Patterns
"Like what?" Kane frowned. "What could you have possibly learned in such a short amount of time?"
"Well, for one, the amount of time may have been short, but what you need to consider is what was accomplished in this time," Rui told him.
More than a thousand pythons had been annihilated by the Root in half a minute. Rui had gotten enough data for him to get the active data patterns that he was looking for. He had even analyzed yet, and he had already noted several patterns.
('It does not attack until things move within a certain range from the Root,') Rui concluded.
It hadn't attacked the pythons from the moment that they had entered the Root Floor from the edge of the floor. Furthermore, it only attacked them after they entered a certain range.