Chapter 10
The people who were getting off at the next floor were throwing me a lot of disgruntled looks because I had been holding the elevator for a very long time. Yeon Seung-yeon appeared to notice and shrank significantly. As soon as the elevator stopped at the fourth floor, I got out. I couldn’t stand the smell of familiar ingredients and potions that came out as soon as the door opened. “What are you making?” “I will get off…I’m sorry. I will get off.” I leaned over the window of the lab that caught my eye. Yeon Seung-yeon, who finally managed to break through the crowded elevator, ran in fright and shouted. “Y-you can’t! It is greatly disrespectful to see other people’s work….” “There’s nothing to see.” The dissatisfied look of the researcher poured out the window. I disregarded him and attempted to enter the next room, but Yeon Seung-yeon stopped me. “L-let’s go to my workroom! At this rate, we’re really going to get kicked out…….” Yeon Seung-yeon dragged me to the door of a laboratory in a remote corner. I asked more questions such as entering a password, etc. “Are you also an awakener? A member of the center?” “Yes? Ah, yes. I’m an awakener in the production world. I don’t belong to the center. I’m a government official, who has access to the center site.” “Do productionists live in the center, or commute? You said this is an island.” “That…… There is also a workshop outside the center, so commuting is possible. But most researchers stay at the center…………. They provide company housing and it is easy to supply and demand materials.” “Commuting? There’s a bridge?” “No, there’s an hourly flight.” “What? A flight?” I was wondering if there was an easy way to get out of the island, but as expected,………….my hope is gone. When I sighed in disappointment and looked around, Yeon Seung-yeon opened the door of the lab and said, “C-come in. If you sit down for a second, I’ll give you tea-” “I won’t drink any that have been used.” “Maybe there’s j-juice, If I just look for it,……” Looking at Yeon Seung-yeon’s backside, searching through the refrigerator, I slumped down on the chair. But a sweet, brain cell-stimulating scent flowed from somewhere. It’s the smell I know. I raised my head, “This……!” *** Although he was a very strange person, he was the first customer to come to my little lab. Thinking that he should treat him well, Yeon Seung-yeon took out juice, snacks, and even a cake that was in the refrigerator yesterday. “I-it’s an orange juice, so are you okay with……” Yeon Seung-yeon, who turned his back with a tray full of food, jumped up and down in amazement at the sight in front of me. “What are you doing…………! Y-you can’t touch it recklessly!” That strange guide is wandering around my lab, touching this and that! The laboratory was full of things that ordinary people should not touch. If they touched it accidentally, they could have been seriously injured, and the potions they were working on were sensitive. On top of that, this Joo Ho-hyun was looking down at the solution of the last task that I had prepared for months, practically living in the lab at one point. “I-I’m coming so don’t touch anything……” I was so surprised that I couldn’t move my tongue well. The moment I put down the food tray, Joo Ho-hyun sniffed the liquid in the test tube by capacity and poured it into the boiling pot. “What are you doing!!” An unusual magical reaction was taking place in the experimental pot with a bubbling sound. Yeon Seung-yeon shouted as she rushed over the glass wall dividing the space, grasping the spirit of bewilderment. “No……! No!” If the potion production failed, the first thing to be wary of was the explosion. Thinking that he might get hurt, Yeon Seung-yeon tried to get Joo Ho-hyun away from the lab by any means. But at the sight of the reagents reacting in the pot bubbling and emitting pink smoke, he stopped. “This……by any chance,” It was something I shouldn’t be able to see right now. No, it shouldn’t have been seen. A system window appeared in front of Yeon Seung-yeon, who had been staring blankly at it. You have got an incredible amount of help! Potion crafting progress 99.9% Please proceed to the last step. ▶Stir. ▶Put the lid on. Flopped. Unable to withstand the shock, Yeon Seung-yeon flopped down onto the floor and asked with trembling lips. “H-how did you……?” “Are you stupid? Why did you leave it like this? If air bubbles start to rise before boiling, the reagent should have been added. Damn it, you threw all the pills away. Oh and you! Did you get an alarm? Just in case, I say ‘stir,’ and you are not ready, you will fall behind.” Joo Ho-hyun looked at him and bluffed, but to Yeon Seung-yeon, Joo Ho-hyun’s every voice sounded like an angel’s serenade. The potion Joo Ho-hyun had just succeeded in was the only antidote that could detoxify the Tarantula Queen’s poison. The Tarantula Queen is the boss monster of the dungeon owned by the center, and it was a tricky monster that no one could kill except for the very first clear. Due to the terrible poison, many Espers and guides lost their names in the records, and even the war that suffered too much damage was almost sealed. In terms of the value of the potion, it was currently one of the most urgent researches for the center, but due to the successive failures of the doctoral team, everyone refused to entrust it, saying that this was impossible and that it would not be possible to make it unless it was Nox’s Kang Eui-jin. The conundrum that I had been procrastinating for so long had come to a terminal researcher like me. A recipe for a troublesome potion that no one expected to be successful. I never dared to imagine that I would be able to see its success……… “You did it! You have succeeded! The antidote to Tarantula Queen’s paralysis poison was a reagent that no one except Nox’s Kang Eui-jin had succeeded with!” Joo Ho-hyun’s body trembled at the sudden cry. However, Yeon Seung-yeon, who was filled with tears of emotion, did not notice this. Joo Ho-hyun’s attitude and tone of speech, which he had thought was strange at first, came to be justified. A halo-like light was shining from his back, illuminating the entire laboratory. It was a moment in Yeon Seung-yeon’s life when he was blinded by a 1m
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