Beast Studio

After learning about Liu Wei from Ao Changshou, the policeman came over and asked, "What did you find?"

Liu Wei said with certainty: "It is consistent with your inference, it is a crime committed by a wild animal?"

"Did you see what kind of beast it was?" the policeman asked.

Liu Wei shook his head thoughtfully, "I haven't found any footprints yet, so I can't be sure yet, but I found a very interesting place!"

"Tell me about it!" the policeman squatted down.

Liu Wei pointed to the traces in front of him, "From here on, the traces of the roe deer being dragged become shallower and shallower."

Putting his hand into the snow, Liu Wei showed it to the police and the audience in the live broadcast room, "The thickness of the snow has not changed, so it can be inferred that the weight of the roe deer has decreased!"

The policeman nodded. He felt that Liu Wei's analysis was reasonable. The reduced weight of the roe deer would reduce its pressure on the snow, and the traces left by it would naturally become shallower.

Liu Wei followed his own reasoning and dug away the white snow around his body, and found the roe deer's fur, blood stains and some scraps of meat.

"That's true!" Liu Wei nodded. "After the beast killed the roe deer in the pasture, it did not choose to eat immediately. Instead, it dragged it a few hundred meters away from the pasture and started devouring it. The purpose was to prevent humans from discovering it. .”

"Wairui, what kind of beast is this? So smart!"

"Awei, solve the case quickly, I want to know the truth!"

"The effect of this program is explosive!"

The audience was having a heated discussion, and Liu Wei frowned. He did not think that the beast was innately smart, but that he was worried about the acquired intelligence.

According to Meng Deren's description, he has lost his roe deer several times this year. Just between the day before yesterday and today, two roe deer were lost in a row.

Apparently the beast has become very skilled at catching roe deer from the pasture, and it is likely that it regarded Meng Deren's pasture as its own hunting ground.

Meng Deren's own analysis is half correct. Wild animals will not take the initiative to approach humans, let alone take risks to steal human livestock, except for cunning small mammals such as foxes, but they are not capable of catching prey the size of roe deer.

An important piece of information can be drawn from this. Large carnivores living in primeval forests began to attack human livestock due to lack of food.

The lack of food may be caused by seasonal changes or the impact of human activities.

On the way here, Liu Wei observed that the surrounding areas were pastures owned by local residents, and some even cut off the links with the original forest, causing the forest to spread out in patches. This environment had a huge impact on the large carnivores living in the forest.

Liu Wei is thinking.

"Come and look, there are footprints here!"

The policeman who reached the edge of the deep forest informed.

Liu Wei came to his senses and ran up.

The footprints left on the snow are not very obvious, and the outline can be roughly seen. There are gaps in the five toes and soles of the feet, which are typical characteristics of feline soles.

Liu Wei squatted down and calculated with his fingers, "The length is about six centimeters. It should be a large cat that is moving around!"

When it comes to cats, the police immediately think of the Siberian tiger. In the past two years, photos of wild Siberian tigers have been taken in the border area between China and Russia. Tigers have a wide range of activities. The Siberian tiger is the largest subfamily of the tiger subfamily. species, the scope of activities is wider.

"It could be a Siberian tiger!" the policeman speculated.

After hearing this, Meng Deren's body trembled. He was very afraid of tigers. Although he was a descendant of the Oroqen people, the best hunting nation, he had never engaged in hunting. He had followed the older generation in breeding since he was a child. He just listened to I told some stories about my ancestors’ hunting.

"Really or not? Don't scare me, comrade policeman. I have lived here for more than ten years and I have never seen a tiger!" Meng Deren said nervously. He was already thinking about whether to move. Already?

Liu Wei said with certainty: "It's not a Siberian tiger. A Siberian tiger's paws are wider than this. The footprints left by an adult Siberian tiger shouldn't be so shallow. And I just got out of the damaged fence. The size of a Siberian tiger went in and out." not easy."

"What is that?" Meng Deren asked.

Liu Wei relied on his analysis of the knowledge of cats in his mind and guessed: "It might be a leopard!"

"leopard?"

The policeman wondered, "It can't be a leopard. There are very few leopards in the Northeast, and it happened many years ago!"

Liu Wei thought of the Amur leopard, a subspecies of the leopard family that lives in the Far East and Northeastern regions of Russia.

However, there is basically no news of its activities in China.

In the past two decades, according to statistics from the World Endangered Animal Rescue Center, the number of Amur leopards has not exceeded one hundred, remaining around forty or fifty.

Basically all of them are distributed in the Far East near the coast, and no trace of it has been found in the three northeastern provinces of China.

Liu Wei had a strong premonition, but there was no actual evidence to prove his premonition.

He explored the snow along the edge of the forest again, and stopped after walking for more than ten meters. In front of him was a piece of snow that was very different from the surroundings.

It had obviously been plowed by something. The surrounding snow was very flat, but here it was protruding a lot.

Liu Wei reached out and threw it away, and he saw something interesting.

"Come and take a look!" Liu Wei turned back to Meng Deren and said.

The police followed and walked up.

"What...what's going on?" Meng Deren hesitated.

When the snowdrift was completely thrown away, the body of a roe deer with its internal organs and half of its body eaten was revealed.

"Eh~, so disgusting!"

"They're all frozen!"

"The murderer is so cruel!"

"Did you find the body?"

The audience feels like they are watching a detective film.

Liu Wei analyzed: "The beast is very smart and buries the uneaten roe deer meat in the snow. It knows that the current temperature can ensure that the body does not rot. When it is hungry, it will definitely return to eat again.

In this way, it saves a lot of effort and does not need to drag the body back to the cave. This method of storing food once again confirms that it is not a tiger.

According to the tiger's character, he either eats the prey directly and leaves it there to wait for it to rot and become food for other animals. Or he kills the prey and puts it in the same place and calls his children to eat together. Tigers don't have long distances. The habit of carrying food.

Moreover, other animals do not dare to touch the tiger's food easily. Even if they can get a few bites from the tiger, they will take the initiative to leave after seeing the tiger.

On the contrary, leopards have the habit of storing food. Brothers, do you still remember the leopards we met in Shennongjia? It carries uneaten food up the tree and enjoys it slowly.

To sum up, I am even more convinced that it may be a leopard, and it is most likely the Amur leopard that is almost extinct in China!”

The two policemen looked at each other. Of course they knew the value of the Amur leopard.

"Are you sure?" the policeman asked Liu Wei.

"Don't you know it when you see it?"

Liu Wei began to bury the roe deer's body again.

Meng Deren stopped him and said, "What are you doing? I want to carry the rest back. Even if I eat it myself, I won't lose any money!"

Liu Wei asked: "Do you still want to figure out the murderer? If you can't figure out the murderer, you will lose the roe deer in your pasture!"