The Chubby Bird Rules the Apocalypse by Force

1.

After disaster strikes, an animalization virus spreads, and the world enters an age of beastfolk.

Xie Langran, the king of the wolves among the clear-minded beastfolk, has claws and fangs. Day after day, he carries out missions for the base, holding back attacks from those who have fully transformed.

With his hands stained in blood, he feels that life in the apocalypse is utterly dull.

On another hunt, he runs into a fluffy, snow-white, round little bird. With a casual flap of its tiny wings, it sends an S-rank giant black bear flying dozens of meters.

Xie Langran narrows his wolf eyes. This bird seems kind of interesting.

For once, he gets the mischievous urge to scare the spirited little fluffball.

2.

Rong Qing was once a little bird in the cultivation world. By chance, he found a cultivation manual made specially for little fat birds and dreamed of training hard so he could beat up the nasty hawk one day.

But the moment he opens his eyes, he finds a black bear gaping at him, its jaws wide enough to swallow him whole.

The first rule in the manual reads: "A little fat bird's wings have immense power and can summon fierce winds, move mountains, and fill seas."

He tentatively flaps his wings. A violent gust suddenly sweeps across the flat ground, sending the black bear flying through the air with its mouth still open and a baffled look on its face.

Rong Qing looks at his own tiny wings, overcome with joy. He looks up, only to meet a pair of bloodthirsty green eyes.

He flaps frantically, but the black wolf doesn't budge an inch. His joy plummets instantly.

He really is still that useless little fat bird.

Rong Qing grits his teeth. Then there's only one last move left:

A wise man knows when to yield!

He flaps his wings, gathers his courage, and hops onto the Wolf King's head. He nuzzles him ever so gently and lets out the sweetest chirp of his life:

"Good morning, mighty and awe-inspiring Wolf King!"

Xie Langran: "?"

3.

"Little puffball, when are you going to turn back into a person?"

Xie Langran pokes Rong Qing's fluffy feathers apologetically, leaving a little hollow with every poke.

Rong Qing angrily shakes his feathers, then makes his short, weak legs carry him out of Xie Langran's arms and up onto his head. He flops down proudly.

"I'll turn back into a person when you learn some self-control. Until then, forget about seeing me in human form!"

A faint smile appears on the Wolf King's stern face. He deliberately says,

"Haven't I been holding back enough? Then next time... I won't hold back."

Rong Qing instantly demonstrates how to fluff up in a second and viciously pecks at his hair, vowing to pull out every last strand.

Xie Langran scoops up the little troublemaker and brings him to his lips for a kiss.

"I was teasing. Don't be mad."

Xie Langran once had no faith in the future and wore a world-weary expression every day.

Now, he looks at the little fat bird perched on his head, preening like a champion, and can't help sighing.

What else can he do? He'll make the best of life in the apocalypse with this mysterious, ridiculously powerful little coward.

Theme: Keep living life seriously, no matter what