Alex could think of nothing.
The blankness of his mind was a void that he could not fill with any idea at all. Anything he tried to put there himself would be marred by that void, swallowing it, turning it all blank once again.
At least he had an idea of what he wanted for the previous round. This time around, he didn't even have that.
He could try to make an explosive pill again, sure, but he had already used four of the five major ingredients in the previous explosive pills. And as per the rules, he could not make another exploding pill with that same recipe.
That was to say, Alex couldn't even make pills he considered a failure this time around.
The world around him was silent once again, so he had no distraction, and even then, his mind continued to remain blank. The ideas hid behind a fogginess he could not clear up.
