The bug core's secret rested entirely in Shen Cong's hands.

The Activity light-wave was a combination of four Activity waves, a straight-line longitudinal wave. Once fused, it exploded in an instant—brief, with enormous destructive force—but was hard to deploy smoothly without coordination.

The Activity water-wave was a combination of three Activity waves, a short-range vibrating transverse wave, combining into a stable triangular structure—long in duration, stable in fluctuation. Through rapid switching, a brief triangular structure could be formed, thereby achieving the release of the Activity water-wave and forming a shield.

"One is 'instantaneous,' the other 'enduring.' If I were to combine these two combination-Activity-waves once more, what marvelous change might there be?"

By now Shen Cong's attention was no longer resting on any single Activity wave, but on the study of combination Activity waves.

Activity waves were a strange energy irradiated by fragments of the Firestarter, activating metal and releasing all manner of bizarre properties—and these properties were the foundation of building a metallic civilization. Crack the secret of all the Activity waves, and the true mystery of evolution would no longer be veiled and hidden.

Of course.

Wanting to fully crack the Activity waves right now was still unrealistic.

Even the Activity light-wave and the Activity water-wave, Shen Cong had only just brushed against, able to make slight use of a scrap or two. He did have many ideas—for instance, combining the Activity light-wave and the Activity water-wave, using the properties of the instantaneous and the enduring, might let him design a powerful weapon or shield.

But it needed time, needed further research, needed the mimicry-application of these Activity waves to be grown practiced bit by bit.

While the extermination of the Bug Warriors still had a day or two left—

Shen Cong, on the one hand, grew practiced at guiding the Hell Plant Armor to release the Activity water-wave, stabilizing the armor layer. On the other, he kept ceaselessly pondering the telepathy material, wanting to find some possibility of raising his Talent.

No thread to grasp.

But there were, more or less, some conjectures. "What kind of meaning…