Chapter 61 Chapter Eleven
What is the strength of the influence a person exerts on others?And with what degree of accuracy?
How long does this effect last, how widespread is it, and can it be accurately measured?
Or, as long as the accumulation of interpersonal relationship experience, you can naturally grasp the degree of influence?
"JJ, thank you for the dim sum."
Hearing my words, JJ, who almost exploded his stomach just now, froze for a moment, "Huh? Hmm." He managed to squeeze out a few words.
"Do you often eat dim sum in this shop?"
"Ah, what?"
"It's the snacks from this Hairencao family."
"No, I'm not very clear... because I leave these things to girls... What's wrong?"
I watched JJ carefully again, but I still couldn't see any trace of him hiding something.Of course, the possibility that JJ was originally a pathological liar cannot be ruled out...
I go to the office door.
"Hey, Disco, where are you going?" I ignored JJ's confused voice and walked away quickly.
Opening the door, I saw Jingtou and another girl shivering behind the counter at the reception next door.It should be because of the sound that looked like a roar and an explosion just now.Jingtou seemed to see what was going on inside the door I opened. She made a "babbling" sound, covered her mouth with her hands and said, "Madam, she..." I turned around, and I could see Norma lying on the ground from here.However, this future will not last until the moment of commotion anyway.
"Miss Jingtou."
no respond.
"Miss Jingtou." I called again.
"Ah, yes."
"The snacks you brought in just now, should there still be?"
"Yes, yes. Excuse me, um, is there something wrong with that cake?"
"No, there's nothing wrong with dim sum, but I want to ask, the place where you buy dim sum is called Hairencao's, right?"
"Yes, that's the name."
"You seem to have said just now that the store is newly opened, right?"
"Ah, uh, I'm not sure, yes. Yes, it's new."
"Is it really?"
"Just recently... Ah, please wait a moment, I remember being here..." While speaking, Jingtou reached under the counter to search for something, "Ah, I found it. Great. This is that store brochure."
I took the CD-case-sized brochure from Inoto's trembling hand and started flipping through it.There are pictures of Japanese sweets and stores on them, and I can only see descriptions and pictures of the types of sweets, but I can't find information about the store... However, there is a square leaflet shaped like a bookmark in the middle of the booklet , which says the third anniversary of the opening of the store.Below the words, "To thank our customers for coming..." there are limited-time dango and rice cakes.The third anniversary of the opening of the store.I checked the brochure again, but there was no branch and main store listed on it.
"Excuse me... Mr. Wednesday..."
"um. Thank you."
"Ah, no... Mrs. She, Mr. Wednesday, that, could it be..."
me?how is this possible.But it doesn't matter if she thinks so. "That's right, I killed it."
After a moment of silence, she looked at me again and said, "No, it shouldn't be." Wellhead's voice was no longer trembling, "This kind of thing will never happen between Mr. Wednesday and Miss Norma."
What had she heard Norma say?However, even if she really knows something, these memories will be wiped out in the near future.
I didn't say anything to Jingtou anymore, I went straight back to JJ's office, closed the door, and approached JJ quickly and said, "Do you know Mercury C?"
But JJ.No response to my question.
"What Mercury C... what language is that?"
He doesn't know?But this is too strange, isn't it... JJ must have paid some attention to the Fengliju incident, so he must have investigated the people who were also involved in it and disappeared with me.
So I continued to ask: "You just mentioned that there are thirty-one people in Fengliju, right. Do you know who those thirty-one people are?"
JJ's surprised expression didn't look like it was fake... "What, you have added a lot of questions after the last question just now." Saying that, JJ started to operate the machine on the desk again, just now he Another image that looked like a news report appeared on a screen specially prepared to put me in pain.Below the "Missing 31" is a long list of names.
