I am Jinshan Youxia

Then why were there those skeletons just now...?

Ao Tianlong realized that the tribe's successive entries into the mountains were probably not because of the disappearance of wild beasts, but because they wanted the gems in the valley.

But if you don't time it right, you could lose your life when lightning strikes. This is a life-threatening gem mining game.

He lay on the ground until the lightning completely dissipated into the air before getting up and continuing forward. He walked along the barren mountain path and entered the dazzling valley, where he saw a naked man sleeping soundly with a peaceful expression in the central pit.

No, not a man, a zombie.

He had never seen or heard of such a powerful zombie.

Suddenly realized something

It seems like no one noticed that this volume ended in the previous chapter. The rest of the story will be in subsequent volumes. I'm hesitating about whether to try writing short stories based on other novels, such as the Mysterious Journey, Lord of Mysteries, Anecdotal Records, and Super Mechanic that I mentioned before. I wrote a few chapters and they felt pretty exciting, but the audience is too small.

However, I wasted a lot of time. I spent two days agonizing over it, writing fanfiction chapters. Today, I suddenly realized that all the drafts I had painstakingly saved were gone, so I decided to give up. Fanfiction doesn't have much of an audience, and it'll be very controversial. With the Infinite Terror volume, I felt there were too many problems as I wrote it, and in the end, I couldn't even finish the God vs. God story I wanted to write. So, after sitting in front of the computer for several hours, I decided to write a short story for the end of the volume about the first season of Digimon.

Since I've only seen parts one through four, and not the later ones, the plot will probably only refer to the short story in the first part.

The next volume is a selection of Junji Ito's horror manga.

Also, today's update will probably be tonight...

As usual, one chapter before 10 PM and one chapter before 12 PM.

Chapter 277 Wow, another poop beast!

File Island, in the tropical rainforest.

"Wow!"

A group of Koromon scattered and ran away, yelling and jumping. The blue-purple Erimon behind them had turned gray and was chasing after the Koromon with a fierce expression.

"Don't even think about escaping!" Elekmon roared, its tail flailing out behind it as it lashed out fiercely.

"Bang!" A Koromon was slammed down from a height, crashing heavily to the ground and dying instantly. However, the data it transformed into did not dissipate but instead circled in the air before reverting back to its Koromon form.

"what?"

Zhang Chengyi blinked, turned his head to look at the gray-skinned Erimon that was chasing after Koromon everywhere, and then looked down at his own round body.

Well, now we don't even need to determine which world it is.

[Data][Data][Data (small amount)][Physical strength]

There are no things like physique, strength, or speed. As a Koromon, he contains three different data points and one stamina.

The core concept of the Digital World is that Digimon are the physical manifestations of network data. They are data themselves, and evolution is the process of absorbing other data to transform into another form.

Simply put, of these three data points, two make up his body as a ball-shaped beast, while a small amount of data, which was just generated, did not participate in the evolution of his body.

The principle is like this, but I don't understand why it works. After all, the data that makes up the body is just a bunch of gibberish when the modifier reads it. I don't understand why the Digital World would turn him into Koromon.

To be more precise, these gibberish characters should be the underlying code, the foundation of Digimon, but he has no idea what they are.

By the way, it's clearly a collection of a lot of data, yet it has such a strange setting as stamina. What kind of stamina does data have?

Despite his thoughts, he locked up his stamina first and was considering whether to increase the small amount of data on his body in an attempt to transform his body into another form.

After all, there was this strange Elliemon right in front of them. Theoretically, Elliemon should just like playing pranks, so could it be...?

After careful observation, Zhang Chengyi discovered a black gear on the rear of the Elite Beast.

"Wow! Run!" Two rolling beasts suddenly rushed over, flanking him on either side and leaping away into the distance.

The angry beast, Elek, followed closely behind.

Zhang Chengyi was a little numb. Couldn't you let me understand how to evolve in peace first? How did you two manage to hold me up without even having hands?

He watched as the Elite Beast, which had already started waving its tail, opened its mouth and spat out a bunch of bubbles. Since its stamina was locked, it didn't matter how many bubbles it spat out.

"Snap!" Bubble couldn't stop the beast's tail for even a second.

"Don't waste your energy, Koromon!" Koromon shouted from the side.

Strange, we're both Aromon, so why do you call me that? And yet, I know that you're communicating with me by calling me 'Aromon'.

Zhang Chengyi felt a strange sensation, and then directly increased the unknown data.

"Buzz!"

The two data elements that make up his body emitted light, and then combined with the third data element.

"Wow, Koromon has evolved!"

Agumon! Makes its grand entrance!

Zhang Agumon Chengyi, with two Koromon tucked under his arms, opened his mouth and sprayed Erimon behind him.

Small flame!

Orange-yellow flames erupted, directly repelling the nearby Elitemon.

Come again!

