Chapter 5: Purple Meteors
"Ding Ding Ding, Ding Ding Ding", at 7:30 in the morning, the mobile phone next to the pillow rang on time.
"Meow... Meow... Meow..."The cat Xiaoqi heard the alarm bell and came to the bedroom door and called me gently. I woke up in a daze, quickly turned on my phone, wiped my eyes and put on my glasses. Wednesday, August 16, 2017, fine. Outside the window, the morning sun was orange, the sky was still clear, the clouds were floating in the distant sky, the doves on the roof began to circle around the house in the distance, and the wind was blowing in my hair.
"What happened?" I was amazed, yes, I was back on the 16th of August, and I was on the bed, thinking about everything that had happened the day before, and what had happened the day before, the 16th of August, and the 15th of August. I know I'm crossing again, no, maybe I shouldn't use the word crossing, I'm more like I'm locked in August 16th, and God has turned on the restart mode for me?
Put on a gray t-shirt and jeans, take care of your hair, feed the cat, and go outside. The aunts in the square downstairs are still dancing in the square, "Time is like a shuttle, and the stars are moving, and the years have witnessed the magic of love... What the hell is this song? Riding an orange bike to the subway station, the pedestrians and vehicles along the way, such a magical repetition appeared in front of my eyes, as if the heavens were playing back the videotape. I took the newspaper handed to me by my aunt next to the elevator, and the newspaper read today's headline "Medical Service Level Greatly Improved XXXX", dated August 16, 2017.
A fashionable woman in a white crop top T-shirt and hot pants, "The Perseid meteor shower arrived as scheduled in the early hours of this morning, and many astronomy enthusiasts came to the Fangcun Mountain on the outskirts of the city to watch the meteor shower. "The broadcast of the news of the subway; In the mobile phone news, there is still the situation on the border, the war between the United States and North Korea, the housing prices in City C, the domestic film protection month, and the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II. WeChat brush eight-treasure porridge, 3 yuan, the random red envelope drawn is still 0.12 yuan.
Now, I am so convinced that I am back on August 16th for the second time, and everything is the same as the first, except for me, I seem to be an anomaly, but I seem to be above everything. "Am I dead?" I even asked such a question. Is it that I'm dead, and then the little vitality I have left in my brain is repeating what I had experienced the day before.
Oh no, the world is not a repetition like a movie. "Is it August 16th?" I asked my aunt who sold breakfast, and she took out her phone and looked at it and replied, "Yes." This world is not a repetitive image, but a world where I can interact with it, I am not dead, I am still alive, but I may have really been locked in the time of August 16th.
"Senior brother, another batch of samples were sent today, which were sent by Xingyuan Chemical Company, and I want to test the heavy metals." Zhang Han came over to me and said to me. I took the sample and didn't say a word. The A-share index opened flat, and the Shanghai Composite Index opened 3.41 points lower, or 0.1%.
If I'm really locked in this day, and every tomorrow is only today, every today is only yesterday, and I will always live on August 16th, what does that mean to me? What does this mean for the world? On this day, everything I do will not have the consequences of the next day, because everything will go back to the way it was at the beginning of the day. On this day, I can't have an alternate day effect on the world, but the world can have an alternate day effect on me, and so on, but my consciousness goes back to the day before, or my whole being goes back to the day before. I pulled open the drawer, took out a pair of scissors, grabbed my hair with my left hand, and cut it a few times, and the hair suddenly became a little asymmetrical. If tomorrow, I can still go back to today, and my hair is back to normal, it probably means that my consciousness is back to today, not my body.
The people around me were a little stunned when they saw my actions.
"Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Luo asked in surprise.
"When did you see the meteor shower yesterday?" I asked about Xiao Luo, and I seemed to have a vague feeling that the meteor shower would be inextricably linked to my current situation.
"What? How do you know I watched a meteor shower yesterday? Xiao Luo was blinded.
"Hehe, I guess, because I think I heard you say yesterday that you want to see a meteor shower." I smiled.
"Huh? Did I say that yesterday? I don't think I remember. Xiao Luo scratched his head.
"You don't remember." I explained.
