He gazed at the dying person's eyes beside his feet and said calmly, "Because I am afraid."
"Patrick, I'm afraid I've chosen such a shortcut. A path that is not the best, but seems the easiest."
Yes.
Ian indeed had refused the Worm Nest, but that didn't mean he couldn't recreate the Dao Path of the Swarm.
The Brain-Eating Parasite had not been exterminated, and the Insect Swarm Psychic Network had not completely vanished; if Ian wished, he still had the chance to regret, to start from scratch and rebuild the Worm Nest.
But he had no intention of doing so.
Because it was a shortcut.
It was not to say that Ian had a fetish for mental purity or that he had a sense of ritual, insisting on reaching Above the Sky with a human body—absolutely not for such reasons.
Ian was very aware that if he chose to become the Swarm Overlord, he would do his utmost to be the best.
