Chemistry

Jungwoo bends at the waist, piercing hard ice with a drill that needs to be turned by hand.

“Now it's your turn, Deputy Chief. ”

When I gave out the drill, the PD gave it to me with a slight glance.

“Me, I thought it would be noble to explore. ”

“I told you, what a researcher does is placenta is simple labor. ”

Jungwoo, who was tapping his waist, cried out when Park Yul-hee near saw the drill where the tracing solvent sat.

“Yu Hee! Not there, next to it. Now, the specimens we collected earlier are similar in age. ”

“Oh, I will. ”

I, the PD, who was giving the drill a hard time, opened my mouth.

“Be thorough. How many centimeters do you sell here? ”

“17 centimeters. 4 cm ahead only. ”

“The drilling hole. You know the deeper you go, the harder it is to dig. ”

“I know. That's why I did it first. ”

“Ugh.”

Immediately after departing, Zhongwoo, who was following the same group in the conversation with the PD, laughed.

“I'll take five minutes off after the collection! ”

All those scattered within and outside 100 meters of Jungwoo began to gather in one place.

“What about ours? ”

Park Yul-hee gives out a barrel full of ice sculptures. Jungwoo quickly searched and picked out a few potential items and placed them in a sealed container.

“That's okay. I could use three. ”

“Yay! I've succeeded three times. ”

Park Yul-hee: High-five with can toyerin together. Jungwoo pointed at them with his jaw and told me to the PD.

“Is it so hard for you to enjoy yourself like this? ”

“I keep getting confused about whether I'm the deputy director or a servant. ”

“I'm confused, too. ”

“What?"

Though it was cold, the expedition itself was joyful.

The refining, which collected all samples, examined the sealed container again.

‘I don't know if it's one of them. ’

The protein structure that Jungwoo needed to find in Antarctica was the antifreeze component that would make it into the 2-3 structural part of the supercatalytic project.

"I don't know, I'll have to do a thorough experiment. ’

I was checking the gaps in molecular field of view, but I couldn't find a structure that could do all this.

“…… did we sell it wrong? ”

I asked Jungwoo to hold the collected sample and look at it for a long time in an uneasy tone.

Jungwoo quickly wakes up from his thoughts and shakes his head.

“No, I collect just as well as I'd like. ”

Jungwoo got rid of his worries. The heavier the sample bag, the higher the chances of success.

Cheers.

PD, can you hear me?

The near-field radio channel was in common, so I heard voices on Jungwoo's shoulders and on the radio.

- If you look from there at 3 o'clock. Something huge is approaching.

What is it?

- Can't you see it with your own eyes? Then tell him to zoom in with Kim's camera.

At this sound, Jungwoo's eyes turned to 3 o'clock.

You see only a few hills, but nothing else. Suddenly, I noticed a small creature with a large feather on the top of the Fencing Hill.

Penguin?

It was a start.

Soon, a group of penguins came into the expedition's sights, covering the entire hill, or the entire glacier. The plain that was only green seemed to be bitten black.

“Oh my, oh my. ”

“Oh, my God, what is that? How many are there? ”

Jungwoo recalled the story he had heard from McDoyle before he left and shouted to Baek So-mi.

“Somi, long-range radio! ”

“Here.”

Bae Somi hands Jungwoo the radio connected to the inside of her bag.

Jungwoo immediately called the base.

Please respond to Elsworth Outpost. This is the EBOT Node, the Korean expedition.

Cheers.

- Ellsworth acknowledged.

Is Captain McDoyle there? Limited Woo.

- …… Yes, Mr. Han. Talk to me.

Adele penguins are moving in large quantities this way. I heard that the Blue Ice Zone has nothing to do with biological exploration, but I was wondering if this is normal.

- How big is it?

Jungwoo turns his eyes to the hill.

A lot, a lot. I think it will be at least... 100,000.

- That's not much of a scavenger hunt. There's no reason to go inland at this time of year without crossing the coast.

An unusual movement.

- Not my area of expertise. We'll talk to the other expeditions and get back to you.

Jungwoo, who put down the radio, looked a little more closely at a group of penguins. I didn't feel any unusual energy. The effort of penguins marching hard with their short legs only stands out.

