Chapter 231 Remnants of History

◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎

He wanted to see if the distance was too far, causing some kind of visual illusion, but no matter how he adjusted the magnification of his glasses, he still couldn't find the three figures who were standing there looking up at the Ferris wheel next to Amuro-san.

As a stubborn, scientifically-minded detective, at this moment, he had no mysterious or mythological possibilities in his mind. Instead, he subconsciously thought that his glasses might be malfunctioning.

He hurriedly took out his phone and used the magnifying glass on the camera to try and confirm that what he had just seen was an illusion caused by a malfunction of his glasses. However, to his surprise, the magnifying glass function on the phone showed a scene that was no different from what he had just seen.

Just as Conan was about to turn off his phone, a bizarre scene that transcended his human values ​​and Conan's worldview suddenly appeared before his eyes. On the enlarged phone screen, an armed helicopter with the outline of an Osprey was reflected, opening various weapons.

The Osprey fired shots at key locations on the massive Ferris wheel in the camera's view, but was soon sniped by a bullet that appeared out of nowhere, damaging the Osprey and forcing it to make an emergency evacuation while teetering on the brink of collapse.

Meanwhile, the massive double-wheeled Ferris wheel, whose key structure had been damaged, began to shake violently and tilt to one side. Below, there were not only many tourists who were preparing to watch the light show, but also Genta and his group.

Just as they were about to be crushed by the collapsing Ferris wheel, a heavy crane rushed under the Ferris wheel and operated its steel rods to support the massive Ferris wheel, giving the tourists time to escape.

However, the driver inside the vehicle turned out to be Curaçao, a member of the organization, who, despite suffering severe penetrating wounds, insisted on operating a heavy crane to hold up the tilting and collapsing Ferris wheel...

When the Ferris wheel's tilt and collapse were finally brought under control by the crane driven by Curaçao, Curaçao also collapsed in the crane's driver's seat, completely motionless. It wasn't until all the tourists had escaped from under the Ferris wheel that the crane seemed to finally give way to the enormous structure above the boom.

It began to bend and press down until it was completely crushed by the collapsed Ferris wheel. The entire aquarium, centered on the Ferris wheel, was reduced to ruins by the collapsed giant double-wheeled Ferris wheel.

Even more incredibly, when the scene on the phone screen completely turned into ruins, Curaçao's body, which had been in the crane driver's seat, vanished into thin air.

The scene on his phone made Conan think that his phone had been infected with a virus and that someone was forcibly sending him an autoplaying video to harass him, until he subconsciously looked away from the phone screen and looked up at the Ferris wheel in the distance in reality.

To my astonishment, I witnessed a giant, two-wheeled Ferris wheel collapse on the spot, with a crane actually lying beneath it. Of course, despite the fact that the crane's driver's seat had been pierced by the very thing that had killed Curaçao, there was still no sign of Curaçao's body.

This unbelievable scene made Conan almost doubt his own eyes. He even wondered if he had lost his memory for some unknown reason, missing a part of the story that led to this incident.

It wasn't until he subconsciously chose to play the replay on his phone that he realized what had just happened was real. It turned out that Conan had subconsciously pressed the camera button on his phone as soon as he saw this incredible scene, recording everything in front of him.

The scene that was subconsciously recorded has now become evidence that Conan cannot deny—evidence of the unscientific and unreal moment that just occurred, proving that such a scene that shattered his worldview did indeed happen...

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"Hmph! It seems that Rum's hypnosis research is not very meaningful and ultimately cannot truly change a person's nature." Gin observed the changes that occurred at the Tokyo Aquarium at the end of the instance through the camera equipment.

Knowing Curaçao's background, he instantly figured out why she was there. From this, he deduced that even if Rum successfully hypnotized Curaçao using his hypnosis research techniques, her instincts would still lead her to make choices that conformed to her nature at crucial moments.

Curaçao wasn't his subordinate, so whether she was a good person or a bad person didn't matter much to Gin. As long as she didn't betray the organization, he wouldn't care. Anyway, if she caused trouble, Rum would be the one to clean up the mess.

What really bothered him was something else entirely. From the footage he had just seen, he deduced that in the history without the piglet's time travel, the bombs he had installed hadn't been detonated; they were probably discovered and removed beforehand.

This may have led Rum, who was already looking to test the performance of the Osprey, to organize people to fly the Osprey to the aquarium and seize Curaçao, ultimately resulting in the devastating collapse of the aquarium Ferris wheel and the destruction of a large number of amusement park facilities.

In the critical moment, Curaçao's true nature was unleashed from the hypnosis, and she chose to sacrifice herself to save the aquarium visitors. However, the Osprey attack helicopter dispatched by the organization was attacked by a sniper and failed to recapture Curaçao before that...

