Chapter 1553: Watson and Holmes

Meeting a dead cat and a dead deer was just the beginning. Before noon, Femus, who was walking ahead, smelled a third strange smell.

Although Zhang Zian couldn't smell it, he had already guessed the owner of the third animal corpse—it was still a cat.

Sure enough, he and the elves followed the smell and found the source of the smell in a tree hole, which was a shorthair.

Similar to the situation of the mixed Maine Coon before, this shorthair was also bitten by sharp teeth, and died of excessive blood loss after hiding in a tree hole.

Zhang Zian poked Mei Short's body with a branch, and it was not completely stiff, which proved that it hadn't been dead for too long.

He stood beside the elves, and neither of them spoke for a while.

If there is only one cat, it can be said to be a coincidence. In a short distance, two cats with the same cause of death have been encountered. Can this be explained by coincidence? No one believed anyone who came out.

Not only the cause of death is the same, but even the time of death is similar. The strangest thing is that the corpses are still intact, which means that the beast that killed them did not intend to eat them, but just killed them.

Not for hunting, but purely for killing.

A saying that people often say is that only humans kill meaninglessly, and animals only kill when they need to eat. This sentence is applicable to most beasts, as ferocious as a great white shark, when it is full , and divers can swim alongside it.

But there are always exceptions in the world. Many canids, such as wolves, foxes, jackals, and the like, occasionally kill meaninglessly. In the past, a fox often got into the chicken coop and killed all the chickens in the countryside.

It stands to reason that a fox can't eat so many chickens no matter what, eat one, take one away, let the others go, and come back to eat them later, why kill them all?

Wolves and jackals have a similar situation, for example, jackals sneak into the sheepfold and kill all the sheep.

Regardless of China or foreign countries, similar things are not uncommon.

In the forests of northwestern Canada, scientists once witnessed that a group of wolves killed more than 30 reindeer in a short period of time. The corpses were distributed within a few square kilometers, but only a few of them were eaten, most of them were just Kill it and throw it away.

You must know that the success rate of wolves hunting is not as high as people usually imagine, it is only about one-tenth, so wolves can only eat once a week, so it is very frustrating to get precious food but kill it and not eat it. People are puzzled.

In the past, people hated animals such as foxes, wolves, and jackals so much that they would kill them when they saw them. This has also led to the fact that these animals are almost extinct today.

Felines sometimes do the same.

Why would these animals do such senseless killing? Is he killing purely for fun like the criminals among humans?

no one knows.

Maybe it's not meaningless for them to do so, it's just that humans can't understand the hidden meaning behind it.

The current situation is like one or a group of scavengers appearing in the forest, doing meaningless killings similar to the above.

Another thing that has always been puzzling is why domestic cats appeared one after another in the depths of the forest.

Without Lao Cha saying anything, Zhang Zian took the initiative to take out the folding engineering shovel and buried the dead melon. Before burying it in the soil, he took a few photos of Mei Short.

Everyone continued on the road in silence. Except for Richard who was still making noise, no one spoke, and they all thought about the internal reasons of these strange things in their hearts.

As a result, before setting up camp in the evening, they encountered a total of four dead cats and two dead deer in one day, and the death conditions were basically the same.

The deer carcasses attract scavengers, the carcasses are incomplete, no cause of death can be seen, and the cats are all killed.

Later, Lao Cha was too embarrassed to ask Zhang Zian to bury the body.

After dinner, everyone sat around the campfire, staring at the burning flames, and no one went to bed earlier.

"Meow!" Vladimir cursed,

The silence was broken, but no further words were spoken.

Zhang Zian peeked at Fina, he thought that Fina would be furious because of this incident, but he didn't expect it to be quite restrained from the beginning to the end, but in a sense, this worried him even more - this guy won't Is it secretly planning some kind of plan to make a big death in silence?

Fina's expression was very calm, maintaining the thoughtful look she had all day today.

"Quack! It's time for me to come on stage!" Although Richard couldn't see anything, it didn't affect it's nonsense, "Let me show you the way!"

No one paid attention to it, and everyone was in no mood to joke now.

Richard's skin is thick enough, and he didn't feel embarrassed when he was left alone. He continued to say, "Quack! According to my uncle, the first thing to do is to find out the cause of the cat's death! Watson, what do you think? ?”

It patted Zhang Zian on the head, signaling for him to speak.

"Cause of death? You're not only night blind, but also day blind?" He opened its wings angrily, "If you didn't see it, you were killed?"

"Quack! You are an idiot, but you still don't admit it! Of course, my uncle knows that cats are killed, but why are they killed?" It asked a strange question.

"Why? I don't know why? I didn't kill them..." He replied without thinking.

"Quack! So, Watson, you can only play a supporting role. As the protagonist, I, Richard Holmes, will not be as stupid as you! To deal with this cruel serial killer, we must first find the commonality of the victims!" Richard twitched around in a pretentious manner, only regretting that he didn't have a pair of glasses that could be put on the bird's beak.

"What do the victims have in common? Aren't they all cats?" Zhang Zian asked back.

"Look, look, tsk tsk! Rotten wood can't be carved!" Richard shook his head and sighed bitterly, "If four humans were killed and I asked you what the victims had in common, would you Answer, do you dare to answer—are the victims all human?”

Zhang Zian was left speechless by the question. If he really dared to answer like that, he would probably be torn to pieces by the family members of the deceased.

No matter how Richard usually talks nonsense, but at least this time he was taken into account.

He and the other elves were thinking about what animal killed the cats.

Richard cuts into the problem from a unique detective perspective, thinking about what these victims have in common.

What is the common ground?

Except for the first mixed Maine Coon cat, Zhang Zian took photos of the other three cats before they were buried, so he took out his phone to open the photo album, and browsed through the photos one by one. 8) For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy