After the encounter, Lily thought things through again. She concluded it would be challenging to discover the truth about this place. Hence, she began to concentrate on the experiments.
They were already halfway through. The main problem was that they could not blend the two types of materials and find the perfect ratio for the product.
Lily found a problem in the provided data. Those previously in charge of this experiment had been using the ratio she previously provided, which was the one from the successful experiment.
After seeing the data, she knew past researchers did not understand fragrances. To be exact, they did not understand the tricks of blending fragrances and herbs.
The data from her successful experiment was accurate, but that was just a single success case. How could they use it for all the other experiments as well? After all, the ratio for different mixes of fragrances and herbs would vary, and the material that would need to be added to blend those two ingredients would also be different.
It finally made sense to her why the organization desperately wanted her to join them. Perhaps no one could do better than her in this, or even if there were someone, they probably could not complete the experiment on time.
This experiment required long hours of commitment from its researcher, from investigating to familiarizing themselves with it. Plus, due to the unique nature of this experiment, no one else could do it other than Lily.
After familiarizing herself with all the data, Lily threw them away because they were useless. She started to make adjustments from her own ratio and repeatedly tried as she created many samples along the way.
By doing so, she could find the differences between the combinations immediately, then make further adjustments according to the results. She would eventually succeed in the end after trying things out many times.
However, there was one thing Lily found interesting in this experiment. Although she was experimenting on poisons, it was not the one from the wilfordi root. In other words, it was not the poison from the giant, mutated wilfordi root that intrigued her that they were using in the experiment.
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