The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 182: Negative Days (! Asking for monthly votes QAQ)

Two hours before the nuclear bomb was launched.

Right near the door, at the place where Ye Wenjie thought it would be most difficult for the dual timelines to monitor and interfere with them, she expressed her opinion to the other alliance members.

"We must still be in the [Loop], because only in this way can the fact that the door was destroyed be acknowledged by [Kudo Shinichi] as an unchangeable reality."

"But we have just experienced the end of the [Cycle]." A researcher reminded Ye Wenjie that the same [Cycle] could not happen twice, especially a [Cycle] that represented a ritual.

"Yeah, but it happens."

Ye Wenjie nodded. She didn't know how the dual timeline was achieved, but she guessed the time they were in now.

"I think that from the moment the hands of our TDD stopped two days ago, our time has gone back again."

According to his own idea, Ye Wenjie drew a straight line on the paper, and then drew a circle tangent to the straight line next to it.

"Considering that the dual timelines were previously capable of timeline reversal, it's very likely that we were reversed to three days ago as a single, unimportant background."

Ye Wenjie knew that the most important thing was the time when the door was activated. They had to activate the door when the RSI value was equal to 100.

"But we definitely can't keep this door. Even if we could, the dual timeline wouldn't allow us to activate it at the right time."

Ye Wenjie projected Dr. Agasa's long-sealed basement.

"But there's a closed door in Beika Town. If you open that door at the moment the [loop] ends, the same thing will happen."

"The main structure of that door is fine. The activation procedures of the two doors are not much different except that they require coding. We should try to restart the door on Professor Agasa's side."

"what should we do?"

Several task force members gathered around, "I can try to go now-"

Ye Wenjie shook her head and interrupted their conversation.

"We can't do this. We're all being targeted," Ye Wenjie's eyes flashed with a different kind of light, "but this is both a good thing and a bad thing."

"We can use this to attract the full attention of the dual timelines, and even try to prevent them from completing the circle. We want to disrupt the balance between the two timelines and make them fight."

"Especially for the sake of strengthening the GSSRA, reality will definitely try to capture us without damaging the hull. What we need to do is not take any precautions before they reach the bottom layer. This way, reality will invest more resources in this direction."

"Then, at the end, the dual timeline's response strategy suddenly changed, causing trouble for them."

Ye Wenjie added.

"So we just need to delay. Since we will arrive at the port tomorrow, it means that tomorrow is likely to be the end of the cycle. As long as we delay long enough, there is a chance."

"But if we can't hold out this long..."

"Yes, I think so too." Ye Wenjie pointed out the most crucial point of this idea.

"So we need to advance the time for the gate to be destroyed, or even ensure that it is destroyed smoothly. We need to make the dual timelines think that our support has arrived, especially the GSSRA."

"The dual timelines can't see anything near the gate, so they must have sent some people to act as eyes. Our most important goal is to alert the GSSRA. Judging from the crew being reset, the timeline guidance this time isn't perfect."

Ye Wenjie carried out their feint attack plan to the extreme, even deceiving the dual timeline itself.

The golden pulse that alerted the GSSRA command and even forced the dual timelines to urge them to launch a fierce attack, the sign of the [Loop Gate] being activated was purely an illusion.

Just as Ye Wenjie expected——

"Whether it's a sudden earthquake, thunderstorm, tsunami, or any other attempt, it's almost impossible to destroy the door instantly."

"Therefore, as long as we show that the Alliance will contact us immediately, if the dual timeline needs to destroy the door in just a dozen seconds, the most likely thing to be used is a nuclear bomb."

"And we didn't receive any intelligence related to nuclear bomb exercises before being reversed by the dual timeline."

"But now it's exploded, and the dual timelines have to resolve this discrepancy."

Ye Wenjie believed in the rules summarized by the alliance. She understood the dual timelines, and they would never go against their instincts, let alone risk being destroyed.

