Digimon: I really didn't want to be the Digimon Emperor!

Wukong Beast, with a blade of grass in its mouth, chimed in from the side, "If you ask me, we should just kill them with a stick. Why make things so complicated?"

Cheng Yuan glanced at it. Ever since this monkey could evolve into the Monkey King, it had become increasingly reluctant to use its brain. If it had to solve everything with a stick, what was the point of planning?

The team traveled a long way through the dark jungle, completely away from the area where the forces of the Sea Heart Tower and the Spider Tower met, before summoning the Somersault Cloud again.

This time, the direction didn't deviate again; it went straight towards Sujiki Aki.

The somersault cloud swept low over the gray wasteland and sparse dead trees, and signal bars began to appear on Cheng Yuan's arc light machine screen.

諏嵆堑妮喞霈F is on the horizon.

It was a gray-white steel and concrete town, with thick city walls, numerous watchtowers, and beams of searchlight sweeping back and forth in the dim sky. From a distance, it looked like a giant beast lying on the ground, silent and vigilant.

Red Spider stood on the edge of the cloud, her fingers slightly clenching her sleeves.

"That is the name of the scholar who was drawn to the handsome man."

"Ah."

"A city entirely populated by humans?"

“Not entirely,” Cheng Yuan said. “There are many Digimon in there. It’s just that they are partners and relatives with humans, not the kind that are enslaved.”

Cheng Yuan took out the arc light machine and dialed Lin Zexian's channel.

The call was connected quickly.

"Major General Cheng?" Lin Zexian's voice was visibly relieved. "You're back? Thank goodness you're alright. I was so worried about you these past few days when I couldn't get in touch with you. I almost issued a search order to the data center."

"There was a slight delay on the way," Cheng Yuan said. "General Lin, I need to report something to you. I've brought a guest back. He'll be entering the city gate in a bit. Could you please let the guards know?"

"Guests? What guests? Did they rescue other animal trainers from the wild?"

"No." Cheng Yuan paused for a moment, "It's the Spider Princess of the Spider Tower."

There was a three-second silence on the other end of the call.

"...Say that again?"

“The Argenta Beast Lord of Panshita, in its perfect form,” Cheng Yuan said. “But it’s a humanoid clone, looking almost identical to a human. I’ll tell you the details in person.”

Lin Zexian was silent for a while, then sighed: "Wait here, I will personally come to the East Gate to pick you up."

The somersault cloud landed outside the gate of Suji.

When the guards at the city gate saw the white cloud descending from the sky, they raised their Dracula phones. Their partners looked over alertly, but Lin Zexian waved them off.

Dressed in casual clothes, he stood in the shadow of the city gate, watching the group of figures leap down from the clouds. His gaze swept from Cheng Yuan to Vulcan Princess Beast, then to Basti Beast, and finally landed on Red Spider.

"The spider demon... cough, where's the Argentinian beast?" Lin Zexian asked.

Cheng Yuan pointed to the red spider.

Lin Zexian stared at the red spider for several seconds.

She had the appearance of a human girl, the face of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old, bare feet covered in mud, and pink pollen from a sea of ​​flowers on the hem of her skirt.

He couldn't sense any fluctuations in the Digimon's data, not even the slightest abnormality.

“Are you kidding me?” he said. “This is clearly a human being.”

“I also think it’s pretty outrageous,” Cheng Yuan said. “But she is indeed an Arculimon. The Eastern Arculimon from Pans Tower has a natural ability to perfectly mimic human form, which digital instruments cannot detect.”

Lin Zexian frowned slightly, then relaxed.

Cheng Yuan had no reason to lie to him about something like this.

He looked at Red Spider and softened his tone: "Welcome to the Spider Princess of the Spider Tower. I apologize for the hasty and unfriendly welcome."

Red Spider bowed slightly and politely replied, "Thank you."

While Lin Zexian was sizing her up, she was also sizing him up.

This was the first time she had ever seen a human officer up close.

The place was a place filled with evil Digimon enslaving humans, but the tone and attitude of the person in front of her were not quite the "evil human tamer" she had imagined.

"Major General Cheng said you've come here for temporary refuge?" Lin Zexian asked.

Red Spider glanced at Cheng Yuan and nodded.

"Then please settle in comfortably." Lin Zexian did not ask for details. "Although Ziji is not as prosperous as Pansita, it is safer. Within the coverage area of ​​regular patrols, very few wild Digimon of the Ultimate level dare to approach."

Red Spider nodded again, without saying anything more. She really needed a place to stay in her current state, and since she had come with Cheng Yuan anyway, she would just wait and see.

Lin Zexian turned to Cheng Yuan: "If you have time, why don't you come along? I can show you how things have changed in Cheng Yuan recently. You're a true hero of Cheng Yuan! Without you, there would be no Cheng Yuan!"

Cheng Yuan originally wanted to slip away, but since Lin Zexian had said that, he felt embarrassed to just run away directly.

"Okay, let's take a look around then."

Lin Zexian led them through the city gate and along the main street into the city.

