Inside Buserite's simulated historical world, Miss Dorothy, dressed in a long robe, was pacing slowly across a boundless desert, a hint of anxiety on her face. Not far from her, Vanya, also looking tense, was sitting cross-legged on the sand.
"Miss Scholar... How are things now? Did your attempt just now... succeed?" Vanya asked Dorothy with a tone of doubt and unease. After a slight pause, Dorothy slowly replied.
"I don't know. The thief has already taken action, but whether it's effective is still unknown. We can't confirm the situation in the real world right now." Dorothy said this with a serious expression. Just now, she had Naifnis contact Nu Nuo Te, who was far away in Prit, to summon and guide Havdahl's power by removing the protection of the Golden Scepter.
Now that the protection of the Golden Scepter had been removed, Naifnis herself hadn't shown any abnormalities. It was just uncertain whether Havdahl's power had been successfully drawn over.
Currently, Dorothy had no means to effectively observe Younina's location in the real world, to the extent that she didn't know the situation there at all. Although she didn't expect Havdahl to be able to handle Younina, she at least needed to know how things were going?
With Younina's continuous erosion of the simulated historical world, the barrier between the simulated history and the real world had become much weaker. Dorothy could actually try to extend her Spirituality threads to probe the situation, but because Younina's mastery over the "Cup" domain was too strong, Dorothy was worried that her Spirituality threads containing "Cup" would be discovered by Younina and lead to a backlash, so she hadn't attempted it yet.
"You... want to know the current situation in the real world?" Just then, a voice suddenly came from Evi's iron coffin, which was placed to the side. Hearing this voice, Dorothy couldn't help but pause slightly, then turned her head and asked the heavy iron coffin.
"Sister Evi, do you perhaps have some means to observe the real world?"
"Something like that... My ship is equipped with a large number of various sensing devices, some of which can link with me remotely. When I was first sent into this inner realm, my connection with those sensing devices was interrupted, but after that traitor began to erode this place, I started to be able to weakly sense the presence of the sensing devices again. I can try to link to the sensor that is still on my ship and have it project the situation outside..."
The iron coffin, which was Evi's core mind, said this. Hearing her words, Dorothy's heart couldn't help but slightly relax.
'That's right, Evi's ship is still in the real world. The core mind of an extraordinary warship must have a wireless link method with the sensors on its ship... It's normal that she can reconnect with the sensors on the ship after the boundary between the simulated history and the real world became blurred.
'The extraordinary technology used to build Evi is mainly based on 'Light' and'Stone', at most there might be a tiny bit of'Silence' or 'Qi' technology preserved by the Church or the Craftsmen's Guild. It can be said to have no relation to 'Cup' at all, letting her perceive the real world is much safer than me using Spirituality threads...
'But then again, Evi being able to link to her sensors proves that her ship left in the real world hasn't been completely destroyed. Did Younina deliberately leave it? Or did Younina not have the time to deal with Evi's ship for a while? Is this Havdahl so strong? Able to directly fight Younina to the point where she can't spare attention for the time being?'
Dorothy thought this in her heart. After these thoughts flashed through her mind, Dorothy refocused her attention on the scene. She directly said to Evi.
"Then I'll trouble you."
"Wait a moment..." After a soft response, Evi fell silent. Then, after a few seconds, she spoke with a somewhat disbelieving tone.
"This... These are... What is this situation!" Evi's tone revealed obvious astonishment. After hearing Evi's reaction, Dorothy couldn't help but furrow her brows, then spoke directly.
"What happened? What happened outside?"
"This... See for yourselves." Evi said this, and then, accompanied by the light emitted from the gems embedded along the edge of her iron coffin, scenes of illusory three-dimensional projection images were generated around Evi. Dorothy was finally able to see what was happening in the real world at this moment. When she looked closely again, she couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
"This is..."
