For Fang Zheng, this was practically a nightmare.
What he hated most was maintaining someone else's codebase, and this particular codebase made him sick.
All sorts of events were a complete mess, tangled together in a maddening way. It made Fang Zheng feel as if he were looking at a themed city built by a deranged player—the best way to sort out this pile of garbage would be to delete all the blueprints and rebuild the whole damn thing from scratch...
But there was no way around it.
In the end, Fang Zheng had no choice but to use a rather stupid method to solve the problem of the chaotic timeline.
As had been mentioned before, the timeline chaos in Conan World had been caused by a "game program error." In other words, according to the original game settings, when Conan went to Location A, different cases would appear depending on the four seasons—spring, summer, autumn, and winter. For example, spring would bring the Valentine's Day Murder Case, summer the Vacation Murder Case, autumn the Outing Murder Case, and winter the Skiing Murder Case.
So it should have been impossible to trigger the Skiing Murder Case in spring, and equally impossible to celebrate Valentine's Day in summer.
But after the timeline became chaotic, it went from choosing one out of four to triggering all four events. That was how Conan World ended up having nine Valentine's Days and five Christmases while a single year still had not ended.
Fang Zheng's solution was simple. No more choosing one out of N—they would split apart every triggered event and push them back!
In other words, one of the four events, A, B, C, and D, that had once randomly triggered at Location A would now be arranged by year: Event A in