Detective
Members of the Angel Rabbit Troupe
notes
God of Beauty Erliu Lord
Fukushima studies
disco wednesday
Hongo Yushi
Suspected Detective Hongo Taxi Taxi
Judy A Doll's House
Kato Junichi
Suspected Detective Yingyue Danyuki
Diekong Temple is happy
Daisuke Kimura
Play in Diekong Temple
Hehe Yiyang
eight extremely lucky
Lin Bozhi
Saber Hill Two and a Half
Tetsuro Uemura
Gakiuchi Wanju
Shoji Tanaka
sun and moon
Kazuhiro Sato
bean source
Yoshida Yutakano
cat meow meow
Hanada Sawako
rumbaba twelve
Keisuke Kawabe
Kanazaki Natsue
Takako Hiraki
Fumie Goromu
Ayako Kashihara
Rie Nomura
Asami Nonaka
Aki Obata
Only there is no name for Mercury C.
Compared with the thirty-one people I counted in Pineapple, Mercury C was removed and replaced by Lombaba Twelve.
It should be a very natural thing that Rumba Ba XII was added to this list.Because Lombaba Twelve is the seventeen-year-old Mitamura Saburo who traveled from the past, and returned to the past shortly after... so those who failed to enter the Pineapple House can easily confuse him with other missing persons .Let's not go into details on this point.More importantly, why is there no name for Mercury C?The police officers who beat up the sea several times, called the police officers at the scene indiscriminately, and even Mercury C, who did not hide his violent behavior in front of the reporting camp, did not remain in anyone's memory. Such a thing could really happen ?There are so many cameras lined up at the entrance of Fengliju, did Mercury C not leave his figure in any of them?
If Mercury C passed through the space barrier and passed from the future here, then the traces left by that guy in Fengliju and the Heavenly Palace would be canceled when he returned.In other words, the traces of Mercury C in the world of Fengliju will disappear completely, and only the summary of the event will be preserved... Imagining this, I suddenly discovered something.If Mercury C is really an intervener who came from this future world to the past, then the Fengliju incident I experienced was based on the overhead experience under the influence of Mercury C from the beginning to the end... like eleven years This future, which has been influenced by Norma, is the same.This also means that I am completely ignorant of the historical facts of the Fengliju incident.Moreover, the power of manipulating time and space free travel that I have now is also summed up from the experience of Fengliju. Could it be said that even this power will be lost because of the disappearance of Mercury C, the intervener?
However, judging from the magnified news report in front of me, no matter what impact Mercury C had on the past, I finally entered Fengli House, participated in the incident as a detective, and disappeared with other detectives ... What would happen to me without Mercury C?And what kind of memory will Mercury C himself lose?
Now looking back at what that man did, I'm shocked again.The hilarious "twelve words arranged radially" theory, the "Pineapple House Astrolabe" theory of the Doll's House, and the happy Diekong Temple's "the purpose of bleeding to death" is at best a whim. Said for a week", these are all entered into my memory through the recitation of Mercury C.Think quickly, Detective, even though I was constantly warned by that guy, it was also that guy who didn't leave me with any room for thinking.After Baji's reasoning began, he still kept aloof from me. Even when I was led by Yingyue Danxue to the Fengliju Grand Theater and encountered a crisis, it was Mercury C who rushed in and brought me out. .Ahh... The most important thing is that Chu Douhai, who finally solved the Fengliju incident and became the only survivor, escaped unharmed because he was beaten by Mercury C and sent to the hospital!
If there is no Mercury C, will Hestair solve this incident in another form?
I once checked the newspapers shortly after the incident in the library in 2017. At that time, I felt that the story about the suicide of Mitamura Saburo recorded in the report was all made up by Douhai... But, could the story be true? Is it the fact that happened in the middle of the pineapple?
What are the facts?
What do I know?
…Continuously thinking about it, I discovered something again.
Could it be that this me now is not the "real me", but an "imaginary me"?Mercury C not only stayed with me during the Pineapple House incident, but even entered the Pineapple House, pulling me back to the real world for the second time, and brought me to the Princeton Hotel, and then let me go by accident Those who came to this year 2019 are all that rough man.I have been greatly influenced by Mercury C, this point cannot be denied... Then, when Mercury C withdraws from that time and space, will this me also disappear at the same time? With a "swoosh", it disappeared into mid-air?
