Chapter 13: I Want to Be a Bird

My name is Wang Wei and I am an animal handler. My duty is to feed the lion named Koko every day, the reason why I do this job is because I have been very interested in birds since I was a child, I dream of becoming a bird research scholar, but it backfired, my grades could not meet my dream, but I still can't let go of that love, I can't overcome the pleasure of being surrounded by countless birds, how I wish I was a bird!

So I gave up the job that my parents arranged for me, and came to this strange city and this strange park alone just to live with the birds I was familiar with. But the abominable headmaster, seeing that I was alone, with no background and no relationship, gave me the most painful job in this garden! Take care of this hateful and foul-smelling large livestock! I hate it! It's not light at all, and its feathers aren't glorious at all! It's like the abominable principal and those abominable colleagues, they're all here to torment me!

I had no choice but to buy tickets to see the birds every day after work, before the museum closes, like a damn tourist! Those abominable colleagues! When I saw it, I took out that disgusting "No Acceptance" sign. But so what? I can still see my beloved birds every day, and life may be like this, although it is full of pain, but there will also be occasional embellishments of hope. Until, until, until this divine punishment that is like the gospel! The earth shook suddenly, swallowing the damned principal and his colleagues, and I was so happy! I was in the open and had escaped, but suddenly something strange came and I felt like my head was about to crack, and my head was filled with all sorts of sounds. Wait, it's like a bird's call, but it's not a bird's call, and I seem to understand that sound, like, like I've really become a bird! That's no longer a bird's call! It's a word, what the birds say to me.

"Freedom! Freely! Freely! "They shouted like that, how I wanted to be with them, but I knew that birds should be in the sky, not in cages, and if I were birds, I would also yearn for freedom! I climbed up the ruins and smashed a big hole with a hammer, and I saw them fly away, their wings waving in front of my eyes, and they surrounded me! But they didn't stay, but I could hear them saying thank you to me.

When all the birds flew away, the voices in my head still didn't subside, from the monkeys, from Crocodile Island, even from the big livestock, but they were all shouting the same two syllables - freedom! Well, I opened their cages, and the monkeys were so clever that they even talked to me and asked me why I let them go. I ignored them and continued to the next venue, opening the next cage.

Finally, there was only this large animal left, and I didn't want to let him out, because I was still sober, I wasn't really a bird, I couldn't fly, and I might be eaten by it, but I didn't want it to starve to death, so I put some meat in front of his cage and left.

But when I found that I had nowhere to go, that the city had been ruined, that there was chaos and crying everywhere, and that the city had suddenly become the most uncivilized place, I turned back and went back to the place where I was the only one left.

I live in a cottage by the lake, and there is a lot of food in the zoo, enough for me to survive alone for a long time, I don't worry, I get up every morning and go to the depths of the woods to watch the birds, I bring some food and attract them to come and eat, and then I can enjoy the time with the birds, and then go back in the afternoon and put a little food on the big animal so that it doesn't starve to death. It was almost the happiest time of my life, with no one to watch over me and no annoying tourists. For the first time, I felt truly alive, or for the first time I was so pure, I felt that I was no longer so agitated. Until, that hateful fellow wants to disturb my life, no, to be precise, the poor and hateful fellow.

That day, as usual, I came to the mountain, and when I had finished feeding the birds, I looked down the hill and there was a car coming towards the park, and the car I knew was the manager of the playground with the monkey's cheeks, and his car was parked far away in the open parking lot, and it seemed that two or three people had come out of the car, and I knew very well. They must have had their eyes on the food in the pantry, and I hurried down the hill to my hut, where I had found this shotgun and a box of ammunition in the principal's office the other day, and which was the only thing I could rely on at the moment, and I would not allow anyone to disturb my life now! I'm going to kick them out! At this time, I had an idea and grabbed a key.

When I appeared in front of them with a shotgun, there was no fear on their faces that they should have. They didn't seem to think I was going to shoot, but the manager walked up to me with his hands up, smiling, and talking nonsense about peace, sharing, cooperation, but I knew that his eyes were fixed on my shotgun, and his hands were tense.

