Digimon: I really didn't want to be the Digimon Emperor!

The Firegod Princessmon leaned closer and stared at the girl's face for a long time: "No way, no way, it clearly doesn't have any Digimon aura on it."

Basti also jumped down from the tree, squatted down next to the girl, and poked her cheek with its cat paw.

It's soft and the temperature is normal.

"Yes, it feels just like a human. Look at the skin, the veins, the eyelashes, it doesn't look like a Digimon at all."

Cheng Yuan stood silently to the side. He couldn't tell either that the girl was a Digimon. From the data fluctuations to her physical characteristics, she was no different from an ordinary human. In fact, she seemed more normal than an ordinary human.

Human tamers in the digital world spend a lot of time in the digital environment, and they will inevitably begin to show signs of digitalization, but this girl is completely clean.

But he has a system.

[Wealth Points -100]

【Eastern Agnimon (Humanoid Mimicry)】

[Virus type, Monster type]

【Complete body】

[Status: Just completed molting, currently weak. Current data volume is approximately 3% of a normal fully formed form. Humanoid mimicry cannot be removed. Recovery period is 30 days (estimated 14 days remaining).]

[Skill Description: Spider Silk Spin, Predatory Spider, Humanoid Mimicry]

[Introduction: A female textile Digimon from the Celestial Weaving Workshop in the Ancient Digital Era. Originally a humanoid Digimon, after the great changes in the Digital World, she was infected by a data mutation from Akinimon from the West. Her textile data mutated into spider data, resulting in her becoming Akinimon. She rules over spider-type Digimon, but inherited her humanoid mimicry skills, allowing her to perfectly mimic a human woman.]

Upon seeing the system's explanation, Cheng Yuan confirmed that the girl was indeed Arkemamon, a genuine Ultimate-level Digimon, but currently in an extremely weak state, behaving like a helpless human.

But at this moment, it truly is a human woman, undetectable by any instrument.

"It actually has this kind of ability?" Fire God Princess Beast said.

"You forgot?" Cheng Yuan nodded. "Mo can also mimic human form. However, Mo uses high-level magic mimicry, while this spider demon's is a racial skill, something it's born with."

He paused for a moment, then added, "In addition, many top-tier Digimon have the ability to mimic human forms, but they are just too lazy to use it usually."

He thought of the stubborn old man he met in Shanghai, and the teacher from Shenzhen University who had told him, "Follow me and you're guaranteed to make a profit."

Besides them, there are probably many more Digimon that lurk in the real world in human form, such as those in the Digital World Administration.

Cheng Yuan glanced at the girl again. The Arquebemon, which had just finished molting, was so weak that it couldn't even defeat a Champion-level Arquebemon. It was being chased by several Kugamon for who knows how far.

But a fully evolved form is a fully evolved form. After recovering in half a month, it became a true spider queen.

The Fire God Princess Beast stood up, making a throat-slitting gesture with her hand: "Shall we kill it?"

Cheng Yuan thought for a moment. Then he said, "Okay."

"Wait, wait!" The girl on the ground suddenly opened her eyes, her voice urgent and trembling, "Please don't kill me, please."

"You were faking it after all." Cheng Yuan squatted down, looking at her with interest. "Who are you?"

The girl's lips trembled, and her breathing became rapid. Her gaze swept quickly between Cheng Yuan and the Fire God Beast, as if assessing the situation.

Then she spoke, trying to sound calm: "You're not Digimon from the Spider Tower, are you?"

Cheng Yuan didn't respond. She was trying to seize the initiative. Cheng Yuan saw it at a glance. He often used this tactic of first stumping the other party in a desperate situation to buy time to think.

“Kill it,” Cheng Yuan said.

The fist of the Fire God Princess Beast lit up, flames gushed out from between her fingers, swirling and coiling on the surface of her fist, condensing into the outline of a fire dragon.

【Fire Dragon Blazing Fist】!

This is her most signature move; her fiery fists can unleash a shockwave in the form of a fire dragon, easily piercing through a mature-stage opponent.

Although only the starting stance has been revealed, the high temperature emanating from the fist has already distorted the air.

The girl's face paled even more. She could feel the scorching threat emanating from the Fire God Beast's fist. In her current weakened state, one punch could burn her into data fragments.

"Wait, wait... please don't kill me!" Her voice was truly panicked, and she shrank back, pressing her back against the tree roots.

Cheng Yuan said, "Now I'm asking you, not the other way around. Tell me, who are you? Don't try to lie."

