The viewers in the livestream watched as several people lay in the wooden tubs, moving their mouths without making a sound.
Their unbearable curiosity gnawed at them, and they began flooding the chat with comments.
[What are they saying? Is there something I, a VIP, can't hear?]
[This should be a tense scene, but for some reason I find it kind of funny. Sorry, hahaha.]
[What's going on? What's the deal with River Witch, and what's going on with Aran?]
The livestream viewers weren't all idiots.
The scene inside River Witch's Tower was strange to begin with. Starting on the first floor, the things hanging from the beams were enough to put even the well-informed deducers on guard.
Besides, they'd been through so many instances. Some bosses pretended to be allies, only to stab them in the back when they least expected it. After being betrayed enough times, they'd developed a keen sense for such things.
Having followed the livestream from the start, quite a few viewers suspected that something was wrong with River Witch. But since they weren't inside the instance and couldn't interact with the clues, they couldn't be sure what the problem was.
In fact, comments had been warning them for a while not to soak in the water.
[Doesn't this scene look familiar? River Witch said herself, when she explained the Forbidden Art of Living Souls, that eighty-one souls would be kneaded together and boiled in a pot! Just look at them—don't they look like they're being cooked?]
[That doesn't really seem right. They're separated, and their living souls haven't been pulled out. I think the strange thing is how cooperative River Witch is. She's being a little too eager to help!]
[She seems to know everything. She even knows the deducers' souls were put in