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This separation was not easy. The Nibbling Void Bacteria had physical forms there, so they were not impossible to locate, but the signals they transmitted were almost synchronized with the "background noise" of space-time distortions and fluctuations. And because the Nibbling Void Bacteria were "soft-bodied," they obeyed whoever put pressure on them, so—
They were also a rather natural information carrier.
Countless "sounds and breaths" from every channel traveled chaotically through them, influencing one another and undergoing complex collisions and distortions, obscuring their own signals.
If Ronan had not read papers in the relevant fields beforehand, tested the various possibilities derived from the calculations within them, and observed with a preconceived direction in mind, he most likely would have missed it.
But once he had discovered it and followed the trail, the traits belonging to the Nibbling Void Bacteria quickly revealed themselves.
Due to the natural connections within their population, with the special ability of Great Comprehension supporting him, Ronan had effectively grasped the location information of the vast majority of Nibbling Void Bacteria on Pupil Ring-28758 Asteroid and in the surrounding star regions.
Combining this with the relevant research papers, Ronan quickly developed a relatively intuitive understanding of the Nibbling Void Bacteria's population habits:
Nibbling Void Bacteria clung to space-time structures, yet ultimately remained fundamentally incompatible with this world's space-time structure.
This space-time environment itself was not suited to the survival of Nibbling Void Bacteria. Here, they simply could not obtain energy normally, so they died off in large numbers every moment.
The Sound and Breath Background Color exclusive to Nibbling Void Bacteria that Ronan captured through Great Comprehension was extremely unstable.
Perhaps one moment, a location was still "hailing collectively"; the next, amid tiny ripples in the space-time structure, its echoes had already dwindled away into nothing.