Chapter 123: New Moon (Part 6)
In the next hour, Edward told Gu Yun many secrets about werewolf. Of course, when he told these secrets about the clan, the equally curious vampire was friendlyly invited out of the house.
Gu Yun admitted that he had increased a lot of knowledge today.
For example, Edward, the ancestor of werewolf, was not born to be a werewolf. In the war-torn era he lived in, he was a slave who escaped from his slave owner.
In that era, slaves were often resold as cheap laborers to the lords. The old, weak, sick and disabled were sent to the farmer's manor to plow the fields for him, and their status was no different from consumables. As for the stronger and good at fighting, they would be stored in the lord's troops, or sent to the arena to become gladiators who satisfy the audience's bloody desires.
Edward was once one of the slaves sent to the arena.
He would have lived his short and bloody life like an ordinary gladiator, but on the way to send them to the arena of the lords, he got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - on the eve of the city when he was about to arrive at the place of the gladiator, the guards were drunk to celebrate the death of each one, and Edward took away their weapons in the second half of the night while the guards were asleep and launched a riot. With his leadership, the slaves responded.
This operation made the lords furious. A few days later, they sent their elite troops to encircle and suppress the fugitive slaves.
Facing the tribes that were dozens of times more numerous than theirs, Edward had to stay away from the village and led his remaining troops to hide in the mountains. At the end of the road, they discovered an ancient totem in the depths of a cave in the mountains that was isolated from the world.
Even Edward didn't know who set the totem there, but no matter who it was, it was undoubtedly much older than the origin of the werewolf.
Faced with the enemies that blocked them in the hole, they had to leave everything behind and fight.
However, in what they thought was the "last" battle, a miracle happened. Edward discovered that their bodies had changed. First, it was their night vision ability that allowed them to roam in the dark. Then they grew sharp claws and fangs like wild animals. Even so, the battle was very fierce. They drove the group away completely when almost everyone was cut by the enemy.
The people who fled back to the city were still scared and spread the existence of the monster.
They claimed that the creatures they fought with were not humans, but some monster with a human outline on the outside but behaved like a wolf pack. Due to the characteristics shown by Edward and others, people in nearby towns called them werewolfs.
After repelling the troops that surrounded them, the remaining people stayed in the mountains and established villages. They traveled between nearby villages as wandering merchants and mercenaries. By chance, Edward discovered that their body fluids seemed to have some strong contagious effect - a robber who was scratched by them showed similar symptoms to them. Their personality changed drastically, not only fearing the sun, but also becoming moody, so his companions drove him out of the camp.
When Edward met the other party, he was in the deep mountains, gnawing on the animal's internal organs like a wild animal. His face was covered in blood and it was hard to describe it as a human.
So someone suggested that maybe they could use this method to strengthen the tribe.
In the next few years, they expanded the settlement of only a dozen people into a village with hundreds of people. One of the scholars who later became a member of the tribe interpreted the content engraved on the totem.
People who came here earlier than them recorded the wonders they had seen in this way.
On a full moon night, they witnessed a god descending on this land. They called the god the moon god, but no one knew where the earlier people went and why they left their former settlement.
Because of this, Edward always felt that there might be werewolfs in this world that were older than them.
After all, those who set up the totem are probably the first people to gain power from the totem.
"Totem...I didn't expect that they would have such a past."
On the way out of the hospital, Marian murmured to herself. Edward's remarks made her suddenly become very interested in the totem located in the deep mountains. If it weren't for the more important things to deal with now, she might have booked a return ticket as soon as possible.
Even though she was also the "Three Dark Biological Demons", she did not expect that the Werewolf Ancestor was just an ordinary person at first, and even a low-ranking escaped slave.
Thinking of this, the corners of her mouth suddenly rose slightly.
"how?"
Gu Yun noticed Marian's expression and asked.
For him, any clue now may become evidence to find the suspect. No matter what purpose the Moon God is for and what kind of grudges and entanglements he has with the werewolf clan, the focus of the problem is that Moon God's arson last night was suspected of serious criminal crimes.
No enthusiastic citizen can let arson get away with it.
"No, I just suddenly figured out something fun."
"What's up?"
"No wonder werewolf has always been enemies of vampires. As far as I know, most of the vampire nobles are great lords of all ages. They are willing to turn themselves into monsters that feed on human blood on the road to pursuing eternal life."
Marian grinned and laughed alone, "I didn't expect that after a long time, they were the relationship between the exploiters and the exploited ones."
Unfortunately, Gu Yun did not understand the funny point in this passage, so he could only look at Marian with a puzzled but caring look.
Marian's smile froze on her face quickly, "Isn't it funny why you are watching me like this?"
"Um."
The meaning of care is more obvious.
Today, centuries later, Marian relived the feeling of her cheeks being hot again. Even if she didn't have to look in the mirror, she knew that her face might have been red to the bottom of her neck. This feeling was like telling a joke that she thought was super funny but suddenly became unconscious.
But she was a battle-hardened witch in the evening, not the ignorant and throbbing little girl in the past, so she coughed lightly and forced the topic to change the subject. "But the story Edward just told failed to explain the origin of the werewolf. There are still many secrets in this world that I don't know."
For example, the origin of vampires, or the fact that people will become flesh-and-blood curses of ghouls after eating their kind.
Let them ignore the embarrassment and look at this universe full of countless mysteries.
Um.
At least that's what Marian thinks now.
"What are you going to do next?"
"This time the opponent looks very cunning, I have to go back and prepare for it."
Gu Yun said seriously.
Chapter completed!