So the question was: if he wanted this virus to be capable of spreading rapidly through the universe, what did it need? The answer was simple—it needed stronger self-replication and self-division capabilities. In other words, Kenichi Amamiya needed to turn it into something capable of exponential growth. In the classic childhood anime Doraemon, there had once been a gadget called Doubling Potion. Its effect was simple: drip it onto something, and it would double every five minutes—exponential growth. At first, it was manageable. One became two, two became four; it was not all that hard to eliminate. But as the numbers grew larger and larger, its rate of growth would also become increasingly terrifying. Similar stories existed in classic childhood tales as well. For example, when Afanti went to demand his reward, he asked for a chessboard: one grain of rice on the first square, two on the second, doubling continuously. In the end, even the country's grain stores could not sustain such an exponential explosion. Doubling sounded simple, but its implications were actually horrifying, and it even possessed certain special properties. That was what Kenichi Amamiya intended to do. If he could make this thing absorb other forms of energy in a vacuum and use them as its own energy source, allowing it to reproduce and divide on its own, then he might be able to turn it into something extremely unusual—perhaps even something with extraordinary properties. By then, the entire universe might be filled with this virus within a year. And if the whole universe was filled with it, where could the Otsutsuki Clan possibly hide? Even civilizations hostile to the Otsutsuki Clan could be wiped out this way, so long as they possessed genes.
So the question was, what in the universe could serve as food for