Kudo Shinichi didn't want to go to crowded places, so he left in the end. When he passed by a shop, he stopped because there was a TV near the door of the shop, which was playing a program. The name of this program was called "The Great Change of the Times, a Review and Summary of the Roller Coaster Murder Case in January"
In the show, several guests discussed the death of Kudo Shinichi and the ins and outs of the roller coaster murder case with the exaggerated tone and expressions common in Japanese variety shows!
As he listened, Kudo Shinichi's expression became more and more strange.
According to the review of the program guests, Kudo Shinichi was extraordinary since childhood. He could recite the complete works of Shakespeare fluently within a month after he was born, and could tear tigers and leopards apart alive before he was one year old. When he was three years old, his biceps were thicker than his waist. When he was six years old, he could spray lasers with his eyes. He was so different from a human. The reason why Kudo Shinichi was so unlike a human was mainly because of his blood. One third of his blood was the divine blood of Amaterasu, and the other third was the blood of the Namekians from the Centaur constellation.
As for what the remaining one third is, the guests are still discussing. The current scope of discussion is focused on Godzilla or Alien, and it is not ruled out that other more powerful legendary creatures are the source of Kudo Shinichi's bloodline.
No matter what the source of Kudo Shinichi's bloodline is, he awakened his stand when he was in high school. Then Kudo Shinichi was active as a high school detective during the day. After nightfall, based on the information he collected, he wore his red underwear outside, put on a mask, and transformed into a superhero to fight crime and uphold justice in the world!
However, Kudo Shinichi's chivalrous behavior also offended a mysterious evil organization!
In order to fight against Kudo Shinichi who possessed the power of a Stand, this mysterious evil organization found a mysterious treasure called Moriarty's Great Treasure, and then used this treasure to awaken their Stand. Finally, one day, they set up a plan in the Beika Town Amusement Park and committed an evil murder on Kudo Shinichi.
It was a shocking murder case, but no one knew the specific process. When the guests discussed this, they all sighed and wished they could turn back time to witness the shocking murder case with their own eyes. However, even if they didn't know the process, it did not prevent them from letting their imagination run wild and reasoning about the process of the shocking murder case.
And there is a reason why these guests are so excited!
The roller coaster murder case at the Beika Town Amusement Park had a profound impact on the world.
According to what these guests said, on the day of the roller coaster murder, they saw Kudo Shinichi in their dreams telling them that terrible evil and darkness were approaching, and in order to change the outcome, he decided to share his power with all mankind, and from now on, the responsibility of maintaining world justice will be handed over to them.
When they woke up, their substitutes were also awakened.
And not just them, but all human beings in the world, dreamed of Kudo Shinichi on that day, and then received Kudo Shinichi's affirmation in the dream. After waking up, they all switched to become Stand users.
Kudo Shinichi, the famous high school detective and savior of the Neon Metropolitan Police Department, is no longer a title of the past. Now Kudo Shinichi's latest title is the world's strongest Stand user and the first superhero.
Looking at the guests on the show and all the praise and compliments they gave him, Kudo Shinichi smiled bitterly, then lowered his head and left.
He recalled what he was thinking in the last moments before he was shot.
Faced with the fact that Ran Mao Li was about to die, he admitted his failure.
Paying the price of his own life to end everything was not a difficult decision for him, but if he had to pay the price of someone he cherished, Kudo Shinichi still couldn't do it.
Finally, he placed his hope of changing everything on the magic dice.
As Kudo Shinichi walked, he came to the Mori Office. It was much quieter here, but Kudo Shinichi did not go upstairs. He just stayed downstairs, looking at the lights on the second floor of the Mori Office. Perhaps it was a coincidence that Mori Ran happened to walk past the window.
Shinichi Kudo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Ran Mouri was safe and sound!
Then, he stared at Mouri Ran deeply, as if he wanted to imprint her appearance deeply in his heart. Then, Kudo Shinichi turned around and left without looking back.
Since Kudo Shinichi is "dead", let him die completely.
At the last moment, Kudo Shinichi admitted his failure, but he was stubborn and refused to admit defeat.
Kudo Shinichi doesn't know what other changes will occur in the sixth world line change, except that he himself will become a child and all human beings will become Stand users.
But he knew that the winery organization still existed, and even Moriarty's shadow was looming in the new world line. That was enough!
Even after becoming a child, Kudo Shinichi's belief remains unchanged.
The winery and Moriarty must die!
But this awareness was soon challenged.
Kudo Shinichi, who had spent the night in the park, was woken up by the cold and when he got up, he looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky with an incredulous look in his eyes.
"It was summer yesterday, why is it snowing today? Isn't this new world line a bit outrageous?!"
128. Beika Town, the den of crime
Perhaps it is because the shrinking of Kudo Shinichi is still different from the original work, so after being shrunk, Kudo Shinichi still comes with a set of fitting children's clothes.
