Chapter 162 Even Model Workers Have Their Days Off
Day 11 of the road survival game!
Conan was feeling frustrated, and Gin was feeling equally frustrated. He glanced coldly at Bourbon, remembering the sarcastic remarks Bourbon had made during their emergency reunion.
I really want to throw this guy back to Vermouth and let those two secretives play together, instead of causing him trouble.
But this time, his partner was acting on that man's orders. After getting a clear view of the distant shipwreck site, he could only toss the binoculars to Bourbon and say, "We're too late. Going over there would be a waste of time. Go back!"
"Understood!" Bourbon readily agreed, but he still personally used binoculars to get a clear view of the sunken ship in the distance. Indeed, the entire ship had sunk to the bottom of the sea, leaving only a whirlpool of the sunken ship and a large number of lifeboats around it. His friends were not on any of the lifeboats.
He had just turned the speedboat around and was steer it with one hand with ease when he probed Gin: "Boss, this order is so urgent. It seems they've given you some serious intelligence. Does the organization not intend to pursue their actions in changing the fate of Scotland?"
"Hmph! Your feigned innocence might fool those little lambs, but don't try to show off in front of me." Gin glanced at Bourbon, scoffing at his attempt to use Bourbon as a target for his mission.
Bourbon wasn't angry when he was exposed. Instead, he shrugged as if he were really innocent: "I am innocent! I had only been ordered to keep an eye on Detective Mouri for a few days when I was sent to pick him up without knowing anything!"
"Know nothing?" Gin looked at his handsome profile and raised an eyebrow, asking sarcastically.
Bourbon then scratched a few stray hairs behind his ear, seemingly 'shyly', and said as if giving in, "Okay! I spoke to them on the phone earlier and heard some very strange things from them, like time..."
Not knowing exactly how much Matsuda and the others had told Gin, Furuya Rei decided to start by probing with the least threatening topics for him.
"A cycle!" As expected, after hearing him say that, Gin realized that the time cycle from 2015 to 2014 was more than they had originally estimated, because Bourbon provided information that the Twenty Faces had not yet appeared.
Now I know that Bourbon is very clear about time loops, but I don't know how much he knows about the silver bullet. When he mentioned Scotland just now, he didn't have the murderous aura that usually comes with it, and the feeling that he's about to turn into a villain.
It's estimated that he already knew that the fat pig and his group had changed the reason for Scotland's death and accepted their approach. So, Gin, whose personality is clean and efficient and who dislikes secrets and ambiguity, said directly, "That gentleman is skeptical about time loops."
Have you ever noticed yourself repeatedly experiencing different things on the same day? For example, if you were to encounter someone from the future on that day, do you have the impression of being dealing with something else on the same day of the same year?
After all, that cowardly fellow who was afraid of hard work and death was particularly cautious. Today, the two different memories seemed to have made him truly accept the fact that time travel technology existed in the future. However, when he saw the information he had reported about the time loop, his response seemed to be that he found it hard to accept this reality.
Given his personality, he'd probably only believe it after he remembered it himself. But based on Gin's own experience, it's very likely that he'd need to interact with those two guys from the future to realize that the timing was off.
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"Same year? Same day? It's probably because I haven't had much contact with them, except for the Twin Towers incident, which was only about a month ago. The time loop hasn't started yet!"
"I didn't..." Bourbon thought carefully, but he had no recollection of experiencing a time loop, so he denied Gin's words, but before he could completely deny it.
His quick thinking and excellent memory suddenly reminded him of the time he saw the report on the apartment fire at Akira Inoue's apartment, when he was actually carrying out another mission for the organization in the United States.
He also clearly remembered the day he received the report that the two of them appeared during the investigation related to the Shinkansen explosion. On the same day of that year, Vermouth, who was in the United States, invited him to dinner and asked him to do her a small favor.
He declined her invitation, citing other work commitments. She was joking; it wasn't an organization-assigned task. Did she want him to help the organization members with illegal activities? How could he possibly agree…
Just as he was thinking these things and the words he was about to say stopped, Gin noticed the change in his expression and immediately chuckled, "Hmph... It seems you've already figured it out."
"Hmm!" Upon hearing Gin's voice, Bourbon felt a chill run down his spine, but he kept a straight face to hide the unpleasant memories of working the same day as his police job without any overtime pay.
