After I became a zookeeper

The emperor didn't seem surprised that Ye Zhi could accept his words, he smiled and looked at Ye Zhi who was sitting, until Ye Zhi stood up from the chair a little uncomfortable, the emperor pressed his hands slightly, motioning him to continue sitting.

"I called you here this time to see what your spiritual healing ability is like." The emperor said to Ye Zhi.

Ye Zhi took over the words, "Fenghuang told me," and felt that it was not good to say so after finishing speaking, skipped this point, and continued, "Since your Majesty has seen it, I can demonstrate it to you." Ye Zhi took the initiative.

However, the emperor shook his head slightly, "Don't worry about it now," he looked down at the phoenix tail feather that Ye Zhi was holding in his hand again, "You bought it for one yuan, do you know the meaning of this phoenix tail feather?"

Ye Zhi: "..." Here comes, but I still haven't escaped, the old man's soul torture.

"I don't know," Ye Zhi closed his eyes and told the truth, "Phoenix didn't tell me that this tail feather had a special meaning. I thought it was an ordinary bird feather."

"Ordinary bird feathers..." the emperor repeated the description, at first he was speechless, and then he put his palm on his forehead and laughed muffledly, "Tell Phoenix boy what you said later, and be angry with him."

Ye Zhi: "..."

"If I knew it was the tail feather of a phoenix," Ye Zhi said solemnly, "I would try my best to bid for it." Taking all the one yuan from all his possessions was also doing his best. Ye Zhi silently complained that he really had one yuan left in his card. It can't be his fault.

The emperor nodded, "It doesn't matter, he brought the phoenix tail feathers for auction to let you buy it in front of everyone, knowing that the phoenix tail feathers are in your pocket."

Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed through Ye Zhi's mind, and he understood why some people were all silent, all the necklaces and cufflinks were priced at sky-high prices, but no one was interested in the phoenix's tail feathers - because they dared not, and they couldn't either.

The meaning of the phoenix tail feather also means that this phoenix tail feather can be sent by Fenghuang himself, even if other people covet it, they will not have the guts to bid.

This phoenix tail feather was placed as the last auction item, but Ye Zhi was never allowed to bid alone.

At this point, Ye Zhi's heart was slightly sore, and the hands on his knees gently grasped the phoenix's tail feathers, and his fingertips ran across the finely arranged feathers of the quills, and there was a slight itchiness.

"Originally, I picked you up as the emperor," the emperor smiled slightly. "Now I have changed my mind. As Phoenix's father, I will come to pick you up as the future partner chosen by him..."

Ye Zhi curled up his fingers holding the phoenix's tail feathers, "Your Majesty..."

The emperor shook his head slightly, signaling to Ye Zhi not to say more, listen to him, his eyes passed through the carved corridor, the dust in the air floated slightly, the pointer on the wall turned, and he said: "When you came to him, you were in Zoo, he was still a red-haired phoenix, do you know his previous love?"

Ye Zhi shook his head, "I don't know."

The emperor seemed to have expected it earlier, "I don't know it's normal. No one else dared to tell you about Fenghuang's past. Fenghuang thought he was ashamed of the past. He was so proud. He probably would not show his shame in front of you, so he would not tell you."

Ye Zhi himself also speculated, "...is it related to the failure of the phoenix to transform into a beast?"

"There is some relationship, but not all." The emperor's eyes fell on the phoenix's tail feathers, "The failure of beast transformation is something that every orc may encounter, and I am not surprised. Failure to transform into a beast itself is not disgraceful. It's unlucky."

"...Yes?" Ye Zhi tilted his head slightly.

The emperor went to the window and set up the wooden sash, and the cool night breeze came in from the outside, blowing away the dullness of the room, "It was a gorgeous birdcage... made by everyone together since Phoenix was alive. "

The emperor's voice was soft, and was brought to Ye Zhi's ears and far away by the night wind, as if going back in time.

Phoenix was born 23 years ago in a rosy dusk.The fire and clouds covered half of the sky, and Fenghuang's mother finally gave birth to Fenghuang at the last moment of the sun after a day and night of dystocia.

After the newborn is born, blood will be taken and sent for genetic testing. The result comes very quickly. His animal type is a phoenix. Therefore, the parents should start it, and there is no need for a phoenix. The whole world will be born at the same time. There is a phoenix.

The animal form of the emperor is a white crane, while the empress is a white peacock.Before they gave birth to the phoenix, they already had a character, a peacock, named Luo Jia.

In the beastman world, the strong are respected, and the phoenix is ​​born strong, higher than all races, so all his life, everyone's attention has shifted from the peacock to the phoenix.

