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The amount of cat food and cat litter a cat consumes in its daily life is basically fixed.

It can fluctuate within a certain range, but whether it exceeds or falls short, it is actually considered abnormal.

According to Wang Deliang's Taobao records, he buys a box of branded cat food online almost every two weeks. Moreover, he doesn't buy the large packages of seven kilograms or more, but rather the smaller packages of 0.5 kilograms or one kilogram, which are more expensive.

Given his purchasing frequency of once every one or two weeks, why does he never consider buying more in bulk at once, instead preferring to make a trip to the courier station every two weeks?

And putting all that aside, the fact that he owns two cats and needs to consume six or seven kilograms of cat food every two weeks is already an outrageous figure. Neither golden shaded cats nor chinchillas have that kind of appetite. Where does he spend all the cat food he buys?

This is undoubtedly very abnormal.

According to Chen Rang's judgment, there is only one possibility for this situation. That is, the cat food he bought was not for feeding the cat, but was sold to cat owners as a free gift or as part of a separate payment when selling the cat.

Only in this situation would he choose a small, lightweight package of cat food. Not only would it be less of a financial burden to give as a gift, but it would also be convenient for the person buying the cat to take it with them.

Chen Rang shared his judgment with Sun Zhengdong, who immediately understood the situation.

He closed Taobao and opened Pinduoduo, and sure enough, this time the purchase history was completely different. Large packages of cat food, weighing twenty or even fifty kilograms, were priced at only one or two hundred yuan, blatantly displayed in the transaction history. Moreover, unlike on Taobao where he would only buy a few bags at a time, here he was buying ten or twenty packages at a time, which amounted to several hundred kilograms. Scrolling further down, he also bought a considerable amount of cat litter weighing twenty or thirty kilograms but costing only a few dozen yuan.

With this amount of purchases, it's enough to support not just a few cats, but probably dozens or even hundreds.

Chen Rang obtained evidence to support his judgment about Wang Deliang so easily. This guy was indeed a cat dealer or a backyard cat breeder, and he had another cat-keeping facility outside of his home.

Sun Zhengdong opened a transaction record, and the venue appeared right under his nose.

"hehe……"

Chen Rang couldn't help but laugh.

That's right! Who would leave hundreds of kilograms of cat food and litter far away and go through the trouble of carrying it away? Of course, they would just have the delivery person bring it to their doorstep! Anyway, although this is illegal, it's not enough to go to jail, so Wang Deliang had no intention of covering it up.

The only thing he didn't expect was that the police would come looking for the cat like lunatics, and unexpectedly caught him in the act of operating an illegal business.

"I...I only keep a few cats! If someone likes them, I'll give them to them for adoption, and at most I'll charge a small fee for their time and care. What's the problem with that? Even if you want to contact me, you should contact the Industry and Commerce Bureau or the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau. What does this have to do with your police station?"

Even after being taken by Sun Zhengdong to the small cat-keeping yard he rented near the suburbs, Wang Deliang continued to argue.

"Then tell me, are the origins of these cats all legal?"

Sun Zhengdong sneered.

He pointed to the shacks built with asbestos tiles in the yard, the rusty cat cages of varying sizes inside, the messy and smoky environment with cat feces everywhere, and the numerous cats of various breeds in each cage, and asked Wang Deliang a question.

"..."

Wang Deliang immediately fell silent.

If it's legal, why would the police come knocking on his door? If it's legal, how did the cats that were secretly taken from the cat cafe end up in his cattery?

"I was just greedy for a moment. I saw that the cat was cheap, so I bought it without asking where it came from."

This was the only explanation Wang Deliang could offer.

"Then tell me, how much did you pay for the cat from that cat cafe?"

After inspecting the cattery, Chen Rang walked out with a frown.

The hygiene and health conditions of the backyard cattery were undoubtedly terrible. Wang Deliang's cattery lacked even the most basic disinfection and disease prevention equipment. His method of cleaning up cat excrement was simply to dig a hole in the yard and leave it to decompose naturally in the open. The drainage ditch outside the cattery was covered in cat feces and urine, undoubtedly a prime source of disease.

And that's not all; at least it's not closely related to the cat cafe case.

