Digital Hackers' Memories

"Is the computer broken?"

At this moment, Meimei seemed to have selectively forgotten Mr. Tachikawa, who was still "suffering" in the living room, and stared at the constantly flashing computer screen with curiosity.

The reason she had given up observing Mr. Tachikawa's predicament was because she had noticed the flickering light in the study.

This is Mr. Tachikawa's daily work computer. However, due to the nature of his work, he doesn't use it often. Most of the time, it just sits quietly in this study, becoming a decoration.

In an era when computers had not yet officially descended from their pedestal, such behavior was undoubtedly a great luxury.

"what?"

Just as Meimei was still wondering what that thing was, the desktop of the screen suddenly bulged up.

Immediately afterwards, a huge digital egg with a surface covered in patterns suddenly emerged from the computer and fell directly to the ground.

pat!

Unlike the digital egg that appeared in the human world before, six-year-old Mimi had no intention of approaching the mysterious object. Instead, she cautiously retreated.

"Dad! There's a strange egg in your room!"

So, Meimei stared at the constantly shaking digital egg while shouting loudly towards the living room.

"Meimei! I'm disciplining your father right now, so don't try to fool him!"

However, it wasn't Mr. Tachikawa who responded to Mimi; it was the true "head of the household"—Ms. Tachikawa.

"And I'll settle the score with you tomorrow for secretly watching cartoons. Now you'd better go back to your room and go to sleep!"

Hearing Ms. Chuan's still angry tone, Meimei couldn't help but blink. She knew without even thinking who had betrayed her.

"You hateful dad! I was doing all this for your own good, and you still betrayed me."

After muttering something indistinctly, Meimei didn't dare risk offending Ms. Tachikawa and continued to "report" her new discovery.

"But what exactly is this thing?"

After carefully examining the digital egg for a while, the child's curiosity eventually overcame her already limited wariness, and Mimi cautiously took a step forward.

pat!

Unsurprisingly, the digital egg seemed unaware of the impending "crisis" and continued to sway gently.

"Is this really an egg?"

Quietly approaching the Easter egg whose origins were unclear, Meimei squatted down with a curious expression.

"I wonder how it tastes? Is it better than a fried egg?"

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Unaware that he had become a "fried egg" in the eyes of a little girl, Chen Ze's consciousness was now completely immersed in this newborn digital egg.

Yes, the digital egg that emerged from Mimi's computer was "reconstructed" by Chen Ze using the remaining data from Agumon.

As mentioned before, due to the "overload program" and the power of Revolvermon destroying Agumon's original data, Chen Ze could only select some data that was still relatively intact and had a simpler structure at the last moment.

Unfortunately, the data was far too little, so little that it was impossible to maintain Agumon's original form.

Or to be more precise, the data Chen Ze obtained from the beginning was not a complete Agumon, but rather a "shell" made up of the other party's residual data.

Aside from its superhuman physical abilities and the digital core that retained its most basic functions, Agumon didn't leave Chen Ze with much useful data.

This can be seen from the fact that the Fox Beast can directly enter the Internet, while Chen Ze cannot actively transform into data form.

In addition, this remaining data also lost the most core and powerful ability of Digimon—evolution.

From infancy to childhood and then to adulthood, the appearance and abilities of Digimon are not static, but rather grow and evolve as they acquire data.

This evolution comes from the improvement and growth of the digital core. Whenever the digital core absorbs enough data, it will begin to transform and innovate its original program, just like true artificial intelligence.

For Digimon, the most outward manifestation of this transformation is that their abilities and appearance undergo tremendous changes in a short period of time.

The data left behind by Agumon had lost this ability, which prevented Chen Ze from improving and evolving himself by acquiring external data like other Digimon.

The "overload program" and the attack from the Revolver Beast were indeed a crisis, but they also made Chen Ze realize his own shortcomings, forcing him to fight a desperate battle for survival.

The current "Digital Egg" form is a change Chen Ze made in order to continue living.

It doesn't pursue Agumon's original power, nor does it insist on maintaining Agumon's appearance...

In order to survive, Chen Ze didn't even care about the integrity of the data, only picking out the useful structures from the remaining data.

In this way, a set of data that can only be used to form the most basic digital core was extracted.

The structure of this data is exceptionally simple, and the information it contains is extremely scarce. Not to mention the growth stage of Digimon, even the data structure of a newly born infant Digimon is more complete than this.

Fortunately, although this data is rudimentary, it preserves the most core data of the Digimon—the Digicore.

Although this digital core is now very rudimentary and cannot be compared with the previous one at all, it still has the initial prototype of a digital core.

In order for this digital core to truly unleash its capabilities, Chen Ze made full use of the remaining data to create a safe environment—the digital egg—that would temporarily protect the digital core from external interference.

Theoretically speaking, Chen Ze, who has become a digital egg, is like those Digimon that have not yet been conceived, possessing only some simple data structures rather than a true data life form.

However, this also has an advantage: although the digital core has returned to its original "factory settings", it has also regained its own evolutionary ability, especially for Chen Ze, who has excellent programming skills.

In other words, Chen Ze is no longer a hacker disguised as an "Agumon," but a digital egg with infinite possibilities and infinite evolutionary directions.

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Daily Life of the Tachikawa Family

The next day, the sun rose.

When Mei Mei woke up, the first thing she saw was the huge digital egg placed behind the door.

"It really wasn't a dream."

Rubbing her sleepy eyes, Meimei reluctantly got out of her little bed.

As a child who will officially start primary school next year, Meimei, like all children her age, doesn't really like getting up early.

