This kind of close proximity wasn't even mere hundreds of meters away.
Ian instructed Green Tide to stand twenty meters away and immediately found that the signal transmission was somewhat distorted. The information transmitted from Green Tide's perspective was nearly akin to 700 degrees of nearsightedness, making it impossible to see clearly, with all sounds being just noise.
Certainly, this is due to the lack of a physical entity to reinforce the signal, but it's indeed too poor.
Ian realized that this Spirit Energy Network was designed specifically for the Swarm—after all, for insects, as long as the general commands are transmitted and general information is passed back, it can be used as big data.
In simple terms, it's a mental 'compound eye'.
