421 Happiness

Blue 6's words passed through many channels before it was recorded and eventually landed on Yao Yuan's desk. When Yao Yuan picked up the record in the middle of dealing with other documents, he smiled. After all, they had been to a Shelter and were exposed to the culture of other alien civilizations before, so they knew about humanity's advantage. The most obvious advantage was that humanity had retained the perspective of time left from Earth.

Humanity's perspective on time had changed over the decades, from the several decades as one cycle in the prehistoric era, every decade as one cycle during the Renaissance, and finally every year as one cycle in the modern era. The most current perspective on time was also called the city dweller's perspective. Business, nervousness, and assiduousness were its hallmarks, but it was for the sake of efficiency.