Late at night, usually most of the townspeople have fallen asleep at this time, but tonight in Tuojia Town, they are destined to be sleepless. After studying the video for a while and finding nothing, Wen Zhiyu's attention turned back again.
"Whether this picture is a problem with the camera or something else, I can't figure it out right now, so let's put it aside for now."
Wen Zhiyu stopped looking at the tablet screen and picked up his coat. The outdoor temperature was a little low at night, so he had to wear thicker clothes to prevent wind and sand.
After being delayed for such a short time due to the strange pictures that appeared in the surveillance, Wen Zhiyu's heated mind cooled down a little, and he rationally analyzed one thing - their equipment is limited, and they are not as experienced as professional meteorite hunters. At this time
If you search recklessly, you may not be able to find meteorites. It is more reliable to have professionals with you.
"Quick, Da Pan, ask Uncle Du if he has any travel plans. Let Uncle Du take us to hunt for meteorites! First come, first served!" After Wen Zhiyu finished speaking, seeing Pan Weining still sitting there and not moving, he urged again.
Pan Weining looked away from the tablet screen and said, "I sent a message to Uncle Du, but he didn't reply. Maybe he's resting now."
Wen Zhiyu didn't believe it: "How is that possible? You didn't see how busy it was outside. There are quite a few meteorite hunters in Tuojia Town. They took action immediately. Look at the cars on the road outside, one after another roaring past!"
While talking, he looked out the window again.
call--
Another car passed by.
If you stand outside and listen quietly, you can also hear the sound of many vehicles driving on the road in the distance. It used to be very quiet at this time!
"Of course you have to respond to this kind of thing as soon as possible! Are you looking for rocks? Are you looking for gold? This is money! How can a meteorite hunter sit still!"
Worried that Pan Weining would not believe it, Wen Zhiyu looked at Feng Yi again, looking for an ally: "Feng Yi, do you think what I said is right?"
Feng Yi nodded: "When I bought meteorites before, my uncle from the Wei family said that there was a lot of movement like this, and there were many witnesses. Even if the meteorites found have average composition, they don't have much scientific research value, but they are traded on the market.
The price will still be higher.”
Pan Weining said: "It's not that I don't believe it. I can imagine it from the buyer's point of view. The fireball made too much noise tonight. There must be many surveillance cameras in the town that captured this scene. It will definitely be a hot search on the Internet tomorrow."
, with this kind of popularity, if someone finds a meteorite for the first time and sells it on the market, there will definitely be many people willing to spend money to satisfy their curiosity."
Seeing Wen Zhiyu looking over, Pan Weining pointed to the phone with a helpless smile: "I know all this, but in this place, in this matter, for our own safety, we have to find a professional to take him with us, otherwise we will rush into the Gobi Desert recklessly.
It's easy to cause problems. I'm waiting for Uncle Du's reply, but there's been no movement from him."
"Maybe it's because I'm busy and don't have time to reply to the message?" Wen Zhiyu thought for a moment and tapped his palm: "This is easy to handle. I'll drive directly to him. It's not far anyway. I'll go over and see if his home is there.
The lights were not turned on during the break, so I didn’t knock on the door and turned back immediately, so I wouldn’t disturb them.”
Let Pan Weining and Feng Yi wait here, Wen Zhiyu decided to drive over now to take a look, otherwise he would not be able to calm down. Now that he was in high spirits, he really couldn't wait any longer. Instead of just sitting here, he might as well drive out and take a look.
Look at what other people in town are doing.
When Wen Zhiyu left, the room became quiet again.
Pan Weining continued to study the strange scene. Feng Yi returned to the room and was also thinking about his own things.
A few days ago, I practiced with small fragments of meteoroids from the Perseid meteor shower, and I really became proficient in the skill of "locking on target".
But now, after performing it on the larger bolide, it is obviously difficult.
The bolide was more massive and required more energy. It took a lot of effort to pull it away. To pursue it from behind, Feng Yi almost used all his strength to deliver the blow.
The explosion of the bolide was not entirely caused by Feng Yi's blow. Even without Feng Yi, the bolide would have exploded before falling to the ground, but it would not have exploded so completely, and the brightness of the fire would not have been so strong.
He took the water cup from Xiao Jia. It was not filled with tea, but Feng Yi's special nutrient solution. It consumed too much energy and was a little exhausted.
I drank a bottle and my face became a little brighter.
It looks a little better.
"One more drink." Feng Yi said to Xiao Jia.
While eating compressed biscuits and drinking nutrient solution, I continued to think about bolides.
too difficult.
It’s really too difficult!
This is only at the meteoroid level, and it is not particularly large. When larger meteoroids explode, they can directly cause a large-scale meteor shower.
What he blew up could only be considered average.
However, at this "average" level, Feng Jie obviously feels difficult as soon as he gets started.
It's like the reins of a wild and untamable horse. It can't be pulled back, so it can only move a little, but it can't be tamed in a short time.
