Xiulote looked up at the sky, trying hard to recall the faint snippets from movies and books. Drawing on the chemical content learned from textbooks, he speculated about the composition of the soil and the final products, considering how to remove unwanted impurities and how to derive the desired raw materials from the mixed soil.
The young man kept thinking, constantly experimenting. He refined the operational processes, observing each product from the treatments. The fragments of memory, like scattered and missing puzzle pieces, were difficultly pieced together into an effective complete process.
Moreno sighed inwardly. With his head in the clouds, under the command of His Highness, he treated the soil in various ways to extract something called "burning salt."
Time slowly passed and the old sun headed for its return.