Chapter 183: Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix
After lunch, the group returned to the zoo to continue filming.
After hearing so much from Gu Shaoling during lunch, Zhang Ren and his companion were incredibly curious about Ye Wanxi's ability to attract animals. As soon as filming started, they enthusiastically invited Ye Wanxi to visit their area.
Ye Wanxi knew that the bird aviary was not far from the monkey enclosure, and it was on the way there, so she didn't refuse.
When Gu Shaoling saw Ye Wanxi agree, her eyes lit up, and she volunteered, "I want to go too."
Why are you going to join in the fun?
"I heard this zoo has white peacocks. I've never seen a white peacock before. To avoid being laughed at for being ignorant, I have to go and see for myself!" Gu Shaoling said, looking at the two of them expectantly. "Are there really white peacocks?"
For a moment, Zhang Ren and the other man's expressions stiffened: "Yes."
"Then I'm going too. After we're done, I'll go back to the snake house with Wanxi." Gu Shaoling said, then deliberately turned to Ji Yuanting and asked, "What about you? Are you coming along?"
Ji Yuanting smiled slightly: "I won't go."
Gu Shaoling gave a curt "Oh," then turned and beckoned Zhang Ren and the others to go see the peacocks.
Seeing that everyone was completely ignoring her, Ji Yuanting's smile froze completely. After a while, she turned her face upside down and stormed off.
"Wanxi, were you always particularly loved by small animals since you were little? Or did you develop this habit later in life?"
Ye Wanxi thought back carefully: "It's been like this since I was little."
"Do animals judge by appearance?" Zhang Ren said, touching his face. "I'm not bad-looking, so why don't any animals like me?"
This candid narcissism amused Ye Wanxi: "Maybe it's because my appearance fits their aesthetic standards?"
As Ye Wanxi spoke, the group walked up to the white peacock that Gu Shaoling had been longing for. Through the fence, the white peacock suddenly flapped its pure white tail feathers.
Gu Shaoling noticed the movement inside immediately and excitedly grabbed the arm of the person next to her: "It's open! It's open! It's displaying its feathers!"
Zhang Ren and his companion were both bewildered. This was impossible! This ancestor was acting like a madman this morning, ignoring them completely. How come he's suddenly showing off his feathers now?
"If I remember correctly, it should be the male peacock that can spread its tail feathers, right? And spreading the tail feathers seems to mean... courtship."
Gu Shaoling's gaze unconsciously drifted towards Ye Wanxi, but this caused a misunderstanding for Jia Jiu, who was standing closest to Ye Wanxi.
"What kind of look is that? Are you trying to say that this peacock is courting me?"
Gu Shaoling: "..." No, no, no, I wasn't looking at you.
Zhang Ren was amused by his words and, fearing the world was not chaotic enough, pushed him forward to face the white peacock.
The white peacock, which had been fluttering its tail feathers like a social butterfly, trying to attract Ye Wanxi's attention, froze for a moment, and its fully extended tail feathers quickly retracted.
Not only that, she also called out to him twice with obvious disdain, then turned her back on him, not wanting to have any further interaction with him.
"..." Jia Jiu's heart shattered into pieces in an instant.
Gu Shaoling was struggling to suppress her laughter, and since she hadn't had enough of the white peacock's display of its feathers, she directly pulled Jia Jiu back and pushed Ye Wanxi in front.
The previously listless white peacock immediately perked up and flapped its tail feathers open again.
Seeing this, Gu Shaoling couldn't help but have a wicked idea. She stepped forward and blocked Ye Wanxi.
The tail feathers indeed retracted.
She shifted to the side, revealing Ye Wanxi, and then spread her tail feathers again.
It came back, then withdrew; it hid, then opened again; it came back, then withdrew; it hid, then opened again.
After this happened several times, the white peacock got really angry. If it weren't for the fence, it would have rushed out and pecked at Gu Shaoling.
Gu Shaoling didn't care at all, and even said in a rather irritating way, "See? It works even better than a light switch."
Zhang Ren and his companion: "..." What the hell? It's even better than a switch! You city folks really know how to have fun!
Viewers who had waited all afternoon to finally see the show resume were also sharing the same sentiment.
Amidst the amplified effects of the events that occurred that morning, the number of viewers flooding into the live stream as soon as it opened was more than double what it had been that morning, and it continued to increase.
This surprised and worried the production team, who quickly contacted technical staff to take precautions to prevent the live stream from lagging due to too many people joining.
Viewers who rushed into the live stream initially expressed surprise that the program hadn't stopped filming, or asked about the children's situation with the tiger and how the zoo planned to handle the matter.
As a result, they witnessed Gu Shaoling using Ye Wanxi to tease the white peacock, leaving everyone speechless.
[I really didn't expect them to do this. Does the zoo just let them abuse the peacocks like this?]
[It was just playing around, no need to make such a big deal out of it, right? Although I also wanted to punch her, escalating it to bird abuse is really unnecessary.]
Hahaha, you're really cheeky! You've really angered the peacock! Be careful not to piss it off, or it'll call its bird friends and make sure you're covered in bird droppings wherever you go.
The little leaf looked utterly dejected, indicating that she didn't want to be courted by a peacock.
[Boss Ye: How can people of different species date? Ugly people are rejected!]
Ye Wanxi and the others stayed with the white peacock for about ten minutes, letting Gu Shaoling see the white peacock's display of its tail feathers before continuing to walk inside.
The architecture of the songbird enclosure is quite interesting. Apart from a few rare birds that are more aggressive or prefer to stay alone and have their own independent cabins, such as the white peacock we just saw, most birds stay in roughly the same area.
The building is covered with a perforated net, which encloses the entire forest, ensuring that the birds feel they are still in the mountains and forests, while preventing them from escaping the area.
Before Ye Wanxi could even get close to the forest, everyone heard a rustling sound.
Looking up, they saw a large flock of birds, whose names they didn't know, take flight from the dense forest and fly towards them like raindrops.
What's going on?
Zhang Ren and the others were startled and instinctively took a few steps back, only to find that the birds' target was not them at all, but... Ye Wanxi.
Numerous birds gathered in the air, forming a torrent that separated the group from Ye Wanxi, surrounding her completely.
The sound of flapping wings mingled with the cheerful hoofbeats of various birds, creating a spectacle that even the staff who had been guarding the songbirds' enclosure had never seen before. They all rushed out of the building to watch.
The afternoon sun shone on Ye Wanxi, and she was surrounded by a natural ring of various rare birds flying in succession, which looked awe-inspiring and sacred.
Everyone who witnessed this scene had one word in mind.
A hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix.
(End of this chapter)
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