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

Chapter 188: The Mobius Strip Timeline War ( words long! Please give me a monthly pass)
In the future, in all archives related to the CYZ Alliance Historical Archives and timelines——

"Mobius Strip Timeline War" is definitely the most borrowed and studied book.

Because it faithfully records the entire process of the CYZ Alliance's first timeline war, and the first time was not a regular timeline war.

All of this can be traced back to the moment when the prophecy machine was activated and the third cycle day officially began.

"Since they want war, let's give them war!"

The first second after the universe's declaration of war was confirmed, the executive layer immediately made the most decisive decision -

The relative flow rate within the entire [circulation] is adjusted to the highest level.

All departments had been notified long ago, and the action level immediately began trying to communicate with "reality". The research level immediately activated the time display to understand what the dual timelines were doing at that moment.

Unsurprisingly, the first key information the alliance received was related to the declaration of war issued by the prophecy machine.

The Narrative Studies Department immediately uploaded the decoded information of the "declaration of war" and the proposition selected by the prophecy machine to the execution layer.

In the executive level conference hall, Shigenobu Hitomi waved her hand and projected the analysis results to the center of the hall.

The image displayed made everyone in the executive hall feel a sinking feeling in their hearts.

What is displayed on the light screen is the worst outcome of the three propositions.

Silence enveloped the entire conference hall until Shigenobu Hitomi waved her hand and the line of words in the air disappeared.

Her calm voice broke the silence: "Very good, we drew the worst of the three options."

"According to the Narrative Studies Department's interpretation, in the case involving the third pointer, we are likely to be engaged in a timeline war."

At that time, no one in the alliance had expected that the first timeline war would come so quickly.

because--

The third cycle day is the first day when the first timeline war officially begins.

It’s also the last day.

……

Just as the executives had anticipated from the beginning, the dual timelines chose to attack the [Gate of Loops] during the period when the alliance could hardly interfere.

Ye Wenjie and others' final resistance to the dual timeline was fully displayed by the time display in the executive hall.

Those scenes made the air a little heavy. Shigenobu Hitomi sighed and broke the silence.

"Their sacrifice was not in vain. We haven't completely severed our connection with the dual timeline yet, which buys us a precious opportunity and time."

"The door on Dr. Agasa's side has been connected to the Alliance. More importantly, we have recovered the time node on that TDD."

A low murmur echoed in the conference room, and everyone's expression became serious. They all knew what this meant -

The recycling of time nodes means that the alliance still has the possibility of intervening in this reverse timeline again!
"The relevant research projects have been dispatched. The Time Research Department will soon be able to figure out the relevant logic of time reversal. We now have more than enough resources to conduct an experiment."

"The Alliance will attempt to rescue everyone on the Explorer tanker and even try to erase this reversed timeline."

As Shigenobu Hitomi's voice fell.

On the time display, the inverted timeline was magnified and displayed, with each key time point accurately marked and projected one by one onto the holographic screen in the conference room.

Then, a member of parliament responsible for communicating with the operations team also stood up and added: "The operations team has completed a detailed analysis of the three-day inversion timeline."

"At these critical time points, the operational layer can try to mislead the GSSRA or cancel their subsequent actions."

The final plan was finalized in Shigenobu Hitomi's resolute voice: "As soon as the time tracking device is completed, the operations team will take action immediately."

……

The Time Research Department has never given up on studying the phenomenon of "time reversal", and they firmly believe that it is related to the [loop].

In the past R&D (funding) meetings for the Time Tracing Device, Bai Zichen had been trying hard to explain this to the executive team:
"The way time is represented in [Loop] is very similar to the inversion of the timeline. The time nodes are all chaotic and do not follow normal understanding."

"Therefore, how to advance history is very important. The Alliance uses the CYZ effect to force the continuation of history, while the dual timeline uses Kudo Shinichi to achieve this effect."

"What about the timeline reversal?"

Yes, the negative timeline record carried on that TDD is the last piece of the time travel device.

It solved the biggest difficulty that the Time Research Department had in trying to actually build a time machine:
How to determine the space-time structure of the inversion timeline?

It is indeed difficult for human logic to understand the existence of such a contradictory timeline.

Fortunately, Lin Sheng could understand. He didn't even need to use the CYZ effect. With his true timeline perception, he only needed to take a look at the TDD to understand.

What's more important is——

This node seems to be the ready-made answer.

