Chapter Summaries

Humanity designed a comprehensive Planet-Class New Flagship and a larger, rounder Residential Spaceship suited to Level 4 Civilization technology. With local Heavy Elements insufficient for a full fleet upgrade, humanity planned to build sample ships, test Warp Speed Travel, and then leave the region.

• Humanity designed the New Flagship as a combat-focused vessel with integrated systems, onboard production facilities, and retractable living quarters.
• Humanity finalized a roughly 150-kilometer-long Residential Spaceship design with multiple levels, gravity-generating equipment, and expanded living space.
• Humanity planned to replace its own spacecraft with Level 4 Civilization vessels before upgrading those of the Crimson Flame Civilization, the Nair People, the Kuntai People, and the Dog-Headed People.
• Humanity determined that completing the complex flagship could take several centuries and that local Heavy Elements could not support a large-scale upgrade project.
• Humanity planned to build Sample Ships, test Warp Speed Travel under different Gravity Environments, and leave the region once the experiments succeeded.

Humanity searched for the Exit Passage that Awakener 'Illusion' had promised would appear after it reached Level 4, concluding that it might need to demonstrate practical uses of the Grand Unified Theory. After developing those technologies, humanity successfully tested its first Warp-capable Experimental Ship, but the passage still had not appeared.

• Yue Yuan reasoned that the Exit Passage might require practical applications of the Grand Unified Theory because mastering it in theory had not opened the way out.
• Humanity developed and tested technologies including Force Field Shields, Warp Engines, Planet Destroyer Cannon, Neutron weapons, Gravity Bombs, and Antimatter Bombs.
• Humanity completed an Experimental Ship and prepared it for a Warp trial under Yue Yuan's command.
• The Experimental Ship generated a Warp Bubble and vanished from conventional detectors as it traveled through space.
• Humanity celebrated the successful trial as proof that it had become a faster-than-light Level 4 Civilization.

Humanity tested warp travel near celestial bodies and measured the speeds its Warp Engines could reach, establishing three Warp Gears. The chapter left humanity unaware that its Mechanical Mastery had helped it cross a major technological barrier unusually quickly.

• Humanity's test ships showed that stellar gravity could disrupt warp travel within roughly 0.8 to 1 Astronomical Unit, while planets posed little risk outside their orbits.
• Scientists measured humanity's current warp speeds at one times and 10.079 times light speed, and calculated a theoretical maximum of 38.941 times light speed.
• Human scientists classified the three speeds as Warp 1, Warp 2, and Warp 3, though humanity's ships could only reach Warp 1 and Warp 2.
• Humanity's advanced mechanical craftsmanship allowed its engineers to overcome the one-times-light-speed barrier and enter the middle stage of Level 4 Civilization without realizing it.

Humanity’s experiments failed to reveal an exit from space, so Yue Yuan and the New Government continued pursuing Tachyon technology and other research. That night, Yue Yuan experienced a vivid dream of returning to his childhood home, where dinner and family memories shifted strangely before he questioned what he had eaten.

• Humanity tested advanced technologies, including warp engines and powerful weapons, but its detectors still found no exit or sign of the Great Universe.
• Yue Yuan suspected that humanity might need a weaponizable Tachyon attack method before the passage appeared, while research and shipbuilding continued.
• Yue Yuan dreamed that he returned to his hometown and was greeted by his parents, neighbors, and children.
• Yue Yuan admired the sunset and moonlight, then found his father and Mom inside as though dinner had already taken place.
• Yue Yuan told his father that Man Yuemei could not come home for New Year, then went back inside when his parents called him to dinner.
• After the meal seemed to end abruptly, Yue Yuan wondered whether he had eaten shredded radish stir-fried with beef.

Yue Yuan dreamed of falling tiles and then vivid landscapes, shifting between first- and third-person perspectives while aboard the Lyra. He dismissed the dreams as normal, even as they continued almost every night for a month.

• Yue Yuan dreamed that an earthquake shook his family home, and he dodged falling tiles before one struck him and woke him.
• Yue Yuan realized he was aboard the Lyra, calmed down after waking at four in the morning, and could not fall back asleep.
• Yue Yuan dreamed of an emerald lake and pavilion, shifting perspectives as heat and exhaustion gave way to coolness and music.
• Yue Yuan's dream perspective swept across the landscape and revealed the moon and the lunar rover Yutu-2 and Guanghan Palace from his memories.
• Yue Yuan woke remembering the vivid dream but considered it normal, then continued dreaming almost every night for a month.