What would happen if Mercury C didn't want to leave the stage and stayed in that time and space all the time?Will the fictional future become the real future?In other words, the fictional future is still the fictional future, but it lasts for a longer period of time.After the existence of Mercury C completely disappears, will it immediately switch to the real future... No, no, no, in this future, not all human beings will finally usher in a day of complete disappearance.That's right.As long as you are willing to sacrifice children and have a certain degree of ability to pay, you can rely on the tip to achieve semi-permanent existence.It's not impossible to keep Mercury C on that side.So, if this fictional future never ends, does it mean that it is no different from the truth?
What kind of things will happen when I, together with Mercury C, ushers in 23:26 on July 15, 2006 in the space-time over there?Will the overhead time and space disappear?Or will it cross time and space very smoothly, and will it continue forever as a fictional future naturally?
Having said that, could the entangled future that I see now be a natural development from that fictional past?
In this way, when the fictional past on the other side of the "barrier" disappears, what will remain in the fictional future here?What is the fact that has long been doomed?What will the real future look like?Both Baji and I have read news reports about the Fengliju incident in the future, but those reports belong to the fictional future that naturally develops from the fictional past... Is there any evidence to confirm that those reports are based on What about actual history?Mercury C entered Fengliju after the incident, so there should be nothing wrong with Mitamura Saburo's death in Fengliju.When he was near death, he left a circular bloodstain around the corridor. In order to explain this mysterious behavior, the famous detectives gathered in the middle of the pineapple. This is probably true.But just after Mercury C and I mixed in, how much deviation there was between what happened in Pineapple Center and the real history is completely impossible to calculate.Is Pineapple House really a twisted building of Nazugawa Villa?If consciousness can reverse time and space, is it possible that under the influence and induction of Mercury C, I cut open the originally round Pineapple House and instead stretched it into a straight Nazugawa Villa?Even the parking lot hidden between Room 8 and Room 9, as long as he can manipulate the time, he can prepare it at any time before we deliberately let us discover Natsugawa Villa, right?Or did he secretly connect the space of Fengliju with the parking lot that actually existed in another place, but we didn't find it?
I could raise many more doubts like this.
But what I should really suspect is not that, but something more fundamental.
If Mercury C really traveled from the future world, what purpose does he have?
I think he definitely didn't just want to come here to play a prank.
No, according to Mercury C's personality, that's entirely possible.But, do people with this personality really exist?
No, no matter how much you think about Mercury C's personality, you won't get anywhere.I can't find the edge of that man at all, and I can't make a normal judgment at all.Let's focus on what he actually did.That's right, even if this space-time whole is an overhead existence, his behavior and the resulting results are undeniable facts.In fact, that's the basic premise.
What did Mercury C do?First, he called Hoshino to our temporary room at the Princeton Hotel, and then decided to go to Fukui with me by accident. He kept saying that he would go back immediately, but he joined the reasoning competition as my guide in Pineapple Center In... Later, he got the ability to travel through time and space with me, but if he came from the future, then he should have this ability from the beginning.This means that he has been pretending to be ignorant and playing all kinds of little tricks next to me... Moreover, I have been betrayed by the closest people and deceived by the most trusted people. is impossible.
The incongruity of Mercury C's actions continued thereafter.After finding Shao and solving the incident, he took me from Pineapple House to the scene where Shao was abused in the Princeton Hotel, and racked his brains with me to break through the time-space barrier created by the "Black Bird Man".
Was there some kind of intention in those actions of his?Or was it some long drama staged to lure me somewhere?
In other words, what I see is the fact, Mercury C actually has no specific intention, but simply responds to and takes action on the things I am currently interested in, and because of this semi-fun behavior, accidentally Advance to this stage with me?
I found myself starting to make unnecessary guesses again, so I quickly stopped.It is now very clear to me that although I don't know if I would have gotten this far without Mercury C, thanks to Mercury C, I have at least gotten here relatively smoothly.He explained the incident to me in Fengliju, and twice broke into a world that was neither the other world nor the present world to bring me back, and forcibly took me to the Princeton Hotel, which he couldn't get close to because he was too scared. And at the end, drove me to this world on the other side of "End Hour".
