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 mutated bird, the possibility that the mutated bird appeared in Wushu Mountain Scenic Spot 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 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-informed people in Tongshi Town, You Meng only knows that some tourists 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 at the time were all tourists, and the scene was very chaotic. There were all kinds of opinions. The information they got was also passed on by the staff of the scenic spot, so it was specific to the details. There are often contradictions and obvious exaggerations.

　　 Whether it is a mutant creature or not, 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 and too possible. many.

　　 But if there is an exact location, and the distance is not too far, then if you don't confirm the suspicion in your heart, you can't let it go.

　　 So after the supper ended and left the hotel, Liu Caifu drove him to the entrance of the hotel where he was staying. He did not go back to the hotel room to rest, but directly ordered the motorcycle to leave.

　　 Xiangkun naturally wouldn't ask the motorcycle to go to the scenic spot directly. 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 started running to the scenic spot.

　　 Xiangkun runs at an average speed of almost 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, saving 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 a long time ago, and it had already closed ahead of schedule when something like that happened in the morning.

　　 Xiangkun naturally would not pass through the passage that normal tourists walked, but directly used his climbing ability, and soon climbed halfway up the main peak from the steep side wall.

　　 In the restaurant before, he had heard Chu Xiuwen tell me 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 watching 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 homicide scene, and no one will watch it all night.

　　 Switching the night vision and infrared thermal imaging modes to observe the surroundings in turn 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 is reasonable and expected, he still has lost hope.

　　 Xiangkun approached the area where the accident occurred, carefully observing the traces on the ground, sniffing the surrounding odors, and nothing was gained.

　　 He had a preliminary guess based on several descriptions by Chu Xiuwen and others.

　　 The so-called "giant eagle", if it is really the big mutant bird he saw on the plane, then it will come here and appear 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 path, and the huge eagle will drive the birds away." Maybe among those "little birds" There are also mutated birds. It was not intended to attack tourists, but felt threatened. It was driven into a panic and hit the tourists accidentally.

　　 Just like the time that old classmate Xie Jun 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 fowls that are disturbed and scattered. The tourists are attacked by the "big birds" and fall off the cliff because the tourists themselves are "vampires" and "mutant creatures". .

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, knowing that the remains of the two tourists who fell from the mountain have been found. If it is really the second case , The two tourists who fell from 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 "mutant bird."

　　 More likely, there are no mutant creatures here.

　　 After nothing was discovered where the accident occurred, 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 he collects various information around him all the time.

After Xiang Kun walked for a while, he leaned against 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 spy on the whole area directly, so he changes the location 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. The specific details were actually very different each time, but as soon as he smelled it, he knew that it was the smell left by the mutant creature.

　　 The smell comes from underground.

　　 It was because he changed several positions and stood just above the Weiyuan before finally realizing it.

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

　　 Ants rarely come out in winter, but they do not hibernate either. Instead, they shrink in their respective caves and spend the winter on the food stored before the winter.

　　 Even if they stay in the cave, as long as they put enough attention, Xiang Kun can still be aware of their subtle smell and sound.

　　 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 he only relies 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 Kunping often practiced the exploration and collection of various sensory information on the small earthy mountain every day, and spent several times in the deep mountains and old forests, so he has a more comprehensive understanding of the ecology in this environment.

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

　　In the city, in the urban environment, this kind of influence may not be big, because the influence and change of human beings on the living environment is 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 the comparison with the information of 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.

　　 And, obviously, the lack of a large number of ants on this mountain has been around for some time before it has caused an impact that can be quickly detected by Xiang Kun.

　　 Xiangkun 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 "mutant creatures"?

　　 Does that thing eat 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 satisfy the blood-drinking demand, can you target bigger animals?

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

　　 Or is it an ant itself?

　　 Xiangkun 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 should be the place where the mutant creature had stayed for a long time.

　　 From the structural 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, is it because there is a "mutant ant"?

　　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 it can be determined that the "owner" of the nest may be a mutant creature turned into an ant , Not on the mountain.

　　 was it hunted by that big bird?

　　 Then, during the day today, why did the big bird suddenly appear again, scaring ordinary tourists to the cliff?

　　 Raised his head towards Kun, frowned and looked at the other mountains and forests in the distance at night, thinking in his heart whether to continue the exploration and the plan for the exploration.

　　……

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

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

　　 After returning to the hotel, Yang Jie, Yang Zhuo, and Zhang Qian continued to play pesticides in black, 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 take you with you." Yang Zhener said, suddenly thinking of something, and then asked: "By the way, Little Apple, would you use your fingers to flip coins?"

　　 "Flip the coin?"

"Just put the coin on the back of your hand and let the coin flip between your fingers. Oh, it’s not clear. You go find a coin~lightnovelpub.net~ Then let's open the video and I will show you how to do it." Yang Zhen Said the child.

　　 So Little Apple turned off the audio call and opened the video directly. As for the coin, you can grab it.

　　 She naturally 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 hand and coins.

　　 Under Yang Zhen'er's instructions, Little Apple learned about the so-called flipping of coins with fingers.

　　 "Let's come to the game, 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 Zhener started to instigate Xia Libing again: "Lao Xia, try it. I think your fingers are longer and it 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.

　　 "But you are more active than me!" 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!"