Chapter 65 Chapter 64

The banquet started with the sound of gun salute. White Bird Melanie was brought in at the last moment before the banquet began.Maybe the swan spent a lot of talking about it, but the king was finally persuaded.She was successfully sent to the cage opposite me as planned. Melanie wore a red floor-length dress, all the feathers had been freshly brushed, looking white and dazzling.She nodded to me, the light from her red eyes was calm and firm.I couldn't help thinking that she was probably the calmest and bravest of us. Then the guests are seated one after another.Among them are the colorful quetzals and flamingos that I saw last time, as well as those endangered rare birds that I have only seen in biology textbooks, Taika chicken, banded umbrella bird, Bornean peacock pheasant and The Falkland blue dove, and I even saw an aging dodo!I thought I was dazzled and saw a huge puffin (there are quite a few here), but when he approached tremblingly on crutches, he was finally supported by an attendant and sat down beside me. Beak gave me a definite answer.I can't believe it, a dodo bird that was extinct back in the 17th century!

At this moment, the old man was sitting next to me. He accidentally choked on champagne and coughed uncontrollably.I stared intently at the violently quivering blue-gray feathers and cloudy eyes on his head, and only hoped that among the mishaps to come (if any), the rare dodo's advanced age would elude it. doomed. The volume of the music in my ears increased, and the originally melodious and soothing tune suddenly became grand and high-pitched.I tried to take my eyes off the dodo as it struggled to its feet, and looked up to see the huge rainbow toucan, wearing a towering golden crown and clad in crimson velvet studded with pearls and gemstones of all colors. The dress, like the coronation of an emperor, walked into the banquet hall surrounded by a large group of colorful macaws.The spotted fur cloak behind him was ten meters long.

The toucan stood still in front of the throne, he turned around and waved the guests to sit down. That's when I noticed the swan.He sat big and big under the right hand of the king, occupying the position of the first guest of honor at the banquet.Next to him was the pink cockatoo. At this moment, the feathers on the top of her head were completely erected, and she put on a vigilant look, as if she was nervous about something.When the swan caught my gaze, he immediately gave me a wink in a familiar way.My heart stopped beating.But before I had time to think, the king had already spoken.

"Welcome, welcome." The toucan cleared his throat pretentiously, and announced in a resonant voice, "It is truly a grand event for our clan to gather together today. All of you gathered the legal and military power of our clan, and you are The country itself." The king raised his glass, and all the guests cheered.They got up one after another and drank the wine in their glasses. After the people were seated one after another, the king continued: "You must have heard about it. In recent years, there has been an extremely rampant banditry that disturbed the public order and contempt of the courts, causing great harm among the people."

I saw Melanie on the opposite side holding tightly to the railing of the birdcage, and her eyes became even redder.She was staring at the toucan on the throne, and I think if the swan hadn't ordered her to keep quiet, she would have opened her mouth to scold this confused king immediately. "We have been encircling and suppressing for a long time and lost a lot of manpower, but we have finally achieved remarkable results." The king continued in a cheerful tone, "I learned recently that the leader of the bandits has been successfully killed..." I was taken aback.I looked at Melanie on the opposite side, and her expression changed at the same time.She opened her mouth, but remembering her oath, she swallowed a curse.But that still couldn't stop her from moving.She slammed her fist hard on the metal railing. After a loud "bang", the buzzing echo made my ears numb.The wine glasses on the banquet table also jingled and rattled.The nearby guests let out a few exclamations, and some ladies and ladies covered their faces with folding fans and raised their heads to look at her in panic.

But all this only brought a few laughs from the king.He gestured to the guests, "This is one of the bandit leaders." He pointed at Melanie and said sharply, "Right here, I will dig out her heart and share it with you! Let everyone here Remember her fate of rebelling against the royal power!" There were a few exclamations among the guests at first, but they stopped soon, and the entire banquet hall was silent.People were dumbfounded, looking at each other in a sudden tense atmosphere, no one dared to say a word, or make any sound.Many people were holding wine glasses in their hands, or their hands holding glasses or knives and forks stopped in the air when they were half-eat.I heard some wind instrument visibly skip a note, and then all the music in the hall stopped abruptly.So suddenly and completely, it seemed that it was not people who stopped their movements subjectively, but the king's rage frozen time itself.

Then, a burst of sparse applause came from the guest of honor, breaking the dead silence in the banquet hall. I saw the swan stand up smiling, take the jug of wine from the squire, and fill the king's cup. "Your Majesty is wise." He said calmly, "At that time, I will personally perform the operation for Your Majesty." The king laughed, and he took the glass and drank it down in one gulp. There were a few suppressed low laughs from the banquet table, as if they wanted to echo the king's attitude habitually, but they couldn't laugh out loud, and only let out a few "cuckoo" in embarrassment, and then everything returned to silence again.

Then the swan spoke nonchalantly again. "However, before that, I have prepared a few small programs for His Majesty at the banquet. Is Your Majesty still in the mood to watch it now?" He asked. "I'm in a good mood!" the Toucan yelled back as he drank another glass of wine, "Let them begin!" The swan gestured and the music started again.At first, it was faint, as if it came from the distant mountains through the depths of the bamboo forest, the stream was gurgling, and the moonlight above the head was cold and quiet.I looked up and saw pink snowflakes suddenly drifting from under the high ceiling.I couldn't help stretching out my hand, and a small petal fell on my hand.

