Vol 3 Chapter 281: No quiet allowed tonight!

Not long after the mutation, when trying to guide the mutation through repeated training to strengthen the senses such as smell and hearing, Xiang Kun often wandered around the roads and streets in the middle of the night to train the senses, because in the dead of night, the interference is relatively more disturbing. small.
　　 Later, Xiang Kun was involved in a robbery because he called the police. When Police Officer Chen and the others called up surrounding videos for investigation, they accidentally discovered that he did not sleep in the middle of the night and "patrolled the streets" all night. Fortunately, the suspect had been identified and arrested at that time, and Xiang Kun had already had a preconceived and "sense of justice" impression from Officer Chen, so after being warned, he did not cause any follow-up trouble.
　　 But since then, Xiang Kun has paid special attention to monitoring.
　　 At the very beginning, he could only discover the monitoring of various places by observing more and seeing more. Every time you do something that you worry about being traced to your identity, you must step on it in advance to make sure that you can count on each monitoring snack. Even if you can't avoid it completely, you must avoid being photographed in the face, or try to use other people , Cars or objects are covered.
　　 In order to better find surveillance and avoid surveillance, Xiang Kun searched for a lot of information, and he had a good understanding of various surveillance models, functions, data, and various related security equipment.
　　 Now, relying on more and stronger sensory abilities, brain analysis capabilities, especially infrared thermal imaging visual mode, basically, no matter how hidden the camera is, he can spot it in advance in the distance.
　　 This is true in cities with all kinds of electronic devices, and even more so in the mountains.
　　 At this time, Xiang Kun clearly observed that in the distant mountain forest, there are multiple video cameras distributed and all in operation.
　　 Xiangkun knows that many inaccessible mountain forests or protected areas with special protected animals are often equipped with infrared trigger cameras from the forestry department to photograph and record wild animals. Just like he had seen the kind of camera placed on the tree before he went deep into the active area of ​​the mutant spider in the Qinling no man's land.
　　 But judging from the operating characteristics he has observed, the video recording equipment he is seeing are not infrared trigger cameras from the forestry department or other common equipment.
　　According to Xiang Kun's judgment, these equipment should be arranged for a short period of time, or maybe even just arranged. After all, this is very close to the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area, and tourists often come over. Those devices are left unattended and can be easily lost or damaged.
　　 Could it be arranged by Mi Qiao or other people of "Shenxing Technology"?
　　 After all, this area is not far from where the tourists they know have photographed the "Big Bird".
　　In the field of view of Xiangkun's infrared thermal imaging mode, there is no video equipment distributed near the object composed of small blue dots and the suspected mutant creature in the distance.
　　 But if those video cameras have infrared detection capabilities, based on their distribution, the mutant creatures may be photographed on the way, whether they reach that location from the air or the ground.
　　 Since these video cameras are always working at night, it is normal to have infrared detection functions.
　　 Xiangkun knew that in the visual mode of infrared thermal imaging, the reason the mutant creatures were so obvious was not just because of the temperature. His body temperature, Guo Tianxiang's body temperature, giant owl's body temperature, and mutant spider's body temperature are all different. They are not all in the same area, not to mention the existence of mutant plants.
　　 Obviously, his special infrared thermal imaging vision mode, in addition to relying on various wavelengths of infrared to display, also includes certain judgment conditions that are only related to mutant organisms.
　　 For general infrared thermal imaging equipment, it is not difficult to "see" mutant organisms, but it is not easy to "pay attention" to them.
　　 In addition to the video recording equipment, Xiang Kun also noticed that there were several drones operating high in the sky in the distance, but they were far away from the suspected mutant creature and seemed to be searching everywhere.
　　 These drones are all out of Xiang Kun's line of sight. He relies on sound to determine their existence. However, the noise of these drones is obviously much smaller than that of conventional civilian drones. Even if it is still in the middle of the night, but in the relatively quiet mountain forest, at this distance, most people can't hear any movement at all.
If the drone and the recording equipment are arranged by the same group of people, it can be inferred from the scope of the drone that the drone is searching, the person behind the recording equipment may not have found the suspected mutant creature, otherwise no one The planes should all be in the air near the "Big Bird".
　　 But since they arranged video recording equipment in this area, there should be a reason.