Red Spider followed behind Cheng Yuan, curiously examining the buildings on both sides.

The style of Suji is very straightforward. It doesn't have the twisted and gorgeous patterns and vine decorations of the Spider Tower. Instead, it consists entirely of square stones and steel structures, with digital inscriptions and numbers engraved on the walls.

Occasionally, a few Digimon would walk by on the street. Some would stop and glance at them, while others would simply continue on their way.

Lin Zexian led them to the site of the invasion of the Muli V field.

In the center of the square stands a huge metal monument, its body dark gray, covered with densely packed digital inscriptions and patterns, emitting a soft glow.

"This is Xie Zhaolong of the Sanctuary!" He continued, "More than twenty years ago, it was with the blessing of this emblem that the pioneers repelled the first wave of the dark forces' counterattack, driving the invaders back to the Collapsed World, and establishing the Sanctuary here!"

He looked at Red Spider and softened his tone: "I'm not saying we invaded you. Back then, Pan Si Tower didn't send troops to participate in that invasion. Although there have been border frictions with Tanji in recent years, we haven't fought any large-scale wars. Compared to Hai Xin Tower and Twin Towers, Pan Si Tower is considered a friendly neighbor to us."

Red Spider paused for a moment.

“I don’t know any of what you’re talking about,” she said. “I was just a spider egg back then.”

When she mentioned "digital eggs," her tone was flat, but Cheng Yuan noticed that she slightly clenched the hem of her clothes.

She had never seen her mother, nor did she even know which digital egg she had hatched from. The way the lords of the Pixnet Tower changed hands meant that the life of a humanoid Aqirlimon like her was preordained from the very beginning: birth, growth, marriage, laying eggs, and being parasitized.

“There’s no need for that,” Cheng Yuan suddenly said.

Red Spider looked up at him.

“If you are willing to be a friend of humanity, then when a friend is in trouble, help will come from all directions,” Cheng Yuan said. “We can help you find a solution.”

Red Spider paused for a moment, then looked away without replying.

Lin Zexian then changed the subject at the opportune moment: "By the way, there's another new project. I'll take you guys to see it."

He led the way through the square, along the inner side of the city wall, all the way to the entrance of the city.

There was a cliff overlooking the sea, beyond which stretched a greyish-white beach and...

The sea area was originally as gray and lifeless as the land, but as soon as Cheng Yuan approached, he realized something was wrong.

Color appeared within a range of several hundred meters.

Green grass, brown rocks, and yellow sand. There are even a few palm and coconut trees on the shore, their trunks straight, their leaves swaying gently in the breeze blowing from the sea. Sunlight shines through the gray-white clouds onto these colors, making them appear exceptionally unreal, as if someone had taken a paintbrush and forcibly applied a layer of color to a black and white photograph.

“This is…” Cheng Yuan stopped in his tracks.

"The pilot results of terrain reshaping technology," Lin Zexian said. "A 'continental terrain and data energy loop reshaping technology' developed by the Animal Tamers Association has been adapted and modified by the Huadu Digital Environment Research Institute after being assigned by the National Digital Science and Technology Research Institute, and is now being applied in the field."

Cheng Yuan looked at the greenery and his mind raced.

[Continental Topography and Data Energy Circuit Reshaping Technology]!

This technology was derived from the Molecular Beasts of the Spacetime Mystery Sandbar Continent, whose proudest achievement is the 'Continental Topography and Data Energy Circuit Reshaping Technology'.

He knew the molecular beast technology best, having heard her explain the principles up close when they were on the mainland of Sabah years ago.

Moving mountains and filling seas, reshaping energy circuits, transforming the barren land of the Digital World into an environment suitable for Digimon to grow. At the time, he thought it was something far-fetched, but unexpectedly, in such a short time, it had already become a reality.

"Did you know that this massive computing power was provided by your Qilin Group?" Lin Zexian smiled. "Gear Beast transferred a portion of the computing power from the Data Ark for pilot testing."

"Captain?"

A familiar voice came from over there.

Cheng Yuan turned his head and saw a girl wearing a dark brown engineer's uniform peeking out from behind a palm tree.

Standing beside her was a bird-dragon type Ultimate Digimon, its entire body covered in green metallic wing armor. It was nearly twice the size of its previous form, and its wings were edged with flowing bluish-white wind patterns.

Chen Mingzhen, and her partner, [Strong Wind Beast]!

She once teamed up with Cheng Yuan as a member of a team to enter the Time-Space Mystery, go to the ancient continent of Shaba, and return to the real world with the results of their adventure and digital technology. Together with Cheng Yuan, she won the title of National Outstanding Beast Tamer!

"What are you doing here?" Cheng Yuan asked, somewhat surprised.

"That's what I should be asking you!" Chen Mingzhen jogged over and punched Cheng Yuan on the shoulder. "I'm here on behalf of Huadu University to learn about this technology, and I've only been here two days. What about you? What are you doing here?"

"It's a publicly funded trip," Cheng Yuan said.