Yue Yuan continued a recurring dream and gradually realized that it was a dream as the scene changed with his thoughts. He tested his control by trying to fly, then wondered why the dream was continuing before attempting to wake himself.

• Yue Yuan dreamed that he was watching himself listen to music in a lakeside pavilion, continuing from his previous dream.
• Yue Yuan noticed the music and scenery shifting with his thoughts, but his subconscious initially explained away the strangeness.
• Yue Yuan recognized that he was dreaming and tried to fly over the lake and toward the moon.
• Yue Yuan struggled against gravity, then found himself soaring into the sky after his feet touched the water.
• Yue Yuan wondered why he was having a continuing dream and considered whether he could wake himself up.

Yue Yuan’s increasingly vivid, frequent dreams let him discover that he could control their perspective: third-person dreams were calm and manageable, while first-person dreams became nightmares. Suspecting that something was wrong, he went to the Life Science Research Institute to ask its Mental Consciousness researchers for an explanation.

• Yue Yuan dreamed that he fell, survived the impact, and was bitten by an Abyssal Maw, which jolted him awake in a cold sweat.
• Over the following days, Yue Yuan kept dreaming whenever he slept, including during the spacecraft’s work-rest periods, and noticed that his dreams often involved stars and spacecraft.
• Yue Yuan became aware of his dreams and found that third-person dreams were easier to control and rarely frightening, while first-person dreams became chaotic and terrifying.
• After repeatedly trying to change perspectives, Yue Yuan learned to switch between first-person and third-person dreams and confirmed that the perspective changed the dream’s nature.
• Yue Yuan decided to consult scientists who studied Mental Consciousness and went to their department at the Life Science Research Institute the next morning.

Yue Yuan visited the Academy of Life Sciences to investigate his recurring lucid dreams and discovered that Dai De had been experiencing them too. Dai De’s dreams had become lucid, but he still lacked Yue Yuan’s ability to control their scenes or perspectives.

• Yue Yuan suspected his unusual dreams might indicate a mental or neurological problem and went to consult the Mental Consciousness Research Branch.
• Yue Yuan described his dreams to Dai De, who revealed that he had also been dreaming repeatedly for around twenty days.
• Dai De said his dreams began as ordinary dreams, later became lucid, and included both sweet dreams and nightmares.
• Yue Yuan asked about dream perspectives, and Dai De recalled that his nightmares were in First-Person Perspective while pleasant dreams were in Third-Person Perspective.
• Yue Yuan learned that Dai De could not control his dream scenes or switch perspectives like he could.

Yue Yuan learned that continuous dreaming had spread among humans, including Dai De and more than a thousand people who had sought psychological counseling, while subordinate alien races were unaffected. Suspecting Awakener 'Illusion' was responsible, Yue Yuan ordered secrecy while departments investigated and summoned Human Civilization’s senior leaders to an urgent meeting.

• Yue Yuan compared Dai De’s continuous dreams with his own and contacted the Psychological Counseling Department to ask about recent cases.
• A counseling expert told Yue Yuan that more than a thousand people across the Living Areas had reported continuous dreaming, and the expert and colleagues had experienced it too.
• Yue Yuan considered that continuous dreaming might be an awakening process rather than a contagious nightmare, but worried it could divide humanity if only some people developed an ability.
• Yue Yuan contacted the department responsible for subordinate Alien Races and learned that the Crimson Flame Civilization, the Nair People, the Kuntai People, and the Dog-Headed People were unaffected.
• Yue Yuan suspected Awakener 'Illusion' and told Dai De to keep the continuous dreaming secret while relevant departments investigated.
• Yue Yuan left Dai De’s office and contacted Zhu Pete, Man Yuemei, other fleet commanders, and New Government senior leaders to call an urgent meeting.

Yue Yuan gathered Human Civilization’s leaders to compare their recurring lucid dreams and discuss their cause. After assigning preparations and investigations, he learned that every human had experienced consecutive dreams.

• Yue Yuan asked the assembled officials, commanders, and scientists whether they had dreamed, and Zhu Pete and others confirmed that they had recurring dreams.
• Yue Yuan found that most attendees could switch between first-person and third-person dream perspectives, while those who could not had begun dreaming later.
• A sociology expert concluded that the dreams likely affected all humanity, and Dai De and Yue Yuan suspected the Awakeners were responsible for the Dreamscape Event.
• Yue Yuan assigned Zhu Pete and other officials, commanders, and science officers to prepare for the phenomenon and investigate its scope.
• The New Government mobilized Tianhe Light to investigate, and the results confirmed that all humanity had experienced consecutive dreams.