"We just need to control the loop to move forward according to the inversion structure recorded by TDD."

"Even because the Alliance exists independently of the dual timelines, we don't need to retrace their entirety like we do with the dual timelines. We only need to retrace the spacetime roughly within the scope of Earth or the solar system."

What the alliance lacks the least now is APTX-4869, even though its preparation requires materials that are not affected by the CYZ effect and must be produced manually on a small scale in the laboratory.

The Alliance's current APTX-4869 reserves are—

A full ton.

Bai Zichen then displayed the calculated data in front of everyone.

"If it's just three days, we're sure it won't cause any timeline errors."

"The range of the cycle generator increases exponentially with the input of time crystals. Currently, if we look back three days, it's enough to perform more than a dozen operations."

……

Then came the Alliance's first attempt to backtrack and push the timeline back to Day -3.

The first backtracking failed unsurprisingly.

“We didn’t go back to Day -3 at all,” Soros reported to the operations team after returning to the Alliance [Loop]. “We appeared directly on Day -0.5.”

"According to the plan, we didn't take any additional action. We just waited until the door opened and then returned."

Although the rescue operation failed, it verified the alliance's hypothesis.

In the executive meeting hall, Bai Zichen's virtual image explained their findings to everyone.

"Their omniscience of the timeline has become a weakness in a sense. They don't realize they've been retraced."

"Even the task forces we sent out weren't significantly disturbed, because they couldn't see the actions of the pre-inversion Alliance in the [Loop] and tended to think those teams had appeared out of nowhere."

"According to the data from the time display, the dual timelines have proactively linked their appearance to the final scene where Ye Wenjie detonated the door, creating a disguised image of the door opening."

This was undoubtedly good news, but then Bai Zichen's voice became low.

"And the bad news is that the opening of the door truly means the end of the [cycle]... and the end of the [cycle] means—"

The end of the [loop] means that the "save" has been "overwritten".

"In other words, the nuclear explosion is a point that cannot be circumvented. The end of that fictional timeline has become solidified cement."

"No matter how hard we try, we can't reverse time to before the door opened."

“No, that’s not right—!”

The next second, someone immediately stood up to refute Bai Zichen's explanation.

"The door was opened on -0.5 days, and shouldn't the end point of the [loop] be after [Kudo Shinichi] gets the pointer? That's what happens in the positive timeline!"

"Yes."

Bai Zichen nodded and explained the contradiction in the timeline: "So this is a true time loop, not one of ignoring, skipping, or cutting."

"The door opens on day 0.5, and day -0.5 doesn't actually exist."

"This is a Mobius time loop."

Bai Zichen called up a space-time structure from TDD, or in other words, a Möbius strip projected into the air.

In the virtual projection, the position of ±0.5 days of the Möbius strip space-time structure was marked and adjusted to the center.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Zichen marked "±0th day", "±0.5th day" and "±1st day" on the left, middle and right of this "∞" structure respectively.

He explains how reality does it.

"Because from Conan's perspective, he has never experienced the same case twice. His ordinary side cannot see the reverse side of the timeline. For reality, the time when the door opens is the 0.5 day."

The Möbius strip in the air reversed, and under Bai Zichen's operation, a black dot appeared at the position of -0.5 days.

Then, just like a real ink dot on a piece of paper, in the center of the magnified structure, the ink dot penetrated from the -0.5 day to the back.

"On the Möbius strip, -0.5 days and 0.5 days are the positive and negative sides of the same time node on this piece of paper tape. The dual timeline uses this intersection to make this non-existent history become real."

"In fact, according to estimates, the original intersection point should not be on the -0.5th day, and the later the better."

"That way, before the [Cycle] completely ends, the dual timelines will be able to fix as many realities that are unfavorable to the Alliance as possible during the time the Alliance is unable to leave."

"But they were only half successful, because at -0.5 days the door was opened."

"Senna is part of that reversed timeline. In other words, when the two timelines let the ink seep through the back of the paper, they had to acknowledge Senna's actions. In other words, they had to separate in advance."

The opening of the [Gate of Cycle] means the end of the [Cycle] shock period, which means that [Kudo Shinichi] has acknowledged everything that happened in the [Cycle].

"The question is how does dual timeline work?"

The ink dots seep through the back of the paper, which sounds easy to understand.

But put that on a timeline that's structured like a Möbius strip—it sounds a bit absurd.

