(Continued from Volume 2, Chapter 12, Taiyi is trapped by the dark spiral labyrinth of the Molecular Beast)

It's a labyrinth with no entrances and no exits, only endless forks in the road. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The man trapped in the labyrinth stopped and stopped moving forward.

"It's strange that I'm afraid of the dark."

Looking at the front without a trace of light, Taiyi felt creepy while being entangled. He smiled self-deprecatingly, then pulled out the evolution key with the badge of courage in his clothes and looked at it.

"Well, I'm still very timid. It's not in my nature to be bold and fearless. ”

Taiichi sat down cross-legged. He holds the digital machine in his left hand and a pendant called the Evolution Key in his right hand.

Fragmentary memories appeared in his head. That is both his and not his memory.

It was 1996 when I crossed over and became one with this body, and that happened in 1995.

The Digi Egg that appeared in his and Ga'er's room. It all began.

"No wonder. The badge of courage doesn't fit me now, but it's mine. Taiyi muttered.

He remembered the message from the guy who possessed Jia'er in the animation. The badges are made according to the inner waveform of each selected child. And the blueprint based on it is the truest portrayal of every child's heart at that time in Guangqiu four years ago.

Humans are changeable creatures, and the most fickle of them.

It was inevitable that the mood at that time was different from the mood now. Let's just say that Taiyi's classmate Ah is reconciled, although the meaning of his badge is friendship, but in the class, he is the one who has the most nothing to do with friendship. At all times, Ah He seemed very lonely. It's not that people don't want to make friends with him, but that they reject others deep in his own heart. Taiyi guessed that this was probably due to the divorce of his parents, and maybe it was only after coming to the digital world that he reunited with Ah Wu, Ah He had changed. The friendship badge is not at all in line with his inner state for him now. So Taiichi wasn't very optimistic about whether he would be able to activate the power of the badge to evolve his Digimon.

"The one who is very brave, the one who is very brave......" To be honest, Taiyi can't imagine what it is like to be a person who really has pure courage.

Most of the heroes and samurai in history showed their brave side for something. Throwing his head and spilling blood in order to protect his family and defend the country, or cutting his stomach for honor. When you think about it, none of this is pure courage.

"Speaking of which, so do I. The last time I made Tyrannosaurus evolve into a mechanical Tyrannosaurmon, the emblem didn't glow at all. ”

That was when I lived with the fairy beast, because the battle sub-ancient beast naturally evolved into a tyrannosaurmon relationship, and the power of the digital machine alone allowed it to evolve into a full-fledged mechanical tyrannosaurmon. At the time, the elven beast was surprised by the Tyrannosaurus mon that had evolved without using the power of the emblem.

"If I hadn't evolved naturally into a tyrannosaurus at that time, I am afraid it would have been impossible to evolve into a complete body. Not to mention the mechanical tyrannosaurus, even if it evolves into a zombie tyrannosaurus, it is estimated that it will not be a play. Taiyi himself knows that he is used to planning and then acting, and his current state of mind is too far from that of four years ago.

"But how can you gain great power if you can't harness the power of the badge?"

When he thought of the enemy he was about to face next, Taiyi was very entangled. (Plot hint, at present, Taiyi's impression is that Wukongmon has not been defeated, and the vampire monster has not yet appeared.) ）

There were two paths before him.

First, let the tyrannosaurus naturally evolve to a complete body or even the ultimate body after continuous fighting.

Second, go back to the real world as soon as possible and stop having anything to do with the digital world.

Although reason told him that the second way was the wise choice, it ......

"Is there anything that easy?" He asked himself.

Now that he has become the chosen child, fate has found him. Not only him, but also his sister Jia'er can't escape the arrangement of fate.

Why? Who decided that they couldn't live in peace, and who made them schoolchildren have to fight in this digital world?

A guy flashed through Taiyi's mind. The guy who possessed Jia'er in the anime. Isn't that guy? Taiyi didn't know.

"Why! I can't do anything! "I threw a hard punch on the ground. Immediately after that, Taiyi felt that something was wrong. My hand didn't hurt at all. Although the body in the digital world is much stronger than in the real world, there is still a basic sense of pain. It doesn't hurt at all, it's so abnormal. He looked down and saw something green on his hand, and when he looked at it, it was a rolling fragment of data made up of numbers 0 and 1.

And on the ground where he smashed his punch, there was also a place where the data of 0 and 1 were constantly displayed and refreshed. This place is about the size of a palm, and there is a strong sense of disobedience when connected to the bluestone floor.

"What's this?" Taiichi was puzzled, but what he remembered in his head was something that the fairy beast had first told him at that time. Junk data ...... Smash...... Delete......

