Chapter 1797: NO.412：The Little People Are Speaking

NO. 412：The Little People Are Speaking

Tracing the earliest moment of source energy's development history, you can see that primitive shamanic belief is always inseparable from hallucinogenic substances.

Ignorance accounts for a large proportion, malicious intent cannot be ignored, and addictiveness is growing, yet outward claims remain consistent.

——They always say this is the main way to communicate with spirits.

Later research has proven that humans in a hallucinogenic state do indeed exhibit a weaker mental condition, making them more susceptible to invasion at the volitional level—in theory, they are easily possessed by spirits, demons, ghosts, and the like.

That sounds somewhat reasonable, but the spirits uniformly deny it, claiming they don't need to burn any herbs, squeeze any juices, or eat any mushrooms to deliver their messages, making the original belief‑ritual records from various places look rather awkward.

But it doesn't matter.

This does not prevent it from being a classic project for many artists seeking inspiration and venturing into the Shen yuan.

In an era when most hallucinogens are not considered legal commodities, some poisonous mushrooms become their first choice, letting them see little people and strange characters, and hear eerie, unique sounds.

Whether it can truly serve as inspiration for creation is hard to say.

Aomo has long suspected they just want to see the little people, and any talk of creation is merely an extra excuse; but now, when he also sees the little people……

He begins to doubt his earlier view.

Is this feeling really worth revisiting?

"Ugh~~~"

There's nothing that needs rainbow‑censoring vomit, after all the bird‑type puppet Mogabas doesn't need to eat, and the body synchronizing that sensation also has some unconventional ways to suppress the nausea that is ultimately just a hallucination.

Yes.

Mogabas has been 'poisoned'.

As everyone knows, Director Muhai Xingzi differs from the 'cooking‑idiot' female characters common in artistic creations; she is self‑aware. Moreover, her own sense of taste is quite unique, so her proudly self‑made mixed coffee is genuinely good—she herself indeed likes to drink it.

For the same reason, Aomo long suspected that, although she looks like a human woman, her physique is probably rather non‑human; otherwise, even if she could tolerate the coffee's flavor, she wouldn't be able to withstand its effects on her intestines and body.

Otherwise, take a look at what her proud creations are.

Sea‑grape red‑bean paste coffee, yuzu pepper sour‑cream coffee, eight‑treasure miso cream wasabi blended coffee… and so on—all of these are coffee made under the guise of cooking, truly akin to the 'fully‑loaded milk‑tea porridge' offered by some milk‑tea shops.

But those milk‑tea porridges at least contain typical milk‑tea ingredients, whereas her coffee porridge can be quite elaborate.

Don't even mention tuna, red‑bean paste, sea urchin—you can even stuff a digital soul in there!

There's a precedent.

It is precisely that precedent that emboldens him to ask again: "You……did you……put in a digital soul again……?"

Although the main body's mind is not sluggish, the puppet's condition interferes with source‑energy construction, causing the transmitted words to come out in fragments.

But what could cause the body built from Aiblon cells to give such strong feedback?

Even direct poisoning might not produce this effect!

"The reaction is quick—do you still remember the original commission?"

That, however, is not the case.

Aomo only began to retroactively deduce the cause of this abnormal state after discovering that Mogabas truly showed poisoning and hallucinatory reactions, but Muhai Xingzi's remark was undoubtedly the trigger, instantly causing the crystal core to feedback a segment of their casual talk from two months prior.

A passage lamenting the close link between the digital world and the real world. He marvels that digital beasts can retain their original physique and combat power in the human world without diminishment, and then wonders whether the key data in the digital world that trigger beast evolution could also let real‑world organisms step into the beasts' domain.

At that time, Muhai Xingzi gave no answer.

But since it was just idle chatter, Aomo didn't mind the missing reply, figuring Muhai the Director had merely been cut off by a phone call; now hearing her say this, however, it seems as if she didn't want to answer back then……

Is that so?

Is that really the case?

She didn't want to answer back then, but now, dragged into this mess of that scale, she can't avoid facing it?

But answering in this way is hardly friendly.

"I do remember, but I never thought you'd use such a radical method; by the way, the hallucination I'm seeing now probably isn't in your plan, right?"

Why make a mess of the puppet and the main body's condition over something that could be settled with a few words?

In the visual field of the main body, synchronized with the puppet's state, there are still many jumping patterns and characters; in the dreamy, hazy background and vision filter, there is even a female silhouette calling itself Constancy, urging him to stop.

?

Is this also a little person? It's quite distinctive.

"Is it a hallucination related to reality?"

"... Hearing your tone, it seems unsurprising?"

"I'm also trying a gamble," Muhai Xingzi said.

"If this test's result isn't constancy data, I'll offer another kind of coffee."

"You should also know that It can never manifest."

"You should also know that It can never manifest."

Muhai explained: "After all, It is merely a constancy phenomenon manifested in the process of constructing the digital world, possessing the weakest data structure in the entire digital world."

"But it also has priority over the vast majority of data?"

"The phenomenon is always more pure and real than human‑defined rules, indisputable, right?"

"But if the new universe says It has divine data, then Its manifestation should have no threshold… It doesn't even have a single follower?"

He suddenly realized that, as he knew, constancy is a deity, but its actual fame can only be described as tragic.

Most of the time, those who mention It are anthropologists, not digital beasts; and for the former, It has never been treated as a deity, but as a research subject.

Perhaps there truly isn't a single follower.

Although the digital world supposedly has the three great angels that ought to be closest to the deity, the three great angels do not worship the deity; instead, in the eyes of many digital beasts they are equivalent to the deity, just like the group of digital beasts from Olympus.

"You should rather pay attention to what It is saying to you."

Although the tone is calm, this statement amounts to sidestepping the issue, and it also makes the still‑retching Mogabas glance oddly.

But who cares about the reaction of a sick bird?

Although this bird immediately, under the data rings unique to Digital Monster evolution, became distorted, became filled with noise, and for an instant showed the outline of a Sky Eagle Beast—

But Muhai Xingzi felt no excitement or depression about this scene; she only regarded it as a mundane part of achieving the goal, and asked:

What did it say?

It told me to wait.

Stand by?

It told me to stop.

If this is true, I can only regretfully announce that my earlier guess was correct. We are walking down the path hoped for by creatures like the Light Beast Fallen Type or the Barbar Beast.

(End of chapter)