The end of the world: mountain and sea disasters

Chapter 31 Hanging Nest

The missing person was abandoned in front of the small garden workstation.

This is his luck, his life should not be cut off.

The medical facilities in the small garden were enough to heal his injuries and allow him to survive the cold wave safely.

Outside the workstation, Yu Ke continued to chase the hunter-faced owl.

After nearly two hours of tracking, he went deep into Jinghu Forest. Yu Ke would not be willing to go back like this.

Of course, Yu Ke also knew that it was never a good idea to stay deep in the Jinghu Forest for a long time.

The energy of the snowmobile is limited, and he must leave enough power for the return trip, otherwise he will get stuck in this blizzard with disastrous consequences.

So Yu Ke set limits for himself.

Track the direction where the human-faced owl last appeared for half an hour. If there are still no results, then withdraw.

Anyway, the missing person has been rescued. Part of the mission has been completed, and some professional experience can still be gained.

Driving deep into the Jinghu Forest, since there was no clear target location, Yu Ke chose to slow down and try his best to observe the surrounding situation and capture any clues that the human-faced owl might have left behind.

Just as Yu Ke was preparing to evacuate because the search found nothing, his eyes were suddenly attracted by a brown-red object swaying in the wind not far away.

Turning a corner and leaning forward, Yu Ke leaned over and pulled it up from the snow.

A scarf half stained with blood.

Items left behind by the missing!

But why is half of it exposed?
You must know that the snowstorm has not stopped yet, and the snow accumulation is increasing almost every minute. It is said that this kind of thing should be buried in the blink of an eye.

Looking around, Yu Ke soon discovered that there were several small raised snowdrifts in the snow nearby.

He took off the Leviathan Ax from the side of the snowmobile, got off the car and pushed aside the snowdrift. When he saw what was under the snow clearly, his expression suddenly became calm.

I thought it was some other debris, but it turned out to be bones and flesh frozen into lumps of ice, and even broken palms.

There must be a reason why these things are concentrated here.

Yu Ke stood up and looked up at the white wind and snow above his head. So many flesh and blood objects fell here not long ago. In his opinion, there was only one explanation. The "original owner" of these things was above his head. !
Realizing this, Yu Ke speculated that the nest of the human-faced owl might be nearby.

In recent times, human-faced owls have frequently attacked farms outside Danhang City. According to information from the Forestry Protection Bureau, in order to avoid being surrounded, it will basically take its prey away. Thinking about it this way, it is not strange to store food near its nest. matter.

So, the human-faced owl should be hiding somewhere above our head?
His vision was obscured by the wind and snow, and Yu Ke could only see the drifting snow.

If you want to verify your suspicions, you can only climb up and check it out in person!
Just do it, Yu Ke turned around and took the shotgun from the other side of the snowmobile and put it behind his back.

In a blizzard environment, long-range attacks are ineffective, and shotguns can undoubtedly play a more powerful role in close combat.

Holding a dogleg knife in one hand and a Leviathan ax in the other, Yu Ke found the largest tree nearby and climbed up.

Relying on his outstanding physical fitness, Yu Ke inserted the short knife and the long ax into the tree trunk to serve as a fulcrum, and continued to climb. During this process, Yu Ke deliberately did not touch the branches on both sides too much. At most, he stepped on his feet for a short period of time, instead of jumping back and forth to speed up the climb when hunting the giant python.

It's not that it can't be done because of the harsh environment, but it will create a large-scale noise.

Judging from the human-faced owl's reaction during the last fight, this monster is by no means slow in its perception of the surrounding environment.

We're all here now. If he's trying to save effort by taking these few steps, Yu Ke will beat himself in annoyance.

When he reached a height of more than 50 meters above the ground, Yu Ke lowered his eyes and looked down. There was no trace of the snowmobile or the ground. The blizzard isolated him from the ground, as if he was in an abyss, and if he fell, he would be in a desperate situation.

He only glanced at it and stopped looking. Instead of worrying about whether he would fall, Yu Ke was now focusing on the scene in front of him.

At a height not far from him, a large number of branches were forcibly woven together to form a messy net, or a flat nest with only a certain curvature at the bottom, because the bottom of the entire nest was deliberately It is hollowed out, so the snow will continue to slide from the hollow and it will be difficult to completely accumulate.

What worries Yu Ke even more is the vines hanging from the hollow at the bottom of the nest, which are entangled with a lot of shocking debris!
Clothes fragments, shoes, scarves and even severed feet, beast heads
They swayed in the howling wind and snow, and things fell from time to time. I guess this was the reason why the snowdrifts formed underneath.

This is clearly where the human-faced owl hangs its food!
However, Yu Ke still had doubts in his heart.

He found that there were only some small objects left here, and all the prey had disappeared. This alone could be explained by the fact that the human-faced owl eats a lot and consumes its food reserves during the cold wave.

However, as Yu Ke continued to get closer to the net hanging high in the sky, he was surprised to find that the intertwined branches were entangled with strangely colored vines, which were the same ones that had previously tied up the prey.

Even in this wind and snow, they showed an unusual purple-red color, with several colorful spots and a strange phosphorescence.

I don't know if it was an illusion or some other reason, but Yu Ke vaguely noticed that the part of the vine wrapped around the object was more like a creature's tentacles, squirming in mid-air, as if trying to grasp something.

Special plants deep in the Jinghu Forest?
Yu Ke has never seen such a creature, and now is not the time to study vines.

He had seen the nest where the human-faced owl was hiding.

It's in the tree hole at the other end of the net bag!
From where Yu Ke is now, he can clearly see the large hole hollowed out in the tree trunk opposite. At first glance, it looks like a person is tall, and the space inside must be quite large. There are a lot of hay and dead branches piled on the outside. It must have been brought back by the human-faced owl to keep out the cold.

Yu Ke was still trying to find a way to confirm whether the human-faced owl was hiding inside, so as to avoid breaking into the empty door and alerting the enemy.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got closer, he heard a sharp hissing sound coming from the tree hole.

Now there is no need to ask for confirmation, the human-faced owl is among them.

At this time, the human-faced owl seemed to be suffering from some severe pain. Even Yu Ke, who was opposite the tree hole, could hear the wail coming from it.

Yu Ke guessed that it was hit by a bullet when it attacked the farmer, and this was undoubtedly a great opportunity to lurk in the past!

Putting away the dagger and the Leviathan ax, Yu Ke held the belt of the shotgun in his mouth and crawled along the suspended nest toward the tree hole with all four limbs. The closer he got, the clearer the human-faced owl's cry of pain became.

Carrying the wind and snow, Yu Ke quickly climbed to the tree hole, stepped on the intertwined branches with his feet, and pulled the gun bolt.

Turn on the light on the top of the helmet, take a deep breath and lean into the tree hole.

(End of this chapter)