Youguo: "..."
This beast companion was a Five-Winged Bird that had once been exceptionally beautiful. It had been sent to the Beast-Tamer Guild because of severe injuries. The Five-Winged Bird had become a wingless bird, with nothing but horrific wounds on its back. No matter how skilled the Beast-Tamer Guild was at healing, they could not create something from nothing. All they could do was care for the bird and at least spare it further suffering from its injuries.
The Five-Winged Bird had remained silent ever since arriving here. It could just about eat normally, but no one had ever heard its lovely, moving song. They did not know whether it was unwilling to sing again or had lost the ability.
Ye Chuqi sensed no malice from the Five-Winged Bird, yet her intuition told her that the problem had to lie here, at the Beast-Tamer Guild. At first, it had only been a guess, but after making a circuit of the guild without finding any clues, that instinct had only grown stronger.
Especially after seeing this Five-Winged Bird. Unlike the misty white she had seen in the Bucktoothed Rabbit's eyes earlier, this bird's eyes were filled with murky gray death qi.
Could this death qi have something to do with the malice?
Youguo reached out to stop Ye Chuqi as she was about to step forward. "Be careful, Miss Ye. Don't approach it lightly."
"Why? Is it still aggressive?"
"No, Five-Winged Birds aren't aggressive, but there's something very strange about its eyes. When staff members approached it, they only felt that something was odd at first, but afterward, they would all fall ill to some degree, and we couldn't find the cause. It was only after this happened too often that we realized it was the reason the staff