Chemistry

Officials stood on the platform of the Grand Chamber. A man with white hair in his earliest fifties stood in front of the microphone and the noise in the auditorium disappeared.

“I am Manager Yongnam of the Fire Industry Technology Institute. Thank you to our business associates for coming here despite the cold weather. ”

He lowers his head politely and says it again.

“Let me tell you a few things before we proceed with the assessment. Because it is for the safety of the people, there are many conditions that prioritize prices. We will not accept any complaints about ineligibility, as experienced firefighters in the field will thoroughly consider everything. ”

All those involved in the decisive Yong-nam voice listened with gleaming eyes. After coming to win the tender, every word of the Executive should be noted.

Jungwoo glances at the chief, Lee Jung-cheol, who is taking notes carefully, and finds Seung-joo's group arriving at the entrance. Song Bo-young, standing at the far end, had a red nose because of the cold outside.

‘You're a little late. ’

With a show of hands, Seung Ju's group leans forward and walks.

“Phew, it's cold. ”

Song Bo-young sat next to Jungwoo, trembling. Hangi stares at her surprised lips and asks.

“Are you so cold out there? Has the temperature gone down? ”

“Chongchan's car has a weak heater. I can't find my way in the middle. ”

Kim Jong-chan, who was sitting in Song Bo-young, who was murmuring with tears, apologized.

“This is what it felt like to verb. ”

Song Young-young took out two hot packs that she put in her pockets and placed them on both cheeks. Jungwoo looked at it and said.

“Just give me one hot pack. ”

Song Bo-young stopped. She froze to death and smiled at the bloodshed on her face to see if she could forget the flea's liver.

“I'll melt my hands in 30 seconds. ”

He only smiled at Song Young-young, who hesitated to give the hot pack of his right hand but doubtfully thought he would not return it.

A bunch of free electrons were collected in the hand-delivered hot pack to facilitate the reaction. I felt it getting warmer, so Jung gave it to Song Bo-young on the road.

“Here you go."

“That's enough.”

Song Bo-young shakes her head.

“I think I'll live when I get in here. Hanan uses Jungwoo. ”

“Your face is still in the middle of winter. It's Christmas, and you're snoring Rudolph. Like the day I got snot on my neck. ”

Song Bo-young laughed and glanced at Jungwoo. Then my eyes widened with the cozy energy from the hot pack Jungwoo handed to me.

“Oh my, why is she so warm? ”

“I was shaking a little bit, and then it happened. ”

“Is that so?"

Song-Bo-young starts to shake the hot pack in her left hand. My lips began to turn red gradually as the warmth began to fade.

Jungwoo glances back at her in a single phase, seeing that she's feeling better.

Nam Yong-nam was showing me the evaluation location by item.

‘Pharmaceutical items start at 2: 30. There are four competitors. ’

Jung, who glanced at Eugene Chemical, who would be the biggest competitor, stayed with Park who came with Yoon Jae-gil today.

She looks similar or a lot older than Yoon Jae-gil, but I felt a deep connection from her appearance rather than a scholarly brilliance. I laughed at the thought that something resembled Yoo Se who lived in the front house from his hair off.

“Why isn't he getting warmer? ”

Song Bo-young was still waving the hot pack on her left hand, so I realized that the time to dry was almost here. It was time to move on.

“You can't just wave it around like that. You have to be gentle with love. ”

“Is that so?"

“No.”

When Song Bo-young stopped moving and started to spill, Jungwoo stood up with a smile.

“Fire-fighting equipment is in a field of agricultural training. See you later."

“Oh, Jungwoo is good too. ”

In one phase, the last words of Yong-nam continued.

“I'll start now. The outcome of the bid will be decided in a meeting immediately after the assessment ends, so please gather here before then. ”

Jungwoo arrived in front of the outdoor evaluation center with Kim Jong-chan and the original number from the lab as collaborators.

There was a 1 meter cylinder on one side marked "Special Dangerous Goods" around the large vacancy, and an ambulance and a pump car were waiting for him in case of emergencies.

“That's a chemical car. ”

Jungwoo also turned his gaze to Kim Jong-chan's voice. The truck that had just come into the evaluation yard was a car with a gas cylinder and a mechanic that looked a little different than the fire truck that we usually saw.

The original singer whistled.

“Three hundred kilos of powder in a thousand liters of foam medicine in there, how much would that amount to the whole country? ”

While the three people were watching the chemical cars, a man in a fire helmet came forward with a loudspeaker.

- Let me give you a heads-up. If you are not a valuation participant, please wait outside the control line.