If our ancestors from a long time ago really took action against asteroids that were "threatening enough", what a huge force it would be!
Envy couldn't come over, Feng Jie was very powerless, so he took a big gulp of nutrient solution to calm his lost heart.
The development stage and growth level cannot reach the level of the ancestors. In comparison, it can only be regarded as the initial level and the juvenile level.
Very weak!
But there is no way. The energy materials provided by this planet now cannot meet the needs of subsequent stages of development.
Before that, Feng Yi had thought that if those meteors could bring energy matter, he could also absorb energy from these celestial bodies.
Those undiscovered meteorites that exist on the planet may have been weathered, eroded and disappeared over time, and the energy and material have also changed accordingly. A small part has become free and precipitated, but most of it has been converted into other substances.
is no longer used.
"Fresh" meteorites may have more available energy materials, so Feng Yi turned his target to them.
but now.
Feng Yi discovered that the energy contained in each of these meteoroids, regardless of size, was unknown. For example, the bolide that Feng Yi smashed today had very little energy material in it. Maybe the bolide he encountered next time would have very little energy in it.
There will be more energy and matter. It depends on luck. These are like opening blind boxes.
Not every piece of the universe fragment contains the energy matter it needs. Nor does every piece contain a sufficient amount of energy matter.
Perhaps after decades of hard work hunting for stars, the energy material he obtained still cannot support the amount he needs for one molt. And every time he hunts stars, some energy materials are also consumed.
It is very likely that in the end, the effort will not be as good as the gain, and the gain will outweigh the loss. In fact, think about it.
Countless cosmic fragments break into this planet every day, but the total amount of energy and matter on this planet continues to decrease.
so……
"It doesn't work."
Feng Yi was worried.
No wonder my aunt only studied meteorites for a few years and then stopped paying attention to them.
Unless a celestial body with greater mass and more energy breaks into this planet, it may bring more energy and matter.
But that level should be a destructive-level asteroid. If a celestial body of this size hits it, Feng Yi himself doesn't know if he can survive!
There were so many fireballs today that he almost collapsed.
If faced with an asteroid with a diameter of one kilometer, he would act like a mantis like an ordinary person!
The path of the meteorite seems to be impassable.
But Feng Yi will continue to try and practice with the meteorites he bought. He wonders if there is a more energy-saving way to make celestial bodies explode in the air.
If you do nothing and wait for the stone to fall, it will no longer be his. If you spend money to buy it, there will be too many things and it will be easy to get targeted.
But if you can't figure out how to save energy, there's no need to blow it up. If the noise is loud, it will easily attract attention, and the loss may outweigh the gain. It's better not to do anything.
Feng Yi was struggling with the issue of energy conservation, and Wen Zhiyu, who had gone out to inquire for information, had already driven back in his car. Feng Yi went to the living room.
Wen Zhiyu was talking: "I drove to Uncle Du's house, and the lights were on. I knocked on the door and asked, but his family said he had left early!"
As we thought before, professional meteorite hunters are very capable when it comes to matters like meteorites.
At this time, Uncle Du's information came belatedly.
Pan Weining looked at it.
Uncle Du apologized and told them that he had already set off.
"Uncle Du said to explore the way first.
"We will tell you when the time comes. Operations in the dark are not suitable for outsiders like us. We should rest first and recharge our batteries. Maybe more information will come out tomorrow and we will decide how to act." Pan Weining said.
Wen Zhiyu said "tsk" unwillingly. He couldn't sleep now, so he shared what he had just seen when he went out: "All the disabled traffic lights at the intersection have been reactivated. I encountered two red lights along the way.
In fact, there are not many cars on the road now. A group of people have already driven out of the town. There are not many people staying in the town, but it is very lively everywhere."
"I heard some merchants calling to place orders and replenish supplies. They said there will be a lot of customers coming and they have to be prepared."
"The hotel on the street next door is usually so deserted that the waiters are taking a nap, but now the lights are brightly lit and the guest rooms are being cleaned."
"Also, we saw the day before yesterday, the old lady who was very lethargic on the recliner at the entrance of the small supermarket. She stood at the entrance of the supermarket tonight and shouted in. I don't know what she was saying. The dialect was too strong and I couldn't hear it.
It's clear, but my voice is louder!
The residents of Tuojia Town may not necessarily be great at other things, but they are extremely sensitive in this regard.
However, they, these out-of-town visitors, had nothing to do. As Pan Weining said, instead of rushing into action, it was better to recharge their batteries and wait until tomorrow to collect more information and see how things develop.
Feng Yi consumed too much tonight, so he went back to his room and ate another midnight snack and fell asleep immediately. He really needed to store up energy. Pan Weining shared the weird video with several of his tech geek friends in the room, letting them know
Help him analyze
Wen Zhiyu, on the other hand, tossed and turned, and finally fell asleep.
