Three Experiments (I)

It was already 8: 30 pm when Xiang Kun returned to his city. The moment he opened his door, he was greeted with a pungent smell.

He wasn't surprised. There were still three rabbits in the cage in the kitchen. It had been almost five days since anyone had pooped for them. The stink was definite.

Xiang Kun opened the kitchen door to ventilate before checking on the rabbit in the cage.

Before he left, he stuffed all the vegetable leaves in the fridge into the cage and the side of the cage. The sink was filled with water.

As for how many days those vegetable leaves could be eaten, he would return in a few days. He naturally did not have the time or energy to consider these things. He raised food, not pets.

Initially, he had thought that these few rabbits would be g-gg. He did not expect to discover that although the three rabbits looked listless and on the verge of death, they were still tenaciously alive.

Xiang Kun hesitated if he should kill all three rabbits and drink their blood. However, after some consideration, he decided to follow his usual schedule and pace.

Furthermore, he planned to conduct some experiments. There were some things he needed to prepare in advance.

Hence, Xiang Kun helped the rabbit clean the cage. Then he searched the fridge and found an apple left behind by the tenant. He cut it into small pieces and placed them in the food trough.

At this time, he naturally wouldn't go out to buy food for the rabbit.

After taking a shower and changing his clothes, Xiang Kun sat in front of his computer. He opened a document and wrote down the summary of his trip to the mountains.

Apart from this, he also recorded down the method to understand the meaning of bird cries according to what Professor Li's daughter Little Apple said.

He was quite interested in this ability, and he felt that with his unique hearing, it should be easy for him to learn it.

However, he was actually more interested in Professor Li himself.

Although Associate Professor Li did not care much about Xiang Kun's topic of mutation and vampires, from his professional background and working environment, he was indeed the most likely person that Xiang Kun could come into contact with.

Of course, it was only "possible". Xiang Kun would not reveal any information to Professor Li and would not contact him for the time being.

He did not care whether the other party would be willing to help him or not. After learning about Xiang Kun's secret, he published a post that treated Xiang Kun as his major discovery and research results.

Either he had a strong emotional foundation or he was motivated by the same interests. Otherwise, Xiang Kun would not place his safety on someone else's moral bottom line.

Overall, although this trip to the mountain had taken almost an entire cycle of blood consumption, the harvest was still quite good.

Besides, the four and a half days in the mountains were another form of comprehensive training. It would be helpful for him to master and familiarize himself with the abilities obtained from the blood of the giant owl.

However, there were also regrets. The main purpose of this trip to the mountain was to find the cause and clues of the giant owl's mutation. The second was to find other mutated creatures, and the last was to find the reason why the owl left its habitat and entered the city area.

He felt that it was normal that there were no results from the first two points. However, he did not manage to find any leads on the third point, which made Xiang Kun feel uneasy.

To this owl, there was no need for seasonal migration. It would not easily leave its familiar territory and run to places where humans lived two to three hundred kilometers away.

One had to know that it was impossible for it to have any natural enemies in that forest. Not to mention that there were no ferocious beasts like tigers and lions there, even if there were, they would have to be afraid of that owl.

Moreover, judging from the owl's behavior and the memories Xiang Kun had, it knew how dangerous humans were. When it came to human habitats, it would try its best to avoid being discovered. It would even deliberately dispose of the corpses of its prey.

Under such circumstances, it was very unusual for it to appear near a large city.

If the rabbit had appeared near Xiang Kun's neighborhood because of Xiang Kun, it would have to fly to the garbage dump first to find the rabbit corpse and smell Xiang Kun's scent.

He did not think that the owl could sense him from hundreds of kilometers away.

There must be some reason that it could not resist, forcing it to leave its habitat and approach the human settlement carefully.

Was it not because of the environment, or because he was threatened by his natural enemy? Was it because he had insufficient food?

It seemed impossible. Although the prey that the owl hunted after mutation was getting larger, the forest area was huge and vast. It would not be impossible for the owl to find blood supply in a short period of time.

Or…

The blood of ordinary animals could no longer satisfy its needs. It had to absorb the blood of other mutated creatures?

This was only Xiang Kun's speculation. There was no evidence to prove it. Neither the traces in the forest nor the images of the owl could prove it.

However, he still felt that this was the most likely and reasonable possibility. Otherwise, it was impossible to explain why the owl had left its habitat and risked approaching the human settlement.

When he first smelled the giant owl, his body told him to pay attention to the scent.

Or perhaps, mutated creatures had the instinct to hunt and absorb each other's blood?

This made Xiang Kun alert. Could it be that one day, the rabbit blood would not be able to satisfy his survival needs and he would have to consume the blood of other mutants?

The next morning, Xiang Kun left the house. He needed to buy some things. Apart from the hunger that he felt today, he had three more experiments to do.

At 9 am, Xiang Kun had already bought the items he needed. He returned home and started his first experiment.

He used a 1-ml disposable syringe to extract a small amount of his blood before injecting it into the two rabbits. He then found a method to inject intravenous fluids into the rabbits online.

Then, he changed the syringe and mixed some pure water with his saliva into the other two rabbits.

Today, he bought five rabbit meat. Compared to the previous three, there were already eight at home. However, the four that he bought for the experiment were all new, so they looked quite energetic.

Xiang Kun placed the four rabbits that had been injected with blood and saliva into two new cages. Then he started to count and observe.

He wanted to see if his blood or saliva would infect other creatures and turn them into mutated creatures.

After all, in movies and art works, those who survived being bitten by a vampire would be turned into vampires.

Naturally, he would not bite the rabbit. However, if he could be assimilated by the bite, he could inject his saliva and blood into his blood vessels.

However, after observing for half an hour, the four rabbits didn't seem to have changed much apart from looking a little cowardly and listless.

Of course, he wasn't just going to observe for half an hour. He aimed the cheap camera he bought at the two cages, connected the computer, and started recording the video. He was going to do long-term observation and recording.

Then Xiang Kun ignored the rabbits and started to prepare for the second experiment.

He placed four glassware on the table before him, as well as four plugins.