Conan: I can see keywords

Then, he lost consciousness.

Chapter 12: Divergent Timelines

"Drip-drip-"

The electrocardiograph is working diligently.

When Lingchuan regained consciousness, he was stunned for a moment when he heard the unfamiliar voice.

He struggled to open his eyes.

"Lingchuan? You finally woke up!"

Nako?

what happened?

"Really? How could you faint at home? You owe me a meal. You should take good care of yourself!"

Fainted? Me?

It was as if someone had hit his brain with a hammer, and Lingchuan's ability to capture surrounding information and analyze the information in Nako's words was significantly reduced.

After he woke up, he lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling and the things at hand for a long time before he remembered something.

"Notebook...notebook! My notebook!"

I sat up in a hurry.

His panicked look scared Naoko, "Don't move, Lingchuan, you need to rest now!"

"Notebook? Is that what you mean?" Naizi took out a silver-covered notebook from her bosom and quickly handed it over.

"Yes, that's it." Lingchuan grabbed the notebook and looked at Nako with something strange in his eyes.

"What, what happened..." Nako was inexplicably panicked.

"Have you opened it and read it?"

Nako, who couldn't lie, nodded and said, "Sorry... I'm just curious, but, but Lingchuan's notebook has nothing but some meaningless scribbles."

"There's no password, right? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Nako pouted. Because she had looked through someone else's notebook without permission, Lingchuan stared at her sternly, but she could only endure it silently.

Meaningless doodles?

Lingchuan lowered his head and accurately turned to the page with the graffiti.

That was the mark left by whether his lab notebook could write normally.

This should be what Nako was talking about.

So...she can't see the first page?

Lingchuan tentatively opened the first page, revealing some words: Valentine's Day, Chocolate...

Secretly observing Nako's expression, and seeing that she really couldn't see the words on it, Lingchuan boldly opened it completely, "Nako, look at what's on it?"

"what?"

"Nothing..."

Naizi looked at Lingchuan with some concern, "Lingchuan-kun, are you sick?"

After getting the answer, Lingchuan completely relaxed, and his sluggish senses and brain finally started working again.

"I have no disease."

Looking at the surrounding facilities, he was surprised, "Why am I in a hospital?"

"Because you didn't come to work today and I couldn't get through on the phone, I went to your apartment to look for you. Who knew you would faint at the door?"

"Lingchuan, are you really not sick?"

Lingchuan shook his head confidently, "I am very healthy."

"That's what the doctor's report said. You're healthy. They couldn't find out why you fainted... Oh, and there's also a nosebleed..."

nosebleed?

Lingchuan subconsciously raised his hand to touch his nose, but felt nothing.

"It's gone now. You don't know, but I was really scared when I first found you!"

Nako reached out and took an apple and started peeling it in her hand, "But at least you're okay."

"Although I'm a little worried about your sudden coma, the doctor said it might be due to work pressure. I've already contacted your boss. You should just rest at home for the next few days."

"Really, Lingchuan-kun, please thank me~"

"Last time you had a fever, I helped you deliver rice flowers, and you promised to treat me to a meal, but you haven't kept your promise yet. Now I've helped you again, how are you going to thank me?"

Last...time?

Lingchuan was smart and didn't ask any further questions.

His brain now aches whenever he thinks about something.

It was a rare opportunity for him to lie in bed and rest, and he didn't want to think too much.

Lingchuan took the apple handed to him by Nako and started eating it in small bites, stroking the notebook in his hand, completely ignoring Nako's chattering in his ear.

Until she turned on the TV and happened to be on the news channel.

"According to the police, this Shinkansen explosion was probably an imitation of the previous Shinkansen explosion. According to the confessions of the two men in black who have been arrested..."

"Snapped!"

Lingchuan raised his head suddenly and knocked something off.

But he no longer had the energy to pay attention to that.

"Nako, raise your voice."

"Huh? Lingchuan-kun likes watching the news?"

"Well, luckily there weren't many casualties in the Shinkansen explosion. I heard it was because someone discovered the bomb in advance, notified the crew, and evacuated the passengers."

"Only one person died in this explosion. She didn't seem like a good person..."

what happened?

Lingchuan stared at the news.

Nako's mumbling voice was amplified infinitely when it reached her ears.

What's going on? !

He turned around and looked through his belongings, and finally saw his cell phone on the ground.

Fortunately, the phone’s battery life is long enough.

Looking at the time displayed on the phone, today is February 14th, Valentine's Day.

Lingchuan was speechless.

The day when the Shinkansen explosion occurred was not in February!

Knowing that the date was unreliable, he had no choice but to ask Nako, "Nako, when did the Shinkansen explosion mentioned in the news happen?"

"It was yesterday." Nako answered as a matter of course.

yesterday?

But the Shinkansen explosion that happened yesterday was clearly related to the main line, and many people died!

Lingchuan rubbed his aching temple.

Thinking in my mind.

Finally he came to a conclusion!

Maybe... the main timeline and the non-main timeline are divergent?

In the non-main timeline, the plots that have already happened in the main storyline are considered by everyone to have happened a long time ago.

In the main timeline, the non-main plots are also regarded as things that "have already happened".

That's why when Lingchuan met Conan yesterday, Conan mentioned "the last Shinkansen explosion" and today Nako said "imitating the last Shinkansen explosion".

Look at it this way...

Lingchuan's eyebrows were twisted into the shape of the word "Chuan".

"I remember that the Shinkansen plot happened before the main plot, right?"

"It's the same day, but because of the different plot, the destroyed Shinkansen suddenly became intact?"

I glanced at the news, and at that moment, the news was showing a scene where a Shinkansen was blown in half.

"From what we can see now, the terrible situation of the Shinkansen is completely a non-main line situation..."

Because the windows of the Shinkansen train in the main storyline were broken, but for the one in the news, the driver opened the door when the explosion occurred because the passengers were informed in advance that there was a bomb.

Therefore, most passengers left through the main door and no one broke the windows to escape.

"Could it be..."

"Not only is the timeline diverging, but things are also following two different scenarios?"

"Then the next time the main storyline appears, the Shinkansen in the news will be..."

"What are you talking about?" Nako always liked to suddenly put her head in front of Lingchuan and stare into his eyes.

Because Nako said that she liked Lingchuan's eyes very much.

it is very beautiful.

Especially when Lingchuan was in deep thought.

Even though Lingchuan was really helpless about Nako's behavior, Nako was his childhood sweetheart and his only friend at present, so Lingchuan could only remind Nako over and over again not to do this.

"Ah! Lingchuan-kun, your nose is bleeding again!"

nosebleed?