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It is not easy to accomplish this. If Dorothy wants to enter the history where Heopause exists, she must continue the history of the First Dynasty by writing pseudo-history. However, this is not easy. To create a fictional history of a dynasty, one must first have sufficient spirituality and secondly have a certain understanding of the original true history of that dynasty. The compilation of pseudo-history must also be based on real history.
The first point is actually not a big deal for Dorothy. It has been seven thousand years since the fall of the First Dynasty. Although seven thousand years is a long time, as long as Dorothy can rely on fictional history to compress time and slowly restore her spirituality, then her total spirituality will be sufficient. The key is the second point.
False history needs to be written on the basis of real history, but Dorothy’s knowledge of the history of the First Dynasty is too little. After the previous female pharaoh reminded Dorothy, she had no time to give Dorothy any more hints, so that the information Dorothy now has is not enough to support her in creating a false history based on the First Dynasty.
Therefore, the purpose of Dorothy's work in the virtual history world became to collect as much information about the First Dynasty as possible.
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In the virtual history world, in Bastis during a certain period of time.
During the day, in Bastis, the capital of the non-existent hypocritical dynasty, a festive festival is being held. In the streets and alleys of Bastis, countless residents come out of their homes, singing and dancing on the wide streets, celebrating their traditional festivals.
The square in the center of Bastis is the heart of the festival. Countless residents, even royal family members and ministers gather here to carry out an important part of the festival.
When the reflection of the huge sun in the center of the square pointed to the appointed time, the ceremony officially began. Under the leadership of the king, everyone on the scene was worshipping a huge broken stone tablet. On the broken stone tablet were ancient and mysterious ancient characters.
In addition to this broken ancient stone tablet, there are many other smaller things at the scene that attract the attention of the residents. These are some stone tablet fragments or various strange gold and silver wares. These things that are worshipped during the festival have one characteristic in common, that is, they are all antiquities from distant dynasties.
"What are they worshipping?" On a second-floor stand somewhere at the Bastis Festival, Neveu, who was wearing a long robe and veil, asked curiously as she looked at the lively festival scene in front of her. Beside her, Dorothy, who was dressed similarly, also answered bluntly.
"What they worship are some antiques left over from the First Dynasty. When I created the Mogu Dynasty in this virtual history world, I set up a coup for one of the kings here. I had that king flee the palace under the pursuit of the coup, and eventually he found a relic from ancient times to hide in. He escaped from the pursuers here, and then successfully united the loyal forces outside the capital to quell the rebellion.
"I assumed that the king worshipped the mysterious civilization of the distant ancient times because of this encounter. After he successfully quelled the rebellion, he began to order the search for similar ruins and relics throughout the country and built temples to worship them. He even designated the day he was rescued as a festival, and all the major excavation results of the ruins of that ancient civilization were gathered together for worship and worship. This is the festival we are holding now, which is called the Worship the Ancient Festival."
Standing next to Neveu, Dorothy explained the current situation to her very seriously, and after listening to Dorothy's explanation, Neveu couldn't help but nodded and said.
"I see... Miss Dorothy, what you mean by doing this is to gather all the relics of the First Dynasty for your research..."
"Yes, with this method, I can quickly collect the various relics of the First Dynasty scattered in Busaiite, allowing me to study the secrets contained therein. The virtual world is a mirror of the real world. What exists in the real world, also exists in the virtual world..."
Dorothy explained to Neveu that through previous experiments, she already knew some characteristics of the virtual world. Without major environmental changes, the virtual world was consistent with the real world. Where in the real world were there mineral deposits? The virtual world also had mineral deposits in the same place. Where in the real world were there relics and cultural relics? The virtual world could also find relics and cultural relics in the same place, and they were all exactly the same.
In order to study the secrets of the First Dynasty's history, Dorothy specially set up a Mogu Dynasty that worshipped the relics of ancient civilization to help her collect all the relics of the First Dynasty in Busaimit for her own research. In order to facilitate the viewing of these cultural relics collected from all over Busaimit, Dorothy also thoughtfully designed an annual festival for the king of the Mogu Dynasty to display various cultural relics collected in the past year.
Every year during the Chonggu Festival, the king of the Mogu Dynasty would display all the First Dynasty artifacts collected in the past year. Dorothy only needed to use the Chonggu Festival as a node and keep jumping back in time to know all the achievements of the Mogu Dynasty in archaeological excavations in the past year. This was equivalent to having these virtual residents hold an archaeological report meeting regularly every year. Dorothy only needed to attend this report meeting to grasp the archaeological situation of the whole country, without having to spend time on it herself, which was very good.
"Chonggu Festival... It's a festival that is convenient for you, Miss Dorothy, to study history. By the way, how many Chonggu Festivals has this been? Miss Dorothy, have you made any interesting discoveries?"