From the illusory projection, Dorothy could see that the flesh and blood land was boundless, from which countless deformed life forms were continuously born and spread. Red giant wolves, swarms of flies filling the sky, and rolling mushroom fog constantly appeared in the vibrant flesh land. A giant water snake descended from the clouds in the sky, attacking in the same direction as countless deformed life forms on the ground.
At their target, a huge illusory tomb floated in mid-air. Inside the tomb, several figures of various forms were controlling different powers to counter the enemies invading from all directions. Beams of extreme cold froze the water snake in the sky, malicious curses killed the mutated red wolves, and reviving fierce winds scattered the flying insects and plague... The dead within the tomb were releasing their power, bringing destruction to the flesh and blood land dominated by Younina. Large areas of vibrant, deformed land were withering under the cleansing of these powers.
'Is this... the power that Miss Dorothy had Miss Naifnis guide over? It's actually... so powerful. These people... Who exactly are these dead people...' Seeing the projected scene before her, Vanya, who was standing by, couldn't help but be stunned in her heart. On the other side, Evi also spoke with a clearly surprised tone.
"Is this... the power brought by your so-called 'thief'? This Spirituality... this ability... this attire, could they be the legendary Undead Monarchs of North Wu... What is the identity of your 'thief', to be able to summon four Undead Monarchs at once? Rumor has it they are all Golden level existences!"
Evi said in surprise, but Dorothy didn't reply after hearing her words. Instead, she silently stared at the projected image before her, remaining silent.
'Havdahl is here... and not only him, are the other three undead also Undead Monarchs like Havdahl, all former Sage Kings of the First Dynasty!?
'The dead of the First Dynasty who have turned into spirits are gathered here. Among them, only Havdahl has a grudge against Naifnis, so they can't be here to find Naifnis... The only reason they are here is for the simulated historical world, for the holy land of the First Dynasty! Does Heopolis... also have some kind of defense mechanism?'
Looking at the scene before her, Dorothy couldn't help but think in her heart. Although the simultaneous appearance of the four Undead Monarchs greatly surprised her, upon closer reflection, she felt that their presence here at this moment was completely reasonable. After all, Younina was seizing the divinity of the Judge of Heaven.
'Now these four Undead Monarchs are fighting Younina fiercely. I wonder if this can be our opportunity. As long as Younina can relax her erosion of the simulated historical world, we can find a way to escape from here, the farther the better...'
Dorothy pondered this in her heart. At this moment, she didn't want to contact or deal with either of the two sides fighting outside. Dorothy's thought now was to find a way to quickly run, the farther the better.
Dorothy couldn't participate in a battle of this level. Even if she could, Dorothy didn't know who to help. Younina goes without saying, but Dorothy also didn't really dare to contact those undead pharaohs herself. Not to mention there was Havdahl among them, Dorothy's purpose for this trip was in a sense also coveting the legacy of the Judge of Heaven. God knows what attitude these pharaohs would have towards her.
Therefore, Dorothy's hope now was that these two sides could fight to a mutual defeat, and then she would have a chance to escape. Judging from the current situation, this was not impossible.
Just as Dorothy was watching the battle situation on the pharaohs' side in the projection and thinking in her heart about how to escape, one of the four pharaohs, a female pharaoh wearing a veil and a robe, dressed in typical feminine attire, suddenly raised her head. Her gaze, hidden beneath the veil, seemed to directly meet Dorothy's eyes at this moment. Seeing this scene, Dorothy couldn't help but be stunned.
'That female pharaoh... Did she see me? Is it my illusion?'
Seeing the current situation, Dorothy couldn't help but think in surprise in her heart, until she saw that female pharaoh slowly raise her bandaged arm and raise a finger, drawing in the void.
This drawing did not leave any trace in the air, but Dorothy could tell what she was writing from her specific hand gestures. It was a sentence, a sentence in modern North Wu script.
'Only by letting the history of the Holy Domain intersect with the current time can we truly resist the invasion of corruption, and only then can you complete the pilgrimage, otherwise the power of the God Master will eventually be taken away...'