　　 Of course, the camera equipment and drones may not be arranged by the same group. After all, drones have been deployed to search, and the few camera equipment seem to be of little significance.
　　 Xiangkun shifted his position again, moved a certain distance to a higher place, so that he could get a better view, and carefully distinguish the suspected mutant creature through night vision mode and thermal imaging mode.
　　 From the morphological point of view, there is a 90% probability that it is the "big bird" that was photographed by tourists before.
　　 It should be the mutated creature that caused tourists to fall accidentally on the cliff at Zhufeng of Wushu Mountain on the morning of the 18th.
　　 If it is that one, why is it still here?
　　 Xiang Kun didn't think that it would treat this as a habitat and plan to stay here for a long time.
　　 Xiang Kun is very clear that these mutant creatures all have great wisdom. Unless they intend to hunt humans as a blood source, it would be foolish to be adjacent to human settlements.
　　 It wanders here and does not leave, there must be other reasons.
　　 Xiangkun thought of the "mutant ant". This "big bird" stayed here all the time and looked like "waiting in love". Is it because of it? Really haven't succeeded yet? Otherwise, it should now be shrunk in the mountains and old forests or other remote places to digest the blood ingested, mutate and evolve.
　　 For mutant creatures, it seems that they can only be required to drink blood if they want to behave in violation of the established pattern.
　　Perhaps just like Xiang Kun's guess before, it and the giant owl that Xiang Kun encountered in the first place, began to produce just the blood of other mutant creatures?
Xiang Kun's sight began to patrol around again, wondering if the "big bird"'s target was the "mutant ant", then it would not search around but stay here. Could it be because it knew where the "mutant ant" was hiding Here, or knowing that there is something that "mutant ants" cannot discard, it will definitely come back?
　　 Thinking of the suspected ant nest underground "nest" where the mutant creature's strong smell was discovered earlier, Xiang Kun couldn't help but guess that it is now nesting underground, right?
　　 So the "big bird" is comparing patiently with the "mutant ants", to see who can't withstand the bloodthirsty needs of the blood drinking period?
　　 Xiangkun was observing and thinking quietly from a distance. The enhancement of sensory abilities has such benefits. He can always take the lead, and whether he advances or retreats is controlled by himself.
If it is an area away from humans like the Qinling uninhabited area, and there is ample time and preparation, and the weather conditions can support his "imperial electric flight", Xiang Kun may try to capture the "mutant bird" .
　　 But in this situation, he naturally wouldn't provoke the big bird directly.
　　 Xiangkun felt the 3x3cm piece of paper left in Mi Qiao Na and found that it was not far from here, it was in the parking lot of the scenic spot.
　　 He did not continue to stare at the "big bird" hidden in the tree looking like a husband stone, but followed the direction of induction.
　　……
　　 In one of the parking lots of Wushu Mountain Scenic Area, two black vans and an MPV are parked side by side.
　　 Mi Qiao and Fang Pingfang were sitting together in one of the vans, looking at the surveillance screens in front of them. Among them, there are images in low-light night vision mode and infrared thermal imaging images. Some are sent back by drones, and some are sent back by video recording equipment arranged in the afternoon.
　　 Ye Chong got news at noon that after a tourist had photographed a "big bird" somewhere, they went to the site to investigate.
　　 They didn't actually have much hope, but what they didn't expect was that after arriving in that area, they really found not many traces.
They did not find the dung, feathers, or other body tissues of the "big bird", but they found a large number of broken branches and trunks, like the ground unintentionally shoveled by an excavator, and various claw marks left on them. It looks shocking. If it weren't for the premise of looking for the "big bird", just seeing those traces, they might subconsciously make up some messy terrifying monsters.
　　Mi Qiao believed that those traces were traces that the "Big Bird" was fighting with, while Fang Pingfang felt that the "Big Bird" might have created traces by itself in a certain manic state.
　　 But they agree that the "big bird" is likely to return to that area.
　　 So in the afternoon they asked Ye Chong, who is in charge of logistics and information support, to apply for equipment, and then contacted "Mr. Liang" to upload pictures and videos of the scene, and wanted him to arrange a fully equipped drone search team to come over.
　　 But "Mr. Liang" means that the equipment will be transferred to them immediately, but the search team will not need it for the time being, just a few of them. Of course, the technical support personnel related to the drone will be dispatched and deployed by Ye Chong.
