Chapter 1817

NO. 432：Steadiness is his passport

In the first-generation work of the digital IP, Yasheng Guang (also translated as Yasheng Jia'er) simultaneously bears the key to advancing the main plot of the first and second generations, for the reason that she is not only a miko selected by Constancy but is also frequently assaulted by darkness, becoming a carrier of a driving force that compels the team to move forward.

Admittedly, this type of analysis originating from the creative field has long become tiresome due to the repeated reheating of leftovers, but as a reference material, it has never deteriorated, and it remains preserved among the materials related to Constancy, consisting of various hyperlinked URLs.

You can certainly say this is due to Constancy being too reclusive.

After all, this is a fact.

Rarely manifesting, with even its words scarce, the deity naturally makes all existing records extremely precious; even a fictional work from another world is worthy of repeated appraisal by industry researchers, until an electronic patina forms.

Then cast it aside.

What else could one do if not casting it aside?

With so little material, and itself not active, using it to write a paper yields nothing to write about, and there is nowhere useful to apply it; all exploration of this aspect stops here and turns elsewhere, causing Aomo, who habitually emphasizes information gathering and stands on the shoulders of giants, for the first time to only be able to stand on a little stool.

If our language were a little stool, we wouldn't have to work so hard; as long as he silently passes it over and you sit on it, understanding is complete—very simple, very clear, very complete—even the bizarre dream that Bi Ze could hardly have is almost reached here; next, returning to reality, what can we understand from Yasheng Guang's life trajectory?

That naturally is not about the production crew randomly messing around in interviews, sneaking in suggestive immoral details into children's works accompanying childhood, but rather her mediumistic quality that is vastly different from the sci-fi style concept of the digital world.

——Both favored by deities and pursued by devils and monsters.

Honestly speaking, this quality does not really conflict with the world concept.

The digital world inherently advocates a mixed essence of sci-fi and fantasy, overlaying technological tags of data and networks, yet also incorporating monsters, magic, superpowers, devouring fantasy, and primitive tags as the internal worldview framework to elaborate inside and out.

Outsiders only look at the work itself, so they won't care about these.

Insiders even feel that the digital world has always been a world with fantasy as its base tone, everywhere expressing the concept of source energy, yet must nonetheless express the technological concept of codes, data, etc., as a trench-like world at the underlying construction.

So, regarding the selection of Constancy, he also once felt surprised.

He was surprised that His choice was not the unshakeable Manchester Tea Seat in the 'medium' concept.

Is it that the priority of adaptability in the digital electronics field is higher? Or is it that the Tea Seat's stance has already leaned too much toward darkness, making it difficult to hear Constancy's voice?

Glancing at the long-haired back at the diagonally opposite table, even if she does nothing, Aomo's unique vision, which inherently possesses 'spiritual sight,' can reflect her spiritual quality that flickers like a flame.

The pitch-black color is exactly like the 'energy field' seen with one's own eyes.

But precisely because it is the same, it is not worth worrying about, for what Aomo's unique vision sees is the pattern of spirit, mind, and soul.

What color determines is not good or evil, but a property; and the property represented by black, just like the optical concept in physics, is absorption.

That soul property which is willing to take everything into itself, if of the same kin as Aomo, would likely also silently absorb all surrounding emotions.

Many races in the federation have a natural affinity with the soul state, and the horse girls are among them, but the horse girls' affinity manifests more passively and inwardly, causing different feedback on oneself, rather than interference both internal and external like demons.

Yet even if this property is unrelated to good and evil, it is likewise, as a manifestation of strong desire, opposed by some deities.

The Three Goddesses are not on that list; indeed, one could say it is the opposite—as goddesses who have long strongly supported competitive events, and moreover as the goddesses of the horse girls, two of the Three Goddesses favor the strong-desire runners.

As for the remaining one, you can't say they like it, but they also don't dislike it; after all, athletes who step onto the Saichang shouldn't be completely desireless.

So Aomo didn't see this as a problem, nor did he ever factor it into risk considerations; upon learning that the digital world was again facing crisis, he had even entertained the idea of Chazuo being selected, but the outcome was plain for all to see.

Perhaps constancy is precisely the type of deity that would clash with that strong-desire nature.

Perhaps also...

「Point mass, He regrets, Hei'an has noticed Him. 」

The somewhat awkward phrasing heard is the result of directly piecing together brain-synchronized translation fragments; seeing that manifestation, with its few tiny sky-blue data squares unique to the digital world's 【special effect】, he couldn't help but continue that line of thought.

The thought that the judgment of the medium on the 【digital】 level might differ from that on the 【material】 level.

After all, compared to Mancheng Chazuo, the new cosmos indeed has a view that could be described as worlds apart in the network realm.

Even if spiritual bodies can enter and exit data, as a top student of spirit summoning, Chazuo himself has some basis in data traversal, but compared to the new cosmos 【born】 in the network world, it's still far too far.

Does the god of the digital world have a selection standard for mediums of the digital world?

He pondered in his heart, yet he also had to digest and process the report of the new cosmos.

The new cosmos's words are not long, and with the addition of obscure, abstruse proper nouns and abbreviations, they become even more obscure, easily regarded by his nearby trainers and the horse girls as some kind of riddle.

But just as the official news says, 【the shorter the sentence, the bigger the matter】, those few short words sounded to Aomo as carrying an immense amount of information.

Constancy could no longer gather key intelligence, the reason being that the other side had actively taken precautions, which means that He was noticed by the other side—this in itself is astonishing.

There is the fact that the other side also has a master behind them and excessive suspicious vigilance, and the combination of the two—three directions of understanding.

It also means that the other side's subsequent information flow might be a complex code or an incomprehensible cipher, and having lost constancy—that key source of information that lies silent then startles—their grasp on many arrangements must drop by at least 20%.

However, conversely…

The other side's avoidance of constancy itself can be understood as proof of the rationality of their previous actions in obstructing war preparations.

——Previously, advising constancy to stop war preparations yet being unable to give a concrete reason, Aomo has always had doubts.

Although there was relaying its words to various factions, he also tried to retain a relaying stance, and moreover did not forget to add a supplement of skeptical attitude more direct than a disclaimer.

So as to be able to constantly change plans and orders.

Now it seems, can that skeptical attitude be cancelled?

The possibility that the other side deliberately staged this to paralyze and deceive constancy…

Retaining it also doesn't hinder action, he thought.

Then let's keep it.

?? Digital-related tips:

? Regarding Bashen Guang's feelings toward his older brother, honestly speaking, the current author finds it quite risqué, really likes this setting.

? But when one thinks back to when the author was still young, they were already designing this detail, and even in later interviews they still wore a proud grin saying 'Wow, you finally found it!'—the author just can't bear it.

? What were these people secretly looking forward to back then? Is it really worthy of pride to do this shady, damp design just to wait for those kids from back then to grow up and experience a shocking twist? It's utterly perverse, damn.

? (End of chapter)