The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 167 The time traveler...must...compromise, compromise, compromise and leave... (Add more and ask for monthly tickets)
Unlike the dual timeline, after so many stimulations from the alliance, it can almost show characteristics that can be called "human thinking activities."

The Conan universe's response can be described as very slow.

However, after so many observations and carefully confirming all the details since the emergence of the Alliance, the Conan Universe finally figured out the origins of the Alliance, or Lin Sheng.

Although the species, origin and type of this time traveler are uncertain, there is indeed a "time traveler" standing behind the CYZ Alliance.

Considering that the motives of the CYZ Alliance's actions that it observed were irreparably inconsistent and conflicting with its own existence, the Conan Universe immediately began to perform its duties.

It immediately used a prophecy machine that mixed part of itself and the dual timeline to communicate with Lin Sheng.

That is to say, the four propositions were sent.

"Traveler... your game... stop changing... the alliance must... compromise/compromise/compromise/leave..."

This is roughly what the words at the beginning mean when translated.

Then there are some specific details about this negotiation.

For Lin Sheng, this was a rare moment for him to intercept the letter that the universe would send to him two cycles later.

To be honest, he looked a little strange when he saw the specific content.

It wasn't because the universe revealed its true identity to the League.

The fact that Lin Sheng was a time traveler could actually be considered a secret among the alliance's top brass.

Because what is most likely to expose this matter is actually the information that Lin Sheng has been "quietly" stuffing into the executive level database.

Just like Lin Sheng knew that the executive level and some departments of the Narrative Studies Department could probably guess his origins.

After the alliance moved into the [Loop], Lin Sheng almost stopped acting, and a lot of information suddenly appeared in the executive level's database.

And those researchers in the Department of Narrative Studies, perhaps in the eyes of others, they are just a group of lunatics who try to find loopholes in the "story" every day, or even try to modify the entire "story".

There was even one time when Hitomi Shigenobu secretly probed the intelligence analysis submitted to her by the executive level, asking herself questions such as "What role do I play in the original plot?"

——But they never asked Lin Sheng about his past, nor did they ask about the origin of that “intelligence”.

It's like some kind of subtle tacit understanding.

No one asked about Lin Sheng's origins. Even for the CYZ effect, researchers were more inclined to study the effect itself rather than trying to study Lin Sheng himself.

Therefore, if it were not for the psychological acceptance of most members of the alliance, Lin Sheng actually did not mind exposing the fact that he was a time traveler.

So Lin Sheng now treats the universe's question of attacking his mind as if it is just bullshit.

He's not worried about the league doubting him.

But Lin Sheng was not sure whether the alliance would doubt its own capabilities because of the latter sentence.

The main thing is the word "your game" in it, as if the league's actions so far are unimportant.

You know, he just cheered up the somewhat lost Hitomi Shigenobu!

No matter what, whether out of respect for the alliance members or to better analyze the information sent by the universe, Lin Sheng finally chose not to interfere in this matter.

In order to cut the Gordian knot, the second after seeing the information spit out by the future prediction machine, Lin Sheng copied the content verbatim to some departments at the executive and research levels.

To be honest, the result of this incident was completely beyond his expectations and even made him feel a little relieved.

Not to mention the loud cheers from almost all researchers in the Narrative Studies Department for this extremely valuable data and information.

Originally, Hitomi Shigenobu was still worried about the condition of Mr. ZC-01, and was a little panicked that Lin Sheng would not be able to take action in the next case.

After the "prophecy" from the future was uploaded to the database of the executive layer in a hurry, the entire executive layer was almost boiling with excitement.

"The Alliance's game?! What does the timeline and universe think of the Alliance?!"

In the conference room, anger filled the air.

Hitomi Shigenobu slammed her hands on the table. She now felt the same anger as Ms. Miyano did at that time.

A kind of feeling where the timeline and even the universe coldly declared that her fate had already been written, and she was forced to admit that she was just a "puppet" being manipulated...

The anger of being completely denied was now truly burning in Shigenobu Hitomi.

Even though the Alliance might have to face the dual timelines alone in the third case—

"We've already won two games! What right do they have to make us compromise?!"

"But the Speaker of the Council."

An executive-level council member who read faster gestured to Shigenobu Hitomi to look at the following content.

His face was just as strange as Lin Sheng's back then.

"This seems to be a negotiation letter, and it doesn't seem like we are the one compromising."

This was the most fundamental reason why Lin Sheng was hesitant, and it was rare for him to not see the future disturbed by this prophetic letter, which made Lin Sheng a little uncomfortable. Moreover, it seemed that agreeing to this request could even be said to be very beneficial.

Although Lin Sheng was 100% sure that the alliance would not agree, what if?
You know, putting aside those soft yet sharp words, at this moment, the universe has the word peace, or even surrender, written on its face.

——The universe seems to be taking sides and is now on the Alliance’s side.

"As long as we get the ritual stuck at the third pointer, the universe will support us in becoming a new storyline, and even allow us to weave the case with the realistic logic the Alliance wants?"

"I don't agree!" Ms. Miyano, who had just been pulled into the executive team, immediately stood up and expressed her opposition clearly.

