The Fish of the Drug Efficacy Testing Institute (2)

District 22 Life Sciences Cluster.

A place deliberately developed by the Haze institution to bring specific industries together and create explosive synergies.

This vast industrial complex took shape as corporate research labs, factories, vocational training centers, and the like sprang up, drawn by the extraordinary incentives the institution offered.

Even if industry here was heavily tilted toward the life sciences, the people were a varied lot.

Researchers with hollow eyes buying energy drinks, armed guards protecting the asset that was knowledge, drivers transporting medicines and equipment, groups in suits attending training together, and engineers in grease-stained work clothes taking a break.

And among them was Max, wearing a mask.

Max wore a flight jacket and black cotton pants. The clothes looked ordinary, but they were special cut-resistant garments purchased for this job.

Max wasn't sure how much they would help against Cheong Haesang, who was on the verge of Tier 7, but they were suitable gear for facing a swordsman.

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At any rate, Max looked like a driver if you called them one, or an employee commuting to work if you called them that...