NABC Chapter 25 – Experimentation (Part 3)
Chapter 25 – Experimentation (Part 3)
Chapter 25 - 25 – Experimentation (Part 3)Chapter 25 – Experimentation (Part 3)
The feeling he experienced when he destroyed that star immediately led him to a conclusion.
"I've changed something about the potato's taste. That... I'm certain of," Zane muttered as he inspected the vegetable. "The surge of information had only been about the taste. So, if the star shattered... does that mean the potato is tasteless now?"
There was only one way to find out.
Zane stood up and went to the kitchen, returning moments later with a knife in hand. Sitting down again, he began peeling the potato with practiced ease.
'Never liked the skin. I only want to eat the raw potato itself,' he thought.
Eventually, a cleanly peeled potato sat in his hand, yellowish and hard. He stared at it for a moment, sighing to himself.
"I'm really about to eat a raw potato... The sacrifices I have to make..."
He cut off a small piece and tossed it into his mouth, already bracing himself for the unpleasant taste. But in his head, he was just
Despite the horror in his hands, he recognized the value of the discovery.
'Even moving the DNA just an inch away from its original position causes drastic changes.'
This taught him a few key lessons.
First, if he wanted to restore something to its exact state, he would have to memorize its DNA star positions precisely. Unfortunately, that was almost impossible in such a dark, empty mental space where every part looked the same.
"That's a problem I'll need to solve somehow," he said aloud.
Second, he realized he could control the degree of change. Whether he made something half hard, half slimy—or adjusted the ratio further—he had complete command over it.
"That's actually really useful," he noted, rubbing his chin.
The third and final thing he realized was the downside of his current method: Moving a star didn't grant him information about it.
"So I'm blindly altering things unless I break the stars. But if I break them... I destroy their attributes. That's annoying."
He needed a way to read the stars without destroying them.
Frustrated but determined, Zane picked up his notebook again and jotted down everything he had just learned. Then, he added a new section—a to-do list of things he wanted to investigate next.
By the time he finished, the list had grown quite long.
Staring at the messy scrawl and chaotic notes, Zane let out a deep breath.
"This is going to be a long night... isn't it?"