Dorothy recognized the message that the female pharaoh was writing almost at a glance, and her eyes widened. Just at this moment, Evi's voice suddenly came.
"The thickness of the barrier... has suddenly increased!" As soon as Evi finished speaking, the projected images she had displayed immediately distorted, and at the same time, Dorothy also sensed the new changes occurring in the simulated historical world.
That powerful force that had been continuously eroding the simulated historical world quickly retreated, except for a little bit that remained, most of the rest flowed back to the source. When the erosion retreated, the barrier between the simulated history and the real world became thick again.
Finally, under the obstruction of the re-thickened barrier, Evi's connection with her sensor in the real world gradually failed and broke off. The image she had projected disappeared after flickering for a while. Vanya couldn't help but say in surprise after seeing this scene.
"This... What happened?"
"That Younina... has withdrawn most of the divinity used to erode this world, which has made the distance between this world and the real world greater. Sister Evi can no longer contact her ship because of this, I presume." Dorothy analyzed and replied, and Evi also slowly spoke.
"This Miss Scholar is right, the barrier between the realms has strengthened, preventing me from sensing my ship left in the real world... But then again, you just mentioned divinity, was the power that traitor used to invade this world actually divinity?" Evi's tone was clearly surprised, and Dorothy nodded and said.
"Yes, only the power of divinity can erode this world. The current situation is that those four Undead Monarchs have somewhat pressured that Younina, and she is now recalling more divine power to deal with them."
"Yunina has recalled the Divine Power used to erode the Pseudo-Historical World, so, Scholar Miss, doesn't that mean Captain can control this Pseudo-Historical World again now? We can escape now!" Vanya said directly to Dorothy at this moment. After listening to Vanya's words, Dorothy silently took out her Pseudo-Historical Manuscript.
"Hmm, it seems so."
After giving a hum, Dorothy gazed at her Pseudo-Historical Manuscript. The countless blood threads that were originally entwined on it had completely disappeared, and she could write on it again.
Being able to control Pseudo-History again meant that Dorothy could safely escape by returning to the Pseudo-History's past and compressing time. This was something Dorothy had wanted to do before but couldn't.
At this moment, Dorothy was finally able to restart the Pseudo-Historical World and safely escape from here, but she didn't do so immediately because the hint written for her by the female Pharaoh earlier still lingered in her mind.
'Only by completing this pilgrimage can I avoid the Sanctuary being taken away...?'
With a slight frown, Dorothy thought to herself. Although she didn't know how that female Pharaoh had discovered her existence, or why she wanted to transmit such information to her, she knew that what the other party said was correct. Yunina had now withdrawn most of her Divinity, which was clearly to use it against the four Pharaohs.
Although these four Pharaohs were currently fighting Yunina back and forth, and even held a slight advantage, once Yunina massively activated her Divinity to participate in the battle, the outcome would likely be completely different from now. Dorothy had witnessed the power of Divinity, let alone the Divinity of a Main God like the Cup Mother. Once this Divinity was put into battle, Dorothy believed those Pharaohs would likely find it difficult to withstand.
If those Pharaohs were defeated, then the Divinity of Heopolis and its Judge of Heaven would definitely fall into Yunina's hands, and Dorothy's path to advancing to Golden would be blocked. Dorothy absolutely did not want things to develop to such an outcome now.
"What's wrong? Scholar Miss, since you can control this place again, shouldn't we escape?" Just then, Awei, who was placed aside, said directly to Dorothy. Listening to Awei's words, Dorothy paused slightly, then continued.
"Yes, but before escaping, I want to make an attempt..."
Dorothy said this, and then, after touching Awei's iron coffin, she unfolded the Pseudo-Historical Manuscript and wrote on it. After Dorothy lifted her pen, the entire world began to shatter...
...
After being able to control the Pseudo-Historical World again, Dorothy decisively led Vanya, Awei, and Neff, who was rushing from afar, back to a past point in the Pseudo-Historical World's history, and temporarily settled there.