Chen Mingzhen rolled his eyes and didn't believe it.

She glanced at the string of Digimon behind Cheng Yuan, then at Red Spider, her eyes conveying a "what are you up to now?" look. However, she didn't press the matter; some things between acquaintances don't need to be said in front of outsiders.

“Come, let me show you the results.” Chen Mingzhen pointed to the newly grown green area. “You should be more familiar with the core logic of this technology than I am—through this technology and massive computing power, we can mobilize the underlying stress of the digital continent, move forests and oceans to the desert, move cities and jungles to the wasteland, reshape the terrain, and then, in conjunction with the energy circuit design, focus the data energy on a specific area to form a local environment like a ‘spirit gathering array’.”

As she spoke, she kicked the grass beneath her feet: "This place used to be a gray, white rocky beach, devoid of any life. Now you see, green grass, rocks, sand, even palm trees can grow here. Although the area is not large, it has exceeded expectations as a pilot project."

Cheng Yuan crouched down and reached out to touch the grass. It felt real; it wasn't a projection or a data illusion.

"If this thing could expand its range..." He didn't finish his sentence.

“That’s a project of a different level,” Chen Mingzhen said. “To be honest, when the molecular beast was researching this thing, it probably never thought it would be used in this time and space.”

She looked up at the horizon where the sea met the sky: "Once the energy circuit system is fully connected, the data concentration in this area will be higher than inside the city walls. At that time, not only will the environment be restored, but even wild Digimon may be attracted to settle here again."

Cheng Yuan stood up and patted the grass clippings off his hands.

The change of point c.

From gray and white to colorful, from barren to vibrant place.

He thought of the Spider Tower and the sea of ​​flowers that filled the collapsed digital world, and a vague idea suddenly popped into his mind—if this technology could really be rolled out on a large scale, could those places occupied by the Dark Tower, the Red Mist, and the Spider Lily also be quickly repaired?

A digital version of the Reiki Revival?

Chapter 645 Fallen Redemption - The Weaver Beast

Chen Mingzhen was genuinely happy to see Cheng Yuan.

She pulled Cheng Yuan along the beach for a long time, gesturing as she walked about the progress of her project in Huadu Xunda.

“You have no idea how much pressure I was under after returning to school,” Chen Mingzhen said, kicking a pebble at her feet. “After returning from the Time-Space Mystery, the association gave me the title of ‘Outstanding Beast Tamer.’ At first, I was quite happy, but the more I thought about it, the more something seemed off.”

"What's wrong?" Cheng Yuan asked.

"To be honest, the credit for bringing back so many things from that secret realm goes to you the most," Chen Mingzhen said. "The rest of us just went along for a bit. When the medals were awarded, I was named an Outstanding Beast Tamer, just like Cai Yongying and Zhao Lu."

When I got back, I looked through the list of past award winners. The outstanding beast tamers of the past were either leaders who pioneered new digital spaces, scientists who invented key technologies, or generals with distinguished military achievements.

She sighed: "What do I have to compare with them? Even this technology was something you guys scraped together and barely managed to exchange with the Molecular Beast."

Cheng Yuan glanced at her.

"So what did you do?"

“What else can we do?” Chen Mingzhen shrugged. “Just work as hard as we can. Since we’ve received this honor, we can’t let it gather dust. I chose the digital environmental engineering direction and worked on environmental restoration projects with professors from Huadu University. Finally, when it was time to try out the molecular beast technology, I applied to come here.”

As she spoke, she pointed to several pieces of equipment under construction on the beach in the distance: "These are the first batch of prototypes from Huadu, and the computing power is connected to your Qilin Group."

If the pilot program is successful, Huadu will send more urban beautifiers, along with their digital companions, to gradually revitalize and beautify the Sujima area.

Cheng Yuan looked in the direction she pointed. Several silver-white devices were arranged along the coastline, shaped like inverted bowls, their surfaces covered with dense data loops, gleaming with a soft blue light in the dim daylight.

One of them, resembling a giant crystal, uses silver digital metal as its base, supporting a blue crystal.

"Is that the sacred purification crystal device?" Cheng Yuan asked.

“Yes.” Chen Mingzhen led him over. “The core of the terrain reshaping technology of the Molecular Beast is concentrated in this device after being modified by our school’s Environmental Research Institute. It absorbs computing power and transforms it into data particles of various attributes, including divine particles, which are then dispersed into the air and seeped into the ground, gradually changing the digital structure of the surrounding environment.”

She patted the casing of one of the crystal devices, her tone carrying a hint of pride, as if introducing her own child: "Look around here, the green grass, the yellow sand, those palm trees. A week ago, this place was all grayish-white pebble beach, and even Digimon didn't want to come. But now, it's recovered, and more and more people are willing to come here."

She exclaimed, "The digital world is like a patient infected with a virus. We need to help it recover piece by piece. I find this very meaningful!"

Cheng Yuan noticed the light in her eyes; her digital spirit was growing alongside her ideal of purifying the digital world.

"How efficient is the purification?" he asked.