Chapter 2: Pigeon

The cooing animal in front of Qiye was very small, only the size of his open palm, with a small reddish-brown beak and two claws, but the feathers on it are very beautiful, the same as the clothes he is wearing now, pure white.

"It looks exactly like the pattern of the clothes I'm wearing." Qiye looked at the first animal he met in surprise. The clothes he was wearing had patterns on the surface, which were patterns of flying pigeons.

Cuckoo~

The chirping white pigeon flapped its wings and flew straight down toward Qiye. Qiye opened his palm and let it land on it.

Qiye's black and white eyes met the white dove's red eyes, and after a brief observation, he opened his mouth and bit the white dove's head.

After the white pigeon was immersed in the joy of staring at Qiye just now, it was shocking to find that Qiye opened his mouth to bite it. The panicked white pigeon quickly flapped its wings and flew up in a panic, avoiding the biting action of Qiye.

The white dove escaped and soon flew up into the sky, but it didn't leave after being frightened but flew back to the branch, and yelled loudly at Qiye.

"You... What do you want to do, do you want to eat me? Why would you eat me?! You are so strange!"

Qiye looked at the white pigeon resting on the branch with some regret. He hadn't established normal common sense yet, and he didn't think it was surprising that the pigeon could speak human words.

"I'm hungry and want to eat, and you look delicious."

The white pigeon looked at Qiye's pure eyes and was moved...

Although its origin is unknown, it is not willing to be eaten by Qiye, it still has an arduous task, or if it does die, it will be either being bitten to death by a poisonous snake.

"Then just come with me and I will take you to find the most beautiful thing," said the white dove standing on the tree.

"The most beautiful thing? Can it be eaten?"

"You can't eat, and I can't be born if you eat it… Why do you always want to eat?" The white pigeon condemned humanely and looked at Qiye. It turned around and flapped its wings and flew toward the depths of the forest.

Qiye, who was full of novelty and eccentricity about everything, started to follow the flying pigeon. He was interested in the existence of the 'most beautiful thing' that the white pigeon said.

Qiye, who was just born, is a child who is full of curiosity about everything. When he followed the white dove, once he encountered a novelty that he didn't know, he would stop and observe, he didn't care what it was, he just grabs it in his mouth and taste it.

Then, the white dove, who was flying, suddenly realized that Qiye's figure had disappeared.

"As expected of you, you just freely roam without even telling..." The white dove circled in grief and anger and began to return to search for Qiye who had somehow disappeared.

Fortunately, the white dove discovered Qiye's disappearance early on, so it soon saw Qiye in pure white clothes eating a handful of white mushrooms.

The angry pigeon landed on Qiye's shoulder, and it hit Qiye's face with its head angrily, "What are you doing, what are you doing! Didn't I tell you to follow me?"

"Are you also a pigeon in the shape of a man? Saying affirmative words, but somehow disappearing in the end?!"

"Because these things look delicious, do you want some?" Qiye, who was chewing white mushrooms, stretched out a mushroom he was holding to the pigeon perching on his shoulder.

"Delicious? Well, I'll fill your stomach with you before moving on. Anyway, we're not in a hurry."

As expected of a pigeon...

The dove looked at the mushroom that Qiye handed over. The whole mushroom was white, and only the center of the cap was slightly yellow, which was really beautiful.

"..."

After seeing the mushroom twice, the white dove stiffened, as if it had been poisoned, and flapped its wings at Qiye in a nervous manner, it screamed in horror, "This thing is the 'Spiritual Angel', it is a highly poisonous mushroom! Master often uses them to make poison! You will die if you eat them!"

After identifying this highly poisonous mushroom, the white dove lost two of its feathers in fright!

"Poisonous? What is poison?" Qiye who swallowed the mushroom looked blankly at the white pigeon on his shoulder.

"Have you eaten it? How much of this have you eaten?" The white dove looked at Qiye with worried eyes, as if it was looking at a silly roe deer who would bury its head at any time(1).

Ah, no, silly roe deer will not eat this kind of poisonous mushroom!

This child is really difficult to take care of...

"Probably that many." Qiye drew a circle with his fingers, roughly describing how many mushrooms he ate, and then added under the despairing eyes of the white pigeon, "It's delicious because you said the 'poisonous' word?"

Now... a bad concept has been established in Qiye's mind, that is, 'everything that is poisonous is delicious'.

"It's not a question of whether it tastes good or not. It's really that kind of... that kind of rare thing, anyway, you will die after eating it." the dove said to Qiye desperately, "Death, do you understand, it is death."

Qiye now leaned back slightly, and he became thoughtful, "Death?"

"En."

The white pigeon nodded its head, and just when it thought that Qiye had realized the seriousness of the problem—he stuffed another mushroom into his mouth to chew.

Qiye said vaguely, "I don't know what death looks like, because I haven't seen it before, and now I want to see death."

Because the current Qiye doesn't know what death means. If he can experience the meaning of 'death' after eating these mushrooms, he will eat a few more mushrooms out of curiosity...

To let himself experience the feeling of death.

"Cuckoo, cluck, cluck!"

The white pigeon flapped its wings and kept patting Qiye's face. It said angrily, "You still eat it, you still eat it?! Do you want to scare off all the feathers on my body before you stop?!"

"You can't die now, and you can't continue to eat these mushrooms. Hurry up and follow me before the poison takes effect, you must go to the little master! She will definitely find a way to keep you alive!"

"Okay, okay, don't be so flustered, your feathers have fallen again." Qiye bent down to pick up the pure white feathers that fell from the white pigeon.

"Whose fault do you think this is?!!"

Just when the white pigeon was screaming in grief and anger, Qiye's expression froze, and then his face began to change... No, not only his face, but his skin that was exposed outside his clothes also changed.

Qiye's fair face and exposed crystal-clear skin began to appear blue and black.

Hmm... this is a phenomenon of poisoning.

(1)silly roe deer who would bury its head at any time - When a roe deer is chased by a hunter, it will do a ridiculous thing, that is, dumbly burying their heads in the snow.