Digital Hackers' Memories

"Don't worry, I'm not that naive."

Clearly sensing Chen Ze's unease, the fox demon X rolled its eyes.

“That little guy has become obsessed with ‘Stellaris’ these past few days, so I had it play a game using your account.”

"This is the second round; it should last until dawn tomorrow."

Having said that, the listless Youkomon X waved its hand, transformed into a data ray, and disappeared into the power outlet on the wall, returning to the EDEN network.

As for the bet with Chen Ze?

After realizing the true purpose of Chen Ze's bet, Demon Fox Beast X had no intention of continuing to abide by it.

"When it comes to being willful, you really are number one."

After confirming that Reijou X had indeed returned to the EDEN network, Chen Ze's smile gradually faded.

[The fox spirit...is she deliberately not exposing me?]

Chen Ze couldn't believe that someone as intelligent as Reijomon X wouldn't see through his poor acting after repeatedly changing the subject about the problem with the Black Digicore.

Perhaps the reason why Youkomon X didn't investigate further was not only because he didn't want to expose himself, but also because he was confident in himself.

It's just a few minor issues; I can handle it.

With this in mind, Chen Ze turned and walked towards his bedroom, intending to use the various EDEN devices in the room to conduct a comprehensive check-up on himself.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Backlash ≈ Overeaten?

In the master bedroom of the automated apartment, as Chen Ze put on his specially made EDEN goggles, the various specialized instruments around him quickly began to operate.

These instruments are new devices that Chen Ze purchased online in the past few days, in order to check for any possible abnormalities in his body.

After all, following the battle a few days ago, the various checks at Kamishiro Central Hospital have become much more stringent, and the risk of being exposed would be very high if one tried to sneak in with a false identity again.

Furthermore, since Dr. Yamazaki and Akira Suedo had both confirmed that Chen Ze's health was now fine, he naturally wouldn't go to the hospital for further checkups.

However, just in case, Chen Ze privately asked Dr. Yamazaki for a list of equipment that could be used to examine his body, and quickly purchased the necessary items online.

To be honest, if Chen Ze hadn't won the "Stars" competition a few days ago and received a large sum of money, he really wouldn't have been able to gather so much equipment in such a short time.

Even so, such a huge expense emptied Chen Ze's savings in one go, forcing him to worry again about how to fill the deficit and hopefully keep it from his silly parents.

buzzing...

So, as the various instruments started operating rapidly, Chen Ze's consciousness entered his subconscious sea for the third time.

However, unlike his previous two chance encounters with the subconscious sea, this time Chen Ze actively explored that mysterious subconscious space.

Moreover, Chen Ze, who had already delved into his subconscious, did not notice that the computer screen, which had been closed, suddenly turned on the moment he closed his eyes.

After a blurry mosaic flash, Renamon X appeared on the screen, with a worried-looking Black-eared Beast standing behind her.

"Is he... alright?"

Hiding cautiously behind Renamon X, BlackMenteemon nervously watched Chen Ze, who had fallen into a deep sleep, outside the screen. Even as a Rookie Digimon that had not yet grown up, it could feel the overflowing dark data within him.

As a subspecies of Terriermon, Black Terriermon, possessing a hybrid of holy and evil, sensed this even more clearly than Renamon X. This data was eroding Chen Ze's physical body in reality, attempting to transform him into a true Fallen Hellmon.

"He'll be alright."

Contrary to Blackearmon's expectations, Renamon X calmly stared at Chen Ze outside the screen before turning to warn Blackearmon.

"You must keep what you saw today a strict secret, or I guarantee you'll never find Patamon again."

Although the tone wasn't very harsh, BlackMearmon, who had learned about Renamon X's personality over the past two days, still nodded, trembling slightly.

Unlike Chen Ze, who has a mild temper and is occasionally a bit chuunibyou, the image of Youkomon X in Blackearmon's mind is that of a complete demon king.

Especially when it comes to Chen Ze, the Black-eared Beast has no doubt that the other party will keep his word.

"I know, I know... I didn't see anything... I don't know anything..."

With a satisfied glance at the still trembling Black-eared Beast, Renamon X said nothing more. Instead, it entered the operating equipment in the form of data and began to monitor the equipment in real time.

This is not an incomprehensible ability for Digimon, because Digimon are not data life forms that can only live in the network.

In theory, Digimon can adapt to any electronic device; it's just a matter of whether the environment is good or bad.

Especially for Digimon like Renamon X, which possesses the X-antibody and has undergone a special environmental adaptive mutation, how could any harsh environment be as devastating as the X-virus, which can completely destroy and reshape all data?