Of course, in this world, this is also a reasonable setting. After all, the characters in the original work basically change their clothes with one click when the scene changes, and there are very few scenes of changing clothes.
The only problem is that Kudo Shinichi's children's clothing is summer clothing!
Shinichi Kudo was shivering in the wind and snow, feeling extremely confused by the chaotic climate change. What confused him even more was that the homeless people living in the park seemed to have adapted to this a long time ago. They were wearing summer clothes yesterday, but today they were wearing thick clothes and did not react to the chaotic climate change.
Because of the bursting of the bubble economy in Neon, workplace and family pressures have skyrocketed. Then, there are a large number of homeless people who are bankrupt, escaping from debt, or unable to adapt to society, family and work in various parts of the city. The Neon government has also formulated many laws and policies to provide support. For example, it has stipulated that the cardboard houses built by homeless people themselves must not have roofs, otherwise they will be arrested. Some places under parks and overpasses must be equipped with small uneven triangular barbs to prevent homeless people from sleeping on them. Homeless people are prohibited from picking up empty garbage cans to prevent them from affecting the performance of garbage recycling companies. And so on.
As for the relief stations that the government has set up specifically for the homeless? It's fine to go in and eat a meal or two occasionally, but if you want to apply for relief and stay, the relief stations usually find various reasons, such as saying that the shelter is full and will not approve it. You ask why, because the relief stations have special funds for the relief and stay of the homeless, but unfortunately, the whereabouts of this money often becomes a mystery before the homeless move in.
The Japanese media also conducted a special investigation, and the reason given by the relief station is very refreshing. They said that the homeless people who come to the relief station have the usual noble spirit of the Japanese. Even if they are displaced, disabled or sick, they must be self-reliant and are unwilling to accept government assistance and waste taxpayers' funds. Therefore, the only thing the relief station can do is to give these noble homeless people heated cheap expired fast food, and then watch these noble homeless people leave with tears in their eyes.
The malicious assistance policy, the lack of relief policy, and the fact that Japanese officials deliberately narrow the statistical caliber to reduce the number of homeless people on paper as much as possible, as if the problem can be covered up, have resulted in the homeless people becoming a marginal group that is ignored and even deliberately suppressed in Japan.
Why did Kudo Shinichi know it so clearly? It was because those homeless people were cursing for most of the night last night, and Kudo Shinichi was not deaf, so of course he heard it.
Kudo Shinichi could only respond with sympathetic silence to this social phenomenon which he had not understood before, because there was nothing he could do. In a sense, he was actually worse off than these homeless people. He now had no identity, no source of income, no place to live, and no ability to work. Apart from being relatively healthy, he had nothing else.
For him, the familiar Beika Town has become an isolated island for survival in the wilderness. What's worse is that this unexpected snowstorm has put Kudo Shinichi's only "health" at risk.
Originally, Kudo Shinichi didn't want to have much contact with these homeless people. After all, he looked like a child now, and it would be extremely troublesome to explain to others why he had fallen to the point of having to live in the park. However, the chaotic climate change made Kudo Shinichi prefer to pay some price to ask.
The chat and questioning went smoothly, or rather, these homeless people in the park were relatively friendly and gentle.
"What date was yesterday?"
"May 5th was one month after Kudo Shinichi's death. I remember it very clearly."
"What's today's date?"
"December 12rd, kid, what's wrong?"
"Don't you find it strange? In just one day, we jumped from the summer of May to the winter of December."
"What's so strange about this!"
"So, how long has it been since Kudo Shinichi died?"
"There were only thirty days in last month. With today, it's thirty-one days now. Little boy, are you testing me on math?"
The above words silenced Kudo Shinichi.
The jump from May to December in just one day is normal in the minds of these homeless people. However, it is clearly a span of seven months, from summer to winter, but to them, it is still just one day.
The time perceived by these homeless people is out of track with the real time. What's even more bizarre is that after Kudo Shinichi continued to ask questions, he found that this out-of-track dual time perception can be connected.
"What day is tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow, it should be June 8th. The weather will be hot tomorrow. Children, don't eat too much ice cream!"
Kudo Shinichi became more and more confused. He had no idea why these homeless people could "predict" what day tomorrow would be in this chaotic time, and why he did not have such ability.
Kudo Shinichi was no longer interested in asking further questions. He just wanted to find the magical dice, and then grab its neck and ask why, after the world line changed, everyone else had implemented the version update content, but he was the only one left behind! ?
This helplessness came from the fact that Kudo Shinichi discovered that not only was the new version setting of "disordered time perception" that everyone has not been implemented on him, but even the setting of the stand seemed to have skipped him.
Even a homeless person can summon a slightly blurry stand, and then control the stand to help with moving and doing some heavy work, but Kudo Shinichi cannot summon a stand.