His black death armor writhed, and seven dark red eyes simultaneously opened from his breastplate, shoulder armor, and legs, staring intently at the girl's face: "I can tell if you're lying."

The simultaneous gaze of seven enormous, blood-red eyes was truly unsettling.

The girl's pupils trembled, and her Adamantine throat bobbed twice before she finally spoke: "As that Homo sapiens said, I am the Aqir of the Spider Tower."

Her voice lowered, carrying a resigned calm, "You can call me Red Spider. One of the seven lords of the Spider Cave underground city."

Cheng Yuan stared at her. "Isn't Arkemamon a Ultimate-level creature? How come it's like this now, even a few Homo sapiens can bully you."

Red Spider bit her lip: "Because I just finished molting. Every hundred years, we Akini beasts molt, our bodies become younger, and our functions are rejuvenated."

However, for a month after molting, the body will be extremely weak, and it will instinctively mimic a helpless human form, losing all the abilities of its beast form.

She looked up at Cheng Yuan, "They tried to capture me when I was at my weakest."

"Then you still dare to wander around?"

Red Spider's eyes darkened slightly: "Because my eldest sister is going to hold a marriage contest for me. I don't want to get married, I don't want to become a bargaining chip for her to win over other forces, and I don't want to become a tool for reproduction."

Cheng Yuan understood. It was another story of being forced into marriage by one's family and then running away from home. Only this time, the "family" was a group of spider queens, and the one being forced was a little spider princess.

It may be cliché, but it's not entirely unexpected that it happened in a place like the Spider Tower.

He stood there and thought for a moment.

Killing her doesn't seem to offer any benefit.

Killing Akelimon not only cuts off a potential intelligence channel, but also means that this important Digimon likely possesses a special survival monitoring device.

Once she dies, the higher-ups at Pansita will immediately receive the news and follow the trail of investigation.

When a whole bunch of fully-formed spider demons come knocking on his door, will he still be able to find the Phantom Blade Beast? Will he still be able to go to the Dark Flower Sea?

Unnecessary trouble.

"Never mind." Cheng Yuan sheathed the blood blade in his wrist armor, and the seven blood-red eyes on the black armor closed one after another, disappearing back into the armor.

"You can leave now," he said listlessly.

"You're not going to kill me?" the girl asked.

"Not interested." Then he turned and left.

The Fire God Princess Beast withdrew its fist, the flames disappeared, and then it followed behind Cheng Yuan.

Basdie leaped among the branches to catch up, and as she passed Red Spider, she stuck out her tongue and made a face at her.

She probably didn't expect that the other party would really leave so suddenly, without killing her, tying her up, or interrogating her.

It wasn't until Cheng Yuan's figure was almost disappearing into the shadows of the trees that she suddenly came to her senses, gritted her teeth, got up from the ground, and stumbled after him barefoot.

The ground of Poison Ridge was covered with pebbles, sharp dead branches, and sticky fungal carpet. Every step she took with her bare feet made her wince in pain, but she followed silently.

Cheng Yuan walked about two hundred meters, then stopped and turned around. A red figure behind her was startled and darted behind a crooked tree, revealing only half of her skirt and a pale ankle.

Cheng Yuan: "..."

He turned and continued walking. The red figure followed stealthily again, the tattered hem of her skirt trailing on the fungal carpet with a rustling sound.

Cheng Yuan stopped again, this time turning around and walking directly towards the tree. "Alright, why are you following us?"

The red spider peeked half its head out from behind the tree, hesitated for a moment, and finally came out.

“You guys…” She looked up at Cheng Yuan, then quickly glanced at Vulcanmon and Bastimon on the tree branch, “Are you going to the Dark Flower Sea? This direction leads to the Dark Flower Sea.”

"What's it to you?" Cheng Yuan's voice turned cold. "If you follow us again, we'll kill you."

Red Spider bit her lip, twisting the fabric of her skirt in front of her as if making a major decision. She mustered her courage and asked, "Are you Digimon from Honesty City?"

Cheng Yuan, Vulcanmon, and Bastimon all fell silent.

Three pairs of eyes narrowed in the dark red, poisonous light, and the air suddenly tensed.

An atmosphere of "being silenced after one's identity is exposed" instantly filled the air.

The fists of the FireGirlmon started to burn again, and Bastimon arched its back from the tree branch.

Cheng Yuan stared at her for a few seconds: "How did you know?"

