Exploration – Chapter 12

They put a little salt on their palms and quickly swept it into their mouths. The movement was natural and fluid. Their facial expressions were calm and relaxed, but their bodies were already accelerating to their maximum limits.

All their senses, including sight, hearing, and touch, expanded rapidly, beginning to explore a little over a kilometer radius.

They smelled a faint but familiar smell. Even now, they carried around a significant stockpile of it in their backpacks. It was the scent of that ‘drug’, nectar.

Or it could also be the scent of a person tamed through nectar. Their keen senses were scouring the vicinity for the drug’s owner.

They didn’t rush. They methodically scanned their surroundings.

The salt spread throughout their accelerated bodies, making them shudder involuntarily. The salt was a sophisticated nano-machine that activated the non-verbal communication channel which they used to eavesdrop on Nill and...