Needle Witch's tool was genuinely creepy. It felt like it had never shown a single scene from the world of the living.
Seeing the second rag doll turn out to be even more outrageous, Fu Qian was reminded of plenty of things when it appeared and immediately straddled a researcher's head, becoming the driver.
Chief Yuan had once explained that the Second Order specialist excelled at things like curses and puppet possession.
Although he still hadn't seen the person in question, he'd already had plenty of opportunity to appreciate those methods.
Of course, he shouldn't judge her with prejudice.
Rather than assume that Needle Witch had been up to no good here just because he'd found traces of her, it was far more likely that, as a Night Watcher special envoy, she'd come along to deal with the incident involving the Academy's exploration team.
He could even understand perfectly well why she'd been entrusted with such an important task. She was one of the specialists most adept at crossing through space, after all.
Not only was she already a top-tier combatant, she was surely much better suited to fieldwork during emergencies.
And a lot of things could be handled by puppet dolls, which might also be more resistant to various forms of corruption.
All in all, Fu Qian thought it was perfectly normal for one of these things to show up here. It also indirectly proved that the Night Watchers had once carried out emergency response work.
Of course, once you entered Etched Wisdom, the specific form things took was no longer up to you.
Just look at the unassuming Rainbow of Yao Bian. She'd apparently been forcibly given a believer, leaving her no choice but to use the sun as a disguise.
By comparison, a puppet pulling the strings