[Digimon 06] Purple

The Twin Towers, where the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is located, stand in the clear and bright light of summer. The slender off-white buildings hide the clean and clear blue sky as the background, which inexplicably gives people an unreal illusion.

When she came back to her senses, Zi realized that she was on a pedestrian bridge at the bottom of the Metropolitan Building. When she turned around, a large green plant from Shinjuku Central Park broke into her eyes.For a moment, she actually felt that time went back to the time before the mutation began, or that the disaster about the digital crystal world was just another nightmare she entered by mistake, so she just had to work hard When you open your eyes, you will be able to meet this intact world again.

Unfortunately, the rationality of returning to the cage obliterated these unrealistic fantasies.Even if the simulation is too realistic, the emptiness and silence that lingers here proves that this place is just a fake city.

The flame lion beast that led her here disappeared at some point, and Zi went down the overpass alone in a daze.She doesn't come to this area of ​​Shinjuku much on weekdays, and she just feels at a loss and doesn't know where to go.

Until her feet led her aimlessly through Central Park, passing by a children's playground, she saw another figure besides her.

The boy sat alone on one of the swings.He doesn't look much taller than Yudou, but on his lap is a laptop that looks a little too big compared to his small body.At this moment, his eyes are staring at the computer screen without blinking, and he taps his toes on the ground and unconsciously drives the swing to swing regularly——the boy puts on his face a look that a child of his age should be Some are serious, but this inadvertent action made him reveal a bit of childishness.

When Zi walked in front of him, the child had subconsciously raised his head because he felt that the light in front of him was blocked by a shadow, and turned his back to the backlight. He looked carefully for a while before he could see her face clearly, and then naturally turned to her face. She curved a gentle smile.

"Finally I see you, Miss Zi." He used "Selene" to address her.

Zi is not very sensitive to the hidden characteristics of the voice, and the timbre that she has only heard once can easily be buried in the depths of her memory.But the familiar tone hidden between the words, the inexplicable familiarity extended from it, and the fact that the other party is a boy have long been psychologically prepared, and all kinds of trivial factors add up. Let the question that has rushed to the throat and stuffed in the mouth become redundant and meaningless.

It turned out that he was "Selene".

"Well, is your wrist okay? Does it still hurt?" The other party's successive inquiries quickly brought Zi back to reality. She looked down at her still red and swollen wrist, as if she was used to the current state, and she didn't care about the so-called pain. The feeling has gradually become numb.

"I'm fine", she just wanted to answer, when she saw the boy beckoning to her, "Miss Zi, you sit here first." He motioned Zi to sit down on the swing beside him, then put his hands together His fingers jumped up on the keyboard of the laptop as if dancing, "It's okay, I can heal this small injury for you soon!"

treat?

Although she was confused, Zi obediently took a seat on another swing.She tried to secretly glance at the other party's computer screen in a calm manner, but unfortunately all she saw was the familiar black background and the arrangement and combination of English letters.Her understanding of computers is limited to the basic operations that ordinary people are familiar with. As for the program code... If Youdou is here, I'm afraid he can help her figure out why.

In this rhythmic keyboard tapping sound, Zi's injured wrists began to reduce redness and swelling at a speed visible to the naked eye, including the needle-like pain that had been faintly haunting her before, all along with the swelling. fade away together.After just a few seconds, her wrists were intact, and there was no trace of injury at all.

"This...how did you do it?" Zi moved her hands in disbelief, forgetting to thank her for a moment.

The boy stopped typing on the keyboard, "It's thanks to the Grain World Beast." His eyes also moved away from the screen, and turned to Zi who was beside him, "Because this world is affected by the Grain World Beast. Due to the impact of the influence of the human body, it has been completely digitized, so your body is nothing more than a collection of data. The 'treatment' I do is actually filling in the errors and loopholes between the data. In my opinion Come on, it couldn't be easier."

He spoke lightly, but the message that Zi got from his words was far more serious than his tone.

"Digitalization?" She repeated softly, and what came to mind was the phantom she saw on her mother when she left home early in the morning, "You mean, we have already...?"

