Chapter 464 One second less

Time is always the most mysterious thing in the universe, more mysterious than space.

Space is a definite existence that can be seen, touched, and its existence can be perceived.

But time is something that everyone knows, but it is always limited to the scope of knowing.

It is a concept.

Since ancient times, human beings have speculated on what time is from countless angles.

Some people say that time rises and sets.

Some people say that time is when flowers bloom and fade.

Others say that time is a long river and the universe is a small boat in this long river.

Einstein spent his whole life trying to reinterpret time with his own theories, and even tried to describe the changes in time like Newton's changes in analytical power. Einstein established a set of methods that could not be falsified under the circumstances of the time.

Theoretical system, and thus formed a series of serious social cognition of time.

But in the elliptical galaxy named Gupan, time is an absolute value that cannot be distorted and has no change.

Whether you are in a ship traveling at one-fifth the speed of light, or in the high-speed orbit of a black hole, every second counts.

This is the truth of the Gupan Galaxy...

But now this truth has been broken, leaving Ren Zhong and Sun Ai puzzled, and the more they think about it, the more confused they become.

"Wait a minute, Sun Ai, have you synchronized the time for everyone?"

Ren Zhong suddenly realized a serious problem and asked quickly.

Sun Ai shook his head, "No."

"Well, that's good." Ren Zhong breathed a sigh of relief.

If Sun Aizhen leaks the news, I'm afraid he will have to blow himself up on the spot and start again.

Since it is still hidden, with Sun Ai's control over the fleet and Source Star civilization's information, there is no possibility of the secret being leaked.

In the past, when the "net" was the enemy, Ren Zhong hated this kind of absolute information control.

Now, the dragon slayer has finally become an evil dragon, and Ren Zhong has finally realized the benefits of this absolute information hegemony.

After pondering for a moment, Ren Zhong said: "If you want to correct the time, speed up the jump time of each second by 0.0001 seconds. It will take two years to slowly correct it and make things invisible. By the way, atomic clock

You can also control the electronic display, right?"

Sun Ai: "As long as there is an Internet connection, you can control it."

Ren Zhong: "That's good. Since there is a problem with time, then we will tamper with the time ourselves."

Sun Ai: "But what about mechanical watches? I can't control this. Although there are very few people in Yuanxing and the fleet who use mechanical watches, there are still some. Timing tools with purely mechanical structures are bound to have errors, but it takes a little more than two years.

An error of more than 7,000 seconds is too exaggerated. Others always adjust their watches manually, which makes them confused."

"That's the truth." Ren Zhong pinched his chin, "So...collect all mechanical timing devices, watches, wall clocks, alarm clocks...whether they are pendulum structures, clockwork structures, or battery timing devices.

.As long as the device does not automatically connect to the Internet and automatically correct the time, it will be confiscated."

Sun Ai hummed and joked with a smile: "To use a saying from ancient literary and artistic works, uncle, you have become a time lord."

Ren Zhong shrugged, "No way."

Sun Ai asked again: "This is how it works in the fleet, but what about Yuanxing?"

Ren Zhong: "Of course the same."

As he said that, he immediately remembered something, "Wait a minute."

Sun Ai: "What's wrong?"

"There is a person I have to think about how to deal with." Ren Zhong paced on the spot, "Let him keep it, but I have to have a brief chat with him. I just ask him not to ask too much or think too much. With his character,

Will listen to me."

Sun Ai controlled the pseudo-network clone located in Spark Town and checked at a very fast speed, "Is it Wen Lei? He has a pocket watch to commemorate his first love."

Ren Zhong: "It's not my first love, it's the love of my life. It's just right, I can check out Wen Lei's time."

After blinking, Sun Ai had already peeked at the time on Wen Lei's watch through the camera, and exclaimed, "It's strange, the time error of Wen Lei's watch is even larger. After conversion, it is 31 seconds slower than my previous one."

In other words, if we follow the time on Wen Lei's watch, it would be 7658 seconds slower than Imperial Standard Time."

Ren Zhong: "Connect the communication between me and Wen Lei, and I'll have a chat with him."

Wen Lei, who is still on the Source Star, is already a "dead person" in the eyes of Zheng Tian and others. This kind of communication can only be completed by Ren Zhong and Sun Ai.

"Brother Ren, how are you doing now? Is everything going well?"

In the communication system, Wen Lei asked.

Ren Zhong smiled and replied: "Everything goes well."

Wen Lei asked again: "I just tried to send a message to Zheng Tian and Ou Youning, but I didn't receive a reply. Is there something wrong with the communication system?"

