The Book of Maiden Contract

Era, this is a very popular word, but also a profound word. Basically, it refers to a time period, and this time period can be long or short, as short as ten years or decades, such as boyhood or youth, and as long as tens of thousands of years, such as the Jurassic era... …these are the eras that are widely known.

Of course, there is another era, and that is the near-future era that Gensokyo is in today.

Speaking of Gensokyo, in fact, it didn’t exist at the beginning. Before it was isolated from the human world, people called it “the borderland far away from the human world in the Eastern Kingdom”. Because there are many monsters living in this place, those who stray into this place will be caught and eaten by monsters, so people are afraid of this place, and ordinary people dare not approach it at all.

Of course, there are also some people who live in Gensokyo in order to get rid of monsters, such as witches.

Then, as time passed, the number of human beings increased dramatically due to the development of civilization. The sages of the monsters thought that if the number of human beings continued to increase, the balance of Gensokyo would collapse, so they established a "realm and illusion realm", attracting Youkai from the outside world come to Gensokyo to bring it into balance.

However, because most of the monsters have moved into Gensokyo, there are very few monsters living in human society, and they have lived in seclusion for a long time. Coupled with the realm of fantasy and reality, these connections are directly related. This has led to... With the advancement of scientific and technological civilization, human beings have developed towards the material aspect in a very extreme way, and gradually began to doubt spiritual civilization, and then added non-scientific things like superstition to reject them. Over time, people no longer Believe in the existence of demons and ghosts, and of course gods.

Whether they are monsters or gods, they are very powerful and can do many things that humans cannot do, but they must rely on humans to survive in human society, because they have one thing in common... they need human belief!

The difference is that the belief of gods is the respect of human beings, while the belief of monsters is the fear of human beings, but if they want to obtain this kind of belief, they must have a prerequisite-believe!

People believe in the existence of gods, so they respect them, and people believe in the existence of monsters, so they feel fear. However, if people don't believe in their existence, how can there be other feelings?

Take ghosts as an example. The meaning of their existence is to rob and destroy human society. If people are afraid of them, they will be happy to do so. It will lose interest and become lazy.

There are also gods, if there is no belief in human beings, not only will their power be weakened, but even their existence will disappear... Countless deserted shrines are the best evidence.

And in such a society, there is no room for monsters and gods to survive.

Therefore, under the guidance of the Yokai Sage, the remaining Yokai also began to go to Gensokyo, because there are still humans who believe in the existence of Yokai, and the gods are only revealed in Gensokyo, because only there, they can get human belief.

Then, the monster sage in Gensokyo and the human priestess established a powerful barrier to completely isolate Gensokyo from the outside world, allowing most of the monsters and a few humans to live there quietly. From then on, Human society will never hear or see stories about Gensokyo again.

This is the first cooperation between monsters and humans, because they all know that the balance of Gensokyo is necessary. The monsters need to eat people to achieve the balance of monsters, and humans need to eliminate monsters to achieve the balance of humans. As long as this is the case, the monsters of Gensokyo Only humans and humans can survive forever... And as time goes by, there are no monsters that often prey on humans in Gensokyo, and some monsters even have friendly exchanges with humans.

Of course, some monsters can still eat people, and humans will regularly eliminate monsters.

The above is the history of the development of Gensokyo, which can be called the Gensokyo era, then... Before the development of Gensokyo, when there were no youkai sages, what era should it be called?

If I have to say it, it has to be traced back to a long, long time ago. The leaders of society are not humans, but are occupied by a large number of demons and ghosts. That is... the era of the chaos of demons!

When Qiqi was fighting against the reverse cause and effect, although she had already done some tricks before the battle, which would not endanger the safety of the whole world, but because of her unreserved fighting, the aftermath still gave her the space she was in. Huge damage was caused... Numerous space cracks, dimensional fluctuations and time gaps were born.

Then Qiqi fell, her body turned into sparks to form a contract book, and then entered a time gap, and the end of this time gap was the era of the group of demons dancing wildly.

...In a secluded dense forest, a fire was raised on the grass, and rabbits were roasting on it. There were two girls sitting beside the fire. They seemed to be only about eight or nine years old. One has long blond hair, and the other has short light green hair. Although the attire looks rustic, as if they are still living a very miserable life, they cannot conceal their natural beauty.

After a while, when the rabbit meat on the fire rack gave off a burst of aroma, the green-haired girl cheered, and reached out to grab the roasted rabbit regardless of whether the fire was still burning.

"Be careful there is still fire." The blond girl quickly reminded.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, this little fire won't hurt me." The green-haired girl said casually, but finally withdrew her hand, put out the fire first, and then pulled out the roasted rabbit's thigh.

"Well, it's delicious." The green-haired girl took a bite impatiently and praised, but then she remembered something, frowned, and said angrily, "Those guys actually said that I was Herbivory, it's really disgusting, I can obviously eat meat, okay?"

The blond girl chuckled and said, "That's not what they mean by the herbivorous department."

"No matter what they mean, literally, isn't the herbivorous department eating grass? How could I eat grass with these idiots with diminishing IQs!" the green-haired girl said with disdain.

The blonde girl smiled again, "Are you still angry about this, it's been so long?"

"I'm not angry, I'm just annoyed, you know that, those guys call themselves geniuses, they always look arrogant to others, a natural two hundred and five!" The green-haired girl said bitterly.

The blond girl sighed helplessly, "You are just angry."

