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

Chapter 5: Research on the Representation of Conan's Timeline

The timeline of the Conan world has always been a topic discussed by many people in Lin Sheng's previous life.

In particular, he has read several well-written fan fictions, which even write very interesting things about this feature.

If calculated in real time, it had been 28 years since the Conan animation was broadcast before Lin Sheng traveled through time, although the "official" statement said that only about half a year had passed since Kudo Shinichi took the medicine and became smaller.

But this is obviously illogical.

After all, in Conan's world, the earth revolves around the sun once every 365 days.

You can neither experience multiple Valentine's Days in one week, nor can you experience all four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in one week.

It is even more impossible that the technological leap from flip phones to full-screen phones was achieved in just half a year, and even artificial intelligence and VR games similar to Sword Art Online were created in the movie version.

Judging from Lin Sheng’s experience over the past ten years.

To be honest he had never felt that there was anything wrong with time, except today.

如果按照原来的剧情来说，工藤新一大概是1994年的1月12日到2月14日之间变成死神小学生的。

"It's probably true that Kudo Shinichi hasn't shrunk yet," Lin Sheng wrote down the currently known information under the "Facts" page. "Regardless, today is December 1993, 12, which means there are less than two months left until Kudo Shinichi shrinks."

Considering that Oota Xiaochuan confirmed that Kudo Shinichi did solve 14 murder cases in four days: "Then I can put aside the issue of Maori Kogoro for now."

There are too many doubts and too little information about the fact that Kogoro was called the "Sleeping Detective" before Kudo Shinichi became small.

Lin Sheng remembered that Kogoro himself loved drinking in the anime. Perhaps this was a case in Kogoro's memory one day in the future that he had not seen yet.

After all, this is a real world now, and it is impossible to have flashbacks or flashbacks that can pull the time presented in the anime back to the past at any time.

Time, cases, timelines, time loops...

There are also planes!

Why did the time loop only start when I was on the plane? This time loop did not start on the morning of the 12th, before Lin Sheng boarded the plane.

It happened right on the plane, circulating throughout the three-hour flight.

Lin Sheng vaguely felt that this might be the most crucial information, so he drew two parallel lines on the paper.

On the left side of the top one write – “Travel through the timeline.”

Next to another one, write - "Real Timeline".

The real timeline is easy to understand. It is divided according to the "real" experience. Simply put, it is observed based on the time perception of people like Oota Xiaochuan or others.

The other one, as the name suggests, is Lin Sheng himself, a time traveler who perceives that time is circulating in a timeline.

"Hey Datian," Lin Sheng called Datian Xiaochuan over to him, "Can I ask what you've been doing these past few days?"

In the end, Lin Sheng got to know Datian Xiaochuan's reality timeline, and the first half was very similar to his own experience:
I had a meeting with Lin Sheng on December 12th, and then there were 4 complete days without any loops or skips, which brought us to December 6th. Then I made a few days of preparation according to Lin Sheng's arrangements.

Finally, on the 12th, we left the airport around noon today, and we still had two hours to arrive in Tokyo.

Lin Sheng drew a circle at the different places between the two timelines.

"In other words, something happened within ten minutes after I boarded the plane, causing a time loop."

But what if time didn’t actually repeat itself and six days had actually passed?

Lin Sheng extended the "time travel line" with a pen, wrote "12.20" at the end, and circled it again and again with a red pen.

"If Conan's timeline is actually calculated based on the time when the case occurred..."

Lin Sheng was shocked by his own thoughts, and he quickly took advantage of the inspiration to continue writing.

According to official sources, all of these cases occurred within six months. If we count each case as one day or even less than one day...

Lin Sheng drew another line at the bottom and wrote:

"Story Timeline".

Now he has figured out that the timeline of his world is not linear.

But they are time nodes one by one!

The most important thing is that these identified time nodes are likely to be the time points when a case occurred.

To be more precise, the time in Conan's world is probably based on the time of the cases that happened to Conan!
Lin Sheng wrote down the two basic premises he had deduced:

First, both timelines are real; second, there is only one Conan world, and all timelines run simultaneously in one world.

This also explains why Lin Sheng's sense of time is inconsistent with that of other people.

In order to ensure that all cases and events in the "story timeline" occurred within half a year, the Conan world "deleted" the time when all cases occurred.

Considering that some cases took several days.

The Conan world may even "delete" all the time except for Conan's appearance and reasoning time!
The "deletion" here does not mean that these times do not exist, but a tricky way is used to make other people subconsciously ignore them.

Give the simplest example.

Conan solved a case one winter day, on December 12th.

Next, according to the "story line of events", the next case should happen in the summer, such as in July.

Because the concept of year, month and day does not exist for the story timeline.

Lin Sheng didn’t know whether one case was counted as one day or how it was calculated, but at least it was calculated according to this method.

So according to the story timeline, after December 12th should be a day in July.

But real time cannot jump, just like Lin Sheng has indeed experienced ten years in the past.

Therefore, time would continue to "loop" for several months for everyone on Earth.

They don't realize that time is actually looping within the "day" of the story's timeline.

The real timeline will not continue until the story timeline reaches the next "case node".

This also leads to strange phenomena such as summer following winter.

This configuration can effectively solve the problem that Conan and the protagonists have not grown up for decades, and even the black side such as Gin and others do not age.

Because they are important plot characters and ordinary passers-by in Conan.

These guys don't use the same timeline calculation method as everyone else!

For ordinary people living in the world of science, the world is normal and technological development is proceeding step by step.

For Conan and his friends, the world is normal. They use flip phones in the morning and smartphones in the afternoon.

The only intersection between the story timeline and the real timeline is the surrounding things. Because there is only one Conan world, they exist in both event lines at the same time.

Until now, there is a time traveler.

If Lin Sheng guessed correctly, the current real world actually has no "cycle time" for cases.

This also explains why other people don't think time is "looping". In their eyes, it's just a slightly "long" flight.

But it is likely that the timeline issue was realized after that day's meeting.

Lin Sheng himself caused a new timeline to form, or a bug.

As a result, the timeline that Lin Sheng is in can be said to be sandwiched between the story timeline and the real timeline.

This also means that Lin Sheng enjoys the advantages and disadvantages of both at the same time.

For example, it can be said that he now has several times more time, but like the protagonists, he will not age because of this extra time.

But when he thought about the current situation, Lin Sheng's face turned ugly.

If he guessed correctly.

The cycle of this flight will only end when the next case node appears.

“But who knows when the next case will happen!”

You know, excluding today, the food on the plane is only enough for 7 days!

unless……

Lin Sheng now has a bold idea.

Unless I'm leading a case on a plane.

(End of this chapter)