Werewolf, this is an ancient legend.

Since the era when humans have no history, there have been legends about werewolfs. To this day, there is still no conclusion on the origin of werewolf legends. No one knows when werewolfs began to appear in human stories and became a representative of cruelty, barbarity and weirdness.

According to the research of historians and literary historians, the legend of werewolf can be roughly divided according to regional distribution, species category and origin. Of course, these scholars have without exception regarded werewolf as a simple historical and literary image, and do not believe that the existence of werewolf is true.

According to regional distribution, the werewolf legends can be roughly divided into the Northern Plateau School, the Western School and the Central Plains School. The three schools are the werewolf images and story contents with local characteristics in the werewolf stories of their respective legends, forming significantly different genre styles.

The original origin of the werewolf story was actually in the Northern Plateau, and this Northern Plateau does not refer to the northern part of the empire now. Because there are only intermittent mountains in the north of the empire, and there are no plateaus, neither the inside nor the outside of the extreme north, there are obviously flat continental sections that are raised.

According to the era of legendary origin, the emergence of werewolf can be traced back to ancient times. Therefore, the regions in the distribution and division of regions were divided according to the entire Zhige continent. The situation of the continent at that time was that humans and alien races lived together with alien races as blood food and slaves. Only a small number of human races could obtain their own living space, perhaps in the gap between kind races, or under the protection of not cruel large races, in short, there was still a certain number.

The legend of werewolf originated from a gathering place of human races in the plateau area of ​​the northwest of the continent. The entire northern part of the Zhige continent raised outwards at the position of the empire, forming a land of the extreme north. The west of the extreme north is an endless sea of ​​ice, which sets apart the extreme north and the sea of ​​ice, and is closest to the north of the living area of ​​humans and aliens, showing a terrain from low to high from east to west.

Starting from the end of the Changshan Mountains in the East China Sea, there is a vast and plump plain in the northeast of the Empire, which is the largest and most abundant grain production area. Towards northeast and west, there are vast grasslands and Gobi. As the terrain gradually rises, mountains appear, connecting the northern part of the empire and the Tianshan Mountains.

Near Tianshan and further west are the northern plateau of the entire Zhige continent. The northern plateau is vast, and most of the plateau species and some of the ancient races live a hard life on the plateau. Most of them are vassals of the Tianshan race. Of course, the Tianshan race never recognizes vassals of other races, and they are wishful thinking.

At that time, near the northern plateau, a seaside of a polyan Peninsula was inhabited by some human survivors protected by the Tianshan tribe. From the extremely cold area in the northernmost area to the milder areas, more humans lived in a mixed manner with some wailing and peaceful races.

According to historical research, the earliest group of disseminators of the werewolf legend appeared from the edge of this northern plateau. They portrayed the werewolf as a naked humanoid creature with no fur but with a wolf's retreating shape and a hideous wolf face.

The werewolf of the Northern Plateau school does not have the natural characteristics in modern universal literature and film and television creation. For example, they are usually in a wolf state and only turn into werewolf on a full moon night. Instead, they are a simple humanoid creature, they are cruel and bloodthirsty, and they like not just to kill people, but often destroy human villages.

These creatures have no wisdom. They can't wear clothes. They have bare skin on their bodies. They have hard muscles under their skin, which looks very strong. They have long messy hair, long wolf mouths but no hair, which bulge from their faces and look very weird.

Judging from the special local wooden paintings, the werewolf of the Northern Plateau School is indeed such an indecent image. Because the era is too long, the legends of these werewolfs are often denounced by the later Western and Central Plains Schools as spreading rumors, rather than the origin of all werewolf legends.

Perhaps because of the different positions of the three parties, historians and literary historians actually like the legends of the Northern Plateau School more. First, because the Northern Plateau School is indeed the origin of the legend that traces the origin of the longest traceable source; second, because such legends are more true and have no mythical meaning, they have a lot of research value; third, because the legends of the Northern Plateau School are more like a kind of existence that scares children. Even the disseminator itself is likely not to believe the werewolf story they were told.

What is different is the Western faction that has developed very well and the more regular Central Plains faction.

The Western School is the western part of the entire Zhige continent. In the westernmost place and near the sea, there is a large hilly terrain in a mild climate zone. The hills are rolling, the water and grass are abundant, and there are many herbivorous animals growing. Of course, it is the best place for wolves to survive.

The legend about werewolf gradually spread from the northern plateau to the west. According to historians, the humans living in the west at that time should be slaves of all races who lack productivity. Although they did not worry about their lives, they had to do a lot of work and various miscellaneous work for the alien races from generation to generation.

