For a moment, the inside of the laboratory was bathed in the brightest light I had ever seen. Not only that, a high-pitched sound that strained my eardrums echoed painfully in my ears.
However, not even a second after this happened, the inside of the same laboratory suddenly froze. The light that dazzled my eyes and the sound that made my ears feel like they were about to explode disappeared as quickly as they had come.
I slowly opened my eyes, which I had reflexively closed, and removed my hands from my face. But I looked neither in the direction from which the light and sound had come nor at the person who had made them disappear. Instead, I focused on the readings on a screen not far from me.
"Seventy percent... it failed again."
Immediately after my words, the icy feeling that had enveloped the lab began to recede. Then someone spoke calmly, without changing his expression in any way.
"We will get the perfect result in a few days."
