They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 551 Old Man Xuannei
After closing the heavy crystal book, Koushiro's fingertips lingered on the cover of "The World Chronicle" for a moment.

Everything recorded in the book not only answered some of his doubts, but also brought up more and deeper mysteries.

This backstory is strikingly similar to the history of the Digital World in the fourth season of his memory, except that there is no record of Lucemon's fall and the legend of the Ten Warriors.

What puzzled him even more was that the book clearly stated that the digital world existed before the emergence of human networks, and only entered a period of rapid development after connecting with human networks.

So, in this process, the World Tree (Yggdrasil) acts as the "god" who governs the world.

And what role does "homeostasis," which seems to be hidden deeper, actually play?
Are they different names for the same entity, or two wills that check and balance each other?
Koushiro shook his head, suppressing these thoughts that he couldn't answer for the time being.

Simple contemplation cannot construct the complete truth; he needs more intelligence.

He turned around and looked at the beetle-like creature that was curiously flitting among the bookshelves.

"Beetle Beast, do me a favor."

He pointed to the vast collection of books,

"We need to enter all the information here into the computer."

This was a massive undertaking. For the next two weeks, Koushiro devoted almost all his time to the library left behind by Devimon.

The beetle beast was in charge of scanning, while he was responsible for classifying, organizing, and performing preliminary analysis.

Meanwhile, thanks to the efforts of Taiichi and the others, order on Failu Island was gradually restored.

Most of the Digimon that were once controlled by the Dark Gear regained their senses after losing their source of power.

The network interference signals generated by the Dark Gear also disappeared.

Upon learning of this, Koushiro naturally tried to connect to the human world's network immediately.

But as described in the World Chronicle, an unbreakable "firewall" stands between the two worlds, and all his access requests are ruthlessly rejected.

Koushiro was not surprised by this.

But this doesn't mean there's no way out.

After all, in the original timeline, the enemy known as the Vampire Beast had successfully opened the gate to the human world through some special means.

This proves that the "wall" is not absolute.

Just as he was pondering how to find a loophole in this "wall," an icon he had never seen before suddenly began flashing on his laptop screen.

That was a video call request.

Koushiro raised an eyebrow slightly, tapped his fingertip on the touchpad, and connected the call.

The screen first flashed a chaotic patch of pixels, then the image gradually became clear, and the figure of an old man appeared.

He was dressed in an ancient-style robe, against a backdrop of pure, data-filled void.

"Hello, chosen children."

“My name is Gennai. I am the messenger of the ‘Seekers of Stability,’ and it is we who have summoned you all to this world.”

The old man spoke.

At this moment, Taiichi, Yamato, and the others were all drawn to the sudden communication and gathered behind Koushiro.

Upon hearing Gennai's words, everyone's faces showed surprise and realization.

"Great! Koushiro was right after all."

"We've defeated Devimon, so we should be able to go back now, right?"

Taiyi quickly pressed for an answer.

"Thank you all so much for your efforts. Your courage and wisdom have brought long-awaited light to this world. But..."

"The threat of darkness has not disappeared as a result."

Gennai shook his head and replied.

"Hey?!"

Upon hearing this, the smiles on Taiyi and the others' faces instantly froze.

However, Koushiro's expression remained unchanged throughout.

He stared quietly at Gennai on the screen. Gennai's gentle yet mission-driven words reminded him of a white creature that used contracts to lure girls into becoming magical girls.

He was all too familiar with this rhetoric of packaging heavy responsibilities as glorious missions and bestowing them upon innocent children.

"Mr. Gennai".

"Before discussing the so-called 'dark threat,' shouldn't we first discuss another issue?"

Thinking of this, Koushiro spoke up, interrupting Gennai's speech.

"Oh? What's the problem?"

Gennai seemed somewhat surprised.

"A group of children whose minds are not yet mature and who know nothing about everything are thrown into a strange world full of deadly dangers without their consent or that of their guardians."

"Shouldn't this behavior be defined as 'kidnapping' by the laws and morals of any world or civilization?"

"I ask," said Koushiro.

"Forehead……"

The smile on Xuan Nae's face froze.