After returning to the past of the Pseudo-Historical World, Dorothy finally didn't have to worry about whether there was enough time for the time being. In the past Pseudo-Historical time, she could carefully plan various matters.
After returning to the past of the Pseudo-Historical World, Dorothy first had the three of them meet up with Neff, who was in the process of flying over. However, after that, Dorothy didn't plan to leave this troublesome place immediately, but instead began to solve a puzzle.
The puzzle Dorothy was solving was precisely how she should enter the Sanctuary. Dorothy wanted to figure out how to enter Heopolis within the Pseudo-Historical World and complete the task hinted at by that female Pharaoh.
Achieving this was actually not easy. If Dorothy wanted to enter the history where Heopolis existed, she had to extend the history of the First Dynasty by writing Pseudo-History. However, this was not easy. The first requirement for creating the Pseudo-History of a dynasty was sufficient Spirituality, and the second was a certain understanding of the original true history of that dynasty. The compilation of Pseudo-History also had to be based on true history.
The first point was actually fine for Dorothy. A total of seven thousand years had passed since the fall of the First Dynasty. Although seven thousand years of history was long, as long as Dorothy could rely on Pseudo-History to compress time and slowly recover her Spirituality, her total amount of Spirituality would be sufficient. The key was the second point.
False history needed to be written based on true history, but currently, Dorothy's knowledge of the First Dynasty's history was too low. After the female Pharaoh gave Dorothy a hint, she didn't have time to give Dorothy any more hints, to the extent that the information Dorothy currently possessed was simply not enough to support her creation of a Pseudo-History based on the First Dynasty.
Therefore, Dorothy's purpose for working in the Pseudo-Historical World shifted to collecting as much information about the First Dynasty as possible.
...
Pseudo-Historical World, in Bastis during a certain time period.
During the daytime, in Bastis, the capital of the non-existent false dynasty, a festive celebration was currently taking place. In the streets and alleys of Bastis, countless residents walked out of their homes, singing and dancing on the wide streets, celebrating their traditional festival.
On the square in the center of Bastis, which was truly the heart of the festival, countless residents, and even the Royal Family and ministers, gathered here to carry out an important part of the festival.
When the projection of the giant sundial in the center of the square pointed to the designated time, the ceremony officially began. Led by the king, everyone present was bowing towards a massive, incomplete stone tablet. Engraved on the incomplete stone tablet were ancient, mysterious characters.
Besides this incomplete ancient stone tablet, there were many other smaller objects that were valued by the residents present. These were fragments of stone tablets or various strange gold and silver artifacts. The things worshipped during the festival all shared one characteristic: they were ancient relics from a distant dynasty.
"What... what are they worshipping?" On a second-floor viewing platform somewhere at the Bastis festival site, Neff, dressed in a robe and veil, looked at the lively festival scene and couldn't help but ask curiously. Beside her, Dorothy, similarly dressed, answered directly.
"They are worshipping some antiques left over from the First Dynasty. When I created the Mogul Dynasty in this Pseudo-Historical World, I set up a coup for one of the kings here. I had that king escape the royal palace under pursuit during the coup, and eventually find a ruin from ancient times to hide in, where he evaded the pursuers. Afterward, he successfully united the loyal forces outside the capital to quell the rebellion."
"I set it up so that the king, because of this experience, became extremely worshipful of that mysterious civilization from the distant past. After he successfully quelled the rebellion, he began to order the search for similar ruins and relics throughout the country, building them into temples for worship. He even designated the day he was rescued as a festival, gathering all the important excavation findings of that ancient civilization's ruins from across the country to worship and offer sacrifices together. This is the festival we are currently participating in, called the Festival of Ancient Worship."
Standing beside Neff, Dorothy explained the current situation to her quite seriously. After listening to Dorothy's explanation, Neff couldn't help but nod and say.
