Old days in the box

Chapter 480 A reform expert who kills two birds with one stone!

As a young man under 30 years old, it is difficult for Zhou Xiao to accept the fact that he suddenly has nine children, so he currently regards Nordens more as a loyal and powerful warrior.

Besides, given the current situation in Zhongting, it is not a good time to stage a drama of loving father and filial son.

As everyone took their seats, Sharon, who was presiding over the meeting, appeared accompanied by "Loyalty" and filled the last vacant seat belonging to the Iron City War Zone.

The governors of the six major war zones have all arrived. Zhou Xiao directly circled everyone present and pulled them all into the voice permission channel.

"The agreed date has arrived, start reporting your results."

A huge divine charm then descended from the sky, landing on top of each of their heads after a long absence. Except for Nodens, the other six people and the AI ​​all bowed their heads and showed their respect to the sky.

During the ten-year long reconstruction, everyone rebuilt their homes brick by brick from the wasteland beneath their feet, quietly waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

And now, the time has finally come.

"My Lord, the construction of the underwater city has been completed, and all the ground personnel have been transferred in. I have also used the power of the ocean to widen the depth of the entire seabed. If necessary, I can raise the sea level by a hundred meters and sink everything underwater for protection."

Freya, the current Governor of Central Asia, was the first to step forward and report to the Old One on the situation of the Deep Watch and the progress of other work.

During the past ten years, she has greatly improved her power over the "ocean". She is now able to accurately control the total amount of seawater in the entire atrium. Combined with the current coverage of the underwater city, she can flood the entire atrium at any time and use the form of a water world to resist any ground invasion of the atrium.

This is also one of the core points left to them by the old days. Before attacking, they must first ensure that they have enough defensive strength.

While the mother was reporting, Nordens, who was standing behind her, was looking at the sky curiously, as if looking for the omnipotent being.

Generally speaking, it is disrespectful to keep looking up at the sky when the old ones are here.

But this was too curious for Nordens to resist.

Since his birth, he has been called the Firstborn Son of God, and everyone around him, including his mother, would repeatedly mention the title "Old One" in the process of teaching him.

He had heard the story about the Father God from his mother no less than dozens of times. In order to know more, he had traveled around the atrium and heard different versions of the legend from the other two God-chosen Champions and many other people.

Although Dominants have an amazing growth cycle, they still inevitably have a childhood side psychologically.

In all these legends, Nordens carefully pieced together the image of the Father God from fragments of different stories, vaguely looking forward to the expectations of himself in the past.

And now that he had finally met this person in person, he was naturally very excited.

"Nodens, do you have anything to say?" Zhou Xiao noticed Nodens' gaze and asked from above.

"No." Nordens' heart tightened when he was suddenly noticed, and he immediately stood up and answered.

"I have inspected the reconstruction of the atrium. The results of the first phase can be said to be excellent. Do you have anything to add?" Zhou Xiao continued to ask.

"My Lord, according to the star track you guided, I have re-established the rotation track of the Eternal Blazing Sun, but how should I define these new time sequences?" Yuan Wuyou, who was in charge of the South Asian war zone, stepped forward. As the God-chosen champion who represented the authority of the "Sun", Yuan Wuyou's main job in these years was to stabilize the rotation track of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" and make its rotation in the starry sky predictable and harmless.

As soon as he returned to the atrium, Zhou Xiao waved his hand and changed the rotation trajectory of the sun, which had remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years, from the rising and setting of the sun in several realms to only rotating around the atrium.

But Zhou Xiao is a person outside the world after all. Even if he is the original body that holds the authority of the "Sun", he cannot continuously and accurately control the trajectory of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" from this world.

Therefore, this requires an agent like the God-chosen Champion to complete the details on his behalf.

Yuan Wuyou connected to the "Eternal Blazing Sun" through the authority of the "Sun", and over the past ten years, he has been constantly and finely adjusting the star orbit of this extraordinary miracle, correcting its orbit and enabling it to complete the energy transfer between the Dyson sphere more smoothly.

In order to meet the energy needs of the Iron City war zone, she worked with Sharon to set the turnover of the "Eternal Sun" to pass over Iron City twice a day. As a result, the atrium had the spectacle of sunrise twice a day, causing the calculation of time to become somewhat confusing.

Timing is not a small thing. As the champion chosen by God, she can't make up her mind, so she needs the gods to make the final decision.

"Since we experience two sunrises and sunsets every day, let's double the original unit of time measurement and call it the 48-hour system." Zhou Xiao answered easily.

"From now on, time will no longer be calculated according to the sun and the moon. The sun will revolve around the central courtyard without stopping. Every seven days, it will set briefly and make a big rotation out of the starry sky, which is called a week. Every seven weeks is a solar period. Two solar periods will change the winter and summer seasons, and two seasons will make a year."

Since the power of the "Moon" is in the hands of the enemies in the Midgard, Zhou Xiao will naturally not give the world a chance to contribute their faith to the concept of "Moon" and gather a new god.

He deleted months from the calendar and drastically simplified spring, summer, autumn and winter into two seasons, summer and winter, using only the most obvious warmth and cold to distinguish the seasons, in order to strengthen the concept of the connection between the sun and seasonal changes in people's minds.

From then on, all new gods who want to establish their faith from the calendar sequence will inevitably encounter the obstacle of the "Eternal Sun". Unless they are willing to incorporate themselves into the old mythological system, it will be difficult for them to make further progress in this area.

"This is the old calendar. In the future, every time we arrive in a world, we will teach it to the local civilization and tell them the timing of the sun rising so that they can plan the days of sowing and harvesting. Those who abide by it will enjoy the warm sunshine, while those who do not believe will be punished and be forever blinded by the torment of cold."

In this redistributed calendar, Zhou Xiao showed great favoritism towards his own people.

The "Eternal Sun" orbits around the atrium every seven days without setting, and then it makes a grand circulation to spread its sunlight to the wider surrounding world.

Every seven great cycles constitute a solar period, and each season lasts only two solar periods, which means that the world outside the atrium can only see the sun rise fourteen times every summer, and all the rest of the time is gray and dark night, and people have to worry about the arrival of cold waves all the time.

Zhou Xiao deeply understood the principle of "a little bit of rice is a favor, a big bit of rice is a grudge". As for those outside the celestial world, if they could enjoy the good days of sunrise and sunset as usual, they would just think that everything is taken for granted and would not have any gratitude for the past.

But the sun, which rises only once every seven days, can remind them well that all gifts are not God-given, and if they lose the protection of the past, they will have to face the cold and darkness alone.

This is particularly convincing when placed against the backdrop of a massive war of gods invading the universe due to a cold wave.

For those worlds that believe in this, the "Eternal Sun" is the foundation of their survival and the great miracle that helps them resist the cold wave. It is worthy of the worship of all people.
As for those worlds that are hostile to the Old Ones and have been brainwashed by the Divine Realm, the Old Ones' evil gods will spread the cold wave and invade the Nine Realms by extinguishing the sun. This display of great power has no other effect except to make the world more fearful, and the fear generated will also converge on Zhou Xiao and turn into the power of his faith.

This wave of calendar reform can be said to kill two birds with one stone. No matter whether you believe it or not, as long as the sun shines on a place, even a passing dog will have to let Zhou Xiao grab a handful of the power of faith.

(End of this chapter)