This is a very interesting question. The explanation needs to start with a man named Darwin...
"Use it or lose it", or natural selection, both explanations are possible. Humans and apes have no tails, but their ancestors have tails. The tail goes from existence to nothing, which is a degenerative phenomenon.
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Jiang Yan kept recalling the biological knowledge he had long forgotten, and was quite troubled by Hong's problem.
No, come to think of it, why do I have a tail? I haven’t returned to my ancestors, not in this life or in my previous life!
But feeling Hong's innocent eyes, Jiang Yan really had no way to circumvent this problem.
"Well, I was born without a tail." This is also true... Probably, now he has no way to take off his pants in front of a girl to confirm whether there are any signs of a broken tail on his body.
"Really?" Hong looked shocked.
Is it such a surprise that I don't have a tail? Jiang Yan realized that maybe in this world, intelligent creatures with tails like beast mothers are the mainstream. What can be done with this? He showed a thoughtful expression.
expression.
Hong looked at his expression and slowly became distressed (maybe it was a problem of perspective), and stopped talking.
The two were silent for a long time, and finally Hong spoke.
"Jiang Hao is so pitiful." Hong looked at Jiang Hao, who was more than a head taller than him, with pity.
"I..." Jiang Yan remembered that he was in front of a girl, so he held back the word "Nima". Just say it. He could only sigh helplessly. This person was unfamiliar with this place.
There is nothing to explain.
Seeing that Jiang Yan didn't reply, Hong turned around, dragged the wolf's body that had been left to dry for a long time, and put it on his back.
"Are you coming with Red?"
I don’t know if the kindness she showed towards Jiang Shao at this time was because she felt pity for Jiang Shao because he was lost or because he had no tail. Hong took two steps to the side and turned around to ask.
No matter what kind of kindness he had, "Well, I'll go with you!" Jiang Yan walked to Hong's side and finally had the chance to leave.
Seeing the thin girl next to me carrying a large wolf, it felt inappropriate for me to be so empty-handed.
"Let me help you carry it and put the wolf down."
Hong shook his head, "I'm afraid you'll run away after grabbing the prey."
My aunt, who dares to escape with the flying knife in your hand?
"Don't worry, look at how I can run away carrying a big dead wolf like this."
Hong was still hesitant, so Jiang Yan reached out and picked up the dead wolf from Hong's back, and carried it to him.
"It's quite light..." It wasn't as heavy as expected, and Jiang Yan felt a little relaxed.
"Let's go." Seeing that he had taken the initiative to carry the body and had no intention of escaping, Hong stopped asking about robbing things and pointed Jiang Shao in the direction, and the two of them walked side by side.
**********************Crossing the mountains, crossing the plains, and crossing the galloping herds of alpacas******************
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After a long time, the two finally came to the entrance of a cave.
"Is it okay to put it here?" Jiang Yan finally put the dead body down.
It is quite difficult to carry a big thing up and down... Although there is no high or low here, describing it this way makes his efforts very valuable.
Next it was Hong's time. Jiang Yan found a flat place to stay and watched Hong start his work as a wolf hunter.
The main thing was peeling off the skin. Jiang Yan had never done similar work, so he was confused and confused. He only felt that Hong had taken off the skin without much work.
"Speaking of which, Hong, don't you use traps to catch wolves?"
Jiang Yan suddenly realized that hunting wolves was a very dangerous job. It was really terrifying for this girl to be able to hunt wolves without preparation.
"It needs to be used, but it's not necessary this time. The wolf didn't seem to notice me at all, so the knife can solve the problem. Moreover, it is very thin and hasn't eaten for a long time."
As he spoke, Hong took out the stomach bag of the corpse and showed it to Jiang Hao, but the idea of having to remove the internal organs of a creature that had already been skinned in front of you was a bit off-putting to him, so Jiang Hao looked away after just two glances.
Emotionally this is a weakling.
"Although I can kill most wolves without traps," Hong continued.
...Well, at this juncture, it’s better not to worry about the issue of combat effectiveness. Jiang Yan curled his lips.
"It's amazing." At this time, the compliment was enough. Looking at the red wolf ears and silver hair, Jiang Yan couldn't help but reach out and touch the girl's head.
Hong's movements stopped. Wait, is this not something you can touch?
Jiang Yan instantly felt that his life was threatened. There was no way for this aunt who killed wolves with a knife to win... Wait, is she wagging her tail?
Jiang Yan carefully touched Hong's head again. Her ears twitched twice, but she didn't resist. Her tail wagged even more cheerfully.
Am I petting the dog?
Jiang Yan recalled his experience of holding Rua, a friend's husky. Well, the girl in front of him was a girl who couldn't do anything like masturbating... but it seemed that the beast mother was not bad at all.
After a few minutes, Jiang Yan reluctantly let go of his hand, shook his head and started working again.
He actually started to like this a little bit.
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As the sun set, the two began to prepare dinner. But to Jiang Yan's surprise, the ingredients were not the wolves they had caught today.
"Wolves don't taste good."
Thinking of Hong's comments, Jiang Yan could only lament that truly powerful people don't eat whatever they catch, but catch whatever they want.
Killing a wolf alone, he believed that in this forest Hong could definitely eat and catch whatever he wanted.
When he returned to the hole after collecting firewood, he found Hong dealing with several rabbits.
"Caught it back so quickly?" Hong didn't feel like he had just come back from hunting.
"It's in a trap." Hong pointed in a certain direction, probably because there was a trap at that location.
Seeing that Jiang Yan had brought back firewood, Hong took out a lighter from a corner of the cave. The two of them worked for a while and put the rabbit meat on the fire.
Smelling the slowly overflowing aroma of meat, Jiang Yan felt his stomach churning more and more violently. When Hong took out the salt shaker, his eyes glowed with gold.
"No regrets in life!"
Her face was filled with tears and she couldn't tell whether it was oily or tearful. Hong cast a look of pity again, pulled off a rabbit leg and handed it to Jiang Yan, and filled him with a glass of water from a wooden cup.
For a moment, it's as if your dog is afraid that you haven't eaten enough - a sense of picture emerges spontaneously.
Jiang Yan finally realized that he had lost his composure. As soon as he got serious, a burp came up. Fortunately, it wasn't too loud.
Forget it, it smells really good.
Jiang Yan swallowed the last piece of meat from the rabbit leg handed over by Hong and let out a long sigh of satisfaction.
Sure enough, even Darwin had to be full before he could think about the theory of evolution. Jiang Yan wiped his hands and face.
Now that he had eaten and drank enough, he finally had the time to sort out the current information.
————Popular setting, transition performance and so-called wolf-eared girl, and “wolf hunter”————
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About the wolf girl——Red.
Hong is a popular character in the Arknights game. She belongs to the category of "wolf girl".
Of course, she is a human-looking beast girl with only ears and a tail who is not a particularly hardcore beast girl... This game will not have a hard-core beastman like Anubis.
At least not for the time being.
Hong's image in the game is that of a killer in a short skirt, black stockings, a red hooded jacket, and multiple knives hidden all over his body.
And she describes herself as a "wolf hunter".
As for whether she was hunting a beast girl like herself or an animal like a wolf, because its setting is very mysterious, there have been different speculations in the industry.
I only know that the setting of this character is probably related to the story "Little Red Riding Hood".
In this game, Hong is set as a wolf hunter who hunts animals like wolves.