Chapter 1: The Fall of the Stars

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As the whistle of the clouds drifted off into the distance, the last giant cruise ship slowly sailed out of the harbor propelled by its propellers, chasing the orange sunset on the sparkling waters, gliding towards the endless ocean and shrinking until it became an inconspicuous black dot on the horizon.

After a few moments, the silvery-white light fell from the sky like a thin veil to the ocean, like a tide, spreading through the high-rise urban area, until everything was dyed silvery, like a canvas stained with paint.

Ant-sized traffic streams the streets of the city, neon lights dot the moonlight with a slight monotonous glow, and the sound of horns and roars is endless.

In the minds of Tokyoites, nightfall is never the end of the day, but represents the rebirth and noise of another world.

It is only when night falls and the splendor fades that the sleeping beast of Tokyo activates its mind, wakes up from its slumber and reveals itself to the outside world.

It is this unique and attractive aspect of Tokyo that has attracted generations of people who have settled here until the end of their lives.

The moon was unusually round and bright tonight, the stars twinkling in the night sky shone brighter than ever, and even the dark clouds that had been heavy and unwilling to disperse for a long time were now dissipated by the howling wind.

All these signs indicate that tonight is a good day to observe the stars.

The breeze blows through the forest and grassland, causing the branches and leaves to sway in an instant; Adjacent to Mt. Fuji, a long, winding road runs like a black river through the cherry blossom forests, and gradually ascends the steep, dark mountain until the snow reaches and the stone steps take their place.

On the edge of the summit of Mt. Fuji, there is a wooden observation deck built by the government. It was early spring, and the temperature at night was not high, and due to the high altitude, the temperature around the observatory gave the illusion of being in the middle of winter.

Because the altitude is too high for transportation, the observation deck at the top of the mountain has no street lights for lighting, just a small platform made of bare tawny wooden planks.

It's simple, but it's a good location, and if you look out at the edge of the observation deck, you can see Tokyo, the city that never sleeps, not far from the foot of the mountain.

On the opposite side of Tokyo, a lonely figure is sitting on the guardrail of the belvedere, swinging his legs leisurely, as if waiting for something.

It was a handsome Western face; He was no more than eighteen at most, his golden hair dancing in the cold wind, and his eyes as pure as gold were like the brightest stars in the galaxy, and they could not be forgotten by just a glance.

The corners of the boy's mouth rose slightly, and the most beautiful pupils stared motionlessly at the brightly lit Tokyo at the foot of the mountain.

The cold wind slapped mercilessly on him, and the thin red jacket and black sweatshirt that blew kept swaying himself, as if he was complaining silently to the boy.

The boy sat on the wooden guardrail, his face as white as jade had been blown red by the cold wind, and his hands had cracked slightly, but despite this, the boy still stared at the faintly shining galaxy in the middle of the night, without any intention of leaving.

His name is Wade, an ordinary rich second-generation and sophomore in high school.

Suddenly there was a bell ringing from the pocket, and the bell, which was already like a spring water and a stone, was even more intermittent in the howling of the wind at this moment, making it impossible to hear any of the tones completely.

Wade seemed to feel the vibration of his pocket, took out his phone and stared at the screen that emitted a faint light, and his expressionless face gradually changed a little.

"It's finally here." Wade said as he stared up at the starry sky.

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At a distance of 150,000 kilometers from the outer part of the Earth's atmosphere, a comet about two-thirds the size of the Moon is moving towards the Earth at the third cosmic velocity; The eerie dark green fills the dark and empty universe, like a long river in the desert, winding and twisting to the edge.

It's not a normal tail, it's supposed to have a color.

"The camera is ready and ready to be plugged in. Three, two, one, go! With the director's order in the studio, the host, who was still watching the news, instantly turned off the screen of his mobile phone on the desktop, sat upright and looked at the camera opposite, and then smiled and said the opening words that had been said countless times in sweet standard Japanese: "Hello audience friends, I am your host......"

With a burst of noise and a full screen of gibberish, the news stopped playing in an instant, and it was not only this one TV station that was disturbed.

If you look down at the Earth from low Earth orbit at this time, you will find a strange and chilling green light wave sweeping across the atmosphere with lightning speed, and no light source can be retained wherever it passes.

