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

Chapter 73: A Foundation of Blood, Tears, and Sacrifice
For the maintenance personnel who went to repair the E-22 area.

All they could see were the lighted communication points on their instruments, with a few avatars turning gray from time to time.

Or maybe everyone can hear it from the communication system from time to time -

Those painful howls, angry roars or low muffled groans.

But they are still moving forward, moving forward with difficulty.

As the team leader, Gong Tao carried the heaviest equipment.

The reason why all the team members were able to move forward relatively safely was due to the micro time stabilization anchor laid by him who was walking in the front.

Those small devices with golden cores are attached to the ground of the corridor, which changes with time.

Using time crystals, they were able to pin down the range of time cycles in a small area to a range that could be tolerated while wearing protective clothing.

The team continued to advance until Gong Tao stepped into the gate of area E-22.

Because the next disaster truly poured out the malice from the timeline on them.

When Gong Tao stepped into the gate of Area E-22 with his armor-like protective boots, he felt the instability transmitted from the soles of his shoes.

He knew something was wrong.

I looked up at the indicator light inside the helmet, which was currently emitting a green light indicating safety.

But the situation is not right!

This set of protective equipment equipped with consciousness synchronization equipment and TDD-LL protocol is theoretically sufficient to deal with timeline disturbances below threat level four.

It will form a stable timeline around him of at least 5 centimeters.

He had previously set the stable timeline to 22 minutes before the explosion of the Akasha Chain in the E-25 area.

Even if the timeline was disturbed violently, what he should have stepped on was a "cement floating board" rather than some sticky substance.

And when he looked down, he saw the hardened concrete beneath his feet licking his shoes like a tide.

"Wait! When did the breathing sounds coming from the communication system become so long?!"

Gong Tao immediately realized that he had fallen into an extremely dangerous situation.

But he didn't know that at this time the entire timeline had actually been flowing for a long time.

From Gong Tao's perspective, after he realized that something was wrong, he urgently launched and completed a series of emergency protocols similar to those used in training.

The breathing sounds that seemed a little long immediately became rapid like the buzzing of a bee.

A crackling sound similar to a tape playing in reverse came from the communication channel.

"...Zizizi...Ke Li...Tao Gong"

"...zizizi...please...zizizi...come...to...me..."

In the "next moment", Gong Tao's TDD, which was connected to a consciousness stabilization device, "immediately" sounded an alarm.

"Time radiation has reached its peak! Please evacuate immediately!"

"Warning! The time scale deviates from the flow rate by 15 times—"

"Warning! The time scale deviates from the flow rate by 150 times—"

"Warning! The time scale deviates from the flow rate by ■■■■ times—"

The numbers were not rising slowly like before. Gong Tao could see the numbers displayed on the virtual screen on the helmet jumping wildly.

In the end, even the entire interface began to blur and distort.

In such a turbulent flow of time, TDD is still trying to maintain his own sense of time, but it is not enough.

It's as if the "frame rate" itself is decreasing.

The rays of light, trapped in the maze of time, finally shone through his helmet.

As the perception from his limbs began to slow down, Gong Tao finally saw the last scene he could see.

Curved and straight corridors exist at the same time, and the topologically folded space-time structure allows Gong Tao to see himself in the previous second and the next second walking on the corridor three days ago at the same time.

He finally made a retreat gesture backwards.

"We may have encountered the most terrible—"

With the fluctuation of [Cycle], this disordered space and time gently "licked" outward, and then Gong Tao merged into this space and time like a melted candle.

"Evacuate! This is Emergency Plan A-04!"

Deputy Captain Zhang Yu's voice was almost a roar, "Evacuate immediately! Evacuate immediately!"

But it was too late.

The data this entire team received from the logistics department was completely wrong—

There is nothing wrong with the reason coming from the sensor.

The cause of this accident was indeed the time dilation radiation in the E group area.

It directly brittled the walls of the three rooms near the Akasha Lock.

Then the radiation from three different timelines directly hit the Akashic Lock in the outermost E-22 area, causing the time flow to not circulate within a fixed interval as agreed but instead to explode violently.