“Why does it move like that? ”

I couldn't find an answer to the question I was watching next to.

Grumpy...

Then, somewhere out there, you hear a low sound as if the earth is shaking.

Ta-da!

At the same time, bubbles erupt everywhere the expedition gathers.

Following the sound of the moaning, you turn your head. And we looked at the air layer through the molecular field of view.

The cracking of the air layer that was trapped in the ice tens of thousands of years ago when it froze and exploded. The problem was the anomaly in it.

"Warm"?

Although the knee is still a serial gun due to the fat winds, the reaction in that air bed is a mixture that can only come from more than a minimum image.

‘This is salt. It's a plant plankton. This……. ’

Antifreeze proteins that Jungwoo is continuously collecting have become very hot suns in the cosmos of the molecular world, protecting the environment from the cold.

To this end, the reaction heat generated when the compound and compound reacted was added, so bubbles burst out even at minus 30 degrees.

Turning your eyes away from the molecular world, Jung flinched.

The ice crystals that were tightly engaged by the reaction had to collapse on their own.

Tofu, tofu!

And it turns out that this many bubbles burst at once.

Boo-hoo.

Gold appeared on the ice just in front of the expedition.

“Huh?"

“What?”

Blah blah...

Everything I could see on the ground was cracked. One of them revealed a dark crack and planted a terrifying fear in the expedition.

“Unwind each one of them and walk to the people next to you! Don't move as much as you can right now as there might be more crevasses! ”

Some react quickly to the screams of the security guard, but others are confused.

Bae Sae Mi was embarrassed.

“Take it easy, Somi. ”

“PD……. ”

She couldn't even tune in until the PD approached and placed a bet on Gil.

“Somi, don't move. ”

Looking at the ice floor, I approached Jungwoo who was thinking slowly.

“Jungwoo, I think we should call the base for help. ”

Untitled friendship.

I, PD, have connected Karabiner from the opposite waist to Karabiner from Jungwoo to Gil. Then I shook Jungwoo's shoulder.

“Jungwoo? Are you okay?"

Then Jungwoo turned his eyes away. In the eyes of justice, the PD shakes its head as if something was flashing.

“We have to call the base for help before we get stuck here. ”

“I think I can move. ”

“There's gold everywhere. ”

Jungwoo, who opened his shoulder bag, took out five containers containing tracing solvent.

“The deputy director will ask for help first. ”

Jung Woo scattered the five courages with his hands. The frozen solvent crystals settle like magnets on the floor as they fly in the wind.

Jungwoo shouted to everyone.

“The crack in the bottom is related to the glacier protein we're looking for. So where solvents don't stick, it's hard ice. ”

All of Jungwoo's voices turned their eyes to the ground.

A blue ice sheet that appears between shiny, luminous particles.

Bow.

The road to the area without gold was clearly revealed.

Safety agent Kim Woo saw Jungwoo.

“The first rule is not to venture into areas of suspicion of Crevasse, but I believe in Mr. Jungwoo's chemistry. ”

Kim Woo leaves first.

Kim Woo-in took a careful step with the sound of a powdered Eigen.

The two expeditions who were holding him, too, watched as they swallowed their saliva.

Thug-Thung!

Meanwhile, more gold emerged from Kim Woo-in's vicinity.

“Look out!"

Kim Woo-in swept down his chest with a black crack about a meter away. If I took one wrong step, I almost fell.

But what was encouraging was that the cracked point was the place where the trace solvent of Jungwoo was attaching and emitting a prism-like light.

As more trust arose in Jungwoo's words, Kim Woo's footsteps were also swift.

Kim Woo-in's move was successful, even to a place that seemed relatively safe.

“Done! From now on, one by one, just move where I've stepped. Don't forget to hold on tight! ”

The screams of the security guards made the expedition look dull.

After I finished communicating with the base, I, PD, opened my mouth to Jungwoo.

“Rescue team is on the move. ”

“Got it.”

I asked the PD as I watched Jungwoo looking at the coming penguins.

“Is this how their house moved? ”

“Maybe I am. ”

In 10 minutes.

