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

Chapter 55 What happens if the cosmic RSI background value rises?
"So, this cycle ends just like that?"

Lupus secretly watched Conan and his group getting out of the taxi through the camera and was a little bit unbelievable.

There were no major casualties, no systematic amnesia among the squad, and even no deaths in the case...

"You're overthinking it," Chekov said, looking at the feedback from Joyce. "I think there's a good chance we'll be swallowed up by the boss and those researchers this time."

"Why?" A curious voice came over the communication system. It was Wales. "I want to emphasize again, I didn't actually shoot!"

"Ahem," Joyce Joestar, or JOJO, coughed awkwardly twice over the communication system, "It's my problem."

He now looked down at the smoking device in his hand with a bitter look, "I broke that reality anchor—"

"Before this operation, those guys on the research level repeatedly emphasized that the total usage time of this thing in a cycle must not exceed three minutes!" Chekov really didn't know what to say to his team member.

"According to the plan, you only need to use it the moment the murderer falls! How can it take more than three minutes?"

JOJO fell silent for a long time before he whispered back, "I used this to make the plan more secure and to prevent the [story timeline] from guiding the target again later. I used it throughout the target's reasoning process."

Everyone could hear the sound of Chekov slapping someone on the forehead through their headsets.

"Oh my god, this is our first mission for Manifest Destiny," he said, not knowing what to say. "Never mind, let's retreat first and see if the Logistics and Equipment Department can try to fix it."

……

Alliance Underground Base, Abnormal Climate Science Department.

"The real timeline has stabilized," one of the personnel dressed as a research director reported to the executive team.

"Yes, we will continue to monitor the evolution of this abnormal astronomical phenomenon. Snow has already begun to fall in parts of Japan, and tomorrow will probably be the day when reality officially transitions from summer to winter."

"Can you predict when the next [Cycle] will come?"

After looking at the seven or eight completely different results given by the model on the screen, Chen Wenfeng scratched his already sparse hair in embarrassment.

"Based on the RSI results on several other continents, it looks like it will last at least three days."

But then his tone became very uncertain.

"However, since the core of the RSI value changes is the interaction between the concept of [absolute time nodes] and the [story timeline], we can only make a rough estimate..."

"That's about the current situation," Shigenobu Hitomi handed Lin Sheng the information that the executive level had summarized and that each department considered more important.

"Then there's the Narrative Department—"

"What happened to the Narrative Studies Department?" Lin Sheng was almost suffering from PTSD regarding this department. He got a headache whenever he heard the name of this department these days.

This group of researchers really understands how to get to the heart of the matter.

The problem is that the alliance does not yet have enough power to directly address the theories or loopholes they have discovered.

He couldn't help but grumble, "To put it in a metaphor, we're currently just using solar energy, but these guys are trying to miniaturize the sun and put it in a furnace."

"But the Temporal Exploration Department has confirmed the conclusion."

Lin Sheng sat up straight, "Then I'd like to hear what they found out."

"They calculated the result of the rise in the cosmic RSI background index—"

Recalling the document that was specially marked in the executive layer, Shigenobu Hitomi's expression became somewhat solemn.

"In the [Loop], Conan's RSI value in the [Story Timeline] has indeed decreased to a certain extent. Specifically, he can no longer [rationalize] the task force members from a distance like he did in the tropical park." "But the crime incidents are starting to show a scale effect."

The first to discover this anomaly were still those "madmen" in the Department of Narrative Studies. In the words of their director—

"We don't study science, we study koine."

This group of researchers, who are absolutely certain that they are working in a detective or mystery novel, comic or anime, spend their days thinking about explaining the "loop" or something else through things in the "real timeline".

They are more about exploring a topic.

"What is the world logic of mystery novels? And how to exploit the bugs in this logic."

Although it has only been a few days since Kudo Shinichi became smaller, they have long been studying the results of the rising background value of the universe's RSI.

It is not about looking for evidence from events or material changes in the [cycle], but directly looking at the [case] as the answer to the question.

"The incidence and proportion of violent crime in general crime have both increased by a third, while the number of deaths in serious violent crime has increased by about a quarter."

"Both the Time Exploration Department and the Chronology Department have analyzed this conclusion. Currently, the casualty effect caused by the rise in the cosmic RSI background index is not yet significant."

Lin Sheng was not surprised by the conclusion that the overall crime level in the Conan world was rising.

He had guessed it long ago. After Kudo Shinichi became small, in each [cycle], as long as Conan had the idea of playing a reasoning game, or felt a little bored——

For example, in the [loop] that just happened, it was obvious that Conan thought that school time was not interesting enough, which was one of the reasons for the [loop].

Now it seems that the [story timeline] also needs to guide Conan. After all, the timeline is an inanimate object, and the best solution it can think of is to make the whole world "interesting".

For a detective, nothing is more interesting than a case.

"But why is the increase in deaths from serious violent crime only about a quarter?"

"This is one of the key points that the Narrative Studies Department believes they've discovered! They believe this is likely related to our interference in the Loop!"

Shigenobu Hitomi tries to explain the theories of the Narrative Studies Department to Lin Sheng.

Simply put, the Narrative Studies Department believes that for Conan, the case is actually the first priority. Combined with the psychological analysis of Conan by the Psychological Analysis Department, Conan hopes to solve some major and strange cases.

But at the same time, because he had seen too many sad cases, he subconsciously hoped that the casualties in the cases would be smaller.

"Therefore, as long as we control the casualty ratio during Conan's deductions in the [Loop] and strengthen his subconscious thoughts, it is very likely that the casualties incurred in the [Loop] will gradually decrease without the Alliance's intervention."

"But," Shigenobu Hitomi pursed her lips. What she was about to say was bad news. "If the number of murders in the [Loop] caused by the [Story Timeline] increases..."

Lin Sheng understood her underlying meaning.

"That is to say, because his stimulation threshold has increased, he's likely to want more exciting cases, or even—"

Lin Sheng thought of several theatrical cases that some people had complained about in his previous life, and his expression became serious.

"We must prevent this from happening! Doesn't he want excitement?"

Lin Sheng slammed the table and stood up suddenly.

“Then we’ll give Him a good story!”

(End of this chapter)