I am Jinshan Youxia

The main issue is that in the world view of the first season, there is a huge difference in the flow of time between the Digital World and the real world. Even though he has been in the Digital World for some time, probably not even a day has passed in the real world. Who knows when those kids will arrive?

My main goal in going to the server mainland this time is to try to get a few badges. If I can't get a few, I'll test the waters and then go back to File Island to wait.

Try not to make a big fuss.

The acquisition of badges in the anime is full of coincidences. It is highly likely that homeostasis and Gennai tampered with them, or that the corresponding badges are naturally attractive to the chosen children, making it possible for them to find them. Search according to the plot, and get as many as you can. If you can't find any, just come back and wait for the chosen children.

Zhang Chengyi re-evolved into Greymon, gave Drill Molemon's soft head a good rub, and said, "I'm going to leave File Island for a while. I'll leave that idiot Greymon in your care for now."

Greymon probably saw him getting stronger and having fun in battle and wanted to learn from him, so he embarked on a path of challenging other Digimon on his own.

I heard that Leomon has been repeatedly defeated in his recent challenges. Luckily, it's the kind Leomon; if it were Ogremon, Greymon would probably be data by now.

After saying that, he didn't look at the Drill Mole Beast with a reluctant expression, but directly evolved into a Stag Beetle Beast, flapped its wings and flew high towards the server continent.

Chapter 288 Lightning Operation

Six days later, on the server mainland, near the village of the Koromon.

"Hehehe, caught another silly Koromon~"

A large group of Pagumon, carrying a bound Koromon, walked towards the waterfall, laughing and joking.

"Wait!" Gashimon called out to the group of Pagumon by the waterfall, a puzzled look in its eyes. "Strange, weren't all the nearby Koromon captured? Where did it come from?"

"Boom~"

The ropes binding Koromon suddenly snapped, and a burst of light, signifying evolution, shone forth.

"Oops!"

The monster looked surprised, then without hesitation opened its mouth and unleashed its ultimate attack:

"The Breath of Paralysis!"

The Koromon that was being held up by the Pagumons had transformed into a towering Leomon, whose sheer size pinned the Pagumons to the ground, rendering them immobile. It then unleashed a punch at Gashimon.

"Thump!" The Beast King's fist, swirling with paralyzing energy, sent the Gazhimon flying, and in doing so, it even caused the waterfall to stop flowing for a moment, revealing the Koromon imprisoned in the cave behind the waterfall.

"Wow, it's Leomon!"

"We're saved!"

The rolling beasts inside immediately cheered.

[As expected, Leomon's form is the most popular.]

Zhang Chengyi kicked away the Pakumon beneath his feet, leaped into the cave, drew the Lion King Maru from his waist, and with a flash of light, the iron cages shattered.

"Let's get out of here quickly," he said, before heading deeper into the cave.

The rolling beasts, still cheering happily, looked at each other in bewilderment.

Zhang Chengyi quickly ran to the end of the cave. Looking at the patterns on the wall, he opened his mouth and spat out a large bunch of evolution keys from his stomach. After one of the evolution keys flashed, the patterned wall in front of him turned into a small piece of badge that automatically entered the evolution key. In front of him was a lush forest.

It turns out that children who don't need to be chosen can activate it?

He was a little surprised; he had been prepared to forcibly carry the wall away, but it went so smoothly.

Zhang Chengyi swallowed the evolution key and badge again, then jumped out of the cave.

Anyway, he can just follow the route taken by the children in the animation. Apart from the Friendship and Knowledge Badges in Fairymon's barrier and the Light Badge in Myotismon's hands, he still has a chance to get the remaining five badges from the first season.

The key is to act quickly. In the anime, Empyrean knew that the children had taken the badges, so if he took them, he would probably be discovered just as easily.

Every second counts!

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At this very moment, at the Empyrean's concert.

"Oh no! The Great Ape Beast King!"

A Gazhimon tumbled and crawled over, shouting, "The Badge of Courage has been taken!"

"What?!" The enormous voice of the apemon burst from the speakers on both sides, materializing into a sound wave that sent the Digimon in the audience flying.

"Damn it!" It threw down the microphone and raised its hand.

With a loud crash, the tanker truck bearing the words "Laughing Heaven Gate" smashed through the wall and followed the power lines to its front.

"Hiss!" The jar opened, revealing a computer screen inside, on which a single point of light was flashing continuously on the map.

"Could it be that the chosen children have arrived?"

The ape-like beast jumped onto the vehicle.

Gazhimon lay on the edge of the car and said, "Great King Etemon, according to my latest intelligence, the one who stole the Crest of Courage was a Leomon~" Its voice had a slightly obsequious rising tone.

"What is that?"

The ape patted its chest in relief, took out its specially made banana drink from the refrigerator next to it, and gulped it down. It was rich in protein powder and honey, and very nutritious.

"It was just a lion-like beast. I'll give it a good beating in my car—"

"Oh no! The Great Ape Beast King!"

Another Gazhimon ran over, shouting, "A Leomon stole the Badge of Honesty!"

"What! There are two lion beasts!" The ape beast exclaimed in shock.

The first one, Gazhimon, quipped, "Will King Empyrean only have one Leomon?"

"Thump!" The ape-mon punched Gazhimon on the head. "Idiot, next time you find out about something like this, you should say so beforehand!"

"Let's get going!"

