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

Chapter 48: Research Report on APTX-4869 in the Real Timeline

Many people, many people are amazed at the rapid technological advancement of the CYZ Alliance.

Not just the task force members who use it, or the logistics staff who accidentally see a blueprint.

No matter how you look at it, TDD, or TDD-ITA.

Even the little gadgets that interfere with the timeline and those RSI value measuring tools are far beyond what can be achieved in "a few days".

Is this just the buff help provided by Dr. Agasa, or can it be explained by the so-called "time traveler effect"?

The invention of TDD can be said to be entirely with the help of Lin Sheng himself.

What about other devices that interfere with time?

The mask that could steal a small part of the disguised person's timeline, Lin Sheng's office, and the "oracle" that was more like a wish-granting machine...

And many more incredible inventions.

Certainly none of them appeared out of the blue.

All this happened on the "night" when Conan became small.

It can be said without hesitation that the second burst of the alliance's technological level originated from the research of one thing—

APTX-4869.

It was also during that cautious attempt by the Time Exploration Department that they finally obtained the most direct evidence for the dual timeline theory.

It also led some intuitive people, such as the Narrative Studies Department, to speculate that perhaps the "cycle" or "story" was not always on Conan's side.

"What a beautiful crystal, as beautiful as time itself..."

Faced with this precious sample, almost all researchers are obsessed with what APTX-4869 looks like in the real timeline.

There is only one universe in the Conan world.

Although the Time Exploration Department has speculated in the "Dual Timeline Theory".

But when such a result was really put in front of them, they still couldn't believe it——

"It's reality! It's our reality! It actually rationalizes it!"

The action of force is always mutual.

When one thing can touch or cover another, it means the reverse is also possible.

"APTX-4869", a "poison" that shrinks Kudo Shinichi.

Something that only ever appears in the "story timeline".

The starting point of everything.

Perhaps APTX-4869 was once a common poison, or its occasional side effects could rejuvenate people.

Then the alliance that has mastered its sample can easily mass-produce it in reality through research and bring it into the "circulation".

The consequences of this are terrible.

Just think about it! Copy APTX-4869 into hundreds of millions of copies and spread them in a "loop"...

No matter what, this is something that the [story timeline] absolutely cannot make up for.

This means that the alliance can even directly threaten the operating logic of the entire "story timeline".

Even for the universe itself, the actions of the Alliance directly attacked its sore spot.

Therefore, the universe cannot allow this thing to be easily replicated in "reality".

Two timelines are enough, even if it is just a tributary of time that may emerge——

It really couldn't hold any more.

"Therefore, reality has to rationalize APTX-4869 in reverse," Dr. Bai's voice cracked with excitement. "In other words, that is to say!"

"For the first time, we've found a way to interfere with timelines that isn't based on the [Traveler Effect]!"

Yes.

That night, the Alliance truly discovered the physical existence of "time crystals" in the real timeline.

Rather than being just a drug as in the “story,” the reality of the rationalization process gives APTX-4869 itself another dimension.

Its actual [unfolded] form is a high-dimensional crystal that exists in a unique state of broken time symmetry.

And because APTX-4869 exists at an anchor point in reality, part of its three-dimensional form is locked to the location where APTX-4869 exists in reality.

"It's clear that it doesn't conform to normal temporal and causal mechanisms, meaning it doesn't follow the normal flow of time."

In subsequent studies, researchers easily discovered that it could somehow "remember" or "store" time information, and under certain conditions, it could cause local reorganization and folding of the timeline. This is also the origin of Lin Sheng's "spiritual time chamber." It does not actually accelerate time, but rather creates a small "loop structure" or "folding structure" in the space-time structure of the real timeline.

Under the influence of the "time traveler effect", Lin Sheng's uniqueness allows it to maintain periodic changes without relying on external energy input.

Even the final result is better.

Of course, things didn't go so well for other studies.

This is also the reason why the "Oracle" and the "Timeline Disguise Mask" are just isolated experiments.

They were completely accidental results of the experiment.

The idea of "Oracle" originated from the Department of Narrative Studies' hope to make a "small" explosion in the time structure of the universe, hoping to discover the laws governing its operation.

And everyone knows the subsequent developments.

Jon Joshua, former director of the Narratology Lab.

Because it is too radical, dangerous, crazy, unacceptable, and attacks, threatens, and harms the logic of the universe.

Demoted to Level 0 due to undeclared experimental activities.

The Alliance does not wish to commit suicide, nor does it wish to perish together with the Scientific Universe.

This directly led to the executive level quickly paying attention to the power and functions of the CYZ Alliance Ethics and Regulatory Committee.

This led to sighs and lamentations among researchers.

As for that completely useless "timeline disguise mask".

It actually originated from the "Escapism" plan of the Temporal Continuity Department.

The predecessor of this mask was the Alliance's attempt to fix a small "story timeline" in reality, in order to achieve an evasive attempt to form a "story timeline" unique to the Alliance in the past reality.

Of course, that attempt failed, so it was taken to the Equipment Department for some modifications, hoping that it could be reused in the "cycle".

And because of the properties of APTX-4869, these devices must use it.

To be precise, in the non-"looping" state, these time crystals will be consumed extremely quickly, almost at a hundred times the demand compared to in the "looping" state.

This not only resulted in even the designers in the Logistics Equipment Department, who had wild ideas every day, having to guarantee that they would not take the samples under the "threat" of the research level.

Moreover, after that accident, any use must be under the supervision of the Ethics Committee.

It was also after that that some scholars in the Narrative Studies Department began to doubt the Doctor's "motivation" for being able to "successfully join" the Alliance.

And accordingly proposed the [character creation theory] of [story timeline].

Because Dr. Agasa played no role at all in the research on APTX-4869, it was as if the buff on him had completely disappeared.

This made Lin Sheng unable to resist the advice of the research and executive levels, and he finally made a subtle test on the doctor.

Fortunately, the results later proved that the doctor was indeed innocent.

Although the "loop" or "story timeline" does have a strong ability to interfere with Dr. Agasa, the doctor's [personality] is not unbreakable.

It was at that time that the voice of the "Utilization Faction" grew stronger within the alliance.

“No theory, no proof, no verification…”

"We may only need the participation of the Absolute Time Node to reversely utilize the results of Him rationalizing everything around us!"

Jon Joshua, former head of the Narrative Studies Department, shouted this slogan at the time.

"Just think about it! No matter how bizarre it is in the [Loop]! As long as we can take it out of the [Loop], the entire reality will return us a perfect sample!"

"No, we can't say for sure whether this is due to something unique to APTX-4869 or if this is a general phenomenon."

Both the Time Exploration Department and the Temporal Continuity Laboratory have proposed the opposite view.

They think this is pure wishful thinking.

"This doesn't explain the abnormal phenomena caused by the [Target] in the previous cycle, that is, why the dog still maintained normal biological performance after the cycle ended."

"At the same time, APTX-4869 is the first inanimate object discovered by the Alliance in the real timeline with an RSI value higher than that in the [Loop]!"

This is also the reason why the research level can even be said to be "hateful to the core" when faced with Dr. Agasa's rejection.

In order to prove which side's point of view is correct, the best insurance is for Dr. Agasa to give the device an "ideal state" buff.

Fortunately, researchers have recently found a new research method.

With the help of APTX-4869, they came up with a new gadget——

Timing stable warehouse.

(End of this chapter)