They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 561 The Missing Kari and the Undercurrents
Something's wrong, everything's so wrong.

He took two steps back, his gaze falling on the balcony on the side of the apartment. The familiar window was tightly shut, the curtains half-drawn, revealing no light from inside.

“Beetle Beast, let’s go in from that side.”

Koushiro lowered his voice and spoke to Tentomon.

"No problem, Koushiro!"

The beetle flapped its elytra and carried Koushiro to the balcony of Yagami's house.

The sliding window was not locked.

He gently pulled it open.

The room was empty.

On the living room table sat a half-cut apple, its flesh oxidized into an unsightly brown.

The TV was still on, apparently because someone was playing something and was suddenly interrupted.

All signs pointed to one possibility: Jia'er left in a hurry.

But how is this possible?
Based on the real-world time flow, the vampire beast arrived at most half an hour earlier than him.

How could it possibly pinpoint Kari so precisely in such a short time amidst the vast sea of ​​people in Tokyo?
He strode into Jia'er's room, which was equally tidy and spacious.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, trying to calm his chaotic thoughts, and then pulled the white Divine Plan from his pocket.

He pressed the button on the side, the screen lit up, and the radar scanning interface unfolded.

This is a built-in function of the Divine Plan, which can sense and locate other nearby Divine Plans.

On the screen, a green dot representing himself was flashing in the center.

However, apart from that, the radar waves of the scan spread outwards in concentric circles, sweeping across the entire screen, but remained completely empty.

There are no signals of the Divine Plan nearby.

In other words, the visitor's goal was quite clear: not only did they take Jia'er away, but they also didn't let go of the sacred plan under the bed.

Without thinking twice, he turned and rushed out of the apartment.

"Beetlemon, evolve!"

"Beetlemon evolves into Kabuterimon!"

Accompanied by the familiar light of evolution, Tentomon rapidly expanded in size, transforming into an insect-type Digimon with a huge horn and a metallic shell.

Koushiro leaped up and sat steadily on the broad back of the monster.

"Kabuterimon, take off! Expand the search area!"

The giant wings of the monster vibrated, emitting a deep hum, and it lifted Koushiro into the air, quickly ascending to a height of several hundred meters.

Given Jia'er's age and physical strength, her range of movement is extremely limited.

As long as we remain in this area, the signal of the Divine Plan will surely be detected.

However, as time passed, Kabuterimon had already circled the entire area several times, and the Divine Plan screen in Koushiro's hand remained completely silent except for his own dot of light.

why?
Koushiro frowned; this was completely beyond his expectations.

The only explanation is that the moment Myotismon arrived in the real world, it locked onto Kari in some way that it couldn't understand, and then quickly moved her away.

How can this be?

Could it be that... this vampire beast, like him, had read the script beforehand?

This absurd thought flashed through his mind.

Just as he was lost in thought, a blinding burst of fire suddenly erupted on a main road below!

boom--!
The loud explosion was clearly audible even high in the air. Koushiro snapped back to reality.

A moving oil tanker was blown away and tumbled through the air like a toy before crashing heavily onto the road, triggering a more violent secondary explosion.

Flames shot into the sky, turning half of the night sky red.

The screams of the crowd and the sirens of car sirens mingled together, and the entire street was instantly paralyzed and filled with panic.

In the center of that sea of ​​fire, a massive figure slowly rose to its feet.

It has the appearance of a mammoth, but its size far exceeds that of prehistoric giants, almost as tall as a ten-story building.

A golden mask covered its face, and two enormous tusks gleamed with a cold, icy light.

The piercing sirens grew louder as several green Type 90 tanks and armored vehicles blocked both ends of the street, their turrets slowly rotating to lock onto the enormous monster.

In the sky, the rotors of the armed helicopters roared loudly as they hovered around the mammoth, their dark missile launchers aimed at the target.

"Fire!"

With a command from the ground commander, countless streaks of fire spewed from the tank cannons and helicopter pylons, trailing long tail flames, like an impenetrable net of fire, enveloping the mammoth.

However, faced with a saturation attack from modern military technology, the mammoth simply raised its trunk.

"Absolute zero!"

A visible white blast of cold air erupted from its nostrils, and the temperature in the air plummeted.

The missiles that hurtled towards them froze instantly in mid-air, their surfaces covered with a thick layer of frost, before losing all kinetic energy and crashing to the ground like hailstones.

The Self-Defense Forces' attack was ineffective!
The people who witnessed this scene were plunged into utter despair and panic, and scattered in all directions.

Negative emotions—fear, despair, anger—rise from the crowd like an invisible black fog.

Just then, countless scarlet bats flew in from nowhere.

They hover above people's heads, greedily absorbing the negative emotional data that escapes.