Some of his forgotten memories suddenly came back. At that time, he was locked up by the giant beast on the luxury cruise ship, and the events came into his mind little by little.

It's the world of data, just like games. It's just extremely complex data.

To operate a computer is to manipulate data, and it is a matter of course for humans to manipulate data

If you think of yourself as the program itself, then everything in this world is just a façade.

…………

He remembered it, his feelings at that time, his thoughts at that time, and his actions at that time were all remembered by him.

Taiichi picked up the digital machine, but quickly put it down again. The last time the handcuffs were destroyed, it was with the help of the digital machine, but this time it destroyed the ground, but it did not rely on the digital machine.

A hint of enlightenment arises in Taiyi's mind.

-- This is a power that belongs only to me.

Taiyi had been in the maze for hours. He was a little hungry, but he was able to endure it.

Now he's making a try. Try to bring out the power of the badge of courage.

In front of Taiichi was a luminous figure about his height, and suddenly the luminous body disintegrated, and the digital machine hanging in the air also fell to the ground.

Tai picked up his digital machine with a depressed face, "What the hell is wrong?" It stands to reason that it should be possible. ”

Unwilling, he tried again. This is the seventh time.

Taiyi didn't notice that his own badge of courage was glowing, and after entering a state of self-forgetfulness, it was easy to ignore external affairs. Usually he deliberately tried to make the badge of courage shine but didn't get anything, but he did it without realizing it. It was not his words that relied on his words, but his heart.

The ghost made a god, and Taiyi wrote his momentary mood into that luminous body. No one told him that he should do it, and no one asked him to do it. The human subconscious often does things that they don't expect.

Just when he thought the luminous body would disintegrate again, it stabilized.

"It's finished?" Taiyi asked himself, and he didn't seem to do anything. Glancing at the badge hanging around his neck, the badge had now lost its light and no longer shone.

Taiyi took the badge off his neck and hung it on the luminous body, and the badge immediately shone brightly.

Taiyi sat down on the ground, but there was a smug smile on his face. As he smiled, the luminous body's body became a little unstable. If it really disintegrates again, it will be no less than the feeling of going from heaven to hell for Taiyi. All of a sudden, he was extremely depressed. The luminous body didn't shake as Taiyi was depressed.

He almost wants to scold his mother, and the guy who has to keep himself in negative emotions to maintain his existence is too weird.

But it's nothing to think about it a little, there is light and shadow. If there is no darkness, where is the light? Taiyi temporarily suppressed himself under a negative emotion, so that guy was able to have a positive emotion. The badge of courage can shine, and the experiment should be a success.

"But now it's just a shell, and you have to enter data."

While maintaining his low mood, Taiyi began to make up the code he needed.

First, it is not permissible to rebel against all the commands of the deity.

Second, protect the safety of the mechanical tyrannosaurusmon, but do not violate the first article.

Third, protect your own safety, but do not allow violations of articles 1 and 2.

As soon as these three core commands were entered into the luminous body as the highest priority, the luminous body shook for a while. It no longer glows, but becomes a shadow-like existence. If it weren't for the Badge of Courage glowing all the time, he wouldn't have been able to confirm this guy's existence.

This made Taiyi a little uneasy, "I guess I didn't do something weird." ”

But soon, he dispelled the uneasiness in his mind. In any case, the other party is just a mirror image of himself, a doppelganger, a copy, and it is still incomplete.

Suddenly, something approaches Taiichi and Shadow.

It was a kind of pure malice, which made Taiyi feel a chill. With a shadow, he immediately ran towards the inside of the passage. He had only taken two steps and stopped again. Taiyi patted his head one by one, "What am I running away from?" It's time to try your new tricks. ”

Taiichi turned around and pointed his right hand at something that was coming.

"Smash it." Taiyi shouted, and a string of data flowed out of his palm.

Format launch.

The stream of data touched the thing, and in an instant, the thing was shattered to the point that it was not even slag. But at the same time, the walls of the dark spiral corridor that had been affected began to shatter.

It was pure darkness, a darkness that consumed everything. After the walls shattered, the outside was not as clear as Taiyi had originally thought, but a void.

"I'm depressed, it's too powerful." Taiyi began to run away with his shadow again. But the collapse of the Dark Spiral Corridor seemed to cause a chain reaction, and the speed of the Aether One could not escape at all. All of a sudden, the ceiling above it vanished, the walls around it vanished, and even the ground beneath its feet vanished.

He and his shadow were thrown into this darkness. This is a strange place where there is no concept of up, down, left, right, gravity, color and light.

Taiyi looked at the shadow and was silent.

"Forget it, let's get out after this guy is done. The mechanical tyrannosaurmon has been waiting for me for hours. ”

Thinking so, he continued to maintain a silent state of mind and began to perform data manipulation on the shadow.