　　 I have never actually conducted a field survey mission. I only heard Fang Pingfang talk about the experience of the Qinling no man's land. Mi Qiao originally thought that a group of people would enter the mountain tonight to assist the drone in the survey.
Unexpectedly, the technicians drove the equipment in two vans in the afternoon, but told them that they only need to stay in the car, and set the route of drone inspection directly through the equipment in the car. Look at the screen transmitted by the drone. It will automatically lock the scanned animal type. As for avoiding obstacles, it is done automatically, without manual control.
However, the range of activities of these drones is still limited, and the search range cannot be too far. It is not a problem with the performance or technology of the drone, but the height of their drones is more than 120 meters, and licenses and permits are required. They filed the report on the grounds of research project investigation, and the scope of their activities was only allowed in this mountainous area.
　　 "Dr. Fang, when you said it came back, would it spot the drone first and be scared away?" Mi Qiao said boredly, looking at the pictures on the screen.
　　 "When it finds the drone, the drone should find it first." Fang Pingfang said.
"If we find it, how do we deal with it?" Mi Qiao asked again. When these drones were delivered in the afternoon, she had also fiddled with it for a while. I didn't see from above that there was anything that could help catch birds and beasts. Device.
　　 "We don't need to worry about these. "Mr. Liang" will consider it when the time comes. The specific implementation will be Ye Chong and Team Leader Li." Fang Pingfang said.
　　 Looking at the closed car door, Mi Qiao suddenly changed the subject: "Dr. Fang, how did you investigate the footprint you found in the Qinling No Man's Land?"
In fact, even if the traces of the "big bird" have been found, and there are other suspected mutant "blood-eating creatures", Mi Qiao is the same as Fang Pingfang. The wood carvings of rabbits in the basement laboratory of the main building of a certain research center of "Shenxing Technology" and the various anomalies shown are more interesting.
　　 She felt that the rabbit wood carving should be related to the footprint owner Fang Pingfang and the others found in the Qinling no man's land.
　　 She guessed that the owner of the footprints and the person who made the wood carving of the rabbit should be a "vampire" like Guo Tianxiang. The wild boar discovered by the late anchor Xue and others was sucked blood in a special way. It was a "vampire" with a different lifestyle and variation direction from Guo Tianxiang, a "blood-eating creature" that had returned to the "wildness".
　　Because she has been in contact with Guo Tianxiang, she knows that "vampires" have some special abilities, such as the hypnotism that makes her too tricky. But Fang Pingfang's description of the abnormal phenomenon related to the wood carving is somewhat beyond her understanding. Whether it’s the intrusion of dreams, the illusion of reality, or the impact of laboratory lights and computers, it is difficult to give a reasonable explanation.
　　A wood carving, a dead object, how can this be done?
After hearing Fang Pingfang’s description yesterday, she even came up with an idea—whether the
vampire
living in the cave in the no-man’s land of the Qinling Mountains has found some way to turn her body into that "Rabbit wood carving"?
　　 Of course, this was just a momentary brainstorm. She knew that this kind of thinking was too whimsical and impossible, but because of this, she became more and more curious about the secret of the wood carving.
"I can roughly judge the height and weight of the owner of the footprints. I only know that he should be a man of about 1.9 meters, a big fat man, more than 20 years old..." Fang Pingfang was saying, her brows suddenly frowned, and she looked at the car inside. Rows of screens and said: "What are they doing?"
　　Miccio also noticed the anomaly on the screen, clusters of red dots gathered from all directions, like a sparse red light stream that tore apart the night sky, rushing in the same direction.
　　 Not only did several cameras set up in the mountains captured this scene, but the drones patrolling in the air also locked the lens to these red dots.
　　 Another car came from the intercom and said Zhou Rui's voice last year: "Dr. Fang, Miss Chen, have you seen it? Those birds seem to be crazy?"
　　 Yes, those red dots are birds, all kinds of birds.
　　 Neither Fang Pingfang nor Mi Qiao could answer this question. They just stared at the screen closely, watching the behavior of the birds.
　　The birds gathered together, and after flying in one direction for a while, they suddenly "exploded" and separated.
　　 Wushu Mountain is one of the regions with the most abundant bird-man resources in the world. It is not surprising that there are many birds. What is strange is their unexpected and strange behavior.