"Bang!" I fired, I barely hesitated, it was an old shotgun, the recoil was very strong, the moment I shot, he and I flew out upside down almost at the same time, but the only difference was that I didn't turn into a sieve, I fell heavily to the ground, his death didn't seem to make his companions feel a little sad or hesitant, they pounced instantly, I aimed again, but my muzzle was knocked off by them, and the shot missed, and then, I felt a sharp pain in my face, I couldn't open my eyes, and there was a blur around me, My mind was beginning to grow confused, but then I heard a familiar voice, the roar of the large animal. It rushed over in an instant and slapped the man riding on me away, and the other person was frightened half to death by this sudden scene, and fled for his life in a panic, but how could he outrun the lion? The hilarious way he looked before he died was so funny. I slowly stood up, picked up the shotgun again, and walked to the person who was slapped away just now, I looked at him, he begged me frantically, to be honest, I hesitated, but at this time a golden bird flew over, landed on the ground not far away, pecked something, I didn't hesitate anymore, pulled the trigger, I suddenly felt so tired, so aggrieved, so uncomfortable but at the same time I also felt a trace of happiness in my heart, the lion ran back, I subconsciously lifted the gun, it seemed to be frightened by me, I threw the gun aside, I began to try to communicate with him, and it dawned on me that I could not survive on my own, and who knew if there would be any abominable intruders who would want to defile this beautiful holy place. The lion seemed to understand me, and slowly crawled up to me, stretching out its rough tongue and licking me. Since then, he and I have become the guardians of this pure land.

Today it seems that a couple of more hateful intruders came, it seemed to be three small children, I resumed the surveillance at the entrance, I saw them tumbling in through a crack, I didn't want to kill them, I hoped they just passed by casually, but I had no choice, I picked up the shotgun anyway.

Sure enough, the invaders are all hateful, and the three children drove through the playground to the zoo, and their target was also the storage room? Fortunately, they didn't go in that direction, and they continued to walk straight ahead. Their destination is a free-range area near the forest, and these three nasty little kids are actually hunters! They pulled a crossbow out of their bag, and I freaked out and hurried to the zoo to wake up my only companion, Koko.

When I came to them again, they had already lit a bonfire, and I seemed to see three lovely birds brutally killed by them, pierced their bodies with bamboo sticks, and then roasted on the fire, unforgivable! As I approached them, one of them, a small one, suddenly screamed, and saw them run into the woods, I may have been exposed, but it didn't matter, it was just three children, and I had the confidence to keep it.

I let Koko go ahead, I followed, I was almost familiar with the terrain of the forest, they had nowhere to hide, and sure enough, behind the largest trunk, I spotted them, Koko had already taken the lead in rushing towards them, we seemed to have won the game, and we once again guarded our home.

But the young screams I expected didn't sound, I saw that one of the boys actually lifted a boulder directly and threw it at Koko, Koko couldn't dodge, one staggered to the ground, and let out a roar, but it didn't matter, such a stone couldn't hurt it, but this was a boy who rushed out from the side, he suddenly pressed Koko with both hands, just when I was wondering, a dazzling white light sounded in front of my eyes, it was actually electricity, I saw Koko's whole body hair stand up in horror, and his body spasmodically twitched, I hurriedly rushed over, As I raised my shotgun, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my chest, and I was forced to stop running, and I looked down to see a crossbow bolt stuck in my chest......

I was so unwilling, but I still fell, my last look, I saw the little boy with the crossbow machine in a panic threw away the crossbow machine and ran away, I thought a lot for a moment, I felt so cold, and it hurt, so it can be regarded as the completion of the task, I scared them away, I'm sorry, birds, forests, this is the last time I will protect you, before I lost consciousness, I felt a little warmth, it turned out that Koko struggled to crawl over, snuggled up to me. It stuck out its tongue again and licked me, and I seemed to see tears in its eyes, and suddenly I heard the birds chirping again, and countless beautiful birds flew towards me, and then the monkeys, and then the deer....... They all seemed to be talking to me, as if to say, thank you? I don't feel cold anymore, I don't hurt anymore, I finally get really surrounded by them.