Li Xian's mind went blank the instant he realized he had been injected with liquid Honey Shadow. Yet when he came to his senses, he felt surprisingly little fear of his impending death. Instead, his gaze immediately shifted to the wristband on the floor, and he scooped it up with his right hand!
At least get this to him before then...!
He scrambled to his feet as fast as he could, then charged out the door before Fan Zhe could react!
Fan Zhe visibly froze when he saw him get up. It wasn't impossible for someone injected with liquid Honey Shadow to put up a dying struggle, but the odds were so low they were practically negligible. Everyone he had seen so far had either waited in despair for death once they realized what had happened or started cursing furiously.
He truly hadn't expected Li Xian to fight this hard.
Still, Fan Zhe wasn't particularly alarmed. Liquid Honey Shadow worked fast; roughly ten seconds was enough to kill someone completely. Even if Li Xian ran his legs off, he couldn't reach the top floor in that time.
With that thought, he immediately set off in pursuit.
Although Li Xian had come off worse in their fight, he was a little faster on his feet than Fan Zhe, who couldn't catch up right away. Only when Li Xian was about to reach the stairs at the far end of the hallway did Fan Zhe's expression shift.
Wait-why was the candy taking so long to work on him?!
Fan Zhe's pupils contracted as he recalled something he had almost forgotten:
The less candy someone had eaten, the slower the assimilation after injection.
But even someone who had eaten only a single piece of candy had barely fifteen seconds between injection and death.