"Oh, okay. We watched the meteor shower at twelve o'clock last night, and I saw it until after three o'clock in the evening, and I'm sleepy now. After speaking, Xiao Luo was a little embarrassed.
"Did you see the Purple Meteor?" I then asked.
"I saw it, it was big, it was bright, it seemed like it was right above us. Eh, brother, have you read it too? Xiao Luo replied.
"I saw it on the news." I don't know what a purple meteor is, if it was this rare purple meteor that gave me this world that keeps restarting. But with my years of experience in science fiction movies and novels, there must have been something that had happened to make me the way I am now, and it must have happened something that had never happened before, or why I became like this on August 16th. In addition, most of this strange thing has to do with outer space, either some alien experiment, or the impact of some comet meteor, or some magical passage such as an interstellar gate has been opened. Could it be that a purple meteor opened the stargate and brought me back to the day before? So, a tricky question is, why me? I haven't even seen the purple meteor, is it because my name is Liu Yitian? Liu one day = stay one day? It won't be so evil.
I quickly turned on my computer and searched for everything I could about the meteor shower: Perseids is a meteor shower that appears as a radiant near the Perseid γ γ, also known as the Perseids. It appears around July 20 to August 20 every year, culminating around August 13. Together with the Quadrantids and Geminids, they are known as the three major meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. August 13th, why is it August 16th this year, I am curious. Experts online explain that the Perseid meteor shower is related to comets, and this year's Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 15, which is caused by the orbital shift of the comet's motion. What is the home planet of the Perseid meteor shower at 109P/Swift? Comet Tuttle, which reached perigee on December 11, 1992, will reach its next arrival around August 14, 2126.
There are indeed a lot of reports on the Internet about last night's meteor shower, the purple meteor was the only purple meteor last night, astronomy enthusiasts explained that this is an extremely rare meteor, there are currently only 3 purple meteors recorded in the world, and last night's purple meteor is big and bright, extremely rare, and can be said to be the god of meteors. This purple meteor appeared at about 3 o'clock in the morning on August 16, and only a few areas in China can see it, and City C is the clearest place to photograph this purple meteor.
So many people have seen purple meteors, why I, a person who hasn't even seen a meteor, have such a strange situation, the more I think about it, the more I don't understand. Maybe it had nothing to do with the meteor, maybe there was something unusual in the water I drank from my meal last night, or maybe I was bitten by some magical mosquito after falling asleep. My head was about to explode, and I began to accept all this, if the world really kept restarting for me alone, then wouldn't I be a god-like person, enjoying god-like treatment. Will I grow old in this day, or will I stay young in this day, maybe tomorrow will have the answer.
I'm starting to eagerly await tomorrow, oh, maybe it's a little inaccurate, should it be the next one for today, the next one for yesterday? Haha, I laughed myself, God played a joke on me. If I can't get out of today, what does it mean to me about stocks, lottery tickets, even if I make money or win the jackpot, I can't withdraw my winnings. I thought about it again, if that's the case, then what's the point of my work now, anyway, tomorrow everything will start again; Oh no, that's when I found out that all my money was in stocks, which shattered my idea of splurging a day.
"Senior brother, come and teach me how to use atomic absorption." Li Feifei came to the door again this time.
I really can't refuse the warm invitation of a cute girl, and I really don't have much resistance to Li Feifei's somewhat angry call.
If I really grow old in this day, then I will be alone in my life, then I am too much of a loss, I am not married, I do not enjoy the feeling of being a real man. Oh no, if I don't have any impact on the world, then I can do anything at will, even if it is against the law, no, no, no, no, I can't do this kind of dirty thing, not to mention that I don't even know if the world will have an impact on me.
Time passed quickly, and after answering my father's call, I began to grieve again, if I could only survive this day, would I never see my family again in my life, and those kind classmates and friends, am I really locked up in the cage of this time, I became more and more depressed, and I also hoped that tomorrow would come, at least, God should give me a clear answer.
I should have become so excited that I couldn't sleep all night, but I had a vague feeling that I was slowly losing consciousness and falling into a deep sleep.
So, what does tomorrow bring?