Did Mercury C foresee that I would be sitting in the office of Stallone Japan in this world?However, this is something that cannot be proven no matter how much one thinks about it.However, JJ, the chairman of Stallone's company, and his employees all knew that I would come to this place.This is an undeniable fact.
Thinking about it the other way around, there wouldn't be many reasons for someone to try to get close to me.Even the Pineapple House incident seemed to be an incident specially prepared for me by Saburo Mitamura and Panda Lun Lun, and after this incident, Mercury C still stayed by my side. It must be related to the child abduction I started after the half-time point.After all, I hid a full three hundred million children in thirteen years.If someone in the future crosses over to me, then what he wants to find from me is nothing more than the place where I hide my children.
But because I don't even know the location, Mercury C will always be by my side, right?
I jumped from Stallone's president's office to the address printed on the small brochure of Hairencao's house.Before leaving, I saw that JJ seemed to be about to say something, but I was not going to stay there anymore.Even if I leave Norma's remains alone in that place, I don't have any more thoughts.I simply disappeared, and reappeared near the turntable at the southern exit of Chofu Station, a little deeper into the entrance of the small Japanese confectionery shop in the residential area.On the white curtain was printed a large lettering of "Kairensoya". I walked into the store along the door and saw many platters on the counter, displaying Japanese snacks of various colors and styles.This small shop seems to be quite popular. Nearly 80% of the snacks have been bought in the evening.
"Welcome," a girl in a Japanese-style three-quarter-sleeved yukata and an apron greeted me. "I'm sorry, but our store is almost sold out, so the variety is not very complete."
The orange snacks that Inokou brought into the office just now are only the photos for display.The sign with the price has already been turned over.
"I'm sorry, I want to ask you something." I said to her.
"Please."
"Is there a man named Mercury C among the employees here?"
"Huh? What about the name after Mercury C?"
"Just call it Mercury C. Mercury is the planet Mercury of the solar system, and C is the C of the letter."
"Mercury C...is this really a person's name?"
"Well, sort of." She would ask this as a matter of course. "Of course that could just be a fake name..."
"Ahaha. That... we really don't have an employee named Mercury C here, do you know what his real name is?"
"No, he himself insists that is his real name."
"Is that so? And what kind of person is he? Is he a man?"
"That's right. He's solidly built, of medium height, with short hair and a baby face...about twenty-five years of age."
"Well... there are three pastry chefs here who are men, but all of them are young people in their twenties. Anyway, it seems that we don't have anyone with a strong physique like you said..."
"Oh, that's right. So besides this, is there another store called Kairensoya?"
"No, at least not in Chofu."
"This place should have opened three years ago, right?"
"That's right."
"Then could this store have been opened in another place before and then moved here?"
"Ah, that's impossible, because this is a shop opened by a group of young people."
"Oh."
While talking, I remembered what Mercury C said on the Shinkansen bound for Fukui.
Just behind Dentsu University.
Dentsu University should be about one kilometer further north from the north exit of Chofu Station.And here is near the south end exit, the two locations are completely in two opposite directions of the station.If you're someone who lives in the Chofu area, it's impossible to get it wrong.
Besides, when I asked him "Is it really okay to leave work and go to Fukui with me", Mercury C replied like this.
Anyway, the boss is me, so it doesn't matter.
"I'm very sorry, but I also want to ask, who is the owner of this pastry shop?"
The girl behind the counter smiled at me. "It's me."
"Ah, is it?"
"Yes. What's the matter?"
"Give me one of these dumplings, please."
"Ah, yes. Thank you for your patronage. One of these dumplings, right?"
"Yes. Ah, no bag, just give it to me."
"OK."
I took the green dumpling.Probably something called "wormwood" was mixed in. The snack has a cool and peaceful touch in the hand, and its smell reminds me of absinthe.Absinthe, the liqueur that killed Verlaine, was cheap and easily poisonous, even hallucinating in severe cases.But what really disturbed me was the coin I handed out to the young boss. I wonder if that coin will still be in use in 2019.
