The leader took a deep breath and moved on to the other similar-sized pile. He took so more Spark and changed the pile of rock into sothing else that was white.
It looked crystalline and white, almost like salt. But Ning had done Dust, it wasn't salty at all. Was it still salt?
Finally, the leader moved on to the last pile which was the largest. To convert this one, he snorted a large amount of Spark and placed his hands next to the rock.
Imdiately, the rocks turned into so sort of mushy gray substance that sort of looked like wet sand but wasn't sand. Ning had no idea what these substances were.
He took a pinch of the listone, the white salt-like thing, and finally the mushy gray substance. Once he took those, he moved away and watched what the man did next.
The leader first called the Carver and had him turn the listone into powder as he hadn't been able to do it at all. Ning had wondered why he hadn't done it from the start, but maybe he simply just wasn't as capable of it.
Once the listone was turned into powder, the leader took a shovel from the side and began mixing it with the white salt-like powder. The other two took their shovels and began doing the sa as well, helping him.
The entire ti, they made sure not to have any of the mushy sand-like things mixed with the two.
When they were done mixing it all, the listone and salt made a mixture that was hard to tell that there were two different substances there.
"What now?" Karina asked once they were done. "How much of this do we use?"
The leader crossed his arms and scratched his chin in thought. "How much did we take out last ti? Was it a shovelful? Or more?" he asked.
"It was..." Karina took out a small notebook and read, "2430 grams."
"Huh? Let's take out slightly more this ti. Let's do 2600 grams this ti then. We need to improve slowly. Can't make too many changes at once. We need to get the ratio correct." The other two nodded.
The man moved the side of the room created a door from the wall on the side and went in. He walked out with a large weight-asuring device and helped Karina take out exactly 2600 grams of the mushy gray stuff.
Ning watched the way the two of them handled the thing, being careful to only touch it using the shovel, and slowly realized that the thing might actually be acidic.
Now that he thought about it, the man hadn't fully placed his hands on the final pile when creating the mushy substance. He had only let his hand hover over it. Was he afraid of touching it?
Ning was sure that this was a material that was too bad for soone to touch with their bare hand.
"Let's get working now!" the leader said and finally began shoveling in the mushy stuff with the white powder mixture. Soon, the entire thing began appearing like dry flour that had so water mixed into it, but not a lot.
As they made it, they turned it into a pyramid-like pile after the three ingredients were fully mixed. Once the pyramid was made, the leader began destroying it, creating a large crater at the center and Ning knew what was going to happen next.
The three people walked to the other side of the room hauled the 3 barrels of juices to the mixture and began pouring them into the empty crater at the center.
The Carver helped with the pouring, creating an arm from the rock using his powers to pour the barrels of juices into the crater.
The first two barrels were so sort of yellowish-orange liquid that mixed into the mixture quite easily. However, when the last barrel was being poured, the three began moving back from the mixture just because of the sll of what was being poured.
Ning was near, so he slled the horrifyingly pungent and bitter sll of the green liquid that seed to still have so sort of chunky bits inside of it.
Looking closely, Ning realized that those were leaves, all of which were mushed together to turn the juice. Was this a juice made fully with leaves or were leaves just added to it? Ning didn't know. Whatever it was, he couldn't imagine it being an actual juice that was being sent to the different shops.
Whatever this was, it was what was being smuggled by the General, and maybe other people too.
They imdiately began mixing the things together, doing so very quickly.
Ning watched as they worked as fast as they could. Once everything was mixed up, they began spreading the final wet mixture around the plastic mat, quickly leveling everything.
Once everything was flat on the mat, the leader coughed. "Let's get out quickly before we can't breathe!"
The Carver created a door back to the top and they walked out, closing the door to the cellar behind them.
Ning stayed behind, watching the stuff they had left behind. He quickly gathered bits of everything he could use as proof and then simply waited.
After waiting for half an hour or so, Ning began slling sothing pungent in the air. It was
a different sort of pungent from the leaf juice from earlier.
He wondered, was this harmful?
He opened up the system interface and clicked through a bunch of stuff before finally landing
on the piece of information that did give him the answer.
It was indeed toxic fus that would cause severe skin rash as well as nose and throat irritation. That was why the three people had left the room as soon as they could.
They didn't want to kill themselves trapped in such an environnt.
"Well, I have no need to stay here as well," Ning thought. "Ti to go."
He teleported away, disappearing back to his room. He would wait the night and go et Redai the very next morning.
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