This produced some terrible results - a smaller loop structure appeared within the loop, and this smaller loop structure began to continue to iterate because the larger loop began to continue to iterate...

The information transmitted by the sensor is the space-time structure data and time radiation level at the moment of the explosion.

But when the team arrived at the gate of E-22 area——

This nested structure, which begins to loop on itself, has gone very deep.

These are some of the most terrifying of the countless possible outcomes described in the Time Exploration Department's book "The Ethics of Time Interference."

This "infinite loop" problem caused all the maintenance personnel who tried to manually calibrate the Akashic Lock to fall into a kind of "perpetuity".

They are now being played over and over again like a videotape.

What's even more terrifying is that since they do carry TDD in this alliance's [cycle], this means that the time traveler effect still affects their own consciousness.

This actually creates a hellish scenario.

Maybe at some point when the timeline connects with the outside world.

Their breathing, movements, sounds...

Their every second of action is nested in an exploration of the iterative nature of time that is infinitely subdivided downwards.

Perhaps at that moment they can understand again what they have experienced, and then maintain this "cycle" state and repeat it forever.

Perhaps they will be like beetles trapped in amber.

……

“If I were to fix…”

As soon as Lin Sheng asked this question in his heart, he got the answer.

That would require an astronomical amount of APTX-4869, and the Alliance would need to build a timeline stabilization chamber that would attempt to cover the entire E-22 to directly rewind the time flow of the entire area to before the [loop] occurred.

This is something that Lin Sheng cannot and will not be able to do now.

Even if the Alliance really has an unlimited supply of APTX-4869.

Rolling back the entire E-22 area to before the [cycle] means that the cyclic structure that the Alliance snatched from the dual timelines and the universe will once again have minor structural breaks.

Any chain reaction that might be triggered by this could be a hundred times more serious than the current situation.

As for personally solving the problems in that area—

Now located in the center of the entire alliance [cycle], Lin Sheng, who is at the core of this cycle structure, cannot leave the core office.

Once he leaves this space-time loop structure generator with himself as the core of the perpetual motion machine.

The resulting deviations could also cause a dozen similar, or even more dangerous, timeline problems.

"Currently, there are approximately 33 areas experiencing spatiotemporal structural problems at level 4 danger, but fortunately, no level 5 danger has occurred."

After taking the document handed over by Shigenobu Hitomi, Lin Sheng had already "finished reading" all the information.

He sighed inwardly, feeling somewhat heavy, "It's no longer the case that the entire Alliance base was in a true dual timeline."

"Let's temporarily seal off those areas. The original connecting structure between the upper and lower hemispheres will no longer be used. Build a new walkway from the edge of Area D towards Area E-24, bypassing Area E-19 to Area E-22."

"I understand." Shigenobu Hitomi also understood that it was indeed difficult to solve these problems with the current resources of the alliance.

There are no more interferences from dual timelines, universes, or Conan.

It also means that the alliance can only rely on its own strength to solve all problems that occur in its own [cycle].

"This is the best solution at the moment. After all, the alliance's focus should still be on the development of the dual timelines and the [Loop]."

Shigenobu Hitomi still understood where the key to solving the problem lay.

"Yes," Lin Sheng nodded, "whether it's the supply method of APTX-4869, the further completion and improvement of the Alliance's known [cycle] structure, or the exploration of timeline theory."

"In the end, it all comes down to guiding and analyzing Kudo Shinichi."

Turning my gaze back to the pale sun lying horizontally in the center of the dual timelines—

If it was Him, Lin Sheng thought, maybe all he would need to do is run over and say, "There is only one truth!"

Everything that just happened will be easily resolved.

Lin Sheng was amused by the idea that suddenly popped up in his mind.

He shook his head with a smile, then erased the weak thought from his mind.

"Have the research team immediately begin attempting to connect with the main time stream!"

"We need to immediately understand how far the [story timeline] has advanced the [cycle] of the 'Valentine's Day Murder Case'!"

His voice became serious again the next moment.

It's not just about connecting to the main time stream.

Lin Sheng has already "seen" the next 1,300 important matters to be dealt with -

They are all essentially equally important.

(End of this chapter)