Digital Hackers' Memories

As we all know, a so-called "system" is simply a platform that developers build on a computer, and its essence is still a program written by humans.

Since it was written by humans, there are naturally various loopholes that can be exploited.

Besides the most basic logical vulnerabilities, developers often deliberately leave a "backdoor" during the testing phase to facilitate their own operation and testing of the system program, in order to prevent uncontrollable situations from occurring.

Such vulnerabilities are called "malicious vulnerabilities" or "developer vulnerabilities," and they are inherent in any program written by humans.

Generally speaking, for mature commercial programs like computer systems, the companies that develop them, for the sake of their reputation, will often remove such "backdoors" after completing testing.

However, there are always exceptions in this world.

Perhaps it was to collect users' personal data, or perhaps the developers simply forgot to remove the vulnerability...

The convenience store computer clearly hadn't had the bug removed, which allowed direct access to "super administrator privileges," and thus it was easily found and exploited by the mysterious hacker.

"Looks like I have another thing to tell the store manager."

She wasn't as angry as she had imagined. In fact, she even had the mood to complain about the store manager's unreliability in the face of the mysterious hacker's intrusion.

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"The other side hasn't retaliated again?"

Although not quite understanding what had happened, seeing Chen Ze's face beaming with joy, the fox demon asked this question at just the right moment.

Although the fox spirit had spent a considerable amount of time on Chen Ze's computer and had learned some related hacking knowledge, she was not a truly qualified hacker.

Just as Chen Ze guessed, the reason why Renamon could roam freely in the cyber world was simply due to the instincts of digital life, not the technology of cutting-edge hackers.

However, after witnessing Chen Ze's actions of deciphering vending machines and hacking into convenience store computers, the fox spirit began to become curious about the mysterious profession and technology of "hacking".

The digital world is not without powerful entities capable of invading and manipulating data.

However, in the world of Digimon, this privilege reserved for the strong is also known as "magic," a special ability that achieves a kind of "miracle manifestation" by altering and manipulating materialized data.

"I simply disabled the computer's keyboard, so of course he couldn't retaliate against me anymore."

In the hacker game, depriving the opponent of control over the keyboard is tantamount to defeating them.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Ji Jia decisively gave up continuing to play against Chen Ze and instead started complaining about her own store manager.

"The only way he can stop my intrusion is to unplug the network cable now."

"Even so, I have other ways to hack in, though they are a little more complicated."

When Chen Ze said this, his smug look was obvious to everyone, let alone the fox demon beast, who was already quite intelligent.

"Actually... I think you could have gone a little easier on me."

Upon hearing the fox spirit's sudden remark, Chen Ze turned around in confusion, his face filled with bewilderment.

"Because the target of your intrusion was actually a woman, and a beautiful older sister whom you really liked."

Despite maintaining his elegant and composed expression, Chen Ze seemed to detect a hint of amusement in the fox demon's tone.

"But now I finally understand why your parents always say you're 'destined to be single'."

Before he could even ponder how the fox spirit knew he liked mature women or how he knew his parents often teased him, Chen Ze stood there for a while before slowly turning his head to look in the direction of the convenience store.

Just as the fox spirit had predicted, a sophisticated-looking older woman was staring at the computer with a "frustrated" expression.

"..."

"In the eyes of hackers, the level of skill is the standard by which everything is measured; gender and such are irrelevant."

"..."

"Besides, I'm not the protagonist of some urban fantasy novel. I won't go easy on someone just because they're a woman."

It was obvious that Chen Ze was making excuses, but the fox demon just smiled and didn't refute him further.

As a standard Digimon, Renamon theoretically has no gender; at most, it only has a psychological gender preference.

So what she just said was more out of a sense that if Chen Ze's parents knew the current situation, they would definitely use that statement to tease him.

Compared to the "gentlemanly manners" that Chen Ze's father often emphasized in this life, Renamon from the Digital World actually agreed more with what Chen Ze had just said.

"You're right. What's truly respectable in this world is the strength of the mind, not the superiority or inferiority of the body."

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Chapter Fifteen: Methods of Digimon Invasion

An hour later, after "quietly" deleting and replacing the convenience store's surveillance data, Chen Ze and Renamon arrived at the neighborhood where they had previously fought Angemon.

"There really is a camera?"

Hiding behind a telephone pole, Chen Ze, who was less than half the height of the fox demon, cautiously poked his head out and, sure enough, saw a rotating electronic camera.

It seems that not only was the mess in this neighborhood captured on camera, but the battle with Angemon that just happened must have also been stored in the corresponding database.

The only thing Chen Ze could be thankful for was that the Japanese police seemed not to have discovered anything unusual about the place yet.

In other words, as long as Chen Ze deletes the surveillance data before the Japanese police review the footage from the area, the existence of Digimon and the Digital World will not be exposed.

As for how this mess in the neighborhood came about, let them guess!

"This is quite difficult!"

Unlike his previous hacking of computers in convenience stores, this time Chen Ze needed to hack into the Japanese police's data monitoring center.

It is much more difficult and dangerous than before.

However, it was precisely because of this extremely dangerous atmosphere that Chen Ze felt a surge of excitement—just like when he saw the battle between Angemon and Renamon.

This time, however, it was Chen Ze's area of ​​expertise—hacking—rather than a battle between Digimon.