The green-haired girl suffocated for a moment, and then waved her hand vigorously, "Forget it, let's not mention this, anyway, it's a group of defeated opponents, so it's not worth my anger, let's talk about something happy."

"What's the fun?" asked the blond girl.

The green-haired girl answered as a matter of course, "You can say whatever you think makes you happy. Is there even a need to ask?"

The blond girl tilted her head and thought for a while. After a while, she asked cautiously: "I had a dream last night. In the dream, I had endless beautiful clothes. I was very happy. Does this count?"

The green-haired girl pinched her chin and slammed her mouth, "Although it's okay, but why do I think this is completely meaningless? Also, you really like beautiful clothes, you can dream of them."

"Of course, don't you think beautiful clothes look good?" The blond girl immediately became excited when she mentioned this.

But the green-haired girl was quite disdainful about this, turned her head and said, "Cut, forget it, we are not those shameless human women, what's the use of dressing so beautifully?"

"But, don't you know that beautiful clothes are a girl's romance?" the blond girl asked back.

"Who did you hear that from?"

"I heard it in my dream."

"...You really can dream." The green-haired girl's mouth twitched slightly, and then she said, "But I don't like romantic things. If I have to say it, I prefer those handsome clothes."

"Handsome clothes?" The blond girl was taken aback.

"Huh...huh?!" The green-haired girl nodded, and was about to speak when suddenly her face changed, she jumped up from the ground, and then pulled the blond girl up to the big tree next to her, hiding in the lush greenery. In the branches and leaves.

"What happened?" Although the blond girl was a little confused, but after all, the two had been together for a long time, she knew that she probably felt something, and quickly asked in a low voice.

The green-haired girl said in a deep voice: "Just now I felt a powerful monster approaching. There should be other monsters coming towards us... Don't worry about other things, let's temporarily block our breath."

"En." The blond girl responded, then closed her eyes and activated her ability. Immediately, the breath of the two disappeared completely, and then they hid in the tree and held their breath, motionless.

rustle!

The only sound left in the whole forest is the sound of the breeze blowing the leaves.

About five or six minutes later, suddenly, a footstep sounded from not far away, and the sound immediately startled the two girls hiding in the tree.

"Xiao Zi, do you feel it?" The green-haired girl lowered her voice as much as possible and asked the girl next to her, a trace of panic and uneasiness flashed in her eyes.

Similarly, the blond girl named Xiao Zi also had a trace of fear on her face, and said in a low voice: "I can feel it, it has such a strong monster aura, I'm afraid the two of us can't beat this monster together."

"Not only is he strong, but his demonic aura is also full of violence. Be careful, strengthen your concealment, and try not to let him find out." The green-haired girl reminded.

Xiao Zi nodded, but she was thinking in her heart, which race is the monster with such a violent aura?

This question was quickly answered. As the footsteps got closer and closer, they looked down through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and they finally saw the appearance of the comer... It was a huge figure with a height of more than two meters , the body is a human body, but there is a wolf's head on the neck.

Oops, it's a werewolf!

Seeing each other's appearance, the two girls' expressions changed immediately, and they looked at each other at the same time, and found that the other was full of fear just like themselves.

It is well known that monsters have many races, among which the most powerful are ghosts and vampires. The former is the king of melee combat. Any monster can rival the ghost race. And the latter is the king of the night. As long as he is in the night, the power of the vampire will be greatly enhanced, and he even has an immortal body. Even ghosts will not easily fight vampires at night.

However, although these two kinds of monsters are the most powerful, they are not the scariest, because vampires generally seldom appear, and they are very polite. They are nobles among monsters, and under normal circumstances, they will not bully the weak. And ghosts like to drink very much. If you accidentally encounter each other and there is no enmity between the two parties, as long as you invite the other party to drink, the ghosts will be very generous and make friends with you.

So for these two races, all monsters are in awe, but they will not be afraid of them... The premise is that you don't go against these two races.

Then there is the third monster race - werewolves, which is the scariest.

Because they are not only powerful, they are the only existence that can fight against ghosts in melee combat, but also like vampires, they will increase their power at night, and the most terrifying thing is... They are not as powerful as ghosts and vampires. Good friendship, they are cruel by nature and bloodthirsty. Once in contact with monsters of other races, as long as the opponent is not particularly strong, they will 100% rush to fight.

And werewolves especially like to bully the weak.

The only monsters that werewolves dare not provoke are vampires and ghosts, because vampires have the power to restrain them, and ghosts are not only powerful individually, but the whole race is also extremely united... If you mess with a ghost, it is equivalent to messing with the entire ghost clan .

However, apart from these two races, no matter what kind of monsters, werewolves dare to fight, coupled with their extremely brutal methods, they are almost feared by all monsters except ghosts and vampires.

Generally speaking, when a weak monster meets a werewolf, there is almost only a dead end.

"I have met a werewolf, this race is too scary, Xiao Zi, don't relax, absolutely don't let it discover our existence, otherwise we will die!" Before the werewolf approached, the green-haired girl immediately Whispered a warning.

"I understand, Youxiang." Xiao Zi nodded heavily. In fact, without the other party saying, he had already used his shielding ability to the limit. After all, werewolves are monsters that they can't compete with now.

After a while, the werewolf had already walked under the tree where they were hiding. Looking at the still smoking fire and the steaming roasted rabbit, the werewolf's eyes lit up, and then he raised his head abruptly.

Although the luxuriant branches and leaves completely blocked their figures, although Xiao Zi's ability completely blocked their aura, they were still terrified at this glance, and almost fell from the tree.

(to be continued)