Chapter 1861

NO. 476: Let's set up a bait spot first.

But speaking of which, it's come back to that.

Just as it was three minutes ago, Aomo had prepared his draft and a report on the current situation with follow-up arrangements, and the core of both lay in the meeting between Devouring Star Zero and the High Priest—namely, what Bi Ze had once questioned: how could they not start fighting in the short term?

Aomo had repeatedly brought up the big picture, value, and losses with Devouring Star Zero, and the feedback afterward; for a deeply resentful bankrupt individual, this talk would not only be highly likely meaningless but would instead be a provocation that might drive the other to drag you along to jump from a rooftop.

But for cult members whose minds and worldviews have always differed from the norm, the appeal of this proposal should be extraordinarily strong.

Moreover, he had crafted an image of being used and discarded, constantly throwing out value chips just to survive—a clownish persona—making it all the more justified to repeatedly throw out highly targeted promises:

【Loss Recovery, Members Reunited】

【Lintong Agency Related Intelligence, Counteroffensive Revenge】

As a result, both were flatly rejected; at first glance, it seemed the other side, relying on their lifelong belief in target practice and archery, was convinced Devouring Star Zero was an insider—whether back then or now, an insider.

But if that were truly the case, why would she bother to appear in person, still sitting there, suppressing her anger to listen until the end?

If it were merely for some fleeting amusement in the revenge process, that would be hard to establish, given that Devouring Star Zero, in her eyes, is as cautious and suspicious as the High Priest—she truly should not make such a common person's mistake.

Thus, in Aomo's understanding, this situation could only possibly be one of two things:

Either the High Priest is a fake, and the other party is also a remarkably patient actor;

Or, the other party has already signed a new contract with the Digital Beast.

That contract would be more efficient, and it would prevent her impulsive actions, even forbidding her revenge.

Without doubt, Aomo chose the latter.

Because that High Priest is genuine—this is the conclusion he reached by observing Devouring Star Zero in the moment, bypassing all reasoning and thought entirely.

The occasional outpouring of resentment is absolutely not feigned; her obsession with tormenting Devouring Star Zero is utterly genuine, and the possibility of her, as High Priest, abandoning the cult to recover losses would absolutely not stem from fear.

On the contrary, she was likely promised much more.

More compensation, more gains.

And……a higher success rate, or rather, greater intuitive feasibility.

What kind of intuitive feasibility could make her decisively reject this side's promises?

If Aomo were to devise a more competitive expression, he felt it would be completion.

A plan already drafted, utterly thorough and perfected, could indeed easily overcome a 'not knowing you were wrong, but knowing you were going to die' mouthful of temptation, full of empty talk.

And Ailisuzhi's view, conversely, was unexpectedly emotional—just saying she wouldn't trust a traitor's words, she sentenced everything Devouring Star Zero said to death.

Qianming, Luna, and Chazuo's subsequent views were also extensions of Aomo and Chazuo's ideas.

Although there were also Bi Ze and Sai Luo-style wild routes like 'Maybe what we caught before were all fake, the real cult suffered no damage, and now they're just hiding in another dimension watching the show!'—suspected of being nonsense summoning the Aobo people—but in the direction of 'revenge on the mind,' this itself is the narrowest path, needing no further elaboration.

Conversely, the former path, where reason prevails, represents endless future troubles, while also representing the other party's temporarily passive stance in the domain of response.

Rejecting weakness intelligence, rejecting a perfect counteroffensive foundation—still just that sentence—unless there is more detailed intelligence, more concrete battle plans, otherwise they should currently not even consider a counteroffensive, not even think of opening a battlefield!

Should they focus on quiet development, or rush development, or have reached some absolutely critical moment where no interference is tolerated—Aomo does not want to sit and wait for death, but he also cannot ignore that under these circumstances, the other party will inevitably become even stricter in secrecy and response, so he recalled Bi Ze, while Chazuo remained there.

The busyness of Barbaromon. X will not cease.

Developing power under its name, gathering followers, just as the Dark Knight Beast, also helping in the investigation, gets no rest, always rushing through dark zones in Gargoyle form, also in its own way sometimes gathering information alone, sometimes traveling and exchanging with Barbaromon. X and the Dark Knight Beast, Chazuo gradually developed in the dark zone the rumor of 'a newly appeared, brilliantly colored and colossal Ultimate Digimon.'

