Chapter 467: An Asteroid Hits the Earth
The crowd of people scrambling for rockets fell silent for a moment, and people looked up as the rocket, which could have burned dozens of people, roared up from the berthing area, dragged its white trail straight into the air, and then turned to the east.
People seemed to be in disbelief at what was happening, but after only a dozen seconds, another rocket took off from the berth, this time closer to the dense crowd, and the roar, fire, and heat caused the crowd to go from stagnation to extreme frenzy.
Next, the third, the fourth...... The carrier rockets in the berthing area were forcibly launched one after another, and in the flames, the charred human body dragged the fireworks in the air, and the berthing area became a crematorium!
Some of the dragonmen were frightened and stupefied, crying and rushing to the periphery, some of the dragonmen stood in place, unable to move, until they were pushed down and died in the stampede, and some of the dragonmen swelled with the blood of their ancestors, picking up whatever weapon they could get their hands on, whether it was useful or not, shouting and attacking the remaining carrier rockets.
Those rockets that have not yet taken off, above the tail engine vent, have a ring of heat dissipation, composed of a large number of small heat sinks, used for engine heat dissipation, and when some of the brave dragonmen charge over, the heat dissipation rings of several rockets around them emit a dark red light, indicating that their engines have been started and are about to take off.
This vision was also discovered by a small number of people, and they didn't know where to snatch the laser rifle, "We can't go, they don't fucking want to go!"
Armed dragonmen began to attack the launch vehicle, rifles in hand and firing at the tail of the nearest rocket that was activating.
A puff of green smoke rises from the place where the tail was hit, a small hole is pierced, the hole is only a finger thick, but it is enough, the rocket's monitoring system will detect a defect in the tail, and the automatic control system will refuse to execute the launch procedure,
This refusal was beyond the authority of the highest system, and it was impossible for the people inside the rocket bay to lift it, and sure enough, the cooling ring of the shuttle was darkened, marking the engine shutdown.
On the launch site, all kinds of brilliant laser beams flickered back and forth, and it didn't take long for the launch vehicles that were still parked on the launch site, each with a hole in its tail.
The crowd was in chaos amid the billowing heat and smoke, and the hatch of a rocket with a dark cooling ring opened, and a gorgeously dressed woman stepped down, who looked around the bottom of the shuttle, and soon found a small hole in the tail, cried hysterically, and then rolled on the ground, hitting her head on the landing gear.
However, no one paid attention to her, people only saw that she forgot to close the hatch, and rushed up desperately trying to squeeze into the carrier rocket that could not take off, and soon squeezed into a large pile, in order to compete for the only few cabins, the dragons began to kill each other, the first to rush into the manned cabin The person kicked out hard, and a few unlucky people did not grasp it steadily, and fell from the rocket dozens of meters high, but the follow-up was not afraid at all, and after a scuffle, the dragon man hiding inside was also taken out and thrown down.
In a shrill metal grinding crunch, the rocket that had climbed countless dragonmen could not bear the weight of the external pendant, and deformed, and then slowly collapsed under its own gravity, and in the screams of countless dragonmen, it slammed into the ground, turning countless dragonmen into meat sauce and raising a pinkish white mist.
The scene was like a tragic battlefield. Everywhere there were charred corpses, all charcoal black, some still smoking. The wreckage staggered, some fell to the ground, some leaned against each other.
A total of nine rockets were forcibly launched from the mooring area, and their wake in the sky is still very clear, like a wound open.
The rockets that had not yet been launched were all destroyed, lying on the ground like giants killed in battle, their shells shattered, revealing various parts, and the ground was wet, full of leaking fuel, like the blood of giants.
The dragons were still in a frenzy, some sitting on the hot ground, some standing, some walking aimlessly, and they didn't seem to be able to tell if what was in front of them was a nightmare or a reality.
Similar scenes have occurred in most of the thousands of space launch sites around the world where rockets were forcibly launched from crowds, and more than 10,000 people died from the flames of high-temperature engines.
There was also an armed conflict at the base station of the newly built space elevator of the Dragonmen, and unlike the riots at the launch site, this conflict was between countries, and some of the national armies took over after the collapse of the regime and barely managed to maintain order, so they sent forces to try to take control of the international base station on the equatorial ocean, and the forces of all sides fought for this illusory chance of survival.
Before the asteroid hit the Earth, the Dragonman civilization took the lead in starting a world war, and the flames of war quickly spread from the equator to the world.
