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

Chapter 222 Under the World Tree, Shinichi Kudo Picks Up Hisself
Lin Sheng dares to guarantee—

I did not try my best to preserve the alliance's "cycle" because I heard the true thoughts of the alliance members, or because those children did not want their "home" to disappear.

Well...maybe it was just a slight touch.

But Lin Sheng understood the relative importance of the matter, and the alliance had already demonstrated everyone's determination to him.

Therefore, it was by no means a matter of indecisiveness, weakness, or arrogant and conceited clinging to the power in one's hands.

Don't forget, Lin Sheng himself personally directed this "Star Tower Case".

In other words, everyone in the alliance, every single instruction they received—

Those orders that required their task force members to abandon TDD and focus on the CYZ effect;
The watch that played Akemi Miyano's "last words video";

Dr. Agasa received orders to return to the Star Viewing Tower.

Use the storm to make the spinning chains eliminate the [story timeline];

Using extraterrestrial orbital mirror arrays as a pretext, they forcibly kept the decoding success rate constant at a certain value;
It even involves secretly interfering with Ran Mouri's subjective perception—preventing her from waking Ai Haibara and instead choosing to "believe" in a vague kind of "luck".

There are many other details and coincidences, all of which were Lin Sheng's own actions or orders.

These actions were absolutely ingenious, just like Lin Sheng's hints and help to Vermouth in the "funeral home case".

After all, at that time, even the two timelines themselves did not detect any signs of the Alliance's interference.

Therefore, the unwillingness to give up the "cycle" can be understood from another perspective as—

The Alliance's "cycle" is more important than the sacrifices of everyone in the Star Tower.

Except for the time when the Star Viewing Tower might collapse.

When the dual timelines brought about the storm, and when that cannonball struck the top of the Star Tower, he did consider whether to abandon the [Loop] in order to gain more redundancy and prevent them from going insane.

But in every other moment, he remained steadfast.

For the alliance, maintaining the operation of the most basic structure of the "cycle" is absolutely necessary.

The concept of "looping" is extremely important.

If we were to select the top three factors that have helped the alliance the most, based on factors such as its technical level and personnel growth—

Without a doubt, it's the CYZ effect, APTX-4869, and the [coalition cycle].

The cycle is a blessing of time itself, meaning more time. However, when it is transferred to reality, the situation is different.

Even though the APTX-4869 formula has been fixed, the Alliance is able to maintain the stability of the lunar base.

However, any time acceleration function now requires not only time crystals but also the CYZ effect due to the pressure of dual timelines.

Even if it's not much on its own, the alliance is no longer the tiny organization it once was; a third of the moon has been hollowed out.

Similarly, the alliance's own "cycle" means that scientific research can be carried out under the "three-choice logic", and it means the concealment and security that cannot be interfered with by the two timelines.

The cyclical structure caused by the "case" is the result of the universe being forced upon us by Shinichi Kudo.

By utilizing the "Cycle," the Alliance essentially borrowed the power of that pale sun. If they abandon the "Cycle," the Alliance would need to achieve these advantages on its own.

Many of its advantages are simply impossible to replicate.

In the past, Lin Sheng had always clung to the redundancy of the CYZ effect.

He insisted on waiting until the very last moment, or until the "dual timelines" made their move first, before launching a counterattack.

The reason is extremely simple.

This is related to the fundamental logic of timeline warfare.

In timeline warfare, there is no conventional concept of "first move".

After all, everything ended before it even began, so the outcome didn't depend on who struck first, but on who could leave the knife behind in the end.

At the heart of all the struggles is the "outcome".

Just like the somewhat unusual rules in the card game Yu-Gi-Oh!:
In a chain reaction, the last card activated is the first to resolve.

Just as the dual timelines simply "smoothed out" the CYZ effect on the Alliance task force members.

Alternatively, Lin Sheng could simply guide the chaotic chains waving in the air for a moment at the very end, forcing Gin and Vodka to leave the scene.

This mechanism determines the weight and advantage of being able to deliver the "last blow".

Therefore, each side tries to be the "last one to act".

Not only can it avoid the "conflicts" between all the forces in the middle, but it only needs to add a stroke to the "ending" that guides it, and it can swallow up all the attempts, efforts and struggles of the other parties.

This also limits the methods and pace available in timeline warfare—there aren't many options left to choose from.

Because the story timeline, the real timeline, and Lin Sheng are, in a sense, all beyond the timeline itself.

Lin Sheng was very clear that in this situation, you either had to disperse your power to a large enough and insignificant extent.

