[Digimon 06] Purple

Zi supported the lamp post of the street lamp, panting softly.

This body, which was finally pieced together by modern medical technology, completely lost the excellent physical strength it had in the past.But it was the distance from home to the library that she couldn't help but stop and rest several times in the middle.Unexpectedly, he was worried about his mother's safety in his heart, so he had to grit his teeth and move his stiff legs to move on.

After her breathing calmed down a little, Zi straightened up and mustered up the courage to walk in the direction of the dark building.

If it weren't for deliberately returning late, the people in the town would never have paid attention to the closed library.In their memory, this rectangular building located at the foot of the garden in the center of the town has been filled with warm lights and the flow of people all year round, but they never imagined the situation after the lights dimmed and the crowd dispersed.But to Zi, the scene in front of her, which was in great contrast with other people's memories, was not unfamiliar at all.

When she was younger, occasionally her father, who was no longer busy with the case, would take her and Yudou to pick up her mother who was on night shift.At that time, she would follow behind her mother like a little tail, watching her close the electric lock and lock the doors and windows.Saying goodbye to the building where she could rest, she joyfully took her parents by the hand and went home together.

But as she grew older, she became busy with her studies and practice in the sports club, and even the time when she would go home became unknown.The scene of a family holding hands like this seems to have happened a long time ago now.

Zi let out a breath, and she who was already standing on the steps had to force herself to leave these memories hidden in her heart.

"Mom...don't let anything happen..."

As Yuto said, the entrance door not far from her was locked.Looking through the glass door, there is only a vast darkness in the field of vision, and the internal scenes are completely integrated into it, and nothing can be seen.

"Mom!" She leaned against the glass and kept knocking on the door with her fist, "I'm Zi! Can you hear me?"

Like a fool, she didn't know whether her voice could reach the interior of the building, so she could only keep using the most stupid method.And as expected, there was no answer.

He slammed his fist on the glass angrily, and the dull and muffled sound made her heart ache.

The phone in his pocket remained silent.No matter how many emails and phone calls she sent to her mother along the way, the final result was the same. All the messages seemed to sink into the sea, and disappeared completely once they were sent.

At dusk, she was still standing at the corner of the street smiling and saying goodbye to herself, but...

Zi lowered her head, her eyes fell on her pocket.The bag is heavy, and the items in it are obviously more than just a mobile phone.

"Digimon are looking for humans with strong desires in their hearts, or humans who have the potential to expand 'desires' into 'desires', use their own power to expand this 'desire' to the extreme, and finally take it as their own..."

I heard what the grandfather of the watch shop said today, and it came to my mind in due course.

"Digital, Beast..." Unconsciously murmured the vocabulary she had just come into contact with today, Zi seemed to be in a daze, and reached out to take out the rectangular machine that was pressed at the bottom of the pocket.The machine dyed dark green lay quietly in her palm, and the dim square screen reflected the hazy moonlight tonight.

"Jiang Chuan has been out of the rankings for five consecutive years... Isn't his obsession with Dongda just the so-called 'wish'?" Holding the machine in his palms, Zi whispered to himself, as if he wanted to I told this inference to an invisible companion hidden in the screen, "This 'wish' is likely to be transformed into a 'power' that attracts Digimon, right?"

No matter how unwilling to believe it, all the clues are connected together to give a reasonable explanation.

Violet smiled self-deprecatingly.

What did you say "forget everything", "don't want to be exposed to this extraordinary development"... Maybe she has already moved her thoughts in this direction subconsciously, otherwise why would she deliberately get out of the bag from under her schoolbag when she leaves home? How about rummaging through this and stuffing it into your own pocket?

Facing the glass door that divided the inside and outside of the building into two worlds, Zi raised the XrosLoader in her hand.

"TimeShift."

Xu Shi felt that it was a bit stupid for her to imitate the silver-haired boy Ryoma, so she unconsciously lowered her volume.But there was no one around here, and she still heard her own voice echoing alone among the hedges and shrubs.