　　 "What are they doing?" Zhou Rui's puzzled voice came from the intercom.
　　 Fang Pingfang seemed to have discovered something and asked Ye Chong to control the drone's lens to manually lock an area.
　　 Looking at the picture on the monitor screen, Mi Qiao also said softly: "What is that?"
　　 On the infrared imaging screen, in the black shadow representing the trees, there is a dark red that is not very obvious. If it hadn't been for the flock of birds that just flew past and suddenly dispersed at that location, they would not have noticed.
After the 　　 imaging system locks the object hidden in the tree, it "marks" it with green to make it obvious at once.
"What is this?"
　　 "Is it a leopard? No, there is no leopard here."
　　 "It should be a bird, a big bird."
　　 "Is that the bird we were looking for?"
"possible."
　　 "Why is its temperature so low?"
　　 Mi Qiao and Fang Pingfang both stared at the motionless creature hidden on the screen with surprises, and they didn't understand what it was.
You know, the body temperature of birds is generally higher than that of mammals, usually at 38.5~42℃, so in their current infrared thermal imaging imaging system, it is very conspicuous, just like the flock of birds suddenly flew up just now. At once attracted their attention.
　　 "Don't let the drone get too close, take a look with low-light night vision." Mi Qiao said to Ye Chong on the walkie-talkie.
　　 Soon, they determined that the insignificant creature hiding in the forest was a big bird!
　　 It's just why this big bird's body temperature is so low, and when it started hiding there, they don't know.
　　 "Be careful, don't disturb it, and see if'Mr. Liang' is online!" Mi Qiao said with some excitement, and then tried to contact "Mr. Liang" with the device in the car. In fact, as long as the drone is working, "Mr. Liang" has permission to access the drone's camera equipment at any time.
A few tens of meters away from the parking lot, beside a big tree in the forest, Xiang Kun heard the two vans and MPV suddenly become lively. Even the people who were sleeping and waiting to "change shifts" before are all Waking up early, he also looked forward to it:
　　 Next, you can see how the people of "Shen Xing Technology" deal with mutant creatures.
Just now, following the induction of the paper in Miqiao’s bag, he sneaked to the edge of the parking lot and snooped for nearly half an hour. When he knew that they hadn’t found the "big bird", he couldn’t calm down. It's - he doesn't want to waste a whole night staying here stupidly.
　　 So he began to think about how to make the two sides "spark" and don't let the night be too quiet and boring.
　　 He thought about a number of plans, and even thought of directly drawing the attention of the "big bird" by himself, and then drawing it over to let Mi Qiao discover it.
　　 But in this process, it is difficult for him to guarantee that he will not be discovered by Mi Qiao, Dr. Fang or other people of "Shenxing Technology". After all, there are many drones flying around in the air. Once noticed, even if you can run away on the spot, there will be trouble in the follow-up, and there will be hidden dangers of revealing your identity.
　　 So the final solution he adopted ~EbookFREE.me~ was to climb a tree and catch a bird, and then "mentally shocked" it.
With the appearance and enhancement of the sixth sense, with the increase in the number of mutations and evolutions, and with his understanding of "emotional assimilation", "mental shock", and "super-sensing state", his current "mental shock" , The effect has also changed greatly from the beginning. Just like in Chang Bin's wedding, he can even use the "combination technique" of "mental shock" and "projection" to achieve a certain degree of hypnosis.
　　 Although he cannot directly control other animals with "mental deterrence" or give them clear commands, he can still make them perform certain behaviors through some techniques and methods.
　　 For example, after being "mentally shocked" by Xiang Kun, the bird was released, but it was forced to escape in a certain direction.
　　 A large number of birds around, affected by the group effect of "mental shock", all had the same emotions and impulses as that bird, and they ran there together.
　　 They flew for a long time, flying directly over the hidden position of the "big bird", and then after sensing the threat of the "big bird", they were forced to flee around.
　　 Such a vision, Xiang Kun believes that whatever it takes, Mi Qiao and the others should pay attention. Of course, if the "big bird" is also affected by the flock of birds and changes, it would be even better.
　　 Xiangkun’s position at this time was far away from the "big bird", and there was a mountain in between, and it was impossible to see it at all. But now his attention is all on Mi Qiao, Dr. Fang and other people of "Shen Xing Technology"-the ball passed, and then it's up to them how to perform!