At this time, Neveu continued to ask Dorothy. At this moment, they had been in the virtual historical world for a while. During this period, many time shifts occurred. This time was the first time that Neveu followed Dorothy to check on the situation of the Chonggu Festival.
"This is the tenth Chonggu Festival, and we have made quite a few discoveries, including various gold and silver wares and stone tablets from the First Dynasty. But they are not very useful to me. I have not yet found the key to deciphering the ancient characters of the First Dynasty, and I cannot read the stone carvings and inscriptions, which prevents me from learning more about the history of the First Dynasty."
Dorothy murmured with a frown on her face. During these ancient worship festivals, she had seen a lot of relics from the First Dynasty, but she still couldn't understand the words on them. The written heritage of the First Dynasty had been cut off for seven thousand years, and deciphering it was much more difficult than deciphering the imperial language.
In the current secret history community, almost all the information about the First Dynasty is the result of archaeological scholars from the Third Age Empire. These results were translated into the text of the Fourth Age and circulated in the secret community in various forms. It is very difficult for scholars from the Fourth Age to directly study the history of the First Dynasty, because except for the ancient undead monarchs, almost no one can read the text of the First Dynasty.
Dorothy had always hoped that the archaeological activities of the Mogu Dynasty would be able to unearth something as important as the Rosetta Stone so that she could decipher the text of the First Dynasty. However, the excavation had lasted for so long, and the Ancient Worship Festival had been held ten times, but Dorothy had not seen any artifacts similar to the Rosetta Stone unearthed.
"It seems that there is no opinion about this year's Chonggu Festival..." Dorothy couldn't help but sighed after quickly checking all the cultural relics at the Chonggu Festival through the corpse doll. With the Chonggu Festival being held more and more frequently, the number of cultural relics of the First Dynasty that could be excavated in Busaimit was getting fewer and fewer. Now the number of cultural relics displayed and offered at each Chonggu Festival is less than the previous one, which makes Dorothy gradually disappointed.
I don't think we can find all the artifacts in Busaimit, but we still can't decipher the text...
Such thoughts appeared in Dorothy's mind, making her anxious, but no matter how anxious she was, it would be of no use. She could only continue her archaeological work in the hope of making some discoveries later.
"Let's go back to rest and see tomorrow what we can gain from next year's Chonggu Festival."
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Dorothy spoke bluntly to Neveu and turned away. Neveu nodded and followed Dorothy.
The next day, Dorothy began to edit history early in the morning. As the date of the Chonggu Festival every year is March 15th, and it is now the 17th year of the Mogu calendar in the virtual history world, Dorothy determined the time of the next time jump to be March 15th of the 18th year of the Mogu calendar. In a burst of shattered worlds, Dorothy and her friends came to the world one year later.
Then, Dorothy asked Vanya Neveu to stay at the base to look after Evie, and she went out alone to attend the Ancient Festival. When Dorothy walked into the Bastis of the virtual world, she saw a lively scene that was no different from that of previous years.
Dorothy walked slowly to the square in the city and saw various antiquities that were transported here for worship this year. In the warm atmosphere, Dorothy asked her corpse to take a general look at the antiquities and found that there was nothing new to see. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
After a series of observations, Dorothy concluded that this Chonggu Festival was no different from the previous ten. There was nothing wrong with the participating residents... There were only some minor changes in the royal family who presided over it... There was nothing wrong with the season of the festival, the various activities, and even the angles of the shadows cast by the sun on the ground at the time of the ceremony, the projection form of the solar corona, and the position of the sun in the sky at every moment... No, wait...
Looking at the ordinary Ancient Worship Festival in front of her, Dorothy, in boredom, could not help but begin to carefully compare the differences between each previous Ancient Worship Festival. After a burst of thunder, Dorothy suddenly felt something strange.
"No... No... There's nothing wrong with the content of the event or the staff... But the projection angles of every item and the projection form of the corona are exactly the same during every Chonggu Festival. This is a bit too much... It shouldn't be like this..."
Suddenly, Dorothy seemed to realize something and stared at the corona at the ceremony site with wide eyes. The projection shape on it was exactly the same as the projection shape of the past ten times in Dorothy's memory at this moment. This made Dorothy feel that something was deeply wrong.
Perhaps someone will ask, the Chonggu Festival is set on March 15th every year, and the time when the ceremony officially begins is the same, so the projection form on the corona is exactly the same, so there is no problem. But in fact, it is precisely this seemingly non-problematic place that has the biggest problem.
The problem is... in reality, a date in different years does not correspond exactly to a certain moment. March 15th of each year should be somewhat different from March 15th of other years.
This difference comes from the fact that the rotation of a planet and its revolution around the sun cannot be exactly compared. For example, the time it takes for the Earth, Dorothy's hometown, to revolve around the sun is about 365 days and 5 hours, not exactly 365 days. In the calendar, for convenience, the extra 5 hours are omitted to make it rounded to 365 days. However, the omitted part will not disappear completely, but will accumulate year by year, causing the calendar to precess, and at this time, there will be an extra day in the leap year, allowing the calendar to correct the deviation.
