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Xiang Kun replayed his battle with the gigantic owl.

The first battle was by the lake. Although the owl had the upper hand, it could not be considered a sneak attack. After all, Xiang Kun had already locked onto it with his scent and had time to react.

In terms of response, there was nothing wrong with what he did. After dodging the first attack, he did not choose to continue escaping and instead exposed his back to the giant owl. Instead, he chose to engage in melee combat and rely on his strength to fight head-on. Therefore, even though he lost the initiative and had to react in a hurry, he still used the method of exchanging injuries to run the owl away.

In the forest, Xiang Kun became the one who initiated the fight. He even used his blood to lure the giant owl into attacking him. Then, he used the moment when the owl pounced down from above to seize the opportunity and jump into the air. He grabbed the owl and stabbed the screwdriver into his eyes.

It looked like he was taking a risk, but in fact, Xiang Kun had used his powerful dynamic vision to accurately predict the owl's movements. Furthermore, he had calculated that the owl's injury had yet to recover and would affect its vision. There would be deviations and delays in the judgment of space and distance, so he had a higher chance of success.

In conclusion, Xiang Kun thought:

1. Active vision needs to be enhanced. It can play a key role in frontal combat or when you encounter danger.

2. Strength still needs to be increased, but at the same time, flexibility, speed, and jumping cannot be affected. This requires balancing the amount of training between the two. While training in strength, it also requires large amounts of flexibility, agility, and running speed, so as to avoid excessive weight and block growth.

3. His previous judgment on combat techniques was indeed correct. For the current him, most of the systematic combat techniques were not of much help to him, because those techniques targeted the body of a normal person. He did not need to compete or fight in the arena. For example, in the fight last night, once he came into contact with it, life and death were decided in an instant. It was faster, stronger, more ruthless, more accurate. No matter how many techniques there were, they were not as useful as a screwdriver or an iron weapon. However, it was not that he did not need any techniques. He also needed to summarize and learn by himself, to find a way to better utilize his body's functions.

4. When encountering a mutated beast like a giant owl, you cannot act rashly or show fear. You have to target their weaknesses. Once you find them, you have to go all out. You have to be more ruthless and fierce than them.

Thinking back to the two fights he had with the gigantic owl, Xiang Kun realized that other than the initial shock when he saw the owl's face clearly, he had been nervous, excited, and not fearful at all.

The wound inflicted by the owl was painful, but the pain excited him. He even felt that he could unleash more power than usual. The more pain he felt, the more sensitive his thoughts became. After the pain and the wound healed, he would feel the thrill of running or exercising.

He sensed that he seemed to enjoy the life-threatening fight.

This should be a change brought about by his body's mutation. This was because he had always been cautious in his actions in the past. To put it bluntly, he was more timid.

This made him secretly give himself a warning. He needed to monitor his emotions.

When they encountered danger, they had to be ruthless, fierce, and fight with their lives on the line. However, they had to restrain themselves during normal times in order to avoid being affected by this sort of bloodthirsty and vicious emotions.

After that, Xiang Kun spent a few hours organizing the images from the giant owl's memories.

In the memories of the mutated owls, the scenery was at least four seasons long, so the owl should have mutated at least a year ago.

In the video, there were 213 prey that had mutated and killed owls.

If Xiang Kun was the reference, it should have undergone at least 213 mutations. Xiang Kun might not have obtained many memories of killing and drinking blood.

Apart from the places that Xiang Kun was familiar with, it had also passed by a relatively backward county or village when it left the mountains.

Although there were no iconic buildings or shops in the picture that Xiang Kun could determine the location of, he saw the Chinese characters and letters in front of the car plates on the road and knew that it was a neighboring city.

Xiang Kun recalled the post he had found on the forum after he was attacked by the giant owl by the lake last night. It was posted on the forum in a neighboring county.

Hence, Xiang Kun found the thread and sent a message to the person, saying that he was a reporter from a news website and wanted to interview him.

Then, she searched for his previous post and used his username, location, age, and other methods to search the entire internet. She found his Weibo account and confirmed that his house was in a village in a neighboring county.

After receiving the new phone from JD in the afternoon, Xiang Kun went out and took the bus to the bus stop to buy a ticket to the neighboring city.

After arriving at the next station, Xiang Kun drove to the county where the sender was.

In the car, Xiang Kun finally received a private message from the sender. However, the sender clearly did not believe that Xiang Kun was a reporter and thought that he was a liar.

Xiang Kun did not waste any time and asked him to send him a phone number. He gave him 100 yuan as a red packet for the interview and said that there would be other rewards for the interview.

That person sent a number over skeptically. However, he immediately received a message from the operator. Sure enough, he had charged 100 yuan.

Then Xiang Kun called and asked about the situation. He also asked about the location and tree of the weird person on the tree.

The sender explained what he had posted in detail, and Xiang Kun asked questions from time to time.

"Did the weird person on the tree move? What was the way he moved?"

"What's the shape of that weirdo? For example, is his head big or is his limbs visible?"

"Did you go near the tree to observe later? Did you leave any traces there, like footprints, claw marks, or feces?"

"Before it disappeared, did you see the direction of its movement? Up or down?"

The person who posted the thread answered them one by one. In the end, he asked curiously, "Which website are you a reporter from? Why are you interested in my thread? Not many people reply to that thread. It doesn't have much views or popularity."

Xiang Kun casually cooked up a story. "I'm a reporter from UC News. Recently, we've been working on a topic about strange stories in the countryside. Therefore, we specially went around to collect similar stories. We have to have realistic evidence and experience. Therefore, I found your thread on the Internet. I think I can dig out… Is your story real?"

"Of course, it's definitely true! Oh right, the other remuneration you mentioned before is…?" The person who posted did not suspect him and started to think about the remuneration he mentioned previously.

"Don't worry, after I report the story to our managing editor for review, I will officially apply for a face-to-face interview with you. When the time comes, there will be a considerable amount of interview fees."

After hanging up the phone, Xiang Kun was already at the bus stop. He found a car outside the bus stop and headed to the village mentioned by the sender.

Initially, after talking to the sender and listening to his description, Xiang Kun felt that the "figure" on the tree that the sender had seen a month ago was most likely the gigantic owl. When the car drove up the mountain road to the village, Xiang Kun was even more certain that he had seen this road in the owl's memory. However, the image in his memory showed him looking down from the sky.

The first thing Xiang Kun did was to follow the clues. He wanted to find the place where the owl used to live and see if he could find any clues about how it had mutated or if there were other similar species.