Chapter 206 Time Deviation
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
Although Morobuchi Kagemitsu felt embarrassed, he smiled amiably and said, "Indeed, thinking about it that way, it seems too slow."
"Well, you could say slow and steady wins the race! At least it looks pretty good." Matsuda said, glancing around as he quickly realized something was wrong: "Wait! Our coordinates seem to be wrong. Looking at the direction of the sun, it's not dawn yet, it's around dusk!"
"The sun is in the west, it's almost sunset, let me check..." Hagiwara noticed that there seemed to be an error in the coordinates of the route they had calculated, so he quickly took out the phone that Bourbon had specially prepared for them when they last met.
After seeing the automatically calibrated phone time and date display, he realized something and said with some distress, "We made a mistake in our time calculation. It's not the morning of April 1st of the fifth cycle, but the evening of April 2nd of the fifth cycle."
"A mistake?" Morofushi Kagemitsu thought for a moment, then took out his phone and opened the calendar. He said knowingly, "It was indeed a mistake. We calculated based on the number of days in the calendar from 2014 to 2015, but it seems that the number of days in the real world cycle is not based on 2014 to 2015, but on the future calendar."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Feng Xingshou was confused and didn't know the difference, so he simply asked Hagiwara.
Hagiwara immediately explained to him, "Fū-chan should know the difference between the Western calendar and the Chinese lunar calendar. The Chinese lunar calendar is based on astronomers calculating time through the phases of the moon, and then adjusting the time deviation through leap months."
The Gregorian calendar, on the other hand, calculates time through the phases of the sun and uses a leap day added every four years to adjust for deviations. Based on the time I left the real world and the time you were captured by the game, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 will all have one more day than other years.
Little Scotland meant that we always thought the 2014-2015 time cycle was based on the fact that the time between the stars and the moon would rewind to 2014 every year. Therefore, when calculating time on the Survival Highway, we always used this number of days to lock in the real time.
However, today's coordinate calculation was incorrect, with a time deviation of about one day and ten hours. This proves that if the time were only displayed as April 2nd, then it should be morning now.
However, the fact that it is currently evening suggests that the most likely explanation is that this time loop is not following previous reasoning, but rather that people's perceptions have been altered, and their physical development is in a time loop state.
Given his personality, he had already learned from the previous lesson. This time, before even entering the instance, he had prepared himself mentally. As long as he was in the real world, he would always refer to his close friends by their code names in the organization, so as not to reveal their true identities.
"Simply put, Earth appears to cycle between 2014 and 2015, but in reality, Earth's time is constantly flowing. However, regardless of the timers created by human technology, people's cognition, physical condition, etc., all cycle between 2014 and 2015."
The reason today's time is the evening of April 2, 2015 is because the correct time on Earth is likely 2020 on Earth. The extra 10 hours or so are very likely due to something that happened between 2019 and 2020 on Earth.
This added about 10 hours to the solar phase that year. When he heard Hagiwara suddenly explain Keidana's discovery, Matsuda guessed that Kaze-chan was asking him, so he simply explained it as well.
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Scotland then added, "This also explains many of the confusions we had after realizing the time loop. For example, if Earth's own time is indeed in a loop, then there would be no new things, new technologies, or anything else discovered after April 2015."
People should also return to 2014 and repeat the experiences of the past year when the cycle occurs. However, the reality is that only time cycles, and people's experiences are also in a normal state without repetition.
I also collected information on the growth status of Earth's crops, plants, and animals. I can take this opportunity to collect more information, and perhaps we can determine this time cycle by using the information on the growth status of Earth's crops, plants, and animals.
Is it that only human-perceived time exists, with the human body frozen between 2014 and 2015? Or is it that only Earth's time, and the time of all inanimate matter on Earth, flows normally, while the human bodies, animal bodies, and plants on Earth are all in a state of time looping?
“If it’s just humans, then we can be sure that some dark forces are deliberately using supernatural or black technology to carry out some kind of conspiracy against the humans of Earth.” Even though Feng Xingshou wasn’t good at conspiracies, he could understand the meaning behind Officer Zhu Fu’s words after hearing them.
Hagiwara Mifumi understood, knowing that their time here was limited and they couldn't waste it chatting. They could discuss other topics about this discovery later. So she suggested directly, "Okay, we can tell Gin and Bourbon about this later."
