Under Zhang Yingying's eye-rolling assault, Ronan still tacked on a relatively polite little "please," then continued explaining, "This phenomenon happened because I previously used Soul Power to give them a basically identical response pattern.
"Let me explain the Logic here. Ultimately, we want to simulate the properties of a Life Layer, so it has to be relatively complex, yet also rather crude and arbitrary. After all, I have no idea what sand will look like after evolving into a life substrate. I can only make something up from scratch. So the structural settings applied to it will be somewhat abstract and conceptual.
"In terms of structure, that means emphasizing the sensitivity of individual responses, increasing the viscosity of their mutual interference, and giving them ample opportunities to react. It's a bit like magnets. As their spatial forms change relative to one another, they generate attractive and repulsive forces. The basic structure looks like this..."
As he spoke, Ronan directly condensed water vapor and sketched a concrete diagram in the air. It was orderly yet unfamiliar, clearly a product of Configuration Thinking, enough to make an outsider's scalp tingle.
Ronan immediately defined it. "This is the basic unit we can segment out."
Zhang Yingying muttered, "Now this doesn't feel friendly at all. Do you have to make it this professional?"
Ronan glanced at her. "No choice. The material conditions Paper Cut Bro had back then were Talisman Paper processed by Celestial Master Gao. It had activity and stronger directionality. What I have here is sand, so it needs some preliminary processing... Mm, let me emphasize this again. What I did at this stage was rather arbitrary. I randomly selected a microscopic individual response structure and applied it to them. It was artificially designed for the convenience of experimentation. Under real conditions,