"I see... Miss Dorothy, the meaning behind you doing this is to gather various relics of the First Dynasty for your research, right...?"
"Yes, with this method, I can quickly collect various First Dynasty relics scattered within Buserite and study the secrets on them. Compared to the Pseudo-Historical World being a mirror of the real world, things that exist in the real world also exist in the Pseudo-Historical World..."
Dorothy explained this to Neff. Through previous experiments, she had already learned some characteristics of the Pseudo-Historical World. Without significant environmental modification, the conditions in the Pseudo-Historical World were consistent with the real world. Where were minerals buried in the real world? There were also minerals in the same places in the Pseudo-Historical World. Where were ruins and artifacts in the real world? Ruins and artifacts could also be found in the same places in the Pseudo-Historical World, and they were identical.
In order to research the secrets of the First Dynasty's history, Dorothy specifically set up a Mogul Dynasty that worshipped ancient civilization ruins to help her collect all the First Dynasty relics in Buserite for her own research. To make it convenient to view these artifacts collected from all over Buserite, Dorothy also thoughtfully designed an annual festival for the king of the Mogul Dynasty to display the various artifacts collected throughout the year.
Every year during the Festival of Ancient Worship, the king of the Mogul Dynasty would gather all the First Dynasty artifacts collected throughout the year for display and worship. And Dorothy only needed to use the annual Festival of Ancient Worship as a point, constantly jumping through time, to know all the achievements of the Mogul Dynasty in archaeological excavations for that year. This was equivalent to having these Pseudo-History residents hold a regular archaeological report meeting every year. Dorothy only needed to attend this report meeting to grasp the national archaeological situation, without having to personally spend time doing it herself, which was very convenient.
"Festival of Ancient Worship... a festival convenient for Miss Dorothy to research history, huh? Speaking of which, how many Festivals of Ancient Worship have there been now? Miss Dorothy, have you made any important discoveries?"
At this moment, Neff continued to ask Dorothy. They had been staying in the past of the Pseudo-Historical World for a while now, and there had been multiple time jumps during this period. This was the first time Neff had followed Dorothy to check the situation of the Festival of Ancient Worship.
"This is already the tenth Festival of Ancient Worship. Discoveries... there have been quite a few discoveries, various First Dynasty gold and silver artifacts, stone tablets... they are all results of discoveries. But they are not of much use to me. Currently, I haven't found the key to deciphering the ancient script of the First Dynasty. I can't read the stone carvings and inscriptions, which prevents me from learning more about the history of the First Dynasty."
Dorothy murmured with a slight frown. During these past few Festivals of Ancient Worship, Dorothy had seen many First Dynasty relics, but she still couldn't read the writing on them. The written tradition of the First Dynasty had been broken for seven thousand years, and the difficulty of deciphering it was much higher than deciphering Imperial script.
In the current esoteric world, almost all information about the First Dynasty comes from the achievements of archaeologists from the Third Age Empire. These achievements were translated into Fourth Age script and circulated within the esoteric world through various secret transmissions. It is very difficult for Fourth Age Scholars to directly study the history of the First Dynasty, because other than ancient undead monarchs, almost no one can read the script of the First Dynasty now.
Dorothy had always hoped that the archaeological activities of the Mogu Dynasty could unearth something as significant as the Rosetta Stone, allowing her to decipher the First Dynasty's script. However, despite the excavations continuing for so long, and the Festival of Ancient Worship being held ten times, Dorothy had not seen any artifact similar to the Rosetta Stone unearthed.
"It seems there's nothing new to see at this year's Festival of Ancient Worship either..." After quickly examining all the artifacts at the festival through her Corpse Puppet, Dorothy couldn't help but sigh. As the festival was held more and more times, fewer and fewer First Dynasty artifacts in Buserite could be unearthed. Now, the number of artifacts displayed and worshipped at each festival was less than the previous one, which gradually made Dorothy feel somewhat disappointed.
Could it be that unless all the artifacts in Buserite are found, the script cannot be deciphered...?