The shadow-like existence floating in front of Taiyi gradually changed from transparent to solid.

Looking at his blank expression, Taiyi spoke.

"You are me. More precisely, you are my courage. "It's a little wrong to think about it, that guy isn't just courage, it's mixed in with other things. But since the badge of courage can shine on his body all the time, then it's actually not bad to say that, right? Taiyi thought so, and he didn't correct his mistake.

Stretching his waist greatly, Taiyi stretched his body.

"It took a lot of effort to separate you from me."

"Separation?" The shadow repeated the word in the same sentence blankly. This was the first thing the shadow spoke.

"It's certainly impossible to say in the real world. It's not like in Dragon Ball, where the god's own evil thoughts are separated from his body and become the Great Demon King of Vic. But this is the world of data, and because it is data, it is possible to manipulate emotions. ”

Shadow was able to understand Taiyi's words, because Taiyi had already copied 99% of his memories to Shadow.

"So you just ......"

"yes, by changing your own fear level to find the string of data that makes up the concept of fear. I didn't expect it to go so smoothly, though. "Truth be told, Taiyi's original motivation for creating his doppelganger was entirely a sudden idea, or it could be called inspiration.

"Why?" Shadow asked.

"It's fun."

"Aren't you an adult for this kind of reason? Do adults decide to act in this way? ”

"Isn't it okay for adults to do things according to their own preferences? It seems a little different from what I imagined, and your way of thinking is still a little different from mine. After all, it's not exactly me. ”

Taiyi said, and the gloomy mood that he had been maintaining was really sad this time.

The real world is the world of adults, and no matter what adventures you have in the digital world, you will eventually return to that real world. In order to survive, adults must distort their own hearts and do things. This kind of foreseeable future is not what Taiyi hoped.

Taiyi closed his eyes, he thought a lot in a moment.

In the real world, they were just ordinary middle-class. For Japan as a country, the middle class is a disappearing group. In reality, there are still many things that cannot be done even if you know it, but the digital world has this possibility. Why not. Taiyi said to himself, since this world has this possibility, since he also has the potential ability to change the world, why not transform the world according to his own wishes?

A certain transformation took place in Taiyi. At this time, his immediate desire to meet the mechanical tyrannosaurus beast was also overshadowed. Looking at the badge of courage on the shadow, he made a new decision.

Taiichi tapped Shadow's forehead with his finger. Then a new string of data enters the shadow body through the fingertips.

"You are me, so in this time, you can live in the digital world instead of me."

The emblem allows the partner Digimon to evolve, so it might be more appropriate for the shadow who can fully exert the power of the emblem to be the partner of the mechanical tyrannosaurmon than himself.

No, not a possibility, but a certainty. Taiyi himself is not suitable for this badge of courage at all now, and even if he is allowed to stay with the mechanical tyrannosaurmon, the possibility of being able to continue to evolve is slim.

Shaking his head, Taiyi thought about the plot that was going to happen next for a while. According to the plot, after the mechanical tyrannosaurmon defeated Gokumon, Ballmon and Taiyi returned to Tokyo in the real world. However, would it be okay to let that Taiyi go to see Jia'er? Think about it or forget it. The original intention of making this clone was to improve the strength of the mechanical tyrannosaurmon, and he didn't want the clone to do anything superfluous.

"Wait for me in the real world." As soon as Taiyi finished saying this, before he could tell the specific meeting place, a sudden hole appeared behind him, and then swallowed him whole.

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When Taiyi came to his senses, he was still in the dark.

But the darkness was not empty, but in front of him was a wall of fire that stretched infinitely far away.

"I feel your heart yearning for darkness, how's that? Accept my power. The voice came from the other side of the wall of fire. That voice wasn't nice or bad, but for Taiyi, his answer, of course, was no.

A trace of malice emanated from the wall of fire, but it dissipated into invisibility as it approached Taiyi.

"So you're looking for me." Taiichi felt that familiar power.

"Huh? It's a move I didn't master. How is it possible, I should have mastered all the tricks. ”

The guy on the other side of the wall of fire was extremely surprised by Taiyi's strength, and his words also made Taiyi suddenly wake up to the identity of the other party.

The only one who can use all Digimon's special moves is the one who doesn't know if it's a Digimon or not, Apocalypsemon. Then there is no doubt that this wall of fire is a seal on the Apocalyptic Beast.

Being able to talk to the final boss face-to-face without worrying about security was an absolutely amazing experience.

"You're the Apocalypsemon born of the resentment of a Digimon that failed to evolve in the Digital World?" Since the other party can't hurt himself, Taiyi has no scruples to talk to the other party. Anyway, it's very quiet here, and it is estimated that the Apocalypse Beast has been talking to itself alone for thousands of years.