Having absorbed enough energy, the bats turned pitch black, then transformed into streams of black data that surged wildly toward the mammoth beast.

"Roar—!" The mammoth let out a shrill and painful roar.

The black data stream enveloped its entire body like a living thing, and its flesh and blood rapidly dissolved and peeled away under the erosion of the data stream, revealing a grim skeleton.

When the black light dissipated, what stood there was no longer a mammoth.

Instead, it was a much larger undead behemoth composed entirely of pale white bones.

Koushiro immediately raised the Divine Plan and aimed it at the terrifying monster below.

[Data analysis in progress...]

【Name: Zombie Mammoth】

[Level: Ultimate]

[Attribute: Vaccine Type]

[Type: Undead]

"Ultimate form?!"

Koushiro's pupils contracted sharply, and he was momentarily dazed.

"Koushiro, what should we do?"

The steady voice of the monster Kabuterimon sounded beneath him, pulling him back from his shock.
"Should we continue searching for Taiichi's sister, or..."

Koushiro's gaze darted rapidly between the burning streets below and the quiet residential area in the distance.

He made his decision after only a few seconds of deliberation.

"Let's deal with that Digimon down there first!"

"Kabuterimon, Ultimate Evolution!"

A dazzling light burst forth from the Beetle, illuminating the entire night sky as bright as day.

Golden data surrounded its body, and its enormous horn, carapace, and wings were reconstructed and sublimated in the light.

"Kabuterimon's Ultimate Evolution - HerculesKabuterimon!"

An even larger and more majestic golden insect king stands tall beneath the Tokyo night sky.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hercules Beetle swooped down like a golden meteor, landing heavily in front of the Zombie Mammoth Beast.

Boom!

The mere impact of the two colossal objects landing caused the ground of the entire street to crack inch by inch. The powerful shockwave spread in all directions, shattering the glass curtain walls of the shops along the street into countless glittering fragments in an instant.

In the ground command center, the commander of the Self-Defense Forces stared blankly at this mythical scene through the screen.

A skeletal behemoth and a golden insect—their very existence is overturning centuries of scientific understanding that humanity has built up.

"What...what's wrong with our country?"

He muttered absentmindedly.

The zombie mammoth's empty eye sockets locked onto the new enemy, and it let out a hoarse roar, taking heavy steps as it charged forward.

Hercules Beetlemon neither dodged nor avoided, and went to meet it head-on.

The two colossal beasts collided with a deafening roar, producing a piercing sound as metal scraped against bone.

With its superior strength, Hercules Beetle actually forced the Zombie Mammoth Beast to retreat repeatedly.

Its forelimbs gripped the skeleton tightly with sharp claws, and with a sudden burst of power from its waist, it lifted the huge white mammoth into the air with a deafening roar!
"Gigabit shockwave!"

Hercules Beetle roared, its accumulated energy transforming into a massive, destructive beam of light that precisely struck the Mammoth Beast, a zombie still suspended in mid-air and unable to gain any leverage.

The light engulfed everything. There was no explosion, no screams; the bones of the zombie mammoth were directly decomposed and vaporized in the ultimate energy, eventually turning into countless tiny data points that slowly drifted away.

Koushiro used the Divine Plan to quickly collect the remaining data.

The battle is over.

Without pausing for a moment, he immediately issued new commands to the beasts.

Hercules Beetlemon's massive body slowly descended in front of the Self-Defense Forces' temporary command post, its enormous shadow completely enveloping several armored vehicles.

He jumped off Hercules's back, facing dozens of dark gun barrels and the tense, fearful gazes of the soldiers, and calmly addressed the stunned commander:
"I need to see your superior."

……

Meanwhile, somewhere in Tokyo, in a room shrouded in darkness.

In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, the vampire beast was elegantly swirling the wine glass in its hand, the scarlet liquid inside resembling flowing blood.

Before him was a huge mirror, clearly reflecting everything that had just happened: the arrival of Hercules Beetle and the instantaneous annihilation of the zombie Mammoth Beast.

His expression was quite complex, containing both anger at the disruption of his plans and a hint of barely perceptible... relief...

"Now, it's time for you to make your choice, Myotismon..."

A deep, ancient voice, as if from the abyss, echoed softly in the dark room.

The voice was devoid of any emotion, yet it contained an irresistible majesty.

The vampire beast took a deep breath, and the complex expression on its face instantly disappeared.

He turned around, facing the deepest darkness of the room, and slowly knelt down on one knee.

A pale ray of moonlight pierced through the clouds and streamed down from the skylight, dispelling the extreme darkness.

The moonlight illuminated the area in front of the vampire beast kneeling in worship.

It was a high platform carved from obsidian, and on the platform, a huge crystal floated silently.

Inside the crystal, there were two intertwined, pure darknesses...

(End of this chapter)