Fortunately, it was still 1995, and there weren't many surveillance cameras on the streets of Japan. Most of them were government-controlled, so as long as the Japanese police's surveillance data center was hacked, all the data could be deleted once and for all.

If it were the 21st century, with cameras and surveillance cameras already widespread, Chen Ze would probably have had to delete all the nearby private cameras that might have captured that battle scene after deleting the police data.

"It is indeed a bit difficult."

She nodded slightly. Although the fox beast was not a real hacker, it was not an ordinary person who knew nothing.

In fact, even an ordinary person who knows nothing should understand the difference between hacking into a computer and hacking into a police data center.

"So let's try a different approach to infiltrate this time!"

The voice was filled with certainty; the fox demon had clearly drawn inspiration from Chen Ze's previous series of hacking activities.

"Another way?"

This time, it was Chen Ze's turn to blink in confusion.

After realizing that Renamon was not the "genius hacker" he had imagined, he had already given up any expectations of the other party's hacking skills.

But the other party's confident demeanor shattered Chen Ze's guess—could the other party really understand hacking techniques?

"I really don't understand hacking techniques in the human world."

Seemingly sensing Chen Ze's confusion, and to prevent him from making any unnecessary connections, the fox demon promptly offered an explanation.

"But I am a Digimon, and I was born with the ability to hack into networks."

In the digital and network world, where data is the primary focus, Digimon are naturally capable of infiltrating various network programs and security systems.

Especially those virus-type Digimon, who take pleasure in destroying various network programs.

Although Renamon is not a virus species, it still possesses this ability.

However, after suddenly arriving in the human world, Renamon thought it had lost this ability, so it did not show much "abnormality".

However, Chen Ze's act of deciphering the vending machine gave her a hint: perhaps the boundary between the human world and the digital world is not as strong as she imagined.

Especially later, Chen Ze actually used Agumon's negligible remaining data to transform into a humanoid computer and hack into another computer.

If the former was merely a reminder to the fox spirit, then the latter undoubtedly proved her guess.

Perhaps in this materialistic world, Digimon possess more than just physical power.

"What are you going to do?"

Chen Ze glanced warily at the fox demon, knowing that it lacked the understanding of a normal human and fearing that it might come up with some outlandish idea again.

“Reverse the digitalization process and crack the protein-like program.”

As if it were an innate instinct, Renamon called the result of its appearance in the human world "digitization" and the process of reconstructing its body "pseudo-protein program".

Since pure data can simulate the protein composition of the material world and manifest the form of Digimon in the human world.

Therefore, digitized Digimon can also reverse this process, allowing their pseudo-proteins to decompose back into data and enter the world of the network.

"Are you capable of doing something like that?"

Having immediately understood the fox demon's thoughts, Chen Ze couldn't help but ask.

"Have you forgotten that data and Angemon from before?"

Leaving aside Angemon, which appeared and disappeared out of thin air, the Digi-Egg that leaked from the Digital World truly completed the transformation between matter and data through its own power.

The foxmon isn't stupid; in fact, the fact that it was able to evolve into its current adult form speaks volumes about its talent and potential.

Since an unhatched Digimon egg can instinctively complete its form, Renamon, with its sufficient talent and intelligence, naturally replicated this process.

"go!"

Thinking of this, a rare excited smile appeared on the fox spirit's face—she enjoyed the process of solving mysteries of the unknown and feeling herself become stronger.

"and many more!"

Sensing something, Chen Ze was about to speak when the fox demon grabbed him and lifted him up.

The next moment, a faint light emanated from the surface of their bodies, and their originally stable protein structure instantly disintegrated into pure data.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ze felt his body "fly" into the air.

"Ahhh!"

It was only at this moment that Chen Ze finally understood the gap between himself and the demon fox beast.

Or more precisely, this is the gap between the program called "Agumon.SMS" and "Renamon.SMS".

Both are AI programs named Digimon, and both are Digimon in their Rookie stage...

The difference between Agumon and Renamon is like the difference between a teacup and a kettle; not only are their capacities incomparable, but their quality is also completely different.

This also indirectly confirms one of Chen Ze's previous guesses—that his current body was indeed pieced together by Renamon using fragments of Agumon's program.

[Was I not able to turn into an electronic signal intrusion before because the current digital core is incomplete?]

If Chen Ze had a Digicore, he might not need Renamon's power to achieve the same "reverse digitalization" process.

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"What will you do with the rest of your life?" "Probably... try to save some unfortunate people like me."

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1. Tokusatsu style; if it feels familiar, it's all homage. 2. Heartwarming; sweet without any angst, absolutely no torture for the main characters. 3. Positive values, high moral character and ethical standards.

The cover does not depict the protagonist in his knight form. The protagonist's knight form so far is the old SIC No. 1, and there are illustrations within the chapters. The cover's Pixiv ID is 1656659, and the artist is バーン.

Chapter Sixteen: The Embryonic Form of the Online World

The online world in 1995 was even more chaotic than Chen Ze had imagined.

Encrypted information streams, disordered spam messages, and meaningless characters...

In Chen Ze's eyes at this moment, those things that were originally in the state of information have been materialized and become a torrent of "interference" that can be seen with the naked eye.

It was as if they had stumbled into a sewer that hadn't been cleaned yet, with a chaotic torrent of information crashing down on Chen Ze and the fox demon.