"We don't know yet," Bai Zichen shook his head, "but if we want to fix the modified results in the end, we must figure this out."

At the end of the meeting, Shigenobu Hitomi summarized Bai Zichen's meaning.

"In other words, we need to find out how the dual timelines achieve this, and the only thing the league can change is what happened in that 0.5 day period."

——Who better to ask for help than Lin Sheng?

After all, after the prophecy machine was fully activated, Lin Sheng undoubtedly regained his vision of the future within the alliance cycle.

What was somewhat surprising was that this time, Hitomi Shigenobu rejected the executive level's proposal.

"ZC-01 has helped us accomplish the most difficult task—demonstrating the space-time structure required for the time reversal device."

Shigenobu Hitomi explained why she disagreed with this.

"I don't know what you think, but for the Alliance, if we can use the time crystal, we must do our best to prevent ZC-01 from taking action. Furthermore, the dual timelines are always watching ZC-01, so we must avoid any accidents."

"The CYZ effect should be the decisive force. Now that APTX-4869 is almost ready for mass production, let them try it out!"

……

"Let's not forget that all of this is caused by the timeline loophole created by that magic circle."

At the executive meeting, Ms. Miyano shared her findings.

"The key to our changing all this lies with Akemi Miyano."

Initially, Ms. Miyano was just trying to push Miyano Akemi's future forward to the next day as usual.

This is what she does over and over again in every [cycle].

However, the result was different this time. Miyano Akemi's timeline only advanced for half a day before it came to an abrupt halt.

This actually seems to have nothing to do with the current situation of the alliance, but Ms. Miyano is keenly aware of this -

The situation where time can only be advanced half a day occurs after the prophecy machine is activated, that is, after the dual time lines are inverted.

The Alliance originally thought that Akemi Miyano was just the introduction of the dual timeline as a hook for the timeline loophole, but now it seems that she is more important.

The timing department immediately received orders from the executive level.

"Pull out the complete historical process of Miyano Akemi!"

"We need to compare and find out the exact difference between the loop results after the timeline inversion and before the inversion. We can't miss any subtle differences and must compare them carefully!"

Then the Sequence Department discovered an extremely hidden clue——

That is, the information received by Kudo Yusaku has changed.

The time display device visually shows the changes before and after the timeline is inverted.

"We can see that according to the original historical trajectory, what Kudo Yusaku took over here should be him asking the GSSRA investigation department to take action. Then he would obtain information about the 'nameless wine' Ms. Miyano from those red team undercovers."

"But now that information is gone."

The two different short histories that have changed are projected.

In the scene, Kudo Yusaku was really angry because of the news he had just received that GSSRA had detonated a nuclear bomb near Hawaii, and began to ask for an explanation from the decision-making department of GSSRA.

"Thus, unlike the first time, the nuclear bomb explosion interrupted Kudo Yusaku's exploration of the documents at hand."

This time, Kudo Yusaku had enough reasons not to finish reading the documents, and not being able to finish reading them meant that he didn't know.

——For the dual timeline, this means that this information can completely "never exist".

……

But here lies the problem -

The dual-timeline plan, if you say it failed, it was half successful; if you say it succeeded, it was only half successful.

So did it succeed?

"Obviously they got carried away!"

Bai Zichen became excited because of Miss Miyano's discovery.

"Because this is different from the previous storyline in the [Loop] where reality and the logic of things were arbitrarily modified. While we are stuck at ±0.5 days, they are also stuck."

Senna's sacrifice locked the end time of the [cycle] in advance.

This means that everything that happened in the past, especially the reasoning carried out in front of Kudo Shinichi, and even the occurrence of all events, has become an established fact and cannot be modified.

Nothing can be changed.

The history of Hattori Heiji driving Conan to the port has become solidified cement on the timeline.

"But completely erasing Miyano Akemi's history will bring about a consequence, or a question."

Since Miyano Akemi never existed in the first place, the question is -

What exactly caused all of this to happen?
"The first half of the Möbius strip was cut off, leaving only the result of cause and effect."

"But in reality, the dual timeline cannot provide a real reason—"

"[Kudo Shinichi] is stuck there."

"Perhaps if the center of this Mobius is moved back half a day, we'll find a way to get it round. But just like we're stuck in this ±0.5 day, the dual timeline itself is also trapped."

The dual timelines intended to influence the future by modifying the past, but in the end, their plans came to a strange standstill.

The only remedy they can do is...

