River Witch's Tower was an old-style detached house, built entirely of wood. Being close to the Ye River, the wood felt faintly damp to the touch.
It was still daytime, but sunlight didn't reach this spot. The sky was gloomy, and the whole house seemed shrouded in a dim cast.
To be honest, if the deducers hadn't known River Witch's identity in advance, they might have treated her as the mastermind behind everything and guarded against her.
This was Yu Xing's first time here.
The closest he'd come before was catching a distant glimpse of the house from beside another residence. When he realized that the area around it was rigged to detect anyone approaching, he'd quietly backed away.
He hadn't come at night, either. After nightfall, River Witch's Tower seemed to vanish, no longer appearing on Fengtou Town's map.
Perhaps... the rules favored the Witch?
The Witch had arrived only after the Ye River's great flood and had stayed beside it ever since. She might carry some kind of mission or karma. Yu Xing even wondered whether the Witch known as River Witch really was a river ghost that had taken human form and come ashore.
Curious, Yu Xing knocked on the door with a bent finger.
His knuckles tapped against the door, producing a dull "knock, knock." Before long, light footsteps sounded from inside.
Light?
Was that the sort of gait one would expect from an "old lady"?
Everyone gathered by the door had the same question.
The next second, the wooden door opened with a creak.
A young woman who looked no older than seventeen or eighteen appeared behind it.
Her skin was pale, and she was tall. Her clothes were clearly unlike the townspeople's: a dark blue cropped top that exposed her navel, trimmed with a