This thought appeared in Dorothy's mind, making her feel anxious. However, no amount of anxiety was helpful now. She could only continue her archaeological work, hoping to make discoveries later.
"Let's go. We'll go back to rest and see if next year's Festival of Ancient Worship has any gains tomorrow."
"Oh."
Dorothy said directly to Neff before turning and leaving. Neff also nodded and followed behind Dorothy.
The next day, Dorothy began compiling history early in the morning. Since the date of the Festival of Ancient Worship was March 15th each year, and it was currently the 17th year of the Mogu calendar in the False History World, Dorothy set the next time jump point to March 15th of the 18th year of the Mogu calendar. Amidst the breaking and reassembling of the world, Dorothy and the others arrived in the world one year later.
Next, Dorothy left Vanya and Neff at the stronghold to look after Awei, and went out to participate in the Festival of Ancient Worship by herself. As Dorothy walked through Bastis in the False History World, she saw a lively scene no different from the previous year.
Dorothy slowly walked to the city square and saw various ancient artifacts transported there for worship this year. In the enthusiastic atmosphere, Dorothy had her Corpse Puppet roughly examine those ancient artifacts, finding no new gains, which made her feel a little disappointed again.
After a series of observations, Dorothy concluded that this year's Festival of Ancient Worship was no different from the previous ten. The participating residents were no different... The Royal Family hosting it only had some minor replacements... The season it was held was no different, and the various activities were no different. Even the angle of the shadows cast by various objects on the ground during the ritual moment, the projection shape of the sundial, and the position of the sun in the sky at every moment were no different... No, wait...
Looking at the uninspired Festival of Ancient Worship before her, in a moment of boredom, Dorothy couldn't help but begin to carefully compare the differences between each past festival. After a series of similarities, Dorothy suddenly felt a sense of strangeness.
'That's not right... That's not right... The activities, the participants, etc. being similar is fine... But the projection angle of every item and the projection shape of the sundial being exactly the same at every Festival of Ancient Worship is a bit much... It shouldn't be like this...'
Suddenly, as if she had noticed something, Dorothy widened her eyes and looked at the sundial at the ritual site. Its projection shape was exactly the same as the projection shape at this moment in her memory from the past ten times, completely identical, which made Dorothy feel a deep sense of unease.
Perhaps someone might ask, since the Festival of Ancient Worship is set for March 15th every year, and the moment the ritual officially begins is the same each time, then the projection shape on the sundial should naturally be completely identical, and there is no problem. But in fact, it is precisely this seemingly problem-free place that has the biggest problem.
The problem is... in reality, the same date in different years does not completely correspond to the same moment. March 15th of each year should have some difference compared to March 15th of other years.
This difference comes from the fact that the planet's rotation and revolution around the sun are not perfectly divisible. Just like on Earth, Dorothy's former home, the time it takes to orbit the sun is about 365 days and 5 hours, not exactly 365 days. In the calendar, for convenience, the extra 5 hours are omitted, rounding down to 365 days. However, the omitted part does not completely disappear; it accumulates year after year, causing the calendar to have a precession. At this time, a leap year is added to correct the calendar from the deviation.
The situation in the world Dorothy is currently in is similar to Earth's. A year is also over 360 days, and the planet's revolution and rotation are not perfectly divisible, so a leap year is also needed to correct the calendar. This means that even on the same date, March 15th, the state of the planet on its orbit is different, with slight variations.
Therefore, correctly speaking, the position of the sun in the sky on March 15th of each year should have slight variations, and the corresponding shadows on the ground and the state of the sundial should also have extremely slight differences. This is the normal phenomenon.
However, the reality in this False History World is... the position of the sun in the sky is the same at every Festival of Ancient Worship, which leads to the shape of the sundial's projection being exactly the same without any difference...
And what does this... represent? Does it represent that in the False History World, the planet's revolution and rotation are in perfect integer ratio? No, Dorothy does not think so.