Bai Zichen played the comparison before and after the inversion again.

"In reality, the dual timelines only obscure the true history. They attempt to address the -0.5 day shortcoming by hinting at and modifying themselves."

As for the timeline itself, if they pretend not to see it, then they really can't see it.

What is finally revealed is that the blurring technique of the [story timeline] is extremely poor.

——This is the reverse timeline after all.

It can only try to make its own history conform to the "truth", and then make revisions and try to add some personal opinions to the original history.

And finally, after going around in circles, the question came back again.

Ms. Miyano raised her long-standing doubts: "So why does the dual timeline have to eliminate Miyano Akemi's history?"

A council member replied, "Because they want to prevent us from 'resurrecting' Akemi Miyano."

"No, that's not what I meant."

Ms. Miyano explained herself a little more clearly.

"First of all, we must understand that when Hattori Heiji first lost his memory, Akemi's [historical advancement] was only one day. This means that as long as the time after the [loop] ends exceeds one day, Akemi will not be able to appear again. In other words, if she appears, she will be erased."

"Secondly, according to the dual timeline plan, after the [Loop Gate] is blown up, unless the Alliance returns the [Loop], it will be impossible to enter and exit the [Loop] and the dual timeline."

"In fact, there is no need to make Miyano Akemi be 'completely' forgotten. Their purpose has been achieved, but——"

Someone understood what she was going to say.

"However, due to the premature end of the [Cycle], the dual timeline still chose to shorten Miyano Akemi's history to ±0.5 days."

"This advance could even make the first half of the Möbius strip's space-time structure, its 'cause', non-existent, but the dual timelines still do this." "In other words, they must establish the fact that Miyano Akemi doesn't exist."

"What will that affect?"

The next moment, Miss Miyano covered her mouth, and a look of surprise suddenly appeared in her pupils.

Everyone reacted immediately, and many voices rang out at the same time.

"Immediately have the Time Research Department/Chronology Department/Narrative Studies Department...check the changes to Miyano Shiho's timeline!"

……

As the timeline is compared with Miyano Shiho's, more details emerge.

Faced with the summary handed over by the research staff, Ms. Miyano lowered her head, letting her face be hidden in the shadow of her hanging hair.

This is a conclusion that the entire league finds incredible.

"How can the [story timeline] be calculated so far ahead?"

The plot of the [Story Timeline] can even be traced back to before the [Loop] occurred, back to when Ms. Miyano was still in the "Black Organization".

"No, it's not that far-reaching."

Bai Zichen stepped forward to explain, "But for it, everything that happens on the timeline can be incorporated into the plan for the next moment at every moment."

Even though Kudo Shinichi cannot see the future directly, the "past" is a part of the timeline.

At that time, the [story timeline] had already begun preparing and planning for the third pointer.

In the timeline of Miyano Shiho shown by the time display instrument, she did not follow the route of the original work at all.

"During that time, she was constantly shopping, and even after Ms. Miyano showed up, she boldly stopped the APTX-4869 research. The next thing she did was try to get in touch with Akemi Miyano and enjoy life."

——Miyano Shiho did not lead people to check whether Kudo Shinichi died from APTX-4869 as written in the original trajectory.
This means that she has no idea that Conan is Kudo Shinichi, and that would be a big problem!

"This means that Miyano Shiho has never been to the Kudo family..."

"This means that the Alliance will have to compete with the [Story Timeline] to determine the process that led Haibara Ai to find Dr. Agasa's house. It's even questionable whether the dual timeline will lead her to appear at the doctor's house."

The executives don't even need to discuss whether the dual timeline will do this. This is definitely a way that the dual timeline can be used to change Conan's mind about pursuing the truth.

Not only that, according to the situation, Miyano Shiho now remembers Miyano Akemi——

But what about Haibara Ai?
"APTX-4869 can only manifest its poisonous properties in the storyline, but the storyline never gives us the opportunity. Therefore, we still don't know the impact of its transformation effect on the user's timeline after it becomes a shrinking drug..."

On the screen, for the first time, long passages stating “Insufficient conditions, unable to judge” appeared in the Narrative Studies Department’s analysis.

"However, based on the original successful plan of the dual timeline, the final opinion of the Narrative Studies Department is as follows—"

On the projection screen of the instrument, a huge Möbius strip slowly rotated, and the final opinion of the Narrative Department slowly scrolled along with it.