The Americas became dark, Asia, Europe, etc.; Earth, an ordinary blue planet, ushered in its own total darkness once again after humans mastered electricity.

This is a sign of a new era to come.

The land breeze on the top of Mount Fuji was still howling, and the mobile phone, which had been constantly providing him with the latest news about the comet, suddenly emitted a cacophony, and the text on the screen was replaced by garbled characters of unknown meaning, until the screen crashed and there was no response.

This is not a good thing, after all, he has only bought this phone for less than three months; This thought flashed through Wade's mind for a moment, but just as he fiddled with his phone, a faint green wave swept through the sea of stars above him, and pushed it into the distance at a very fast speed, leaving no trace.

At this moment, Wade suddenly stopped fiddling with his phone.

He slowly put down his phone, and his golden eyes flickered with shock - Tokyo, which had been brightly lit up a moment before, lost all its light in an instant!

"Is it Edison Day, why is there no light at all?" Wade looked at Tokyo, which was without a trace of lights and hustle and bustle at the foot of the mountain, and his already huge brain suddenly expanded countless times, and he came up with more bizarre answers to his doubts.

Of course, the instant darkness in Tokyo is a bit incredible, but if you look closely, you will only feel that the scene of the moonlight covering the earth and the cold wind blowing everything at this time is more beautiful than the previous brightly lit and prosperous scene.

"Well, now I can only stand in front of the telescope like a fool and wait, I should have stayed in Tokyo Tower to watch, at least it wouldn't be so cold." Wade said with some self-deprecation, his hands against the guardrail and he jumped up from the guardrail, and after a few tenths of a second of a hover, he landed firmly next to an astronomical telescope that had already been erected.

He bent his knees slightly, keeping his eyes at the same level as the barrel; The moment he looked at the starry sky through the lens, he felt that the distance between himself and the stars in the sky was instantly shortened, as if he could touch the incomparably shining stars with just one stretch of his hand.

"Beidou, Sky Wolf...... Ah, that should be Jupiter...... Wait, that! Wade, who had just entered the state and left all the negative emotions behind, suddenly shouted excitedly, and his voice was covered by the whirring wind the next moment it came out.

He leaned forward again to make his gaze match the barrel of the mirror, and this time, he had a clear goal.

About 100,000 kilometers to the left of the Moon, a huge ghostly green phantom appeared—it was a giant comet the size of the Moon, and the dark green light gently undulated and extended on the comet's surface; Where the comet passed, a brilliant ribbon of light flowed straight into the sky, announcing its arrival to the hundreds of millions of creatures in the world who were observing their movements.

It's bound to be a feast for the eyes.

The mountain wind was getting tighter, which forced Wade to close the metal zipper on his jacket. He put on his hood and put away his binoculars, and just looked at the horizon with his extreme vision.

A moment later, a faint green reflected in his pupils: a silhouette with a trail of green light slowly drifted across the sky, following the predicted orbit across the night sky of the star map, and the trail of dark green light dragged behind it resembled the wake left behind by a ship crossing the water.

A few minutes later, most of the sky was covered by a beautiful, ethereal green band of light. What kind of beauty is that? At least words can never describe that beauty, not even the best adjectives in the world.

At this moment, the entire living beings on the earth seemed to have forgotten everything, and just looked up under the light of the sun and the moonlight, thinking about the first things, and immersed in their own world.

As one anonymous person put it: "When the flower of beauty blooms in the world, bad omen will follow." ”

While everyone was immersed in the stunning beauty of the comet, the magical green gradually deepened, and in the blink of an eye, it became a crimson representing destruction, and the faint green ribbon of light also came to an abrupt end, like a violin whose strings were suddenly cut during the performance.

The comet, which had turned red, finally deviated from its orbit and began to swoop and accelerate; The night sky was red by the firelight, and the previously calm sea suddenly boiled.

A few seconds later, under the watchful eyes of the world's creatures, the comet, a symbol of magical romance, finally completed its transformation and became a demon that destroyed everything; And when the mushroom of destruction rose on the horizon, people once again experienced the fear of being ants.

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