When the reverse timeline returns to the origin, the logic before and after the [loop] must be consistent, otherwise they cannot be connected together.

Ye Wenjie is right.

……

For Senna, when she regained consciousness, she was already lying in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

"Hey! Please wake up! I've called the doctor! Please hold on!"

Almost the moment she woke up, Senna looked at her wrist and saw the black watch still there.

"The patient is awake!"

A nurse came over immediately, and a strong feeling of dizziness suddenly hit Senna. The nurse's voice sounded like many voices overlapping to Senna.

"Ma'am, how are you feeling now? Do you remember who you are? Someone found you on the beach and you had no ID?"

Senna ignored the nurse's questions and tried to overcome the dizziness in her head and sit up.

"What time is it?! I need to know the time!"

To others, the woman who fell on the beach as if she was drunk seemed to be going crazy.

"Ma'am, don't get excited!"

A doctor came over and tried to persuade Senna to calm down.

"You are seriously injured and it is 9 o'clock."

It's already nine o'clock!

The shortest flight from Hawaii to Tokyo takes eight hours!
Senna didn't even have time to grieve for everyone's death, or for the commander's death, as Ye Wenjie's voice immediately rang in her mind.

"Senna! You must reach 2-22 Beika-cho, Tokyo before the second, minute, and hour hands of your watch start moving!"

"Otherwise it will be too late!"

As if her body had memorized the corresponding operation in advance, almost subconsciously, Senna reached out and pressed a knob next to TDD.

The next second, in full view of everyone in the ambulance, Senna disappeared.

"Incognito mode is enabled."

As she pushed open the back door of the ambulance while hiding herself, she stumbled and jumped out amid the ambulance's sudden braking and the terrified screams of "Oh my God!" from the people in the car.

Then, her legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground.

"Impact damage detected—"

"Radiation damage detected—"

"Internal hemorrhagic trauma detected, intracranial hemorrhage detected, rib fractures detected, detected..."

The alarms in her ears continued to sound, and a series of red warnings flashed on the TDD light screen in her field of vision.

Taking a deep breath, Senna endured the tearing pain and activated the emergency life support system with trembling fingers.

"Warning, after starting the [Loop] mode, please use APTX-4869 before it runs out..."

Senna ignored the warnings and clicked confirm.

The physical discomfort improved almost immediately, except for some data displayed in her pupils that told her it was just an illusion to deceive time.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

The important thing is - she can still move, and her time has not been reset.

"That means the dual timeline really hasn't noticed me yet..."

She gritted her teeth, the wind whistled wildly in her ears, as if rebuking her madness. At a speed 25 times faster than that of an ordinary person, Senna immediately ran towards the airport not far away.

She couldn't let the commander's sacrifice be in vain.

Since I was not reset immediately, it means that the dual timeline has not noticed me now.

I must open another door at the moment before the [loop] ends!

……

The door was indeed destroyed.

But the door on the Explorer was destroyed by a nuclear bomb, and even that nuclear bomb had never exploded in the previous timeline.

Although the dual timeline can indeed modify such a "background story", this behavior of smoothing out its own structural contradictions undoubtedly wastes its redundant interference power.

The dual timeline begins to modify its own history.

Those rumors that secretly appeared in various intelligence systems, the secret notifications and reports circulated between countries, and even the inconspicuous banner reports at the bottom of various news channels—

"A small earthquake occurred near Hawaii today..."

Secret nuclear tests by various countries are not uncommon, especially for the United States. It is even more common for intelligence to be declassified decades later to tell everyone that everything was true.

But the key point is that the nuclear bomb exploded under the watchful eyes of "Hattori Heiji".

Obviously, it is not difficult for a detective to forget an ordinary military operation or to forget the flash of a nuclear bomb he witnessed with his own eyes.

And Hattori Heiji also needs to remember the fact that "a nuclear bomb was detonated."

This is undoubtedly the most difficult part to solve and the part where the dual timeline took the most effort.