Mercury C's statement about "the boss of the Hairencao family" may not be a deliberate lie, but a random fabrication to deal with me. However, is it really possible for this statement to be realized in ten years and become What about a fait accompli?To put it bluntly, this is an idea similar to the butterfly effect.Although I would never seriously consider this hypothesis before, but now I know that human consciousness can change the shape of the world, so I cannot simply exclude it from the scope of thinking.The power of consciousness through the medium of words is very powerful. Didn’t JJ just say that all cutting-edge technologies in 2019 start from parsing speech.
Maybe... Thinking of this, I started to build another hypothesis. Both "Sea People's Grass Family" and "Mercury C Boss" actually existed, but this fact will be completely forgotten within ten years. Is it possible?
This can be achieved through various channels.Because speaking of ten years ago, the owner of Hairencao's house was only a junior high school student or a high school student. It is entirely possible that she had seen the name of the shop on the street before and then forgot about it.Or she didn't actually forget it, but she was just afraid that I would accuse her of plagiarizing the store name, so she pretended to have forgotten it...
Besides that, I have thought of many other possibilities, but I must stop now.I probably made up all kinds of excuses for myself because I didn't want to accept the idea that Mercury C deliberately lied in order to get close to me with some kind of malice.Maybe I just want to deny the possibility of Mercury C betraying himself.
If you just think about it in your head, of course you can imagine various reasons.But if you accidentally let the words go first, it is very dangerous.Especially now that I've learned the hidden power of words.
In short, I must first see clearly what is most important to me.That stuff has to be fact and reality.So what exactly is it?
Of course it is the child. "Future Me" is trying to hide children all over the world.Even if this is just a fictional future developed on the basis of the fictional past, as long as I am still in the same fictional future, for me, the so-called facts only exist in this fictional world.In the situation I'm in, I have to do my best.It doesn't matter if Mercury C just goes away, bringing the past back to the actual historical track, and at the same time making all the things I experienced before this come to nothing.That is not worthless to "this I".Anyway, "this me" will disappear at that moment along with all the facts.Therefore, I am afraid that there is nothing I can do about the time and space that has been restored to its original state.I'd better focus on abducting the kids right now and hiding and protecting them.
300 million people in 13 years.How many people are needed to gather and hide 300 million children... But before thinking about this, I must first consider where to hide those 300 million children... I must Find this place first, and don't let anyone know about it.
Not even Mercury C can know.
In this way, it may be the best choice to continue to investigate in 2019, when Norma is dead, and I will disappear without a trace once I leave.Moreover, the "future me" should also exist somewhere in this world.Besides, JJ already knew in advance that I would come here, maybe someone is spying on me right now.However, no matter what people here know about me, as long as I leave this world, everything will be rewritten.Of course, I still have to be vigilant to avoid being caught by the police, but I shouldn't worry too much about that.Because I have already met the "future me" who returned to Fengliju, so I will definitely be able to go back.With Mercury C.Although I don't know what will happen between Mercury C and me after returning to Pineapple House, let's think about the future after it happens.I began to wonder if there was any way I could find the hidden children here.Find the kid I'm about to start hiding.It's the same thing as starting to look for places to hide your kids now.
Where is the place that will never be found by others?Also, that place has to be big enough to accommodate the 300 million children I've abducted from all over the world... Of course that can't exist on flat land.Although I don't know the specific international situation in 2019, as long as the government has that intention, even in 2006, it was already possible to check all the places on the ground through reconnaissance satellites.But in fact, I don't need to gather all the children in one place, so I should be able to think about this issue more simply.Although there is no such thing as a dome large enough to hide 300 million people, there are countless roofs that can cover a child.Perhaps there is no need to go to such lengths to lure the children to a particular place at all.Just move them a little from where the parents can see it...maybe just move them to the next room.Just move the children to a few minutes before their parents found out that they were missing... This is impossible, it should be a few seconds. In this way, even if the parents start looking for it immediately, it is impossible to find it all at once.If you can get rid of the root-cut weeds in the few minutes or seconds you have won, then the children will naturally be found by their parents in a short time.But in this way, the parents should not even realize that their children had disappeared, because they immediately found them again.Given the turmoil I had witnessed between my parents in this year of 2009, the plan must have not gone well, or hadn't been implemented at all.Moreover, although this method of hiding can hide the child for a moment from the eyes of parents or ordinary human beings outside, it will definitely not work for those who can transcend time and space.Even now, I can fully open a building surrounded by only walls, roofs, and floors in a few seconds to see what's inside.
