Hong's originally monotonous life has undergone some changes, which started when she rescued a tailless weirdo named Jiang Shao a week ago.
That day Hong went out as usual - or went hunting for wolves in the cave. She knew very well that there should be a few lone wolves in this area.
——Most of these wolves should have been expelled by the leader of the clan to attract his attention. The wolf head of this forest is very smart and will use this method as a "meeting gift" when he comes to the forest to avoid the whole situation.
The ethnic group is under attack.
So Hong prepared very casually and had no intention of seriously looking for prey.
Anyway, there will always be prey that bumps into him. Instead of thinking about grabbing the wolf's skin, it is better to set up a few more traps to enrich his daily food.
However, by coincidence, Hong found a wolf - a wolf that was hunting, and did not even notice her approaching quietly.
Just as she was about to take action, the wolf ran out after its prey. As she followed, she realized that the wolf was hunting a strange man with no tail and no ears on his head.
She has also seen people without ears, but most of these people have horns on their heads, and they always have tails - there are very few people who can't even see a tail.
Normally these people would have feathers, but he had none.
The poor man without a tail was called Jiang Yan. Seeing that he was hungry and had no tail, Hong decided to help him.
Unexpectedly, this person without a tail has not only never eaten roasted rabbit, but also seems to have a problem with his head. He always asks weird questions and gets very popular, which makes him very surprised——
I'm afraid I just picked up a fool.
What is this, am I responsible?
Logically speaking, the recovered animals should either be well taken care of or find a good home to entrust. Looking at Jiang Yan's situation, he probably won't be able to hand them over.
Can you raise it yourself? Can you afford it? Hong was secretly worried as he played with his tail that night, thinking about how to deal with the animals he picked up.
Because Jiang Yan was mentally ill, he was no longer looked upon by popular people.
Stayed without even a tail touch.
Hong thought that this thing didn't even have a scaly tail or a feather tail, and felt that she had really made a big loss.
Although it feels good to touch his head...but you can't keep a lunatic just for this?
Then Jiang Yan told Hong a very strange story.
Isn't the Big Bad Wolf supposed to be the bad guy? How could he not be defeated by the good guys?
The more Hong listened, the more interesting it became - it turns out that bad people also have their own difficulties and can change their ways.
Hong also likes the ending of this story. Although the piggy’s tail is not as easy to touch as the wolf’s, the quality of people cannot be judged by their tails. So it’s good that everyone can live in harmony in the end.
Looking at Jiang Yan again, he doesn't even have a tail, but this does not affect Hong's feeling that he is a good person, and he slowly begins to accept the idea that "listening to stories is actually as interesting as touching his tail."
So Hong decided to keep him, even though there might be something wrong with his brain.
A week had passed by now, and after observation, Hong determined that there was indeed something wrong with Jiang Yan's brain.
This week, apart from working, Jiang Yan spent the rest of his time torturing himself in different ways.
He would find a rope to hang himself up to sleep, chant some unintelligible words to the sky, or dance some inexplicable dances. Every time he did these strange things, Jiang Shao would point to the sky and howl for a while - he didn't know where he was.
She was howling something, but it felt quite interesting, so before Jiang Yan was about to start barking, Hong followed him to see how he would scream this time.
But every time Jiang Shao would chase her away: "Let's go, let's go, kids, don't listen to this." He didn't look back until she was far away.
But this didn't stop Hong from changing places and watching secretly.
Jiang Yan sometimes did things that she could understand.
For example, running.
On the third day, Jiang Yan ran around the lake in the middle of the forest. Hong found that he ran very fast and couldn't stop once he ran, as if he would never get tired. After Hong was tired of watching, he decided to go around the forest.
When I saw Jiang Shao in the cave again in the afternoon, he didn't say a word.
"How long have you been running?" Hong felt that maybe she should take care of this Erque, but don't tire him out.
"All morning." Hong was shocked when he heard this answer.
"Then...how far did you run?" Jiang Yan was silent for a while, "Almost thirty laps."
Sure enough, there is something wrong with the brain. Who can run so far without any problem? And so fast?
In the evening, Hong brought back a wild boar from the trap. Fortunately, there was this wild boar, otherwise the usual number of rabbits would not be enough.
Hong silently watched Jiang Yan sweep away almost half of them by himself, and then he looked at the remaining parts with unfinished content and sighed:
"Forget it, it's best to be half full."
This is indeed a loss-making business.
I don't know if he was reflecting on his mistakes, but he didn't go for a run in the next few days, and his food intake returned to the normal range.
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Jiang Yan has not been idle these days.
He tried many methods to figure out the reason for time travel and whether he could go back, but in the end they all failed.
And when he was wandering outside one day, he found a fallen tree. He just lifted the tree as a play, but unexpectedly... he lifted it up. Although he didn't just move it a little.
Then when I moved the wolf... it wasn't that the wolf was light, but that I was strong?
But there is no comparison between the weight of that thin wolf and this tree.
Then Jiang Yan began to have a strong curiosity about his own body's abilities.
I can’t find anything specific to test my strength, but what about speed?
The results are surprising. It can be said that he feels like "running as fast as he wants".
And his physical strength kept pouring out as if it was never exhausted after a bout of fatigue, making him hardly feel tired during the next run.