Yue Yuan discovered that his dreams could expand into the starfield and let him view the human fleet from every direction at once, but the experience ended with him passing out. He woke beneath bright lights as worried people called out to him.

• The New Government reassured humanity that recurring dreams were likely part of an Awakener-related ability and shared practical dream-control methods.
• As people learned to switch between First-Person and Third-Person perspectives, uncertainty and accusations grew because the expected Awakener and passage had not appeared.
• Yue Yuan found that his dream scenes expanded from familiar settings to the starry sky, where he confronted the darkness and Abyssal demons he associated with Deep Space Fear.
• Yue Yuan wished to see the human fleet from every direction at once, and his dream perspective shifted so he could do so.
• Yue Yuan's vision went dark, and he later awoke under bright lights as worried people called him Chief Executive and Commander Yue.

After Yue Yuan fainted from mental exhaustion caused by his dream, he told the researchers about the starry sky and unusual perspective he had experienced. He arranged to be monitored during sleep and suspected the Awakeners were guiding humanity through dreams, but what they wanted remained unclear.

• Yue Yuan woke in the Academy of Sciences and learned that Tianhe Light had brought him there after he fainted from mental strain.
• Yue Yuan described his dream of starry skies, warships, and a 360-Degree Panoramic View, which he believed had required intense brain activity.
• Yue Yuan asked the researchers to monitor him while he slept and told Zhu Pete to prepare the Security Department for possible dream advancements.
• Yue Yuan urged Yi Kai and Dai De to watch for information about the Dreamscape Event and asked whether the Awakeners had planted a Dream Machine to influence humanity's dreams.
• Dai De agreed that the changes in people's dreams suggested an advancement guided by the Awakeners, though he could not determine their purpose.

Yue Yuan and the scientists debated whether the Awakeners were guiding humanity through its recurring dreams, then observed that dream-related mental exhaustion eased as the dreams continued. Yue Yuan concluded that humanity was undergoing an ongoing evolution, though no one knew what it would produce or whether it would reveal a way out of the isolated region.

• Yi Kai suggested the dreams might be connected to the Awakeners, and Yue Yuan and Dai De agreed the Awakeners could be guiding humanity.
• Yue Yuan found that he did not dream when mentally exhausted, then dreamed again after resting and felt depleted the next day.
• Humanity began experiencing the same dreams, and most people fainted, while Yue Yuan and Lu Xiaofen recovered faster after inhaling Red Gas on Callisto.
• Experts suspected the Red Gas came from an Unknown Civilization rather than the Level 4 Civilization that had built the crashed spacecraft.
• As the dreams continued, Yue Yuan became more adept and less fatigued, and he concluded the Awakeners were helping humanity evolve through dreams.

The New Government and experts guided humanity to accept the Dreamscape Event as a technological process that could strengthen mental power. Yue Yuan’s dreams left him increasingly energetic, and similar benefits began appearing throughout Human Civilization, improving its overall efficiency.

• The New Government published dream guides and encouraged citizens to share their experiences, preventing widespread panic.
• Human scientists explained dreams as consciousness-based information processing guided by the Awakeners, with dream control reflecting growing mental power.
• Yue Yuan found that recurring battleship and starfield dreams left him more energetic and reduced his need for sleep.
• People across Human Civilization began experiencing greater energy and faster recovery, while sleep requirements continued to fall.
• Humanity recognized that the Dreamscape Event increased individual vitality and accelerated civilization-wide development.

Yue Yuan discovered that his years of continuous dreams had stopped, while the Dreamscape Event had given him the ability to control when he slept, how long he slept, and whether he dreamed. He wondered whether this was the event’s next stage or another benefit of its effects on humanity.

• Yue Yuan stopped dreaming and recorded the change, then waited to see whether it continued.
• After a month without dreams, Yue Yuan shared his Dreamscape experiences and practical advice in the human data center.
• Yue Yuan realized his mental stamina had grown and that he could voluntarily fall asleep and wake at a chosen time.
• Yue Yuan found that he could make himself dream by suggesting it before sleep, and that he would not dream without the suggestion.
• Yue Yuan concluded that the Dreamscape Event might be turning passive sleep-related abilities into active ones.