All personnel converge on a non-cracked ice sheet.

Jungwoo plucked the bag and removed all traceable solvents.

Eleven bottles left.

This alone was insufficient to get out of the Blue Ice Zone. But with a swarm of penguins coming, we were unable to stay in one place.

If you crack the floor while you're stuck in the herd, you won't even be able to evacuate properly.

“Sir Ooin. I'll take the lead from here. ”

“Jungwoo? ”

“You have to decide when to use this. I'm the best judge of ice. I did a lot of research. Just trust me one more time. ”

Examine the ice sheet with molecular field of view, and only use it when absolutely necessary to move it safely.

Jungwoo took the lead with this conviction. But it was thought to be a great sacrifice for the expedition. Everyone is looking at themselves in an atmosphere that seems to shed tears.

“It's not that dangerous. Let's catch up with the penguins and get moving before something bigger happens. ”

In the UV situation at Sejong base, in the helicopter. Strange sense of stability in Jungwoo that always makes the right decisions to lead people.

I was amazed at the PD, and I met Director Kim Seok Han. Am I right? When did you say 'no' to his gesture and 'no' to the PD? 'I replied with a gesture.

Cheers.

- Rescue team from the base has arrived.

I looked at the horizon line, setting the voice from the radio.

You can see the old container shelter. We're almost there.

Jungwoo uncovers the last bottle, scatters it in the air and turns his head.

“The Blue Ice Zone ends soon. ”

The faces of the group following you brighten.

"Well, I've run out of chips tomorrow. ’

Hopefully something from the glacier samples we collected today.

The migration itself was flat, with the exception of tens of thousands of penguins following the 500m back.

It was not that there was no crisis in the middle, but after walking with a lot of attention to the bursting reaction of the air bed, it was certainly possible to secure a stable route.

All of the solvent I just sprayed lit up a glittering path ahead.

“Now let's go……. ”

Jungwoo stops at the trail of dust that lands in the middle of the passage.

Areas that already react and cause bubbles to burst and remain. There is no gold, but the floor is poor.

“Be careful out there. ”

Scary ending, Qasim! A voice and one person are sucked into the crevasse.

“Hey, sis! ”

I screamed in shock.

“Ugh!”

What the hell is going on?

The boat suddenly turned off and my vision turned dark, and my head turned white.

I thought it would fall further, but my body stops in the middle of a gap in the ice wall with a jolting shock.

Gil.

A rope that was attached to the security guard and the filmmaker's waist was supporting the body around the waist.

“Ow, that hurts. ”

One of the gloves peels off, his arm rumbling for a split second.

You lift your head up, mourning for the gloves that would have disappeared deep into the unseen ice.

The first thing I noticed was a clear sky through the blue ice. It was dark below, so the top looked even brighter.

“I can't hear anything, man! Anyone?”

I didn't know why, but I didn't expect anything from the situation above.

Cheers.

Are you okay?

The radio on my shoulder rang. Happy Somi's voice. I whistled my hand off the glove, and pressed the send button.

“It's okay.”

You're alive, aren't you?

The sound of sniffing is transmitted over the radio.

“Werewolf. We all walked. If you do what you're trained to do, you won't get away with it. ”

- But, hey, sis. People are preparing to pull him up now. Don't worry about it.

“Yes, I'm not worried. ”

- And this rope can hold up to 200 kilograms, but you can't go over that? You're not going over?

I knew who was joking.

“Somi is right. ”

After some distance from the shock of falling into the crevasse, what came into view was ice powder glittering with a strange light.

“It's pretty.... ”

The ice powder continued to make a colorful glow here in the blue sky.

“Hold still.”

The appearance of the light changing looked very similar to the pattern I saw while watching Jungwoo's experiments a few days ago.

- I'm pulling her up!

The tightly pulled rope begins to climb upward.

Ugh. Ugh.

An ice grain drifts in the wind, swept away by the moving grain.

“Cheer up!"

Five men pull the rope next to the weight-bearing security guard on the floor of Picello.

After pulling so hard, the predetermined head finally reveals itself through the black pit.

“Just a little more! ”

Kim Woo's shout, which was pulling in front of him, pushed the bottom firmly and squeezed.