Jungwoo was on a retreat, so he was able to keep an eye on the preparations of the businesses in one room inside.

A void filled with boxes of compounds.

Dozens of people were loading the first test item into an individualized mobile evolver. Students from the fire school were also assisting, but the KG chemistry practitioners were very tall because they were all muscular.

Especially since the deputy was quite small, it was likely to look like a middle school student even though he was in his early twenties.

‘Even if I'm standing next to you, it won't work. ’

Jungwoo looked at his poor wrist and said, "Do you want to exercise? 'I thought about it, and then I shook my head. Chemists don't need physical training. It is better to look at one more paper at that time.

- Let me tell you something to speed things up. In the meantime, please make sure your next vendor is ready to go. If you don't, you can't test all 28 of them.

I heard that the man with the loudspeaker is the current firefighter conducting this drug test.

‘We're number three. Fight.’

At the end of the first iteration, oil from special hazardous water barrels was scattered over a three-meter concrete on one side of the vacancy.

I could smell the oil even though it was far away.

Is it a mixture, not just oil? ’

Jungwoo focused on what was visible under the particles as the droplets of oil expanded. That's almost crude oil. Oil, petroleum and lubricant.

- Launch.

Under control, there was a blaze.

A student at the Fire School who was assigned to the Innovation side with a mobile igniter on his back stood up. He was fully armed, even with a fire suit.

The student sprayed the medicine straight into the flames.

The medicinal mixture of water and a constant ratio jumped out of the air and began to kill the breath of flames that spread over the oil.

After about 30 seconds of radiance, the flame suddenly erupts from the middle. The student hurriedly poured out medicine, but more flames spread, wasting more time until the final evolution.

“57 seconds. That's a lot of time, isn't it? ”

At Kim Jong-chan's voice, who was measuring time on his cell phone, the original number nodded.

“I've been here three years, and it usually ends in 30 to 40 seconds. ”

“Then why did the fire start? ”

Jung sweeps through the chemical information on the oil surface and opens his mouth.

“Some of the water beneath the oil layer seems to have evaporated and blown the oil particles to the outside. The fire expanded at the moment. It's not just oil. It's a mixture of oil for testing purposes. ”

“Really?"

Jong-chan Kim, who was looking at the test place, looked at Jung-woo with a face that he had no idea at all.

“How did you know? ”

Jung omitted the word 'because I can see it’ and only smiled.

The next one was Eugene Chemical, so I was able to focus on all three of them.

You're not a student. ’

I was curious when I saw a middle-aged man without clean hair standing in his firesuit. Then I realized that he was Team Leader Park who told me about Yoon Jae Gil.

“The researcher himself? ”

- Launch.

As the fire started, the spark of Team Leader Park, who lightly placed his fire hat on his head, began.

Tsk, tsk.

The jetted spray suppressed the fire outside the oil layer in an instant, and the appliance was adjusted with a spray spray and sprayed centrally in one place.

Flame that fades in an instant.

“Gosh, it's less than 20 seconds now. ”

Kim Jong-chan, who was looking at his cell phone, was amazed. The fire went out completely in about 23 seconds.

“Their record is half H Innovation. Bingo. What's our projected record? ”

“I think I heard it was a 30-second internal test. ”

Although the performance of the medicament is also performance, the analysis of the two people who used it resulted in much shorter time because they knew exactly the effect and sprayed it.

Have you been practicing? You handle it better than a student. ’

Jungwoo couldn't take his eyes off Team Leader Park.

It was the third KG chemistry.

Chief Lee Jung-cheol gave the student his desperate gaze while holding his hand behind his back.

- Launch.

The student started spraying, and the fire went out in 33 seconds.

“Look, we're fast, too. Eugene Chemical is crazy fast. ”

Fourth mild sedation is 37 seconds.

Rank 2 in the bidding competition was meaningless, making KG chemistry look dark.

- Prepare for the 5th Pilot Test!

Macho-style firefighters with beards as big as no other firefighter would say on a loudspeaker.

Miles, Head of the Central Fire Station Command.

He glared at the next meeting of Eugene Chemical staff, not at the next round of H Innovation. A middle-aged man in a fire suit walked lightly in front of the command post.

Miles bows his head.

“Captain Park Il-Seong. I heard you retired, but you're in the big leagues? You're good.”

Park Il-sung smiled.

“I wanted to marry my two daughters, so I couldn't rest. Treat them well.”

“Fair enough. ”

“Haha.”

Park Il-sung once looked at the grumbling number of miles.

