Looking at the black Demonic Qi before him, blue light began to flicker in Green's pupils.
"Begin scanning at the microscopic level. Explore indirectly, and try not to trigger the Demonic Qi's deepest defensive mechanisms," Green silently instructed the Chip.
[Beep! Task established... Preparing microscopic recording device... Beginning indirect microscopic exploration!... Particle stimulation experiment initiated!]
In an instant, a vast number of interfaces appeared before Green's eyes.
Among them, the visualized microscopic interface appeared in the very center.
The molecular-level view quickly came into focus, but the particles displayed there were almost pure black. Their internal structures were completely concealed, leaving nothing unusual to see.
He continued down to the atomic level, but still nothing changed. Everything was pitch-black.
Green had already been prepared for this.
After all, according to his theory, the nature of Demonic Qi involved information itself—the most fundamental particle level. It was only natural that the atomic level would reveal nothing useful.
The image continued to magnify, delving into an even deeper microscopic view.
On the Chip's interface, the magnification began to increase rapidly. It stopped only upon reaching the fundamental particle level, where the microscopic view stretched toward infinity.
At that point, the black particles displayed on the interface began to tremble unsteadily, as if they were about to collapse.
"Though it's a fairly primitive encryption method, it does have some effect," Green murmured.
Whenever anything at the macroscopic level was observed at the microscopic level, the observation itself would cause some change in the microscopic subject.
The Demonic-Energy Corrosion Civilization had put this change to use. The moment the most fundamental Demonic Qi Particles sensed that something at the microscopic level had been disturbed by macroscopic interference, they would immediately activate a self-destruct mechanism to prevent their civilization's technology from being leaked.
But this