He only mentioned the Shinkansen explosion: "It was when I remembered that the Shinkansen didn't explode as you planned that the organization assigned me to investigate the inside story. On the same day that year, I was still in the United States! If you hadn't mentioned these things, I wouldn't have realized that something was wrong."
It seems that the time loop is real, and it wasn't a lie made up by Gin's sister to lure Hagiwara and the others into joining the organization. If that's true, then the chain of the twenty-faced murderer that will appear in the near future is also real.
Is it true that the silver bullet caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in Japan and hundreds of millions worldwide, and that countless people are suffering from the aftereffects of self-imposed isolation and illness? He infiltrated the organization, willing to play along with its members, enduring hardship and biding his time to completely eradicate this cancerous tumor.
In the end, the organization was eradicated, but did Japan or other countries become worse instead of better? The same medicine was actually safer in the hands of a criminal organization than in the hands of government officials.
This is practically the biggest joke of the century, and yet many people will pay the price for it in the future... Just thinking about this makes Bourbon's sapphire-blue eyes turn purplish-gray.
He glanced sideways at Gin's figure, thinking that if those futures were true, perhaps Matsuda and the others' plans were correct, and maybe he should make up his mind too...
"Is it possible to become aware of time anomalies simply by coming into contact with events related to time-space anomalies, without needing direct contact?" Upon hearing Bourbon's words, Gin gleaned a glimpse of a rule related to time loops.
Bourbon reacted quickly. After hearing what he said and recalling his own experiences of noticing the time anomalies, he naturally understood what Gin meant and immediately exclaimed, half-jokingly, "It's not scientific at all."
If I hadn't experienced it myself, it would be hard to believe such a thing could happen in reality. By the way, Cin! What do you think could cause this time loop? Could it be related to the time travel technology that Darmo and his group possess?
Based on my understanding of my friends' personalities, I could guess the reason for the time loop from their tone. However, they seemed to have some concerns and didn't tell me. I wonder if they told Gin.
"Ah! Perhaps it's related to the catastrophic future changes they mentioned!" Gin's intuition told him that these words carried the most weight among what those guys said today, naturally leading him to speculate that the time loop was related to this matter...
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"Hey! I can't leave the instance dimension, maybe because there's another me in the past?" At the same time, after leaving the instance and returning to the car, after a tense and exciting driving competition, and back on the road to survival, Kazesei also gave an incredible response to Hagiwara and the others' words.
"Heh..." Hagiwara chuckled and explained to her, "I suddenly thought of this when I was making up a reason for your brother to save Komorobuchi. Why is it that even though they are all living people, their time fluctuations and such might be different, even if they were born in different eras?"
But we all enter reality through game instances. Why is it that we return to reality as soon as we enter an instance, while you are stuck in the game instance dimension? I previously thought this was a limitation imposed by the game's survivor rules.
It wasn't until today, after making up an excuse with your brother, that I realized this casual reason might actually be the truth. After all, the only difference between you and the three of us, besides us coming from the past and you coming from the future, is that every time we return to the real-world instance, there's no other version of us in those instances.
“I didn’t even notice until you mentioned it. Indeed, when you went to the instance of the time when I had the accident, there was no longer another you in that time and space. Whether I went to the instance of the time when Xiaozhufu had the accident or to the time and space instance of 15 years ago.”
There is no other me in those timelines either. Perhaps that's why after Feng-chan released me from that space, I returned directly to reality." Matsuda heard Hagiwara return to the Survival Highway.
He hadn't even had time to process the results of today's car skills competition before making this prediction. I was taken aback by his words, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that what he said made a lot of sense and was highly likely.
Zhu Fu blinked his beautiful cat eyes, looking both curious and eager: "So, if we were to return to the time before my accident, or to the time when you still existed, we might all be trapped in the instance dimension?"
"Hey! It's just a guess about the possibility, don't actually try it!" Matsuda looked at him and his crescent-shaped eyes appeared again: "What if Hagi guesses wrong and you two appear in a reality where there is another version of yourself?"
What if it's like that phone, automatically merging with your past self? You're saved by Feng Jiang before the accident—you enter a time loop and merge with your past self—your past self gets into trouble and Feng Jiang saves you again—wouldn't that be a vicious cycle?
“…That sounds a bit scary!” Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou couldn’t help but recall the time when he was saving Officer Zhu Fu, when he almost fell into a similar vicious cycle. He had a very empathetic experience and immediately shuddered, advising, “I think we shouldn’t try this.”
What if I try it and die? That would be terrible! -_-||
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