Also, only this plant witnessed again. In her call, the originally dark screen of XrosLoader instantly lit up like a star, gradually paving the passage to another world in her field of vision.

No one will push her back this time.

Straightening her back, she walked into the silver-white passageway connecting the digital grain world again, but Zi couldn't suppress the wild thoughts in her mind.

This time, it was irrefutable, it was her own choice.

The night in the Digital Grain Realm doesn't look much different from the daytime, except for the pinkish-red sky full of pixelated clouds.It seems to be covered with a sunray, and the color looks slightly dull.As for other places, the unknown moss covering the buildings and the light yellow powder floating in the air have not changed in any way since she left in the afternoon.

Zi raised his hand to caress the dark green plants that were eroding the pillars in front of the library. In a trance, he had the illusion of traveling through time and space to millions of years later.But not far from her, the glass door of the library was still clean, clearly reflecting her reflection.

Everything seemed to be arranged in some kind of routine script, when Zi's eyes moved to the glass door, the door opened automatically.

The admission ticket has already been handed to her, and she can't stop there.

As if to appease herself, Zi squeezed the XrosLoader that she had been holding in her hand.The cold and square machine hit her palm, and the metal body was slightly warmed by the warmth from her palm.After returning to the digital crystal world, she did not see the figure of the flower beast.After all, I am alone in this different world. After the novelty of seeing him at first fades away, what remains in my heart is more tension and uneasiness.But there wasn't much time for her to hesitate.Thinking of her lost mother, Zi gritted her teeth and walked directly into the building.

Passing the entrance hall, Zi silently walked through the empty library.She has been to this place countless times since she was a child, but she has never been so strange as today.The indoor environment was a little brighter than she had imagined, except for the weird dark red light penetrating through the gaps in the windows, those ubiquitous weird moss actually emitted light yellow light in the shadows.All these things outlined a completely different scene on the scene she was familiar with.

In her eyes, the world has completely turned upside down, and this quietly occurring change has begun to completely intervene in her life.

Although so far, it is only her speculation about "Digimon", without any evidence.

Wandering around aimlessly in the hall, Zi suddenly noticed a vague figure passing from the corner of her eyes.She stopped and turned her gaze to the side of the corridor.The floor-to-ceiling glass windows used for the decoration of the reading room could be seen outside the window, and through the uncertain light in the library, she actually found a figure leaning on the table in the reading room.

Under the strong pressure that almost blurted out the exclamation, Zi suppressed her excitement and rushed to the window.

"Mother……?"

The person in the reading room at this moment is bent over, his whole body is almost completely attached to the table, and his face is completely hidden in the circle of hands.Coupled with the strange light in the digital crystal world, she couldn't identify the other party's identity by relying on her clothing and hairstyle.

Zi glanced away, and soon saw another direction of the reading room.A figure with short hair was sitting on a seat closer to the window.It's a pity that the other party's position is against the window, and the seat orientation and the back of the chair are blocked, and Zi's position alone still makes it difficult to see any personal characteristics.But the thin arm hanging limply by his side seemed to belong to a child.

Zi recalled Uto's words almost immediately.Is that child Yuto's classmate Onodera?

So... Is Jiang Chuan really related to Digimon? !She had to rush to the reading room to confirm before the Digimon that controlled everything appeared.

After confirming her next move, Zi planned to rush to the reading room immediately.Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned around, she saw someone standing in the middle of the corridor, blocking her way just in time.

The moment he saw Zi, the thin man slowly pushed the pair of round glasses with thick bottoms hanging on the bridge of his nose.

"I thought who it was." He muttered vaguely, "I didn't expect you to come to this place." As he spoke, the corner of his mouth curled up with a smile that didn't match that honest face. Sarcastically laughing.

Zi took a step back guardedly, and she quietly hid the hand holding XrosLoader behind her back, "Mr. Jiang Chuan." The moment she saw this man appearing in her field of vision, all the scattered fragments in her mind were wiped out. This critical thin thread is connected together and becomes a complete inference, "You really did it." She said calmly in a statement tone.

