Chapter 165 Determining the Destination
Day 11 of the road survival game!
"I remember the game announcement said that this survival game would last for a year, once a month, with each season lasting three months. The survivors who survived until the end could bring the upgraded vehicles back to reality and use them without restrictions."
The time loop also happens to be around one year. Indeed, the one-year loop from 2014 to 2015 seems to have ended in April 2015, when Earth began to descend into the game, and the time to capture humans to participate is again in 2025.
The time loop happens to be 10 years, with each year serving as the time limit. This can't be viewed as a simple coincidence. After hearing her say this, Hagiwara realized the meaning behind her words.
Immediately following her line of reasoning: "You think the organizers of this game may have held a similar game in Parallel Earth from April 2014 to 2015, and that year-long tournament may have had some kind of impact on Parallel Earth."
This causes them to be automatically converged to our Earth by the world lines, and because of factors unknown to us, our Earth may be trapped in a time loop during that period.
“That does seem to make sense.” Not only Hagiwara noticed the change in Kazesei no Kami’s expression, but Matsuda and Morofushi also noticed it, and they heard her answer now.
After Hagiwara deduced from her words, they all understood what the two hadn't said aloud, and why her expression was so angry and fearful...
Matsuda felt that some things didn't make sense: "But why did it cycle at least 3 or 4 times, or even more? It's not like several parallel worlds were being converged by the world line at the same time each year, is it?"
"And why is the game in our world starting in 2025, 10 years after the time loop? That's also illogical." Morofushi Kagemitsu said thoughtfully, "Normally speaking..."
If the game's organizers have visited other parallel worlds and caused those parallel planets to weaken to the point that they are converged to our planet's timeline, then the convergence of the timelines will cause Earth's time to enter a loop in that year.
The end of the time loop means the world lines have stopped converging. Since the world lines have stopped converging, does that mean the game's organizers did not continue to descend to other parallel planets?
Since no other parallel planets have been visited, does that mean our Earth will be the next one to be visited? If so, shouldn't the game organizers have visited in 2016? Why is it 10 years later in 2025?
The three of them discussed various questions about the game's organizers, time loops, and the game's arrival time. Feng Xing Shou was only an insider who knew that the game's true form was a live broadcast.
After hearing their reasoning, I had some thoughts, but the specific ideas were not clear enough. I just vaguely felt that there were certain possibilities, and these possibilities were so infuriating and frightening that I felt emotions like that.
So after listening to the three of them, it took her a while to process what they said and understand what they meant. Hagiwara also felt that the coincidence that the time loop was one year and the game's schedule was one year was not a simple coincidence.
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Matsuda and Inspector Morofushi were puzzled by the number of time loops and the ten-year interval between them. Of course, this was based on the correctness of their previous reasoning that the convergence of world lines caused the time loops.
At this moment, none of them had any answers to these questions, nor could they think of any possibility that could have caused this phenomenon. So after a moment of silence, Hagiwara suggested, "For tomorrow's dungeon, why don't we go and see April 1st of 2015?"
Perhaps on that day we will be able to detect something unusual, and perhaps we can use that unusual thing to determine whether the time loop also started on that day, if we can determine the exact date.
We can at least be certain that the game's arrival date in 2025 is related to the time loop. If the time loop didn't start on that day, then our reasoning today has some flaws. What do you think?
"This method is feasible, but we only have one hour to enter reality. To determine whether the time loop started on April 1st, we need to try it one hour at a time."
"This 2015 shouldn't repeat more than 20 times, right?" Matsuda agreed, but then told a super lame joke that made everyone else in the room shudder at the thought of it.
o(>﹏<)o Feng Xing Shou rarely showed his beady eyes and said: "No way! If it's true, wouldn't I go from a middle-aged woman to a 50-year-old or even 60-year-old old lady?"
"Pfft!"
"Ha ha……"
The three police officers were amused by her bitter face. Hagiwara even laughed and said, "It's okay. Even if you become an old lady, you'll definitely be a beautiful little old lady. I'm a few years older than you, so I'll definitely be a handsome little old man. We'll be a perfect match then."
