[Digimon 06] Purple

Zi trembled back home.She had never felt her schoolbag so heavy before.The reason is probably the machine called XrosLoader that she stuffed in the deepest part of the bag.

After leaving the watch shop with a strange atmosphere, Zi found herself standing on a commercial street that she would pass by every day when she went to school. schoolgirl in colored uniform.And when she looked back to find the small scarlet door hidden deep in the dark alley with an oil lamp hanging from the top, she only saw a gray-black brick wall with no features standing at the end of the dark narrow alley.

A layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared on Zi's back.

When leaving the shopping street, Zi also specifically confirmed the time, making sure that entering the "Digital Grain World" did not cause time trouble for herself.However, if there is really trouble in this regard, I am afraid that Ryoma and others will not dare to continue their "digimon hunting" so confidently and boldly, right?

Wait, wait, wait... Zi shook her head vigorously, trying to get rid of the messy thoughts in her mind.

Didn't you say that you should stop thinking about "Digimon"?She has already rejected the request of the grandfather of the watch shop, and is determined to treat the "Digital Grain World" as a special experience.She only needs to experience this kind of fantasy story once, and she shouldn't let it disturb her ordinary and satisfying daily life.

"Zi, why are you standing alone at the door in a daze?"

After hearing the familiar voice, Zi looked up blankly.When her eyes touched the woman with a gentle smile standing not far from her, she quickly withdrew her wandering thoughts, "Mom." She consciously trotted all the way under her feet, and stopped in front of her in two or three steps.

"Mom, are you going out?" Zi glanced at her mother's attire and asked, "Are you going to the restaurant?"

"Yes." Ruoye Shizhi lifted the shoulder strap of the purse, and explained with a smile, "The temporary notice from the museum just now said that the condition of Ms. Jingshan who was on duty tonight is still not very good, so we just Let me take my place."

Shiori is not like an ordinary housewife.She has a job of her own as a librarian at the district library.

"I know." Regarding this, Zi only felt a little regretful, "Today is my mother's hard-won slack."

Hearing her some indignant complaints, Shizhi couldn't help being a little bit dumbfounded, "Zi, this is mother's job."

"Yes, yes... Then what about dinner? Or is it still the same old time? Do you want me and Youdou to pick you up?"

"There's no need to make such a fuss, the hours of the night shift are the same on weekdays. But today's dinner was originally planned to cook curry, what a pity... I have almost done the preparation of the curry, but you just need to help Youdou Just cook it." Then, Shiori remembered another thing to tell her daughter, "By the way, your father won't come back for dinner tonight. The case in his hand is now at a critical stage, I guess And I don't know how long I will be busy until I can come back. So, tonight, I can only leave you and Youdou to watch the house."

Ruoye's father is a lawyer by profession.He is busy with work for more than a day or two, Zi has long been accustomed to this, "I know, then be careful on the road."

"Zi..." Shizhi suddenly became hesitant, as if he wanted to say something, "About your studies..."

"Well, I know." Zi nodded vigorously, more like an oath than a promise, "I will work hard." But while saying these words, she involuntarily put her schoolbag behind her back.Because there is still the small test paper that was handed out today that she almost failed in her math textbook.

"No, it's not." Realizing that she had misunderstood what she meant, Shiori interrupted her hastily, "Zi," she lovingly stroked her daughter's long hair, "you don't have to force yourself when it comes to studying. If you are tired If you do, you don’t have to do it.”

It seemed that her mother had prepared these things to tell her a long time ago, and she just found the right time to speak at this moment.

Zi was a little confused, "Well, good." She answered in a low voice, and the hand hanging by her side quietly tightened the hem of the uniform skirt.For some reason, her mother's understanding made her feel a heavy burden on her heart again.

"I heard from your father that you have been studying until late at night recently. This is not good. Now is the time when the body is growing up. Adequate sleep is also very important for children." Sensing the subtle changes in her emotions, Shiori Pretending to be serious, he added a sentence, trying to ease the atmosphere.

In order not to worry her mother, Zi immediately put away those things that should not be revealed, "Yes, yes, I know. Mom, if you don't hurry up, you will be late!"

"If you talk too much, you'll think I'm nagging, right?" Shiori said with a smile, "Then I'm leaving."