Endless flower petals scattered down the banquet hall.It fell on the table, in the crystal glass, and on the heads of the guests.In people's astonishment, the petals spread out a pink carpet on the ground, and a few cranes slowly walked up from the carpet. Their heads are typical of cranes, but no category can be discerned.They have the same elegant long necks and pointed beaks as the red-crowned cranes in the field, but they do not have the distinctive colors on the red-crowned cranes' heads.Maybe it's because the blood is not pure enough, maybe it's too young to become what they should be.I can't tell the difference anyway.

But it doesn't matter.Because the guests in the arena have been completely confused by the fluttering petal snow.They watched the cranes dance among the petals, repeating complex steps to the melodious music. When the song ended, a pair of colorful male pheasants took the place of the cranes in the center of the hall.They dance close to cheek, exaggerated, provocative and daring.The guests were obviously attracted, they whispered to each other, and some even burst into laughter.Apparently they're completely relaxed now. Then the music changes again.The pheasant exits, and a Hercules comes up.As he walked through the banquet hall step by step, all the fragile glasses on the table shook again.His extraordinary size suggests he could only be an "extinct" elephant bird - the largest bird that ever existed.Standing in the center of the banquet hall, the elephant bird bowed respectfully to the king, then he reached into his arms and suddenly pulled out several small figures.

These little people are like the hummingbirds I saw in the woods, but smaller, like a group of little monkeys, being played by him on the palm of his hand.The clumsy behavior of the elephant bird was in stark contrast to these dexterous little birds, and the guests burst into laughter.And the irascible and surly king rarely showed a look of great interest. Next, Elephant Bird took a step back and juggled the little people like an acrobatic.There are more and more little people, one after another, they are stacked on top of the elephant bird's head, and finally it almost reaches the ceiling, and the little one standing on the top plucks a flower of color from the climbing plant on the ceiling. Bright flowers, then somersaulted down, dedicated to the king. The toucan took the gift, grinned wide, and took the lead in clapping. I don't know if it's my illusion, but the swan's face seemed to relax when I saw it.The parrot's erect feathers fell down at some point. She pulled the swan over and whispered a few words in his ear.Swan nodded. I don't know what they are talking about.I don't even know if that so-called "plan" will actually be implemented.Everything we talked about in the dungeon before, when Sylph raised his sword and Melanie broke out of the cage, assassinated the king and dominated.But now Silver has not appeared.I don't know how he will show up.I always doubted the possibility of him appearing.My heart sank when I heard the swan calmly echoing the king and saying those terrible words.I shouldn't have believed him in the first place.I have no idea which of his words are true and which are false.Maybe he is the father of lies after all, he is our enemy, and his plan is to wipe us out.Or Sylph won't come at all, and he'll end up killing each of us with his own hands. I was so upset that I didn't pay attention to the wonderful performances at the venue.I missed the fire-breathing bird, the beast tamer girl, and the osprey that could swallow ten swords in a row.When my eyes returned to the field again, I saw a court with Turkish curtains hanging down. A group of girls in translucent red gauze, sexy and glamorous, naked, some with pythons around their necks, some with cold sword blades in their arms, some with burning fireballs in their hands, some with fingers There is a shining dagger stuck between the seams.They are a group of colorful little birds, with beautiful eyes looking forward, twisting their graceful limbs in the emotional music, and making various dangerous and provocative movements in conjunction with the sharp weapons in their arms. The enthusiasm of the guests was aroused, and some of the slightly drunk guests directly stretched out their hands, hugged one into their arms, and took the sharp knife in the opponent's hand as a stimulus to stimulate lust, and danced with each other in the psychedelic music. Drowsy and drunk.I saw two girls in red lying on the king's bed, trying to approach him with the most erotic gestures.But the king remained unmoved. At this moment, I suddenly heard a few exclamations.It's an exclamation, but it's more like a sigh after satisfaction, which is mixed with surprise and relief, as well as a hint of unbelievable shock.I turned my gaze back and saw the middle of the banquet hall. I don't know when there was a new performer. A male dancer who, unlike the other dancers, wears a brightly colored robe as an embellishment to the dance.He was dressed in black, without any decoration, only holding a sword in his hand.But this sword has completely lost its own characteristics in his hands. You don't think it is some kind of sharp weapon, but more like a snowflake falling on a flower petal in a rose garden, or a sword standing on the tip of a lotus leaf in a lotus pond on a moonlit night. a dragonfly.His sword was so light, his man so light, it was like a weightless breeze. No, breeze is colorless.And he has color.When it spins, it looks like a black and white spinning top, changing all the colors in the world.Dark red, bright orange, bright yellow, emerald green, indigo, blue, and crimson purple, like the rising glow of the morning, like the afterglow of the setting sun, like an upside-down world, like an endlessly spinning universe. The dancers interpreted everything in the world with their exquisite dance moves, and everything is unified. I was immersed in his dance, and all the guests, all the attendants, all the guards, and all the people in the venue were immersed in his dance.Including the king himself, who stared at him intently with his mouth gaping open. Because no one has ever actually seen a bird of wind dance.The first of the four elements in the universe, the dance of the wind elves. Because he only exists in legends.Dance for freedom, dance for life, for all the residents on this continent, to live freely like the wind. Silph Dance.