For example, as the [real-timeline] does:

Attempts to enter the 50th floor via the elevator shaft, sending out a large number of "cannon fodder" soldiers to engage in firefights with Gin, digging underground to the B5 level, and saturating helicopter evacuations from the observatory...

Or like what you did—

He replaced almost all the original visitors to the Star Viewing Tower with imposters.

And all the "counterattacks" in the [story timeline]:
The elevator crash, Yuko Shimizu's reset, the helicopter crash and explosion...

Since no possibility can be ignored, overall, the story timeline is at a loss.

Another way.

It means unleashing all the power at the beginning, cleaving down like a blade, attempting to carve out an almost unalterable "absolute time node" in the river of time.

Lin Sheng did not choose this path.

Yes, in his countless observations, as long as he abandons the [loop], in the "Star Tower Case," [Shinichi Kudo] will be able to obtain the name of the third pointer with 100% certainty.

The alliance may even have successfully concealed the name "climate generator".

At the same time, those explosions and the tragedy of the GSSRA soldiers are very likely to not happen, thus avoiding the increase in the subconscious threshold of [Shinichi Kudo].

However, sometimes you have to look ahead again, beyond victory, and face the wall of fate that lies behind it.

A sigh echoed in the void: "But, that was just a name."

this is the key of the problem.

Lin Sheng then tried to pierce through all the fog and variables with his gaze, his pupils burning with golden flames like a god's, attempting to look towards the future after the success of the "Star Tower Case"—

Failure, failure, failure...

He saw absolutely no possibility of success.

The analysis report left by Rei Utsunomiya and the final conclusion of Conan's Psychological Analysis Institute are placed before every possibility of success.

"[Conan Edogawa] may have begun to doubt the continuity of the entire world!"

In other words, Shinichi Kudo has begun to suspect that there is something wrong with time itself.

Lin Sheng kept the Alliance's [Cycle] for this very moment—

Now that the alliance has shown him its trust and determination, he will absolutely respect and live up to it.

Therefore, what Lin Sheng actually wanted to resolve was not just the name "Shadow of the Full Moon"—

He wanted to solve the entire process of Conan's deduction up to this point and obtain the third pointer in one go.

This is also why Lin Sheng kept it until the very end, insisting on making a decision only after Conan obtained the name "Full Moon Shadow".

He knew that the story timeline was now unable to even initiate a true ritualistic loop. Its power to interfere was therefore weakening.

But the league can!

The [Cycle] in his hand was stolen by the Alliance and is known as the "Maple Leaf Gold Coin Case".

This happened before the ceremony began.

In other words, this is likely the only truly complete cycle, besides the ritual cycle, that has been modified by the CYZ effect.

This coincidence even surprised Lin Sheng, because the theme of the "Maple Leaf Gold Coin Case" was precisely about finding a "treasure."

What treasure could be more dazzling and radiant than that pointer known as "Shadow of the Full Moon"?
"The moment I get the pointer's name from Conan, I'll return this loop structure..."

A new cycle will begin.

Lin Sheng could then shift the story of the third pointer into a "loop structure" that he was already familiar with and could easily interfere with.

Just as Conan was beginning to vaguely realize that there was a problem with the timeline, and GSSRA was about to announce its establishment to the world—

This gives the league a huge advantage!
To cause the so-called extraterrestrial criminal civilization on which the distillery relies to "go bankrupt and disappear," to force GSSRA and the scientific frontier to cooperate, and to turn reality against GSSRA...

They even went so far as to tell the key figures the truth directly.

They need to work together to deliver the third pointer to Conan, thus determining the ending that leads to the "truth"...

How can the efforts of the Alliance be so easily dismissed, and the results shaped by the Alliance denied, in the context of both the story timeline and the real timeline?

Lin Sheng could then similarly deny the existence of two timelines.

—If the Conan universe didn't intervene at this time.

The universe's approach is very simple.

Its operating mechanism and its counterattack mechanism only do one thing.

The universe has taken another step forward in advancing the "truth".

Like a torrent bursting through a dam, a flood of inexplicable and chaotic memories began to surge uncontrollably into the depths of Shinichi Kudo's consciousness.

In the chaotic hall, Pisco draped a handkerchief over his gun, Ai Haibara's huddled figure, and flames burning in the wine cellar...

The dimly lit harbor, Gin's cold gun barrel, Akemi Miyano's collapse, the arrival of the police, and the conclusion that she committed suicide out of guilt...

