Su Jiyai sat in her underground room, the soft glow of crystal lamps lighting up the walls. All around her were shelves filled with herbs, scrolls, and strange bottles.
Her slender fingers turned the brittle pages of the scroll, her eyes narrowing as she read the formula carefully.
"So this is the antidote… step one begins with the simplest mix of herbs, but the middle stages… they need things I have never even seen in this world."
Her heart pounded faster the more she read. She could almost imagine the finished potion glowing in her hands, capable of curing zombie virus.
She smiled softly.
"Even if I cannot finish it now, I can still complete step one. That will be enough for the moment."
She gathered a few herbs from the table. Some were common, picked from the farms of Hope Base. Others had been found from the previous world.
As she mixed them into the mortar, she kept muttering the lines of the formula, checking every word.
