Inside a suppression plant on the western side of the continent, a vitality suppression pod had just completed the connection of its first batch of personnel.
More than a dozen individuals classified as highly active had been placed inside the pod, each assigned a different number.
On the third day after being connected, one middle-aged woman tried to scrape at a sensor on the pod wall with her fingernails. After the system detected it, she stopped. Only after a long while did she unclench her nails.
She did not attempt to scratch the sensors again. She simply sat back down quietly in her spot, cross-legged.
Not long afterward, she too entered a low-energy state.
The demons sent into the containment zone were placed in a specially regulated space. The energy field generators there maintained low-frequency output, preventing damage to the demons' soul bodies while also blocking high concentrations of vitality signals from outside from seeping in.
Within three days, the vast majority of usable demon soul bodies had been contained.
Once the containment zone's gates closed, the demons' activity stabilized.
At the core of the containment zone, all demon soul bodies were gradually guided into the coverage range of a shared energy field, preparing them for the subsequent aggregation project.
Several times, as the soul bodies were induced into the core area, their forms would instantly swell before rapidly contracting again.
They no longer surged madly toward the source of life force as they had before.
By dusk on the third day, the region-wide data integration work was essentially complete.
The suppressed vitality signals had been linked to Ellen's core sensory network, forming a multilayered, interwoven data network that covered the entire continent.
Like a sound vibrating continuously at a low frequency, the network slowly diffused through the earth and