Chemistry

Jiaying.

Jungwoo opened his eyes to the vibration of the phone in his pocket. I must have dozed off with the warm heater. Seeing the next seat, the ball representative who was chatting for a long time was also sleeping for a long time.

The person on the phone is your brother.

“Oh, Chan. ”

- Bro!

I heard a voice quite urgently.

- He fell on his way up the hill.

“What?"

I woke up half asleep on the phone.

“Are you hurt?”

- I think my leg is twitching. It's snowing and the road is slippery. Especially the super front. Be careful, too.

“Anywhere else? ”

He was beaten to death for not doing the dishes. I was busy cleaning up after you. Huh!

“... Yes, you got hit. ”

I didn't think it was worth worrying about, but I still felt I needed to look at the condition quickly.

Where did we put the pasta?

“Don't just put on a wrench. I left at 7: 30, so if I'm about nine... ”

Jungwoo, who was looking out the window, just lost his words for a moment when the landscape was white.

There was no mountain trail, no trail in the countryside. It's just snow.

“What, this? ”

- What do you mean?

I shaken my head and asked Jung to wake me up from a dazed mind.

“Hey, Chan. Did it snow a lot in there? ”

- Three centimeters? That's it for now.

“Then take her to the hospital first. ”

My brother wants me to go to the hospital. … Huh? Mom says it's not that far.

Jungwoo cleaned up and said.

“Have you had a day or two with your mother? I don't want to cure it right away, but it's a big disease. If you think your ankles are swollen, just call a cab. I'll call you when I get to Seoul. ”

- Okay, brother.

Jung Woo, who ended the call, looked out his head and looked out the front window because the bus had not even been moving.

“Huh?"

A snow-covered road. There were only red lamps of cars everywhere.

“Whoa…. ”

I've never seen eyes like this in my life. Stacked enough to climb above the minimum knee. At least now it's over.

Jungwoo loosened his belt and walked to the front seat for a closer look. On the way, I heard the chief and the bus driver talking in an unusual atmosphere.

“Knight, why don't we turn around and take the side road? ”

“I don't know. It's all blocked up. And if you don't get your eyes back on this situation, you're not going anywhere. ”

The chief turned his head as he felt popular. Jungwoo pointed out the window and asked.

“Chief, can't we move at all? ”

“Yes, it's been 20 minutes since I saw what's in front of me. ”

“Oh my……. ”

Sitting in the front seat, Jung took out his phone and searched first.

Midwestern, Yeongdong Blizzard… controlling all areas of highways

Weather Service ‘May snow again at dawn’

Special precautions for going out after ice sheet accidents

The number one swordsman was the snowfall. I searched Cheonan again.

Cheonanjisa, Korea Road Corporation, currently has urgent control over the snow movements of Mkcheon, Namcheonan and North Cheonan on Gyeongsang Expressway. "We called for backup, but the equipment and manpower was too much snow to handle,” the officials said. With 20-40 centimeters of snow falling along the passage, some roads seem to be blocking the parking lot, resulting in more control.

"Phew."

After checking the article, I looked outside and saw that this was a road that had no answer. Employees on the bus were also looking outside and slowly shaking.

I was worried that I would be able to go to Seoul within the day, but someone suddenly appeared next to the bus door.

“Director Yoon Jae-gil? ”

Tied around his coat and trembling at the bars, he knocks and asks you to open the door. The chief quickly instructed the bus driver.

Chiik, the door opened and Yoon Jae Gil quickly climbed up.

“Phew, I'm going to die walking 30 meters. ”

“What brings you here? ”

Yoon Jae-gil glanced at Jungwoo and said to the chief after giving him an eye contact.

“Don't you have a KG chemical truck? The chain is not closed. because we were anxious to follow behind. ”

“Sorry, I didn't expect that, so I didn't have a chain in the truck. ”

“Not to mention, we have a snow spray in our mobile lab. It's gonna take a little while to get through, so why don't you put it on the wheel and move around? ”

“Snow spray? That doesn't really work, does it? ”

Yoon Jae-gil smiled gladly at the chief's question of anti-Semitism.

