[Digimon 06] Purple

She... where is this?

Zi raised her head, and began to try to use a perspective she was not used to to observe the strange yet familiar scene in front of her.

What I hear in my ears is the popular song that was a smash hit a few years ago, the tempting aroma of takoyaki floats in my nose, and what I see in front of my eyes is the continuous flow of people in the lively shopping mall.Zi couldn't help but cast a glance behind her. Outside the glass gate, there was nothing to conceal the dark red sky unique to the digital crystal world, but it just happened to cross the boundary of a gate, and isolated a scene that belonged exclusively to human society. .

Human society.

Staring at the passing crowd, Zi repeated it silently in her heart, and then turned her head back.

The Hualamon that was following her was gone, replaced by a round Digimon with two leaf seedlings on its head and four chubby claws growing under its spherical body.She squatted so abruptly between the legs that were coming and going, if it weren't for her blinking eyes from time to time, she would be like a puppet toy that was lost by that little girl.

Zi leaned forward, trying to hug the Seed Beast.It's just that she underestimated her current height and acceptable weight. The first time she was stunned, she didn't succeed. Instead, she fell directly on the seed beast's soft-looking sphere.

"Don't laugh." Ziqi dropped a sentence - she soon noticed that even her own voice had become a little childish - and tried to bend down again.Fortunately, this time she finally hugged the seed beast, even though it wobbled a few times before standing still.Then she turned her head unconsciously, and in the window beside her, she saw her own reflection.

Judging from the shadow, she is no longer a first-year junior high school student. Just looking at her height, she is much shorter than herself when she was 12 and a half years old, not to mention the mint-colored dress she is wearing now. A favorite dress.

"Don't look, you have also become smaller." The seed beast said.Still in the tone of a flower beast, similar to the tone of a bad girl gloating, he stated this indisputable fact to her, "I didn't expect you to be like this since you were a child," the girl's soft cheeks were close at hand, but He had to put on a stern face and put on a frosty expression, which made the seed beast feel a little funny, "Hey, if I say you always have this expression, I'm not afraid that someone will drag you into the dark and beat you hard if they see you upset A meal?"

Zi glanced lightly at the ball in her arms, "I was not like this when I was a child." The object was the degenerated seed beast of the Huala beast, so she was still a little unwilling to explain.It was just a brief mention, and she moved the topic elsewhere, "Don't forget what we are here for."

The fact that her body was getting smaller temporarily calmed her feverish mind.But she has not forgotten the reason why she is standing here.

"I know what this place is. But," facing the puppet-like Digimon in her arms, the little girl looked confused, "This shouldn't be like this."

Now she is small, and she successfully merged into the crowd by walking two steps forward, becoming one of the crowds.The noisy shopping malls became her best cover, and those speeches that sound abnormal to ordinary people were successfully submerged in the laughter from all directions.

"This is the shopping mall that my mother used to bring me to when I was a child." Zi looked at it as she walked, seeing familiar scenes in her eyes, "But since the emergence of the new shopping street, the traffic here has gradually been dispersed. There are fewer customers and businesses are moving out one by one. I just heard that houses in this area are about to be demolished for new apartment complexes.”

"For example, this store." Her footsteps stopped next to a coffee shop, and the half transparent glass on the curtain wall reflected the phantom of the little girl again, "The owner of this store closed before I started elementary school. I left the facade and went back to my hometown, and the rental space is still vacant to this day.”

"Uh..." After listening to her series of explanations, the seed beast was still confused, "What does this mean?"

Hearing this, the girl who looked about six or seven years old showed a seriousness that didn't match her age, "This means," Zi said cautiously, "the time of this building is still stuck in the past. "Although it is not known whether someone copied this shopping mall in its heyday in the digital grain world, or set the time of this building belonging to the human world to a few years ago, at least this point is beyond doubt.

In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of others, after a brief stay, Zi resumed wandering aimlessly. "Besides that, I have another guess." Zi said, bypassing a woman whose dress style was still stuck in the last century.

