Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1532: Clear Eyes
One-dimensional threads appeared out of thin air on the vast battlefield, with one appearing on every warship.

Then, the group of one-dimensional threads seemed to twist according to some kind of rule. This twist immediately affected the surrounding spacetime, pulling the surrounding spacetime and the warships in the spacetime into threads. Then, with a "flash of light", the one-dimensional threads disappeared, and all the warships that had been pulled into threads also disappeared without a trace.

"Huh?! What's going on?" The leader of the Galactic Heart civilization stared in shock at the images transmitted back by the probe. He was certain that it was a one-dimensional thread.

Because he was certain of it, he was now very puzzled, thinking to himself, "Could it be that the paper civilization has betrayed us?"

"Huh?! This isn't right, is it?" The leader of the Daya civilization was also a little confused. He looked at the large group of one-dimensional threads that suddenly appeared, and then watched as the group of one-dimensional threads stretched the enemy's warships into threads. He was also somewhat puzzled.

What's going on?
Why did so many one-dimensional threads suddenly appear? And what's amazing is that these one-dimensional threads didn't spread and reduce all three dimensions to one dimension. Instead, they landed precisely on each warship, reducing them one by one, and then disappeared.

What exactly is going on?
The Awakeners remained calm, for they had seen the source of the attack, though they remained silent. They witnessed the enemy warships being stretched into one-dimensional filaments, their two macroscopic dimensions collapsing like an avalanche. The remaining macroscopic dimension disappeared along with the one-dimensional filaments, being pulled into the microscopic world.

The Awakeners are familiar with this method of being brought closer to the microscopic world. Although it is somewhat different, they can still tell what it is.

The awakening civilization knows this, but other civilizations may not be able to see it immediately.

Just like the Great Virtue Civilization, which acts as a "space-time manipulator" outside the battlefield, they are also confused. So they sent a message to the Paper Civilization, asking: "Paper Civilization, what are you doing?"

Leader of the Paper Civilization: ? ? ?
"What do you mean? What do you mean we're doing?!"

Great Virtuous Civilization Leader: (⊙o⊙)…

While he was still in a daze, the leader of the Great Virtue Civilization quickly came to his senses. He had originally thought that this was a large-scale attack method hidden by the Paper Civilization, but now it seemed that it was not the Paper Civilization that did it.

There's only one answer: the string player!
Next, a regional membrane broadcast message received by the Paper Civilization flagship confirmed that it was indeed the work of the String Plucker.

"So this is what one-dimensional silk is. So this is what dimensional reduction attack is all about. Paper civilization, thank you for providing the location and real-time data. It's quite useful. It's a pity there wasn't enough time, otherwise the power of this kind of composite attack could have been even greater."

This short sentence struck the leaders of the paper civilization like a thunderbolt.

With the fighting escalating to this point, humanity naturally recognized the Paper Civilization. As for this attack, the Paper Civilization truly deserves credit; if they hadn't delivered two waves of dimensional reduction to the Dream Lyra, humanity wouldn't have been able to devise such a combined attack strategy.

There is no way to expand the scope of the crackdown in such a short period of time.

So after achieving success, human civilization casually thanked the paper civilization.

However, such gratitude, when heard by the paper-based civilization, is a chilling statement.

They were truly stunned.

Who is the true paper civilization? Whose flagship is in a one-dimensional silk state? Who is the one who has been attacked?
"Could it be that the String Piercers were initially just collecting data and deliberately taking the hits of our dimensional reduction attack?"

"Did the string player never even glance at us from beginning to end?"

"Could it be that the String Piercer completely ignores dimensional reduction?" On the flagship of the paper civilization, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, their eyes gradually becoming clear.

The leader of the paper-thin civilization silently watched the messages transmitted back by the probe. The seven fleets of their own civilization on the other battlefield had disappeared, and hundreds of millions of their own warships had also lost contact.

He was also well-versed in scientific knowledge. He knew very well what the situation was like on the battlefield at that time. It was a situation where both sides were mixed together, and large-scale attacks could easily cause friendly fire in that situation.

He found it incredible that the String-Player could so accurately target all the warships. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that a cosmic civilization could do such a thing.

But the facts are right in front of us, and we have to accept them whether we want to or not.

But he still couldn't figure out why the string picker could hit such a wide area of ​​damage with such precision. So he looked to the team of scientists within his civilization, hoping they could provide an answer from their respective fields of expertise.

The paper-based civilization's scientific team proved quite capable, quickly responding: "Your Excellency, if we are not mistaken, it must be thanks to the computers. The String Players must possess some kind of computer technology far surpassing ours, enabling them to calculate the positions of our and our allies' warships and their next moves in an instant."

"Similarly, the position of each one-dimensional filament must also be precisely calculated, because they are so accurate that it is hard to imagine what kind of great computer could complete such a massive amount of calculation in an instant."

Another scientist chimed in, saying with great emotion, "It's probably more than that. Typical large-scale attacks are all-encompassing attacks because shipborne supercomputers can't calculate every change in target information within every inch of spacetime, so they can only indiscriminately bombard the target."

"But the String Piercers are different. Their wide-area attacks are so precise that the position of each one-dimensional filament is precisely calculated, landing on each target warship with the precision of a scalpel. And it is precisely because of this precision that their sweeping attacks do not waste energy on every corner of the vast space, allowing them to concentrate their power to strike the target."

The scientist who had spoken first spoke again, then said silently, "Yes, I even suspect they deliberately left us behind."

Upon hearing these words, the leader of the paper-thin civilization seemed speechless. He remained silent for a long while before opening the communication channels of the Great Virtue civilization to answer their questions. However, his tone sounded as if he were muttering to himself: "It wasn't us, it was the String Pluckers. They have mastered the one-dimensional silk attack method, or perhaps more than one-dimensional silk."

Having answered the Great Virtue Civilization's question, the Paper Civilization looked up at the holographic screen in front of it, which displayed images of the warship scanning the external environment in real time.

In the video, he saw the warship whose exterior was constantly pulsating.

That was the flagship of the String Piercer. It had returned to the macrocosm at some point, completely unharmed, without a trace of damage, and was quietly suspended in the void.

The leader of the paper civilization discovered that the warship, whose exterior was constantly pulsating, was actually so close to his flagship, only a few kilometers away, that he was able to see its appearance up close for the first time.

"It's so dreamlike."

The music stopped, and all seven civilization fleets had been reduced to ashes. The paper civilization was reduced to its flagship, while the Great Virtue civilization fleet was spared because it was outside the battlefield.

Thus, they became the only two viewers to have a close-up view of the Lyra Dream.

Far beyond the battlefield, the leader of the Great Virtue Civilization was also watching the Dream Lyre from the perspective of sharing information through the flagship of the Paper Civilization. He was also filled with thoughts, murmuring, "Truly dreamlike, is it... the flagship of the String Piercers?"

(End of this chapter)