Chapter 164 World Line Convergence
Day 11 of the road survival game!
"Of course, this so-called year is just a figure of speech. In reality, it may be a cycle within any period of time, such as 365 days, 375 days, 265 days, or 275 days. We are just using the ratio between the three 2015 years and the road mileage."
"I roughly estimate the timeframe to be within a year. What I can't be sure of right now is exactly which day in 2014-2015 this cycle will begin and which day it will cycle back," Matsuda said, pondering the possibilities.
After a moment's thought, Morofushi Kagemitsu asked Fuusei Shou, "Fuusei-san, in your memory, from which month of 2015 did the number of cases in Japan start to decrease?"
"Huh?" Feng Xing Shou was taken aback by his question.
Upon hearing this, Hagiwara immediately realized what was happening and clapped his hands, saying, "That's right! We can also use this method to roughly estimate. Didn't you think there were a lot of bombings and cases in Japan in those two years?
This is likely due to the time loop causing a large number of cases to be concentrated in those two years, creating a misconception among people who are unaware of time loops. In reality, the frequency of cases in Japan may be higher than before.
However, it's not as exaggerated as daily bombings and shootings, so once the time loop ends, the reporting rate of Japanese cases may decrease, and you'll see fewer related trending topics in China.
"I see." After hearing Hagiwara's explanation, Kazesei immediately understood what Inspector Morofushi meant and couldn't help but look at the officer with admiration. This officer truly deserved to be an elite in the Japanese Public Security Bureau.
He was able to spot the loopholes in the time loop with just a few words and come up with a solution. I knew about the time loop earlier than him, but I never thought that the dates of the time loop could be deduced in this way.
As she thought about it, she replied, "In my memory, from April 2014 to April 2015, almost every day I could see reports about cases and incidents related to Japan on the top 50 trending searches in China."
The number of reports decreased in May, and it wasn't until the side effects of the "silver bullet" appeared that we saw daily news reports of major Japanese events in China. If your predictions are correct, it seems this cycle occurred between April 2014 and April 2015.
"From April 2014 to April 2015?"
Is there anything special about these two times?
Why is it about a year?
Upon hearing Feng Xingshou's words, the three of them fell into a deep thought.
Feng Xingshou couldn't answer this either, and could only shake his head: "In my memory, apart from my brother's matter and some sensational cases in various countries, there were no major events that could affect the passage of time this year."
Even the increasing frequency of extreme weather events in the future will be relatively rare during that time. Oh! By the way, there's something I don't know if it's related to: around 2014-2015, I saw many people online mentioning the Mandela Effect, saying that their memories differed from reality, and so on.
"Memory distortion?" Hagiwara was still alive when the Mandela incident broke out, so he naturally knew what the Mandela Effect meant. He asked with some surprise, "Could it be a memory problem caused by a time loop?"
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Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu also looked at Kazesei no Morishige, waiting for an answer. They were curious about what kind of memory discrepancy would lead her to speculate that it might be related to time loops.
"No, that's not it. The videos about the Mandela Effect made by bloggers only mention the memories of some people in various countries, which don't match some of the actual events." He said this.
Feng Xingshou thought about it and gave a few examples that left a deep impression on her: "For example, there is an old song that everyone is familiar with. The lyrics have changed at some point, and they are different from what some people remember. However, most people think that the lyrics of that song are what reality is like."
There's also an anime that's very popular in various countries, where the protagonist's birthday is remembered as two different dates. A small minority remember one, while most people remember the actual, definite date.
"These all sound like trivial matters!" Matsuda thought to himself. Even if these trivial matters caused the Mandela Effect, they shouldn't have anything to do with time loops.
Zhu Fu couldn't help but ask further, "Is there anything significant about the Mandela Effect?"
"Nothing major has happened. If there were, the Mandela Effect wouldn't have been so widely discussed." Feng Xingshou quickly added, remembering the different customs of various countries, "I mean, according to the customs of Zhongzhou."
The bigger the issue, the less likely the authorities are to alarm the public and cause them unnecessary anxiety. Conversely, minor incidents often generate a great deal of buzz, with bloggers exaggerating to gain traffic. As long as it's not spreading rumors, the authorities won't intervene.
"I know that. Tokyo University has always been strict." Unlike the Western University, which does whatever it wants, boasting first and then trying to fool as many people as possible, Hagiwara thought to himself, after criticizing the different national styles of the two great powers, and said with a bit of helplessness, "It seems that we can't find any information related to time loops in the Mandela Effect issue either!"
