Chapter 21: Hit by a Meteorite
The Lucians did not save the Blue Star, and the interception failed, or only partially succeeded.
As predicted, the nuclear bomb shattered one of the three meteorites, and although it also hit the other two, it did not do so, but only polished the two meteorites, which are now falling towards the Pacific Ocean.
According to astronomers' estimates, they will land between Australia and Hawaii.
However, all this has nothing to do with Chen Xin, no matter where the meteorite falls, two meteorites with a diameter of five kilometers are enough to cause a global catastrophe, setting off a cloud of dust in the sky, covering the sky, and dragging the whole world into a long and icy night.
All Chen Xin could do now was to take one last look at this sunny world, and then quickly hide in his own shelter.
Because in the next tens or even hundreds of years, there will be no more sunlight on the surface, and it is very likely that this is the last time Chen Xin will see the sun in his life.
At this time, in the sky, in addition to the sun, there were two huge fireballs, which were passing through the sky at a very fast speed, flying towards the east.
On the trajectory of these two large fireballs, there are also small bright spots like Mars flying out from time to time, and they also glide through the sky with a long trail.
Chen Xin knew that those were the two meteorites that were about to hit the blue star, and those scattered Mars were just fragments stripped from the meteorites due to the friction of the atmosphere.
With the landing of these two meteorites, the blue star will usher in another mass extinction, just like the fifth mass extinction Cretaceous mass extinction 65 million years ago, more than 80% of the life on the blue star will die, and the entire ecosystem will completely collapse.
Whether the fate of human beings will be the same as that of the dinosaurs that ruled the Blue Star back then, Chen Xin does not know.
If humanity survives this crisis, then there is a chance to rebuild our homeland.
If not, humanity will be a stepping stone to a new generation of Blue Star overlords, just as the extinction of the dinosaurs gave way to the dominance of mammals.
However, this kind of thing that affects the fate of the entire human race is too far away for Chen Xin, and it is not something he needs to consider, what he can do and can do now is to hurry into his own shelter and try to live.
"Guys, I'm in the shelter, if everyone survives, let's continue to contact with the shortwave radio and use the channel we agreed upon." Chen Xin sent out the last message in the survival group, seeing that everyone was talking about the same thing, after thinking for a while, he sent one more sentence: "Life is endless, prosperity is prosperous." ”
This is the congratulatory message of the Vulcan people in the movie "Star Trek", but now Chen Xin feels that there is no more appropriate expectation and blessing than this.
Before the impending crisis of extinction, what humanity needs is to multiply and prosper again after this catastrophe.
Just as Chen Xin finished sending this message, watching everyone on his mobile phone repeat this sentence, and was about to enter the shelter with his belongings, there was a sudden roar in the sky similar to that produced by an airplane engine sliding overhead.
Chen Xin hurriedly looked up, only to see a red flame in the sky smashing towards his location.
It's a meteorite!
Chen Xin reacted, hurriedly put away his mobile phone, and ran towards the direction of the shelter with the futon wrapped in the TV in his hand, and couldn't help but regret why he delayed this!
Can a person outrun a meteorite?
This question is difficult to answer.
The fastest record for a person to run is 36.86 kilometers per hour, which is not slow, but the speed of a meteorite can easily turn time units into seconds, and there are many things in the universe that speed tens of kilometers per second.
So people want to run faster than meteorites, unless you're a superhero or anime character with special abilities like Flash or Quicksilver, don't try to compete with meteorites.
But if you just simply avoid the impact of meteorites, as long as the volume of the meteorite does not exceed a certain limit, then it is still possible to run out of the impact range and avoid being killed by meteorites.
Chen Xin's luck seemed to be a little bit worse, because when he was close to the door of the shelter, the meteorite that hit him in the direction he was already on the ground.
However, Chen Xin was not hit, but was pushed out by the impact of the meteorite landing, and the whole person fell to the ground, and the TV wrapped in the futon in his hand also fell to the ground.
The roar caused Chen Xin's ears to ring, and he covered his head hard, and it took a long time to recover.
Looking at the scraped palm and feeling the pain caused by the impact all over his body, he didn't even feel in the mood to curse and rejoice.
Somewhat embarrassed, he got up from the ground and checked whether the TV wrapped in the futon had been broken, and Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the futon was wrapped and there were pillows inside, and the TV was not broken.
Wrapping the TV again and opening the door of the shelter, Chen Xin stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, then put down the TV, turned around and stumbled in the direction where the meteorite fell just now.
If it can land and produce an impact, then nine times out of ten there is a meteorite residue that will not be completely burned out by the atmosphere.
At this time, the meteorites that can fall on the blue star are basically the fragments of the two large meteorites in the sky now, and if not that, they are part of the original meteorite with a diameter of ten kilometers.
When this meteorite is about to bring the end of the world, it seems to be a good thing to pick up a fragment of this meteorite as a souvenir.
If it was a normal situation, Chen Xin would definitely not have this thought.
But now that the meteorites have fallen in front of them, this kind of one-in-a-million thing will only happen when the whole world is going to be hit by meteorites, and if you don't pick up a meteorite to commemorate it, you don't know if there will be a next time.
The meteorite that fell down looked small, because there was a trace on the ground that was plowed out by the meteorite about a few tens of meters long, and there was only a crater about ten meters in diameter.
The impact lifted all the dirt from the vicinity of the drop point and squeezed it aside, and at the bottom of the crater was a charred mark that seemed to be still steaming.
Chen Xin climbed down, and the heat from the impact could still be felt at the bottom of the crater, but he was really concerned about whether he could find the meteorite.
However, to Chen's surprise, there was indeed something at the bottom of the crater, but it didn't look like a meteorite.
Because a meteorite can't be a standard sphere anyway, and it can't emit light.
What the hell is this thing? Chen Xin stopped a little frightened.