It was a smell that Xiang Feng had never smelled before. It wasn't a cat, a dog, or any other animal that he knew. However, he wasn't surprised. After all, his scent database was very limited, and he had basically " collected " them in the downtown area.
What kind of animal was it?
Xiang Feng was suddenly curious, and when he was curious, he had to find a result.
He turned around and turned on the light on his phone again. He took a branch and examined the rat's body.
There were many bugs on the rat's body that Xiang Feng couldn't name. As the branches moved, the bugs scattered under the light of the phone. Some burrowed into the grass, some burrowed into the soil, and there were many tiny maggots crawling on the rat's body.
In the past, Xiang Feng would have felt his scalp go numb and disgusted by this sight, but now he didn't feel anything. He could even carefully distinguish the smell of these bugs and the sounds they made when they squirmed.
He checked the rat and found that it had been dead for some time. However, he did not know how to determine the exact time of death based on the degree of decay.
Xiang Feng took another sniff. The source of the strange smell he had felt earlier had probably left a long time ago. It was not here, so the smell was not obvious and was about to dissipate.
There was a high possibility that the source of the smell was the predator that killed the rat.
However, what puzzled him was that although the dead rat died in a miserable manner, it did not lose any arms or legs. It was still relatively intact. After its stomach was cut open, it seemed that its internal organs were not eaten. Then, the animal that hunted it simply did not like it, or was it tortured and killed as a toy?
However, the smell was neither a cat nor a dog. Other than cats and dogs, what other animals would do this?
Xiang Feng took a few more deep breaths, looking for the direction where the scent that had caught his attention had left. However, after taking a few steps, he realized that he couldn't find the direction where the scent had left.
Perhaps it was because it had been too long?
Xiang Feng took out his phone and shone it around the dead rat, checking the ground for traces of footprints. He wanted to see if there were any footprints, but even when his phone was almost out of battery, he couldn't find any useful information. Other than his son's footprints, there was no other useful information, or rather, information that he could see.
Turning off the flashlight on his phone, Xiang Feng sat down next to him. He took a deep breath, relaxed his muscles, closed his eyes, and released his senses. He continued to use his sense of smell and hearing to explore his surroundings.
Not only was Xiang Feng practicing, he was also searching.
The smell that caught his attention made him very curious. Even if he couldn't find the source of the smell, he hoped to find the smell of his own kind in the forest and track it down to determine what kind of creature left the smell.
Each individual had a different smell, and each group of creatures had their own unique smell.
The special smell just now was mixed with other smells and was actually not very obvious.
However, when Xiang Feng was about to leave, he had accurately smelled the scent and was attracted to it. The scent was not in his " database ". It was a scent he had never smelled before.
It seemed to be an instinctive reaction, as if his body was telling him that he should pay attention to that smell.
Xiang Feng sat on the mountain until the sun rose, just five meters away from the dead rat.
If it was an ordinary person sitting in the dark forest at night, even the bravest person would inevitably feel uneasy and nervous. At the very least, they would be worried that insects would crawl on their bodies.
Although Xiang Feng had his eyes closed and couldn't see anything, he was very clear about everything within a dozen meters. There was an earthworm drilling into the ground, there was an insect hunting for food, there was a spider weaving a web, there were a few ants moving in groups…Oh, there was a beetle that landed on his shoulder and was flicked away.
Fortunately, the mosquitoes were not interested in him. Ever since he mutated, he had not been bitten.
The entire night, Xiang Feng didn't see the scent again.
Of course, as he sat there, he couldn't use smell and sound to search the entire mountain, even though it was very small.
Therefore, after he got up, he began to search the mountain.
The reason why he didn't do that last night was because although his hearing and sense of smell were far superior to ordinary people, and it was not a problem for him to walk on the familiar street with his eyes closed, he would probably hit a tree or step on the air after taking a few steps on the mountain where there was no road.
Xiang Feng spent the entire morning searching this small mountain.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Feng finally left. He ran home, changed out of his dirty clothes, took a shower, and went to the largest zoo in the city.
Xiang Feng couldn't let go of that smell. He had always valued the " signal " his body gave him, even if it wasn't obvious, because it might help him understand his body better.
Therefore, he did not come to the zoo for entertainment, but to enrich his " database."
He wanted to see if there were any similar samples of that smell in the zoo.
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