"Be careful on the road." Zi waved to the departing mother.She stood where she was, watching her mother's back completely disappear into the corner of the street, before dragging her schoolbag to open the door.

The exclusive slippers of family members are all neatly placed in the shoe cabinet.It seems that Yudou hasn't come back yet. "What?" Zi complained softly to her younger brother while putting on her own slippers, "He is obviously a member of the 'Homecoming Club', why has he not come back after so long..."

Returning to her room and changing into casual clothes, Zi sat at the desk and pulled out the math textbook with the small test paper from her bag.

Spread out this test paper with half of the answers ticked off in front of you.Next to the test papers are math textbooks.After that, Zi also took out a mathematics reference book recommended by the cram school from the bookshelf above the desk, turned to the chapter corresponding to the knowledge point, and placed it above the test paper and textbook.

She lost her mind during class today, so she had to make up for the missing content after school.

but.

Five minutes later, Zi's eyes still fell on the first question of the test paper, but she didn't even read half a word.Her brain was completely filled with such messy things as "Falamon", "Digital Grain World", and the dark green "XrosLoader", and she couldn't distract herself from thinking about other things.

Zi hugged her head in frustration.

After half a minute, she made a decision.

After stacking all the study tools together and pushing them to the corner of the desk, Zi pulled out a laptop from his desk drawer, connected it to the power source, opened the cover, and skillfully pressed the power button.

Zi Slack leaned on the back of the chair, watching the computer light screen turn from dark to bright with an indifferent expression.

This laptop was given to her by her parents when she was discharged from the hospital.She understood her parents' intentions at that time, but unfortunately she could not go back to the past.And this computer had to be reduced to a pastime toy for her when she was tired.

After connecting to the Internet, Zi habitually logs in to social software.She didn't have many chat friends, so she scrolled the mouse wheel and found that few of them were online.Fortunately, the avatar of the person she was looking for was lit up.

Move the mouse pointer to the bright "sun" profile picture at the top of the list, double click and a dialog box pops up on the desktop.

With both hands hovering over the keyboard for a moment, Zi quickly typed out a sentence and pressed Enter to send.

Purple: Selene-san, are you there :)

Shortly after, the dialog box lights up.She got a reply.

Selene: yes

Selene: just finished writing the program

Purple: Huh?you are busy?

Purple: Am I bothering you?

Selene: It’s okay~ Anyway, it’s just to pass the time. XD Selene: Zisang, are you interested in taking a look?

Purple: OK, it's my honor

Selene is a netizen Zi met after that accident.Because the point of view of looking at things is different from ordinary people, this has attracted Zi's attention.However, the other party's information is very mysterious, and basically no personal information is disclosed. What's even more strange is that her screen name is clearly Selene, the goddess of the full moon in Greek mythology, but she uses "the sun" as her profile picture in the information. .

Zi speculates that the other party's gender is female, one reason is the name "Selene", and the other is the self-proclaimed party used in chatting.

After getting acquainted with each other gradually, the other party revealed some family situations to her one after another: for example, they are similar in age, for example, the other party is of mixed race, and for example, she also has a younger sister that she "loves and hates"... In addition, this Cypriot Ms. Lenier's biggest hobby is programming. She makes some small programs on weekdays and shows them to her like offering treasures.

Since Zi came into contact with the Internet, her father used "the Internet is virtual, and no one knows what the person sitting behind the screen is like" and warned her to be careful about the "friends" she met online.But for some reason, Selene was a special case for her.It seems that Zi can have complete trust in Selene without any special reason.

Therefore, after encountering today's series of events that were somewhat unacceptable to her, Selene was the first person she thought of to confide in.

During her daze, Selene threw her a short GIF in the dialog box.Zi looked at the small ball in the picture that was constantly opening its mouth to swallow light spots in a small maze, and it reminded him of a video game from a long time ago.

Purple: It's a bit like "Pacman"~

Selene: Exactly!It was made with this prototype!

Selene: Actually, it is a similar destruction program. The main purpose is to modify the destruction process to look like a Pacman with a big mouth~ As long as this program is used, anyone can destroy the program they want to destroy in the same way as playing a game. ~ Just use the keyboard to control the big mouth and eat it without stopping~ Purple mulberry is also fine ^0^

Selene: but

Selene: Zisang actually knows "Pacman"?What a surprise!