Ren Zhong shook his head in the screen and said: "There is no fault. Due to the need for confidentiality, I can only contact Yuanxing through a single line for the time being."

"That's it. Brother Ren, what's the matter with you?" Wen Lei knew that Ren Zhong seldom talked nonsense, let alone chatted with others, so there must be something wrong when he called on the communication.

Ren Zhong got straight to the point: "I remember Wen Lei, your pocket watch is an ancient clockwork mechanical structure, right?"

"Yes, Brother Ren." Wen Lei responded, picking up his watch and shaking it at the camera with emotion. He didn't expect that after so many years, Ren Zhong would still remember this piece of equipment that contained him and Ai Jiashan.

Pocket watch from childhood photos.

Ren Zhong: "Do you usually forget to wind up the clockwork?"

Wen Lei immediately patted his chest, "No, how could I forget this? Even when I was in cryo-sleep, I asked my colleagues to help me twist it once a week, and it has never stopped moving in the past twenty years."

At this time, Sun Ai gave an analysis report, "Uncle, I just measured the accuracy of Wen Lei's pocket watch through the comparison in the video camera. The average is one second slower per year. For a clockwork mechanical watch,

This accuracy is pretty good.”

Ren Zhong nodded slightly and asked again: "In the past twenty years, Wen Lei, have you had time to adjust it?"

Wen Lei shook his head in surprise, "When I first met you, I happened to set the time once, and it was inexplicably off by more than two minutes. Later, I adjusted the second hand to get it right, and it hasn't been changed since.

,What's wrong?"

Ren Zhong hummed, "It's okay, I'll think about it first."

Twenty years have passed, and Wen Lei's pocket watch has a total error of 31 seconds.

In these 31 seconds, the mechanical error value of 20 seconds must be subtracted.

So, in fact, Wen Lei's pocket watch is only 11 seconds slower than the standard time of Yuanxing, and 7638 seconds slower than the imperial standard time.

In the sleeping space, Ren Zhong controlled the external machinery, grabbed the notebook from the desk drawer, and turned to the ninth page. In the virtual projection, Ren Zhong saw a whole page of numbers on the ninth page of the notebook.

, starting from 6781, then 6782, 6783 and continuing until 7638.

He has an unknown habit of always carrying a paper notebook with him and writing numbers on it from time to time.

Unknowingly, after so many years, he has written the number from 1 to 7638.

Only he knows what this number represents.

It is exactly the number of deaths and resets he has experienced so far since he was resurrected in the ancient cryo chamber.

The error time calculated by Sun Ai just now was 7627. The difference between the two numbers was 11 digits, so that he had all speculations in his mind, but he was not sure.

Now through Wen Lei's pocket watch, Ren Zhong got the answer.

Looking back on those days, since he started training and embarked on the path of a warrior, he only needed 11 resurrections in total to successfully destroy the previous generation's "net" with the help of Sun Ai.

The last time Wen Lei adjusted the timetable, it should have been caused by his continuous death after walking out of the dense forest, avoiding hunters and killing crystal wing flies. In fact, there was already something wrong with the timeline at that time. It kept slowing down by one second, so that it appeared

The error of more than two points was simply corrected by the previous generation of "nets". This number was not excessive, so it did not cause alarm.

After the previous generation's "net" went out of control and disconnected, the communication between Source Star and the Machine Empire was interrupted, and time could no longer be corrected.

The standard timekeeping device on the Source Star was replaced by the Pathfinder Brain and some standard atomic clocks, and began to gradually deviate from Imperial Standard Time.

Now that Sun Ai has become the new "net", he naturally made the first time correction along the source star standard time. The error between this number and the imperial standard time is 7627 seconds.

"Wen Lei, I have nothing else to do. You can go and do your own business."

"Oh well."

"etc."

"Wen Lei, you are quite talented in the field of mechanical structures. Your genes should not be wasted. Life must go on, and you should not stand still. It's time for you to step out and find someone you like to marry. Just like

As I said to others before, I am on the empire’s side, and I also look forward to getting help from Source Star one day in the future.”

Wen Lei thought for a long time and nodded heavily, "Okay, Brother Ren."

As soon as Ren Zhong hung up the communication, Sun Ai asked hurriedly: "How is it? Do you have any new ideas?"

Ren Zhong shook his head, "There are some speculations, but they have no practical significance. I won't say them now, so as not to mislead you. Forget it, don't continue to pursue this matter, just use the method I mentioned before to slowly correct the time.

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To be continued...