"Is that not okay? Do I really have to find someone?"
Chiba glanced at the clock in the underground laboratory, then at the white mice lying belly-up with stiff limbs. He sighed and murmured under his breath.
It was already nearing noon on the second day. More than three hours had passed since he got up. Other than making one trip to the research department to get white mice, Chiba had remained in the laboratory the entire time.
He had been researching Higan.
"Chiba, lunch is ready!"
Just as he frowned and began thinking, Yukina's voice suddenly came from the bathroom.
"Oh, coming!"
Chiba hurriedly stood up, gathered the corpses of nearly seventeen white mice, and incinerated them at the exit.
Over the past three hours, his medicine compounding speed had greatly improved. It could be called a tremendous leap forward.
That was because, while compounding medicine that morning, he had found a method. By using the precise measurement markings on the high-spec extraction equipment and controlling the amount of each medicinal liquid added, he could directly control the amount of extracted essence containing each medicinal property to exactly what he needed. That way, he no longer had to manually extract milligram-level quantities accurate to two decimal places. After extraction, he only needed to make minor adjustments before compounding the medicine. This saved roughly eighty percent of the time and allowed him to focus more on thinking about the formulation.
And his gains that morning had been remarkable.
Although the white mouse from just now had still died, it had been taking Higan for the second time.
Yes, its second dose of Higan.
For the first dose, Chiba had successfully brought the white mouse back to life through electrical stimulation.
He had already mastered the correct formula for Higan.
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