Jungwoo and I, the PD, grabbed and pulled up the arms that were stretched out by the ship.

“Careful. Don't slip, I'm the PD. ”

“Hnng.”

The ship disappears from the group's view for about two minutes, and is back on the ice. Everyone who was choking cheered.

“Little one, are you hurt? ”

Baek Seoin nodded at Jungwoo's question. And I reached out to him with something I had in my right hand.

“I found the ice shelf. ”

“Ice Shelf?”

Jungwoo is surprised to see a lump of ice glowing with tracing solvent buried in it.

“Hey, why are you digging this up down there? Research is not about risking your life. ”

“Because I believed you.”

“Oh, my God. ”

Jung, who saw her left hand hanging red because of the stripped gloves, sighs and disconnects the batteries on the radio.

After collecting a pile of dust, I accelerated the reaction in the battery and handed it over to a predetermined left hand.

“Come on, we'll hold out until we get to the Node."

“Oh my, why is it so hot? ”

“If you swing left and right three times, that's usually the case. Maybe it's just a secret method I used to know. ”

“Really?"

“You can't be serious.”

Baek Seoin chuckles. She shifts her head to the left and to the right, worrying.

“Where's Somi?”

“She's crying so hard, she's with the foreman over there. ”

“Somi!”

“Sister!”

Though I wanted to run for a month, the two sisters met in a sneaky walk because of the ice sheet moves.

Meantime.

A few of the penguins that followed slip past the crowd as they lay on their boats.

Glug-ug-ug-ug!

One of them nods his wings and stands next to the two sisters who hug and start to cry.

The crier gladly chokes, slurping alongside her, swallowing her tears behind the actions of the crying penguin.

“…… What's the matter, you. ”

Penguin turns to the loser and says, "Oh, you know how to play like me? ’I showed a friendly flap of wings.

“Here we go. The penguins are close. Let's go!”

The expedition has resumed, relying on Gil to support each other.

(West Antarctica, Ellsworth Summer Research Base)

Around dinner.

The bombardment of the Elsworth base was a disaster experienced by South Korean expeditionaries on the Blue Ice.

Casse Shinji was standing inside the main research camp precinct and staring at someone in the center.

Jungwoo.

He's that chemist again.

What was even more alarming was that the cause of the collapse he was uncovering was in line with the large-scale military movement that the expedition was looking for.

…… and the warm water circulating under the ice shelf has become the beginning of this phenomenon.

I have a question.

"Yes, Captain Miguel.

Isn't it too coincidental if your theory is that sea ice bacteria are proteinated against the ice and are sleeping in the ice? It's extremely unlikely.

Low but not low. It's the chemistry of this age that has evolved from that kind of accidental reaction. fungi, yeast, sea bass microalgae, bacteria. Over 17,000 different types of antifreeze proteins have played a role in chemistry millions of years ago. This was triggered by catalysts like global warming and the use of artificial matter that destroyed the ozone layer.

When it comes to environmental issues, the eyes of all the biologists inside sparkled.

"Mr. Han can prove this by chemistry, right?

Yes. But the details are related to KG Chemistry's SuperCatalyst Project and cannot be revealed here. It's a corporate patent.

Several people kept asking questions, but Jung definitely drew the line.

Let's discuss it with the head office and make a part of it public in the journal.

What he did not say would be the key to the movement beyond what all of them were looking for, was enough to know about Casse Shin, an out-of-the-box biologist.

Now I'm curious as to where we are.

When I was making a joke. After going out on a military expedition, he just returned through the door.

"Hiroshi."

"Sunbae! Did you hear that? In exploration, the Korean team…….

Yes, I heard.

"Ah. We should go to that area.

Hiroshi looks sad. It seemed to have come back empty.

Ugh, hungry. I've been walking my team for seven hours. Would you like to eat too?

Can I?

I will certainly succeed in my exploration tomorrow. The status of the Winter Soldier Line, I must protect it.

"Hiroshi."

Yes?

You'd better eat something fresh for dinner.

Why?

After what that chemical gangster just told me, I'm gonna tear you to shreds.

Cashew Shinji couldn't say this until now.

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