"Don't procrastinate, hurry up..." The seed beast had just begun to complain, when Zi suddenly covered his mouth.She tried to protest a few times with a "woo woo woo", but after a few seconds it had to swallow the objection in compromise.Because her peripheral vision told her the reason for Zi's actions: not far from them, the strange creature floating above the flow of people was the Digimon that randomly grabbed people in the coffee shop!Even if you have never seen a Doudou beast skillfully manipulating the machinery under its upper body, the two slender mechanical arms with red gloves are the best identification features.

Zi looked around pretending to be calm.It is clear that there are so many pairs of eyes around, but no one responds to it as it should.Seeing that the catching Doudou beast was getting closer and closer to them, she didn't know what to do for a while.If in the human world, she can still use puppets and other reasons to get away with it, but this is the digital crystal world, once the bean beast is caught and notices the existence of the seed beast, her identity will also be exposed.In their current state, it is impossible to know whether it is possible to fight against them.

Just when Zi was at a loss, she suddenly stretched out a hand from the side and pulled her towards the corner, "This way!"

That hand pulled her to a gashapon machine, and the seed beast fell from her arms just in time.There is a narrow gap between the bodies of the two people whose backs are facing the aisle and the gashapon machine, and the figure of the seed beast can be hidden in it.

Yu solemnly took out coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the gashapon machine, and Zi squatted down cooperatively to pick up the dropped gashapon from the end of the metal passage, they pretended to be excited about the gashapon machine and kept turning around. It took several rounds before I got a signal that made people breathe a sigh of relief. "No problem, that guy has already left!" A golden ball with metallic luster rolled out from the boy's feet who had also shrunk a little, and said to Zi in a familiar tone.

Zi maintained the squatting posture, staring at the ball seriously for a while, "No way, the beast...has it also degenerated?"

"Huh?" The boy's eyes lingered on her face for a while, and then looked away unnaturally, "Yeah."

The obvious blush from his cheeks made Zi suddenly realize that this was their first meeting since saying goodbye to the abandoned factory.That bewildering words sounded in her ears again, causing her to look away guiltily, and her heartbeat became more and more uncontrollable.

"No, no, it's Sakutomon for the time being." The metal ball seemed to be completely unaware of the change in the atmosphere lingering between the two, repeating the catchphrase belonging to the non-moving beast, and it still shook happily Body, showing Zi the metal blades dangling from left to right on both sides of its head.

"Hey, why are you two guys here?" The Seed Beast at the side was unwilling to be ignored like this, and as soon as she seized the opportunity, she forcibly squeezed between Zi and Sakutomon.

"By the way, I haven't told you yet." The seed beast's question finally brought You back to his senses, he turned to Zi, and said seriously, "Ji is missing."

"What?" The explosive news he brought made Ziya quickly forget to continue counting the beats of his heartbeat, "Akashi-kun is missing? How could it be... the glue dragon beast, is he gone too?"

"Yes." Yu replied, "It was for hunting Digimon... Anyway, he didn't show up in class today, and Senior Daqi and I went to his house to inquire, and we learned that he didn't come home last night. According to the tracking of the Sagemon, the last place where the XorsLoader’s signal appeared was near here. I couldn’t determine the exact location, so I searched for it separately with Senior Daqi. Afterwards, I and the beast found this building. I didn’t expect it Once we entered it, it became what it is now. And we tried all kinds of methods, but unfortunately, none of them can get us out of this building."

"Then, you should have found out too?" Zi asked hesitantly.

"Well," You nodded and said, "The time of this shopping mall is also stuck in the past. After all, this place as I know it is absolutely impossible to reach such a prosperous level now. But there is one thing I don't quite understand , this is clearly the Digital Grain World, why are there so many people?"

Murasaki told Yu all about the commotion encountered in the cafe.But selfishness made her omit the part about Ayako with a guilty conscience, and only said that after seeing the person disappear, she came here following the trail of the Digimon.

