There is a cat lying on his stomach in the small yard of a family not far from Zheng Si, an ordinary domestic cat, Zheng Si heard the house cat bark a few times when he walked here just now, a little arrogant, perhaps, for it, this place is its territory, and it barked a few times provocatively when it saw Zheng Si, which proves that its courage is not small.

But now, the house cat was cowering in the corner, and his eyes were wide as he looked at the strange cat in the night. Maybe it knew who it was, or maybe it didn't, but there was no doubt that its eyes were full of fear and cowering, like a creature at the top of the food chain pyramid in nature.

It's a strange feeling.

If it weren't for Zheng Si's special situation, it is estimated that he would shrink in a corner like that house cat, silently not daring to bark, and not even daring to move.

Is that cat the same as the lord and their origins?

Because there was an example of the lord in front of him, Zheng Si first thought of this situation, after all, there are also some bases around here, such as the internship base of Chuhua University, and those who always stay in this realm to do research, who knows if those people will do any strange research.

In the night, Zheng Si couldn't see what kind of coat color it was, and the cat just looked at Zheng Si for a while, and then continued to walk forward. It's fast and light, if it weren't for the vigilance and intuition that Zheng Si has exercised over the past few years, he might not be able to spot it.

The house smelled very unpleasant, and there were only some low bushes and grass around the courtyard, and the trees were still some distance away. Although there are only two floors. But the height of each floor is a little higher than the ordinary houses that Zheng Si has seen in Chuhua City, so in terms of height, the two floors here are worth the three stories of those houses in Chuhua City.

Zheng Si stood quietly next to him, watching the cat jump directly to the wall after running over, I don't know where the paws hooked the wall, or did not use anything but just ran up the wall, Zheng Si only felt that the shadow on the wall over there flashed, and the cat had already arrived in front of an open window on the second floor, and I wanted to do similar climbing exercises.

The cat stood on the windowsill and looked inside, its ears wary of its surroundings. The tail moved. Then jumped in.

What is it going to do?

Zheng Si was curious. And what makes Zheng Si even more curious is what the origin of this cat is. In the past three years, Zheng Si has seen many cats and other animals, and he also knows that among animals, even if they are of the same race, there are differences in IQ. And this cat. Let Zheng sigh think. It's not just about attacking and threatening.

The cat cowering in the corner of the yard was no longer there, and it was estimated that he had entered the house to find security. Zheng Si originally planned to go back to the base after a casual walk, but now he was a little hesitant.

People here don't come out much at night. It's still lively on the other side of the base, but here, it's really quiet, and only the sound of the program on the TV in the resident's home can make people feel a little popular.

Jiao's father said that this place in Qishan is magical, Zheng Si has never felt where its magic is, as for those rumors and legends, Zheng Si only listens to stories, and now, although he doesn't feel anything magical, he finally has some alternative feelings.

Curiosity, this is a habit that every cat can't kick. When Zheng Si inherited the cat's body, perhaps, even this habit was inherited.

Zheng Si was still pondering this inexplicable strange feeling, but when he came back to his senses, he found that he had already taken several steps towards the residence.

Smelling the faint smell coming from the air, Zheng sighed and shook his hair, and he shook off all the goosebumps.

Before coming to the courtyard of the house, Zheng Si got into the gap in the gate, stopped where the cat climbed the wall, and sniffed the smell of the strange cat. In addition, there is also the smell of medicine from the specimen, the smell of pesticides, and the intricate smell that makes Zheng Si feel not very good.

The wall was not smooth, and Zheng Si climbed up.

Even if Zheng Si has always felt good about himself, he has to admit that his ability to climb the wall is indeed not as good as the cat just now, and his speed is not as fast as that of the cat, and it is not as flexible as it.

Finally climbed to the windowsill of the window on the second floor, Zheng Si did not go in immediately, but stayed on the windowsill to pay attention to the movement inside.

It was quiet, as if there was no living creature in it. If he hadn't seen the cat jump in with his own eyes, if he hadn't smelled the smell coming from this room, Zheng Si would definitely think that there was nothing alive in it.

Even if there are no living animals, it does not mean that there are no other animals.

The door of the room is closed, and there is no lighting inside, and if you look at the sky and then look at the room, you will feel that the sky is actually brighter than the room.

The night wind blew into the room, and the air flow circled around the room and came out again with those complicated breaths inside.

The curtain on the side of the window swayed with the airflow, and the dancing white curtain added an eerie feeling to the situation.

When the falling curtain was lifted by the air currents again, Zheng Si saw the situation in the room.

In the room, there were a lot of animals. But none of them were living creatures, except for the cat Zheng Si had just seen standing on a table and squatting there quietly.

