American comics: The off-the-charts random transformation

"Wow! What the hell is this place? I'm on a spaceship! Where am I?"

The tree canopy looked sturdy, but it couldn't support Dick Grayson's nearly one-ton weight, especially when he stood up, as the canopy's surface area decreased and it couldn't hold him up.

Dick Grayson heard a "click".

He tumbled down from the tree, and thanks to his power armor, the fall wasn't too painful, but he could still feel the impact clearly; he wasn't dreaming.

"Damn it, could this be another world?!"

When time travel was no longer a dream, and the Digimon he was holding suddenly started making noise, he realized that it was the item that had brought him here.

The simple and easy-to-understand operation buttons allowed him to quickly learn how to use it and open the Digimon's interface menu, where he found the contacts. Once opened, there was only one contact: Digital World Administrator.

Click to communicate.

"Beep beep beep beep..."

"Hey, Dick, what's the scenery like in the other world?" Tian Xiaoban's tone was quite amused. Sending someone to another world was something he had never done before.

Nightwing Clam stopped: "Hooligan Crab, it really was you who did this! Get me back now!"

"Go back? I can't send you back. The way back is in your hands."

This is the Digital World, and you are the chosen child... a big child.

You need to go to the largest tree on this continent to choose your Digital Egg.

"The biggest tree? Are you sure I won't die on the way? This is another world!"

"No, the Digivice can guarantee your safety. Hurry up and set off. You only have three hours. Once the three hours are up, you will lose your qualification to become a Digimon Master, oops, a Digimon Tamer."

"A beast tamer! That sounds good."

The title of "animal trainer" reminded Dick of animal trainers in a circus. He never imagined that one day he would be racing against time to become an animal trainer.

The Digimon machine projected a map, which made it easy for Dick to know which way to run.

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In Garfield's palace of the Celestials

Tian Xiaoban and Garfield are loudly plotting.

"Is it really a good idea to give him digital technology so quickly?"

Tian Xiaoban said nonchalantly, "What's good or bad about it? What's the core of digital technology? It's the digital world. No matter how Batman develops digital technology, in the end, it's still our digital world that benefits!"

Garfield raised an eyebrow: "Aren't you afraid he'll create some kind of Trojan virus or something targeting Digimon?"

"Virus-type Digimon, have you heard of them? Weak viruses can't invade, but powerful viruses can be turned into Digimon using the Digital World."

Garfield looked incredulous: "That weak world consciousness, could it really do that?"

"It might not be possible now, but it should be possible after a while."

In today's digital world, we can't develop on our own. I plan to use Batman as the starting point on Earth, and Nightwing of the Bat-family as the direction of development. I will use Nightwing's Digimon to monitor them at all times, and take advantage of Batman's paranoia to get him to help us find and fill in the gaps.

I believe that the digital world will develop very well before long.

"So, what kind of Digimon Egg are you planning to give Dick?"

"I don't care about that. Digital eggs are all blind boxes, so we'll have to see what he gets."

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In the real world, at Wayne Manor above the Batcave.

Batman and Butler became porters, carrying sets of testing equipment up from the Batcave, while Kowasky also sent out an army of mechanical sheep to help.

The 300 robotic sheep were much more efficient than two people, and they set up the testing site in the shortest possible time.

During their conversation, Alfred discovered that he and Kovacs actually knew each other! They chatted even more enthusiastically.

When the conversation became more enjoyable, Alfred subtly inquired with Kovacs about Tian Xiaoban's recent situation.

Batman had been eavesdropping using gadgets, and Kowalski didn't intend to hide it, telling the story as if it were a narrative.

Batman felt extremely uncomfortable after hearing words like "hell" and "digital world."

While secretly lamenting the increasing dangers on Earth, he increased the speed at which he browsed the data files.

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On the other hand, Nightwing is in a terrible situation.

A dense swarm of black slimes followed closely behind him, chasing after him.

The little ones' eyes were anything but friendly; they seemed quite annoyed by Dick Grayson's arrival.

Whenever Dick Grayson approaches the Digital World Tree, the nearby Hehemon sense it and quickly hop and gather around.

One or two would be fine, but with this dense, endless array, Dick Grayson had no choice but to run for his life!

"Aaaaaah! Damn it, weren't they saying there was no danger? If each of these guys spat on me, they could drown me!"

The Hehemons love to spray paint-splattered water guns at people. The reason they gathered together and chased after Dick Grayson is because the Digimon Machine contains the Evolution Light that attracts them.

They were just spitting at Dick Grayson because they thought it was fun.

"Huff! I...huff...I have to tell Afu when I get back. This power armor is so tiring to run in! It's faster than running alone, but it's so exhausting!!!"

The power armor is currently in energy-saving mode; apart from essential power, all other combat-related functions have been shut down.

It wasn't that he didn't want to go all out, but after the previous battle with the genetic monster, the power armor had consumed a lot of energy. If it ran out, there was no need to turn on the energy-saving mode.

