Chapter 1820: NO.435：This type of industrial park is quite crowded

NO. 435：This type of industrial park is quite crowded.

Rainbow Snake Puppet.

Its design fully references the aberrant divine rainbow snake that was accidentally split from the Chaotic Origin in the Gulite Universe, and because it is positioned as a puppet, it underwent additional modifications to further enhance its mobility through a transforming structure, giving it the ground‑crawling ability characteristic of snakes.

This also makes its appearance even more bizarre.

The front of its upper body has a V‑type exoskeleton with embedded iridescent film‑like crystals, while the rear sides feature a pair of foldable, wing‑like iris exoskeletons that can extend and fit together, looking like several pairs of gorgeous, differently colored eyes.

It is strange and alluring, with a touch of horror.

Even though its size is only that of an eel, people still instinctively think—this is a monster!

rather than some DIY pet snake.

Even looking at its bright appearance makes one suspect it is highly poisonous.

Enough to make some people let out hysterical screams the moment they see it approaching.

That was really noisy.

For demon practitioners who constantly use puppet techniques and accumulate proficiency, the first problem they solve is sensory mismatch.

When the feedback from a puppet that flies with wings, crawls via muscle‑driven scales, and has a full set of human senses for walking overlaps, Aomo gains a deeper understanding of why this puppet technique has such low purchase rates and thresholds.

But all one can say is: classic!

Source energy study is always like this.

After the learning threshold come adaptation and usage thresholds, and so on; without the habit of researching everything beforehand, one always ends up suffering a big loss.

Of course, prior understanding is only superficial book knowledge; when you actually experience it, you still can't avoid the sighing stage, then decide whether to try to work it out or just leave it be.

——There are always quite a few who choose the latter.

Either one has extraordinary talent, or is recklessly thorough, or possibly lacks money.

If one has money, they can instead learn a set of sensory control methods from the first option, or simply undergo nerve modification.

Whether one controls nerves by installing prosthetics or directly modifies nerves to use brainwaves for internal segmented switching, this technological approach achieving perfect sensory integration with source energy techniques can be bought with money—but that would be too extravagant.

Similarly, spending money on a source‑energy net course for perception control lets you self‑study and potentially wipe out several zeros, but whether you succeed and how far you get depends on personal talent, effort, and circumstance.

Aomo thinks it's fine; he indeed bought the online course and taught himself, since he has a foundation.

This foundation is not only the basics of using monster cards, but can be traced back to playing monster fighting games with deep‑immersion equipment—a game that always had a mode to pick five monsters to form a squad for a planet‑wide battle royale.

Ordinary players control one monster and take turns challenging; expert players exploit the game mechanics to instant‑switch between different monster controls, with individual skills forced to complete their actions in a combat system design that can even achieve a certain level of synergistic combos; whereas directly controlling multiple monsters at once for an all‑out attack is like a neuron synapse.

This RTS relies not only on operation speed but also on the adaptability of the operating system's switching, since almost all macro commands in deep‑immersion games are treated as cheating.

Having undergone many 'Realm' impacts in this regard, Aomo Lindun is already somewhat accomplished and naturally confident. This confidence, now that he's accustomed to switching monster‑card forms, has long since translated into proficiency in source energy arts.

This perceptual proficiency, combined with Gilbarlis's passive multithreaded thinking from its power, ultimately results in the scene before us:

He can calmly eat with his coworkers during a team‑building event amidst the deafening noise of the Rainbow Snake Puppet, and interact with New Universe, Xiqi Feng, and others.

At the same time he maintains high‑frequency interaction with the Supervision Team via the data network.

One side enjoys the monster‑industry department riot at Devouring Star Zero, with guards arriving one after another, while he only needs to quickly report and briefly act to earn their gratitude; the other side enjoys food and chatter…which was indeed pleasant, until the Supervision Team's intercepted message revealed a blunt scrap‑buying segment.

Redundant data compression package……

Just as a real‑world scrap‑collection station is an important part of urban circulation, the network‑level 'scrap handling' certainly offers many benefits, most clearly demonstrated by Aomo's own use of crawling software to scrape public data for information gathering.

The basic data package he gives the Witch Beast to filter is itself a kind of 'scrap reuse'.

Legal, but not exactly legal.

But the point isn't whether the Holy Beast Fallen Type's split is committing a crime; rather, thinking from the Digimon perspective, the uses of those redundant data compression packages are incredibly diverse.

It makes excellent food, strong pliable building material, and can be processed into currency in the Digimon world…Undoubtedly, the vast majority of cyber‑scrap that humans see, when placed in the digital realm, doesn't even qualify to enter the Dark Area, let alone be considered irrecoverable data.

It's not that Digimon have never realized this; the Federation also has concrete legal limits on such transactions for individuals and groups, so when Aomo heard the recording he could instantly react, realizing the other party was actually doing something huge for a Digimon.

But……

Because the trading party had no idea the other was a Digimon, the conversation's tone and content were a straightforward depiction of scrap being bought and the purchase format.

Aside from noting how mismatched that feels, the more obvious concern is what the other party intends to do with the enormous amount of data they're offering—whether for armaments or something else.

【Should we intercept?】

【He hid his identity; if we just expose him we can ruin his plan】

【This company seems not to be human‑ruled; I'm not sure if it's legal or illegal】

【But no matter what, exposing him will surely cause him trouble】

【Quiet! Listen to what the employer says!】

In that noisy scene ending with the Invisible Assault Beast's conclusion, Aomo's reply was simple.

"Continue monitoring."

In the Invisible Assault Beast's speechless expression that still saw no need, Aomo again gave his reason, reviving the previously shattered teaching atmosphere: "There are many illegal organizations in Heaven Gate City; exposing identities doesn't guarantee we'll disrupt the enemy's plans."

"On the contrary, it might scare the snake. After all, you've done an excellent job staying hidden, and the enemy hasn't noticed your reactions—this is a phenomenon worth keeping…"

【So we should just keep everyone on standby?】

When the employer seemed to have finished speaking, the Invisible Assault Beast confirmed according to its past habits, and it turned out the employer really hadn't finished:

"No, not everyone."

"I was just contacting Ya Mei," he said, though it had only been a few seconds he spoke as if they'd chatted for several minutes, "Within ten minutes a Digimon will deliver an information packet to you; decide who will give his cargo a boost, and please maintain the previous caution and professionalism."

【Boost?】

【Oh~ I get it, really bad, Brother Lindun】

【Delivered in ten minutes? What is it?】

【Can this boost be prepared in ten minutes? Won't Ya Mei contact the Cracking Team?】

【Focus on work!】

"Right, your network area might suffer some impact later; don't panic……"

Watching the monster over there that had already begun fighting with Black King, Star-Eating Zero's gaze finally landed not on the completely available options for contacting the high priest company, but on those city network equipment about to be drawn into the battle.

But it was just a glance, after all not a big deal.

After all, the Beast Cult's members all advocate making a quick profit.

Once something can't be done, they run; that's the most obvious difference between them and ordinary criminal gangs.

Of course, he isn't really qualified to criticize the other side, after all he's currently controlling the rainbow snake puppet to flee; how does this company still have the spare manpower to chase after a harmless little rainbow snake, why not focus on fighting the more conspicuous Bermuda over there?

But honestly, it's really troublesome that both sides happen to be in the same area; we also have to guard against accidents.

"It's none of your business, and it's expected to recover soon."

"Received!"

(End of chapter)