"It's possible. An upgrade is essentially what happened to Ken's, after all -- he had the same model as ours, and when it was corrupted it was reassembled into a new form," Yamato says. "As far as tracking goes -- all our digivices can track everyone else's in a limited range, but they stopped working when our Crests did."

To demonstrate, he pulls his digivice -- a pale blue, cross-shaped object with three buttons and a small screen with an inscription around it -- from his belt, pressing a few of the buttons. The screen remains completely dark.

He keeps heading into the Village, where the landscape changes drastically as soon as they step into it. The grassy plains stop dead, to be replaced by a landscape of -- not quite hills so much as intersecting, slightly curved and slightly angled plains of some kind of hard felt-like material, lined with inscriptions.

Scattered across the Village are brightly coloured eggs the size of a person's head, and cribs that seem to be carved from rock, with tiny puffball Digimon within them.

As the three enter the village, a small procession of bright purple penguin like creatures start waddling through, stopping as they catch sight of them.

"Salutations," says the penguin at the lead of the group, in a voice that is far too deep and gravelly for his face. "If you are looking for Elecmon, he's left to get supplies."