Marine facilities off the coast of Tokyo, submarines lurking beneath the surface, a global facial recognition system, Vermouth's quietly disappearing figure, Amuro Tooru's rebuttal...

[Shinichi Kudo] I don't know where these memories came from.

【Conan Edogawa】tried to suppress their surge, he gritted his teeth and held his breath, like a captain holding the helm in a storm.

But it makes no sense.

Those images, scattered like fragments, pieced together a complete truth in Shinichi Kudo's mind.

The imagery of the "tower" in Tarot cards—

The tower, which should have been reborn from destruction, has now been completely destroyed, and even the possibility of "rebirth" has been uprooted.

And that pale sun began to radiate its boundless brilliance.

The "consciousness" that was about to awaken stretched across the sky in an absolute and terrifying way.

The Star Tower is no longer a tower.

It became Yggdrasil.

The entire universe stood still at that moment.

His figure, solitary and silent, swayed on the rope like a lone boat in a storm.

His azure pupils trembled slightly, and a radiance called "reasoning" flickered.

Like Odin in Norse mythology, He abandoned his mortal perspective and began to peer into the abyss of fate.

He was then hung on a branch of the World Tree.

Beneath the World Tree, with those blood-stained hands, Shinichi Kudo begins to pick himself up!
The two timelines began to tremble, and the entire universe was celebrating this moment!
Everything began to softly sing in unison:

"Those 'tree branches' extending from the ground"
He has been wounded.

That sacrifice,

A sacrifice dedicated to Shinichi Kudo.
He sacrificed himself.
On that tree,
Nobody knows.

Where does the root of the truth extend?

He gazed down.
He picked up those truths,
Then he fell from the tree.

At this moment, the past and the future seemed to transform into Odin's ravens, Hugin and Munning, soaring through the void, skimming the boundaries of reality and flying into His thoughts and memories.

The truth is no longer just the answer to a case, nor is it simply a victory of logic.

They are like the pulse of the universe, the rhythm on this timeline, the axis where all life and all destiny converge.

Shinichi Kudo —

The most central being in the Conan universe, the one assigned by fate to solve all cases, He instinctively begins to "deduce".

Soon, He had gone far, far away.

[Shinichi Kudo] begins to ponder why the "truth" is so deeply intertwined with him;

Shinichi Kudo begins to doubt the meaning of the "ritual" involving the six pointers;

Shinichi Kudo begins to question the fundamental motives behind the existence of the organization that calls itself the "CYZ Alliance".

Finally, Shinichi Kudo began to look at the phenomenon that defied description—

CYZ effect.

This is exactly what the universe wants.

When Conan's consciousness broke through the boundaries of thought and touched the root of the CYZ effect, the origin and essence of Lin Sheng, he realized that he had made a mistake and understood his responsibility in the universe he belonged to.

As the universe begins to operate, the mechanism of the [shell] unfolds within this now-still storm—

Those once-firm hands trembled as they reached out, and Conan Edogawa's breathing became rapid.

He realized this.

These truths don't belong to him alone.

It shouldn't be now; the unfinished ritual led the truth to another level.

Free will never exist; everyone, including everything, is just a part of an endless game of deduction.

The cosmic RSI background value is rising wildly, and it will break through three digits in a very short time.

The universe began to stabilize again.

[Reasoning] It began to become the first principle, and began to fall into everything—

Those fluctuations in thought, the stirrings of emotion, and the choices made through logic begin to weave together the entire world.

The paintbrush that depicts the movement of the entire Conan universe begins to calculate the "trajectory" between the collisions of each "atom" in the "paint".

A universe where everything must be guided by reasoning and driven by cases—

It will be born with the "awakening" of [Shinichi Kudo].

That pale sun will replace the dual timelines themselves, anchoring everything in the entire universe in "reasoning".

Lin Sheng immediately went all out to intervene in this incredibly terrifying turn of events.

Fortunately, this time, Lin Sheng was not fighting alone.

That pale sun was, for the first time ever, actively suppressing its power that was beginning to rise infinitely, suppressing its out-of-control "sublimation".

The moment the CYZ effect was triggered, Conan Edogawa contacted Lin Sheng.

As Professor Agasa said, "Shinichi is a detective with a strong sense of justice."

This child is still the same boy who stands on the streets of Beika Town, wearing a blue suit and a red bow tie, running towards Professor Agasa's house and office in the sunset after school.

In fact, Lin Sheng's patience and caution were rewarded at this moment.

Conan offered a solution to the current predicament—

We need to borrow the [loop] mechanism that Lin Sheng preserved.

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