Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 263 The Power of the Standard Clock
The glowing Rolex on the wrist projects a clock head figure, and the dial still clearly shows the appearance of the Black Water Ghost. It has its hands behind its back, looking very proud.

Zhou Yi was a little surprised: "I remember you said that you were declining last season. This season you've surpassed me... Is it so easy to get promoted to Standard Clock?"

"No way! This is not easy!"

The Black Water Ghost argued loudly: "I have always been in a very leading position before. There are only a few meter readers in this area who can compete with me."

"After I came to your company, there were fewer meter operators in the vicinity of the company, which allowed me to maintain my advantage. The reason why I later declined was because of the winter."

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Do seasons have such a big impact on you?"

"In winter, the energy of the dead light will weaken as the duration of light decreases. This will cause many timekeepers to fall asleep, making it difficult to determine the results later. Therefore, most of them will sprint desperately in the fall to try to increase their advantage before winter comes and become the standard clock."

Black Water Ghost gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up: "But with your help, I was able to make a strong push in the latter stages this year. During the winter, other meter operators were operating slowly, but I continued to accelerate and calibrate at a high frequency, and finally achieved this goal!"

"congratulations."

Zhou Yi said: "What's the difference between the standard clock and the previous one? Have you evolved into a conceptual life?"

"What a time meter can do is very limited. It can only constantly calibrate the time within a very small area around itself."

The Black Water Ghost explained: "The standard clock is based on itself in this area. Other timekeepers will ultimately use my time as the standard."

"Now I have two abilities, [Universal Time] and [Atomic Time], and I also have the standard clock."

"Universal time is a response to the movement of the world and represents the movement of the entire world. There is a highest standard in this field, called Greenwich Mean Solar Time."

The Black Water Ghost projects a glowing globe that slowly rotates on itself.

There is a bright spot on the Earth's surface, with a clock suspended above it.

"This is Greenwich, a holy place for time measurement. Today, there is a standard clock there that serves as the mean solar time, providing the most important reference for the operation of the entire world. Only the mean solar time is a conceptual life, and other standard clocks are not."

Greenwich Mean Time Zhou Yi is known.

"Mean solar time is the leader of standard clocks?"

"Strictly speaking, it is a right, but also an obligation."

Blackwater said: "Only the top three standard clocks in the world can compete for mean solar time and calibrate the time of the entire world to determine a more accurate standard. Until a more accurate standard clock appears, the mean solar time will be replaced. This is a continuous pursuit and progress in time accuracy."

"Every standard clock aspires to enter Greenwich, because that is the highest temple of time in the world."

"As a standard clock, I can calibrate with mean solar time at any time without being disturbed by other external forces. This is world time, a description of the true movement of the world."

"Atomic time is different from universal time. It describes fixed intervals, uniform, stable time intervals, and is an ideal timer."

Zhou Yi thought about it and said, "Universal time is an objective description of the world's movement, and atomic time is an independent standard timer?"

"Yes. You catch on quickly."

The Black Water Ghost said: "Universal time is the actual time, and atomic time is the absolute time."

"Now there is a situation."

Zhou Yi told the story of the Skeleton Man Wu Yi and the Glass Man.

"Is there a way to stop the Glass Man's influence on time?"

"no problem."

The Black Water Ghost is very confident: "That's what the standard clock does. Our ability is to calibrate the time in different places so that everything can run in an orderly manner."

So Zhou Yi asked Hong Shun to call Wu Yi.

The skeleton rushed over and confirmed excitedly: "Can time tampering really be broken?"

Zhou Yi tapped his watch.

So the Black Water Ghost said, "Tell me more about what you saw, so I can confirm it further."

"Okay, the woman in the ice..."

After listening to the detailed description of the skeleton, the black water ghost said firmly: "It is a tampering of the time in the realm of consciousness. I can synchronize the world time and fix it. There is mean solar time as the standard behind it. It cannot tamper with the time concept of the entire world."

"Great, great!"

Wu Yi was excited.

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "How about we go to the bottom of the sea to see the glass man now? Jiong Hecang and I will go with you."

The bone man suddenly calmed down: "Chairman, wait a moment."

"Now I need to adjust myself to the best condition possible."

"Please wait for me for a month."

"it is good."

……

The Black Water Ghost is upgraded to a standard clock, but its rank is not high.

Zhou Yi identified it with [Alert] and it emitted green light all over, indicating that it was at the DC level.

However, the time measurer's abilities are special and even B-class life forms cannot catch up in the field of time.

The Black Water Ghost first activated the world time and unified the time of the entire Sand Harbor area.

It synchronizes the biological clocks of all life.