“Oh, well. It's a third party product. You can't do that. Eugene Chemical's products are one of the total care systems and are recognized by Alaskan oil companies and Antarctic bases. ”

Yoon Jae-gil shrugged her shoulders as she looked back at Jungwoo, saying, 'What do you think, our global company? Don't you want a job?’ I smiled.

The chief nodded without specification, as it was a chemical product boasted by the key players of the rival company.

“I appreciate the favor. ”

“Very well, let's get going. Our staff is setting it up. ”

Yoon Jae-gil pointed out. As he stepped down, he looked at Jungwoo and asked as if passing by.

“Would you like to go and watch with Jungwoo? ”

Jung saw a path full of snow up to his knees, shaking his head because he didn't want to go outside trembling in the cold. And he added to this chief who was going down.

“Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. ”

Cheers.

Yoon Jae-gil and this chief went out and searched the internet more, but this time it was from Song Bo-young.

“Yes, sir. ”

- Are you coming, Jungwoo? The chief isn't answering his phone. If you haven't left yet, tell them to go the other way, even if they do.

“It left a long time ago and is now on the road. ”

We're just ahead of the road, and we're stuck here. I can't even turn the car around because of the snow. All the cars that went up slip. It's not a commotion.

Jungwoo glanced at the other end of the motorcade leading to the windshield. The street is unthinkable, but there is no light from the foothills.

“Can't you move at all? ”

Let's go back on foot. I'm going to freeze to death...

Jung, who was enjoying the temperature in the bus so warm that he could sleep comfortably, felt sad and worried.

What if we can't get off the road forever today? According to the article, these countryside roads were likely to be breached a long time later.

- Then where's Jungwoo behind us?

“I think so. One kilometer? One and a half kilometers? If you're going to move, come to the bus. There's plenty of room here. ”

- I'll tell him.

I saw a single character after the call came in.

I'm on my way to the E.R.]

[Okay, call me as soon as you get something.]

[Ugh.]

Fortunately, Chan seemed to have left well with his mother. However, if he could not get out of here, Chan had to take care of Mother all by himself.

Is there no way? ’

With Jungwoo's delirious gaze, the snowball piled outside the window suddenly expanded. Within that time, the world looked at the giant snow crystals.

The snowflakes piled up on the earth in a clear symmetrical shape of hexagons were very beautiful, regardless of this devil.

‘I don't ski, I don't make snowmen. ’

By the way.

Hundreds and thousands of red arrows pour down on it. An arrow baptized with heat shatters the snowflake columns. It was a moment when a beautiful child was shattered.

Jungwoo watched the vision of snowflakes melting away for a moment and focused on the red arrow.

Calcium chloride? I'm grinding my eyes much more delicately than that. ’

That compound looks much more effective than the calcium chloride you sprayed a lot in the group. A combination that had never existed. I can't think of any names.

‘What, that ingredient? ’

I was a little excited at the beginning of my career.

This kind of illusion was similar to a flash of inspiration. See the effects, guess the formula inversely.

‘When it overlaps with your eyes, you need to be able to release the heat of melting as extreme as possible. Absorb molten water so it doesn't freeze again. ’

I had a quick spin in my head. Slightly complex process. However, it does not take long.

Jungwoo jumped up and relied on the security guard who was sleeping in the middle seat.

“Mr. Gong! ”

“… Yes? Yep?”

The ball surrogate who woke up in a frenzy looked at Jungwoo.

“It's a compound that we carry. Do you have acetate?”

“Eh……. ”

The ball's representative shakes his head and replies.

“Maybe there is. I saw the list in one of the additives. ”

“How many organic acids are there? ”

“Why are they? ”

“Let me melt your eyes. Big time.”

“Eyes?"

Jungwoo points out the window. The eye of the ball surrogate who saw the winter kingdom turned into a royal bubble.

