Girl Flipping Coins" circulating on the Internet: "Remember this little sister? She used to live next to Xiang Kun's house. She also taught Xiang Kun to flip the coins. More than six. Kindergarten children can learn, there is no reason why we can't learn it!"