Taiyi and the others were also stunned; they had never thought about the problem from this perspective before.

"We... are here to save two worlds."

Gennai took a deep breath and explained.

"If we don't stop those evil Digimon, their ambitions will eventually spread to the human world and cause even greater disasters." "That would just be you crudely shifting the responsibility that you should be bearing onto us children."

Koushiro bluntly pointed out the crux of the problem.

“You call yourselves ‘stability seekers,’ but if you were truly capable of maintaining world stability, why would you need to place your hopes on us children?”

"Yup!"

Taiyi and the others also realized what was happening and looked at the old man on the screen with wary expressions.

"This...I..."

Gennai was speechless for a moment, unsure of how to begin.

"You're not even willing to tell us what's really happening in this world?"
Who is our real enemy?
"Do you just want us to be like puppets, solving one 'trouble' after another you assign until we're no longer of any use?"

Seeing this, Koushiro delivered a fatal blow.

Gennai remained silent for a long time on the other side of the screen. Finally, he let out a long sigh and a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"Sigh... Kids these days are really hard to deal with."

He shook his head, as if abandoning his previous line of reasoning.

"You're right, Koushiro."

Before asking you to make any sacrifices, we do have an obligation to let you know the whole truth.

He gathered his thoughts and began to recount the beginning and end hidden deep in history.

"The will we serve is an existence called 'constancy'."

It is the supreme force that maintains the balance of the digital world, but its essence is 'balance' itself, and it does not usually directly intervene in the operation of the world.

However, a chance event several years ago led to new possibilities for constancy.

"The Mitsuoka Incident".

"Ikshiro said softly."

"That's right.

In that incident, constancy observed that the pure, unadulterated emotions and thoughts of human children could trigger miraculous evolution in Digimon.

This provides a completely new approach to combating the increasingly powerful forces of darkness.

Thus, we began this project and created the "Divine Plan" to serve as a bridge between you and your partner Digimon.

A hint of surprise flashed in Xuan Nai's eyes, but he still nodded.

"Unfortunately, our plan was discovered by the dark forces beforehand."

They launched an attack, stealing the physical key to the 'badge' used to guide your power, and... the digital egg of the last Chosen Child.

"In order to deal with the situation that was about to get out of control, Homeostasis used a huge amount of power to forcibly evolve four ancient Digimon into Ultimate Digimon."

At the cost of his own life, he sealed the four leaders of the dark forces—the Dark Four Heavenly Kings—onto the other side of the world.

"Devimon is merely one of the pawns they've planted out there."

"But now, the power of that seal is weakening, and the Dark Four Heavenly Kings are about to return."

Once they break free of their constraints, not only the digital world, but also the 'firewall' between the two worlds will eventually be broken.

At that time, both worlds will face devastating catastrophe.

Therefore... we need your power to save these two worlds.

Gennai finished speaking in one breath, and the entire room fell into a deathly silence.

Taiyi, Ahe, Meimei... every child's face was filled with shock and bewilderment.

They never imagined that their arrival in this world was tied to such a grand and heavy destiny.

They thought defeating Devimon was the end, but little did they know that it was just the beginning.

"last question."

Koushiro broke the silence, his voice still calm.
"Why were we chosen? Just because we happened to be at the scene of the Mitsuoka incident?"

"Yes."

Gennai gave a cold and rational answer.

"Because we cannot accurately analyze which trait or emotion triggered that miraculous evolution."

Therefore, to ensure the plan's success rate, constancy was implemented using all the children present at the time as a sample.

"and many more……"

Taiyi, who had been silent all along, suddenly looked extremely pale, as if he had been stabbed by something.

He took a sudden step forward, staring intently at Xuan Nai on the screen, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"You mean... all eight chosen children... were present at the time?"

Gennai didn't understand why he was reacting so strongly, but still answered affirmatively:

"Yes, according to our records, all eight are present."

Taiyi's body swayed as if struck by lightning.

Eight... There were eight children present at the time...

In an instant, the image of that night flashed through his mind: himself and his sister Jia'er standing in the center of that chaos...

(End of this chapter)