Chapter 1652

NO．267：Just as if it were expected to make a move

As the symbol of Sirius says, with the help of the computational mechanical monster cards led by Jirbalis, Aomo can completely omit manual operation of this primitive surfing method, and in an instant take care of all operations that require poking, clicking, dragging.

But more often, you can see the demon always deviating from that efficiency.

Clearly able to surf with a thought, yet still manually go online.

Just like having the perfect combination of mage's hand plus teleport, yet still making a move and stepping.

When citing such cases, perhaps no extra explanation is needed, you can already sense the implied mental trap: do not over-rely on your ability.

All sentient things in the world possess this cowardly inertia, turning every habit into that comfort zone of discarding thought, and any decision in this world always comes with loss.

As you grow more accustomed to the superior performance of computational mechanical giants, you drift further from the original operational experience, habits, and even knowledge.

People do not genetically degenerate from choosing not to exercise long-term, but those who do not exercise long-term will surely become extremely rusty when exercise is needed, making it harder to reach the posture they had when they first exercised.

This is a choice.

A choice of a way of survival.

Living in the world is making choices; while pursuing a sense of security, one also pursues an ideal lifestyle, and in this process, it is equivalent to abandoning other lifestyles.

If your life is stable and untroubled, there is no need to regret the choices you made, for they have already given you enough 'comfort'; you are simply too used to taking it for granted, often feeling that what you have is far less than others.

But if your life is full of ups and downs, rarely qualifying to stay in one place, you ought to frequently choose, to choose the ups and downs that sync with life; this too is a kind of peace of mind, a composure that remains within manageable bounds despite the chaotic rhythm.

And this is exactly Aomo's choice.

To ensure he has the leeway to jump to other choices at any time, he gave up deeply studying other paths, just as when he faced his own overly balanced talent on that checklist years ago and made that decision.

Likewise, the overly diverse monster cards in his hand continue his choice for him.

Not indulging in any one of them, advancing with a diverse, multifunctional route, for this the comfort zone he built for himself was never a single aspect, but the flexible, diverse way of thinking itself.

People should maintain thought, Aomo thought.

This is why, although he lives in the Border Gate District, he constantly points fingers at the Jidong people, who are one of the main components of the Border Gate District.

Perhaps not only the Jidong people.

Just as his view after being invited yesterday to the Muhai Detective Agency and communicating with that Monarch Beast.

Whether it be Jidong or East Flame, Yiluo or Borde… the cities he has walked through and observed, aside from Heaven Gate City, are all the same elsewhere.

Whenever walking through them, it feels as if one can hear the rumbling of massive machinery in operation.

Whenever brushing past those busy, hurried diverse faces, there is a feeling of being inside a giant beast, as if being pulled, pressed by their mutual gravity, until assimilated.

"Is it the Heart of Terra?" the Monarch Beast once asked like that.

"I have had an audience with Him, that great existence before which even the World Tree must obey; just its sheer size makes me feel suffocated."

In the Muhai Detective Agency that suddenly received the message, the digital Royal Knights that ought to be huge like monsters sat around the round table in human size, and, after being introduced by Muhai Xingzi, they greeted him warmly and even initiated conversation.

Were it other personnel related to the Digital Domain, they would mostly be nervous as if facing an idol, but Aomo merely gave a polite response while thinking that Muhai Xingzi and the Xiangyu siblings must have mentioned him to them not a little.

—and then requested to talk business first.

Of course, when he said that, Aomo already knew the score in his heart.

After all, he has hardly any connection to the Digital Domain; any crisis in the Digital World should be handled by Tuohai Yamei and Muhai Xingzi, and it really isn't his turn as a passerby who signed an employment contract with the Witch Beast.

To be summoned at such a juncture, and the one opening the door wasn't any of Tuohai Yamei's subordinates Digimon, but the Gold Armor Dragon Beast; upon entering, one could also see the Omega Beast, Fragrant Beast, Stubborn Beast, and so on……

That this bunch of Royal Knights, either idle or busy, can gather in a building of the Human World suggests perhaps a synchrony of dual polarity.

Being idle while simultaneously being given some duty.

Moreover, thinking back to the promotional page on the forum banner two days ago, that answer was also ripe to come forth.

Truly worthy of the Cup of Dreams, truly the Federation's currently most popular sporting event, Aomo originally thought this might be the Dragon Emperor's connections activating, but then thought again and felt it was perhaps an order from a certain Heart of Terra.