Kudo Shinichi discovered this last night, and he was relieved at that time, but now, Kudo Shinichi feels quite helpless, because through the conversation with the homeless man, he found that due to the popularity of stand-ins, stand-ins are needed for everything now, and it will be troublesome if there are no stand-ins.
Kudo Shinichi had to retract his assessment of his current situation. Not only did he have nothing, he didn't even have "health". His incomplete perception of time could be regarded as a neurological disease. However, in this era where everyone has a stand-in, he, without a stand-in, is equivalent to a super disabled person.
With a sick brain, a disabled body and nothing left, Kudo Shinichi feels that the new world line of the sixth change seems too unfriendly to him.
In response, Kudo Shinichi could only smile bitterly and couldn't help but recall the thoughts in his mind when he threw the magic dice.
At that time, he did have the idea of getting rid of Moriarty and staying away from his family and friends. Unexpectedly, Steins;Gate responded to his desire. In the new world line, Moriarty, the ultimate stand, was indeed stripped away, but he forgot to give him a new stand.
No, maybe it's not that he forgot to give it, because according to the results of the new world line jump, Kudo Shinichi's Stand had already been distributed to all mankind, becoming the cornerstone supporting this era of universal Stand users!
Then, he also became a child and indeed drew a clear line between himself and his family and friends. No matter what danger he encountered, it had nothing to do with them, because to them, Kudo Shinichi had already been "dead".
Everything is as I wish, but the price of having my wish fulfilled also comes with it.
With a sigh, Kudo Shinichi quickly cheered up and tried to use his wisdom to actively survive in this "wilderness island" of Beika Town.
The faucet in the park was sufficient for drinking water, and food and clothes were quickly obtained. The homeless old man who was approached by Kudo Shinichi was actually a nice guy and gave him some biscuits and worn-out clothes.
Kudo Shinichi was not a hypocritical person, so he accepted the kind gift. The homeless old man touched Kudo Shinichi's head and asked:
"Little boy, your eyes look very mature, as if you have experienced a lot, so I asked you why you didn't go home, but stayed in the park like us homeless people, what is your name?"
The homeless people lingering at the bottom of society sometimes feel many things more clearly, but they have long been numb to life and have lost the curiosity to get to the bottom of things. This little bit of kindness is all they can give.
Kudo Shinichi was deeply moved by this kindness. He opened his mouth to speak, but the words stopped at his lips.
Kudo Shinichi is already dead, so there is no need for him to show up again.
After a pause, Kudo Shinichi said:
"Uncle, my name is Edogawa Conan!"
Edogawa Ranpo and Conan Doyle were his favorite detective novel authors. At this moment, Kudo Shinichi chose the names of the two authors and took a part of each as his new name.
But Edogawa Conan didn't realize that when he said this name, everything in the world seemed to become more colorful and lively.
The eternal protagonist of the world was officially born at this moment.
Mo Yu watched all of this and witnessed this scene. He couldn't help but smile slightly, but he quickly looked away and looked down at the changes in the entire world bubble through the computer screen.
At the moment when the world line was reshaped, or more precisely, the moment when the shrunken Kudo Shinichi appeared in this world, the timeline of this world bubble finally returned to the chaos that Mo Yu knew.
However, this kind of time confusion is not as simple as the COS world bubble, which is obsessed with details to the point of having some obsessive-compulsive disorder, wanting to imitate the original work, but rather an "evolution" derived from the evolution of its own logic.
Before Kudo Shinichi retrieved Edogawa Conan's true body, the timeline of the World Bubble was linear logic, no different from that of the Bleach World Bubble. But after Kudo Shinichi retrieved Edogawa Conan's true body, the World Bubble blew up its own timeline, and then during the blasting process, it completed extremely complex and weird operations. Mo Yu couldn't quite explain that operation. If he had to describe it, it was probably about tying the shattered timeline into a complicated tortoise shell binding?
There is no need to worry about the process, the result is obvious. From now on, the four seasons in Conan's world are in chaos, time is disordered, and there will never be an end.
This is an eternal stage specially prepared for the eternal protagonist, Edogawa Conan!
The reason why Mo Yu used the word evolution to describe it is because after completing this operation, an extremely incredible result appeared in the world.
With the birth of Edogawa Conan, the eternal protagonist, all living beings instantly achieved immortality.
Even though thousands and thousands of years have passed, in this world bubble of extreme time chaos, basically no one will die of old age, and no one will even realize that they have lived for thousands and thousands of years in this chaotic timeline. Of course, those who are close to death before the world completes its evolution are another matter. All the achievements accumulated during these thousands and thousands of years are also real. In other words, society will still progress.
But there is also a price to pay. For example, there will never be another generation in this world.