By calibrating the biological clock, some workers who had been suffering from reversal of day and night cycles were freed from insomnia, panic and anxiety, and were forced to return to a physiologically healthy exercise cycle.

It is a good thing for both work and life.

Lord Shahai was quick to notice this change and soon came to visit: "Mr. Zhou, has the company come up with anything new? Now the residents in Shagang City have become punctual, which is not something that can happen naturally." Zhou Yi did not hide it from him: "The company now has a time meter who synchronizes everyone's time to avoid disrupting their work and rest schedules."

The sea lord was delighted: "That's great. Some abilities and equipment can disrupt time perception. Now with the company's technology, Sand Harbor is no longer afraid of that kind of attack!"

"Before, I was worried about an attack in the consciousness field, but now it seems that I was worrying too much. Mr. Zhou, you thought of it a long time ago."

Its words reminded Zhou Yi of something.

Zhou Yi turned around and called 703 and showed him the Black Water Ghost.

"Does the Black Water Ghost have any effect on your "Time Anchor"? "

The robot dog was a little surprised at first, but after thinking for a while, it said, "We can give it a try. The time anchor itself is already very complete, except for the last part of the time axis. If we use a standard clock instead, the effect should be better. Because it represents the real movement of this world, which is real time."

“Are there any risks?”

Zhou Yi cares more about this.

“There are risks in theory.”

703 answered cautiously: "But the time anchor itself is not a mandatory program. It has not been changed or redefined. It is more like an auxiliary tool connected to the semi-civilized body."

"This allows the semi-open bodies to be used directly, and if there is any danger or damage, they will disconnect directly."

"The biggest problem in the past was the timeline. If the timeline was called incorrectly, the information and time in the program would be further disrupted... But if we switch to a professional standard clock, we may be able to fill this gap."

"Chairman, I request a test!"

Zhou Yi agreed.

"Then we'll test it with our company's 'Zhanjiang Bay No. 1'. It's also semi-open, strong enough, and usually very stable."

"I will apply for a complete program transmission now."

The robot dog sat on the ground.

About two minutes later, its single eye glowed: "The application has been approved, and the program has been transmitted."

Then Zhou Yi and it came to the breeding platform together.

The robot dog found the socket in the control room and plugged in its own cable, establishing a physical connection between the two electromechanical life forms.

"Chairman, it's a huge amount of data. I'm waiting for the basic response of the time anchor test."

"Passed! All its indicators meet the basic requirements."

"Then there is the calling environment and language..."

703 was busy for more than an hour before he said, "Chairman, the preliminary preparations are complete and can be installed and used."

"Please ask the standard clock to join in. What we need to do now is to create a time axis within the main program consciousness of Zhanjiang Bay No. 1, so that it can recover from random jumps and dispersions along this axis and gradually converge and become continuous."

The black water ghost said, "I'll give it a try."

Zhou Yi's watch released segments of light shaped like pointers, covering the entire breeding platform.

These white pointers appear extremely disordered, flying around on the surface of Zhanjiang Bay No. 1 like swimming fish.

“I’m marking it.”

"The biological clock in its body... or the electromechanical clock has been shattered. Different areas have different timekeeping, and each is further cut and split. If it continues like this, it will only get lost in a completely disordered time point."

The Black Water Ghost said, "I have to do something urgent first."

Then Zhou Yi saw a large black dial emerging under his feet. On the dial were densely packed red water droplets. They seemed to be in a boiling state, constantly jumping up and sinking, forming circles of red ripples.

"This is atomic time."

Black Water Ghost introduced: "I will use this to unify the time inside first."

Zhou Yi saw that the white pointers began to move around the atoms, connecting end to end to form a circle of loops.

"Then there's Universal Time."

The Black Water Ghost finished speaking.

A small sun suddenly rose on the deck, and there were pointers and scales on this spherical sun.

As world time appeared, the white hands suddenly began to rotate, slowly constructing their own dials.

There are densely packed clocks on the entire breeding platform. Their pointers have different speeds, but they are gradually coordinating and moving towards unification.

"It's not a big problem. It can be calibrated quickly."

The Black Water Ghost said.

At this time, 703 hurriedly called a halt.

"Chairman, stop for a moment, stop for a moment."

"The time anchor program cannot keep up with the efficiency of the standard clock. A large number of errors have appeared. The program is about to crash..."

Zhou Yi was speechless for a while.

He immediately pointed at the robot dog's nose and angrily shouted: "You guys, you boasted so much before, but you failed me at the critical moment. How can you repair the semi-enlightened body like this!?"

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry!"

The robot dog was dejected and crawled on the ground: "We will modify the program now to improve the operating efficiency of the time anchor so that it can keep up with the rhythm of the standard clock..."

(End of this chapter)