"Swoosh~" A few seconds after the car started moving, the computer screen suddenly changed from a map with flashing dots to the face of a Gazhi Beast covered in sweat:

"King Empyrean, Molecularmon has been defeated, and the Crest of Love and the Crest of Hope have been taken away!"

"puff!"

The ape-mon spewed out the banana drink it was drinking, staring at the screen in disbelief, and said, "W-is that Leomon?"

"No, it's an Andromon!" Gashimon's screen suddenly started flashing, with speckles appearing.

"Finally found you. So it was you Gazhi Beasts who were tracking me using wires. I knew it. Take the badge... *rustle*"

"boom!"

The Gazhi Beast on the other side of the screen disappeared in the explosion along with the signal.

The ape-mon and the other two Gazhimon inside the vehicle fell silent.

"Boom!"

The ape-like beast slammed its fist on the computer case, and the white screen, which was making a constant hissing sound, switched to displaying data.

Andromon, a prototype of a humanoid modified Digimon...

"It should be a subordinate of Machinedramon, right?" it muttered to itself. "Perfect level, damn it, how could such a thing start stealing badges?"

Even though Digimon generally don't have very complicated thoughts, there are often some minor frictions among the four legions of the Dark Masters.

As the subordinate of the strongest Piedmon, Etemon has to wonder why a Perfect-level Digimon from a machine empire has come to its territory.

As for whether it might not be a Digimon from the Machine Empire Legion...

To be honest, the probability is very low, because the Four Holy Beasts have already lost, and the entire Digital World has been ruled by the Dark Masters. The more threatening Ultimate-level Digimon will either surrender, die, or hide away and eke out a living, only to suddenly jump out and steal the badges.

"Damn it, why?"

Unable to think of anything, Etemon scratched his head in frustration. "Never mind, let's go get the badge back! I am the world's strongest Digimon King!"

It laughed loudly and wildly.

“King Empyrean,” Gazhimon said, pointing at the computer screen, “the Crest of Innocence was also taken by that Leomon—no, Andromon.”

"What?" The ape-beast's laughter stopped abruptly.

Jiazhi Beast tapped a few times on the computer console, and with a 'beep', an email was sent. After opening the email, it found a picture of [Seadramon] jumping into the sea.

"And..." It glanced at the ape-beast and said cautiously, "King ape-beast, that Andromon has degenerated into Seadramon and jumped into the sea to escape."

The ape-beast, in a frenzy, grabbed the Gazhi-beast and shook it repeatedly, shouting, "Find it for me right now!"

"If it goes out to sea, our system won't be able to detect it..."

Chapter 289 A Wonderful World

"Wasp, are you still looking for me?"

Zhang Chengyi lay hidden in the sea, watching several wasp-like beasts fly over from the direction of the server's mainland.

In the anime, the Chosen Children didn't seem to encounter many of Etemon's subordinates, but he did encounter many hostile Champion-level Digimon during his mission.

For example, there are Waspmon, Cyclopsmon, Poison Spidermon, Vegetablemon, Giant Dragonmon, and even dirty Digimon like Cockroachmon and Mudmon that other Digimon wouldn't want to get close to. He is very envious of the large amount of new data, but he doesn't have time to collect the data one by one.

The apemon's subordinates realized he was too fast. Almost as soon as he left the forest with the Badge of Courage, he was caught up by two cyclops. They had originally planned not to defeat them, but to slowly maneuver and delay the apemon's arrival.

When he got his second badge, the Digimon that attacked him changed from two Cyclops to one Greymon, one Giantdramon, one Waspmon, and two Cyclops.

If it really were just a lion-like beast, it would probably have been sent already.

It was a complete saturation attack, with troops mobilized to gang up on each other, showing absolutely no martial ethics.

Zhang Chengyi could only evolve into Andromon and take them down one by one. Afterwards, in order to get rid of the pursuers, he tried to use the mechanically modified parts of Andromon to connect to the underground network through which the black cables were inserted.

The result was surprisingly successful. The underground network had no password at all; it was an open network space. Not only the server continent, but also File Island and several other continents were in the network space. Andromon on File Island even greeted him remotely, reminding him to be careful not to send or receive data carelessly and expose himself, otherwise he would attract the Digimon of the Machine Empire Legion.

Even though the Ultimate-level Machinedramon is sealing the Four Holy Beasts, the remaining Megadramon and Gigadramon are beyond his ability to resist.

Even though they are both Ultimate level Digimon, Andromon, as a Prototype, is not as powerful as other more advanced mechanical Digimon. Its advantages are only its humanoid agility, the calmness brought by the lack of will and emotion of Prototype mechanical Digimon, and its relatively good defensive capabilities.

In terms of attack power, let's put it this way: a Champion-level Garurumon can take Andromon's special move, Spinning Energy Sword, head-on.

It is not a particularly powerful offensive Perfect-level Digimon in essence.

Through friendly communication with Andromon, Zhang Chengyi found Gazhimon that were monitoring Emeralmon's territory using network interfaces. They intercepted information sent to Emeralmon and took advantage of the brief information gap to travel frantically in various forms. In just two days, they completed the long journey that the children in the anime took before they encountered Myotismon.

While his subordinates discovered that his data had been intercepted, the network could not capture him, and sent out a large number of Digimon to search for him, he had already obtained all five badges. Using his Drill Molemon form, he burrowed underground to the beach and jumped into the sea.

The cable network that spans the entire continent of the server even extends to the seabed, yet there is no way to explore what lies beneath the sea.