Just as when Ronan had assembled the "Meditation Demon Shadow Puppet" earlier, the "straw" network also probed toward deeply aberration-infected beings, or simply into the Wilderness and Marine Aberrant Species. Most of the time, however, these insubstantial "straws" merely passed through those aberrant creatures without any interaction on the Material Layer. Only a very few targets were pierced by them, and even then, the target creatures showed no reaction.
Those deeply aberration-infected creatures and Aberrant Species had no idea that a "straw" had silently appeared inside them. The problem was that these "straws" were not "sucking" anything out of them. They merely remained within the targets' bodies and spirits... no, they had seeped into the indistinct zone where their Material and Mental Layers interacted and interfered with each other.
Ronan understood. Even when close to the Material Layer, the "straws" were temporary products of material-spiritual interaction and interference. Thus, they had to select deeply aberration-infected beings and Aberrant Species, targets with the basic capacity to sustain such an interactive environment.
Even so, these descending "straws" were faint and blurry, flickering with fluctuations.
Yet so far, the "straws" had not selected any ordinary Ability Users.
Ronan carefully observed the selection pattern of the "straw" network, marking the target creatures along the way. By the time he had roughly finished making the rounds, he discovered something new.
Any creature penetrated by a "straw" showed noticeably rigid behavior patterns.
They continued their prior patterns of walking, sitting, lying down, and so on, but only maintained those patterns, repeating them endlessly. Even if they had been hunting moments before, in an extremely intense state, once they disengaged from it, their subsequent movements fell into a state of "perpetuity."
Ronan saw an Aberrant Species in the Wilderness that had just successfully hunted and was greedily