"That's not necessarily true. When I was undercover in the organization, I came into contact with some scientists who were highly paid by the organization. Although the main scientists were in the medical field, the organization also paid attention to scientists in other fields."
In particular, they have invested a lot of money and resources in cultivating technologies that can provide benefits to the organization, or enhance firepower and facilitate some illegal activities. As a result, the organization has a diverse range of talents, giving me the feeling that they are good at researching all sorts of things.
"On one occasion, when I was carrying out a mission to relocate scientists from the protection organization, I overheard those scientists discussing the Mandela Effect..." After finishing his sentence, Morobushi Kagemitsu glanced at Kazesei no Shou, thinking that her words and actions suggested she had not received higher education.
Presumably she might not understand some of the technical terms, he simply skipped over the more advanced ones before explaining to Matsuda and Hagiwara, who were looking at him with surprise: "In short, according to their conclusions..."
Many believe that the Mandela Effect is likely a spacetime memory bias caused by a convergence of world lines, suggesting that in the existence of parallel worlds, some parallel worlds will merge into one for various reasons.
During the fusion process, the system automatically corrects the memories of people in the merged world. However, some individuals may have higher spiritual energy, or the automatic correction may have encountered a bug for unknown reasons, resulting in some of their memories not being corrected, thus creating the so-called Mandela Effect.
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"World line convergence?" After listening to Morofushi Kagemitsu's explanation, Matsuda asked while pondering, "You mean that Earth's time will cycle from 2014 to 2015, and that for some unknown reason, parallel Earth world lines may converge?"
“If nothing major happens, but there’s an increase in various incidents and cases, and the Mandela Effect occurs at the same time, then this possibility is not out of the question,” said Morofushi Kagemitsu calmly.
Feng Xing Shou, who was standing to the side, was startled by what she heard, because she suddenly remembered something. Judging from the comments she saw when she died for the first time, the game organizers were obviously hosting a live survival show like this before.
If this isn't the first time, how many times have they held this event in total? And where were those events held? What's the current state of the places where they hosted these live-streamed survival games?
This includes cutting-edge technology that transforms Earth's historical timeline into an endless highway, the ability to skillfully translate various languages in game notifications and announcements, and the ability to create replicas of present-day historical timelines...
Could it be because the game's organizers had already held similar live streams on other parallel planets that they were able to so easily turn their planet into a venue for the game?
Could the Mandela Effect be because they damaged the populations, worlds, or historical timelines of other parallel planets to the point that they could no longer exist independently, thus merging with their own planet, or because the parallel worlds were too weak and were absorbed by their own planet?
This is not impossible. After all, she had the experience of "seeing" those bullet comments and knew how superior the viewers of this game live stream were, looking down on the Earthlings and pointing fingers at them as if they were just objects for their entertainment.
Furthermore, when the Earthlings die, there is no sense of loss or empathy that one would feel for the death of a fellow human. Instead, most people with strong empathy would view the Earthlings' deaths as material for evaluating the program's entertainment value and whether it is interesting or not...
Therefore, their behavior naturally led Feng Xingshou to speculate about them from a malevolent perspective.
Hagiwara noticed that his beloved's expression seemed angry or even fearful, and guessed that she might have thought of something because of Morofushi Kagemitsu's words. He asked worriedly, "Fū-chan, did you notice something?"
"Uh!" Hearing Hagiwara's voice brought Feng Xingshou back to her senses, but she was still thinking about what she was thinking about, knowing that she might have been broadcast live by the game organizers the whole time.
She couldn't say it directly, so she simply made up an excuse and mixed her previous guess into it: "After listening to what Officer Morofushi said, I suddenly thought of something."
I was captured by this game on April 1st, and I only met Hagiwara two days later when the dungeon opened. The game's initial announcement stated that the game organizers would start at the beginning of each month and end at the end of the month.
Then, the survivors are sent back to Earth. They are taken back to the point in time when they were captured to recuperate. After a month, they are automatically recalled to the game on the 1st of the following month to continue participating in the survival activities.
They ran the game so skillfully, without making a single mistake. Whether it was the huge and spacious speed arena at the beginning or the driving skills competition section after the dungeon ended, it was all so grand-scale, it didn't seem like it was built just for one time.
Given that I was captured and entered this game on April 1, 2025, and your deduction that Earth's past cycles roughly occurred within April of each year from 2014 to 2015, don't you find this too much of a coincidence?
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