Chapter 208 The accounts still need to be settled.
Morofushi Kagemitsu cleverly ended the topic and then shifted the focus of the discussion to the Black Organization.
When do you think it would be best to launch a full-scale offensive?
[Anti-Fraud King No. 11: With the power we've built up over the years, we could just wait until Brandy is crippled by Melo and his group. Oh, and that would also reduce their time energy debt. But, putting aside whether the Public Security Bureau will cooperate with our plan, we also need to confirm whether Karasuma Renya's failure this time will trigger time reversal again. If that happens, wouldn't all our years of accounting work have been for nothing?]
...Now, it's not just finances, but even time-related bills that we have to manage? How come we can't escape balancing accounts no matter where we are?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: There's nothing we can do about it. The police might have a chance if they pull in Black Guest, but Karasuma…maybe we could check out their lab in the US?]
Is it because the "source" is in the United States?
[Anti-fraud expert #205: That's certainly a consideration, but we still need to confirm whether the time travel was caused by external factors. Since fate itself didn't act on its own, the existence of such a "bug" is itself very strange.]
In the US...
If he remembers correctly, he still has a cheat code for the island plan. Could this be considered a hint?
[Anti-fraud expert #198: That code is for destroying the base. If destroying the island directly could end the cycle, you wouldn't even need to do anything; fate would just correct itself.]
[Anti-fraud King #26: Hmm, if all else fails, we can at least save Karasuma Renya's life first, so that his time won't be stopped.]
[Anti-Fraud King No. 19: But he'll die someday. If we use some methods to keep him alive, it certainly won't trigger time reversal, but wouldn't that be equivalent to fulfilling his absurd wish of immortality?]
Are these the only two options? I feel like either option is beneficial to Karasuma Renya, and it creates this contradictory situation. I suspect that this might be a scheme orchestrated by the old man himself, just like that future "me".
[Anti-fraud expert #214: From this perspective, this retrospective analysis isn't the result of fate's interference. It wouldn't widen the gap in the error, as that would violate its underlying operating logic. In simpler terms, it's more like it's been bugged.]
...Why does your "program" have so many bugs that cause it to lag? Can't you come up with a way to fix it directly?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #198: You're overestimating our abilities. Look, when a human gets sick, they need medicine to recover, and serious illnesses require surgery. There's no such thing as a simple, instant cure. The faster the drugs our organization has researched over the years work, the more severe the side effects. It's all the same principle. This world is broken and shabby; we're just following behind, carefully patching it up.]
[Anti-fraud expert #11: Moreover, the "virus" appeared suddenly and cunningly, and the era of technological explosion buried many traces—because of this, fate has dealt us several blows; that's how No. 205 got involved. In short, we relied on so many people to investigate and kill the "virus," and it wasn't until recent years when we had enough power to carry out a major upgrade that we discovered the root of this incident actually lay with the Karasuma family.]
After being bombarded with information from the anti-fraud expert, Morofushi Kagemitsu carefully organized the information, applied the examples they gave, and found it easy to understand.
Anyway, they've now found the cause of the illness and have a specific treatment, so they're just waiting to schedule the surgery. But the problem now is that the patient's blood vessels are too thin, making it difficult for the nurses to find the right angle to insert the needle and administer the IV.
So, where did he hide the "blood vessels"?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #19: It seems that we should perhaps focus our attention on those places that "isolate" us from fate...]
A spacetime rift?
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 205: Perhaps we could try something in the space-time rift...?]
Number 205 and Morofushi Kagemitsu simultaneously thought of the same place, and after they tacitly said it aloud, their eyes met "affectionately".
Oh no, I think I just blurted out something I shouldn't know right now... Maybe we should just pretend nothing happened.
[Anti-fraud expert #205: ?! No way! I don't remember ever telling you about time-space rifts, how did you know?]
'Number 234 told me.'
Zhu Fujingguang silently recited this in his heart.
As a result, number 205 and the other alpacas still did not react.
One of you told me.
Although he only changed his wording, they heard it this time.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #26: Wait... does anyone have a secret with Jing? Why didn't you tell everyone?! Didn't you promise not to hide things from each other?!]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #11: Only you would believe the saying "we have no secrets from each other"... But, there's no need to hide your interactions with Jing, right? So who is it?]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #26: What?!]