Sure enough, the children must be hidden in the gap between time and space.Hide them where no one thinks there is room in them.
I immediately remembered what Mercury C said.
Listen well, when fighting an opponent who can also manipulate time and space, the key to winning or losing is how to exceed the opponent's expectations.That is, how many moves you can predict in advance, how many loopholes you can take advantage of, and how many actions you can make beyond your opponent's imagination.
Even if it was what he said to deceive me, the content is very correct.
I must exceed their expectations.
I don't know how many Black Swan agents there are in the world, but I have to hide the kids where they can't find them.Hidden in a place where they are sure to be speechless when they hear it.
So, how about I just let them think that place exists in the gap between time and space, but it is actually a strange planet far away from the earth?Scientists hadn't found a planet suitable for human life in the universe in 2006, but what about 2019?Or is it the future world of 2050, 2500, or 3000?I can get all the knowledge I want with time travel.If the future really finds a space suitable for human habitation beyond the earth, then I just need to go to that era to confirm the specific location of the planet, and hide the children in a certain time and place on that planet, how about that?Colonize an unexplored planet with 300 million children in an instant?
No, I must not find such a planet, I thought again at once.It doesn't make any sense if that place was discovered by someone else.As long as it is a place where people can go, people from JJ and Black Swan will definitely go to check it.But I'm not an astronomer, so I can't discover a new planet by myself.Even if I can teleport to the end of the universe, I don't have time to look for planets suitable for human survival like a headless chicken.
If it were me, where would I hide my child?
After asking this question, I found out.At this time, I always start to think about the image of the criminal, and put myself in the criminal's shoes to think about the problem, and follow the criminal's footsteps.
But this time I was chasing after myself.Will I be able to find my own hiding place?Have I really learned enough about myself?Can I really get beyond trying to deceive myself?
No, what I'm looking for should be my future self.The future me is undoubtedly developed on the basis of the past me, so that "me" must have experienced my current actions and thoughts.It is too easy to surpass me.As long as I don't go near where I'm going and act against my thinking.
As long as I try to fool myself, I will never find it.
So instead, I'm going to issue orders to myself.
It is now around 3:45 pm on October 31, 2019, and I still remember this time.And I will definitely come and see me here at this time.Come on, if you can't come, find someone to come for me!
I left the turntable at the south end exit, turned into an empty alley, made promises while walking, and kept swearing, petitioning, and praying, but the "future me" did not show up for a long time, let alone send an agent people come over.Maybe it's because I didn't remember this alley where I don't know the exact location, so I decided to change a place.
If it is Viharabi Kojima Town, then I will never forget it. Thinking of this, I jumped.
The exterior walls of this duplex apartment where Shao and I lived for only two months have just been renovated, and the overall feeling has changed, but the appearance remains the same, and even the trees in the courtyard have not changed.Although the residents have changed somewhat, the newcomers are all in the same social class, so the internal changes here are not too great.I went to room 303 and looked, and it seemed that no one lived there, but I don't think it could be just a coincidence.I didn't open the door, but jumped directly inside.The dark living room and kitchen were unfurnished, but it was the same house that Shao and I had once lived in.I opened the French windows and went outside.For me, a few days ago, when I walked into the courtyard like this, I still felt the buzzing of cicadas pouring on my head like a billion transparent bells shaking violently at the same time, but now I can't hear a single insect. , only the cool autumn wind blows, leaving a whirring sound in my ears.Because I traveled through the summer, I couldn't help but feel a little cold in short-sleeved clothes.