"Wouldn't that mean we're just in the [story timeline]? If people still die, then nothing has changed, right?"

An executive-level councilor pointed out Ms. Miyano's misunderstanding.

"No, all the universe requires is the presence of the 'dead' in the reasoning process. For the current alliance, if we have editing authority over the [story timeline], it won't be too difficult to avoid this."

"At the same time, the universe has promised not to interfere with human activities outside the solar system. This means that the Alliance's human migration plan can be gradually realized. We can replicate the Earth and give [Kudo Shinichi] a planet full of puppets that he cannot distinguish..."

The more the executive-level councilor explained, the more he felt that such a plan was indeed very feasible.

"Even if we only need to move the population of Tokyo or Beika Town, the universe agrees to transfer one-third of the mortality rate to non-human conscious life forms through the induction of [Kudo Shinichi] later."

"Even since this is a proposition given by the prophecy machine, the universe itself cannot deny it. In fact, we only need to vote to complete this 'prophecy'. We only need to deny the proposition that the Alliance will withdraw from the Conan universe."

For the current alliance, this is indeed a very sincere condition.

Even after becoming a new "storyline", the alliance does not have to worry about the problem of Conan's threshold being raised.

Because the ritual that relied on the power of [Kudo Shinichi] himself was not terminated but got stuck. In other words, the Alliance simply postponed the time for [Kudo Shinichi] to discover the "truth" to a future that may never arrive.

"Even the universe has proactively handed us the leverage. Since the ritual hasn't been terminated yet, we still have a chance to fight the universe to the death in the future. We can even pretend to agree to this."

"It can be said that this has greatly alleviated the pressure we are currently under."

Even one of the executive councillors has started thinking about it.

After the Alliance accepted this seemingly "extraordinarily generous" condition, how should the Alliance prevent Conan from finding a new clue in the third case?

"And according to ZC-01-sama, all actions in the next case must be carried out by the Alliance. Even if Kudo Shinichi's inclinations have reduced the Alliance's constraints, compared to the dual timeline..."

Another executive-level legislator from the pro-war faction immediately stood up to refute.

"But we also need to consider the other information hidden in this trap..."

So, after a heated discussion and vote.

——The final result of the alliance was of course a unanimous veto.

Obviously this is a blatant trap.

In fact, if we infer based on the timeline that Lin Sheng originally showed to Shigenobu Hitomi, perhaps the alliance would really agree.

But now Ms. Miyano is sitting among everyone!

The experience of the second case is still fresh in my mind. The executive team has asked the Narrative Studies Department to analyze Ms. Miyano's actions over and over again.

Although due to Ms. Miyano's firm refusal on some details, and out of respect for Ms. Miyano, several departments had to carry out this research task secretly and the progress was slow.

"No matter what, we must oppose whatever the enemy wants to achieve!"

At the meeting, Hitomi Shigenobu decisively declared the unanimous opinion of the CYZ executive team.

Even this "negotiation letter" from the universe gave the entire alliance hope in the third case.

"This shows that even if the Alliance acts independently in the third case, there is indeed a possibility of truly threatening the dual timeline."

Otherwise why would the dual timelines and universes try to make peace?

For the Conan universe itself, it is indeed a bit shameless that Lin Sheng can actively observe the future within the [loop] belonging to the Alliance. It feels the disgust that the Alliance felt when facing the dual timeline before.

I found that I hadn't achieved any of my goals.

The best outcome is naturally that the Alliance actively chooses to accept the Universe's proposal.

Or because of this trap, you have to passively accept the universe's offer.

According to the original plan of the universe, no matter what the final result of the alliance discussion is, it actually doesn't make much difference.

The function of the prophecy machine is cosmic, which means that the moment the proposition is given, the alliance's [cycle] and dual timeline are synchronized.

Even based on its analysis of Lin Sheng, it believes that Lin Sheng will choose not to interfere with the alliance's actions out of trust in the alliance, and then support the alliance's choice.

As long as the alliance begins to hesitate because of its own "negotiation letter", or even as long as the alliance does not immediately reject the four propositions, then within the time range of the prophecy machine, the universe's purpose of using negotiation to delay time for the dual timelines will have been achieved.

But it was clear that Lin Sheng's trust in the alliance was a bit too much, or perhaps it was due to his absolute confidence in himself or the alliance -

In short, this time traveler directly handed his negotiation letter to the alliance two cycle days in advance.

This forced the universe to temporarily change the future "peace letter" into a "declaration of war".

So the four propositions spit out by the future prediction machine that Lin Sheng saw changed again.

"War/war/war/compromise."

And "war" and "compromise" are obviously not good words.

Lin Sheng's voice immediately rang in the minds of all executive-level council members, and his voice instantly woke everyone present up.

"The Time Research Department, the Time Sequence Department, and all other time research departments should immediately analyze the observations of the time display device!"

"The dual-timeline and cosmic attacks on the Alliance have begun. The holiday at the end of the [Cycle] is cancelled. We need to know the targets of the dual-timeline attacks in the next two cycles!"

(End of this chapter)