Bird Battle
As we all know, in fairy puppet shows, the protagonist cannot be of ordinary status.
Even if he appears as a beggar when he first appears, as the plot develops, he will definitely awaken extraordinary talents and bloodlines, and will always be able to establish relationships with some ancient gods that only exist in legends.
To be more exaggerated, the protagonist who awakens his bloodline will even change drastically and become the most beautiful woman in the fairy world...
The green peacock can match all of these.
In terms of "bloodline", the green peacock was once considered to be the prototype of the phoenix, and was praised as the king of birds and a bird of good fortune. People never hesitate to praise it.
In terms of capabilities, the green peacock is the largest bird in the order Galliformes. The male peacock can grow up to three meters long, and the gorgeous tail feathers alone are 1.6 meters long. It is one of the largest flying birds in existence.
In terms of appearance... this is the one that needs least questioning.
It has a crown of feathers on its head, a yellow crescent on its face, and scaly feathers on its neck. It has an elegant and dignified posture, and the gorgeous tail screen swaying behind it is almost always suspended in the air, and rarely is it seen loosely dragging on the ground.
Even if there is any, it is only after the bird spreads its feathers that the thick coverts slowly fall down and are draped behind it, still making it look graceful and elegant.
When the green peacock lowers its neck and tail to preen its feathers, its whole body is full of light, with green, blue, golden and deep orange interwoven, making it look like a divine bird.
What is more worth mentioning is that the green peacock is a rare bird in which both male and female birds are brightly colored.
Apart from the difference in the tail screen, there is not much difference in the color of the female bird's feathers compared to the male bird. Both are extremely beautiful birds.
The green peacock was the protagonist and the audience was convinced.
[Ahhh, it’s the green peacock! I’m rooting for the green peacock! The phoenix in my heart!]
[It’s so beautiful... How did you manage to make every part of it meet my aesthetic standards, so noble and beautiful. 】
[Sure enough, it has to be bigger to look more impressive hahaha. Although the golden pheasant we saw earlier is also very beautiful, it doesn’t look that impressive if it’s not big enough. ]
[Hahahaha, the protagonist is still a little kid, no wonder he looks so gray and his feather crest can't even stand up.]
When the picture is zoomed in, the audience can see that around the gray little peacock there are two adult peacocks, one male and one female.
Unlike the young bird's surprise, the two of them looked extremely calm. They were not scared by the noise at all, but continued to peck at the ground intermittently.
The male peacock ruthlessly turned around, leaving the frightened little creature hiding under its tail screen without protection.
“Chichi!”
The little peacock became anxious and ran after his father's tail.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up. The little guy was so anxious that he flapped his wings, which had barely grown any hair, and wanted to fly up to chase it.
The male peacock looked indifferent, but he was surprisingly very energetic in entertaining his cubs, and he played with them for a long time without getting tired.
The female peacock ignored the two childish creatures and continued pecking gracefully.
"grumble."
After chasing for a long time, the little peacock realized that there was no danger, so he went back to find the female peacock, and pecked at the food beside his mother, imitating her movements.
Although the scene is heartwarming, the audience discovered some blind spots.
[Emmmm, only one cub? Although green peacocks are relatively weak in reproduction, there should be at least two, right? ]
[Is this your only child? I’m a little worried about the growth of the little peacock…]
[Peacocks are supposed to move around in small groups, so isn't this a little too few for just one male and one female?]
[There are also cases of green peacocks moving in pairs. I don’t know how many green peacocks there are in the wild in this world. If there are relatively few of them, it’s normal for them to be in pairs. But there’s only one cub, which is really…]
No wonder this male peacock is still willing to interact with his cubs. It turns out he is the only cub, so he really needs to be kept in good care.
Got it!
The chosen one who inherits pure blood!
“Meow—meow!”
At this moment, strange noises suddenly came from the woods beside the riverbank.
It was the cat's meow that the audience had vaguely heard just now.
[What's going on? Is there a cat in the woods? ]
[Hiss, I thought it was a peacock calling, why is it in the forest? ]
[Why didn't the two peacocks react? Hurry up and help the cubs escape! ]
The sound gradually became louder, as if the other party was approaching the river bank.
"Jiying~"
When the timid little peacock heard this, he quickly hid under the male peacock's tail screen, but the two big peacocks did not react at all.
The female peacock lowered her head, and used her sharp beak to push the cub, who was hiding under the protection of his father, to her side little by little, and then silently watched the male peacock's back as he went into battle.
It can’t be considered a fight...hmm.
Soon, the figure in the forest revealed its true face.
It was none other than a strange peacock.
But it seems a little strange.
The face is crescent yellow, the neck is also green, and it looks like a normal female green peacock, but the back is gray, and the feathers on the top of the head are fan-shaped...
It has the characteristics of a green peacock, but some details are out of place. To human eyes, there may be nothing unusual, but in the eyes of a green peacock, this guy is a monster.
Even if it's a female, you can't get close!
Therefore, the male peacock who went out to fight spread out his tail screen without hesitation, took a few steps forward, and threatened the other party to leave and not continue to bother them.
“…Wow!”
The strange peacock on the opposite side was obviously frightened. It tried to pester the peacock but was afraid of the size difference between itself and the male peacock, so it could only leave silently.
Witnessing this scene, the narrator spoke at the right time, adding the setting in a deep tone:
"In the fairy world, the purity of blood is very important."
"Mixed-bloods are despised here."
Audience: …
If this happened in other live broadcast rooms, they would start cursing this ridiculous setting that only focuses on bloodline.
Are kings, princes, generals and ministers of different species? !
But here, well…
[It’s not that I don’t want to criticize, it’s mainly because it is really important for wild animals to keep their gene pool pure (pointing fingers)]
[Okay, okay, this is the theory of bloodline, right? But, but it seems that there is no problem at all when it comes to protecting rare species...]