Therefore, these people regarded werewolf as an image of revenge for society. They gave the werewolf the image of changing from humans to wolves, and described the ordinary werewolf as normal humans, some of which were hard work, and some of which were nobles. Yes, at that time, there were nobility in the humans. Humans who made great contributions to foreign races could gain an equal status with foreign races. This is the so-called nobles.

It is ironic that this is also the origin of the so-called "noble" and the evidence is conclusive.

The fundamental reason why people in the West created werewolfs into this form was that they were dissatisfied with the disparity in the status of the nobles and the exploitation of all the ancient races. The desire for freedom for generations has gradually changed from freedom to violence in the era and environment when there was no way out, and in the human culture that had not yet been completely enlightened at that time, violence did represent a lot of freedom in history to some extent.

So when a person turns from a human to a wolf at the full moon, they will walk up the mountain on the night of the full moon, look at the moon above their heads, gradually revealing sharp teeth and claws, covered with black hair, and their bodies are transformed greatly. Finally, they will become killing monsters and attack the creatures around them without any difference.

In the story of the Western Sect, werewolfs are divided into two image categories. One is a monster representing the brutal alien race. They use foreigners who like to treat humans as blood-eating aliens to lean on the werewolf; the other is a human fighter who resists the alien race and eventually becomes crazy.

Because the image of werewolf eventually turns from a human to a wolf, the second style occupies the mainstream, so the image of werewolf often represents a combination of cruelty, cunning, courage and resistance. The legend of the Western School is based on this basis and extends many story content.

Including the entanglements, struggles, friendship, or even love, comedy or tragedy between werewolfs and people, they are all in these stories. The Western School is a true weewolf prosperity faction, and the legend of werewolf has completely enriched in the large number of stories and artistic creations of the Western School, forming a complete system.

The story of the Central Plains faction is more inclined to humans to hunt werewolfs. It is a system derived from the complex struggles of various races in the central area of ​​the mainland when the Western Sect pushed werewolfs to the alien race.

The Central Plains advocated the division of werewolf into monsters, and even branches of humans and wolves appeared, that is, they turned over, and the image changed from humans to wolfs to humans. This image further reflected the cruelty and evil of werewolfs, and was widely popular among humans in the Central Plains. A large number of stories about humans resisting the invasion of werewolfs appeared.

It is precisely because of the processing of the Central Plains that another type of classification method of werewolf legend has emerged. Because the Central Plains has a large population, the legendary content is actually more content than the stories created by the Western and Northern Plateau schools. In addition, human revival began in the vicinity of the Central Plains, so there is more historical evidence preserved.

Therefore, the content of the story of the Central Plains School is almost equivalent to more than 70% of the entire werewolf legend system. Therefore, some people completely put aside historical inheritance and regional distribution and completely divided the werewolf stories into two types: one iswolf legend and the other is the human and wolf legend, forming the so-called species category classification method.

As for the third classification according to the origin, it is not a study of the origin of the story itself, but a method to explore how the werewolf images created in the story appear and classify them. And using the werewolf's origin story to summarize the contents of the same series of related stories.

According to the origin, the origin of werewolf can be roughly divided into three types.

The first is the mainstream view, which believes that the original ancestor of werewolf was ordinary humans at the beginning. Of course, there are also many different legendary creations in the human ancestor sect, and various origin stories are diverse.

Some legends believe that the ancestor of werewolf was a slave, and he was a slave for generations. One day, the evil races among the ancient races wanted to do an experiment to see if they could combine humans and animals, so they chose the weakest humans and the most brutal wolf race, so werewolf was born.

There are also some legends that the ancestor of werewolf is also a slave, and he has indeed worked hard for generations, but he is not satisfied with being a slave. If he wants to lead the human race to defeat the alien race and gain true freedom, he can only sell his soul to the devil and gain power far beyond humans and alien races. So God responded to his prayers and turned him and his believers into werewolfs. When they finally killed all the alien races that bullied them on the night of the full moon, humans gained freedom, but werewolfs were exiled to the depths of the forest, and the souls could not be liberated.

There are also some legends that the ancestor of werewolf was not a slave, but a warrior. In the battle of human tribes, human warriors from different camps used witchcraft to turn themselves into a half-human existence in order to win. One of them merged with the characteristics of the wolf and gained powerful power and transformation ability, and the other merged with the characteristics of the bat and gained eternal life and strong body. The grudges and hatreds of both sides ran through the entire history.

The second view is just the opposite, believing that the ancestor of werewolf was a wolf, and later became a human by chance. This legend is more metaphysical, mixed with many shadows of witchcraft and gods. In short, it takes only one opportunity to become a wolf, and it can only be considered a miracle when a wolf becomes an adult.

This also coincides with the status of human beings in history. All races in ancient times were born stronger than human beings, and it was unfair to be regarded by ancient human beings as gods. In their cognition, it is delusion that human beings can evolve to the level of alien races, and they can only find hope from degeneration and obtain animal nature.

