Chapter 1: Shooting Stars
Zhao Xu is an amateur astronomy enthusiast.
He has been interested in astronomy for nearly two years, and he only knows a lot about this field.
He is interested in the starry sky just because he thinks it is beautiful, and whenever he has too much pressure in his work or life, he will take the astronomical telescope he bought at a high price and run to the open space on the outskirts of the city to look up at the starry sky at night.
Just as others will calm down when they see the vast and unbridled ocean, Zhao Xu will also make his heart settle down when he looks at the vast universe galaxy, to put it bluntly, his astronomical hobby is really just a hobby, it is a way to relieve stress, and it is not more advanced than the way people go to KTV to vent their throats.
Tonight, he took his equipment and drove to a clearing in the suburbs, where there were very few people at night, and at most he could see three or two wild cats.
Coming to a familiar place and setting up the telescope, Zhao Xu took a deep breath, quickly put the pressure of the day behind for the time being, and began to observe with great interest.
Tonight the sky was clear, there were no clouds to obstruct it, and it was a good day for stargazing, and he expertly adjusted the angle, first confirming the general direction with a low magnification lens, and then slowly fine-tuning.
His target tonight is the M42 nebula, and he doesn't know about others, anyway, in Zhao Xu's mind, M42 is the most beautiful nebula in the sky, and there is no one.
"Great!" Zhao Xu quickly adjusted the focus, although it was not the first time he watched it, he was still as excited as when he saw it for the first time, the sense of insignificance brought by space, and the nebula celestial body that the cosmic galaxy took hundreds of millions of years to successfully "carve" was more magnificent and great than any so-called "work of art" of human beings, which made him very satisfied.
"Uh...... What is it?" Zhao Xu was fascinated by it, and suddenly felt that the camera flashed, and a dazzling light like platinum passed through the lens barrel to his eyes.
He stepped back a little and looked up, and it turned out to be a few meteors streaked across the night sky, just past the observation area where his telescope was pointed.
"Tsk, luckily, I saw a meteor. Zhao Xu muttered, although it was not a large meteor shower, only a few meteors, but it was good luck.
Legend has it that the wishes made by seeing the meteor will come true, Zhao Xu smiled and made a wish in his heart: "I wish that the eighth woman manager will never be able to buy the lipstick number he likes!haha!"
As a seven-foot man, he has been in the company for three and a half years, and he has been promoted all the way from a grassroots employee, which can be described as a spring breeze, but he is always suppressed by a fierce aunt, he is promoted by one level, and others are promoted to two levels, it seems that he will do things under her no matter what, he is really depressed - the pressure at Zhao Xu's work is nine times out of ten from the oppression of the boss of the eight women.
After 5 seconds, Zhao Xu came back to his senses from the wish and found that something was wrong - most meteors are fleeting, but these meteors last too long in the sky, right?
Ten seconds later, the meteor was still flying.
After 30 seconds, it's still flying.
"Could it be that I'm mistaken, it's not a meteor, but a trajectory that a spacecraft re-enters the atmosphere and burns itself?" Zhao Xu said to himself.
He turned the telescope to a low magnification, and then rotated the barrel to track the bright "meteor" in the sky, which did not seem to be flying fast, and he easily tracked it.
"It's so bright...... I can't see anything clearly, and it's not a solar eclipse or a transit of Venus, and I don't have a filter. Zhao Xu said with some regret, and then his face changed: "WOC, this flight direction ...... How is this possible? And ...... Looks like it's flying this way me!"
I have never heard that meteors can fly at right angles, nor have I heard that abandoned satellites or rocket boosters can turn at right angles so casually after re-entering the atmosphere.
"Could it be the latest space spacecraft test?" Zhao Xu estimated, there was only this one possibility, "I heard that the national lunar exploration project is going well, and it will go to Mars around 2030, which requires very advanced rocket propulsion equipment." ”
After a few seconds, he was 100% sure that the "UFO" in the sky was indeed coming in his direction.
In the past few seconds, he didn't guess in his brain that this might be an alien spaceship or something, an alien spaceship found that someone was observing them here, so he changed directions and wanted to communicate with him Zhao Xu.
But soon Zhao Xu knew that he was thinking too much, and people swept directly over his head, and he was self-inflicted.
Just as he was laughing at himself, suddenly, the bright UFO seemed to have hit something invisible, and exploded violently, looking like fireworks.
About half a minute later, Zhao Xu heard an explosion like a thunderstorm, and it can be seen that the explosion point should be more than 10,000 meters away from him (the speed of sound is slower than the speed of light).
"Wow, it's a shame I didn't have time to take a picture. Zhao Xu said with some regret, he felt that it should be a new product experiment in an aviation laboratory that failed and exploded in the air.
In fact, this kind of thing is not unusual, he knows that similar scenes often occur in the rocket tests of Sanfat or Ah Sanjia next door.
"Okay, it seems that you are really a fake meteor, the wish I made just now probably won't come true, right?" Zhao Xu turned his head with a slight regret and continued to fiddle with his telescope, intending to continue to look at the M42 nebula.
"Knock !!!"
About seventy or eighty meters away from Zhao Xu, there was a sudden loud noise, this sound was too close, it startled him, and after turning his head, Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, and then there were complex expressions of disbelief, distress, anger and so on his face.
The place where he is now is an abandoned cement yard, and his own car is parked more than 70 meters behind him.
Now, his car is flattened!
A spherical stone, with dark red burning marks, hit his car with precision!
"My new car!!!, ahh
Although there is car insurance, the insurance company may compensate for such "force majeure", but Zhao Xu doesn't know if people will have a fight with him in this situation of "being hit by a meteorite", because such a situation is too rare, at least Zhao Xu himself has not heard of it, he decided to go back and quickly flip through the insurance agreement to see how the relevant clauses are explained.
"MMP!" Touching his pocket, Zhao Xu suddenly remembered that his mobile phone seemed to be still in the car, and now he couldn't call the insurance company, not to mention that the car was smashed, and the mobile phone was estimated to be hanging, even if the mobile phone was intact, he didn't dare to approach - the car was smashed like that now, what if it exploded later? Isn't this death?
The mobile phone is in the car, and he doesn't bring a wallet - in the era of mobile payment, who still has a wallet, and now he wants to take a taxi back without money.
"No matter, go to the side of the road to stop the car first, see if there are any kind people willing to take me back to the city, or lend me a mobile phone, no matter how bad it is, help me call the police!" Zhao Xu said with this plan.
After calming down, his mind was clearer, and he suddenly realized a question - could it be that this meteorite was the wreckage of the "UFO" just now?
That "UFO" has the ability to change its course on its own, and it is impossible for it to be just an ordinary meteorite, that is, what smashed his car is likely to be the wreckage of a "UFO"?
Zhao Xu felt his heart beating faster, and warned himself to hurry up and find someone, don't think too much, but as soon as he stepped forward, he felt a huge suction, coming from the direction of the meteorite, he had no resistance, and almost moved towards the meteorite, at this time, no matter how high his psychological quality was, he couldn't calm down, he could only shout loudly, and grabbed the ground with both hands, but unfortunately, the ground was full of cement slabs, even if his fingertips were bleeding, he couldn't catch any point of strength.
"Ahhh
Turning around, he saw a scene that he would never forget in his life:
The huge meteorite collapsed like a rotten persimmon, turning into countless tiny debris as small as dust, which glowed pale blue and burrowed into the crushed car like bugs.
Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, his car was full again.
It is "resurrected"!