Wearing a mask and covering his nose, Chen Rang patrolled the cattery for a while and surprisingly found several familiar cats. These seven or eight cats had all worked at that cat cafe before, and some of them had even been treated by Chen Rang.

This was still the result of his not checking carefully, after all, there were so many cats in the cattery, hundreds of them of all sizes. Some were huddled together in layers, making them impossible to distinguish without separating them.

Even so, it can be concluded that the cats that disappeared from that cat cafe are very likely with Wang Deliang.

This is somewhat of a coincidence.

Chen Rang initially suspected that the cat cafe owner had taken away all the healthy cats to continue deceiving people elsewhere.

However, judging from the police's arrest of the cat cafe owner in another location, he didn't have any cats with him at the time, nor did he intend to continue operating the cat cafe. Was he content with just one scam in a small place like Sarawak, so he sold the cats and gave up on continuing to scam money from cat cafes?

Chen Rang thought it was unlikely.

He suspected that the relationship between Wang Deliang and the cat cafe owner, or rather, the owner behind the cat cafe, might be more than just taking over the business for a cheap price. This guy named Deliang, who was extremely unscrupulous, was very likely in cahoots with those people.

He is likely the "producer" of the cats in those deceptive cat cafes, specifically responsible for breeding the "products".

It was precisely because of this unified and professional "supplier" behind the scenes that Chen Rang was unable to find any clues about the cats among his acquaintances in the relevant industry. They didn't purchase the goods in batches, so naturally no one would know.

Chen Rang gave Wang Deliang, who kept arguing, a deep look before telling Sun Zhengdong his judgment.

"Accomplices?"

Sun Zhengdong was taken aback.

He only asked Chen Rang to help him find the whereabouts of the cats in the cat cafe, how did he manage to stumble upon the mastermind's hideout so coincidentally? How could someone Chen Rang casually buy a cat from outside and end up in the criminals' base?

He really wanted to argue.

However, when Chen Rang showed him enlarged photos of cats from the police station and led him to compare them with the cats in the cages, concluding that nine of the cats were in the photos, Sun Zhengdong had no words of doubt.

Because this kind of thing is too coincidental! It's almost impossible for such a coincidence to exist, even if Wang Deliang could indeed have simply taken over all the remaining cats in the cat cafe in one go.

But this raises another question: if the cat cafe owner only wants to sell the cats for money, why keep the sick ones inside? Couldn't the sick cats be sold to Wang Deliang anyway, since he's unethical and would definitely take them?

Sick cats can be resold for money. Wang Deliang dares to take in cats of unknown origin, so how could he possibly be picky about them?

The most likely scenario is that his main purpose in taking these cats wasn't to sell them to individual buyers. He only kept the healthy cats to continue providing them to people running cat cafes to make money off them; that's the real money, while the sick cats became a risk.

"These... are all just your deductions, right? Although I think they make a lot of sense, there's no evidence, is there? Maybe Wang Deliang is just an unscrupulous cat dealer, and his relationship with the person behind the scenes isn't that complicated."

Sun Zhengdong's lips twitched; he hadn't expected Chen Rang to bring up so many conjectures in one go.

He was a policeman; he wouldn't, and couldn't, label Wang Deliang a heinous criminal based solely on Chen Rang's deductions. He even questioned why Wang Deliang would sell cats privately if he was breeding them for that group.

"Because of greed? He dares to sell a single chinchilla for three or four thousand, and three or five would be worth tens of thousands. But how much of the money that group of people defrauded can he get? Besides, that group of people has been discovered and are being pursued by you, so he has no one to control him now."

Chen Rang seemed determined to kill Wang Deliang.

On the one hand, he did have this suspicion, and on the other hand, he truly loathed that bastard.

This guy's breeding environment and attitude showed he didn't care about the cats' lives at all. Chen Rang even found several dead kittens outside the yard, lying there inhumanely in the garbage dump.

For a veterinarian, Wang Deliang's behavior was simply a provocation against his moral bottom line as a veterinarian.

Chen Rang wished he could curse Wang Deliang, such an extremely unethical backyard cat breeder, to die a horrible death! Earning such despicable money, aren't they afraid of having sons born without an anus?