So who was the person who sniped the Osprey from outside the camera's field of view? Who was capable of accurately hitting the Osprey's vital position from such a distance, in the darkness of night, leaving it teetering on the brink of collapse as it fled?

If the original Shuichi Akai and Scotland were still alive, and they could do it with their sniping skills, he certainly could too. However, according to his deduction, in that historical period, he should have been on that Osprey.

He personally directed the organization members to test the Osprey's various performance features, so the sniper was definitely not him. It was probably a secret sniper from the Japanese Public Security Bureau! After all, they were able to arrange for people to dismantle the bombs he had ordered planted in advance.

After realizing the organization's determination to retake Curaçao, it was not impossible for them to prepare for a sniper attack. This level of sniping skill is not something an ordinary person can do. It seems that there are some capable people hidden in the Japanese Public Security Bureau!

At the same moment, Bourbon, who had recorded the scene at close range with his equipment, replayed his recording. After confirming that the scene had not changed, he looked around and confirmed that the destruction site had been settled and there was no fatal danger.

Knowing that Feng Sang and his group had already collected all the collectible items within the Ferris wheel and aquarium dungeon area, he was puzzled that these items still existed before him even after the dungeon had ended, despite their collapse and destruction.

But the giant Ferris wheel and sightseeing cabins were still in reality, which naturally puzzled him. He wondered if the game's advanced technology could split those things into two dimensions: reality and the game. He then went forward to examine the collapsed and damaged objects.

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When he walked over and simply reached out to pick up a piece of broken glass to examine it, he was astonished to see that the glass shard he had touched shattered into even smaller fragments as if struck by a heavy blow.

As he watched this scene, a similar scene inexplicably flashed into his mind when he investigated the abnormality in the freight car of that train. It included metal parts, wooden decorations, and glass windows.

When they received the message and went to check, everything had turned into fragments of this size and completely decomposed within 7 days, eliminating the need for waste disposal.

Recalling the scene, he subconsciously reached out and touched the seemingly very sturdy stainless steel frame of the Ferris wheel. Sure enough, with just a light touch, that small section of the stainless steel frame shattered into scattered metal fragments, just like it was made of paper.

This scene stunned Bourbon for a moment, and then he let out an exclamation that was clearly filled with disbelief: "It seems that this is the anomaly that occurs when the dungeon dimension is covered and the items are collected, and the time for destruction has come."

It's like a remnant of history! The destruction that has already been altered will reappear on the scene as a remnant of history. The destruction that has already been achieved, even if the arrival of Feng Sang causes the organization to change its mode of operation.

"No Osprey attack helicopters were sent here. Even at the moment the instance ends and destruction occurs, the scene of destruction that should have happened will still repeat itself. If it hadn't been recorded, who would believe such a thing happened?"

After muttering these words to himself, he thought to himself that the Ferris wheel accident was a huge incident, and the police would definitely send people to investigate. They would find the scene was like a pile of tofu dregs.

People might misunderstand and think that the aquarium construction team cut corners, resulting in a shoddy project that could be destroyed by a small amount of explosives, given the foreign-owned construction practices of this Tokyo aquarium.

It is very likely that a low-level cadre will be made a scapegoat, and those at the very bottom who rely on selling their labor to make a living will be held accountable, placing a heavy burden and legal responsibility on those who are already struggling to make a living.

Moreover, given the magnitude of this incident, the anomalies of these wrecks are far beyond what a small cargo hold could trigger a chain reaction. It will certainly attract the attention of high-ranking Japanese public security officials and various sectors of the Japanese government.

Furthermore, since Feng Sang encouraged them to pass on information about the game's arrival in the future to various countries in the past, now might be the right time to give the Public Security Bureau and the Japanese government a heads-up.

It will be more convincing to bring up information about the game's arrival only after more anomalies emerge in the future. As things stand, there are many scoundrels hiding within the Japanese government, public security, and financial circles.

The information leaked here needs to be carefully sifted to ensure that it doesn't reveal that Hiro and the others are still alive, or that someone might plot against them at the site of future destruction.

He didn't think much of the integrity of certain people in Japan. If they knew the rules of the dungeon's arrival, they might very well have deliberately created a large-scale catastrophe, the kind that doesn't care about human lives, and then use any means necessary to capture Feng Sang and the others in order to obtain information about the future.

Thinking about this whole mess already made me want to laugh bitterly. What kind of situation is this?! I, a member of the public security bureau, am now the one who has to provide the organization with a lot of real intelligence, while the unit that should be providing the most real intelligence has to think carefully before reporting even the smallest bits and pieces...