I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

Chapter 109 The Intuition of a Pay-to-Win Player

Seeing that his golden vertical pupils were starting to fill with water again, Ian quickly changed his strategy.

"Look," he said, pointing with his tentacles to a pile of colorful mineral powder in the corner of the workbench—a byproduct of Kiri's previous experiments with explosives. "Those are shiny powders; we can use them to decorate cement."

But you have to make the cement first before you can sprinkle glitter on it, right?

Vivian blinked; the logic seemed to make sense now.

"Then—when will the cement be ready?"

"Soon," Ian began to paint a picture, "Once I've optimized the recipe, the cement I make will be both strong and beautiful. Then we'll use it to build—well, a dessert shop—in Dragon Territory. How about that? The outside will be cement, and the inside will be filled with your favorite cakes and candies."

Vivian's eyes lit up instantly.

"A dessert shop? I want one!" Vivian immediately stood up, her tears evaporating instantly. "Let's start building it right now!"

"Okay, okay, let's start now." Ian breathed a sigh of relief, finally bringing the topic back on track.

Ian turned to the worktable, ready to continue his thoughts.

But Vivian has already entered "supervisory" mode.

"Little Ian, this stone isn't bright enough!" She grabbed a piece of limestone. "Get another one!"

"Those are raw materials, we can't replace them—"

"This dirt is filthy!" she exclaimed, pointing at the clay. "I don't want this!"

"That's a must—"

"The mixing is too slow! I'll do it!"

As she was about to unleash her dragon breath into the mixing tank, Ian quickly covered her mouth with his tentacles.

"No! The flamethrower will burn the ingredients and spoil them!"

Vivian let out two "woof woof" sounds and shrank back in grievance, but she quickly found new amusement.

She climbed over to the pile of mineral powder and began mixing it according to her own aesthetic sense.

"This blue is beautiful! This red is beautiful too! Gold is the brightest!"

She mixed powders of various colors together as if playing with sand, creating a mixture that shimmered with an eerie, iridescent sheen.

Ian watched her having fun, shook his head, and continued his experiment.

He began testing the new formula as planned.

Increase the proportion of quicklime, try adding a small amount of gypsum to adjust the setting time, and adjust the calcination temperature curve.

When the first test product came out, Vivian happened to be holding her bowl of "rainbow glitter" and coming over.

"Little Ian, look! This is bright!"

"Hmm, Liang." Ian replied casually, placing the newly made cement block on the testing table.

The weight capacity has increased slightly, but everything else is almost unchanged, and the original weakness of being prone to cracking seems to still exist.

It was basically just a pointless optimization.

"I still need to adjust it—" Ian muttered to himself, beginning to think about the next direction for adjustment.

"Little Ian!" Vivian tugged at his tentacle. "Try adding this!"

She held the bowl of colorful powder in front of him.

Ian wanted to refuse, but looking into the baby dragon's expectant golden vertical pupils, he swallowed his words.

Fine, let's add it then.

Anyway, the data for this test subject has already been measured, so let's just treat it as a way to appease a child.

"Okay, add a little more." Ian conceded.

Vivian happily sprinkled the powder into the second bucket of experimental cement that was being mixed.

The dark gray cement slurry mixed with iridescent specks, and after stirring, the entire bucket of cement actually developed a dreamlike sheen.

Although the color combination is a bit jarring, it is indeed—quite bright.

"Wow~" Vivian leaned over the tub, her eyes wide open. "You've become even prettier!"

Ian also went over to take a look.

[Analysis] Start.

Then, he froze.

Data shows that this bucket of cement mixed with rainbow powder set significantly faster, and its initial hardened strength was significantly increased.

It's actually a whole level higher than the previous version? And its resistance to magic erosion has also improved?

"what?"

Ian extended his tentacle, dipped it in some cement slurry, and carefully sensed it.

The main components of those "colorful glitters" are powders of common minerals such as stellite, red flame stone, and pyroxene.

These minerals are common and worthless in this world; they are plentiful and their cost is negligible.

They possess a slight magical inertness. Moreover, the mineral powder particles are extremely fine, capable of filling the microscopic pores of cement, making the structure denser.

The key is that when mineral powders with different properties are mixed together, they seem to produce a kind of "magical synergistic effect", and the overall performance jumps to another level.

An unexpected gain?

"Little Ian!" Vivian pointed to several other piles of powder. "Let's add some more! This purple one! This green one!"

Ian didn't hesitate this time.

"add!"

For the next two hours, strange things happened in the workshop.

Ian was adjusting the basic formula at the worktable, while Vivian acted as his "beautician."

"Add more of this blue!"

"Sprinkle the gold evenly!"

"Purple and green look good together!"

She relied entirely on her aesthetic sense, but Ian discovered—

BabyDragon's obsession with "sparkling" inadvertently led to the balanced addition of various mineral powders.

When powders with different properties are mixed in a specific ratio, the resulting "magical synergistic effect" actually improves the performance of cement.

By the time the third batch of test samples was ready, Ian was already numb.

It was a dark gray block of cement, its surface shimmering with a faint iridescent light, as if a crushed rainbow had been mixed in. The sound of striking it was crisp and metallic; when struck hard with the hammer on the workbench, only a faint white dot remained.

After some chaotic magic was injected, the surface of the cement block did not even ripple; the magic was directly absorbed by the inert minerals.

Hardness, toughness, and resistance to magical corrosion —

It surpasses the first generation of cement in every way, and its resistance to extreme environments such as high and low temperatures has also improved.

Moreover, because of the addition of mineral powder, the color is no longer a monotonous gray, but a dark gray base color with a slight shimmer, which reflects tiny colored light spots under light.

"This—" Ian stared at the cement, his body glowing with golden light.

This is no longer a minor optimization; this is a major overhaul.

From barely usable semi-finished products, they jumped directly to high-performance specialty building materials.

"Little Ian!" Vivian was already clinging to the shiny block of cement, refusing to let go. "This is great! I'm going to use this to build my dessert shop!"

"Let's call this 'Seven-Colored Cement,'" Ian casually named it. "It's actually quite nice."

"Colorful cement?" Vivian blinked, then jumped up excitedly. "Great! I want this! I'll use this to build my dessert shop!"

She ran around the workshop carrying a block of cement, as if she had received the best toy.

Looking at her cheerful appearance, Ian felt a mix of emotions welling up inside him.

I spent half a day thinking about the formula, calculating the proportions, and designing the process, but BabyDragon just sprinkled a few handfuls of powder and solved the problem.

What am I even trying to do?

Before I encountered Baby Dragon, I was completely messing around with infrastructure.

Is Vivian's intuition the result of a whale (a player who spends a lot of money on in-game purchases)? Or is it just that Silly Dragon has some lucky streak?

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