It's not that the population cannot be replenished. After all, this is a world dominated by detectives and criminals. The simple folk customs of Beika Town are just like Big Gotham. If the population cannot be replenished, this world cannot be called an eternal stage. But this world, after being locked in the eternal life chain built with chaotic time, even if the population is replenished, there will basically be no generational alternation between the old and the new generations.
Just like in the original work, Kogoro Mouri, who had a pager, still bet on horses and drank every day. Then, it transitioned to the era of bar-screen mobile phones and then the era of smart phones, and he still bet on horses and drank every day. Even in the future, when the society in the detective world has developed to the point where everyone has brain-computer integration, can make phone calls with the mind, and take a spaceship to Mars for vacation, Kogoro Mouri still bets on horses and drinks every day.
After realizing this, Mo Yu's eyes were filled with complicated emotions. If this setting of time chaos and eternal life for the whole world was a setting that came with it when it was first created, it would be fine. But the problem was that this was not a setting that came with this world bubble, but a forced change based on the world bubble's self-logic completion.
When it comes to COSPLAY, Mo Yu would like to call this world's bubble the strongest he has ever seen!
In order to imitate the original work, this world is really desperate.
The reason why Mo Yu said this is very simple. This world's handling of the timeline cannot be said to be perfect. In fact, the problem is quite serious.
How serious is it? Edogawa Conan, the eternal protagonist, can actually "realize" the chaos of time.
Just based on this point, in Mo Yu's opinion, this world is almost out of control.
If he had not realized it, Edogawa Conan could have lived his life with peace of mind, being active in endless cases every day. Even if hundreds of years had passed, in his cognition, only "half a year" had passed. But now that he has realized it, that's another matter.
Edogawa Conan might be able to bear it for just a few days or even a few years, but after decades, even a hundred years, or even longer, the situation will be hard to say. At best, he will become numb and collapse, and at worst, his mind will collapse.
Thinking of this, Mo Yu's habitual tapping of the table with his fingers while thinking suddenly stopped.
What would happen if Edogawa Conan really collapsed mentally and went completely crazy?
At this moment, Mo Yu thought of the overwhelming murderous intent that permeated everything in the world.
He had thought about what kind of event could cause such a persistent outbreak of murderous intent in the world. However, at that time, Mo Yu had just arrived and lacked clues, so naturally he had no way of figuring it out. But now it seems that a very strange possibility has suddenly emerged.
"Is there a possibility that Edogawa Conan has actually gone crazy once?"
When Mo Yu had this guess, the omniscient authority in his mind suddenly flashed to mind. He changed into a set of children's clothes same as Conan, and combed his hairstyle same as Conan. He suddenly pointed his finger forward and shouted, "There is only one truth. That's right, there is a 50% probability that Edogawa Conan was responsible for this shocking murder of all mankind with murderous intent."
Mo Yu shook his head and shook the vision of the operation of the Omniscient Authority out of his mind. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the Omniscient Authority was becoming more and more lively, even a little naughty. Just like now, the Omniscient Authority did not give a definite answer, but only a probability. It was the same whether it said it or not. Well, it couldn't be said that it didn't say it. At least the Omniscient Authority also felt that Edogawa Conan was highly suspicious.
However, this uncertainty makes Mo Yu feel the fun of being a detective.
Look for clues step by step, unravel the mystery, and then find the criminal. Punch the criminal hard and beat him to his knees. Then, hold the criminal's head, push it to the ground and rub it frantically until the truth comes out of the criminal's mouth. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter if it comes out of his head.
There are still some remnants of the Fighting God's professional habits, but Mo Yu doesn't care too much. No one stipulates that detectives must take the orthodox route, so there's nothing wrong with having a pure tough guy detective.
There is a way to verify whether Mo Yu's conjecture is true, but the only problem is that the tool needed to verify the answer, that is, Moriarty's black body, is not there at the moment because of the changes in the world line.
But Mo Yu didn't care too much, because he believed that Edogawa Conan, who had transformed into the eternal protagonist, would soon come into contact with the "main line" after the changes in the new world line.
And this time came a little faster than Mo Yu.
In the park, the homeless old man told Conan Edogawa:
"Little boy, you must be careful recently. Don't spend the night in places like parks. The day before yesterday, I also saw some hooligans hanging around nearby. Their eyes were terrible. They looked like the gangs that appeared recently and would attack lone homeless people!"
Conan Edogawa did not ask the homeless man why he did not call the police. This question was meaningless because after a long period of wandering, the old man had long lost his trust in official officials. However, his innate sense of justice made Conan remember the matter in his heart. Then he said goodbye to the homeless man and left.
Conan's wilderness survival journey in Beika Town officially begins at this moment. He has already made a plan to spend a day or two to thoroughly understand the differences in all aspects after the sixth world line change, and at the same time try his best to find an identity for himself and reintegrate into society.