In front of me with my arms folded, there is a ginkgo tree. Because of the abundant sunshine, its leaves have fully felt the breath of autumn and are beginning to turn golden.Oh oh, it turns out that the ginkgo tree changes colors like this. This is the first time I have seen the yellow leaves of ginkgo, staring at the golden piece that will fall on the top of my head at any time, I can't help but stop.Then I looked down and found that the root of the tree still had my half-engraved name "DISC".What happened to the Uno Chiyo cutlery set that was buried under the tree?As "Future Sasuke", Koe Morinaga, the "Sake's heart" who took Sasuke's body, once said that she had dug out the tableware.But at that time, Xiaozhi thought that she was the "shoot of the future", so her words were not reliable.
I looked up at the ginkgo tree in front of me again, and began to recite silently in my heart again.
Future me, come here quickly.
Oh, there's no one here right now.But I have moved through space, so it might take a while for you to find me.
Come here now.
come quickly.
But still no one appeared, and while I was waiting, I couldn't help but start to poke the soil from the roots of the ginkgo tree with my hands.Digging about ten centimeters deep in the cool ground, I found the knife and fork wrapped in food wrapping paper.They were rusty from rain and mud that had seeped into the ground, but the familiar pattern of cherry blossoms was still visible.I suddenly thought that there might be a letter addressed to me in this wrapping paper, so I looked forward to it for a while, but there was nothing in it.It seems that this pair of knives and forks has not been discovered by anyone since I buried them here.The twig must have unconsciously seen something in the soil when it appeared as a "future shoot".Because it is a twig born from a shoot that has the same ability to transcend time and space as me.It couldn't be easier to do this.
I tore open the wrapping paper and took out the table knife, squatted under the tree and began to carve the last "O" after the "DISC" just now. At the same time, a line of words appeared in my mind.
C→O→C→O→C
ninety nine nine
What is this?
Ninety-Ninety-Nine is the name of the famous detective that Hilarious Curry = Sakai Yoshitoshi used when he reappeared in Pineapple House.The name seems to come from a novel written by Saburo Mitamura, but I haven't read it at all.
C→O→C→O→C
What is this?
Open mouth, eat, open mouth, eat, open mouth
what is it then?
I remembered.