However, the energy consumed did not seem to appear out of thin air - in Hong's eyes as if he had seen a ghost, he stopped eating, but it was not that he was really full.
On the contrary, his body still felt unusually hungry. But the fear in his heart made him stop.
What is going on? Am I possessed by a personal Gundam?
As he did not make any unusual moves in the next few days, his appetite slowly returned to its normal state, and the abnormal hunger disappeared.
He made a conclusion: This body is absolutely different from ordinary people.
The limit after several days of testing is still unknown. However, the body's ability is obviously divided into stages:
Normally, it only appears slightly stronger, but when the demand continues to increase, such as continuing to exert force on heavy objects or continuing to run non-stop, the body's ability will gradually be improved to the later stages.
The stronger the ability, the higher the energy consumption - and the more obvious the hunger caused after this "enhancement" is lifted.
When powerful abilities are no longer used, energy consumption will gradually return to normal levels.
Another week passed. Jiang Yan's plan today was to use the forest lake to test his lung capacity and ability to move in the water.
When he came to the water, he took off his clothes. Jiang Yan had already discovered that his body was not strong, only average. And he didn't seem to sweat a lot. These were some other strange things.
After doing warm-up exercises, Jiang Yan took a deep breath and jumped into the water.
A long time passed.
There was no feeling of suffocation, but the feeling of water made Jiang Yan start to feel a little excited.
He kicked out.
This speed can definitely reach the Olympics!
He scurried back and forth happily in the water, only coming out for a long time to breathe. He even played a swimming game with the fish.
Until evening, he wrapped himself in his clothes and ran back to the cave with his arms full of fish.
"Red!" He shouted loudly as soon as he saw the wolf girl.
Hong turned around and was startled by the fish he was holding.
"what happens?"
He put the fish down, took Hong's hand and sat down, looked at her and said:
"Don't be afraid of what I'm going to say next."
Hong looked at him doubtfully:
"Don't worry, I'm a wolf hunter, I won't be afraid, just tell me."
"I just said," Jiang Yan stared at the red character and said:
"Going for a swim."
Hong looked at his wet hair, twitching the corners of his mouth obviously, and replied:
"I can see it."
"It's not 'I can see it', it's the kind of swimming where the whole person is soaked in the water using their hands and feet and constantly breathing, and swimming around in the water, you know?" Jiang Yan said with a serious expression.
.
He looked at Hong and made a paddling gesture with his hands and feet.
"It's not a dog paddle. I've learned something very technical."
Then Hong made a gesture of clasping her hands together, raising them to the top of her head, and then lowering them to both sides.
"It's not breaststroke, I swim freestyle."
Then the red hands draw a circle toward the back in tandem, from front to back, first up and then down.
"What about ventilating? You don't need to ventilate when swimming on your back with your face up. I need to ventilate because my face is facing the water."
Seeing Hong's troubled look, Jiang Yan couldn't help but scratch his head. Suddenly Hong seemed to understand and made an expression of realization.
Then he stood up and did a few moves and jumps.
"Freestyle!" Jiang Yan finally collapsed.
"Haven't you seen it? It's that kind of freestyle with very elegant postures and very fast speed that requires you to use your hands and feet while breathing, do you understand!?"
Hong sat back down opposite Jiang Yan.
"I think I understand, please continue."
"I swim, and you need to breathe when swimming. Who doesn't know this? Then I held my breath and started swimming, just in the area of Forest Lake. I didn't breathe the whole time, and I could still dive! Diving!!! Diving so deep
!Dive directly to the bottom. I saw a fish, and then I raised my knife and dropped it. Then, I put the fish into my arms. I was like a human being..."
It was like there were propellers under his feet. Jiang Shao didn't say the last half of the sentence - he always felt like something was wrong.
Hong waited for a long time and saw that Jiang Yan didn't speak, just stared at her.
"What's wrong?" she asked, tilting her head.
"You didn't laugh at me?" Jiang Yan looked confused.
"No ah."
"That's weird..." Jiang Yan scratched his head, "Have you ever seen a mermaid?"
Hong stared at Jiang Yan with an indescribable look for a long time.
"Don't think so much when you come back. Just pack up and get ready for dinner." As she said this, she handed Jiang Shao a knife and pointed at the pile of fish he brought back.
"Oh." Jiang Yan nodded in confusion and went to work. He didn't notice the pitiful look in Hong's eyes behind him.
"He's talking nonsense again..." Hong shook his head alone.
The game characters in Arknights are more biased towards the demi-human race.
Werewolf, cat ears, horse girl, fox, birdman (Harpy)...this may be the interest of their production team.
(They all like to be outsiders and like others.)
But there are also some less common "demi-humans": dragons, crocodiles, manticores, demons, vampires...
Most races have all kinds of strange tails and ears. This is a world where many races are truly mixed.
PS:...This slightly superpower setting is somewhat arbitrary, but in fact I have done a rigorous design on this "body". It can be said that this is one of the core foreshadowings of this work. This chapter can
You can sort out the clues revealed to everyone by yourself. You can guess some settings about Jiang Yan's "race".
But I guarantee you won’t be able to guess completely, because the clues are incomplete. (I’m really sorry for not being able to reason from the facts.)