"The Observatory reports that at 21:37 Duoling time, a very large meteor shower will land in the southwest suburbs. In order to avoid accidents, the general public is requested to try not to go out during the meteor shower time. Please pay attention to the general public."
On the land shrouded in night, white lampposts would hang down from time to time, breaking through the darkness and illuminating a gap.
Those are the lights that occasionally fall to the ground when the patrol mechas of the city's defense system fly high in the sky.
Above the black wilderness, several figures stood at the bottom of a slightly arched hillside, as if waiting for something.
"Three minutes left"
One of the four people raised his hand and looked at the time, reporting in a low voice.
No one spoke to the remaining three, they were all young men who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old.
One of them always raised his head and stared intently at the dark sky. The other two, including the one who reported the time, one tall and one short, stood on his left and right like followers, constantly checking their mobile phones.
The last boy didn't seem to be very gregarious. He was standing a little far away from the other three, clutching a satchel on his waist with both hands and looking at them timidly.
The time projected on the three-dimensional light screen in the middle of the crowd jumped minute by minute.
When the three-minute countdown ended, several people subconsciously raised their heads.
Almost at the same time, in the dark sky above their heads, meteors trailed down like rain, trailing brilliant flames.
Exactly one second ahead of the time predicted by the observatory, a super-large meteor shower appeared. The eyes of the four teenagers who looked up at this scene all lit up.
It is said that this meteor shower was caused by an asteroid that accidentally entered the star orbit.
The main body of the asteroid had been repeatedly smashed several times outside the planet. What appeared in front of them and turned into meteors was just a bit of meteorite residue that had not been completely erased.
Even with this small amount of debris, the probability of falling to the ground "safely" is less than one in ten thousand.
The "autonomous defense system" covering the entire metropolis will accurately lock on the meteors when they approach and crush them one by one.
The eyes of the four teenagers soon reflected the spectacular scene of meteors falling in half before exploding into a ball of sparks and disappearing.
This process lasted several minutes.
Maybe the scale of tonight's meteor shower is indeed a bit big.
In the midst of the "lively" sparks, several "fish that slipped through the net" successfully escaped the "predation" of the defense system and fell toward the bottom.
One of them seems to have landed not far from where the four of them are now.
"Walk!"
Upon seeing this, the young boy who was the leader of the four people immediately withdrew his gaze, quickly took out a capsule-sized object from his pants pocket and threw it on the ground.
With a soft sound of "Bang!", a black off-road vehicle with rough lines and a beast-like shape appeared out of thin air.
The young man jumped into the passenger seat of the car first, and then shouted urgently.
"Stop the ink, get in the car quickly, the patrol mecha will be here later!"
The remaining people reacted quickly, one person got into the driver's seat skillfully, and the other quickly got into the back seat.
The timid boy carrying a satchel hesitated for a moment before being yelled at to get in the car.
The black off-road motor roared and raced quickly in the wilderness.
The young man in the passenger seat stood with most of his body leaning out of the car, staring unblinkingly at a fireball falling rapidly in the sky in the distance ahead, his eyes burning, and his face full of excitement.
"Qiyuan, why do you have to pick up a meteorite?"
While driving cross-country, the boy in the driver's seat asked his companions beside him boredly while controlling the car.
Standing on the front of the car against the night wind, the young man with his hair swaying showed a gentle look on his face and replied: "Venia's birthday is in a week, and I plan to give her a 'star'."
After hearing this, the two companions immediately showed such expressions on their faces.
The only one who can make the man in front of me so enthusiastic and caring is probably his "goddess".
In the eyes of the two of them, this kind of romantic behavior of running out to pick up stones and use them as stars in the middle of the night is really stupid. Even if it is done, it will only impress themselves at best.
But as the other party's "follower", of course it's not easy to say this in person. I can only mutter casually: "Then why come to the wild to pick it up? Such things are not easily sold online."
"You know shit."
The young man known as Qiyuan retorted directly, "Can the broken rocks I bought online be the same as the ones I picked up myself?
Vinya hates insincere people the most
Hurry!"
As the boy spoke, he couldn't help but urge his companion in the driver's seat, "Hurry up, if we are caught by the patrol mecha, we will be forcibly sent to Huicheng."
"The horsepower has been turned on to the maximum."
"Don't talk nonsense to me. The top speed of my car can reach 380 per hour. How much is it now?"
While several teenagers were noisy, the boy sitting in the back seat clutching his bag tightly remained silent.
From time to time, he turned back and glanced in the direction of the main city, which was getting farther and farther away from the others. Then he looked at the current time. His buttocks seemed to be covered with nails and he could not sit still.
Ten minutes later, the black off-road vehicle gradually slowed down in the wilderness.
Before the car came to a complete stop, the boy in the co-pilot had already jumped out of the car and rushed towards a position directly in front of the car.
Several other people also got off the bus.
The group finally came to a stop in front of a large, smoking pit.
This large crater created by a meteorite falling from the sky is only a dozen meters wide. Standing on the edge, you can see the faint light of fire under the crater.
This was the first time for several people to witness the scene of a meteorite falling to the ground with their own eyes, and they all had a look of novelty on their faces.
Even the timid young man with the most distant relationship among the group of people seemed to have forgotten his troubles at the moment. He followed the group of people and stretched his neck to look down curiously.
As time goes by, the firelight from the crater gradually extinguishes, and the blazing high temperature generated when it hits the ground is also rapidly decreasing.
The surroundings gradually darkened, but a faint golden light shone through the bottom of the crater that gradually "cooled".
"The depth is 17.8 meters, and the temperature in the pit has dropped below 300. Level 1 protective clothing is more than enough to cope with it.
Look at this meteorite light, it may contain some kind of precious precious metal, Viniya will definitely like it very much.
It’s a pity that I can’t bring my mecha out, otherwise there wouldn’t be such trouble.”
The leading boy looked excited and briefly measured the situation in the crater with the instrument he carried. Then he took out a capsule-like thing from his pocket and threw it on the ground. It turned into a set of light white with a "bang" sound.
Heavy protective clothing.
Then he glanced at the two followers beside him and asked: "Which one of you is going down?"
The two teenagers who were taking photos and videos of the crater with their mobile phones were stunned when they heard this.
The two of them looked at the young man in front of them, then at the crater emitting billowing heat, and forced a smile: "Qiyuan, are you kidding me?"
"Who the hell is kidding you?"
The leading young man looked at the two of them indifferently and said, "Why else would I ask you two to come out so late at night?
You can't possibly think that I will go down in person, right?
Stop inking, put on protective clothing and get down quickly, don’t make me wait too long.”
The two teenagers who followed him looked at each other in confusion. After looking at each other for a few seconds, one of them spoke first: "I just drove! You go!"
"I"
The other person was immediately at a loss for words. He also wanted to find an excuse to excuse himself, but looking at the increasingly cold eyes of the leading boy, large beads of sweat gradually seeped out on his forehead.
Suddenly, he glanced beside him and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"let him!
Let this kid go down! Mr. Lu!"
The follower grabbed the timid young man carrying the satchel next to him, pulled him roughly to a few people, and said quickly: "This kid has been with us all the way, and he hasn't done anything. We just let him go down to pick up stones."
As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of several people on the scene immediately fell on the timid young man who had always had no sense of existence.
The latter was stared at by several people and heard what they wanted him to do, and his expression suddenly became tense.
He suddenly broke away from the hand holding his follower, hugged the satchel in his arms, turned around and ran away without saying a word.