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Unaware of what was happening in the outside world, Chen Ze, having come into close contact with his subconscious sea for the third time, was able to calmly accept this vast ocean (a forbidden word?) formed from all his memories.

"The situation is a little better than expected."

Appearing in human form on this vast ocean, Chen Ze was immediately drawn to the four digital cores not far away the moment he entered.

The Digicores of White Flamemon and MetalGreymon showed no abnormalities and remained floating on the sea surface in a relatively independent manner, with the reflections of their Digimon faintly visible within them.

However, the Digicores symbolizing MetalGreymon and Beelzemon were different; the two Digicores were already intertwined and tangled together.

Or to be more precise, it was Beelzemon's Digicore that unilaterally invaded and devoured MetalGreymon's Digicore.

As the most obvious manifestation of this devouring, the Digicore of the original body is gradually merging with the Digicore of Beelzemon.

Black flames began to appear at the very edge of the sea of ​​consciousness, just like a black flame world taking shape.

Chen Ze knew that once the black digital core replaced the original digital core and became the core of his sea of ​​consciousness, his human body would become the carrier of the digital core in the human world, just as planned.

At that time, there will be no need for so-called "digitalization". Chen Ze will be Beelzemon and Beelzemon will be Chen Ze. The only difference between the two will be whether they transform or not.

Unfortunately, Chen Ze had long since abandoned this evil path that allowed his body to mutate, and now he naturally couldn't allow the black digital core to continue to devour him.

In fact, this is why Chen Ze said "the situation is a little better than expected".

The erosion of the Black Digital Core was actually the result of the rampage and overflow of the Gluttony Force, a sequela caused by Beelzemon devouring all of SwordEmperormon's data.

Simply put, Beelzemon ate too much, and MetalGreymon's Digicore suffered a terrible fate as a result!

However, only less than an hour has passed since he killed the Sword Emperor Beast, giving Chen Ze ample time to deal with this rampage.

The simplest approach is to discard the excess data in the black digital core before it devours the original digital core, thus weakening its own power to resolve this rampage.

This was not a difficult task for Chen Ze, who was proficient in hacking techniques and had the ability to manufacture artificial digital cores.

As long as the relevant data and records are preserved, even if the black digital core is deconstructed and rebuilt, it will only take a little time.

However, in order to obtain all of the Sword Emperor Beast's memories and data, Chen Ze obviously wouldn't use such a simple and crude method to solve this problem; otherwise, he wouldn't have risked devouring all of the other party's data.

Coincidentally, Chen Ze has recently discovered another use for artificial digital cores, which can perfectly solve this problem and even solve similar situations once and for all.

"This is a good opportunity to test whether my idea can succeed!"

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PS: Even the word "汪洋" (a vulgar term) has become a banned word!

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Reconstructing the Artificial Digital Core

As mentioned earlier, Chen Ze's most important Digicore is the one born from the combination of his mental data and Agumon's data.

As for the other three digital cores?

It is an artificial digital core written by Chen Ze using the code he obtained. Its essence is a special materialized program that he named "Little Bick".

The "first generation Little Beek" was written using the overload program evolved from the Pure Code, the Corruptor Data, and the Ontology Digital Core.

"Second Generation Piccolo" was created in the original world using Mantismon's Digicore as a foundation and incorporating some data from SonicDramon.

Finally, it absorbed the code of Dark Giant Beast and was originally just a flawed black "Little Beetle" born as a simple weapon or tool.

Although these three artificial digital cores have relatively independent properties, they cannot truly unleash their power.

They can only evolve into different Digimon forms by combining with Chen Ze's main Digicore in a way similar to "fusion".

This is why Chen Ze initially regarded them as "alternate identities" rather than "clones," because these three artificial digital cores simply could not exist independently for a long time.

At the very least, before the Valhalla server incident, the primary function of these three artificial digital cores was to constitute the "Digital Realm," used to assist the growth of the original digital core.

However, after the Valhalla server incident, Chen Ze, who had fully mastered the power of MetalGreymon, realized that the artificial digital core he created had become useless.

In terms of combat prowess, MetalGreymon's "Nuclear Mode" is no less powerful than any Ultimate-level monster.

Even when facing a true Royal Knight like SwordKingmon, it has the capability to take the opponent down with it, making the "fusion" ability of the artificial Digicore completely unnecessary.

In terms of evolution, MetalGreymon was already in its Ultimate form at that time.

The other three artificial digital cores either had inherent defects or their complete forms were not yet stable; the best one was none other than the Complete form of the Armored Dragon Beast.

Therefore, apart from its daily disguise and various minor functions in Piccolo form, the main role of the artificial digital core has been "idled" to some extent.