The ruler of this country is elected by the people, the emperor and empress are ancient titles that are reserved, the blood inheritance system has long been abolished, and the phoenix is ​​established as the next ruler of the country throughout his life.

This country has a unique belief in the phoenix. The phoenix is ​​a powerful and auspicious race. Every time they surrender, they are believed to bring peace and beauty to the orcs.

Since 100 years ago, the country has been caught in a war in the northern border, and there are a group of animals that drink blood and have no spiritual intelligence.He has been trying to cross the northern defense line, expand his territory, and invade this country.

Ye Zhi frowned upon hearing what the emperor said, "If the opponent is an animal, wouldn't it be a once-and-for-all thing to attack with missiles and cannons?"

The emperor smiled at Ye Zhi's words, and Ye Zhi realized later that it was really as easy as he said. Are the people in this country fools? Don't do it this way?So Ye Zhi continued to listen to the emperor's story.

"Some northern animals lived well in their own territory, but later the environment deteriorated and they migrated to the central land," the emperor sighed. "Since then, some orcs have gradually failed to transform into animals and have degenerated into animals without IQ."

"So..." Ye Zhi raised his head suddenly, "Is it because of the influence of animals from the northern border that the orc's spiritual sea fluctuates abnormally?"

The emperor nodded calmly, "Yes, scientists speculate that it may be because of the mutual exclusion of brain waves or mental frequencies, which will affect the animalization of beastmen, but the specific reason is limited to the inability of technology, and it also means that there is no way to solve this phenomenon. "

Ye Zhi followed the emperor's message and thought quickly, "So if animals from the northern border flood into the central land, all the orcs here will eventually be affected and degenerate into animals. There are no animals left in this entire land, and there are no humans..." Ye Zhi He raised his head and looked at the emperor blankly, unable to accept such a possibility for a while.

The emperor met Ye Zhi's gaze and nodded affirmatively, "They can keep them out of the northern border."

If such a horrible situation is made public, it will almost cause panic among all the people. Compared with the increase in the failure rate of beast transformation that Ye Zhi encountered before, the second fruit said that a small stone was thrown into the lake. The catastrophe.

So the orc world launched its first counterattack, dropping a H-[-] bomb outside the northern border.The effect of the hydrogen bomb on killing animals in the northern border is obvious, and it can even be said that there is no grass in the area covered by the power of the shell.

The orc world rejoiced for this first victory. However, after one night, all the orcs in the barracks degenerated into animals.

This situation quickly shocked the political leaders, and they quickly sent people to investigate the reason. However, three groups of people were sent, and the three groups of people did not return.

Later, one area became a restricted area, and no orcs were allowed to enter the border.

"Is it because the orcs will degenerate into animals once they enter an area?" Ye Zhi guessed with a pale face.

"Yes, this is the conclusion that the researchers later came to based on various sources. The influence of animals in the northern border on the orcs will not disappear with their death. This kind of mental interference frequency will always stay at the place where they died, and hydrogen l The mass death caused by the bombs superimposed and magnified this mental frequency, covering an entire area, and no orc could resist this effect."

The emperor looked into Ye Zhi's eyes and said: "When the animals in the northern border are alive, this kind of mental disturbance is still fluctuating, and it will only appear when they are emotionally violent, but this kind of mental disturbance will always exist after death, especially the death of Daji. The superimposed mental disturbance is terrifying."

Ye Zhi was silent, so the orc world could not use artillery shells to destroy animals in the north, but could use the oldest and most primitive combat method to keep them out of the defense line of the north.

"This kind of war continued until the Phoenix appeared." The emperor said softly.

Hearing Phoenix, Ye Zhi sat up straight and asked expectantly, "Is Phoenix a turning point?"

The emperor didn't answer Ye Zhi's question immediately this time, but after a long time, he said speciously: "Everyone thinks it is."

Ye Zhi was silent, the emperor's words contained too much information, everyone thought it was, even if it wasn't, it was.

"The phoenix has appeared many times in the history of the development of the orc race, and each of their appearances corresponds to a crisis. In the end, they lived up to expectations and led the orcs through the crisis, leaving a strong mark in history."

The emperor lowered his eyes and looked at his hands, "The orcs have been troubled by the Northern War for 100 years, and the discovery of Phoenix makes everyone happy. He is a turning point for the orcs."

Ye Zhi was speechless.He, under such expectation and pressure, what was Phoenix's childhood like?

However, the emperor didn't talk about Fenghuang's childhood. Maybe it was because the mechanical life was too boring, and there was nothing to say, or maybe he didn't care about it. In short, the emperor's narration directly skipped the first 18 years of Fenghuang, and came directly to his adulthood. period.