The problem with this phenomenon is not in the planet's movement, but in the calendar!
The re-establishment of a dynasty will inevitably issue its own calendar to mark the opening of a new era. This is also true for the various dynasties in Buserite. Each dynasty had its own calendar when it was founded. When Dorothy compiled the false histories for these dynasties, she naturally included the issued calendar, which was an important part of the beginning of the false history.
Among them, for dynasties closer to the present, due to sufficient historical data, Dorothy quickly found out what their issued calendars were like. Dorothy just needed to copy them directly when compiling the false histories. But for some dynasties further from the present, due to a lack of historical data, Dorothy often couldn't find out what the calendar was like at that time, so when compiling false histories for these older dynasties, Dorothy often just arbitrarily made up a calendar.
Moreover, she wasn't very careful when making it up. To rush through the later content, she subconsciously directly applied some previous common sense, saying that a year has 365 days, divided into 12 months, the first year being the first year of so-and-so, and then so-and-so Year One, Year Two, blah blah blah, and she didn't even bother to add a leap year system, emphasizing the arbitrariness.
For these older dynasties, when Dorothy aligned them with the current time of 1361, she spent more effort trying to probe the dates and years, aligning the time over there with the current time. Dorothy originally thought the reason for this difficulty in alignment was the difficulty in determining the starting years of these ancient dynasties. Now it seems that the arbitrary calendar she made up also played a certain role.
Among the false histories of these ancient dynasties, there is naturally the Mogu Dynasty where Dorothy is currently located. This is an ancient Buserite dynasty that was destroyed two hundred years ago. Dorothy continued its existence in the False History World through false history, but the calendar she gave it had a problem.
365 days per year, no leap year. This means that after 365 days, this Mogu Dynasty perfectly completed a year, not a bit more and not a bit less, so there was no need for a leap year. Since it was so perfect, every day of every year naturally corresponded to the perfect same moment. March 15th of every year perfectly corresponded to March 15th of other years, with no deviation in real time, thus the positions of the sun and shadows perfectly corresponded.
What does this phenomenon represent? This phenomenon might not seem very significant to others, but in Dorothy's eyes at this moment, it had extraordinary significance.
This means that in this False History World, time does not determine the calendar; the calendar determines time.
Yes, in the real world, people create calendars based on the patterns of the sun and moon's time, while in the False History World, the calendar determines time. If Dorothy were to write a calendar with leap years, the corresponding time in the False History World would be almost the same as reality. If Dorothy roughly created a calendar with only 365 days a year, the False History World would automatically adjust the time to match the calendar, meaning there would be no leap year state.
This phenomenon is actually easy to understand. The False History World is a world dominated by the 'Qi' (Awakening/Enlightenment) divinity, and things like history, law, and calendars are all within the scope of 'Qi'. Therefore, in the world of 'Qi', the calendar dictates time.
After noticing the strangeness of the time, Dorothy only took a moment to understand the cause and effect. Then, after pausing in place for two seconds, she began to have some other ideas.
'So that's how it is... Since the calendar is dictating time, can I do this? I really don't know how much the calendar can change time...'
Dorothy thought this, then she went alone to a tavern, sat in a quiet corner, and took out several false histories she carried with her. After some selection, she chose a suitable one.
Then, she began to tamper with the information on the false history. She drastically modified the calendar of a dynasty called the Didelot Dynasty, directly deleting the past seven thousand years from the calendar corresponding to that dynasty.
At this moment, Dorothy was like Pope Gregory XIII from her former home, Earth. With a wave of her hand, she directly canceled a period of time from the calendar. However, Gregory XIII only canceled ten days, while Dorothy canceled seven thousand years here. Gregory XIII canceling days from the calendar would not have any impact on reality, but Dorothy canceling seven thousand years in this world dominated by 'Qi' would cause enormous changes.
If Dorothy couldn't go to Heopolis seven thousand years ago, then she would let Heopolis come to the world seven thousand years later.