After cautiously traversing through the forest for nearly an hour and carefully checking the ground and surroundings for traces, Xiang Kun could not find anything that could be conclusively linked to the "peculiar smell".
However, since he could distinctly smell it, there must be some traces left behind.
Xiang Kun stopped in his tracks, closed his eyes, and began to reconstruct the scenario he had just observed in the nearby area, complementing the visual with auditory and olfactory information.
He even started trying to use Xiao Pingguo's unique mode of perception, relying solely on the sense of smell to construct the environment.