Red Spider's gaze shifted between him and Vulcan Princessmon, then she glanced up at Bastimon perched on a branch, before looking down at her own disheveled state. Her voice was soft but clear: "In my human form, any Dark Tower faction would turn on me with dirty tricks. Only you—from rescuing me, to hesitating, to questioning me, until you learned my identity before deciding to leave..."

She took a deep breath. "I guess you're from Honesty City. On the side of humanity."

Cheng Yuan snorted. "You're too clever for your own good. You're wrong, we're from Haixin Tower."

"The Heart Tower, in alliance with the five Dark Towers, is preparing to take Honesty City in two months and march into the human world," Red Spider said. "They are determined to succeed."

Cheng Yuan stopped.

“The Spider Tower is one of them,” Red Spider added, looking directly at him.

Cheng Yuan turned to face her. "Why are you telling me all this?"

Red Spider took two steps forward: "If you were from Honesty City, you certainly wouldn't stand idly by."

Cheng Yuan narrowed his eyes: "If I really am, I can choose to kill you. That way, we'll have one less major enemy at full strength."

Red Spider shook his head: "No, losing one of my fully-powered combatants won't change the course of the war at all. But..."

"If you're willing to protect me for half a month, until I revert to my demonic beast form, I can influence the decisions of the Spider Tower. I might even... help the human side."

Cheng Yuan did not make a move.

He quickly went through her words in his mind.

If what she said is true, and if Pansita can indeed side with Honesty City in the war, then the pressure on Honesty City will be greatly reduced.

With one of the five Dark Towers of the Sea Heart Alliance missing, the entire landscape will have to be reshuffled.

This stakes are too high.

Cheng Yuan did not answer. With a flick of his wrist, the beast-head bracers once again sprang forth the Blood Evolution Demon Blade. The dark red blade flashed a cold light through the poisonous miasma, and the next moment he had vanished from the spot.

【Demon Shift】.

Red Spider only felt a blur before her eyes, and the figure in black armor was already less than a foot away from her.

The knife tip hovered less than a centimeter in front of her forehead, its sharp aura already sending a chill down her spine, as if it were about to pierce her skin at any moment.

Cheng Yuan's voice came from behind the mask, deep and cold: "I said I am from the Dark Heart Tower. Your words are enough for me to grant you death."

The girl was taken aback, but her eyes remained firm as she said, "I'm telling the truth. If you really are from the Heart of the Sea Tower, then stab me to death."

She closed her eyes. Her eyelashes trembled violently, her hands clenched into fists pressed against her sides, her knuckles white.

She spoke with great conviction, but her actions betrayed her. Her fear was real, and so was her willingness to die.

Cheng Yuan: "..."

Cheng Yuan stared at the face with its eyes closed, waiting to die, the tip of the knife hovering between her brows, motionless.

"Crack."

Bloodblade retracted into the beast-head bracers.

Cheng Yuan took two steps back, and the demon blade bounced back onto his wrist armor.

"Why don't you believe me?" he said irritably, kicking away a handful of poisonous weeds. "Has my acting deteriorated?"

The Fire God Princess Beast couldn't help but burst out laughing from behind. Leaning against the tree trunk, she chuckled, "Hahahaha...you...you've finally had your day..."

Basdi yawned on a branch, its tail swishing slowly. Its golden cat eyes glanced sideways at Cheng Yuan's back, and it muttered in a low voice, "This master, he can't bring himself to kill a beautiful woman. He couldn't even bring himself to do it when the knife was right in front of his forehead. Tsk tsk."

Cheng Yuan turned and glared at her. Basdie turned its cat face away and pretended to lick its paws.

Seeing that the sword blade had not yet struck, the girl bravely opened her eyes.

Cheng Yuan looked down at her, his tone less cold, but still wary. "Speak. Why should I trust you, believe you have the ability to influence the choices of the Spider Tower, or even intervene for Honest City?"

Red Spider steadied herself and reached up to wipe the white mark on her forehead where the blade had slashed. She remained silent for a moment, then lowered her eyes, a look of sorrow appearing in them.

"Because I am the 'vessel' chosen by the ultimate being of the Spider Tower."

Cheng Yuan's pupils contracted slightly.

"Container? What do you mean?"

Red Spider leaned against a nearby tree trunk, her bare feet resting on the fungal carpet, where blood and mud mingled and became sticky, but she seemed oblivious to the pain.

Her voice was very soft, as if she were talking about something that had nothing to do with her...