are the first five letters of Coco Chanel.
Norma Brown's nastiest Dana "Chanel Chanel" Stressless.
As "Odida Mizutaro" who lives in the orphanage Pineapple House, I think of the video game "Swallowing Heaven and Earth" from the arrangement of these five letters, but now when I engrave "O" next to "C",又想到了别的东西，并开始深入思考。
我在凤梨居的回廊上看到奈津川山庄之前，曾经看着水星C想过，“水星C”的“C”，可能是表示“〇”的结界被击破的标志吧，也有可能是在暗示被切断的圆形凤梨居。但最后我却发现，凤梨居实际上是将“奈津川山庄”卷曲起来的产物，我曾经一度将其恢复原状，但又在事后回到其中，再度卷曲成了凤梨居的样子……
C→O→C→O
如果这个暗示了“'奈津川山庄'曾经两度作为'凤梨居'被封闭”这一实际发生的事情的话，C→O→C→O→C不就意味着“'凤梨居'将两度作为'奈津川山庄'被开启”了吗？
但这会不会只是我一个唐突的设想呢？要说唐突，我在天文俱乐部看着诺玛，脑中却浮现出可可·香奈儿的头五个字母，这件事情也够唐突的了。可是，我却经常在自己脑中感到不自然的地方找到某种特殊的意义。
如果“凤梨居”即将再次被开启的话，究竟会有什么东西伸展出来呢？虽然将“奈津川山庄”再次闭合是因为里面的入觉得周围的媒体报道阵和警察们的视线会阻碍他们的行动。但将“凤梨居”再次开启也仅仅会是一次单纯的开启吗？
不对，“凤梨居”真的会再次开启吗？我想起了八极的证言。
无论我怎么努力，都无法进入那个时间点前一刻的凤梨居中。
在那之后，包含八极和我在内的三十一个人消失在了密室状态的风梨居中。
这样一来，最后开启凤梨居的究竟是谁？
莫非那个人就是并未包含在“凤梨居三十一人”中的水星C吗？
如果说“C”是“O”开启后的产物，那水星C确实是执行这一使命的最佳人选，可是，水星C又是为了什么而开启凤梨居的呢？
……那一行为跟我们这三十一个人的消失又有什么样的关联呢？
只要将其开启，里面的空间就会显现出来。第一次开启的时候，奈津川山庄的停车场出现了，可是第二次开启还会是一样的情形吗？我们难道在奈津川山庄的停车场一直待了十年以上，甚至被视作法律上死亡了吗？这种事情真的有可能吗？
……如果我一直在那里，那我藏匿起来的那些孩子会不会也在那里昵？
不过，凤梨居真的能藏得住三亿个孩子吗？
我完全没有必要被三亿这个数字给吓到，我警告自己。因为我是能够分割时空的人。因此，虽然我不知道自己能不能找到足够的人手照顾那些孩子们一辈子，但至少能够找到这样一个地方。我有有效的方法。况且就连六岁的梢也能一个人待在凤梨居忍耐寂寞。凤梨隧道，虽然确实是圆筒状，但却并非是“隧道”，而是一座低矮的建筑物，可是，总之她独自在那个凤梨居度过了好几天的时间……想到这里，我又想起了那个“凤梨妹妹”的事情。
“雪塚凤梨”是三田村三郎在凤梨居住下来之后，用暗病院终了的名义创作的小说人物。
而“凤梨妹妹”则是传说自凤梨居建成之日起便一直在其中出没的小孩子的幽灵……我在网上看到关于“凤梨妹妹”想要出去跳舞的报道，马上想到那是梢在呼唤我的名字。而且因为当时梢身上发生了时间跳转的现象，所以时间上的一些矛盾也被我无视掉了，可是，那个“凤梨妹妹”真的就是彷徨在时空间隙中的梢吗？
独自居住在凤梨居中的三田村三郎听到的，会不会是被隐藏在时空间隙中的那一大群孩子们，因为某种契机偶尔泄漏出来的，呼唤我名字的声音呢？
在作家三田村三郎的书房和卧室之间，正好存在着这么一个时空的裂缝啊。
如果我没有把孩子们藏在这边的世界，而是带到了“壁垒”的另一边，也就是对折时间点之前的世界加以藏匿的话，搞不好黑天鹅的手下就很难找到他们了……应该说，很难展开搜索才对。
我用餐刀的尖端一下一下地在树上刻下“O”字。应该说是刻下“〇”。我不断地沿着那个圆形刻痕扭动着手腕，转啊转啊转着圈。
在现在这个时刻才终于被完成的“O”＝“〇”，这难道不是暗示着我刚才那番思考的“正确性”吗？
就在我完成了“DISCO”时，听到了我自己的声音。
Let's dance, disco detective.
我是踊场，是不顾一切不断起舞的人。
再在这里等下去，也不会有任何人出现的。我在银杏树下开悟了。我和我周围的人都非常忙碌，而且贸然靠近我也是非常危险的，最重要的是，我在这里已经得到了我应该得到的所有东西。而且凭借我连续不断的舞步，我将不必依靠“未来的我”或其他任何人也能找到必要的东西。
而我在得知这一点后，再过十三年也必定会无视届时出现在这里的我吧。
do you know?Everything in this world is formed by the interaction of fate and will.
of course I know.我来到二〇一九年，发现史泰龙公司，在维哈拉比小岛町的银杏树下完成自己的签名，这一切都是命运和意志的相互作用。只要我拥有正确而强悍的意志，命运一定就会顺从我的安排。
去风梨居看看吧，我想道。那里一定还潜藏着一些我尚且不得而知的秘密。如果孩子们真的被藏匿在那里，那我一定能找到线索的。
我把一直握在手中的餐刀扔在地上站起来。抬头看着银杏树，还有点缀在秋天高空中的云朵。
我清楚地记得凤梨居的位置。
福井县西晓町，从西晓悠游乘坐出租车向东行驶大约十分钟的一座山顶上。
在那座山的西侧有一座更高的山峰。现在是秋天，日本的傍晚来得非常早，现在那里恐怕已经得不到阳光的照射了吧，不过天空一定还会保持一定时间的明亮。
我从维哈拉比小岛町三〇三号房的后院出发，跳转到二〇一九年的凤梨居。
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