When Wen Zhiyu woke up the next day, his consciousness was still a little confused. When he opened the window, he heard the sound of airplanes in the sky and felt refreshed.
He looked in that direction and saw a plane landing at the airport.
"Someone is really here!"
Wen Zhiyu ran to the roof of the building and used the camera to observe the license plates of the vehicles on the road.
Sure enough, there are many from out of town!
This is just because the time is short, only people from nearby cities have arrived here, and other visitors from further distances will follow.
This once small town seems to be waking up again.
Wen Zhiyu asked his friend: "Da Pan, was it a bolide last night? The formation was bigger than I expected. Why do I feel so fuzzy?"
Pan Weining didn't know who he was sending messages to, so he said: "It's not bad, it's about what I expected. A few of my friends are also planning to come."
Wen Zhiyu asked: "Why are you here? Looking for meteorites?"
Pan Weining said: "They are usually not interested in meteorites, but they are very interested in yesterday's bolide and the footage captured on the surveillance camera. They want to come and explore it."
Wen Zhiyu: "What secret are you looking for? Are you still studying that blurry picture? Hey, I don't know what's going on with the camera. The shooting of meteors was quite clear before, but last night it suddenly seemed to be blurred. Intelligent parameter adjustment
Can not be done."
Pan Weining said seriously: "That's what I'm talking about! This situation doesn't just happen to you, it's the same to everyone else in Tuojia Town! At that time, all the surveillance footage was blurry! It must have been caused by some unknown factor!
"
"real?!"
Suspicious, Wen Zhiyu turned on his phone and looked through the news on social media. Sure enough, there was a topic related to bolide at the top of the hot search list.
One night passed, and many videos and photos appeared on the Internet. Most of them were uploaded by other residents or tourists in Tuojia Town, or contributed to self-media and published by big V.
Wen Zhiyu clicked in to see the reactions of netizens.
[I heard that the bolide was hit by something and then exploded [horror]]
[With high speed and high temperature, it is not just this time that a bolide has disintegrated in the sky. It is a normal phenomenon, so don’t over-interpret it]
[No! This one is really different from the previous ones! Go find the video! Go and see if the ion tail of the bolide has been split open, and if something catches up from behind and hits the meteor body!]
[I told you a long time ago that there are aliens on our planet! It must have been an alien flying saucer that hit it!]
[Many of the IP addresses of the people who posted the video are listed as Tuojia Town. Is this place very remote? It looks like a small place in the video. I also want to visit it, but it’s too remote and inconvenient.]
[Toga Town? The city of meteorites back then! A place where many people chased the "stars"! It was very famous twenty or thirty years ago. Parents and grandparents should have heard of Tuojia Town. However,
That place is also really remote, surrounded by a large area of Gobi desert]
[I checked on the map and found that it is too far away. There are no flights yet. You have to take a flight to the nearest big city airport, and then drive for six or seven hours to get to Tuojia Town]
[There is an airport in Tuojia Town! In a chat group I joined, a rich man has already chartered a plane there! He said he wanted to find aliens [laughing and crying]]
Wen Zhiyu thought to himself: No wonder I saw the plane when I woke up. Oh, and now I hear the sound again. The airport must be very busy today.
Keep looking at those bolide videos.
It's really quite vague.
Many of the monitoring equipment installed here in Tuojia Town are older models and not as good as his equipment.
Sure enough, many netizens believed that the video was fake:
[It’s coming again, it’s coming again, the scam in a outdated town is coming again!]
[It feels like this is an organized and large-scale fraud! Is this to trick leeks into harvesting? 】
[The marketing account charges money, let’s make money together!]
[To be honest, it’s really difficult to take pictures of this kind of meteors, but it’s not like they’re all so blurry]
[Can there be a clear video? The part posted by a certain big v is so blurry that it looks like someone took out the cyber paste! 】
All the videos sent out are blurry no matter which angle they are from!
In the face of doubts on the Internet, Wen Zhiyu had this to say:
There's really nothing wrong with the camera, and he didn't adjust it to be so blurry on purpose!
But that’s how it looks when photographed!
He feels wronged himself!
It's really not my fault!
It must be caused by interference from some mysterious force as Pan Weining said!
At this time, Feng Yi also woke up and was scrolling through the messages on his phone.
The airport in Tuojia Town was suddenly full.
True and false news are rampant online.
However, under public opinion monitoring, those misleading remarks will soon be controlled.
Open the door to the terrace. The wind blows, bringing too much non-local flavor. The town that was originally in a state of retirement suddenly became full of vitality.
Sky.
The sound of a helicopter sounded.
Feng Yi looked up, paused, and then retracted his feet that were stretched out toward the terrace.
"Feng Yi, what's wrong?"
Wen Zhiyu ran to the terrace and looked at the helicopter in the sky.
"that is?"
"From the Special Investigation Team of the Joint Security Bureau." Feng Yi said.