"Based on the complete success of the dual timeline scenario, the Alliance will have to abandon the [loop] and return to the dual timeline. However, judging by the Alliance's current technology, both in reality and storyline, the Alliance's technological development has come a long way."

"This means the Alliance still has the means to combat dual timelines, but apart from the CYZ effect, the key material required for most equipment is APTX-4869."

APTX-4869 - that is, the time crystal itself.

"Therefore, there is no doubt that, with the impact of Akemi Miyano's disappearance, the dual timeline has sufficient motivation and ability to modify the formula of APTX-4869."

Miyano Shiho never completed her research on APTX-4869.

Therefore, the dual timeline only needs her to continue to "perfect" the formula of APTX-4869, and then the APTX-4869 production method in the hands of the Alliance will become obsolete.

"In the past, our APTX-4869 was a replica of the ones that originally shrunk Kudo Shinichi. Its special properties ensured that those time crystals would have absolute effectiveness."

"But if we make it ourselves, I think both timelines would be happy to cause us trouble, even to the point of completely changing the composition of the time crystal."

Then the huge advantage that the alliance has just established will disappear immediately.

And the narrative department’s analysis is not over yet.

"At the same time, from this point, it can be seen that the third case and the third pointer are very likely related to Huibara Ai!"

The following analysis is all highlighted in red and bold.

"After obtaining support from the Conan Psychological Analysis Institute, we readjusted Edogawa Conan's psychological model. His behavioral motivations and the plot have undergone significant deviations, and the most significant point is——"

"Edogawa Conan's desire to transform back into Kudo Shinichi is weakening."

The pursuit of the truth and the sacrifices of Dr. Agasa, Ms. Miyano and others...

All these made Conan rarely want to change back. Sometimes he even muttered about pointers in his dreams at night.

"In any case, our attempt seems to be to wrap up all the cases in six cases, but the problem is that the cases given by the ritual are too urgent."

——Edogawa Conan may not agree to his transformation back into Kudo Shinichi in the future!!!
So is it Shinichi Kudo who finally finds the "truth"?

How will this affect the outcome of the ceremony?
The mere thought of this made the executives shudder.

The Alliance must not allow that to happen, not even if it is possible!
"Plus the decisive role of the third case."

Shigenobu Hitomi's tone became a little serious, "We must make sure Conan has the idea of wanting to turn back into Kudo Shinichi."

Without Haibara Ai, the Alliance could not do this.

Moreover, in the timeline war, the dual timelines will never sit idly by and watch the alliance slowly guide Conan to want to change back.

"Also, the most crucial thing is the antidote. The development of the antidote must be carried out by Haibara Ai. Since the dual timelines have shown signs of being blocked, this in turn reveals their importance."

“So, in the next flashback, we’re going to try to increase Conan’s sense of daily life, allowing him to rest and have the desire to change back.”

After the first recap, on the 300th hour of the third cycle day of the Alliance [Cycle], this long meeting finally ended.

"very good."

Shigenobu Hitomi looked at the various analysis reports and action plans that almost filled the conference hall, which had been temporarily expanded several times, and nodded with satisfaction but a little fatigue.

"Then we just need to solve these problems one by one and try to complete them all in one regression."

……

The alliance began to try to accomplish all its goals in one go.

The third time backtracking.

"The results of a new psychological analysis of Conan are out."

"After the loop ends, if we want to delay [Kudo Shinichi] from pursuing the pointer, we need to have Professor Agasa find the pointer's name before him in the backtracking, but for some reason not tell him."

——Because Dr. Agasa cannot lie in front of [Kudo Shinichi].

This time the backtracking failed.

The seventh retrospection.

"We must ensure that Dr. Agasa does not know the reason for the delay, that he has to wait for Ai Haibara to appear before he can continue with the ritual, that he does not know the name of the third pointer, and that Dr. Agasa does not remember the location of Moon Shadow Island..."

"We can try to get Dr. Agasa to do nothing."

This time, Conan began to try alone to get the answer using the black decoder given by Dr. Agasa.

——Considering the role of Conan's subconscious after the end of the [Loop], the Alliance had to give up the plan of keeping Dr. Agasa in the dark.

Backtracking failed.

The tenth time backtracking.

"We believe that Dr. Agasa must provide some assistance as 'Watson', otherwise Conan will immediately begin his own investigation into the pointer."

The Narrative Studies Department presented the results of their analysis.