"Shut up!" Caught off guard in the middle of a serious conversation, Kazehoshi yelled at Hagiwara, not daring to look at Matsuda or Inspector Morofushi. Perhaps extreme embarrassment really does trigger quick wit! She felt something more than just her cheeks.
Even his head seemed to be burning from Hagiwara's words, and he suddenly thought of a breakthrough that could quickly divert the attention of the group from this, so he hurriedly said: "Right, weren't we just talking about the time when I was captured and put into the game?"
Isn't it too much of a coincidence that both the time loop and the actual time in April? If it's not just a coincidence, then could the time loop starting in 2015 and rewinding to 2014 be the same hour, or even the minute, on the same day, month, and month that I was captured by the game?
“Feng Sang is right. Perhaps we can try this time first, and if there are no abnormalities at this time, we can pause exploring other years of 2015 and only try at other times on April 1, 2015.”
It takes a maximum of 24 attempts to determine whether the time loop starts on the same day of the same month as the game's start, providing an accurate result that allows further reasoning to proceed.
Since the game's schedule lasts a year, I don't think it's a waste to spend 20 days on this." Upon hearing this, Morofushi Kagemitsu wanted to laugh at her self-deceptive reaction.
He felt a little sorry for Hagiwara's 'tragic' situation of being unable to win him over no matter what he did, but he was ultimately a career-oriented person, so while suppressing his laughter, he cooperatively brought up serious matters to prevent her from continuing to rack her brains.
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"We can also find an opportunity to pass on information about the arrival of the game to people in the past. I think no matter how bad Japan's crime rate is, it's impossible for the whole day of that day to be in a shipwreck-like crisis like today."
"We don't even have time to talk to Furuya and the others properly!" Matsuda felt that if they could solve the information transmission problem while trying to unravel the time loop mystery, then it would be worth spending 40 or 60 days, let alone 20 days.
Hagi glanced at Fuu-chan, who was avoiding his gaze, with a 'frustrated' look, before nodding helplessly: "Then let's do it your way. Let's start from the time Fuu-chan was captured by the game. What time did you enter the game, Fuu-chan? Let's calculate the next step of the journey."
"I remember that I was eating breakfast in the morning and watching CCTV news. When I heard the news report about the Yellowstone volcano eruption, I felt dizzy for no reason and then I ended up on this survival highway."
My schedule is quite regular. Even when I was unemployed at the time, I still got up at the same time every day. If you include cooking time and CCTV News is used to reporting major events first, then that time should be a little after 7 o'clock.
"Before 7:30..." Hearing his question, Feng Xingshou, whose face remained flushed and heart unwavering when discussing serious topics, answered while carefully recalling the events of that day. As she spoke, she explained somewhat awkwardly, "After all, such a big thing suddenly happened at that time."
After entering the survival highway, I was so busy observing my surroundings and checking the game panel announcements and the condition of the vehicles that I didn't realize it until after 9 o'clock, so I don't know the exact minute.
"Well! Anyway, the dungeon lasts for an hour, so let's start with the one from 7 a.m., no need to be precise to the second." Seeing that she was actually fussing over such a small issue, Hagiwara couldn't help but laugh, but his hand subconsciously rose up and patted her head, comforting the Wind Star Guardian who was blaming himself for not being calm enough at the time.
Matsuda, who is known for his sharp tongue, offered a rare, seemingly comforting remark: "When faced with something so astonishing, most people would be lucky to remain calm and observe the situation. Even we would be focused on gathering information and ignoring the specific timing."
"..." Although he knew that with their competence, they would definitely not make the same mistake he had made, Feng Xingshou was comforted by their words and stopped worrying about whether he could have handled the situation better.
Instead, he urged, "Alright, I'm 35 years old! I'm not a child who needs comforting and advice over every little thing. You guys go and calculate our itinerary for tomorrow! I'll also go and organize what we've gained this time."
OK!
"All right!"
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So the group that had made their decision started working on their own things. Hagiwara and the other two started racking their brains, calculating the ratio of distance to time in order to pinpoint the destination copy.
Fengxing Shouze went to sort out today's gains. After all, if there was an opportunity in tomorrow's dungeon, she would try to collect as many resources as possible. Now, she naturally needed to make use of the game's stacking ability to free up as much space as possible in her inventory to prepare for the next resource collection.
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