"Achoo!" Nie Yun rubbed his nose.
Frowning, he moved the glass test tube in his hand a little farther away from himself. Wisps of green smoke rose from it, but the movement did nothing to disrupt the gentle rocking of his wrist. The liquid inside continued oscillating at a constant frequency.
A minute later, the liquid in the glass test tube had turned entirely into green, foamy residue...
"Ugh! Another failure..." Nie Yun eyed the ruined sample in his hand in frustration, then helplessly tossed the foul-smelling test tube into the waste pool.
A few bubbles burbled up from the waste pool, which was filled with silvery liquid Mechanical Insects. They devoured and decomposed the test tube and its unidentified contents together.
Nie Yun had just been attempting to decipher the mysterious plant enzyme in the Water of Life through a very scientific approach. Yes, genuinely very scientific!
Granted, there was not a single impressive-looking precision instrument in sight. The place looked more like some warlock's sinister laboratory.
But for Nie Yun, whose fine control had reached the maximum level, things like scales and microscopes were already irrelevant.
Even a casual sprinkle of salt from him could have its weight measured to several decimal places. He had long since joined the ranks of master experimenters who did everything by hand without sacrificing a shred of precision.
Yet the experiment had failed all the same.
Nie Yun's experimental reasoning was straightforward. Even the Kara Civilization, whose biotechnology was far more advanced than his, had failed to unravel the mysteries of the Water of Life after over a thousand years of research.
That being the case, trying to understand how this enzyme worked using only his current knowledge of biotechnology was essentially impossible.
In other words, his only chance to leapfrog them