[No, don’t any of you care? A blue-green hybrid peacock has escaped here! Which zoo didn’t take good care of it and let it out?! There is also a male green peacock here who can block it with his territorial possession. If it really encounters a lone green peacock, the green peacock genes in this area will be contaminated! ! ]
[Hiss, that cat cry is indeed the sound of estrus and courtship... Oh no! Blue peacocks have a strong reproductive ability, someone come and stop them! ]
[…Is it that serious? There’s no need to be so malicious towards other peacocks, right?]
[This is not malicious. The blue-green hybrid peacock was artificially created, which is already wrong. If it is allowed to invade the territory of wild green peacocks and pollute their genes, it will be a mistake on top of a mistake! ]
At the end, the audience shouted: Is there anyone who can take care of this? !
some.
Of course.
From just now until now, monitor Chen Jing has been observing the movements of the green peacock through instruments set up in the wild.
She has been responsible for observing this small family of green peacocks, and she even witnessed the little peacocks breaking out of their shells.
And now, seeing the little peacock startled and playing with its parents, she feels extremely gratified and even feels like a grandmother.
Then, she saw the mixed-breed peacock running out of the woods, trying to seduce the male green peacock.
Chen Jing: ? ?
As a professional monitor, she certainly understood the risks of a mixed-breed peacock infiltrating the habitat of the originally pure green peacock population, so she immediately called the nearby rangers and suggested that they quickly take the peacock away from the green peacock habitat.
Soon, the patrol team caught the peacock.
How to deal with this peacock became a problem. Based on similar experiences in other places, everyone finally decided to send it to a nearby zoo.
"I don't know how long it has been outside, and whether it has carried out any reproduction activities..."
"The time has passed, so there shouldn't be any. The green peacocks that have been observed so far all have their own partners and small groups, and there is no record of it appearing in them."
"It's also because that pair seems to have fewer birds, so it targeted them, right?"
"Phew - fortunately we found them in time. It's already very distressing that only one chick survived. If they were scared away, I really don't know what to do with them."
For the rangers in the reserve, this incident was barely over, but for the hybrid peacock that accidentally escaped into the wild and was captured back into the human world, its story had just begun.
Sitting in the truck carrying it to the peacock garden, the mixed-breed peacock looked listless.
The audience was somewhat confused.
[Hmm? Why is the camera following this peacock? Didn’t we say we were in a zoo? ]
[Entering the zoo doesn't have much to do with the main storyline, right? Could there be some side storyline? ]
[Oh! Now I understand. This type of script likes to have multiple small stories in it... Hmm.]
The narrator was very pleased and concise:
"Such a grand background certainly has more than just the protagonist's story."
“Although it is only a minor episode in the protagonist’s life, it introduces an important supporting character and unfolds another plot.”
I won’t go into the narration here, as it will whet the audience’s appetite.
[Damn it! Who is it? ]
[Is it... another bird? Or another animal?]
[The divine bird is in the background. Could it be another peacock? But what other peacock can have a role in the main character, the green peacock...]
The truck kept shaking, and the mixed-breed peacock finally landed.
Compared to the timid green peacock, the blue peacock is braver. The long-term experience of being raised also makes them not afraid of people. So even if they are suddenly caught and transported to an unfamiliar place, this peacock does not look panicked.
It seems that although it is a blue-green hybrid, the blue peacock's strong and hardy genes still prevail.
After walking a few steps obediently, and looking around, the mixed-blood peacock, which had behaved quietly and well-behaved from the beginning to the end, suddenly stopped, puffed its tail, and let out a surprised cry:
“Wow—wow—!”
The camera follows its line of sight and finds a pure white figure standing quietly in another world separated by a wire fence.
Hearing the unfamiliar call, it raised its pale red eyes and looked back quietly.
It's a white peacock.
The monitors were very worried about the impact this hybrid peacock would have on the green peacocks in the reserve, so they worked overtime to observe the bird and finally came to a conclusion that put them at ease.
This hybrid peacock had probably just entered the reserve not long ago and had only had time to come into contact with a single pair of green peacock families. It did not cause any impact on the green peacock population in the reserve.
Um……
It can’t be said that there is none.
Chen Jing had a subtle expression and waved for other colleagues to come over:
"Look, what is this little guy doing?"
In the picture, the gray little guy, contrary to its usual behavior, did not obediently follow its mother's mouth to peck at food. Instead, it kept circling in front of the parent bird, making childish chirping sounds to seek attention.
When the parent bird finally stopped pecking and paused in mid-air looking at it with a little confusion, the little peacock began its performance.
The two gray little wings were pressed down, the butt was lifted up, the tail with almost no hair was shaking hard, and the little expression was particularly firm and serious.
Probably, or something like that...is it opening the screen?
The parent birds paused for a rare long time.
After a moment, it seemed to let out a low cry, then turned its head and continued pecking.
The little peacock with its tail cocked stood there for a moment, then slowly lowered its wings and tail. Unable to figure out what was going on, it continued to follow its parent bird and peck at the food.
It pecked and chirped and turned its head to look at its mother.
Chirp!
Isn’t it amazing?
As the little peacock called out, it began to wag its tail again.
Didn’t you see it?
Then perform it again?
Peacock: ...
Raising children is really hard.
Little Peacock: Oh! I got it! This move is super cool (Imagine my dad opening his peacock tail and bringing it into myself)
Female peacock: Well, I don’t blame you, go and have fun.
By the way, I'm introducing a new branch, which is the inferiority complex beauty White Peacock mentioned in the comments. Hehe ww
Let me think about how to introduce the others, um...
This world will have more small stories, similar to group portraits (non-professional version). This is also my first attempt. Let's see how to arrange it better.
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