Chapter 680: Queen Worm (Part )
"This is indeed the key to controlling the insect swarm. If you control the pheromones, you can control the insect swarm!"
Taisi sighed.
“After we learned that the swarm relies on smell to transmit information and work, we thought it was a special way for the swarm to communicate, so it took us nearly two hundred years to think of using smell to control the swarm.
However, after learning the concept of "smell", you actually figured out the key to controlling the swarm in such a short time.
With your participation, we can definitely greatly reduce the time it takes to breed a group of insects to fight for us."
Zhou Qing did not comment.
Followed by.
Taros and Taisi led them to a cave in the outer area whose space was comparable to the base of the Workers and Peasants Council of Holy Soul Village.
Unlike other spaces in the cave, this space is relatively humid. Fungi and mosses emitting faint fluorescence grow on the ground, walls, and even the ceiling above. There are at least a hundred species.
"These plants and mushrooms are all edible." Taisi picked a pink-glowing umbrella-shaped mushroom from the wall, took a bite, chewed it for a while, and swallowed it. "The jelly you ate before was formed by the insectivorous insects eating these mosses and mushrooms and fermenting them in their stomachs."
"Don't go on. I feel a little sick." The bunny girl interrupted hurriedly, afraid that if she continued listening, she would vomit out the jelly she had eaten.
"It's actually similar to brewing wine." Talos wanted to tease the bunny girl, but seeing her glaring at him, he only added this sentence.
"What did you bring us here for?"
Dugu Bo picked a dark green mushroom, sniffed it gently, and after confirming that the mushroom was indeed harmless to the human body, he put it into his mouth, wanting to see what these two alien bodies were up to.
"Your Majesty's temper is much better than that of the Titled Douluo of our time."
Taros is not from Abyss. Before becoming an alien, she was also a soul master. She was a little surprised that Dugu Bo, a Titled Douluo, was so easy to talk to.
In fact, when Zhou Qing and others were going to the altar for a detailed observation, she did not say it explicitly, but she also had the intention of testing the strength of Dugu Bo, the Titled Douluo.
It's a pity that the other party's personality seems to be more casual, not like a reckless man - in the current soul master world, are soul masters more adept at using their brains?
At this moment, she once again felt a little curious about the development and changes in the outside world of soul masters and the human kingdom.
But now was obviously not the time to be curious, so Talos continued, "These mosses and mushrooms are the key to creating the smell...pheromones that can make the insect swarm execute orders."
"Why do we need to make it? You have lived here for quite some time, right? You must be very familiar with the habits of the insect swarm. Can't we just go directly to the queen insect to collect the corresponding pheromones?" It was the bunny girl who spoke. She didn't quite understand why Taros and Taisi wanted to make it themselves.
Why go far away when you can't find something near?
Can’t we just take the ready-made ones?
"Young man, what do you think of your companions' ideas?" Taisi did not answer the bunny girl, but asked Zhou Qing this question instead.
"living comfortably without anybody's help."
Zhou Qing knew that the more a person wanted to control something, the more he would take control of the lifeline, rather than being controlled by other people or other creatures, such as the pheromones of the queen insect.
If they were Abyss people, they might develop in the direction Zhou Qing envisioned, coexisting harmoniously with the Zerg, achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.
But Taros and Taisi are both outsiders of Abyss Town, and before they transformed into mutants, they were both soul masters... Although we don't know if they were soul masters from hundreds of years ago, their personalities obviously do not have the simplicity of the Abyss people.
However, regarding the pheromone issue——
“I think you have other reasons.
For example: The protection of the Zerg for the queen is at the highest level. If you are not of the same species as the Zerg in the true sense, you will be attacked indiscriminately once you get close to it. Therefore, you can only extract it from the hatched Zerg in the hatchery, but the efficiency may be very low.
In other words, the pheromones that allow the insect swarms to perform their respective duties can convey commands ranging from cleaning the kingdom to breeding insect swarms with specific abilities to reproduce. The types and numbers of pheromones are more than hundreds or thousands. I think the unit should be calculated in "billions".
In this case, even if you lived here for thousands of years, you probably wouldn't have discovered the pheromones that could help you cultivate a 'combat army'.
Or maybe in the entire Zerg Kingdom, as long as the queen is still alive, the pheromones will carry the queen's unique information, so that even if you get the queen's pheromones, they will be ineffective as long as they are contaminated by the pheromones you emit?"
The purpose of Taros and Tais is only to defeat the two guardians of the seventh floor, so it is not necessary to completely control the Zerg, but only to borrow the power of the Zerg.
Not to mention, these two people don't look like regular, rigorous research talents, so Zhou Qing guessed that they must have encountered other difficulties. And these two people must have invited other explorers, but perhaps because of different ideas, or because there are too few people coming to the sixth floor, so they have not completed the corresponding experiments yet.
Do not!
Just by looking at this space full of various fungi and mosses, Zhou Qing suspected that these two people had not prepared the corresponding research equipment!
After all, if you survive in this place for more than a certain period of time, the insect swarm will tacitly recognize you as a part of the kingdom. At that stage, all your personal belongings will become "public property."
That is, if the Zerg has no need for it, it can remain on the body, but once the things on the body can be used for the development of the Zerg kingdom, then other Zergs cannot resist when they come to take it, otherwise they will be regarded as invaders.
In short, if you survive in this place for too long, all the property you carry with you will no longer belong to yourself, but to the entire Zerg Kingdom. You will just become a guardian who temporarily keeps part of the kingdom's property.
Based on this situation, it is understandable that Taros and Tais did not prepare any equipment or devices for research.
"I really want to pry open your head and see what's inside." Taros's words indirectly acknowledged Zhou Qing's guess.
"Roar--"
Hearing Taros say this, Atarja, who was hanging on Zhou Qing's neck, immediately bent her back and bared her teeth at the other party, as if she would pounce at any time.
Dare to dig open Zhou Qing’s head?
court death!
(╰_╯)#
"I do have the idea of taking control of the initiative, but the more important reason is because of the queen..."
Being stared at by Ettarga, Talos felt a sense of fear inexplicably in her heart and stopped joking.
(End of this chapter)
