After watching the Sagittarius meteor shower, I went home to do my homework, then took a shower and went to sleep.
That was what I originally planned to do.
But something unexpected happened.
A meteor broke away from the meteor shower and seemed to be flying towards us.
Just as the huge meteor was about to land in Jiang Jin city and cause terrible destruction, the meteor inexplicably exploded into countless tiny fragments and scattered around Jiang Jin city.
Although it did cause some damage and small fires, the disaster that I imagined at the beginning didn't happen.
Just as I let out a sigh of relief and was about to leave, I suddenly discovered that a fragment of the meteor was flying towards us!
"Shit!"
In a panic, I picked up the binoculars and ran down the mountain without even grabbing my bag. In the end, I was still blown away by a loud explosion and a shockwave behind me. I rolled twice on the ground and was dizzy from the fall, then I stopped because of the bushes. Fortunately, there were bushes in front of me. If there were trees, the best result would be a concussion.
"Binoculars …" After the buzzing in my ears disappeared and my body recovered a little, I stood up in a flurry and hurriedly checked the binoculars in my arms. I was afraid it was damaged in the explosion just now.
Although my days were not bad, it did not mean that I had a lot of spare money on hand. I had to scrimp and save for a long time to buy this mid-range binoculars.
"Good thing it's not broken."
After carefully inspecting it, I found that the lens was a bit blurry, but it was fortunate that it was not damaged too much. It was cheaper to change the lens than to change the binoculars. What's more, I had already used this binoculars for a long time, so I didn't want to change it.
Until now, I finally had the time to check the meteor that fell from the sky.
Some types of meteors seem to be quite valuable. Even if the laws of the Celestial Empire don't allow people to hide meteors, but people's curiosity is hard to suppress, so I don't know what fell this time.
When I approached the crater, I found that the damage caused by the meteor was far beyond my imagination. Half of the observation deck was directly smashed, and the stone tiles on the ground were mostly shattered. It now looked like an ordinary cliff. Only half of the crater was left, and the other half probably fell down the mountain with the observation deck. But even the remaining half was about the size of two basketball courts. There were sparks floating on the ground from time to time, and thick white smoke kept coming out, covering most of the crater.
The surrounding trees were also set ablaze due to the explosion, and the incomplete combustion caused more smoke to rise.
Even so, when I saw the crater, the first thought in my head was' tomorrow, will the teacher believe that my homework was destroyed by a meteor … '.
"Cough cough …" I covered my mouth and nose and tried to get closer to the crater, but I was still coughing because of the choking smoke.
To be honest, the current situation wasn't optimistic. If I wasn't careful, the fire in the trees behind me would turn into a forest fire. There were a lot of flammable plants like pine and cypress in the mountains behind the school, and the fire in the suburbs would probably be enough to exhaust the firefighters in Jiang Jin. They probably wouldn't come to the mountain forest to put out the fire in a short period of time. Even finding out before the fire spread would be a problem.
If I wasn't careful, I might be trapped in the fire and die in this place.
As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat. I felt like I was in the cat's position.
It was different from the deep night sky that seemed to suck people in. The meteor that fell to the ground was one of the few celestial bodies that didn't arouse fear in my heart. It was very attractive to me.
Just one look, one look and I'll leave.
I muttered this sentence in my heart, carefully avoided the burning trees, and peeked into the crater.
"… What?"
At first, I thought I was seeing things.
But after fiercely rubbing my eyes, what I saw still didn't change.
What was in the crater wasn't meteoric ice, meteoric iron, or the most common meteorite, but a shiny silver metal ball that didn't look like a natural product.
Although I couldn't accurately estimate its size due to the distance, but even if it was a rough estimate, it wouldn't be much smaller than my head.
Could it be the remains of a man-made satellite?
Crack.
The charred trees couldn't support their own weight, so they broke off from the trunk and fell to the ground. The surrounding flames suddenly rose due to the turbulence of the air. And this wasn't an exception. I had only been absent-minded for a short while, but the surrounding flames were obviously much bigger than before.
"Tsk …"
It looks like it'll be too late if I don't leave now.
When I picked up the binoculars and was about to leave, an inexplicable fluctuation made me stop in my tracks.
It was hard for me to describe what kind of feeling it was, but it was as if something was gently scratching my heart, and it was hard for me to ignore it.
Even though I didn't have any evidence or hints, I subconsciously understood that this was the fluctuation of the metal ball in the crater.
Electrocardiogram? Poison wave? Amro Ray?
Whatever.
In short, even if there was no clear meaning, I could tell that the ball was afraid through this strange feeling.
"What the hell is that …"
It seems that my initial guess was wrong. The metal ball wasn't the remains of a man-made satellite, but some kind of life form from the universe that humans have yet to discover.
The reason for fear wasn't difficult to understand. Anyone who woke up and found themselves in a strange world surrounded by raging flames would feel uneasy.
I didn't know why I made this judgment, but when I came back to my senses, I had already rushed into the crater, ignoring the choking smoke, and ran towards the metal ball.
My motor skills weren't bad. Although the ground was sloping, I still managed to maintain my balance. I rushed to the bottom of the crater and hugged the metal ball, wanting to pick it up.
But when my hands touched the surface of the metal ball, I realized that I had made a huge mistake.
When meteorites enter Earth, they will violently rub against the atmosphere, creating a lot of heat and even emit light. Many small meteorites will be directly destroyed.
Since this metal ball fell from the sky, it naturally wouldn't be exempt from this process. Its surface temperature was easy to imagine.
Thus, the moment I came into contact with it, I felt a stinging pain from my hands that was akin to being burned by a torch.
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