They did not have to wait long.
A crisp voice rang out. "Why has someone come again?"
Again?
Su Yi and Wang Chonglu immediately realized that someone had already come to visit the Night Watchman before them.
With a creak.
The tightly shut gates of the courtyard opened.
Immediately afterward, that crisp voice said, "Guests, please wait in the courtyard."
They heard only the voice, but saw no one.
Wang Chonglu said meaningfully, "little fellow, do you know who made that voice?"
Su Yi looked at him as though he were an idiot. "It was a bird."
As he spoke, he had already stepped into the courtyard.
Wang Chonglu, meanwhile, felt somewhat embarrassed and mortified.
This was the Night Watchman's residence. Even in Eternal Night City, very few people knew of it.
He had intended to show off his knowledge, yet who could have expected that Su Yi already knew all this? It was truly awkward.
"Could it be that this boy has been here before?"
With that doubt in mind, Wang Chonglu entered the courtyard.
Orange-red lanterns hung all around the courtyard, while three stone houses built from enormous black boulders stood in a row.
At the center of the courtyard stood a massive ancient tree. Its old bark cracked open like tangled dragon scales, and its dense branches spread like an umbrella canopy, thrusting into the sky.
A plump Orange Cat lay sprawled on a branch, its eyes shut as it let out the rumbling sounds of deep sleep.
Beneath the ancient tree stood a desk and two chairs.
When Wang Chonglu entered, he saw that people had already been waiting in the courtyard.
And there was more than one.
There were three in all!
One was a middle-aged man in an ink-black robe, broad-shouldered and imposing. He