The tip of the silver needle was flecked with blood, its hollow core blocked by transparent candy.
That seemed to be the source of the click just now.
And something must have been injected into the corpse through this needle... turning it into what it was now.
The needle protruded from what appeared to be a small container, with a seam along the top. Li Xian slid his fingernail into the gap and pried hard, popping the lid open.
Inside was a tiny compartment with a volume of roughly one cubic centimeter. It must have held something once, but now it was completely empty.
Li Xian brought the Wristband up before his eyes and found a little residue resembling water stains in the compartment. It felt slightly sticky to the touch.
...Could it be melted candy?
As he speculated, Li Xian raised the finger smeared with liquid toward his nose. A sickly-sweet scent reached him as soon as his hand came up in front of his face.
Only a tiny bit of liquid had gotten onto his finger, and he had not even brought it very close, yet the scent had already reached his nose.
This stuff smelled much sweeter than solid candy.
Li Xian looked down at his Wristwatch, then raised it to his ear and shook it twice.
...Though very faint, there was indeed the sound of liquid sloshing.
So this was what happened when someone took off the Wristband.
Li Xian tossed the severed transparent hand back into the swamp, then slipped the Wristband he had removed into his pocket.
It was about time to head back.
The emotions inside him had already begun to stir during his examination. Li Xian turned toward Ji Xie, about to ask him to carry him on his back again, only