"Dr. Agasa must demonstrate the possibility that his method will work. He must at least decipher one word..."

"At the same time, we need to modify the method of obtaining the pointer's name, apply for a memory erasure procedure, and have the research team design a method to crack the pointer from scratch."

"This method must be sufficiently complex, without any cheating or trickery, and without using any technology beyond Conan's knowledge. It must also conform to Kudo Shinichi's behavioral logic."

——Conan asked to stay and help Dr. Agasa improve and design a new black decoder, and reasonably proposed some better methods.

Backtracking failed.

Thirteenth Retrospection.

"We need a way to interrupt Conan when he decides to stay and help Professor Agasa. He can't continue to stay at Professor Agasa's house, otherwise his detective nature as Conan will naturally tend to get the name of the pointer."

"At the same time, we need to divert Conan's attention - the dual timeline can also be used in this regard."

Therefore, the "Warm Harbor Plan" was proposed after the twelfth review.

"We can try to guide Xiaolan to increase Conan's sense of security during these 0.5 days, and at the same time try to relieve his psychological burden."

——Under Conan's coaxing, Mao Lilan agreed to let him stay at Professor Agasa's house overnight out of concern for Conan.

Even thanks to Mao Lilan's "good luck", this method was improved even more quickly.

Backtracking failed.

Fifteenth retrospection.

The plan was finally almost perfected by the fifteenth time.

The Skateboard Gift Project and the Warm Harbor Project can almost be considered successful.

"But it's not enough—"

"Simply delaying Edogawa Conan from discovering the pointer's name will actually be beneficial to both timelines later on."

"We must cleverly connect the delaying of Edogawa Conan with preventing the dual timeline from erasing Miyano Akemi's history."

An executive councillor raised objections.

"Because this is impossible for us to do, erasing Miyano Akemi's history is the bottom line of the dual timeline, and it is also the core of this Möbius strip structure."

"This means the Alliance will attempt to confront the entire fabric of spacetime during this period."

Bai Zichen refuted his words, "No, what we want to do is not to deny history."

"All we have to do is guide Edogawa Conan to realize that Miyano Akemi is very important. We don't have to achieve all our goals immediately. We just want to give the Alliance a chance to completely fix the composition of APTX-4869 after the [Cycle] ends, so that Haibara Ai can successfully reach Dr. Agasa's house."

He projected the behavioral logic of the two timelines, put them together, and compared their differences to the execution layer.

"I think we can start from the real timeline."

"We must be clear that in extreme cases, we cannot be sure that the story line will force a confirmation that the composition of APTX-4869 has been modified."

“In fact, this is a good opportunity to make the [real timeline] and the [story timeline] match each other.”

"Doesn't it have a big plan? Let's satisfy it—"

He projected the meetings of senior leaders from various countries into the executive conference hall.

"Theoretically, GSSRA will be hidden even deeper after this time because they have discovered what the scientific community calls 'extraterrestrial civilization background.'"

"We can try to take advantage of this. What if this matter can't be suppressed? We can try to have the GSSRA officially announced to the world to attract Edogawa Conan's attention."

"At the same time, this marks the official debut of the Red Team. Not only will its future actions have to be made public, but this background organization cannot be ignored within the context of the storyline."

Obviously, for the [real timeline], this cake that strengthens GSSRA's technological strength is something it will not spit out once it is swallowed.

The sixteenth time, the seventeenth time, the eighteenth time...

The improvement of this plan continued until the 33rd time, which was the time Dr. Agasa just experienced.

And just like what Conan, Ran, Kogoro Mori, Dr. Agasa, and Heiji Hattori experienced personally.

By the thirty-third time, everything was perfect with almost no room for improvement.

"Even the joke by Odayako about Conan and Kudo Shinichi looking alike, we noticed and used it, making it just right so that it didn't overdo it and allowed Conan's thoughts to be distracted from the search for the truth."

"The amount of food that Mao Lilan received was just enough for her to finally choose to let Mao Li Kogoro pick up Conan. This way, Conan couldn't use his cuteness to beg Mao Li to stay at Professor Agasa's house overnight."

Everything is perfect, except for one thing -

After the 33rd retrospection, GSSRA still did not choose to be officially established, and Hattori Heiji did not receive an invitation.

Regarding this issue, the alliance's final analysis results made the executive level laugh.

"Because we covered it up so well, the dual timelines don't feel any pressure."