[Story Timeline] In the end, this contradictory logic was barely resolved.

"Since the mission has been completed, I will leave first."

With anger and resentment at himself for not being able to stop anything, Hattori Heiji ran out of the military base that was "isolated from all communications" with almost no obstruction.

Then time, which could no longer be restrained, caught up with the memories in Hattori Heiji's mind, and they ate up Hattori Heiji, who should not have appeared here at this time, bite by bite.

Hattori Heiji's eyes immediately became confused, and then a soldier chased out from the base gate with a phone in his hand.

"Mr. Heiji! It's Mr. Yusaku calling!"

"GSSRA is crazy! They set off a nuclear bomb in Hawaii!"

There was an indescribable anger in Kudo Yusaku's voice. Inexplicably, Hattori Heiji was also furious because of the information that Yusaku had just told him.

The dual timeline cleverly integrates the news of "the nuclear bomb being detonated" into the history of "Kudo Yusaku being angry because the Group A headquarters still replaced the weapons with live ammunition."

So, the history continued like this, exactly the same as what happened in the "Loop". Kudo Yusaku told Hattori Heiji that he needed to find a child named "Edogawa Conan".

"I'll get to the bottom of the nuclear bomb, Heiji. What you need to do now is go to the Beika branch of the Shiling Bank immediately! Go and help a kid named Edogawa Conan. I'll tell you the details in the car."

The true history began to gradually surface. In the military base behind him, in the eyes of Hattori Heiji, a guard drove a car in front of him as if it was the second time.

Time has begun to synchronize——

Drive to Mihua Branch...

Find that familiar child...

Under Conan's command, we will track down the "pointer"...

Except that the dual timeline infiltrated some non-existent history at the moment the prophecy machine was activated, everything seemed to have not changed.

But there seems to be some small changes in the details.

When the bank exploded violently, at Tokyo Airport, which faded from the center of the story, a woman with a determined look hailed a taxi.

"I'm going to Beika-cho 2-chome-22, and hurry!"

Senna's voice was a little hurried. The moment she stepped off the plane, the second hand of the TDD on her hand suddenly became nimble again.

"Tick-"

Almost at the same time, two sounds of car wheels rubbing against the asphalt road were heard in two different locations.

At the same time that Senna arrived at Dr. Agasa's house, Hattori Heiji arrived at the Beika Town Cargo Port with Conan, who looked determined.

……

In that familiar seaport, that familiar warehouse, and even that familiar pool of blood lying on the ground.

"tell me."

Hattori Heiji watched Conan walk out of the shadow behind the warehouse with such a determined look, and watched Kudo Shinichi slowly walk to his side.

"Hattori Heiji! If you still think you're a detective—!"

“We know very little at the moment…”

Since I'm also a detective...

Hattori Heiji finally spoke.

"All I know is that it's an organization that uses alcohol as its code name, and everyone wears black..."

"And one who doesn't have a wine name."

……

Everything happened exactly as it did in history, even Hattori Heiji's subsequent forgetfulness of Miss Miyano.

——This is the key to connecting [Loop] and "Three Days of Non-Existence".

Then Conan saw that the pupils of Heiji in front of him shrank slightly, and saw a hint of confusion in his eyes, followed by an indescribable confusion.

"who's that person?!"

Everything is exactly the same as what happened in history, even Kudo Shinichi interrupting Hattori Heiji's thoughts and memories.

Conan's question interrupted Hattori Heiji's distraction, and Heiji's eyes fell on the corpse lying on the ground behind Conan.

"The leader of this organization, whom they call 'that gentleman', is in charge of all this."

Everything happened exactly as it did in history, except for one thing.

When he saw the body of Miss Yami lying behind Conan, Hattori Heiji's pupils shrank slightly for a moment——

He was pretty sure he had seen the woman lying on the ground once before.

But how is this possible? !

……

And Senna's action is coming to an end.

