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The Ethereal lay quietly asleep on a large bed, surrounded by guards.
The pheromones within the Ethereal's body flowed into the air through his breathing, then drifted into other compartments through the vessel's air system.
With such a high concentration of chemicals, any other warship's air circulation system would have sounded an alarm. Unfortunately, this was a T'au warship.
Many of the silent systems aboard T'au Warships were controlled by AI.
For something like the air filtration system, the AI decided what was filtered and what was allowed through.
When the Ethereals built their warships, they had deliberately left a backdoor in the AI systems. Their pheromones would not be filtered out by the air filtration system, but allowed to pass through.
A warship was, after all, an enclosed space. The longer an Ethereal remained aboard, the denser his pheromones became, and ordinary T'au who breathed them in would grow ever more devoted to him.
Now, the ultra-high concentration of lethal pheromones from the Ethereal's body raced through the ventilation system and spread into every compartment, while the air circulation system showed no reaction whatsoever.
At first, those who inhaled the pheromones merely felt happy—happy for no apparent reason.
Some T'au workers operating machinery even saw their efficiency soar!
But as time passed, the T'au aboard the warship began to grow drowsy and yawn. Their mental strength rapidly declined, though they could still keep working.
Then, they could barely keep their eyelids open, their legs turning weak and limp.
Captain Yun Yu and the armed personnel under him guarded the Ethereal. They absorbed the most pheromones and suffered the worst outbreak.
Captain Yun Yu and more than a hundred armed personnel actually fell asleep while standing, all