The glowing Rolex on his wrist projected a tiny clock-headed figure, which still clearly beheld the visage of the Black Water Ghost. Its hands were clasped behind its back with an air of smugness.

Zhou Yi was somewhat surprised: "I remember you saying that you slipped last season. This season you surged ahead... Is it so easy to advance to the standard clock?"

"Not at all! This is anything but easy!"

The Black Water Ghost argued loudly: "I have always been in a leading position before, there have only been a few Metering Officers who could compete with me in this area."

"After coming here later, the number of Metering Officers in the vicinity of the company became even fewer, which allowed me to maintain my advantage. The decline later on was due to the winter season."

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Does the season have such a big impact on you?"

"In winter, Dead Light Energy weakens as the duration of sunlight decreases. This causes many Time Meters to fall into slumber, making it difficult to determine the outcome thereafter, so most of them would sprint desperately in the fall to widen the gap before winter arrives, in order to become a standard clock."

The Black Water Ghost gave Zhou Yi a thumbs-up: "But with your help, I managed to push harder in the latter part of the year. In winter, when other Metering Officers were running slow, I kept accelerating and continuously calibrated at a high frequency, ultimately achieving this goal!"

"Congratulations are in order."

Zhou Yi said: "What's the difference between the standard clock and before? Have you evolved into a Concept Life?"

"There's very little that a Time Meter can do, just continuously calibrate time, affecting only a tiny area around oneself."

The Black Water Ghost explained: "The standard clock is the standard in its domain. Other Time Meters ultimately align their time to mine."

"Now I have two abilities, World Time and atomic time, which all standard clocks have."

"World Time responds to the rotation of the world, representing the motion of the entire world. There is a highest standard in this domain, called Greenwich Mean Sun Time."

The Black Water Ghost projected a glowing Earth that slowly rotated.

There was a bright spot on the surface of the Earth, above which hovered a clock.

"This is Greenwich, a sacred place for Time Meters. As of now, a standard clock there is in charge of Mean Sun Time, providing an essential reference for the operation of the entire world. Only the Mean Sun Time is a Concept Life, other standard clocks are not."

Zhou Yi knew about Greenwich Time.

"Is Mean Sun Time the leader of the standard clocks?"

"Strictly speaking, it is authority, as well as obligation."

The Black Water Ghost said: "Only the top three standard clocks in the world can vie for the position of Mean Sun Time, capable of calibrating the time of the entire world, to establish an even more precise standard. It is not until a more accurate standard clock appears that the Mean Sun Time will be replaced, this is a continuous pursuit and progression of time precision."

"Every standard clock aspires to reach Greenwich because that's the highest temple of time in this world."

"As a standard clock, I can calibrate with Mean Sun Time at any time, unaffected by other forces interfering with time from the outside world. This is World Time, a true description of the world's motion."

"atomic time is different from World Time. It describes fixed intervals, a uniform and stable time interval, an ideal timer."

Zhou Yi pondered: "World Time is an objective description of world motion, whereas atomic time is an independent standard timer?"

"That's right. You grasp it quickly."

The Black Water Ghost said: "World Time is the actual time, atomic time is absolute time."

"Now there's a situation."

Zhou Yi recounted the incident involving Bone Man Wu Yi and the glass man.

"Is there a way to stop the glass man from affecting time?"

"No problem."

The Black Water Ghost was confident: "That's what standard clocks do. Our ability is to calibrate times everywhere, ensuring orderly operation of all things."

Thus, Zhou Yi had Red Kestrel call Wu Yi over.

Bone Man raced over, confirming with some excitement: "Can time tampering really be broken?"

Zhou Yi tapped his wristwatch.

So the Black Water Ghost said: "Tell me again what you saw, I need to verify further."

"Okay, the woman inside that block of ice, she..."

After listening to Bone Man's detailed account, the Black Water Ghost affirmed: "It is an alteration of the consciousness domain's time. I can synchronize with World Time to fix it, with the Mean Sun Time as the standard behind it, making it impossible to change the entire world's conceptual time."

"That's wonderful, just wonderful!"

Wu Yi was excited.

Zhou Yi said with a smile: "How about it, shall we go see that glass man at the sea floor now? Jiong Hecang and I will accompany you."

The Bone Man suddenly calmed down: "Chairman, wait a moment."

"Now I need to get myself into the best condition."

"Please give me one month."

"Fine."

...

The Black Water Ghost advanced to the rank of standard clock, but its Rank wasn't high.

Zhou Yi identified it with [Alert], its body radiating green light, signifying it was in the D-C rank stage.

However, given the special abilities of the Time Metering series in the time domain, even B-ranked beings could not compare.

The Black Water Ghost first activated World Time, synchronizing the time across the entire Sand Port Region.

It synchronized the biological clocks of all life.

