What It’s Like Being 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 basically "Collected" in the downtown area.

What animal is it?

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

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

There were many insects that Xiang Kun couldn't name on the body of the mouse. Under the twitching of the branches, these insects scattered and fled under the light of the mobile phone. Some burrowed into the grass, and some burrowed into the soil. There are also a lot of tiny maggots crawling.

If it was in the past, Xiang Kun would probably feel his scalp numb and sick when he saw this scene, but now he didn't feel anything, and he could even distinguish the smell of these bugs and the sound they made when they wriggled.

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

Xiang Kun sniffed it carefully again. The source of the strange smell just now should have left long ago. It's not here. The smell is very faint and is about to dissipate.

Most likely, the source of the smell was the predator that killed the rat.

However, what surprised him was that although the dead mouse looked miserable, it was not missing any arms or legs, and it was still relatively complete. Animals, are they simply not pleasing to the eye, or are they treated as toys and killed?

But that smell is neither a cat nor a dog. What other animal would do that?

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

Maybe because it's been too long?

Xiang Kun took his mobile phone and carefully looked around the dead mouse, checking for traces on the ground, wanting to see if there were any footprints left, but he found that the battery of the mobile phone was almost exhausted, and he couldn't find any useful information , except for his son's footprints, there is no useful information around - or the information he can see.

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

Xiang Kun was not only practicing, he was also looking for it.

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

The smell of each biological individual is different, and the smell of each biological group 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 that smell very accurately, and was attracted by that smell, and that smell was not in his "database", it was a smell he had never smelled before.

This seemed to be an instinctive reaction, as if his body was telling him - he should pay attention to that 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, at night, sitting in a mountain forest where you can't see your fingers, no matter how courageous you are, you will inevitably feel uneasy and nervous, at least you will worry about bugs crawling on your body or something.

But even though Xiang Kun closed his eyes, he couldn't see anything, but he was very clear about everything within a dozen meters around him. There was an earthworm digging in the soil, a bug hunting for food, a spider weaving a web, There are a few ants walking in a group... oh,

A beetle landed on his shoulder and flew away with his fingers.

Fortunately, mosquitoes are not interested in him, since he mutated, he has never been bitten.

Throughout the night, Xiang Kun didn't wait for the smell to appear.

Of course, as he sat there, he could not search the whole mountain, small as it was, by smell and sound.

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

The reason why he didn't do this last night is because although his sense of hearing and smell are far superior to ordinary people, he can walk with eyes closed on familiar streets without any problem, but on the mountain where there are no such roads, it is estimated that he will hit a tree within a few steps Or step on the air.

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

At one o'clock in the noon, he finally left, ran back home, changed his clothes that were stained with various stains, took a shower, and went to the largest zoo in the city.

Xiang Kun has always been unable to let go of that smell. He has always attached great importance to the "signal" given to him by his body, even if the "signal" is not obvious, because it may help him understand his body better.

So he came to the zoo, naturally not to entertain, 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 a single building or cage, and collected the smell of every animal.

Even if some animals kept huddled in the building and did not show up in the activity area outside for visitors to watch, it did not prevent Xiang Kun from "capturing" their smell.

Xiang Kun did not distinguish the smells of all the animals in the garden until it was about to close at six in the afternoon.

But unfortunately, it didn't belong to the same kind as the 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 found the dead mouse accurately.

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

Although the rot was getting worse, Xiang Kun still found two piercing wounds, which looked like they were penetrated by claws?

It's just that the claws are probably as thick as his index finger, right?

Big cats?

But it's not right, in the zoo today, he has smelled all kinds of tigers, leopards, and lions, and the smells are all wrong.

And this is not a deep mountain forest or an undeveloped area, it is impossible to have that kind of beast, at most there are wild cats and dogs.

Taking a step back, if there is such a large carnivorous beast hunting here, there will not be only such a dead mouse, there should be more traces, and it is impossible not to find them. What's more, there are no footprints left beside the dead mouse, which is too unreasonable.

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

After dawn, he went up the mountain again, centered on the place where the dead mouse was, and searched the surroundings again carefully. Until after five o'clock in the afternoon, he still had no clues, and he couldn't find any beasts on the mountain. sign.

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

Maybe the smell is actually just because it is about to dissipate, and I didn't judge correctly, so I smelled "cha"?

When I went home and entered the corridor, I met Miss Yang, who raised huskies, walking out of the elevator quickly, frowning tightly, as if she was a little anxious.

She ignored Xiang Kun, and Xiang Kun naturally wouldn't say hello. The two passed by as if they hadn't seen each other.

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