"Well," the boy explained to her, "the digital grain world's erosion of the human world has already begun. And the time point experienced this morning is the moment from quantitative change to qualitative change. The digitalization of that moment No one can be spared, but fortunately, the power of XrosLoader maintains the integrity of your own data, which is why you who are also data did not immediately annex the Grain World Beast."

Zi lowered her head, her eyes fell on her intact wrist on her lap, "Selene...jun," this is the first time she has called him since the meeting, the only difference is that she changed the past The customary honorifics appended to the name, "Do you know much about the Crystal World Beast?" She asked calmly.

Understanding her suspicion behind this question, the boy laughed at himself, "Maybe a little more than you, after all, I can't do anything else except hide behind this screen and monitor it .”

There was an obvious loneliness in his tone.

However, the boy quickly put away his negative emotions and smiled at her again, "That's why I want to meet Miss Zi, just to tell you all the information I know about the Crystal World Beast."

"Is this really the case?" He didn't expect that Zi's cold response would be given after he smiled, "But before the Flame Lion brought me here, it mentioned that 'Bring me to you, It's because there's something I have to do'."

"Eh? Did he tell you that?" After getting an affirmative answer, the boy mumbled a few words to himself.

"Why is he still like this, he can't speak at all..." After complaining, he turned to Zi helplessly, "That's not 'what you should do' at all, but 'because only you can do it, so I want to Please do what you do'."

Something only she can do?The boy's words made Zi's fingers resting on his knee move invisibly.She consciously controlled herself and did not make the movement of pressing her hand to her heart.

The other party didn't seem to notice Zi's abnormality at this moment, but continued to talk to himself, "In order to get back what was stolen by that thief, I can only ask for your help."

"Thief?" Zi Wei was taken aback by his choice of words.

The boy turned his gaze back to the computer. "The old man didn't tell you, right?" After a period of inactivity, the screen that spontaneously entered the power saving mode has dimmed, reflecting his dull face after losing his smile, "The crystal world beast, it Just a mean thief."

He thought for a while, raised his hand and closed the notebook.

"At the beginning, that guy was a unicorn that couldn't be more ordinary."

"The time when it was born from the digital egg happened to be at the later stage of the protracted battle between Baguramon and XrosHeart. It was weak and helpless every day under the emperor's brutal rule, and it didn't want to be in the Not long after, I encountered Bagramon and launched the ultimate sun 'D5', and was caught in the gap between time and space."

Speaking of this, the boy suddenly stopped and asked her, "By the way, this is the first time Miss Zi has heard of the word 'D5', right?"

What has to do with this is something from a long time ago.Zi rummaged through the stacked memory for a while, and seemed to find a similar related word, "I seem to have heard about the Dark Knight Beast when I was in the Bagula Great Demon Palace. Although I don't know what it specifically means, but according to From my understanding, this is a word that can be equated with 'the end of the world'."

"Yes." After a brief interlude, the boy continued to talk about the previous story, "'D5' can radiate a devastating power when it is activated, and this power can break down the barriers between different worlds Bagramon wanted to enter the human world with this, but what it didn't know was that the boundary between the worlds that disappeared due to D5 was not just the digital world and the human world."

"Could it be that," Zi already realized something, "the unicorn that was caught in the space-time rift entered a space other than the digital world and the human world by a coincidence, and stole some strange something that belongs to it?"

She has already guessed the general development.After the boy was silent for a while, he nodded indistinctly, "It was a piece of data that was stolen by that unicorn." He thought for a while, and added, "It's a piece of... a certain program, Part of the core data."

"What you want me to do is to ask me to help you retrieve the data that was stolen by the Crystal World Beast, right?" Zi asked.

The boy seemed to hesitate for a while, but finally chose to be honest, "That's right."

"As long as I retrieve that piece of data, the Crystal World Beast will cease to exist?" Zi continued to ask.

"Yes. In fact—there is no need to hide from you—" the boy sighed maturely, "that old man made a weapon out of the right arm of the Bagura beast, and it was also for the purpose of using Bagula. The destructive power possessed by beasts destroys this piece of data that neither belongs to the human world nor the digital world's cognition."

