Chapter 1563: Preparing
The leader took a deep breath and moved on to the other similar-sized pile. He took some more Spark and changed the pile of rock into something 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.
Immediately, the rocks turned into some 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 limestone, 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 limestone 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 limestone 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 same as well, helping him.
The entire time, 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 limestone 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 time? Was it a shovelful? Or more?" he asked.
"It was..." Karina took out a small notebook and read, "2430 grams."
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 smelling something 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 fumes 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 environment.
"Well, I have no need to stay here as well," Ning thought. "Time to go."
He teleported away, disappearing back to his room. He would wait the night and go meet Redaime the very next morning.