Su Xiao stared at the test tube on the metal table. The boiling red solution rapidly cooled, first turning purple, then quickly darkening as if it had rotted, becoming waste liquid.
It had failed again. Su Xiao had tried many times to remove the inhibitor from the Mutative Solution, but the two were fused too tightly, as if they had become one.
To replicate the Mutative Solution, he first had to purify it and eliminate the inhibitor. Otherwise, even if he deciphered the Mutative Solution, it would all be for nothing. What he produced would only be Mutative Solution V, not Mutative Solution with 100% purity.
Su Xiao really wanted to know what the inhibitor was made of and why it was so impossible to deal with. Even with his current Alchemy level, he found it extremely troublesome.
After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao picked up a beetle from the experiment box and tossed it into the black waste liquid, planning to see what changes would occur when the inhibitor came into contact with a living creature.
After being thrown into the black waste liquid, the beetle struggled violently. But after only a few seconds, it went limp and sank to the bottom.
Su Xiao observed it for a while but found nothing particularly unusual. He picked it up with tweezers and tossed it into the waste-material chute beside him.
Clang~
A crisp sound entered Su Xiao's ears, leaving him slightly surprised. He had sensed it just now—the beetle had merely died. Yet judging from that crisp sound, it was as if someone had tossed a small iron lump into the waste-material chute.
Su Xiao picked the beetle out of the waste-material chute and sensed it again. There was nothing abnormal. It was still a beetle, composed entirely of