Cheers.

“Ugh.”

Jungwoo sighed as soon as he stepped off the bus. The outside world was completely different from the ophthalmology. An eye attack that plunges into your knees with a blade breeze that fills your nose and ears. Even the fingertips wearing gloves were only touched by the invasion of cold air.

“Ouch, I'm cold! ”

The ball's representative followed Jungwoo, screaming.

I walked over to the KG chemical truck and I saw Eugene Chemical spraying the wheels.

As Jungwoo approaches, this chief, who was standing behind the truck, turns his head.

“Are you here to see it? ”

Yoon Jae-gil shakes her head. And since I saw this chief, I told him the story I heard from Song Bo-young earlier.

“Did you slip on the road? I'm going to have to turn this around if it pulls out the back. ”

Jungwoo points to the truck.

“Chief Lee. That's why I want to use the compound in the truck. Will it be okay?”

“I don't care if it's used, but suddenly.... ”

I rubbed my ear against the chief's eyes, asking why.

“If I make a snowflake and sprinkle it on the road, I'm afraid this identity will not be solved. There's a car standing in the back, and it can't wait forever. ”

“Snow? Is that possible here? ”

“I think it's possible, in theory. Combining magnesium and sulfate based on acetate is urgent……. ”

Jungwoo, who was talking about, flickered at Yoon Jae-gil, flashing his eyes and approaching his ears.

“Go on, Jungwoo. I'm listening.”

“I have to keep thinking because I may have all the ingredients I need inside. ”

“Aha.”

The ball agent who followed has opened the rear door lock on the truck.

I looked closely at the label on the compound box and decided that the perfect combination I saw in the vision was impossible. It didn't have sophisticated experimental tools, it didn't have all the compounds.

‘But with a higher concentration than calcium chloride……. ’

Then, Yoon Jae Gil stood next to the truck and looked at him as if he was curious.

“That's right, Centauri. ”

“Yes?”

“Is there a protein compound in the mobile lab? ”

She smiled proudly at this question.

“I'm not jealous of the library of matter. What are you looking for? ”

“Anti-freeze proteins. Extracted from the microbial microbes. I know the chemical formula, so if you have proteins of a similar composition, you can combine them right away. ”

Yoon Jae-gil's expression surprised me.

“Rebuild anti-freeze proteins with something similar? ”

Jungwoo crossed the chemical formula and immediately remembered the composition of the catalyst needed in between.

“I think I saw a machine in the mobile lab that could encode proteins before. Synthetic Oligonucleotide Adapter... Oh, it's so cold, I can't even pronounce it. You can code it similarly and connect it. ”

“How to find the DNA recombinant vector. ”

“Think about the effects and infer backwards. ”

Isn't it simple? Yoon Jae-gil was silent in Jungwoo's gaze.

The amount of time and effort it takes to analyze a particular DNA and build a mass production system may involve astronomical resources, depending on research challenges.

During this cold, Yoon Jae-gil's back was creeped out. The young man is talking about the enormous sound without hesitation.

“From what I've heard, it seems that Lim Wu is trying to make an antidote that has never been done before. The effect of melting eyes looks similar to traditional CMOs and organic acid snowflakes. Even the antifreeze? Is this going to work? ”

“If the head of the center can help us. We have to keep our eyes open, both in front and behind. ”

Since Yoon Jae-gil was trapped in the snow and left, I was just curious about the seemingly impossible attempt.

“Very well. Let's start right away in our car. We're here to support you in any way we can. However, the output. Can we share how it's made? Places, tools, even the most important compounds. ”

Jung saw Yoon Jae Gil from this sound while trembling in the cold.

“We have to figure that out. No matter what. ”

“You're thorough in the meantime. ”

“Strangely, just meeting the head of the center makes me calculate. ”

When Jungwoo laughed, Yoon Jae Gil smiled as well. Impossible young man. I just kept getting hungry.

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