"Orcs will usher in their first animalization in adulthood. This process is very painful. The bones and flesh are rubbed and squeezed, changing from human to animal. But after that, orcs will be proficient in the process of transforming humans and animals. "

"Phoenix was brought to the northern border just after he became an adult, and his first beastization hadn't happened yet."

Following the emperor's narration, Ye Zhi's hands on his knees slowly tightened, and a phoenix tail feather was tightly held in his palm.Judging from the result of Fenghuang being trapped in the zoo for three years with the power grid in the end, knowing that the original story ended in tragedy, what a good Phoenix he is...

"At that time, the situation in the Northern War was already very critical. Because of years of consumption, there were fewer and fewer top orcs whose mental strength was strong enough to withstand the influence of animals in the Northern Territory. They might break through the defense line and enter the Central Continent at any time."

The emperor lowered his head, "That's why the phoenix was brought to the northern border as soon as he was an adult, and we can't wait for him to be safely transformed into a beast." The emperor closed his eyes lightly, and after a few breaths, he opened them again, and his voice became stable again, " The time when the first lycanthropy occurred is uncertain, sometimes it is just adulthood, sometimes it is a month or two after adulthood, and sometimes it is a year later."

"So you send the phoenix to the northern border first, and go directly to the battlefield after he transforms into a beast?" Ye Zhi tried hard to suppress his anger, telling himself repeatedly that he only knew the stupidity of this behavior when he knew the result. It is understandable for anxious people to make such a choice at this time.

"Yes," the emperor clenched his fists under his sleeves, but continued with a calm expression, "Phoenix's first animal transformation occurred on the 13th day of his adulthood, when animals from the north broke through the defense line and entered the garrison camp. at night."

Ye Zhi could almost see what the emperor would say next.But let the emperor stop talking, but he heard with his own ears what Fenghuang had experienced.

The emperor's gentle voice continued to sound, and what happened overnight seemed to happen again before Ye Zhi's eyes in his narration, everything was so shocking.

In the pitch black night, the combat soldiers patrolled the night watch as usual, and suddenly, a loud and clear phoenix cry sounded together with the siren that the defense line was in an emergency.

The flashlight in the soldier's hand fell to the ground, and he didn't bother to pick it up. He hurriedly reported to the officer, and ran to his camp while waking up everyone in the tent.

The siren suddenly became sharp, and all the combat soldiers who heard it turned pale, because the siren of this frequency meant that the defense line was broken, and a large number of animals in the north were rushing towards this side. They would transform into beasts to fight, or retreat Enemies, either themselves are torn to flesh, or are degenerated into animals by the psychic frequencies of living and dead animals of the North.

At this time, Fengming's voice became more and more mournful. They knew that Fenghuang was enduring the pain of the first beast transformation, but they also knew that Phoenix would lead them to defeat the animals after the beast transformation was successful.The phoenix is ​​a turning point for the orcs, and everyone believes it.

So they didn't go to fight this time, but flooded towards the tent where Phoenix was.

The thin layer of tent cloth was completely burned by the phoenix fire sprayed by the phoenix. A big red bird with curled and wet feathers appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The animals of the North, having run freely and unhindered for some distance, were soon now sitting in the middle of the camp that must pass through into the Midlands.

After looking at each other for a second, the northern animals and the combat soldiers quickly attacked the combat soldiers, and these combat soldiers looked at the phoenix that had turned into a bird shape, glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment, and chose to hide behind Behind Phoenix.

Everyone knows that the phoenix fire burns everything, and the phoenix has the ability to breathe the phoenix fire after the beast transforms into a bird shape.

So they chose to avoid and not fight. After all, when they have a way out, who can fearlessly choose to fight to the death.

After the combat soldiers moved behind the phoenix, those who went straight to the animals in the north became phoenixes, and in the eyes of the animals in the north, they couldn't tell what kind of enemy they were.

Sure enough, a pale phoenix spewed out flames in some combat camps, and some animals in the north were burnt beyond recognition, and the white flames spread. The animals in the north had no IQ but felt pain. They were roasted left and right by the flames. He ran across the Phoenix in a panic and crashed into the group of combat soldiers hiding behind the Phoenix.

Xiaoduo's white flame flower jumped to the sleeve of a soldier. The soldier was calm at the beginning, because the phoenix fire in the history records that under the control of the phoenix's consciousness, it will burn a specific target, so he thinks it must be under the protection of the phoenix. Next, it will not be ignited by the phoenix fire.

However, a small white flame quickly opened to the phoenix flower, spreading to his whole body, and the combat soldier let out a tragic cry.

The crowd rioted.

More and more burning northern animals crashed into the combat soldiers, and the flames spread from the ignited combat soldiers, quickly covering everyone and animals, and a sea of ​​white flames illuminated the earth in this dark night.