As the actual leader of the whole Holy Terra Federation, the fact that the Heart of Terra can, to a certain extent, command the World Tree, one of the divinities of the Digital World, is not considered a secret in the whole circle.

More like something everyone knows, but which is rarely useful in most situations, so it can only become common knowledge as trivia.

But isn't this being used now?

Aomo calmly accepted the fact that the Cup of Dreams' network security actually had Royal Knights stationed, and likewise could accept that these Royal Knights, while watching the bustle, actually had no one truly on a mission, essentially just coming to join the fun.

Just seeing those Royal Knights each reminiscing about how many years ago they last came to the human world to play, and over here they act like vacationing old-timers counting the years, Aomo really wants to complain—what's the point of Muhai Xingzi making him come in person?

This little Category: Term just needs a message to be settled; there's no real work to coordinate.

But……

The one now sitting in Muhai Xingzi's seat isn't the formerly generous-attired golden-haired big sister, but a black pointed head with gold trim and red accents.

So he restrained himself.

Although the Alpha Beast shares a relationship with Muhai Xingzi similar to that of Ultraman and a symbiotic human body, it is not essentially a person, and its personality differs somewhat, so it's not appropriate to be overly familiar.

In short, it's just that these Royal Knights have heard from me too many times, and whenever they get a chance they call me over to meet, right? They didn't even call Tuohai and Yamei over; maybe they're also hiding somewhere waiting to see my reaction to the Royal Knights.

Really childish.

Besides, he's not a target singled out by the World Tree, so he's definitely not panicking; Aomo even has an especially laid-back partner who doesn't take these Royal Knights seriously at all, standing aside and pointing and commenting.

「No, no! What you're saying is just a pure data amount, right? What my partner is talking about isn't that simple at all! Right, partner! 」

Seeing the Witch Beast mock like that, Aomo couldn't tell for a moment whether this was the result of the Witch Beast's research into its interest in the human world, or whether it was simply following his own train of thought.

Either way, it's a good thing, and what's most important right now is that the topic has been thrown back.

「That's right, what I'm saying is actually the essence of civilization, the Monarch Beast. 」

「In the past it existed in the forms of different nations and ethnicities, and nowadays it is carried by city after city. 」

「These cities educate and assimilate every person, causing them to lose their unique value in ever-smaller differences, turning them into replaceable gears. 」

「Such gears need no thought, only silent obedience to the collective, a mottled self, until they become living beings who appear to have individuality but are just like everyone around them. 」

「They never question why they do this, never expose those obvious lies, can't even figure out their own position, and find it hard to have a genuine sense of truly living—to the point that they fundamentally——do not, think. 」

He looked at that which would also be transliterated as Dynasmon's Dynasmon.

Its meaning derives from the Hellenic word Dynastēs, meaning monarch or ruler; it once served the Light Beast (also called the Six-Winged Beast) in *Infinite Zone* as a flying dragon Digimon.

The work is merely a work; the monarch beast before us has never been loyal to the Light Beast.

But he indeed takes as his creed serving a lord whose loyalty matches the justice in his heart.

The reason he serves as a holy knight under the World Tree in this royal knight order is also to follow the World Tree's relatively neutral ideal of guarding the balance between the Digital World and the Human World.

In stark contrast to the knight lord (Sword Emperor Beast) he often travels with, he clearly bears the name Monarch Beast but is actually seeking a lord. He is passionate about the Human World, yet unclear what the Human World actually is. Rather than seeing it with his own eyes, he hopes to hear the opinions of Human World residents highly regarded by Alphamon.

Such a person can also gain some insight from listening to Aomo's words.

"Thinking......?"

"In your words, that civilization seems like a harmful thing."

"No, I merely think that the foolishness of refusing to think is harmful."

"In fact, those who build civilization have always been that small portion of people who can think and the majority who follow them after abandoning thought."

"These people merely abandoned thought, fearing the cost of thinking being useless, and only want to get answers from others, but they still have the right to think; however, besides these two kinds of people in this world, there is also a harmful human-like entity that refuses to think and stops others from thinking."

"And that Dragon Emperor, that Examon, and everyone present who seems to want to stay in the Human World for two more days—we all need to be on guard against exactly such people."

"For such people, you need not harbor doubts, nor even need to engage in dialogue."

"Just prioritize suppressing them."