It will likely soon be found by the High Priest, or perhaps by other priests.

The investigation team initially led by Tohai and Ami, in their data analysis harvest, directly showed that at least six priests followed her when welcomed by the Demon King's Army—at first hearing, it seemed just more Ultimate combat power, but actually?

To reach the position of priest in the cult, one must either have outstanding technical contributions or outstanding combat contributions.

The latter is still easy to say, but if the former, then it would be enough to make Aomo tighten his brow.

What technical innovation could there possibly be under the Seven Great Demon Kings……Come on? Is this meant to provoke a vomiting marathon?

The report's hidden dangers have all been reported, and I don't know since when, but in the Imperial Knights, the Skull Beast and Knight Lord Beast/Sword Emperor Beast have started calling themselves 'Ominous Night Ravens,' which is also quite a characteristic mishmash of the Imperial Knights—clearly, due to their own inadequacy in handling affairs, they can only keep bringing bad news, yet still mock and jeer at themselves as consultants and intelligence experts.

It's also good that I don't need to say anything myself, for Jesmon and the Monarch Beast, together with the Duke Beast and Gold Dragon Beast, will counter-retaliate on my behalf—whether due to some favor from the Yuhua siblings or because they themselves carry some colleague grudges.

For this, Aomo will just pretend to be in the dark for now; even if he sees it, he won't bring it up.

Anyway, if they increase intensity there, we here will also watch and increase, and indeed will follow my suggestion, with bolder steps pressuring the Seven Demon Kings, investigating anomalies at the Gate of Great Sin.

I am merely a consultant and information provider; though I feel crisis often, I still have to train the Horse Girls.

Whether urgent or not, urgency is useless—still, I must pinch time, wait for Bi Ze to idle, then drag him to make up lessons, ask for his college entrance exam attitude, then reconsider whether to send him away.

Although the police side, while shipping out, the testimonies and memory intelligence of those captured cult members are very helpful for me to understand the High Priest and the six priests, even having nearly completed personality modeling, yet the result showed no change.

It merely served as further proof of the other party's existing rationality, but could not effectively lure them out again, and only time has passed a few days.

A few days later, he promised the soon-to-be-kicked-back Bi Ze: if there's combat, I will definitely call you.

Rather, even if he doesn't call, Barbaromon. X likely has a simpler direct channel to summon partners for fusion evolution; although I worry Bi Ze might neglect other things when he gets worked up, when it's truly time to step up, there's no need to worry.

Anyway, in human and Digimon fusion evolution, the control handle remains with the Digimon, humans more often acting as a plug-in effect—energy usage efficiency +40%, combat state: excellent adjustment, spirited emotions can even reach power overload exertion……

Looking at it this way, the effect is indeed strong.

Although it's possible to appear as single-minded different bodies, with low combat will causing side effects, but that's also quite rare, and Aomo does not worry Bi Ze will fail to keep up with Barbaromon. X's steps.

He only worries that his series of reports, once seen by the URA Association, Earth's various police bureaus, and the Two Worlds Safety Bureau, will just be marked 'read' and then nothing follows.

Although there's no pressure from the moral guilt of failing to save innocents, yet if there's a chance to avoid misfortune due to his untimely notice, the demon would still feel rather regretful.

Especially if this matter grows large enough to affect work development.

So these past few days, he hasn't just been training Horse Girls, accompanying his girlfriend everywhere to visit relatives and friends (her meaning), teasing brothers, and organizing and reprocessing information from all sides to feed back.

Moreover, he has drafted several reports based on that information processing and a full sequence of events, largely consistent, with only variations in opening and closing phrasing, conducting a global village broadcast.

There's no way around it.

Now, the defenses of Heaven's Gate City are quite reassuring; although saying one should strike the entire dark zone would still be tough, but if the dark zone's target truly originates from Earth……it should have stronger vigilance, military defense standards, yet due to being caught off guard, fails to display them—then the loss would certainly be higher than Heaven's Gate City.

Especially places like the provincial racetrack, which, each time hosting a world-class event, can gather from internet to reality a super-dense population of several million.

If an accident were to occur……spectators' affairs, horse racing industry affairs……you must not mess up the girls' final Triple Crown—harboring such concern, Aomo naturally wants to activate relevant connections to have the association remember him further.

No matter what, offensive and defensive battles cannot afford to miss deployment.

(End of Chapter)