Environmental imbalance created an energy vacuum, and while it wouldn't affect all things, raw materials were safe; but once some materials underwent a reaction to produce energy, that energy would be sucked away by the vacuum.
If certain materials had inherent energies, then those materials would be degraded after losing their special energy.
The warfare meeting was swift; they didn't intend to stand by completely but were ready to deploy some bionic soldiers to do something useful, such as poisoning—
The flesh carpets absorbed nutrients from the ground, including toxic substances, which would be absorbed and converted. However, the technology in this world was not like that of ordinary worlds, so whether toxic substances could be absorbed and converted depended on the type of poison.