Ronan did not care about the survival status of the Nibbling Void Bacteria. As long as he knew they would not go extinct anytime soon, that was enough.
What concerned him most now was still where the Nibbling Void Bacteria had come from and where they were headed.
As for their origin, any of those Visitors From Outer Space could have brought large quantities of Nibbling Void Bacteria into the country.
Liang Lu in particular.
Aside from locating Nibbling Void Bacteria colonies in the various Space-Time Edge Ridge regions, the largest remaining concentration Ronan had found was right before his eyes, in the lava zone at the bottom of this Volcanic Zone.
Not just the aberrant main nest before him—among the hundreds and thousands of subsidiary nests nearby and their related activity zones, the billions of Fire God Ant individuals were all successful carriers of the Nibbling Void Bacteria. In a time-space environment severely lacking Extraterritorial Species, this was practically the only place, apart from the Space-Time Edge Ridges, where the Nibbling Void Bacteria could obtain an energy supply.
At least within the Solar System currently covered by Ronan's various senses, that was indeed the case.
Thus, the question he had brought back from the Testing Time-Space could basically be answered.
Ronan had opened six or seven research lines on the Fire God Series. Once he broke through that fixation, it was no longer difficult to distinguish who was parasitizing whom between the Fire God Ants and the Nibbling Void Bacteria, or who controlled whom. So, the truth was—
Fire God Ants had always been nothing but puppets of energy. The more than 1,400 subspecies they had differentiated into were merely a smokescreen meant to fool people;
Even if a powerful individual destroyed the aberrant main nest of the Fire