Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1529 Dancing with the Shadows

The Lyra Dream was in third-person driving mode, so it could easily dodge the attack, because everyone "saw" it; the pilots all knew what the prelude to the two-dimensional attack looked like.

Therefore, when it was attacked at close range, the Dream Lyra, which could have easily dodged, did not dodge and instead took the full hit.

Then, a cheer erupted inside the flagship of the paper civilization—a cheer for hitting the enemy and successfully reducing them to a lower dimension.

They originally thought that they might not be able to hit a flexible warship like the Dream Lyra in one shot, and if the two-dimensional strike missed, it would be difficult to continue using their ultimate move.

This is one of the reasons why the leadership of the paper civilization is so happy now.

"Great!"

"Good job!"

But their joy was premature. As soon as they finished speaking, they discovered that the strange warship, which shared the same two-dimensional space with them, seemed to be largely unaffected.

It moves in the same way it did in three-dimensional space, as if the dimensional reduction attack had no effect on it.

"That's strange. It's been flattened, so it should have lost some macroscopic information. How come it seems like it hasn't been affected at all?"

Scientists aboard the flagship of the paper civilization looked at the images fed back from a two-dimensional perspective and had some doubts.

"What are the scan results?" The leader of the paper civilization also noticed something amiss from this perspective.

A science officer synchronized the detection information and said with a puzzlement, "This is strange. We originally thought that it was protected by a flexible rule shield, but it seems that it has not even erected a shield. Logically speaking, it should have been reduced to a lower dimension. This is strange."

"Hey, look, it's moving!" another science officer exclaimed in surprise.

As if his words had come true, not only the personnel on the flagship of the paper civilization, but also the personnel on the one hundred million warships that were traveling with the flagship, all witnessed the changes in that strange warship.

The warship, which had been hovering quietly in place, suddenly trembled, and then its surface began to undulate irregularly, sometimes large and sometimes small, appearing in space as a rotating pattern that kept changing its shape.

"Is this... a projection?"

"It's a projection, a projection of a higher dimension onto a lower dimension!"

As expected of the paper civilization that studies spatial dimensions, they immediately and accurately determined the situation of the Dream Lyra.

It is indeed a projection.

Just now, perhaps because this is the first time the Lyra spacecraft has been subjected to dimensional reduction, scientists took the opportunity to suggest that the Lyra spacecraft try to move around in two dimensions in order to collect some scientific data.

Therefore, the Lyra Dream moved slightly in the direction of "height" that did not originally exist on the two-dimensional plane, that is, it moved up and down in the vertical direction of the two-dimensional plane.

The changes in the appearance of the dreamlike Lyra that the paper civilization saw were the perspectives of the ship's hull being tangent to the two-dimensional plane when it moved up and down.

As for why the Lyra Dream can move in a third-dimensional direction on a two-dimensional plane that doesn't actually have a third dimension, the reason is quite simple: the Lyra Dream is inherently a microscopic six-dimensional structure, while the paper civilization's dimensional reduction is essentially compressing a macroscopic dimension into a microscopic one. Therefore, the Lyra Dream simply changed its parameters and could easily move within that compressed microscopic dimension. From a macroscopic perspective on a two-dimensional plane, this movement appears as the appearance of a drawing constantly changing.

Moreover, because human scientists needed more parameters, the paper civilization saw the Dream Lyra disappear from its original spot in the next moment, then quickly reappear in another place, and then make the same movement as before.

Oh, there are still some differences.

This time it's even more outrageous.

They saw that the constantly changing small circles representing the Lyra Dream appeared in several places at the same time.

This shape resembles a fish constantly rising and falling on the surface of the water. From a horizontal perspective, one would normally only see its fins expanding and contracting with each rise and fall, nothing more. But now, however, one can see the fins, the fish's rear end, its head, and its fins. Even more remarkably, these different parts of the fish not only appear simultaneously in the horizontal view but also belong to different locations.

It's like that fish decomposes itself and then floats to the surface, where it rises and falls.

But the scientists of the paper civilization knew that the flagship could not disintegrate on its own, so how did it do it? Or rather, what was it doing?
The leader of the paper-based civilization was also bewildered: "What's going on? What is this flagship doing?"

It must be said that this paper-based civilization does have some talented individuals; their scientists, after obtaining the scan data, made their own judgment: "It seems to be dancing."

Dance?

What the hell?

"Uh"

The scientist involved subconsciously expressed his feelings, because he felt that the flagship was like a beautiful woman dancing gracefully on the water, her reflection shimmering in the water, seemingly both real and illusory.

In fact, he felt that he was right. The current Dream Lyra is dancing, dancing in two dimensions while testing and collecting information on the interaction between the Dream Lyra and macroscopic two-dimensional spacetime.

This is why the Lyra Dream jumps around, making it look like a beautiful figure dancing gracefully.

The scientist from the paper-thin civilization realized that this statement was inappropriate, so he combined it with data and said, "This flagship seems to be able to move freely between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds. Its appearance suggests it's testing something using our dimensional reduction region. If I'm not mistaken, well, although it's somewhat absurd, it seems to be testing its ability to move in and out of the compressed microscopic and macroscopic worlds."

Perhaps feeling that his leader was not quite satisfied with this explanation, the scientist added: "The scanning data shows that this strange warship exhibits a Calabi-Yau manifold appearance. The phenomenon that different parts of its hull are currently appearing in different areas at the same time may be the effect of its hull being projected onto a two-dimensional plane when it enters and exits different microscopic higher dimensions."

what? !

This, this, this.
Is this right?
Upon hearing this, the air on the Paper Civilization flagship was so thick you could hear a pin drop. They understood what was going on. Not only did the enemy not raise a shield to protect themselves after their attack, but they were also using their attack to test the performance of their warships. How much did they look down on dimensional reduction attacks?
The paper civilization certainly knew that attacks reduced to two dimensions were no longer effective at instantly killing a prepared flagship of a cosmic civilization. That's why their flagship developed more powerful dimensional reduction attacks. But this was the first time they had ever seen a warship that completely ignored dimensional reduction.

"That string player is despicable!"

In an instant, all the leaders on the Paper Civilization flagship felt humiliated. They felt completely ignored, and that the behavior of the Dream Lyra was an insult to them.

Hey, hey, hey, where are you looking? We're at war! We're at war! We're firing at you! Can't you respond to our bullets properly?
The behavior of the Dream Lyra is like dancing in the rain of bullets while facing rows of Gatling guns set up on the opposite side. It's not just dancing in the rain of bullets, but also slowly reading a book while dodging bullets by feel. It's like dancing in the hail of bullets and taking a selfie to record which dodging pose it took by feel was the coolest and which dance move was the most beautiful.

(End of this chapter)