“Are you off today? You've come a long way from Seoul. ”

“Well, I was dragged here to pay extra. ”

Park Il-sung said, touching the fire helmet in his hand.

“It says that anyone who works for a business can participate in a bidding post. It's not against the rules, so don't keep looking. This is also a competition.”

“Who does that? With your 20 years of proficiency, our perverse students are dying. ”

Milesu has been pointing to the students of the fire school who are trying to get rid of Park Il Sung.

“It doesn't matter because I'm more experienced with a firefighter than this kind of medicine. That chemist over there, show them what you got. ”

“Don't do that again. I'm a chemical company man, too. ”

“Oops, got it. ”

Park Il-sung waved his hand and went back to the business position.

Miles was wearing a loudspeaker because H Innovation had finished preparing.

- Fire in the hole!

23, 25, 22, 24, 26. They're crazy. ”

Kim Jong-chan recited Eugene Chemical's recordings as if they were hollow.

Jungwoo realized that if KG chemistry, which was holding 30 invitations, would not win the competition at all.

‘I think the ingredients are just fine. How can there be such a big difference in usage? ’

Drugs of KG chemistry and Eugene Chemicals are almost equivalent. The rest is slightly pushed. But the obvious effect was Eugene Chemical's liquor.

- Launch.

A fifth agent of KG chemistry that has just begun spraying.

Huh?

Jung saw the bubble rain falling into the oil lake in the chemical world that looked enlarged, and his eyes widened. That was "Lightwater" I had hallucinated this morning. It's the combination of ingredients that he told us how to improve.

The rapidly produced polymer gel blocked oxygen as the bubble rain caught up with the oil lake.

“What, the fire goes out pretty fast? ”

“Huh? Yeah. ”

I took Jungwoo's time listening to Kim Jong-chan and the original number's conversation.

‘25 seconds.'

1 second faster than Eugene Chemical.

In this scene, officials outside the control line who had anticipated a single vendor's liquor were buzzing. I also saw Yoon Jae Gil speaking with Team Leader Park.

With all the lights out, the ball surrogate who was standing in the gap between the KG Chemical Compound Box flashed his fist. Then he turns his head to the right outside the control line and raises his thumb.

“Oh, that's what Jungwoo said this morning. ”

Then I understood why Kim Jong-chan won.

“If I had known this, Jungwoo would have sent you to KG Industries to participate directly in the research. ”

“Wasn't it something I made before I joined? ”

“So you should have joined sooner. ”

Jungwoo had to smile beautifully. Jong-chan Kim organized the results on his cell phone.

“We're out of anti-saturation meds, and now we're on a carbon dioxide base, right? One is lucky to win, but I'm worried about the future. ”

Jungwoo recalled the information about the 28 medicines he read this morning. All I could think of was that lightwater. Even if I joined quickly and participated in the development, I felt that I could not create something that greatly overlooked Eugene Chemical's compound.

‘Is there no way? · · · · · · ·. ’

At the end of the test, the loudspeaker voice followed.

- I'll take a 10-minute break while I prepare for the next test.

* * *

At 3: 25 p.m., the training ground for playing field.

Song Bo-young came out of the building after the fire suit test and took a breath of fresh air. Then I turned my eyes to Oh Seung Joo walking out from the side.

“I finally lost. Even if we were cheap, the tender wouldn't work, would it? ”

“Nam-young is strong. ”

Song Bo-young, who had become a challenging eye, lifted her fist at Oh Seung Ju.

“What, you gonna hit me? ”

“No, we're going to fight. If it's a flame-retardant coating made of polymer that we're going to develop, it's not gonna be Nam-young, it's American DuPont, right? It'll be more effective than your firesuit. We'll see."

“I like being overconfident. But don't stay up all night until the holidays. We have a long way to go. ”

“Okay."

Heh, Song Bo-young, who smiled and nodded energetically, said with a serious expression.

“On the chemist's path, there are days when failure is more important than success. I think you're too successful to run. ”

“Some people succeed all the time. Like Dr. Thousand.”

“You know Frederick Sanger, right? Two Nobel Prizes. ”

“I know.”

“I spent 10 years studying insulin molecular structure. Especially three years before the award was a failure. I think he's bigger than Dr. Shen. If the chemist has his own path, Bo-young thinks you're this way. You have an endless passion for challenge. ”

“Okay, I know what you mean. ”

Song Bo-young thanked the first president for his thoughtful advice with a full smile.

“Thank you. I really like being under you. ”

“Don't fall in love. My son is already four years old. Oh, you're in love with Jungwoo, aren't you? ”

“No!”

Oh Seung Joo pointed to an outdoor training ground with black smoke.

