Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1574 Marching into the Pixel Space
"About five hundred years, if all goes well!" Tong Feng replied. Although project estimates and workload predictions can be made, they cannot be accurate to the minute and second, since the progress of the work is not always smooth.

Yue Yuan naturally knew this as well, so he nodded in agreement.

Five hundred years is enough for a dynasty to change in the Earth era, but it is just a blink of an eye in the interstellar era. Such a time span is not long for the upgrade of the Dream Lyra, and it is actually quite fast, after all, it is the Dream Lyra!

With this decision in mind, Yue Yuan still walked towards the laboratory with Tong Feng, Long Xinglv, and Dao Baiqi to see the demonstration process and the latest results that had not yet been uploaded to the civilization database.

Yue Yuan looked at it very carefully. He was also knowledgeable about technology. After browsing through it, he felt much more at ease and could understand why Tong Feng dared to make such a guarantee.

What followed proceeded as planned. Yue Yuan, in the name of the leader, directly notified scientists, scholars, researchers, and engineers from various fields to enter a virtual meeting room within human civilization.

At the same time, Yue Yuan also sent messages to the three civilizations of Silverheart, Daya, and the Awakeners, and took the time to explain the situation to them, asking them to wait for humanity for another five hundred years.

The three civilizations were naturally very curious when they heard that humans had secretly carried out such a big thing.

However, after Yue Yuan explained that this was how the Dream Lyra should have been, it was not hard for them to be curious, especially the leader of the Silverheart Civilization. Yue Yuan could clearly feel the envy in the words of this guy.

The Awakener, Huan, wore an expression that said, "As expected of the civilization we have high hopes for." The Daya civilization, needless to say, has long followed the lead of human civilization. Seeing that human civilization actually had a way to enter the pixel space, their leader showed an undisguised expression of pride, as if it were the technology they possessed themselves.

Yue Yuan was already used to the Daya civilization's behavior. After all, he had been dealing with the Daya civilization for quite some time, and these guys were determined to cling to human civilization.

Thus, after a series of necessary meetings, various contingency plans were formulated within humanity. The upgrade project for the Dream Lyra was officially issued in the name of the Interstellar Government Supreme Command after multiple discussions, reviews, and evaluations by experts, scholars, and engineers from various fields.

This also marks the official start of the upgrade project for the Dream Lyra.

Tong Feng naturally became the lead engineer for this upgrade project. Over the next five hundred years, countless outstanding engineers and researchers will be led by him to either upgrade the system of the Dream Lyra through external equipment or, together with other engineers, enter the microscopic six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold through the third-person mental link mode. There, they will use the technology used to build the Dream Lyra to modify some of the original structures at the microscopic level, so that the space embedded inside the Dream Lyra can enter the microscopic world along with its shrinking without being affected.

The reason this upgrade will take five hundred years is because it involves a lot of time for in-depth micro-adjustments to various structures, and these adjustments must be made with utmost care, without making any mistakes.

Because the upgrade is also related to the subsequent maintenance and upkeep of the Dream Lyra, Yue Yuan is involved in it just like he did when he built the Dream Lyra.

Against this backdrop, humanity, along with the Daya, Silver Heart, and Awakener civilizations, stayed in this star system for another five hundred years.

Over the course of five hundred years, while human civilization was upgrading the dreamlike Lyra, other scientific teams did not give up on tackling the technology of proportional scaling of space, and the same was true for the other three civilizations.

The Silver Heart Civilization, in particular, genuinely wanted to explore the Pixel Space together. It was one thing that no one could get in before, but now humans were able to enter on their own with the Dream Lyre, and only the Dream Lyre could enter. This made them extremely envious and jealous.

Unfortunately, they still couldn't break through that wall. On the other hand, the upgrade of the Lyra was going exceptionally smoothly. Originally planned as a 500-year project, human civilization completed the main upgrade work in just 405 years, which happened to be the time from the establishment of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Gaozu to the usurpation of the throne by Cao Pi. The subsequent 95 years were mainly spent on stability testing.

During this period, the Lyra spacecraft was also conducting various scaling experiments, and scientists collected and evaluated its performance.

This kind of magnification and shrinkage is different from the previous method of entering the quantum world through quantum exile. The latter involves macroscopic things entering the microscopic world and moving within it with macroscopic concepts, which requires being subject to various effects of quantum tides. However, the shrinkage of the Dream Lyra does not need to take quantum tides into account.

Rather than shrinking, it is more accurate to describe it as microscopic curling up. The Lyra Dream is curling itself up into its original Calabi-Yau manifold, which is a microscopic existence. Moving in the microscopic realm, it naturally does not need to worry about quantum tidal attacks.

Although the Lyra Dream itself can utilize quantum tides.

The test results were all perfect, achieving 100% error-free and 100% safety.

After more than ninety years of continuous debugging and improvement, the macro-micro transformation of the Dream Lyra has become extremely smooth, a truly perfect upgrade result.

The completion of the upgrade project for the Lyra Dream also means that the long-held desire of the four civilizations to enter the pixel space has been technically realized. Although only the Lyra Dream can enter, humanity and the other three civilizations have agreed to share exploration data and results.

Of course, for humanity, the significance of the upgraded Lyra is not just about being able to explore pixel space, but also a manifestation of the further advancement of human civilization's combat capabilities.

The Lyra's defenses were unprecedented; it could even navigate the microscopic world, concealing itself without making a sound.

It can also observe the macroscopic world at the microscopic level.

This means that the Lyra could openly spy on other civilizations and be difficult to detect, provided that the civilization's detection technology is not very advanced.

Regarding this, after the Lyra Dream completed its upgrade, humanity conducted experiments right under the noses of three other civilizations. Among them, the Galactic Heart Civilization, after making sufficient preparations, was able to detect the Lyra Dream in its microscopic state, and the Awakener could also see it through the third-person observation mode.

However, the Daya civilization could not discover it.

Yue Yuan was very satisfied with this result, because the Dream Lyra could now remain in a microscopic form for a long time.

What pleased him even more was that the Dream Lyra, in its microscopic form, could also perform microscopic high-dimensional jumps, and it was even more effortless and silent.

"Very good, then let's jump into this pixel space and see what's inside!" Five hundred years later, Yue Yuan, having arranged everything, finally announced the advance into the pixel space.

(End of this chapter)