In this situation, the most pressing issue for Chen Ze is how to make the artificial digital core function again.

Since the original Agumon was able to evolve into the more powerful Whiteflamemon with the help of Piccolo Generation 1.

Could the Ultimate form of MetalGreymon evolve into an even more powerful Mega form using an artificial Digicore?

With this in mind, Chen Ze chose to accept that inexplicable "gift" while at the Kamishiro Central Hospital, evolving into the ultimate form Beelzemon.

There was nothing wrong with this idea in the first place, but due to Chen Ze's previous experience in the Unknown World, his mind and body became out of sync.

This caused Beelzemon to awaken its Gale Mode and devour the data of SwordEmperormon, after which the black artificial Digicore, which was originally just a "disguise," began to backfire on the original Digicore.

The result of this backlash on Chen Ze's body is that, uncontrollably, a wisp of gluttonous flame, symbolizing the Fallen Hell Beast, will occasionally emerge from his body.

That is precisely the manifestation of the main digital core being gradually influenced by the black digital core.

If this situation continues, Chen Ze might become a white Beelzemon? Or a black MetalGreymon?

Or is it that neither of these two outcomes is true, but rather that he directly transforms into a bizarre existence no different from the assimilated invader, Sanada Shin?

In short, whatever the outcome, it is not the result Chen Ze wanted to see.

Chen Ze didn't want to become a monster that human society couldn't tolerate, nor did he want MetalGreymon's future evolution path to be inexplicably locked into Beelzemon.

The artificial digital core was a tool used by Chen Ze to explore endless evolutionary paths and lay the foundation for MetalGreymon to evolve into a powerful Ultimate form, rather than an obstacle that would reverse course and affect MetalGreymon's future evolutionary path.

Therefore, Chen Ze, who had already developed a sense of crisis, chose to deal with the artificial digital cores in his body in a way that was completely opposite to "fusion".

Separation, splitting, doppelganger...

Regardless of what Chen Ze calls this approach, its essence was already predetermined.

Instead of "merging" with the original digital core to enhance its own power, it further improves and splits out the code inside the artificial digital core, becoming a relatively independent entity.

While this would greatly weaken Chen Ze's overall strength, it would allow the few artificial digital cores that were originally just "disguise" to become true "avatars".

Previously, when facing Sword Emperor Beast, Chen Ze split into two, appearing simultaneously in the forms of Beelzemon and Armored Dragon Beast, securing victory in that battle.

That's actually the simplest use of this special ability to create clones.

However, Chen Ze had not made up his mind to actually split off the artificial digital core at the time, so the split-off mecha dragon beast could only exist for a short time.

After the battle ended, the digital core that had been briefly separated naturally returned and once again became an inseparable part of Chen Ze.

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The vast ocean of the subconscious.

When Chen Ze made up his mind to abandon the "fusion" combat route and separate all the artificial digital cores, the first to be separated was the Mech Dragon Beast, which had already completed the initial separation process.

As if trying to divide the entire subconscious, the area centered on the Mechdramon Digital Core was visibly separating into a single entity.

In that area, all the memories, data, and images of humans and other Digimon disappeared, replaced by all the memories and evolutionary paths of Armordramon since its birth.

At this moment, the Mech Dragon Beast is no longer just an alias for Chen Ze, but an independent clone with complete memories and an independent evolutionary path.

It can be said that, apart from still being dominated by Chen Ze's will, this artificial digital core is no different from a natural digital core.

Following closely behind, the second thing Chen Ze separated was the digital core of the White Flame Beast.

Compared to the Armored Dragonmon's Digicore, the white Digicore, as the first experiment of Piccolo and Chen Ze, has the highest similarity to the overall Digicore, so the separation process is a bit more difficult than that of the Armored Dragonmon's Digicore.

Fortunately, Chen Ze possessed all the code for the white digital core. After completely overturning and reconstructing this artificial digital core, he was able to separate it off quite smoothly.

Moreover, Chen Ze deliberately reduced the amount of pure code in this process, allowing it to inherit more of the code from the overloaded program and the invader.

This directly led to the original white flame beast finally breaking through its own limitations, and there were vague signs that it could completely stabilize its form at the ultimate level.

Chapter Thirty: The New Digital Core

After Chen Ze divided the vast sea of ​​subconsciousness into three areas—one large and two small—he finally focused his attention on the other two digital cores that were intertwined and entangled.

Having gained experience in splitting the other two digital cores, Chen Ze was at least 90% confident in separating the black digital core, if not 100%.

However, Chen Ze's intentions were not simply to separate the black digital core from the main digital core.