Dragonmen who have fallen into madness, almost no one cares where the asteroid is, and if any dragonman raises his telescope to look up at the starry sky, he will immediately find something like a star in the sky.
If you look at it for another hour or two, you'll see that it's still in place, but it seems to be getting brighter.
Because it wasn't a star, it was an asteroid that was heading towards Earth at a speed of 20 kilometers per second.
The countdown has begun.
60 hours later, the asteroid hit the Earth!
The asteroid first came into contact with the Earth's dense atmosphere, and the air in front of it was compressed and heated violently, and the asteroid broke through a channel in the Earth's atmosphere and created a supersonic shock wave.
The asteroid burned violently in the dense atmosphere and began to peel off its outer skin like an onion, but it was so large that when it fell from a high altitude to the ground, the main body remained intact, like a huge burning iron ball, hitting a shallow sea.
At that moment, the Cretaceous period ended and the Paleogene period began.
The asteroid is no less than 9.6 kilometers in diameter, and within two minutes of hitting the ground, it smashed a crater about 29 kilometers deep and threw 25 trillion tons of debris into the air.
Imagine a pebble falling into a pond and zooming it out to the scale of the earth.
The asteroid's enormous kinetic energy even bent the Earth's crust, and then the deformed crust rebounded and a mountain taller than Mount Everest briefly rose.
The impact released more than 1 billion Hiroshima atomic bombs.
But this impact was different from the explosion of a nuclear bomb after all, and there was no of the latter's iconic mushroom cloud, and the initial eruption formed a "rooster tail", a huge jet of molten matter, which rushed all the way out of the atmosphere, and the material was then scattered around the world under the blowing of the stratosphere, and the dragonmen, no matter what they were doing, found that the sky was several times brighter than before, and the sky was sparse and a meteorite shower.
The temperature of the large amount of material that fell was several times higher than the surface of the sun, igniting everything within 1,600 kilometers, and the dragons and buildings within this range were quickly engulfed in flames.
The solid concrete was reduced to powder, the sand and gravel pebbles were melted and re-solidified into purple glass balls, the trees were charred, the dragonmen and other creatures were reduced to ashes, and the shadows of people and objects were imprinted on the ground and the remaining walls...... Even if you hide in a strong underground shelter, you can't escape the butcher's knife of death.
At the same time, a terrifying shock wave centered on the landing point and rampage, toppling most of the buildings in front of it in an instant.
Within seconds, the trees in the streets and the thousands of citizens who had not had time to take refuge in their bunkers were scorched by the extremely dry and hot foehn wind, and many others were immediately burned to death, and many more half-dead people rolled on the ground, screaming in pain.
The heat was engulfed by the shock wave, and the dragonmen who survived the shock wave had no time to catch their breath before they had to face the heat wave and ignited a fire-
The terrifying heat of the impact scorched the air to a temperature above the ignition point of wood and cloth in an instant, and then there was no need for fire at all, and wherever the terrible heat was blown, it began to burn!
The cloth was burning, the wood was burning, the houses were burning, even the living and the dead were beginning to burn - first the hair, then the clothes, then even the skin and subcutaneous fat, and the dead were lucky, because it was impossible for them to die again.
And those who are alive and burned are equivalent to being poured with gasoline and lighting sky lanterns, and the burning pain of the whole body is as if falling into the flames of hell, which is really miserable and indescribable. At the same time, they have to endure suffocation caused by high temperatures.
At this point, an inverted cone of red-hot liquefied rock rises from the point of impact, which spreads outward, forming a cluster of red-hot glass that covers the entire Western Hemisphere.
Some ejectas even broke away from the Earth's gravity and began to orbit around the Sun in an irregular orbit.
At least some of this wandering detritus is still inhabited by live microorganisms, and while the asteroid destroys life on Earth, it may also spread life throughout the solar system.
The asteroid evaporated in the violent impact, and its own material mixed with the evaporated Earth's rocks to form a fiery plume of smoke.
Propelled by the reaction force, the column of smoke first rose to half the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and then collapsed into a white-hot pillar of dust.
As a result of the detrital storm, the atmosphere around the impact site within 2,414 kilometers became red-hot, causing huge forest fires.
When the earth turned, the matter floating in the air converged on the other side of the earth, and after falling, it ignited the entire dinosaur continent, and the catastrophe realized the equality of all beings in the dragonman civilization in this form, and the fire should have swallowed 70% of the forest in the dragonman era.
At the same time, the tsunami caused by the impact swept across the ocean, tearing through the coastline and in some places stripping away dozens of stories of rock, washing debris inland and then sucking them back into deep water.