[Anti-Fraud King #214: We clearly agreed not to prematurely reveal information that Jing couldn't handle. Things like the time-space rift should be discussed together.]
[Anti-fraud expert #205: Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely. I've already gone to check the old chat logs. Once the evidence is there, it will be too late to expose you.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #19: Well, even if we were discovered, it wouldn't be a big deal, but leaking intelligence is a serious violation of our discipline and should be condemned.]
None of the alpacas present acknowledged it; the atmosphere was perfectly quiet.
Morofushi Kagemitsu was still trying in his mind to figure out how to reveal what No. 234 had done in the spatial rift, but he didn't say anything.
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[Anti-fraud expert #148: This can't go on; let's call out names.]
[Anti-fraud expert #66: #26, did you accidentally blurt something out? And you've done plenty of things that drag us down like this.]
[Anti-fraud expert #26: What do you mean, "it's me"?! Ever since my consciousness was awakened, I've been staying put and working diligently. If I were to make any moves, wouldn't you know? I think you and #19 are more suspicious, since you clearly went out before!]
[Anti-fraud expert #19: Watch your words! We were on a business trip, and we were the kind of people who made great contributions to Jing!]
[Anti-fraud expert #66: Exactly. Aside from those few times we were "on official business," we haven't left. As for the person who ran away... maybe they took advantage of the time gap when Jing lost contact with us a couple of days ago to secretly contact Jing alone!]
...You're right about that. A lot of the information I learned from Nagano in the future.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #11: Sure enough, I was wondering why Test #205 discovered a force from the same source as us. Turns out, someone really was pulling strings behind the scenes.]
Number 234 is indeed one of you.
But is this really that important? Let's discuss what we should do in the space-time rift.
[Anti-fraud expert #214: Of course it's important! We can't just talk nonsense to you. Otherwise, if the person we finally saved accidentally died because of this, we'd have nowhere to turn! However, according to priorities, let's postpone this for now.]
[Anti-fraud expert #205: Then let's speed things up. Actually, the difficult part is finding the location of the spacetime rift. The operation itself is relatively easy; once we find the rift, we can send someone inside to use their advantage to directly see the "blood vessels," and then we can prepare for the surgery.]
Is it really that simple?
I remember Number 234 stayed in the spacetime rift for so long, but he never told me any relevant information about his safety...
Could you elaborate on how to leverage the advantages of that location?
[Anti-fraud expert #198: Hmm... it's about using that energy to wash away the "smell of time and space" from yourself, then rewriting your code to "disinfect" it, becoming pure electronic code.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #148: Speaking of which, it's a good thing we didn't follow you on your last mission, otherwise it would have taken quite a while to remove the time-space imprints from the app.]
From this perspective, it seems that Number 234 is indeed impossible to achieve. No matter how much he disinfects, he cannot change the fact that he comes from the future timeline.
Thinking of this, Morofushi Kagemitsu fell silent.
On the 26th, someone thoughtfully transformed him into an alpaca in his mind, along with some additional explanations.
[Anti-fraud expert #26: But don't worry, as long as we leave a data backup in the real world before we go, you'll still be the familiar little alpaca when we come back~]
That's good.
His lips twitched slightly.
In order to avoid arousing suspicion, he needed to say something to divert the attention of the anti-fraud officers.
By the way, since we're looking for a time-space rift, why don't we mark it the next time a time-space mission appears?
[Anti-fraud expert #19: If it were really that easy to find them, we would just use an anti-fraud app to filter them, instead of going through all this trouble.]
Does that mean we can only rely on luck when we encounter a time warp?
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 11: Generally speaking, yes. However, after so many years of collecting data across time and space, we've also identified two or three cases where individuals might have encountered temporal gaps, which might increase the chances of encountering such cases.]
What are they?
At the same time, he began to recall the situation when No. 234 was caught in the spacetime rift...
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: Jing, are you thinking about that time we did something at the crossroads? Ah! Was it because we were trying to leave behind communication devices in the future timeline that could allow us to communicate across time and space?]
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 205: Of the three cases collected, two are unrelated to humans. The only one involving her was because she was in a near-death state for a long time during a local ritual sacrifice. Her destined death had arrived, but her consciousness had lost its way. During this time, her brainwaves exhibited peculiar reactions, leaving her in a blurred state between life and death, which resulted in a very brief moment of temporal and spatial separation.]
This sounds familiar...
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