What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 41 Hunting

Looking at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the morning.

Xiang Kun didn't know if that giant owl had the same quick recovery ability as him. Now he found a place to rest and lick his wounds before hunting him, or he just flew away after resting.

But if you want to find the owl, it should be easiest before dawn.

After all, during this period of time, the smell of the owl hadn't dissipated, and Xiang Kun's body functions and sense of smell were at their peak before dawn.

What's more, the owl was afraid of people and didn't dare to move during the day. Xiang Kun also didn't want to be caught in the process of hunting owls.

If possible, Xiang Kun even hoped to capture that giant owl alive.

If it really has a strong recovery ability, then it can take some blood every once in a while and turn it into a long-term meal ticket, which is definitely more cost-effective than a one-shot deal.

What's more, he also wanted to observe and study the giant owl to see why it became so big, whether it was a new species, or a sudden mutation like himself, and what was the reason for the mutation.

But this is just thinking about it. He does not have the equipment and ability to capture the owl alive, nor does he have a place to raise or study it. After finding the owl, it must be a fight that cannot be kept.

After making a decision, Xiang Kun didn't go out immediately.

Because there is still a very important question: even if the giant owl is found, how to catch it?

The short fight with the owl by the lake before was actually only a short ten seconds. He was basically sure that if he was dragged to the ground, his strength would not be inferior to that owl, and he would fight it with his bare hands. , can also beat the owl half to death - he is very sure that he has already knocked out one eye of the owl at that time, of course, whether it can recover and how long it will take is temporarily unknown.

If you bring tools, even if it's just a short knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, etc., it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness and lethality.

But that owl can fly...

This determines that the initiative to fight or not to fight is on the owl.

It was the owl who took the initiative to attack him by the lake before, so he pushed him to the ground and beat him.

What if the owl wanted to run?

Xiang Kun thought about it, he must forget about shotguns and tranquilizer guns. Get a crossbow? Or a compound bow? The question is where does he get bows and crossbows in the middle of the night? And if you get it temporarily, there is no practice and familiarity, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. If ordinary arrows are not modified, their lethality is limited. Even if he can hit it, it may not be able to cause enough damage to make such a big group of owls lose their ability to fly.

Moreover, Xiang Kun had just searched for the relevant characteristics of owls, and found that owls not only had strong night vision, but also developed senses of smell and hearing. It would be even more terrifying if it was strengthened after being mutated like him. Even if you want to sneak up on a sneak attack, you may not be able to do it.

So Xiang Kun came up with an idea, maybe...

call the police?

Such a large owl can hunt and kill adult huskies, which is quite a threat. And it can also be said that species are cherished and need to be protected.

At that time, whether it is the police station, the garden bureau or any department sending people, there will definitely be more professional equipment and personnel to capture it.

After catching that giant owl, it will definitely be sent to a professional institution for corresponding research and observation. Maybe we can find out the reason why it can grow so big and find out the factors that cause the mutation.

But Xiang Kun also quickly gave up on this idea. First, it was difficult for him to convince the police station or other departments that there was such a big owl that they paid enough attention to it. Second, it was impossible for him to send people to hunt it according to his command. After all, he can't tell others that his scent tracking ability is better than that of hounds. Even if the owl is really caught,

It really has the value of research and protection. Even if he is the first person to discover it, he may not be eligible for the progress and report of the research. And by then he would definitely not have the chance to get blood from the owl to drink.

Generally speaking, Xiang Kun likes to make decisions before making decisions, make preparations first, and make plans, but when it is really too late and there is no time to prepare, he also has the decision to do it first and then talk about it.

So he didn't think about it any more. After thinking about it, it was almost dawn, so he took a Swiss army knife, a flashlight, and a screwdriver and went out.

Naturally, I don't have time to prepare any weapons now. I have a knife bought for killing rabbits at home, but against that giant owl, this knife may not be much better than a screwdriver. On the contrary, if you go out with a knife, it is easy to cause misunderstandings and unnecessary troubles.

At 3:21 in the morning, Xiang Kun came to the lake where he had encountered the giant owl again.

Xiang Kun found that the giant owl's feathers that fell to the ground during the fight with him before were gone.

Generally speaking, when you see this kind of situation, you will feel that someone should have come and picked up those feathers just now. Or the wind is strong and blows to other places.

But when Xiang Kun left, he put a few feathers in his trouser pocket, but he couldn't find them when he got home.

At that time, he wondered if he lost it when he went down to the lake, but now that all the feathers by the lake have disappeared, he thought of the experiment he had done on himself before—cut off a piece of rice grain size on the belly of his little finger Then, not long after, after his wound healed, that piece of meat also turned into powder.

Perhaps these feathers, like the flesh on his little finger, turned into powder and dissipated in the air after leaving the body?

Xiang Kun started to follow the scent left by the giant owl. Although the fight between the owl and him lasted only a dozen seconds, both sides were injured terribly and lost a lot of blood, so there were a lot of scents on both sides. residual.

And because of the injury, the owl couldn't fly too fast at that time.

Under the influence of the wind, the directionality of the smell in the air will be a bit erratic, but Xiang Kun didn't rely solely on smell to track it. He judged that with the action style of the owl, even at night, it was unlikely to go to the dense crowd. If you fly in the same direction, you must still flee in a more remote direction with more mountains, more trees, fewer buildings, and more remoteness.

An hour later, Xiang Kun held a leaf and took a deep breath, then looked up at the bushes on the hillside tens of meters away. Although he could only see a tree shadow from this angle, he knew that the owl was there .

The location he is now is the place where the dead mouse was found before.

He didn't think there was the temporary nest of the giant owl here, because he had searched the hill in detail before, and there was no smell of the owl, and even the dead mouse should have been thrown from the sky. It never came in.

As for coming here now, it is probably because this lonely mountain is the closest distance and the most suitable place for it to hide and recover.

Xiang Kun clenched the screwdriver in his hand and walked slowly over there.

When Xiang Kun came out from behind a tree and looked at the giant owl standing on a huge rock, the owl was staring at him with bowl-sized eyes.

Obviously, when Xiang Kun determined the location of the owl, the owl also noticed his arrival.

Xiang Kun didn't rush forward, because he observed through the moonlight that the wounded owl's head and the eye that was blinded by him had recovered more than half of it.

Obviously, although its recovery speed was not as fast as Xiang Kun's, it was also far faster than other animals.

The owl stared at Xiang Kun closely, and its huge body adjusted its position slightly as he moved, keeping it facing forward, and keeping its wings half-open, ready to take off at any time - its position, exactly There are no tree branches above, so you can fly away directly.