This is a room for taxidermy, there are a lot of taxidermy in it, of course, after all, the area is limited, it is impossible to compare with so many species and large animals in the museum, most of the animal specimens are small, such as some birds, small squirrels, rabbits, etc.

The animal specimens in the museum were basically donated by zoos, forestry and other departments, such as some rare animals that died of disease, etc., which Zheng Si only learned later. According to Jiao's father, there are hundreds of animals frozen in the freezer used to store animal carcasses at the Qishan Natural History Museum, and the museum's taximy workers have to thaw them one by one and make them into specimens.

However, for many private collectors, they prefer taxidermy made from animals in a healthy state, and some taximen do not like dead animals, because some animal carcasses are slightly more decomposed, and the smell of peeling off their fur makes them unbearable, so they prefer to slaughter them freshly.

And these taxidermy in this room. Zheng sighed intuitively that they were killed in a healthy state.

Maybe it's because the people who make these specimens are not very professional, compared to the specimens in the museum, these specimens are much inferior in terms of production and preservation, and now Zheng Si also smells the smell of rotting fur, and it is estimated that in another year or two, some of these specimens will be directly discarded. Probably the owner didn't care about this, the specimen was rotten, scrapped, and just made a new one. Throwing away the old ones also makes room for new specimens.

Zheng Si didn't want to look at the animals that had been made into specimens. Focus on the cat squatting on the table in the back.

On the opposite side of the cat, there was a specimen of a cat. The taxidermy cat is not supposed to be an ordinary domestic cat, but it is about the same size as an ordinary cat.

Zheng Si has experienced exhibition activities, so he naturally recognizes several valuable cat breeds. But these are not just a few precious breeds in memory. Could it be a wild cat living in the mountains?

It's like what the students said when they talked about it. In the wild, as long as there is no reproductive isolation, can anything happen? In layman's terms. That is, hybridization. For example, wolf dogs, such as super cats, in addition to artificial selection guided breeding, natural selection can occur all the time, especially in the rich species of Qishan.

Since it can be painstakingly made into a specimen, it should be different from a domestic cat, but I don't know how much difference there is, Zheng Si stood on the windowsill, couldn't see very clearly, and couldn't observe it in detail.

However, it seems that the cat specimen, whether it is the difference in size or appearance, the two should not be related, right?

The cat just sat there quietly, only when Zheng Si turned to the windowsill, his ears moved and glanced at the windowsill, and then he stared at the taxidermy cat again. Face to face, eye to eye, the distance between the two is about ten centimeters apart.

Zheng Si had a very ridiculous feeling, he felt that the cat was not like he was sad or something, but more like he was contemplative, like a thinker.

Zheng Si knew that his idea was ridiculous, but after thinking about it, other people around his life circle probably felt the same way when they looked at him, and felt that this kind of creature that should have been imbecile and low IQ suddenly became smart and unacceptable.

Zheng Si, like most people, underestimated the intelligent species on this planet. Perhaps, they may not have the same IQ as humans, but they may not be as low as people think.

The cat sat there like that, watched it for about half an hour, and then left. When he left, he glanced at Zheng Si, and seemed to be a little surprised by Zheng Si, after all, the other cats around here shrank as soon as they saw it.

After the cat left, Zheng Si ran into the room and stared at the cat specimen, but he always felt a chill on the back of the specimen, so he glanced at it a few times, and after walking around the room, Zheng Si left and went back to the base.

For the next two days, Zheng Si followed the internship team to the field during the day, and went out for a walk at night, and every day at this time, Zheng Si would see the cat here, and every day the cat would do the same thing, Zheng Si couldn't know what it was thinking.

On this day, at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, the internship team came back one by one, and after eating in the cafeteria, Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyuzi went to find those students to deal with the crabs caught in the mountain stream when they came back today.

Zheng Si didn't follow, after about the time, he planned to go out for a walk again, and the cat should pass on time today, right?

Who knows, before Zheng Si raised his feet and stepped out of the window, he heard the sound of the fire truck, and Zheng Sian listened to the direction of the fire truck, as if it was also the side he walked every day.

When he came to the house, Zheng Si found that the house that was fine yesterday was now on fire, and it happened to be the room where the specimens were displayed, and when the fire truck arrived, the fire had spread, but it was quickly controlled.

The surrounding residents usually don't see anyone at this time, but now they all come out to talk around.

Zheng Si glanced around, didn't find the cat, walked two steps, and suddenly looked up in one direction, there was a forest over there, there were no residents, the branches were too luxuriant, Zheng Si couldn't see anything. When Zheng Si was about to turn his head back, a pair of shining eyes flashed behind the leaves, Zheng Si knew that it was the cause of the light, but he still couldn't help the hair on his back stood up, he knew that at this moment, the guy who stayed in the tree was looking at him. (To be continued.) )

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