Yue Yuan and humanity found no new dream abilities, while scientists weighed the Dreamscape Event’s benefits against the danger of people becoming addicted to dreams and confusing them with reality. The New Government and experts recognized the risk but lacked a technical way to prevent it, and humanity’s leaders wondered why the Awakeners treated them so generously.

• Yue Yuan continued exploring the Starry Sky Dream and uploading methods for awakening dream abilities, but discovered nothing new.
• Humanity learned that dream abilities were shared by everyone, though people differed in how well they controlled dream scenes and switched perspectives.
• Scientists warned that continuous, controllable dreams could draw people away from real life and create widespread social problems.
• Experts noted that Lucid Dreams seemed to pass at roughly the same rate as reality, which limited the time people could spend immersed in dreams.
• Humanity’s leaders speculated that the Awakeners’ technology had caused and then resolved similar risks, and questioned why the Awakeners valued humanity so highly.

Humanity’s increased energy brought social questions about work hours, timekeeping, minor violence, and how people spent their newfound free time. As Yue Yuan considered the changes, the long-awaited change to the Dreamscape Event finally appeared, though its nature was not revealed.

• Humanity developed Level 4 Civilization technologies and built warships and Residential Spaceships, but the Exit Passage remained inactive.
• Yue Yuan reviewed proposals to extend working hours and delayed a decision, believing the issue required further discussion.
• People debated whether increased energy required new work schedules or time units, while minor violence aboard Residential Spaceships kept Security Department personnel busy.
• Bored civilians joined entertainment, founded hobby clubs and studios, and pursued mechanical projects that could support humanity’s development.
• The change humanity had awaited appeared while Yue Yuan was at Lyra’s Command Center.

An Intelligent System left by Huan appeared aboard the Lyra and explained that humanity’s recurring dreams had come from an object Huan had left for them. It said Huan had not returned from fighting the Harvesters, and the chapter ended before the System explained the object further.

• A projected image activated on the Lyra’s bridge, and a voice congratulated Human Civilization for mastering the Grand Unified Theory and becoming a Level 4 Civilization.
• The image showed a shimmering rectangular prism, and Yue Yuan asked whether Huan had been testing humanity and causing their dreams.
• The voice identified itself as an Intelligent System left behind by Huan, not Huan himself.
• The System said it did not know whether Huan was still fighting the Harvesters, but assured Yue Yuan that Huan was far more powerful than them.
• The System revealed that the rectangular prism was something Huan had left for humanity and was the cause of their recurring dreams.

The Intelligent System revealed that humanity’s racial talent was the Third-Person Perspective Dreamscape, which every human possessed naturally. It explained that Awakener 'Illusion' had left equipment to guide humanity in developing the talent, and said humans would likely master related Characteristic Technology upon reaching Level Six Civilization.

• The Intelligent System presented the rectangular object as a gift from the Awakener Civilization and said its creators were waiting for humanity at Level Six Civilization.
• Yue Yuan asked what humanity’s racial talent was, and the Intelligent System linked it to the Dreamscape Event.
• Dai De and Yi Kai suggested dream-related abilities, but the Intelligent System rejected their guesses and identified the talent as the Third-Person Perspective Dreamscape.
• The Intelligent System explained that most known races only dreamed from a First-Person Perspective, while every human naturally possessed the rare Third-Person Perspective talent.
• The Intelligent System said Awakener 'Illusion' had left dreamscape equipment to guide humanity and that humans could develop Characteristic Technology from their innate talent.

The Intelligent System explained that Third-Person Dream Realms were humanity’s inborn racial talent, which the Awakeners had only guided and accelerated. It described how the Awakeners discovered and developed their own similar talent, leaving Yue Yuan to understand more clearly why they had helped humanity.

• The Intelligent System revealed that humanity had possessed Third-Person Dream Realms from the beginning and that the Awakeners had not awakened the talent.
• Yue Yuan realized the Awakeners might have coveted humanity’s talent in the past, but had chosen to help because their civilization’s goals had changed.
• The Intelligent System said the Awakeners began experiencing Third-Person Dreamscapes at the peak of Level 5 Civilization and eventually found that their whole race had the potential.
• The Intelligent System explained that the Awakeners used a Consciousness Resonance Instrument to awaken their people’s talent, though some never awakened despite lifelong treatment.
• The Intelligent System recounted how the Awakeners studied Fallen Civilizations across the Triangulum Galaxy and found that awakening them sometimes produced individuals with Third-Person Dreamscapes.
• The Intelligent System said other civilizations began calling them the Awakeners, and they adopted the name Lucky Star Awakener Civilization of Fallen Civilizations.