BXBX NOVEL Chapter 531 Fight Against Time (1)
Listening to the conversation, Eli observed how enthusiastic the group of people was.
When she joined the conversation everyone was in the middle of introducing their work and how they think they could improve the production process.
"Maybe we could ask the people to work straight for sixteen hours? That way we still have a whole 8 hours of rest to sleep, no? I think it should be fine…"
"No, our department needs an ample amount of light to carry out their work… besides it is not as if the work is continuous. Our work greatly depended on whether the previous department sent the item for us to work with."
"He is right… if there are no items coming from the previous production line then our work naturally stops…"
"What can our department do? If the ingredients don\'t come, what can we sort and send to you?"
The representatives of the different departments started to argue and debate about who was the culprit of the slow production process.
"So in the end it\'s the supplies that hinder everything in place…" Eli innocently commented leading the people to nod.
"Maybe we can ask the administrator to double the goods sent to us?"
"Yes, maybe we can do that!"
The people thought that they have found the solution and immediately looked at the administrator.
Since there were fifty people, they only sent a few representatives to explain the situation to the inner administrator.
Eli and Kayden along with others rested in the laboratory room and started to explore what were the tools inside.
With that Eli was finally able to communicate with Kayden but this time, using some codes would be too suspicious.
Looking around, she saw a pen and paper, she took it and approached Kayden.
"Brother brother… didn\'t you tell me you would teach me how to draw in the future? Can you teach me a few techniques? I\'ve got a pen and a piece of paper!"
Kayden saw through Eli\'s intention and pretended to teach her, but in reality, they were already communicating through the paper by writing mana inscriptions on it.
It is untraceable and subtle, no one would notice that they were exchanging information through this.
"Brother, I think that we only have three days before we are forced to move…" She wrote.
"I am thinking the same as well… we have to do something and try to infiltrate the restricted area before they kill us in three days."
Fortunately, Kayden also came up with the same conclusion that the inner administrator intended for their group of fifty people to be killed and so he did not refute Eli\'s statement.
"Shall I call in some earth fairy?"
"It\'s too dangerous… We do not know if we are being watched from a distance. Using this much mana in writing may not be detectable but summoning even one of your fairies can already trigger those detectors." Kayden replied.
"What shall we do then? If we cannot use mana… then do we need to physically go and infiltrate? Besides, even if we manage to do that we have to find a way to contact Nalu and the rest for backup."
Kayden thought about it carefully and pretended to teach Eli again. Outwardly they looked like a warm pair of siblings just learning how to draw.
"If mana can\'t be used, what about spiritual powers? Could it be used as well?" He asked.
"Maybe we can… but I am not really sure if these people also had spiritual power detectors around. After all, this is the temple, the officials are supposed to possess spiritual powers." Eli replied.
"See what you can do while I observe more…" Kayden replied.
With that, they also ended their drawing session as Kayden stiffly commented, "That is not bad for a beginner…"
"Oh… what did you teach her to draw?" A curious bystander asked as he could not help but see the siblings stand out.
"Oh… I\'ve drawn a little house with some livestock and farm animals walking around it!" Eli replied innocently.
In the paper, Eli just basically scribbled a little wooden house with some few \'creatures\' in it.
Kayden thought that they were beasts but held back his comment when Eli said that she was drawing some livestock.
\'Little Sister… these creatures don\'t look like farm animals at all! They even looked like the cursed beasts in the laboratory earlier!\'
"Oh… not bad…" The bystander tried hard not to offend Eli\'s innocent drawing as he saw that the older brother did not say anything.
In the end, he helplessly said to Kayden, "You are a very good brother… I have not seen someone as patient in teaching as you are…"
Kayden\'s brows twitched when he heard the comment but he still thanked his kind words.
After some time, the representatives retired with crestfallen expressions. The rest knew that the results of their discussion with the administrator were not good enough for them.
"What did the administrator say?" The others asked worriedly.
The man who was the main leader of the team replied,
"He said that if it was just as easy as that, they would have not gathered us here to be out of our work for three days.
The problem is, the supplies we are using would never increase as it was already what we could get the most every day.
It takes a full night for our suppliers to source out the herbs and other materials so that they can arrive on the island first thing in the morning for processing right away.
Should we insist on increasing the volume of the supplies, then there is a great chance that the herbs gathered initially will wilt before it was taken into the production line while the suppliers look for the additional increment ...."
"So that means…." The people slowly got the point.
"That means that our real mission was on how to double the amount of yield while using the same amount of ingredients…" The leader said dejectedly.
"That\'s impossible!"
"How can we even do that? We are not like those guys in white gowns who were educated and smart enough to create and experiment on things!"
"Clearly we cannot pull this through!"
"How can we come up with something like that in three days!"
The rest expressed their panic and disbelief in the concern as they realized how unrealistic their mission is.
"Let us calm down and think first. If we spend the little amount of time we have to complain then we are really speeding up the process of failure in this mission." The Leader calms everyone down.
Soon enough after realizing that it is futile to complain, they quickly calmed down.
"Em… I heard something outside earlier about using something called reagents… I heard that it was mixed through things to achieve the desired outcome in a chemical… maybe… just maybe… is this the answer?"
Kayden thought for a while and decided to subtly pave the way for the entire fifty people to have a chance to disperse.
He knew that suggesting this thing would make him suspicious but the three-day deadline for him and ELi was as dangerous as the failure of the mission as well.
If he could spark a reason to mobilize their group, then that also meant that he and Eli would have more chances to look around and see how they can do things to prepare for the three-day deadline.
"Now that you mentioned it! The reagents you are talking about, I am familiar with that concept because they usually talk about it here ...." A selected person originating straight in the inner temple also backed Kayden\'s suggestion up.
He narrated how the others use these things and the process of them developing and experimenting with them.
"Maybe if we manage to create something like that… we can double the effectiveness of the potions we make… this in turn would double our yield because we will only use half a portion for every dose!"
"That is feasible! But where do we start? We do not even know about the herbs and the potion in the first place… some of us could not even read and write at all…"
"Maybe that was why they thought to bring us inside the inner place… to use the resources around… Don\'t you think so?" The others suggested.
With that Eli and Kayden witnessed as the most familiar ones organized the teams into groups to research on a specific topic.
Fortunately, Eli and Kayden were assigned to the team who had to look around and ask the laboratory and factory people about things.
When they were done, the Leader immediately submitted the proposal to the inner administrator who approved the proposal with surprise on his face.
Clearly, he did not expect that these people would attempt to come up with something like this.
He knew that these people, who lack the proper education to conduct experiments, can never achieve the goal of the proposal.
But the fact that they were able to think about the possibility of inventing a reagent to increase the efficiency of the potions really took him off guard.