Dogs, Rabbits, and Magpies

Ouyang Tian crawled and crawled. After a while, he suddenly felt that he looked rather foolish.

Growing larger would make him easy to spot, but in his smaller form, he crawled far too slowly.

He looked around and spotted a rabbit grazing with its head down. He quietly approached and climbed onto its back.

Then he sprayed out spider silk, wrapping it around the rabbit.

The spider silk burrowed into the rabbit's skin and sank deep into its muscles...

In the end, he controlled the rabbit's movements as though it were a puppet.

This was another use of his spider silk—controlling weak animals.

His scouting speed increased considerably now.

He controlled the rabbit and searched the surrounding area for traces. First, he found stretches of farmland.

Then he saw a main road. Running along the roadside ditch, he soon caught sight of a town.

A ring of fence walls surrounded the town. Inside stood many neatly arranged houses, and the place looked fairly clean.

It seemed capable of housing tens of thousands of people.

Its scale was quite substantial.

The main road led to the town, but a large gate blocked the way. Several guards stood lazily in front of it.

They folded their arms and cradled long guns.

There was no hope visible on the faces of those entering and leaving. Only a few showed even a little vitality.

Ouyang Tian felt that this was less a town than a giant prison.

As he observed, he suddenly heard a voice carrying from afar. "Eh, a stupid rabbit ran over here. Perfect, I can catch it for Hong-jie to play with. This place is so damn boring."

Ouyang Tian looked up and saw a young man about a hundred meters away sneaking toward him.

Behind the man was a group