Relying on alley cats and stray dogs as eyes could never compare to using birds. A bird paid no heed to mountains or rivers. Its wings could carry it straight to its destination. Cats and dogs, however, had to scramble up slopes and slink down hills. What a bird could fly across in a single minute could cost a four-legged beast a full hour.1

Lu Yuan could only concede that Lu Xuanxian’s no-fly zone had truly half-succeeded in keeping him from snooping. And before long, he realized it had succeeded outright.1

The last thing one of his feline agents caught was a shrill voice informing the two guests that Peng Guang and Zhao Gutong would lead the way ahead. After that, the voices dissolved into a...0