Catching a Pet

Yang Bo controlled his game character along the simple patrol path. Everywhere else was buried beneath heavy snow, and no one knew what lay beneath the drifts.

The patrol road followed the edge of the entire mountain, winding endlessly to form a circular patrol route.

It was clear that there were not many patrolling knights.

There was no need for more knights up here.

"There should be a flock of birds here. Pheasants, maybe?"

"These look like wild boar tracks?"

"This one looks like a rabbit!"

As for how the wild animals got up here, naturally, they came from the road by the academy.

Normally, no one guarded that side. The castle on the mountain certainly did not have conditions as good as Green City, and as long as no nobles lived on the mountain, there was basically no one guarding it.

Yang Bo had walked about halfway around. He had originally wanted to see whether there was any prey along the road, but he only found animal tracks.

On one hand, many animals were nocturnal. On the other, the patrolling knights would scare them off. He could also see fungi growing on many tree trunks, but Yang Bo did not dare touch those things. Who knew whether they were poisonous?

Two squirrels leaped about in the trees, their pitch-black eyes warily fixed on Handy on the road.

There were also birds chirping noisily in the trees.

About two-thirds of the way along the patrol route, Yang Bo heard an animal gnawing in a tree and looked up.

"A mutated squirrel?" Yang Bo spotted a squirrel with yellowish-red fur in the tree. It looked somewhat like a devil squirrel from Earth, except its fur was entirely yellowish-red, bright and vivid like a red panda's coloring on Earth.

"Su Wei will