Dick Grayson raised his hand to look at the Digimon machine, then looked up in the direction the virtual arrow was pointing; the white, towering tree was already quite conspicuous.

"That's the World Tree? It's huge! I wonder what the scenery is like underneath it!"

As he ran, he came across a rift valley, not far apart on either side, about ten meters apart. His power armor carried a grappling hook gun with a range of more than twenty meters, which he could easily handle.

Bang!

The grappling hook was fired, easily catching a tree branch not far away. The gun barrel quickly retracted the steel cable, carrying Dick Grayson across the ravine and continuing forward.

The bouncy beasts couldn't jump that far; they were all on the other side of the rift, watching Dick run away.

"Hahaha, bye-bye, you slime who can only jump!"

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In the Demon King's palace in Hell, a giant screen floats in mid-air, where two people and a cat watch the show.

Garfield, sitting on the throne, shook his head, somewhat disapproving of Dick Grayson's personality: "Isn't this a bit much? If his personality isn't friendly enough, it'll be hard to create collaborations with Digimon."

Tian Xiaoban took a swig of milk, ate the hellish hot pot, and said, "Don't worry about it. A hero can't say he's grown up if he doesn't suffer a few setbacks."

Call me when he's almost there. I'll personally go to the starting village and be the old man there!

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One hour, fifty-eight minutes, and twenty-one seconds.

Dick Grayson's otherworldly marathon has finally come to an end. He has reached the World Tree, and the starting village is just ahead.

A two-meter-high fence surrounds the base of the World Tree, and in the center of the fence is a gate with a plaque that reads "Newbie Village".

"This feels like I'm playing a video game!"

As he approached, the sight of the village astonished him.

Piles and piles of digital eggs were stacked up in the village, and sometimes you could see a slime suddenly pop out of one of them.

Dick Grayson: "So the slime we encountered earlier ran away from this village!"

drop by drop...

The Digimon machine rang again, and Dick Grayson took it out and looked at the caller ID.

I had just clicked to answer and was about to hold the Digimon device to my ear.

Intense white light emanated wildly from the Digivice, and white ripples swept across the nearby Digi-Eggs.

A large number of [Baby I] Digimon hatched from their eggs. Originally, Hehemon was a [Baby I] Digimon, but in the recent light of evolution, it directly became a [Rookie] Digimon.

However, in Dick Grayson's eyes, the black slime evolved into a small black demon in the white light.

So weird!

"Shit, I'm starting to wonder if this is hell!"

Before the white light from the Digimon Machine had finished, a huge ball of white light burst out of the Digimon Machine, and then Dick Grayson saw a tall old man with a white beard and white clothes standing in front of him.

"Chosen Child~ Which Digi-Egg do you want?"

The white-bearded old man, looking like a charlatan, asked Dick with a smile.

"I suddenly don't want it anymore, can you let me go back?"

Dick Grayson would swear on his Batman mask that the old man in front of him was definitely not human. What decent person would crawl out of a cell phone?

"Hey, now that you're here, don't even think about leaving. Uh, I mean, pick a Digi-Egg before you go!"

"No, the creatures here are so ugly, and they look like demons. If I bring them back to the human world, they'll probably be sold off!"

This isn't just Dick Grayson making things up. Given how obsessed with making money is in Gotham, if a creature that looks like a demon suddenly appeared, their first thought wouldn't be to drive it away, but to capture it and sell it at a high price to those rich people who have money to burn.

"Foolish! You are the chosen one, the eldest child. You hold the artifact of the Digital World in your hand. In this world, every Digimon that makes a contract with you will be your best battle partner."

Don't let the little monster's current ordinary appearance fool you; after two more stages of evolution, it will become a noble fallen angel.

Besides, I let you choose a Digi-Egg, not a Digimon. Maybe what hatches from the egg won't be a Hehemon.

"No, who are you? How can you deceive a child like this? Don't you feel guilty? This whole village is full of black slimes, and that humanoid one looks more like a demon! You're not here to deceive my soul, are you?!"

Dick Grayson vehemently disagreed. Although he didn't really believe in God, he valued his own soul.

Moreover, Tian Xiaoban had recently shown Dick Grayson what Hell was like, giving him a glimpse into what it truly was. He had no intention of becoming a fighting partner with a demon; if he were dragged into Hell, he'd have nowhere to turn for help.

Tian Xiaoban, who was pretending to be an old man with a white beard, had his mouth twitching wildly under his beard.

'Damn it, this isn't what I expected! Don't boys usually stick to things that look like demons? Ugh! What went wrong?'

"Don't you want to become a Beast Tamer? To tame Digimon and become the King of Beast Tamers?"

"No. I absolutely will not bring a demon back to the human world! Absolutely not!"

Just as Dick Grayson was confronting the white-bearded old man, a cunning little monster had already walked up to Dick Grayson's side.