After listening to her explanation, Yu showed an expression of enlightenment, "Catch Doudoumon? Indeed, there have been many cases of disappearances intermittently in recent days. Senior Daqi also suspected that Digimon were responsible, so he returned to me. Let's investigate this together with Ji... However, the time and place where the previous incidents occurred were relatively hidden, and this is the first time that such a blatant arrest in public is the first time. What's more unexpected is," he glanced at the building, which is more retro The decoration style, "The people who disappeared are all here. In this way, there is a great possibility that Ji is here."

After sorting out all the clues he got successively in his mind, Yu took a breath, "Hey, Xiao Zi, I have an idea about this place."

"what?"

"Do you still remember, when we were in Hong Kong, we visited my sister's filming studio?"

"Uh...um." Thinking about it carefully, it was only a few weeks ago, but in her memory it was already as far away as a dream, "Miss Yinyin's play was set in Hong Kong in the last era, So the architectural setting and clothing styles are closer to that era..." As he spoke, Zi slowly caught up with Yuu's thoughts, "...just like here. This mall seems to imitate the past. The set that was built, and the human beings captured by the Doudou beast, are they all cooperating actors?"

To restore the state of this shopping mall to its heyday is the wish of the humans attached to the Digimon this time!

"I think so." You nodded to confirm her statement, "Also, have you noticed? Xiao Zi, you and I, we have different backward time." Saying so, the boy's eyebrows and eyes are rare With a childish smile.Although she was extremely unwilling to admit it, the fact was that when Zi stood up straight, she found that she was obviously half a head shorter than Yuu. This kind of height gap was something she had never experienced before, "and in this shopping mall , There are also quite a few people whose clothes are completely inconsistent with the era atmosphere created by this shopping mall... If you use my sister's crew as an analogy, then this 'makeup artist' is obviously unqualified."

"Maybe it shouldn't be said that," Zi Bujue was infected by the lightness in his tone, and laughed, "After all, there are such a huge number, no matter how good a 'makeup artist' is, they will feel that they have more than enough energy. "

"But," Zi lowered his eyes, and his voice lowered accordingly, "It's not the 'makeup artist' who grabbed the Doudou beast."

After understanding her subtext, Yuu fell silent for a while.

The object of this hunt is still two bodies.Even if it is deduced that the Digimon that can manipulate time have been slightly weakened, it does not mean that it can be taken lightly.Once touched by the mechanical arm that grabs the bean beast, it will completely lose the ability to resist.What's more, their partners were degraded by the enchantment, which severely damaged their strength.

Wanting to hunt successfully is not as simple as she imagined.

"Speaking of which, Yuu, aren't you going to tell Xiaozi about that?" The silence at this moment is really incompatible with the joyful atmosphere around, so Sakutomon looked at Zi and then at Yuu, and suddenly jumped up and down. Jumping to the boy's feet, "We were going to follow the trail of the Digimon to the second floor, but we just saw 'Xiao Zi' coming down the stairs..."

Zi was taken aback by Sakutomon's words, "'I'? Stairs?"

"What are you talking about?" The conversation between Yuu and Zi had caused the unknown seed beast to wander for a long time, and now she finally found a chance to interject, "I and this guy have been staying on the first floor!"

"Of course I know it's not you." The boy blushed again because of his disrespectful stalking behavior, "The uniform and hairstyle are different, and there is no flower beast following her. What's more, If that's 'Xiao Zi', then she is completely reversed from the law of time in this building, because she looks more like you when you 'grow up'..."

Zi was dazed in his narration, and when she realized it, she realized that she was holding Yuu's wrist, and asked him anxiously and urgently, "Where is the person you mentioned?!"

The author has something to say:

I think that the best way to express the time state of Digimon is degeneration.But Xingmon has no level and no juvenile stage, so the Sakutomon here is the juvenile stage I chose for it.The main body of Sakutomon is the juvenile stage [-] of the DM [-]th anniversary beast Zibamon. I chose it because of the two characteristics of gold and metal surface. The completely private setting is explained here.

Fortunately, no one punished me for killing the Leviathan by the ancient Mermaid and the Dark Beast. I would also like to mention here, of course I know that the Seven Demons are stronger than the Ten Warriors. The killing here is entirely a plot If you need it, if you really want to talk about some reason, it's all in a dream anyway.