As more and more objects were burned, the flames became more and more intense, until finally the sea of ​​flames reflected the sky and brightened the day.

When the emperor said this, he took several deep breaths, covered his face with his hands, and recovered after a while. Even after the emotion passed, he still felt heartbroken and unable to calm down when he mentioned this scene again.

Ye Zhi clenched the phoenix tail feathers in his hand, stood up and walked to the side of the emperor, not knowing how to comfort him, he stretched out his mental bundle to soothe his excited emotions.

After a while, the emperor calmed down, let out a sigh of relief, and thanked Ye Zhi with a smile, "This kind of spiritual healing ability is indeed miraculous."

Ye Zhi smiled lightly, "It's good that you don't feel bad."

The emperor shook his head, "I should feel uncomfortable, I was also a member of Phoenix." The emperor walked to the open window, put his hands on the edge of the window, and looked out, "It was too early for Phoenix to go to the north. That's right, the first time he turned into a beast was when he was weakest, and at that time the large army of northern animals broke through the defense line and came directly in front of him."

"When the animals in the north are attacking, their spiritual frequency is the strongest. When the phoenix is ​​in front of everyone, he has not yet fully transformed into a beast, and he is holding on to the phoenix fire..."

The emperor couldn't go on when he said this, "We are so stupid."

Ye Zhi silently stood behind the emperor, but this time he did not go to comfort him.He felt sorry for Fenghuang, and he even hated those people who made Fenghuang fall into this miserable situation. It was true what the emperor said, they were beyond stupid.

After a long while, the emperor calmed down, and then continued with what he just said: "The fire burned for a day and a night, and the grass and trees in a radius of hundreds of miles were burned. A few beastmen who were birds in the periphery flew away and escaped from the sea of ​​flames. , and none of the rest survived."

Ye Zhi smirked secretly, they believed that the phoenix fire burned everything, and in the end it did burn everything, really mocking.

"Several orcs who escaped brought the news back, and the high-level leaders were shaken. The news of the collapse of the front line and the 'fall' of the phoenix spread on the Internet," the emperor continued after a sigh of relief, "People's belief in the phoenix collapsed. And turned into insults, because..."

"The phoenix is ​​crazy. The top orcs on the front line did not die in the war with the animals in the north, but died in the indiscriminate burning of the phoenix fire."

"People, please kill the phoenix."

Following the emperor's sentence by sentence, Ye Zhi gritted his teeth more and more, and finally broke out after the sentence "kill the Phoenix", "He is not crazy!"

"...But the people at that time didn't know," the emperor continued without Ye Zhi's anger, "a few orcs who escaped said that the phoenix was affected and degenerated into an animal, and the phoenix fire engulfed everything indiscriminately. , you can hear the shrill cry of the phoenix hovering in the air one after another."

"The peacock is the person who was sent to carry out the task of killing the phoenix."

Ye Zhi raised his head, "Peacock is Phoenix's elder brother..." He closed his eyes, no wonder when he first arrived at the zoo, he saw that there was no intersection between the two, they didn't look like brothers, so it was because of this reason.

"The peacock led a group of people to the northern border. After passing through the area of ​​the burned bare and ferocious land, they arrived at the Phoenix. The Phoenix was still hovering in the sky. It was he who didn't sing this time. At this time, ten nights had passed. sky……"

Peacock and the combat soldiers behind him took out a gun and aimed at the phoenix in the sky, and the phoenix also looked at them and swooped down towards them.

Soldiers will not shoot without orders, and Peacock aimed the gun at Phoenix's heart, knowing that Phoenix was flying towards him.

Peacock's marksmanship has always been perfect. He is extremely confident and never puts his hopes on others. The combat soldiers behind him will startle Phoenix when they shoot, and make him lose control to the point where he spits Phoenix fire. Even if Phoenix dies, it will be too late. They will die and die. In the phoenix fire that is ignited by the wind.

So he asked the phoenix to fly a little closer to make sure it was safe, to make sure it would kill him with one blow, so that the phoenix would not have a chance to spray the phoenix fire.

Finally, the phoenix flew closer and closer. During this process, Peacock's hand was always steady, aiming at the heart of the phoenix without any deviation. Peacock looked at the phoenix that was shrinking in size as it flew close to him, and a certain The dot flashed suddenly, feeling that I had neglected some important logic.

But the sharp phoenix claws were already close to the peacock's neck. The peacock shrank its pupils and pulled the trigger. At the same time, the phoenix closed its wings and rested on the peacock's shoulders, wrapping its body around the peacock's neck.

"Brother, I'm so tired from flying, are you here to take me home?" The voice was hoarse and ugly after many days of vocal cord damage, but there was obvious joy in the voice.

But all the warmth ends at the sound of a gunshot.