By calibrating the biological clocks, some workers who had been reversing day and night were released from insomnia, panic, and anxiety, forcibly returned to the physiological health of their circadian rhythm.

Regardless of whether it's for work or for life, it's a good thing.

Lord Sand Sea keenly noticed this change and soon came to visit, "Mr. Zhou, has the company come up with something new? Now residents around Sand Port City have all become punctual, and that's not something that can happen naturally."

Zhou Yi didn't hide it from him, "The company has introduced a Time Meter who has synchronized everyone's time to avoid disordered routines."

Sea Lord was elated, "That's excellent news. Some abilities and devices can disrupt time perception. Now with this technology from the company, Sand Port is no longer afraid of those types of attacks!"

"Before, I was worried about assaults in the realm of consciousness, but now it seems I was overly concerned. Mr. Zhou, you've thought of this early on."

His words, however, reminded Zhou Yi of something.

Zhou Yi immediately called over 703 and showed it the Black Water Ghost.

"Is the Black Water Ghost of any use to your 'Time Anchor'?'

The robotic dog was initially surprised, and after contemplating, it said, "Let's try it. The Time Anchor's program is already quite complete; it just lacks the final embedding of the time axis part. If we use a standard clock as a substitute, the effect should be better. Because it represents the real movement of this world, that is, real time."

"Are there any risks?"

Zhou Yi was particularly concerned about this point.

"There are always theoretical risks."

703 answered cautiously, "But the Time Anchor itself isn't a compulsory program; it doesn't change or redefine anything, more like an auxiliary tool that connects into a semi-cultivated life-form."

"This allows semi-cultivated life-forms to use it directly. If there's any danger or damage, they would disconnect immediately."

"The biggest problem in the past was the time axis. If the time axis is called incorrectly, it will cause the information time within the program to become further disordered... But switching to a professional standard clock, we might be able to fill this gap."

"Chairman, I request to undertake testing!"

Zhou Yi agreed.

"Then let's test it with the company's 'Zhanjiang Bay No.1'. It's also a semi-cultivated life-form, sufficiently strong and usually stable."

"I will now apply for the complete program transfer."

The robotic dog sat motionless on the ground.

About 2 minutes later, it's solitary eye lit up, "The application has been approved, and the program has been transferred."

Afterward, Zhou Yi and it went to the Breeding Platform.

The robotic dog found a port in the control room, inserted its connection cable, and the two electro-mechanical life forms made a physical connection.

"Chairman, its data volume is enormous, I'm waiting for the basic response of the Time Anchor test."

"It passed! All of its parameters meet the basic requirements."

"Next are the environmental and language calls..."

After being busy for over an hour, 703 finally said, "Chairman, initial preparation is complete; we can proceed to installation and use."

"Please also include the standard clock. What we are doing now is creating a time axis within the main consciousness program of Zhanjiang Bay No.1, allowing it to recover from random jumps and discontinuity, gradually moving towards convergence and continuity."

Black Water Ghost said, "I'll give it a try."

White lines shaped like hands on a watch emerged from Zhou Yi's wristwatch, covering the entire Breeding Platform.

These white hands appeared incredibly chaotic, swimming like fish across the surface of Zhanjiang Bay No.1.

"I'm tagging it."

"Its biological clock...or rather, electro-mechanical clock is already fragmented. Different regions have different timings, and each is further cutting and dividing. If this continues, it will only get lost in a completely disordered sense of time."

Black Water Ghost said, "I need to do some emergency treatment."

Then Zhou Yi saw a large black dial emerging under his feet, covered with dense red droplets, appearing as if they were boiling, incessantly bouncing and settling, forming circles of red ripples.

"This is atomic time."

Black Water Ghost added a brief introduction, "I'll use this to unify the time inside."

Zhou Yi saw that strands of white hands began to move around atomic time, linking end to end, forming circular paths.

"Then comes World Time."

After Black Water Ghost finished speaking.

A miniature sun suddenly rose on the deck, the spherical sun adorned with hands and scales.

With the appearance of World Time, the white hands immediately began to rotate on their own, gradually constructing their own dials.

Countless watches appeared across the entire Breeding Platform, their hands moving at different speeds, but all gradually coordinating and moving towards unison.

"There's no big problem, it will be calibrated soon."

Black Water Ghost said.

At this moment, however, 703 frantically called to a halt.

"Chairman, hold on, please hold on."

"The Time Anchor program can't keep up with the efficiency of the standard clock; a multitude of errors have appeared, the program is about to crash..."

Zhou Yi was speechless.

He immediately pointed at the robotic dog's nose and scolded angrily, "You all were boasting before, but at the crucial moment you let me down. With this approach, how can we possibly repair the semi-cultivated life-forms!?"

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry!"

The robotic dog looked dejected, lying prostrate on the ground, "We will modify the program right away, improve the operating efficiency of the Time Anchor to keep pace with the standard clock..."

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