Li Xian paused when he heard Ji Xie's name, a trace of worry rising unbidden in his heart.
He had come here to find Ji Xie in the first place.
Li Xian quietly flexed his fingers, suppressed his thoughts, and pressed on:
"What did that Instruction Manual say?"
"Most of it was instructions for use and operating procedures. I relied on it to figure out how the machine worked and managed to land this position."
Now that he had completely laid his cards on the table with Fan Zhe, and everyone's wristbands in the residential complex had inexplicably stopped working, Lin Shiming openly shared his own experiences with Li Xian.
"But one instruction confused me at first. It said: once Honey Shadow is activated through catalysis by a Mutant, it can use the human body as a medium under special conditions, converting into gaseous candy inside the body through breathing. After a series of processing and purification steps, it can offer both a wide range of transmission and a potent effect."
"That was all easy enough to understand, but there was another sentence attached-if the medium is a 'nonhuman' incapable of reacting with it, Honey Shadow will simply turn into gas on a purely physical level."
Li Xian's brow twitched. He had a vague idea of what Lin Shiming was getting at.
"To give you my conclusion first, I think this is the true meaning of 'liberation'-spreading the emotions the residents have always suppressed and hidden back to them, letting them reclaim their own joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness."
"That's why I've been pushing for the development of gaseous candy. My goal was to fulfill your clearance conditions."
"Then I started thinking about what 'nonhuman' actually meant. At first, I took it literally to mean any living creature other than