Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1494 Passive Defense Maxed Out
The Four-Handed Serpent Civilization waited here for 30,000 years. During this time, they focused their attention on watching the Dream Lyra many times. However, having learned from past mistakes, they set up some reminder devices before watching, such as physical impacts to awaken their fascination with pain.

Although they were warned not to look at too much, once they realized that they were not even a distinctive technological civilization, they recognized their own capabilities. This, in turn, calmed down their initial restlessness caused by their relentless advance.

One of the reasons they couldn't resist watching the Dream Lyra was that, after learning they weren't a unique technological civilization and calming down, the Four-Handed Serpents stubbornly ignited a spirit of never giving up, and their continuous observation of the Dream Lyra was an attempt to understand something.

Their scientists and researchers worked tirelessly, some even taking drastic measures to break themselves when they couldn't handle the pressure, so that other researchers could continue to observe and try to find the patterns in the rhythmic movements of the Lyra spacecraft, and then summarize them mathematically.

The four-armed snake felt that there must be some secret of the microscopic world hidden in this. In the past, it had never had the opportunity to explore the microscopic world, but now that there was such a materialized existence, how could it resist looking at it?

And so they intermittently observed the Lyra for 30,000 years.

Unfortunately, they couldn't understand that thing. First of all, the rhythm of the Lyra Dream wasn't just one Calabi-Yau manifold. As of now, humans have mastered dozens of Calabi-Yau manifolds, and once humans master them, they can make the Lyra Dream switch forms.

Even a single Calabi-Yau manifold is difficult to understand, let alone so many that keep changing in succession.

After 30,000 years of tireless observation, the Four-Handed Serpent discovered that the surface rhythm of the Lyra Dream did not seem to return to its original form, that is, it did not complete a cycle.

In fact, the shape of the Lyra is currently cyclical, but because the number of Calabi-Yau manifolds mastered by mankind has been increasing over the past 30,000 years, a complete cycle has not yet been completed.

In theory, if humans could master all the parameters of the Calabiki manifold, the undulating rhythm of the Lyra's shape could be twisted into different shapes indefinitely.

Theoretically, it is infinite and non-repeating, but the string-based computers of human civilization can only achieve a limited limit. Therefore, the distorted shape must have an upper limit, which is the computing power limit of human civilization's computers.

Therefore, to calculate all the shapes that the Lyra's twisting and writhing exterior could manifest, one would need a computer with computing power comparable to that of a human.

This is reflected in the case of the Dream Lyra: if you want to hit the interior of the Dream Lyra, that is, the exact location of the ship's cockpit or similar parts, from the macrocosm, you need to have the computing power to accurately calculate the different twisted shapes of the Dream Lyra; otherwise, you can only hit its twisted exterior.

It is safe to say that conventional attacks would be almost impossible to damage the Lyra Dream.

The reason is that the Lyra Dream is itself a tangible Calabi-Yau manifold. Its internal laws are actually microscopic six-dimensional physical laws. Anything inserted into it is directly assimilated by the internal rules. Moreover, the Lyra Dream's external appearance can be maintained by the energy system placed inside by humans, along with various instruments and equipment.

In other words, the ever-changing Calabiki manifold of the Dream Lyra is a natural buffer zone of physical rules, which is basically ineffective for conventional attacks. Physical rule attacks can change or destroy it, but only by modifying the rules at the microscopic and high-dimensional level can it be harmed. It also needs to be continuously modified and compete with human string-based computers. Otherwise, humans can change the shape of the warship and update the physical rule buffer zone attached to the shape of the warship through the calculation of string-based computers.

It's worth noting that this kind of computational power contest requires the computer to outperform human string-based computers. This is because the Calabiki manifold itself exhibits irregular, distorted rhythms. Once you've calculated the rhythmic patterns of this Calabiki manifold, humans don't even need to compete in computational power to correct the rules; they only need to transform the rhythm into another Calabiki manifold to refresh the physical laws inherent in the warship's shape. In other words, the rhythmic appearance of the Dream Lyra is essentially a built-in flexible rule shield. To break it, one must first decipher the natural form of the Calabiki manifold, and then defeat human string-based computers.

Even so, it still couldn't harm the humans inside the warship.

Because when the Dream Lyra was being built, the human civilization used composite strings to sew a rigid shield around the core of the warship. This rigid shield was used to separate the inherent physical rules of each Kalabichu manifold from the physical rules of the human living environment.

This is the advantage of transforming naturally existing physical objects into warships.

Just like the Reaper's electronic warships back then, it inherently possesses many electronic characteristics, and these characteristics have been amplified by the Creator, making it extremely powerful.

The same is true for the Dream Lyra now.

It possesses inherent maze-like properties, the ability to confuse the minds of intelligent beings, and the ability to provide a flexible rule-based shield.

It also possesses inherent resistance to dimensional reduction, a fact known to humans without any experimentation. Even if the Dream Lyra were left standing still and subjected to a dimensional reduction attack, it would at most be reduced from a macroscopic state to a microscopic quantum world, and entering the microscopic quantum world is one of the Dream Lyra's capabilities.

If they encounter the Celestial Maiden Civilization again, the Dream Lyra will stand still. Their four-dimensional jump technology will not be able to reach the internal cockpit, because they cannot see inside or locate where it is.

So, what kind of attack does it fear? It fears the kind of dimensional attack that can expand the Calabria manifold into a macroscopic scale. If a real battle were to break out, perhaps only such an attack could make the Lyra take it seriously.

For the Four-Handed Serpent civilization to discover the rhythmic patterns of such a dreamlike Lyra within 30,000 years is simply a pipe dream; perhaps it can only be achieved in a dream. Oh no, it can't even be achieved in a dream.

But through 30,000 years of tireless observation, the Four-Handed Serpent civilization did not come away empty-handed. At least they gained a clearer understanding of the vast gap between themselves and the String Piercers' technology.

That's like the difference between immortals and mortals, and it's precisely because of this understanding that the scientists of the Four-Handed Snake have great respect for the human race.

They could hardly imagine that a race could create something so utterly despairing. The more they couldn't comprehend the existence of the Lyra Dream, the higher humanity's standing became in their eyes.

Even after studying the shape and rhythm of the Dreamlike Lyra for 30,000 years, the Four-Handed Serpent Civilization still couldn't figure out how humans managed to enter the interior of this dreamlike warship.

(End of this chapter)