“Let's go see the main competition. We'll ride up together after the dinner anyway. ”

“Yes."

As I was about to answer and walk, one of the men who walked out of the training ground called Song Bo-young.

“Bo-young!”

Song Bo-young turned her back. Song Bo-young hurriedly turned to Oh Seung Joo as the gentle man in his late forties approached.

“I'll be right behind you, sunbae. Go ahead.”

“Do you know him? ”

“Yes.”

I nodded and ran to the man in one month.

“Mr. Sung-gil? ”

“Right, Bo-young? It's been a long time coming.”

This man with the company name tag 'Yeongwoo Tech Jeonggil’ was a friend of his parents.

“It's been seven years. I set up a lab and a company. It's a small business.”

When I saw Song Bo-young's name tag, my eyes widened.

“Why Song Bo-young? It's Mr. Car, you. ”

“That's right, mister. ”

“Did your parents do that and maybe · ·”

“I'll tell you later. ”

Song Bo-young said, "Cut it out."

“My boss is waiting for me. I go to the KG Chemistry Institute. Like my mother.”

Even though it's a bit stiff, the path nods without a word.

“I was very worried when I heard you were in Germany. I'm glad you're doing well. Yeah, go ahead. I'll be in touch.”

Song Bo-young bowed and greeted and turned her back.

Song Bo-young, who began to walk heavily, couldn't help but remember the old acquaintance I met six years ago.

I had no choice. I think you need to shake your veins at a time like this to get rid of your grief.

“What a cold day! ”

I tried to make a castle in heaven for no reason. Then he shakes his head.

“Mom, I'm not depressed. Don't worry.”

The weather feels frozen to the heart. Luckily, the hot pack in the coat that Jungwoo waved before was still very warm.

“Me, too. I'm comforted by useless things. Let's go.”

Jungwoo was pondering for a long time in front of a vending machine set up in front of the Fire and Combination Training Center.

‘I told her not to have caffeine in the clinic. ’

I wanted a hot beverage, but all I could sell was canned coffee.

I hope I'm okay. ’

When I put in the thousand won and pressed the button, the canned coffee came out with a cheerful sound.

“I'll eat well. ”

“Huh?"

When I turned my head, Song Bo-young reached out her hands and showed me a gesture.

“When did you get here? ”

“Just now. Oh, you haven't seen him? ”

“I'm with my comrades over there. ”

Jungwoo pointed towards the KG Chemical Bus. Then, looking at the canned coffee in his hand, he put it into Song Young-young's hands.

“It's like a revelation from heaven telling me not to eat. ”

“What? Like I'm an angel? ”

“Don't get me wrong. ”

Jungwoo, who put the bills back on the vending machine and pulled one of the bottled water, saw Bo-young sitting on a nearby bench.

“Let's get to the bus. It's warm there.”

“I just wanted to sit quietly. ”

Song Bo-young pulled out the hot pack from her pocket.

“I have this. It's okay. ”

I know why I want you to sit next to me. I was bothered to go to the bus anyway, because the break was over and I had to move soon.

“Your assessment didn't go well? ”

As she sits on the bench, Song Bo-young nods.

“It didn't work out. He said he wouldn't get hit by Nam-young anyway. What about Jungwoo? ”

“Don't say that. ”

Jungwoo talked about the liquor of Eugene Chemical. Song Bo-young who was listening said, shining her eyes.

“It didn't go so well with Jungwoo, who is meeting your expectations. ”

“You seem to like it. ”

“I like it. It's a sad eye. ”

Song Bo-young stared at Jungwoo and blinked. It's obvious, but I feel ridiculous that the tip of my nose is red again, and I feel cute, so I smiled.

“By the way, Lightwater was the only one that I had offered to improve. ”

“Tsk.”

“Well, here's the sad eye. ”

“This is my favorite eye. You don't even know.”

No matter how much I looked at it, Song Bo-young, a squinting eye, handed over a cup of coffee and asked.

“Mr. Park is the team leader. Are you that good? ”

“I thought I had a good idea of the flaws that would put out the fire. ”

“Our team doesn't know that? ”

“The student at the fire school is not us · · · · · · · · ·. ”

Jungwoo suddenly asked Song Bo-young.

“Fire suit. Is that hard to wear? ”

“The person who invented it said," Our stuff is pretty easy to wear. But the Namyeong-gu has a lot of performance. There's Deputy Sim. ”

Jungwoo found employees of KG chemistry walking from the agricultural training ground. Clothes that one of them carries in a box. That's a fire suit.

‘· · · Let's try it? ’