"Tick tick tick——"

The hour hand of TDD began to shake slightly as if it could no longer hold on.

"Ding dong!"

As the doorbell rang, Dr. Agasa, who was trying to add some equipment to Conan's skateboard, scratched his head in confusion.

Opening the door of the villa, Dr. Agasa walked into the yard and took a look outside.

There is no one.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Senna nimbly crossed the gate at 25 times the speed.

While Dr. Agasa was walking into the yard to see who had done the prank, she quietly slipped into the doctor's house through the open door.

Then, following the route and plan given on TDD, after passing through the detection equipment and traps set up by the alliance that had been shut down by TDD, Senna carefully cleaned up her own traces while restoring them to their original state.

According to the commander-in-chief, the "surveillance" that Dr. Agasa was under was different, but since he did not exist at this moment in history——

"Senna, you must not alert Dr. Agasa, and at the same time, conceal any traces of yourself that may cause a paradox before the cycle is completely completed."

Finally, when the clock started to move, Senna stood in front of the familiar door.

"call--"

Heavy breathing and soft groans caused by pain were heard in front of the [Gate of Circulation].

Senna knew that this was because her own history was synchronizing with the history of being attacked by a nuclear bomb.

Technologies that were a century beyond reality did not include defenses capable of fully withstanding a nuclear blast head-on.

The damage caused to her by the radiation and shock waves was beginning to show as the TDD cycle loosened over time.

Even Senna's vision began to blur. Senna knew that the reality that the shock wave shattered her lens was beginning to cover her state.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

Senna's fingers were almost trembling, she knew she couldn't hold on to the end - her time was running out.

It can even be said that Senna's existence itself has begun to become unstable.

But by chance, Senna suddenly recalled a person the commander once talked about with admiration.

A man who fights against two timelines alone.

A story about a single person who threatens dual timelines.

If I also reduce the TDD interference range...

A hint of fear flashed in her pupils, but then the memories that appeared before her immediately turned the fear into determination.

Senna raised her head slightly, looking at the faint light coming from the familiar door, a weak but firm smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Now that's the only way.

After setting the [Loop] range for TDD one minute later, Senna placed the recognition interface and her hand on the platform responsible for restarting the program.

Her body tensed up involuntarily because of what she was about to face, and Senna even felt that her right hand could hardly hold anything.

Her right hand was trembling slightly.

Senna turned her head away, she gently closed her eyes, and told herself in her heart -

"It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt at all."

……

Executive level, CYZ Alliance Conference Hall
In the spacious conference hall, the air seemed to freeze. The cold light of the projector illuminated the entire hall, and a long list slowly appeared on the holographic screen.

"After the timelines were synchronized, we deduced from the time display what the dual timelines had designed during the three days of reversal."

In the executive floor meeting hall, Shigenobu Hitomi read out the names one by one in a somewhat heavy tone.

"It is precisely because of them—"

"Ye Wenjie."

"Wendy Senna."

"Nagano Yuu."

"Alexei Bell..."

Each name is like a heavy monument, engraved with the irreversible sacrifice of the past three days.

Shigenobu Hitomi's somewhat sad voice echoed throughout the entire alliance.

"The CYZ Alliance will award them all the 'Alliance Star' badge!"

"Their sacrifice bought the Alliance precious time. The Alliance will never forget their blood, tears, and sacrifice! The Alliance will never give up on bringing them back from the history of sacrifice."

In the alliance's base, the square at the entrance of the [Circular Gate] was temporarily widened. Even so, this temporarily expanded square was still full of people.

Almost all the task force members of the action and protection layers, the researchers of the research layer, the logistics personnel of the logistics layer...

"salute--!"

The sound of coordinated movements instantly resounded throughout the hall. Everyone stood up at the same time, right hands raised high. The solemn figures cast heavy shadows in the pale light.

This is only a temporary sacrifice, not a lifelong one.

(End of this chapter)