Ligers and tigons did not exist in nature. After all, the places where lions and tigers lived were so far apart, and they could only survive and reproduce in zoos.
Ligers were much larger than tigers or lions, weighing as much as 900 pounds, or 400 kilograms. Yet they had no ability to hunt and could not survive in the wild.
If one stepped closer to inspect this supposed Beast of Gévaudan specimen, one would find that it was not as large as Georgiana had imagined. It merely seemed much larger against the surrounding animal specimens, like the Moon appearing larger near the horizon than when it hung high in the sky.
According to the records, this coffee-colored canine-like animal weighed sixty-five kilograms, no more than a small adult man. Compared with Cerberus, the so-called Gévaudan monster was far too small. Even a mastiff could weigh a hundred kilograms.
Mastiffs and bull mastiffs were famous for often being used in bull-baiting and bear-baiting spectacles. Though fierce, they rarely attacked humans of their own accord unless driven mad by hunger.
Georgiana stroked the Beast of Gévaudan's fur. Aside from being slightly coarser, it was not much different from ordinary dog fur. She truly could not imagine how it had been able to withstand a hunter's bullets.
"You shouldn't touch it," Saint-Hilaire said beside her. "It's cursed."
Georgiana looked at him and asked in French, "Who told you that?"
"According to the Church's investigation. I also went to your library," Saint-Hilaire said.
"What?"
"At the end of the Reformation, there was a farmer in Gévaudan named Pierre Marck. He contracted a strange illness. When mad, he bit anyone he saw; when lucid, he constantly begged and prayed. Yet even the priest did not know what was wrong with him," Saint-Hilaire said. "So