The situation in the world Dorothy is in now is similar to that of the Earth, with a year of more than 360 days and the planet's revolution and rotation cannot be compared, so the calendar needs to be corrected in leap years. This means that on March 15, the state of the planet in its orbit is different, and there is a slight difference.
Therefore, to be precise, the position of the sun in the sky changes slightly on March 15th every year, and the projection on the ground and the state of the solar corona should also have extremely slight variations. This is a normal phenomenon.
However, the fact in this virtual world is that... the position of the sun in the sky is the same during every Chonggu Festival, which causes the shape of the solar corona projection to be exactly the same to the point where there is no difference...
And what does this mean? Does it mean that in the virtual world, the revolution of the planets is in perfect proportion to their autobiography? No, Dorothy didn't think so.
The reason for this phenomenon is not the movement of the planets, but the calendar!
The establishment of a new dynasty will inevitably promulgate its own calendar to mark the beginning of a new era. This is also the same for the dynasties in Busan. Each dynasty has its own calendar when it is founded. When Dorothy wrote the pseudo-history for these dynasties, she would naturally include the promulgated calendar in her books, which is an important part of the beginning of the pseudo-history.
For dynasties that are relatively close to modern times, Dorothy could quickly find out what the calendars they issued were like because of sufficient historical data. Dorothy could just record them when she was compiling her pseudo-history. However, for some dynasties that are far from modern times, Dorothy could not find out what the calendars were like at that time because of the lack of historical data. Therefore, when Dorothy was compiling pseudo-history for these old dynasties, she often made up a calendar at random.
Moreover, I was not careful when editing it. In order to catch up with the later content, I subconsciously applied some common sense from the past, saying that there are 365 days in a year, and each year is divided into 12 months. The first year is the first year of a certain year, followed by the second year of a certain year, and so on. I didn't even mention the leap year system, highlighting the casualness.
As for these older dynasties, Dorothy spent more time trying to align them with the present time of 1361, testing the dates and years, and aligning the moments there with the present. Dorothy originally thought that the reason why it was difficult to align them was because the starting years of these ancient dynasties were difficult to confirm. Now it seems that her random calendar was also to blame.
Among these pseudo-histories of ancient dynasties, there is naturally the Mogu Dynasty where Dorothy is now. This is an ancient Busaiite Dynasty that was destroyed two decades ago. Dorothy allowed it to continue in the virtual history world through pseudo-history, but the calendar given to it was problematic.
There are 365 days in a year, and there is no leap year. This means that the current Mogu Dynasty has completed a perfect year after 365 days, no more and no less, so there is no need for leap year. Since it is so perfect, then every day of the year is naturally at a perfect time. March 15th of each year is perfectly aligned with March 15th of other years. There is no deviation in the real time, so the position of the sun and the projection are perfectly aligned.
What does this phenomenon represent? This phenomenon may not be very noticeable in the eyes of others, but in Dorothy's eyes at this moment, it has an extraordinary significance.
This means that in this virtual world of history, it is not time that determines the calendar, but the calendar that determines time.
Yes, in the real world, people have established a calendar based on the laws of the sun and moon, but in the virtual world, the calendar determines time. If Dorothy wrote a calendar with leap years, then the time in the virtual world would be almost the same as in reality. If Dorothy crudely created a calendar with only 365 days a year, then the virtual world would automatically help adjust the time to the corresponding calendar, that is, there would be no leap year.
This phenomenon is actually easy to understand. The world of virtual history is dominated by the divinity of "Qi", and things such as history, law, calendar, etc. are all within the scope of "Qi". Therefore, in the world of "Qi", the calendar dominates time.
After noticing the difference in time, it only took Dorothy a moment to figure out the cause and effect. Then she paused for two seconds and began to have other thoughts in her mind.
"So that's how it is... If the calendar is controlling time, then can I do this? I really don't know to what extent this calendar can change time..."
Dorothy thought so, and then she came to a tavern alone, sat in a secluded corner, took out several pseudo-history books she carried with her, and after a while of selection, she chose a suitable one.
Then, she began to tamper with the information in the pseudo-history. She made drastic changes to the calendar of a dynasty called the Diderot Dynasty, directly deleting more than 7,000 years from the calendar of that dynasty.
At this moment, Dorothy was just like Pope Gregory XIII of the Catholic Church on her hometown Earth. With a stroke of the pen, she directly cancelled a period of time in the calendar, except that Pope Gregory XIII only cancelled ten days, while Dorothy here cancelled seven thousand years. Pope Gregory XIII canceling the days in the calendar would not have any effect on reality, but if Dorothy canceled seven thousand years in this world dominated by "Revelation", huge changes would occur.
If Dorothy cannot go back to Heopause seven thousand years ago, then let her and Heopause come to the world seven thousand years later.