Especially during summer vacation, sleeping until noon every day and then eating breakfast made by her mother was her favorite routine.

However, today was different. To prove that she wasn't lying, the usually pampered Meimei got up very early, which was a rare occurrence.

Before proving she wasn't lying, Meimei decided to go to the living room and mention that she had decided to have fried eggs today.

"Mom! I'm hungry!"

So, dragging her rabbit-shaped doll, Mimi ignored the digital egg placed behind the door and pushed open the door to the room.

"Mom, I want fried eggs today, and I want two eggs!"

"Oh? Our little princess is up so early today? Is she up to something again?"

Unlike his disheveled state yesterday, Mr. Tachikawa seemed to have calmed his wife down, and his tone was filled with undisguised smugness.

"Mom, Dad is bullying me again."

Blinking her eyes, Mimi, dragging her rabbit doll, looked at Mr. Tachikawa, who was winking at her, and skillfully tattled to her mother, who was busy in the kitchen.

"Meimei, I can hear you here!"

Unlike her stern demeanor last night, Ms. Tachikawa, who was busy in the kitchen, teased in a gentle tone.

"Don't even think about trying to sow discord between me and your dad. Your dad and I are the true love!"

This is the Tachikawa woman in her normal state, a gentle woman who loves her family very much.

In fact, apart from Mr. Tachikawa secretly drinking, Ms. Tachikawa usually appears to be constantly showing affection for her husband.

Mimi was already used to this; she was just a little annoyed that Mr. Tachikawa was teasing her.

"I hate you! I hate the Tachikawa couple, I never want to talk to you again!"

Pouting angrily, Mimi momentarily forgot about the digital egg still in her room and glared fiercely at Mr. Tachikawa, who was still making faces at her.

"Alright, alright, Dad knows he was wrong."

With a smile and a shrug, Mr. Tachikawa strolled over to the angry Mimi and picked her up in one swift motion.

"Meimei is the most beautiful princess in the world. Getting angry will make her ugly!"

"I'm not a child anymore, I won't believe you!"

Although she said that, Meimei still hugged the doll in her hands tightly with some nervousness, as if she was afraid that she would really become ugly.

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squeak...

Less than a minute after Meimei left the room, the digital egg that had been silent seemed to shake slightly.

The next moment, visible cracks began to spread across the surface of the digital egg, quickly covering the entire shell.

Click...

Then, just like all hatched egg-like creatures, a furry object suddenly broke through the cracked shell and rolled right out.

This is a spherical creature covered in snow-white down and with a body as soft as mud.

In fact, more than a living being, this newborn little guy is now more like a doll, a snow-white doll with only ears and a head.

"Aya!"

Seemingly unable to adapt to its current body, the snow-white fluffy ball that had just "rolled" out of the eggshell had no time to "stand" properly before it uncontrollably fell backward again.

Just then, the colorful eggshells suddenly disintegrated, turning into data and dissipating into the air, causing the newborn little guy to tumble backward uncontrollably.

"Aya!"

After tumbling around several times in a disheveled manner, the reborn Chen Ze was finally able to stabilize his body.

It was only at this moment that Chen Ze, who had regained his consciousness, suddenly realized a very serious problem—he seemed to have lost his ability to speak.

Or more precisely, as a newly born baby Digimon, Chen Zhe has not yet evolved the organs that can be used to "speak".

Let alone vocal cords and pharynx, organs used for producing sound, Chen Ze now lacks even the most basic survival skills.

This was definitely something he hadn't expected.

Chen Ze never expected that such powerful Digimon as Agumon and Reno would not even have the most basic mobility in their early years.

Ultimately, this was just Chen Ze's own wishful thinking.

In his mind, oviparous creatures such as crocodiles and dinosaurs have a fairly "mature" ability to move from birth, but he forgot that Digimon themselves cannot be completely equated with the real human world.

In the anime and manga of his previous life, the weakness and helplessness of young Digimon were rarely shown, so Chen Ze naturally overlooked this point.

"Aya!"

Realizing this, Chen Ze shifted his body uneasily, a clear look of panic on his face.

After all, in order to avoid the cyber explosion last night, Chen Ze did not have the energy to choose a safe "birth" environment, but instead followed the nearest network cable to enter the online world.

In theory, each network cable is generally connected to a computer, and each computer must have a corresponding user.

Chen Ze now only hopes that the "port" he came out of is not a dangerous place, otherwise he will have walked into a trap.

"Aya!"

After looking around, Chen Ze finally breathed a sigh of relief—the place he was in didn't seem to be a dangerous research institute, but rather an ordinary-looking room.

Judging from the decor, this seems to be a little girl's room full of innocence and fantasy, with various plush toys and Barbie dolls scattered throughout the room.

Apart from that, Chen Ze did not see anything resembling a "computer" in the room, nor did he see the room's actual owner.

How did I get into this room?

Has the owner of this room already discovered him?

Where is that little girl who may have found her way now?

……

Countless questions flashed through Chen Ze's mind, but he knew these questions would eventually be answered, and his most important task now was to determine whether his "rebirth" had been successful.

"Aya!"

Thinking of this, Chen Ze struggled to "roll" to the mirror in the room, and only then could he truly see what he looked like after his rebirth—a round, snow-white ball of fluff.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Snowball Beast

[Snowball Beast?]

A look of shock appeared in his large, watery eyes. Looking at himself in the mirror, Chen Ze actually felt an urge to reach out and touch him.

[Wait, I remember Agumon's baby form was Blackballmon, right? How did it become Snowballmon?]