"This really is the key to controlling the swarm. Control the Pheromone, and you can control the swarm!"
Tais sighed.
"After we learned that the swarm relied on scent to transmit information and carry out work, we only regarded it as the swarm's special means of communication. It took us nearly two hundred years to realize that scent could be used to control the swarm.
Yet after learning the concept of 'scent,' you grasped the key to controlling the swarm in such a short time.
With you joining us, we can certainly greatly shorten the time needed to cultivate a swarm that will fight for us."
Zhou Qing neither confirmed nor denied it.
Soon after.
Taros and Tais led them to a cave in the outer region, its interior space comparable in size to the Worker-Peasant Council's base in Holy Soul Village.
Unlike the spaces within the other caves, this area was rather damp. Fungi and mosses emitting a faint glow grew across the ground, walls, and even the ceiling overhead. There were no fewer than a hundred varieties.
"These plants and mushrooms are edible." Tais plucked an umbrella-shaped mushroom glowing faintly pink from the wall, took a bite, chewed for a while, and swallowed it. "The jelly you ate earlier was formed after Food Worms consumed these mosses and mushrooms and fermented them in their stomachs."
"Don't keep talking. I'm getting a little sick." Rabbit Girl hurriedly interrupted her, afraid that if she heard any more, she would vomit up the jelly she had eaten earlier.
"It's actually pretty similar to brewing wine." Taros had wanted to tease Rabbit Girl some more, but seeing her glare furiously, she only added that one sentence.
"Why did you bring us here?"
Dugu Bo picked a dark green mushroom, sniffed it lightly,