Let them investigate the data from various aspects in the real world and make relevant inferences about this phenomenon. Let's contact them first and see if there have been any positive changes in the real world based on the information we've provided.
"Uh...you're really not afraid that my brother will get serious with you!" Hearing Hagiwara call his brother "Little Gin" again, Kazesei couldn't help but admire the guy's courage.
Upon hearing this, Hagiwara immediately grinned and teased, "Heh... If Kaze-chan doesn't like it, I can just call him 'brother' like you do!"
"Just use the same way you used to call me!" Since it wasn't him who would be threatened by his brother, Feng Xingshou had gotten used to his brother's way of speaking and didn't even blush when he heard it.
She just felt uncomfortable that he made such a joke in front of his two friends. However, given Hagiwara's personality, would he really be scared if his brother threatened him?
"Mmm! I'll listen to Fuu-chan!" Hagiwara continued teasing Fuu Seishu while making a phone call to Gin.
Meanwhile, Matsuda also called Bourbon after listening to Hagiwara's words.
Meanwhile, the Japanese public security undercover agent in Scotland, who was under their 'surveillance', idly waited for his chance.
None of the four expected that only Gin answered the two calls. Bourbon's phone was switched off, and they also heard an extremely chilling response from Gin—Bourbon was likely a spy planted in the organization by some force and was currently on the run.
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When these words reached the ears of the four people from Gin's side, they exchanged guilty glances, both in reality and in the instance dimension. The other three were unsure how to react.
Hagiwara, on the other hand, remained remarkably calm and composed, and his reactions were extraordinary. He spoke in a tone that conveyed no sign of anything amiss, asking Gin, who was clearly on the verge of exploding with murderous intent, on the other end of the phone: "Bourbon-chan is a spy planted by another faction? No way."
If he were a spy, when the organization is severely damaged in the future, he should take the opportunity to completely eliminate it, or plunder its remaining resources for his backers, instead of gathering resources and recruiting members to develop the organization. What exactly is going on?
"Last night the organization..." Perhaps Hagiwara's words touched on something Gin sensed was wrong, so he briefly explained what had happened to him.
Upon hearing Gin's reply on the other end of the phone, the four realized that Rum, the organization's second-in-command, had somehow obtained intelligence that there was a list of spies planted within the organization by other forces in the Japanese Public Security Information Database.
Because the Japanese Public Security Bureau's information database protection network is difficult to penetrate from the outside, but can be quickly penetrated using software developed by the organization, he specifically dispatched his capable subordinate, Curaçao, to infiltrate the Japanese Public Security Headquarters.
After finding their server, they quickly hacked into it using software developed by the organization, and found the spy list in the database. Gin didn't know exactly what happened during that time.
In the middle of the night, he suddenly received an email from Rum, which mentioned that Curaçao was exposed when she infiltrated the Japanese Public Security Headquarters and went missing after a chase. The email she sent before she lost contact contained the names of five spies and the abbreviations of their respective factions.
Only Bourbon and another organization member they had never met or heard of, Gil, did not enter their abbreviations for their respective factions, suggesting that they encountered an emergency before completing the editing of the list.
Rum ordered Gin to eliminate the spies and interrogate them to find out who was behind Bourbon and Gil. After Gin dealt with Riesling and the other two spies, he also captured Bourbon and Gil.
However, during their interrogation, someone apparently created chaos, giving Bourbon an opportunity to escape. The slippery guy managed to unlock his handcuffs and escape, but he did manage to send a text message to Bourbon on his cell phone after he got away.
He said he would investigate and prove his innocence, then turned off his phone and hasn't been able to contact him since. Meanwhile, Gin is currently searching for Curaçao and Bourbon under Rum's orders...
After hearing Gin's words, Fuusei wanted to urge his brother to quit immediately. His workplace was just too unreliable! There were five spies! No wonder his brother's future career was in trouble; with these spies, and those yet to be discovered, how could he possibly fare well? -_-||
Little Bourbon's life is really full of ups and downs. Every time he returns to reality, he can give his friends a 'surprise'! After hearing Gin's words, Hagiwara couldn't help but tease him in his heart.
However, Scotland, who was well aware of the organization's ruthless and cruel ways, was very worried about his childhood friend's current condition. Gin's interrogation was something that no ordinary person could withstand. Was Zero injured? It was a good thing that he hadn't been caught yet, but as long as he wasn't cleared of suspicion as a spy, his situation wouldn't improve.
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