It wasn't normal for so many pet cats to appear in the depths of the primeval forest, and these cats had appeared in the form of death, which made it even more unbelievable. It had an invisible impact on Zhang Zian and the other elfins' train of thought. They knew that some felines and canines would engage in senseless killings, so they thought that the four dead cats were also the result of senseless killings.
But what if that wasn't the case?
As a bird, Richard had always been a calm and objective third party, and it had always liked to talk big. Even if it said something wrong, other people's impression of it wouldn't worsen.
If it wasn't a senseless killing, there must have been an internal reason why the beast had chosen to kill the four cats.
Famous serial killers in history, such as Jack the Ripper, didn't choose their victims randomly. Criminal investigation experts could find some common characteristics of the victims to predict their future targets, and then send police officers to act as ordinary people who matched the characteristics to lure the killer into the trap.
Zhang Zian admitted that Richard had pointed out his blind spot, but it didn't mean that Richard's conjecture was correct. Everything had to be proven by facts.
In addition, if the beast really did choose its targets to attack, didn't that mean … that it or they had a certain level of intelligence and thinking ability?
Fortunately, from the moment he met the second dead cat, he had taken pictures of the dead cat. When he took the pictures, he didn't think much about it. He just felt that it was a little strange. Besides, taking a few pictures wasn't a big deal. Such an unintentional act had come in handy now.
Even though it was the first mixed breed Maine that he hadn't taken a picture of, he still had a deep impression of it. After all, the visual impact of the first cat was not small.
When it came to cats and dogs, Zhang Zian was more or less a professional among ordinary people. He quickly browsed through the three pictures in the photo album and the picture in his mind a few times, and he really did find something in common.
Among the four cats, there were mixed breeds, purebred cats, male cats, and female cats. They were all adults, but their ages varied. There was no similarity in these aspects. The one thing they had in common was that they were all tabby cats.
Tabby cats had a wide range of fur colors, including five typical fur colors.
To be specific, tabby cats included not only the American Shorthair and Dragon Li, which people would immediately think of, but also many unexpected cat breeds, such as the pure-colored Abyssinian cat, the Maine cat, and the Norwegian Forest cat, which were relatively rare in China, all of which were tabby cats. Of course, the Egyptian cat, which was the ancestor of tabby cats, was also included. Overall, tabby cats accounted for about 80% of all domestic cats.
Abyssinian cats might be classified as tiger-striped, because their multi-layered fur was equivalent to stripes. In addition, although their bodies were pure colors, the stripes on their foreheads could still be seen.
As long as there were patterns or circles of stripes on the forehead, tail, and limbs, they could generally be considered a tabby cat. "Tabby cat" was not a cat species, but a characteristic of fur color.
In short, if you saw a random cat on the street and said it was a tabby cat, there was an 80% accuracy rate, which was quite high.
Probably only a few pure-colored cats, such as Snowy Lionet and Vladimir, did not belong to the tabby category.
Westerners thought that the temper of tabby cats was more … weird, unpredictable, and arrogant. They even deliberately used the English word tabby as the root of the word tabbitude to describe the temper of tabby cats. But in fact, this was nonsense. If the tabby cats, which accounted for 80% of domestic cats, were eccentric, then perhaps the real eccentric ones were the non-tabby cats. After all, the minority followed the majority.
The four dead cats were all tabby cats, which was not unusual in terms of probability. Logically speaking, it was a bit far-fetched to consider this as a common characteristic. For example, adult women who were killed by serial killers all wore heavy or light makeup and sprayed more or less perfume. This was all too common in modern society. As long as they did not use the same lipstick or the same perfume, it was difficult to consider it a common characteristic.
Zhang Zian knew this, but he still thought it was a common characteristic, because the common characteristic was not their identity as tabby cats, but a certain detail on their tiger stripes.
After quickly looking through the photos a few times, he selected a few photos in which he could clearly see the characteristics of their faces, grouped them together, and looked at them slowly.
The elfins could not help, and they stared at his movements and expressions with half curiosity and half suspicion.
He put down his phone, thought for a moment, and said to the elfins, "Richard is right. These four cats seem to have some common characteristics."
"Did you hear that? Am I awesome? Do you worship me a lot? "
Richard was proud. If it were not for the fact that it was already dark and had night blindness, it would definitely fly three laps in the sky to celebrate, and then be noisy enough to let every elfin know that it was its credit.
When they met these four dead cats during the day, the elfins were all around, but no matter how much they thought about it, they could not think of what these four cats had in common.
Zhang Zian's eyes fell on the foreheads of Old Time Tea and Fina. He stared for a moment and then looked away.
Old Time Tea touched its forehead inexplicably, thinking that there was something dirty on it.
"Zian, what are the characteristics?" Famous couldn't wait to ask. It saw that the cat elfins were hesitant to ask because it was closely related to them, so it asked for them.
Zhang Zian pointed to his forehead, then held the phone in his hand and swiped the close-up photos of the three cats' heads one by one for them to see, indicating that they should pay attention to the foreheads of the three cats.
"Quack! What is it? Don't bully me because I can't see it! "Richard cried.
"Stripes?" Famous asked doubtfully.
Yes, on the foreheads of these three cats, like many cats, there were vertical stripes.
Zhang Zian nodded and stared at Old Time Tea and Fina again. "Look again and compare. Is the stripe on the foreheads of Old Time Tea and Fina the same as these three cats?"
The other elfins shook their heads from side to side, looking at the foreheads of Old Time Tea and Fina, and then looking at the screen of his phone.
Gradually, they seemed to see something different, but they couldn't describe what it was exactly.
Old Time Tea was scared and smiled bitterly. "Zian, is it me and Her Majesty that are different, or is it the three … No, the four cats that are different?"
Zhang Zian pondered and said, "It's not different. It's just two different patterns — Old Time Tea, the patterns on your and Fina's foreheads are like scarab patterns, but the patterns on the foreheads of the four cats are more like M-shaped patterns."
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