Transform randomly in Kexue World

Chapter 282 α World Line Convergence Theory

"Oh, Detective, you're still here." "Ji~" "Shinichi..."

"Lend me the time jumping machine."

This conversation was repeated again and again.

In order to find a way to save the Maori father and daughter, Conan used time jumps again and again and thought of countless ways.

I gradually became numb to death, and I did not hesitate to use an exhaustive method to try and make mistakes step by step. The only difference between the two actions was where to turn at the last intersection.

In one of them, they successfully got out of the organization's encirclement under the cover of the crowd, but the father and daughter accidentally died in a car accident that had nothing to do with the organization.

Failed.

I also tried to take them to escape to Dr. Ali's house, hoping for the abilities of Martin and the long-eared rabbit. But he met Gin halfway, and Conan was still the only one who finally arrived at Dr. Ari's house alive.

Failed.

Noticing that Gin came from the direction of Dr. Agasa's house, Conan simply moved the time back forward to the time when he left Dr. Agasa's house to go home for dinner, and then stayed at the doctor's house, hoping that this would be the case. If you come to Gin, you won’t go to Mori’s house.

This time Gin did appear at the doctor's house with a large force, and was killed by Martin who went home early and took a light machine gun and a few grenades. However, Vodka, who appeared later, still had the father and daughter with him. of blood.

Failed.

Failed, failed, failed, failed, failed...

Conan himself couldn't remember how many times he tried, thousands of times? Maybe tens of thousands of times? From the twentieth time onwards, the feeling when the time jump started was as painful as the first time when the time jumped, making people want to faint.

No matter what they do, Uncle and Xiaolan will definitely die. They may be killed by the organization, they may die from an accident, or they may even die from a piece of watermelon rind as a joke.

It was as if everything was destined, like being murdered by the whole world.

The final straw for Conan was when he arrived at the doctor's house and found that the doctor and the jackrabbit were 'dead', but he soon discovered that they were just pretending to be dead at the suggestion of Martin.

He began to wonder whether the deaths of the doctor and the jackrabbit in the earliest world lines were also pretending to be dead.

One of the motivations that supported Conan's perseverance was, "Martin can save the doctor and Jackrabbit, and he must be able to think of a way." ’ Such thoughts.

But if everything is false, doesn't it mean that everything is destined.

"Why! Why can't I save my uncle and Xiaolan no matter what I do!" An emotionally broken Conan asked loudly.

"Because the world line is closed." Martin was bandaging the injury on his arm, tightening the bandage with his teeth, and said in a vague voice.

"Reinforcement?" Conan was alert: "What does restraint mean?"

"Didn't I say that?" Martin let go and asked while cutting off the bandage: "Didn't I say that in other world lines?"

Conan shook his head.

"Then you must have never asked." Martin pulled up an unused bandage and twisted it into a rope: "Today's plot is not a parallel world theory, but a world line theory. Theoretically, there are There are countless possible world lines, but they only exist in theory and have not been turned into reality. The world only runs along one of the world lines."

"But the existence of the time machine makes it possible to change the world line. Different world lines lead to different futures."    "The so-called convergence means that the same world line leads to a common result, and similar world lines lead to similar results. The result." Martin pulled out a single cotton thread from the rope twisted into gauze: "This thread was originally a single world line, and then at a certain important node, we used a time machine to create a large number of possible world lines. , and continue along one of the lines.”

Martin pointed to the rope twisted out of the gauze: "So there are a lot of messy branch lines, but the branches will not extend all the time. In the end, all the branch lines will be converged to the main line. You can also look at the structure of the world line. It is a spindle shape, with a line at the top. In other words, if you repeatedly use the time jumping machine, you will only jump back and forth among the branch lines on the belly of the spindle, but all branch lines will only lead to the death of Xiaolan and her uncle. "One piece"

Conan didn't understand: "If you want to put it this way, wouldn't it mean that history has already decreed that everything is in vain?"

"Spindles include large spindles and small spindles. For example, the future of the universe is naturally destined. After trillions of years, the universe will usher in extinction, but there are trillions of possibilities for the changes that occurred in the universe before extinction."

"The small spindle we are on now, where 'Xiaolan and uncle will definitely die', is just a branch line of other big spindles. On other branches of the big spindle, this thing may not happen."

"But the branch line convergence range of the big spindle is very wide, usually within 1%, which means that you have to make the reading of the world line change rate measuring instrument over there jump out of the 0-1% range, then it is possible to change this thing, but if nothing changes, we need to keep jumping forward.”

This method sounds very mysterious. Just changing a string of numbers can produce changes, but the specific plan is actually very practical: "That is to analyze the causes of the current situation, and then fundamentally deny it by changing the earlier history." This happened.”

In other words, if Conan only goes back one hour, there will be too few things that can be changed, and things from earlier need to be changed.

However, Conan's expression became even more declining.

The cause of the matter is that my past self in this world line did not know the sensitivity of the time machine, so I casually said it after the completion of those cases and spread it to the ears of the organization.

Conan naturally thought about dealing with the problem fundamentally. In a world line, after the battle at the doctor's house, the conditions for starting the telephone microwave oven were still retained, so he sent a fax of "Don't tell anyone these faxes" to his past self.

However, nothing has changed, and it is clear that his past self was not so obedient.

"You have one other way." After hearing that D-mails were sent in other world lines but to no avail, Martin reminded: "Use the time jump machine to go back to this afternoon, and then don't send any D-mails from the beginning. , give up your fake little sister.”

Conan's face was still ugly.

One end of the scale is Xiaolan and his uncle, and the other end is Aso Minori. The choice seems obvious, but Conan is unwilling to give in. The value of life should not be measured by quantity. What he wants is to save everyone. method.

Martin doesn't expect him to make a choice: "Don't worry, someone has already chosen for you."

Conan was puzzled: "What do you mean, who?"

"My dear." Martin shook out the bandage string used as an example, then put it aside, pulled off a section of the bandage and twisted a new string. "I sent her fourteen hours ago, before everything started this morning, to open a new world line. And I believe that in the new world line, she will never have a telephone or microwave oven."

That's right, after listening to Martin's words, Conan didn't doubt this at all. Based on Haihara Ai's fear of the organization, after learning that the organization was also researching time machines, and that their use of the time machine would attract attacks from the organization, he would definitely choose to give up. Let the telephone microwave oven disappear directly from history.

But Conan is still puzzled: "Then why are we not on the new world line now? Why hasn't history been changed?"

"Because you are also an observer. Although the world line where Xiao Ai is today's protagonist is the main line, because of the existence of you as an observer, this branch line is still going on." Martin explained: "And, because There will only be one world line in the end, and under the mutual pull of you two observers, these two world lines that were originally very different will eventually be forcibly brought together."

Conan had a guess and his face turned pale.

"Yes, you are very likely to bring the result of Xiaolan and uncle's death to the new main line." Martin confirmed his guess: "If you want to stop this, you must successfully change the world line before it ends. Change this ending; or let this world line completely disappear and stop moving forward, that is..."

"Go to hell, Detective."

　In order to be compatible with the situation of three observers (actually four), the theory has been changed a lot compared to the original work of Stone Gate.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)