Zhang Chengyi put down the two Koromon, opened his mouth and used the Small Flame as an automatic rifle, spraying it endlessly. Gray-skinned Erimon tried to retaliate with its special move, but unfortunately, they were both Rookie Digimon, and the damage of their skills was not much different. Even though Erimon became much stronger after changing its color, it still could not compare with the automatic rifle version of the Small Flame.

"Crack!"

A few seconds later, the once menacing Elite Beast curled up, its entire body steaming. The black gear stuck in its rear end was shattered by a small flame, and the gray color on its body gradually faded.

Zhang Chengyi smacked his lips, stopped, turned to look at the two ball-shaped beasts with expressions of admiration on their faces, and asked, "Where is this place?"

"File Island!"

[I knew it! File Island, Black Gear, the first one!]

Zhang Chengyi wiped the sparks off his mouth with his paw. After evolving into Agumon, he wouldn't be harmed by fire breath, but after breathing too much, the sparks around his mouth were making him a little itchy.

I wonder if the selected children came?

"It seems I can evolve again." He looked at the unknown data that had appeared in his body after defeating Elitemon, and his face was full of pride.

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Half an hour later, in a clearing in the woods.

【evolution!】

Zhang Chengyi mentally shouted, randomly increasing or decreasing the data he had just collected according to a certain ratio. In a dazzling light, his body was recombined by various different amounts of data.

"Wow, it's evolved again!"

A group of nearby Koromon, their eyes sparkling, exclaimed, "It's another Poopmon!"

The next second, Zhang Chengyi, with a dark expression, adjusted the data back to Rolling Ball Beast.

What kind of stupid evolution is this?!

Zhang Chengyi, the pink-cheeked "Rolling Beast," was full of displeasure and rolled around on the ground a few times to vent his frustration.

Data is quite interesting. Even if he can't understand the underlying code, he can always remember the quantity, as it's all recorded on the panel.

Adjusting the data causes the body to evolve or degenerate, which is quite in line with the basic setting of Digimon.

Moreover, he generates data when he hits Elite Beast, when he eats, when he rolls around, and even when he holds an unfamiliar iron rod in his hand, his data increases.

The principle is not hard to understand. For a Digimon made up of a bunch of data, interacting with other things made up of data will definitely generate other data.

At first, he was overjoyed that he could obtain a large amount of data so easily. After all, he only needed to experience each type of data once to increase or decrease it wildly in his body. This was a cheat code unique to modifiers. Wouldn't it be a matter of minutes to become WarGreymon?

Then he evolved himself into a poop monster.

As we all know, the evolution path of Digimon is not linear, but network-like. As long as there is enough data, it can transform into any Digimon.

If data is pieced together in the wrong proportions, it cannot evolve into an existing Digimon. If errors occur during the data piecing together process, it becomes a poop-like monster made up of data remnants.

If he wants to evolve, he needs to figure out what different proportions of different data will evolve into. Currently, since he can't read the code, he can only choose to use the brute-force method.

There are just too many types of data in the Digital World. Just think about all those messy Digimon, plus the different quantities and proportions...

Zhang Chengyi's vision went black.

Chapter 278 The Secret of Growth

One month later, the entrance to the Bewildering Forest.

"Why are you leaving, Koromon?"

"You can't control your power yet, it's very dangerous for you to enter the Chaotic Forest," said Elekmon with some concern.

From the perspective of Digimon, evolution should result in a different form, and regression is a rare occurrence, proving that they have not yet mastered the power of evolution.

In short: There isn't enough data.

Zhang Chengyi's problem isn't about the amount of data causing him to evolve and degenerate repeatedly. He maintains the Koromon form because Koromon is more malleable and can evolve into more forms.

"I'm leaving!" He swayed his body as a farewell, then leaped into the chaotic forest.

His reason for leaving was even simpler: compared to easily obtainable environmental data, the easiest way to obtain behavioral data is through combat.

During battles, interactions occur, and data is eventually acquired. For most Digimon, one or two such data acquisitions are insufficient to influence their evolution; therefore, a large amount of battle experience is required to complete the evolution process.

Zhang Chengyi only needed to do it once, so a month was enough for him to bully all the Digimon near the rainforest. The next step was naturally the Chaotic Forest and Longyan Lake deep in the forest.

Of course, the Confused Forest is arguably the least dangerous place on the entire File Island, apart from the peaceful Founding Village.

That is, the place where the main characters from Digimon Adventure landed.

However, he didn't care about the strength of the Digimon in the battle, since fighting different Digimon would generate different data, and each data represented different possibilities.

Therefore, he currently has only one goal:

Let's fight to our hearts' content!

"Shhh~"

Zhang Chengyi hopped around in the forest and soon disappeared from the sight of the Elite Beast. The beast watched him anxiously for a while before turning back.

Compared to the one Koromon that defeated it, there are many escaped baby Digimon waiting for it to return to Genesis Village. The rainforest is not a safe place; it is even more dangerous than the Misty Forest.

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