Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1492 Doubt life

The civilization that could shout out across the vast starry sky into the minds of a large group of life forms was undoubtedly the Awakener Civilization; they simply couldn't bear to see the Four-Handed Serpents trapped in it.

The awakener's shout was like the sun rising from the gloom, its rays breaking through the distortion and darkness.

The four-armed snakes also woke up as if from a nightmare. They felt very tired, not physically tired, but mentally exhausted.

This fatigue manifests physically as night sweats, heavy breathing, and difficulty breathing. Of course, these are just symptoms in ordinary humans. In a four-armed snake, it manifests as a drop in body temperature, stiffness in the snake's waist, unnatural tail movement, and a limp tail when crawling.

"Thank you, great Awakener!" The leader of the Four-Handed Serpent Civilization, having recovered his senses, expressed his gratitude to the Awakener over the communication channel.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that the top scientists next to him were looking at the Dream Lyra again. He quickly stretched out his four arms and grabbed one of the scientists, shaking him violently. The enormous force made the four-armed snake scientist's tail swing wildly in the air.

"Your Excellency, what's wrong?" The scientist, his eyes now clear, looked at the leader who was holding his slender waist, somewhat puzzled.

"Didn't I tell you not to look?" The leader's pupils contracted slightly, his face filled with disbelief. Normally, these scientists wouldn't do anything reckless, so it could only mean that something was attracting them.

Sure enough, the next moment, the four-armed snake scientist tilted his head and said, "Hmm, it's strange. I didn't want to see it either, but a voice deep in my consciousness seemed to tell me that the String Player's Dream Lyre hides microscopic and macroscopic mysteries. As long as I can understand it, as long as I can understand it..."

"Yes, it was like the call of a demon. My consciousness seemed to be sucked into its ever-changing appearance, a place of bizarre and fantastical light, seemingly absurd yet perfectly in accordance with the laws of physics. I didn't want to look, but I couldn't help myself."

The other awakened four-handed snakes also recounted how their minds were drawn to the Dream Lyra.

Upon hearing these statements, the leader of the Four-Handed Serpent Civilization decisively ordered staff to close the observation channel for the Dream Lyra.

He finally understood that the Lyra was like an amplifier of some kind of desire, fear, or curiosity. When the four-handed snakes focused on it, they had different senses. Some saw nightmares, some saw demons, and some were attracted by unknown science out of curiosity. But they all had one thing in common: they were all unconsciously drawn into that distorted worldview.

It's a worldview that seems to exist where physics doesn't exist. Only a four-handed snake with enough knowledge can recognize that it's actually very physical, but it will also become deeply involved in it.

"What kind of warship is the String Piercer? How can it be so magical! Moreover, just by sitting there doing nothing, it can make our consciousness sink into it. How can such technology be done, or is this really technology?"

The leader of the Four-Handed Serpent civilization looked at the scientists and researchers around him with disbelief, hoping they could answer his questions, but all the Four-Handed Serpents remained silent.

After an unknown amount of time, the four-armed serpent scientist, whom he had just shaken, finally spoke: "We paid attention to what the Galactic Heart civilization said before. They seemed to be referring to a microscopic six-dimensional structure. The String Plectrum materialized an ultramicroscopic structure that doesn't exist in the macroscopic world into the macroscopic world and transformed it into a warship." "An ultramicroscopic world? The microscopic manifesting in the macroscopic?" Shocked by these few words, the leader of the four-armed serpent civilization fell silent. "A cosmic-level civilization is this powerful? Is the gap between us really that vast?"

"That's how it is, Your Excellency." The scientist calmly replied, then sighed deeply, "When we were studying the microscopic realm, we proposed a similar idea: that once we reach the level of a cosmic civilization, microscopic technology might be further improved, allowing us to transform a vaguely defined microscopic particle into a warship. But that only exists in our imagination, because based on our knowledge of the microscopic realm, the difficulties to overcome are simply too numerous, so numerous that we see no possibility of its realization."

"For example, how to identify a microscopic particle with wave-particle duality as 'one', how to solve the problem of strong forces inside microscopic particles, how to carry out construction in such a small area, etc. But now, this civilization called the String Piercers has used its pinnacle technology to tell us that our imagination is still not rich enough."

"With just one spaceship, they have pushed the limits of our imagination and reached the pinnacle of our understanding of the microscopic world. We once imagined the capabilities of a cosmic civilization, thinking they were nothing more than beings who had mastered zero-point energy in the vacuum and traveled faster than us. Now it seems that we were indeed like frogs in a well."

Another researcher nearby exclaimed, "Yes, we have repeatedly confirmed that the structure of the Dream Lyra is a Calabi-Chu manifold, not some kind of biological warship. It is the pinnacle of microscopic technology. We can only focus on looking at such a warship and it can cause such consequences. I can't even imagine how powerful it is."

After a pause, the researcher made another discovery: "Have you noticed that the flagships of these four cosmic-level civilizations seem to be different? They each have their own unique characteristics."

These words immediately drew the attention of many top scientists. One of them, a four-handed snake scientist, seemed to remember something and said, "You mean that special technologies really exist? And this Dream Lyre is a product of the String Piper's special technology?"

Researchers: "Yes!"

"Impossible!" many scientists immediately retorted: "It's impossible for such specialized technology to exist."

Before they could finish speaking, the leader of the Four-Handed Serpent Civilization stopped them: "There's no need to argue. We have a ready-made teacher now."

Upon hearing this, the four-armed snakes realized that the four cosmic-level civilizations were indeed present and were treating them quite well. Asking them would certainly be no problem.

This question is quite significant.

The people of the Four-Handed Serpent Civilization were completely dumbfounded by the answer. They originally thought that they had led a group of civilizations across the starry sky, pushing back through many star systems to reach this point, and had already reached the ceiling of a Level 6 civilization. However, the Awakener Civilization told them that unique technologies existed, and that any civilization with war-type unique technologies was stronger than them.

Especially after hearing the description of their unique technologies, and after learning that these four cosmic-level civilizations were originally civilizations with unique technologies at the level of sixth-level civilizations, the four-armed snakes suddenly felt even more inferior.

They even doubted whether they possessed the talent to advance to a cosmic-level civilization.

(End of this chapter)