Crossing Barrier

That Level 4 Civilization had also discovered the Fibonacci Sequence pattern. After countless years of exploration, they too had captured the obscure pattern humanity had now found. The reason they had failed to trigger the 'Music Highway' was entirely because their fleet contained warships piloted by Strong Artificial Intelligence.

No one knew what method the Precursors had used, but they could detect whether warships piloted by Strong Artificial Intelligence had entered a specific region of space. Such a setting seemed designed to target computer-based silicon life civilizations.

That Level 4 Civilization had found the pattern, but they did not know about this restriction. After failing to trigger the 'Music Highway' in several experiments, they gradually fell into despair. Those repeated experiments also rapidly depleted their fuel, leaving them incapable of conducting further large-scale exploration. In the end, their entire civilization slowly perished while barely clinging to survival.

Humanity had not known that the Precursors had made such a setting either, nor had they deliberately left behind the other unmanned warships. It was merely because of fuel shortages and limited resources that they had, by sheer coincidence, deployed a core fleet composed entirely of manned vessels.

Sometimes, things were just that coincidental. That unknown civilization had been only a paper window away from success, yet they could not pierce through it. Like being blind to what was right under their noses, they tried several times, then despaired—and no longer had the fuel to continue their voyage.

If humanity had likewise brought warships with Strong Artificial Intelligence and failed to trigger the 'Music Highway,' they probably would not have imagined that the Precursors had set up such a screening condition.

It had to be said that humanity's luck was truly good at this moment.

The appearance of the 'Music Highway' phenomenon confirmed