The third view is also the source of the differentiation between werewolf and human-wolf. They believe that the existence of werewolf, or human-wolf, is the product of the combination of human-wolf. For some reason, human-wolf or human-wolf is either integrated with each other, or gave birth to offspring, or wolf is adopted by humans or wolfs, which is why werewolf or human-wolf produced.

The reason why werewolf and human wolf are different is that it is caused by the different proportions of human nature and wolf nature. This argument carries the authentic humanity of the Central Plains School, treating human nature and wolf nature as a subsidiary of human beings. Whether it is a werewolf or a human wolf, it will not be a high-end existence in this view, but only darkness and humbleness.

But it is worth mentioning that no matter which legend, it has never been confirmed that they have really seen werewolfs. No matter from literary records, legends, or archaeological excavations in various places, there have never been the existence of werewolfs or vampires in the legends.

Because vampires have eternal life in legends and will turn into ashes after death, no one corrects them from archaeological excavations. The werewolf is more miserable. Not finding the bones of werewolfs, which means that they do not exist. This is the fixed pattern of modern theory.

The legend of werewolf is just a legend after all, and it has become a completely story image. When people talk about werewolf, they no longer have fear, but are more curious and weird. In short, normal people never think that werewolf is real, and no one thinks that werewolf will appear.

So when Fuchun Mountain saw the squirming and already shaped meat balls inside the sewer entrance, he could hardly believe his own eyes. Shaking his head, he told himself that he was a practitioner, a master, and a senior talent who had received twelve years of compulsory education.

But when he looked at the meat ball again, he couldn't help but feel dazed again, grabbed the communicator, and said stutteringly: "I am Fu Chunsheng, I found a... werewolf?"

"Ah?" The teammates of the picket team who were searching for other places were stunned for a moment, and they all smiled and said, "Old rich, don't joke, arewolf? You are really a werewolf."

"No, no!" Fuchunshan shook his head repeatedly: "Come here, this... has been fooled by the master! I, Cao..."

There was no sound in Fuchun Mountain's communicator. The other twenty companions realized that things seemed a little wrong, and went to the location displayed on the communicator tracking location, wanting to see what Fuchun Mountain saw.

But when they arrived at the location indicated by the communicator, they only saw the sticky blood slowly flowing out of the sewer entrance and the scattered snow on the ground. Everyone looked at each other and didn't know what was going on. At this time, someone said, "Here!"

The blood-carred communicator in Fuchun Mountain was taken out of the snow. The blood had not completely frozen, and told them that the tragedy had happened not long ago. The enemy had left here on the way to come. Something happened to their companions, but they did not hear any movement or see anyone who could do it.

"Look for it! Damn it! Want to take advantage of the situation?" The leader of the picket team was immediately angry. He was thinking about who was plotting against them behind his back.

On the sixth floor of the store, An Xiaoyu, who was holding a pottery pot in her arms, suddenly opened her eyes. She could feel that the stars in her dantian could be restless. Outside, there was a disgusting aura that had just climbed to the extreme and was moving quickly towards this side.

This is the sensing of the human spirit body, a feeling based on the level of life. The disgust brought to An Xiaoyu by the breath comes from the harshness of the human spirit body on the level of life. She doesn't know what kind of creature it appears, but only knows it is something that shouldn't have appeared.

He looked at the administrator, but the administrator looked calm: "Don't worry, there is a god-transforming person in the store, what are you afraid of?"

An Xiaoyu couldn't help but be stunned. Then she remembered that Zhonghuaran was a powerful god-transforming man. Although she was regarded as an ordinary outsider because she could not reveal her identity casually, her strength was there, not to mention that very sharp rule, which was the most suitable for dealing with physical mortals.

Nodding, she lowered her head again, not continuing to care.

Sure enough, the breath was getting closer and closer, approaching the store quickly, and then hit the energy shield head-on. The entire store building trembled slightly with the impact, and the sound of the impact reached everyone's ears. A burst of noise suddenly sounded in the quiet store.

"What's going on? Explosion?" Everyone speculated.

Zhonghuaran looked around vigilantly, then frowned. The guards outside the store and the soldiers who had already moved were all looking at the monster in front of them in shock, not knowing what to use to describe their current mood.

This was a werewolf! It had long white hair, four sharp claws with long nails, with upright hind legs and wide chest. It was installed on the energy shield hard, and the tough energy shield was almost knocked away by it. Of course, the werewolf itself was not easy. Because of the impact, many bones were misplaced, and the upper body was curled up.

But just in everyone's eyes, the werewolf's body was like a shriveled balloon and reconnected to the pump. It quickly opened the skeleton, returned to its original state, and again hit the energy shield hard in the direction of the energy shield.

boom!
Chapter completed!