"Ah," Jiang Chuan waved his hand nonchalantly, "What's the matter?" His eyes hidden behind the glasses seemed to wander to the direction of the reading room outside the window, "Oh, oh, I almost forgot, that woman is yours Mother, Zi Ruoye."

Jiang Chuan read her name word by word with a distorted smile.

Zi Mian stared at Jiang Chuan expressionlessly.At this time, she could only use a cold expression to build an external line of defense for herself, but no one knew that there was actually a timid guy hiding in it, hugging her knees and shaking constantly.

"Why did you do such a thing?" She tried her best to suppress the emotions in her heart, just to make her voice sound calmer.

She knew what kind of person her mother was, and she also learned from other people about all the kind care that Jiangchuan's mother, who was a librarian, gave him during the long preparation period for the exam.So when connecting Jiang Chuan and her mother's disappearance, her and Youdou's first reactions were unbelievable.In a more extreme way of thinking, she wouldn't be surprised by anyone who disappeared, but it absolutely couldn't be her mother who was gentle and considerate to everyone.

"Why?" Jiang Chuan repeated her question, but the expression on his face seemed to be repeating the funniest joke he had ever heard in his life, "I thought, if it was you, you would understand me..." He slumped his shoulders in frustration, "It's impossible for others, but you will understand me, classmate Ruoye."

"This, the feeling of falling from heaven to hell."

Zi trembled all over.She thought she had figured it out.

But Jiang Chuan didn't intend to end here. He waved his hands excitedly, pacing back and forth in front of Zi anxiously, "Yes, that's it, that's the feeling! I used to be everyone's hope, walking on the road , Walking in the school, everyone looked at me with admiration and respect, but now? Now? They call me a 'weird'! They only look at me with pity and sympathy!" He was annoyed Grabbing his messy hair, "Dongda? What is that? It's impossible for me a long time ago, no... no!"

"Do you understand?" He suddenly stopped in front of Zi, clasped her shoulders with both hands and shook vigorously, "You must understand?! Ruoye, can you understand my mood?! You must understand Everyone knows that a year ago that smart girl from Ruoye's family was hit by a car and broke her head, it's pitiful, haha, so pitiful..."

The girl looked at him with a pale face, as if she completely forgot to resist.

"Your mother too." Jiang Chuan stopped his movements, stared at Zi's eyes, and slowly raised his head, "'Come on', it's really easy to say this. Just call me 'useless things' like everyone else 'That's great, why make such a phony fake look? It's disgusting."

"Just let her shut up forever."

Violet couldn't help but hold her breath when she touched those inhuman eyes.At this moment, she finally understood Youdou's description.Jiang Chuan's left eye hidden behind the lens is a mechanical creation.And this eye, which has lost all human characteristics, exudes a faint dark red light in the dim space of the Digital Grain Realm.

Digimon? !This realization made Zi wake up instantly.With some strength, she shook off Jiang Chuan's hand holding her shoulder, and quickly stepped back a few steps to widen the distance between them.

"It was at this time that I met that guy." Jiang Chuan didn't care, but laughed to himself, as if to echo his feelings, the mechanical blood-red eyes began to flicker with a certain pattern Shuo, "It said it could grant my wish, so it brought me here. It's really nice, isn't it? What's the name of this place?"

It really is a Digimon.

She relaxed a lot when she determined this answer.If it's a Digimon, just "hunt" it.

"So, are you going to let my mother go?" Zi asked softly.

"En?" Jiang Chuan asked with a chuckle in a coaxing tone, "Do you want to find your mother?"

"Well, let's play a game."

Before the words fell, a roar gradually sounded all around.Smoke and dust drifted up from an unknown location, filling Zi's vision.When the smoke dissipated and the rumbling stopped, Zi realized that she was no longer in the corridor, but between two rows of towering bookshelves.

"Do you want to find her? Then try to get to the end. But with the mind of 'Wakaba Zi' in the past, this small maze should be easy, right?"

Jiang Chuan's voice seemed to be coming from a radio speaker, mixed with the rough noise of electric current, reverberating in this vast space.

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