Selene: I always thought Zisang was a good girl, Zisang who never played video games: -_-|||

Purple: Selene-san, do you still remember that I have a brother who is a few years younger than me?He likes these the most. When he was young, he often dragged me to play games with him. Zi: But he never beat me. XD

Selene: Huh?Can't tell!

Selene: How about choosing a time when we can play an online game together?

Looking at the invitation sent by her friend on the screen, Zi glanced at the test paper aside, and pressed her fingers on the keyboard hesitantly.

Purple: I'm sorry, Selene-san, I'm busy with my studies recently... I'm afraid I don't have time to play online games. Selene: It's okay, it's okay, studies are the most important thing!

Selene: Study hard too (^o^)/Zi stared at the encouragement from the screen for a long time, before she could think of a suitable answer, the dialog box lit up again.

Selene: I almost forgot the topic when I was happy

Selene: Zisang, do you want to talk to me?

Zi thought about it.Relying on her own memory, she quickly typed the word "Digimon" in the dialog box, but she hesitated for a long time looking at the bunch of katakana, and finally pressed the backspace key slowly to delete these characters one by one .

Selene has always been very understanding, but would she believe such an unreasonable thing?

Purple: Selene-san, something happened to me today...

Purple: It is difficult for ordinary people to understand

Selene: What's wrong?Can you tell me more about it?

Zi: I don't know if you will believe it...because even I don't really believe it...

Zi deliberated for a long time on what to say next, and then tapped the keyboard slowly.

Zi: I may have arrived in a special world today, not the real world.Selene-san may find it a little difficult to understand when I say this, but it is the truth.In that world, I also met a group of creatures that I had never heard of before, and they kept fighting to gain great power. Fighting between... and also told me that doing so is "saving" humanity...

Purple: ha ha ha ha ==

Purple: Strange, isn't it?I feel weird myself!Thinking about it now, the old man is not a mental patient, is he?

Violet: Maybe it is.Everything is my illusion.

Selene: Do you agree?

Just as Zi typed the sentence "Please treat me as telling a nonsensical story", two replies from the other party popped up in the dialog box one after another.

Selene: Please tell me, Zisang, what is your answer?

Purple: I declined.

Zi: This kind of thing is too ridiculous, isn't it?

Purple: And it doesn't suit me at all...

After a long time, this friend from the other end of the network did not reply to her.

Zi waited and waited, and finally closed the flip cover of the notebook in frustration.She exhaled, and leaned back on the chair as if exhausted, looking at the overhead light on the ceiling.

The sky outside the window was completely stained with the dark blue of night at some point.Zi was too lazy to reach out and turn on the desk lamp that was close at hand on the desk.After the computer's light source disappeared, her room was completely plunged into darkness.

Zi raised her hands to cover her cheeks, completely hiding herself behind this simple and self-deceiving cover.

She wanted to cry a little, but the corners of her eyes were dry and she couldn't squeeze a single tear.

Suddenly, she hated herself a little bit, hated herself who had become incompetent and cowardly now.

At least, try your best to make yourself excellent and perfect, so that you won't have so many unnecessary burdens.

"Sister? What are you doing up there alone? Come down, I'm starving to death..."

When Zi thought that she would be completely buried by this unquenchable negative emotion, she suddenly heard Youdou's voice calling her from downstairs.

"Come on!" Violet raised his voice and shouted.She quickly put away these expressions that she didn't want to reveal to outsiders, stood up quickly and left the room.

There was a soft sound when the door closed, and then the space that belonged exclusively to her returned to silence.Zi's ​​schoolbag was left beside the desk with the zipper half open, looking like it was about to be forgotten.And at the bottom of the schoolbag's interlayer, an orange-red gleam flashed on the square screen of the dark green XrosLoader.

The author has something to say:

Yep.

I have cleared all the first rounds of all the games that can be played on PSV, and then I can update (.

However, now I am forced to become a CP dog, barking everywhere, wanting to beg for food, but I still can’t eat QAQ, but I can’t produce QAQ, so what kind of trouble is this (hitting the floor.