In order to prevent the dual timelines from realizing that they are being retraced, the Alliance's actions are always based on "generating the least abnormal disturbance."

Even with the concerted efforts of the research team, all plans were finally implemented in a way that was both realistic and logical while retaining the interest of the story.

"Especially the [real timeline], it doesn't want to face the pressure of the storyline. For it, is it satisfied with the GSSRA getting a background setting of 'obtaining alien technology' and being able to participate in subsequent cases?"

This failure finally made the alliance determined.

The proposal put forward by the radicals in the executive level to make the "Black Organization" also have a "background of extraterrestrial interference" was passed.

"This will force reality to intervene by officially revealing GSSRA. Otherwise, in subsequent cases, the storyline can completely deny GSSRA's extraterrestrial technology background, but it can use it itself."

"Yes."

An executive-level legislator who supported this stood up and pumped his fist toward the sky.

"That certainly increases the amount of interference [in the story timeline], but also, after the GSSRA is announced, Conan will eventually know that these are related to extraterrestrial civilizations, which also means that the level of technology that the alliance can use will also increase."

"I have absolute confidence in the alliance's technical level!"

Finally, after looking at the supplementary materials submitted by the Narrative Studies Department, Hitomi Shigenobu also chose to support this plan.

"The Narrative Department has already provided a comprehensive 'Crime Enterprise' setting, which is enough to force reality to side with us, or at least not directly oppose the Alliance."

"Since the disappearance of the Science Frontiers headquarters is already fixed, we will also provide Science Frontiers with the extraterrestrial civilization background. At the same time, we can even allow Science Frontiers to proactively contact GSSRA in the future and propose certain cooperation with it."

"Then we can directly provide technical support with our alliance background."

……

Thus, the final retrospection began.

After that identical development, Dr. Agasa walked in the corridor back to the villa's living room, wondering if he was sleepwalking again.

At the same time, in Dr. Agasa's basement, the [Loop Door] flashed a few times.

While Dr. Agasa and Shinichi Mizuno were chatting, several members of the task force who had undergone magical timeline transformation arrived in front of the familiar beginning and end in advance.

"Has the doctor's location been determined?"

"OK." With a gesture, Chekov clicked the confirmation button with ease.

A secret door appears on the wall at a set "loop time point".

"Temporary copy completed."

Under the moonlight, "Dr. Agasa" suddenly woke up from sleepwalking and decided to see if there was any better way to decode the code.

His eyes turned to the moonlight outside the window.

"Well, maybe I can try to use moonlight to simulate a panoramic light source..."

The robots preset by the alliance began to use the moonlight to conduct experiments based on the "absolutely complex and difficult to replicate" decoding logic discovered by Shinichi Mizuno.

Immediately afterwards, a clear character "moon" appeared.

Then, as the real Professor Agasa began to turn back, moving towards the future on the path that had become like a Möbius strip, between forgetting and remembering -

The robot skillfully took off its mask and lay down in the groove exposed by the secret door.

Almost at the same time, in the harbor surrounded by warships and salvage ships sent by GSSRA.

In the darkness of the night, the dark sea water suddenly splashed with ripples.

"We've reached the area where Gin and Vodka threw away the electronic device containing Ms. Miyano's records."

"We have made the corresponding changes according to the hints given by Ms. Miyano herself. Next, we will confirm according to the plan whether the flashback phenomenon has made Hattori Heiji aware that his memory has been tampered with."

According to the plan, he made the same hint to Kudo Yusaku by using Hattori Heiji's amnesia as a reason for suspicion.

Next, all the league did was wait.

As Shinichi Mizuno saw Dr. Agasa leave... and saw Senna coming to relieve her pain...

And saw Professor Agasa coming to the [Gate of Circulation] that seemed to have stood for eternity.

In the distant void, Lin Sheng looked at the Möbius strip that was finally completed and smiled with satisfaction.

In the thirty-fourth retrospection, the alliance finally succeeded.

(Below is the approximate timeline development sequence of these dozen chapters)

PS: This detailed outline was determined by the author at the beginning. Now that I think about it, this kind of [cyclic] narrative timeline is indeed not suitable for the format of online literature, and if the foreshadowing is buried many chapters ago, people will easily forget it.

However, the main plot of the third case is the timeline war. I hope the author can write it more clearly later. QAQ
Finally, a 10,000-word chapter! I wrote it all day, please give me a monthly ticket QAQ
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