"But," speaking of this, the boy's voice suddenly became a little trembling, "that piece of data is very important to me. Its importance to me far exceeds its own power. I can't just watch it So ruined! So, I can only ask you." He lowered his voice, muttering and searching for all the excuses he could think of, "Our purpose is the same, let alone..."

"Okay, I'll help you."

He was still hesitating whether he should say that word, but Zi agreed to him first.

Meeting the surprised eyes of the boy, Zi raised the corner of her mouth unconsciously.

"But I want to declare in advance," it seems that they have returned to the past when they chatted aimlessly on the Internet, but it is different from every time in the past, and finally shortened the distance from the screen to face-to-face, "For the program I can say that I don't know anything about it, even if I promise you here, I don't know how to do it..."

"I didn't say anything wrong." Not long after Zi left, the place where she was sitting was immediately occupied by someone else—it was a lion cub with hair all over its body exuding the warm and scorching radiance of the sun. Seeing the iron chains on both sides venting, she began to shake the swing greatly, "Why don't you tell her, if it wasn't because Miracle Insignia chose to leave in order to stabilize her soul lost in the digital world, then even if 'she' fell into a deep sleep, she wouldn't be The core data will be stolen by such a little guy."

"Is there a need to do this? As far as the matter is concerned, she is also one of the humans who was innocently involved in the entanglement between Digimon." After saying this, the boy reopened the laptop, facing the lit screen "Da Da" had to hit the keyboard.

"That's not all!" The little lion said angrily, shaking the swing more vigorously, "You didn't tell her that if the data of 'her' was destroyed, 'that' might become unusable again. In a state of control, it will still be the human world that will suffer. You are clearly helping them, so why put yourself in a humble position?!"

"Not to mention the trivial things like 'imitation of XrosLoader, sent to her friend by the tabby cat', 'guiding the hooked beast to meet her younger brother'..."

"Cousin Feihe is very kind to me and Qinglan. It's only natural to want to protect her from harm at this time." The boy didn't look up at the computer, "As for Ruoye Youdou and Iron Hook Beast, I just indirectly drew the bridge, and finally they became partners because of their suitable temperament."

"Li Tianqi! Don't change the subject!" The Corona Beast jumped off the swing and onto the keyboard, preventing him from continuing to press the keys.

The boy quickly raised his hands resting on the keyboard. "Crown Beast, have you forgotten again?" The vivid expression on his face before seemed to disappear with the stop of the knocking sound, "I am not 'him', but a man who looks exactly like him The empty shell is like a human-shaped mobile hard drive, used to store all the memories that 'she' shouldn't have."

Since his birth, he has repeated this sentence a thousand 380 four times to the fragmented Digimon in front of him.

"The conversation with Ms. Zi just now, I also imitated Li Tianqi's thinking mode and chose the appropriate reply sentence."

His calm narration without any ups and downs is like a sharp needle, piercing all the anger of the corona beast.The little lion lowered his head, dimmed the flames on his forehead and the tip of his tail, and sat back on the swing beside him.

If it was just a "mobile hard disk", why did he imploringly ask Zi to get back the stolen piece of data?You must know that when she was making the settings, she did not implant a similar program for him!

After a moment of silence, the Corona Beast spoke again unwillingly, "Then the imitation behavior you mentioned also includes the last answer to her?"

The instructions of the program made the boy press the switch of playing backwards in his mind, and the memory went back to the scene when the girl got up from the swing a few minutes ago.

"One last question." She held the XrosLoader that she implanted with the necessary program, and asked as if unintentionally, "Mr. Selene, did you choose to approach me online and become friends with me because of the miracle badge? "

"Yes."

If it was the real Li Tianqi, she would definitely add that sentence like he did, "But Miss Zi, I am also very happy, you are the one chosen by the Miracle Badge."

The author has something to say:

If you don’t understand it, you don’t understand it. This is me laying down a worldview for myself.

The next chapter is the direct reason why I have been stuck for so long, and my heart is tired.