The rain came and went as fast as it came, and it was close to midnight when Chen Xing and the others came to the roof through the attic window with the permission of the innkeeper.

The rain didn't dry, and after coming up, Chen Xing wanted to find something to cushion, but Erken didn't care, so he sat on it directly.

"Good view." Chen Xing said.

The sky after the rain was really clear, the dark clouds had been blown to an unknown place, and they may have dispersed, leaving only the night sky as clean as the ground washed by the rainstorm, with dense nebulae, and the Big Dipper was still bright in this exotic starry sky.

Although the latitude is different, the shape of the Big Dipper is basically the same as that of Huaxia.

"Stop wandering around, sit down." Erken said.

Chen Xing sat directly on the windowsill.

Well, it's a good location, and the windowsill is a natural bench compared to the slope that Erken sits on casually.

"What does a meteor shower look like?"

"You'll find out right away."

Erken didn't want to explain to Xiaobai what the meteor shower looked like when it came, it was too troublesome. Anyway, the meteor will slide through the sky after a while, and Chen Xing can just see it by himself at that time, maybe he hasn't finished explaining it at that time.

On the roof, Chen Xing saw that many people had come out at this time.

Some of them opened the skylight of the roof to reach the roof, and more people walked out of the door and gradually gathered in a small empty square not far away.

The little squares in Europe are really small.

His ground looked indistinguishable from the surrounding streets, gray, rain-stained bricks that stretched from the streets to this circular, less than thirty meters in diameter, with a standard fountain in the middle and a heroic sculpture in the middle.

As for what kind of hero it is, Chen Xing definitely can't recognize it, every city has its own hero, and this is just a small town.

After a while, a bright light suddenly appeared in the sky.

This made the people around him exclaim in surprise.

"Shooting Star!"

"The meteor shower is coming!"

So this is a shooting star?

This bright light did not slowly appear from the farthest part of the sky from dark to light, but appeared very suddenly in the sky, emitting a dazzling white light as soon as it appeared, but this light was fleeting, only appeared for less than two seconds.

After this meteor passed, the sky fell silent for a long time.

Not a single meteor passed by.

Chen Xing could hear the voices of people watching the meteor shower in other places, but soon, the meteor shower never failed the people who were waiting for it in the middle of the night, and the second meteor, like the previous one, suddenly appeared in the sky, emitting a dazzling and bright light.

The light was white, not the kind of red that Chen Xing imagined that friction caused fire.

But it only lasted a maximum of two seconds.

Then the third, fourth, and fifth meteors followed, and almost every second, one or more meteors cut through the sky with a dazzling light, allowing the light hidden behind the night to reappear in the place where they cut it.

Among them, there are also meteors that can last for several seconds, and they also leave a tail flame visible to the naked eye in the sky.

Chen Xing took a few photos with his camera, but he didn't bother to take pictures at all, and looked at the sky in surprise.

At this moment, a concept in Chen Xing's heart changed.

He used to think that the Milky Way in the night sky was the most beautiful, but now it seems that the scenery of the Milky Way is only a younger brother under the spectacle of meteor showers.

It's hard to capture the beauty of this meteor shower in photos, but the system's video recording capabilities are different.

This is the thing that can perfectly restore this starry sky.

"Shouldn't I make a wish?" Chen Xing whispered.

"Make a wish? It's time to make a wish, and you should make a wish. Erken said with a smile.

Meteors appear everywhere almost every month, and he has been chasing meteor showers since he was a child more than a decade ago, and he has long been accustomed to this being just a common astronomical phenomenon, and he doesn't even think it's beautiful.

Every time he looked at it, he was calculating in his heart where this group of meteors was going to fly and how many would survive.

Chen Xing quickly clasped his hands together and said in Chinese,

"Then I make a wish that I must be happy......"

"Huh? What are you talking about? Erken didn't understand.

"Wishing doesn't work when you say it." Chen Xing said that he deliberately said it in Chinese.

"Childish."

Erken rolled his eyes, as if he didn't expect Chen Xing, a cutting-edge photographer famous in Europe, to have such a naïve side, he wouldn't think that Meteor could really fulfill his wish, right? These are all fairy tales that have been circulating for many years.

Chen Xing ignored him, naïve is naïve.

What's the matter, I don't know how many people in their twenties and thirties make wishes to meteors in China, I am so young, shouldn't I be naïve and naïve?

Chen Xing is not short of money now, let alone the opportunity to get money.

Even if one day you suddenly can't sell your work, isn't this a new career that makes money quickly?

The knowledge of professional-level astronomers is not used to benefit society, but only to find meteorites, which is definitely overkill, but for Chen Xing, it can make money.

There is no shortage of money, what is lacking is happiness.

He can't predict what his future life will be like now, he doesn't know if he will marry Hedwig or some woman and become the master of the family, or if he will still be like now, becoming a prodigal son wandering the world, and take a look at the world first.

Anyway, Chen Xing hopes that he will be happy in the future.

The sky still shimmered.

But it seems that a particularly bright meteor has come, and unlike other fleeting meteors, the light emitted by this meteor is particularly bright, and after passing through the sky for a while, it will dim a little, and then illuminate the night with a brighter light.

Chen Xing could clearly see the appearance of this meteor cutting through the sky.

Erken originally came to find meteorites, and the place he was looking for was also the town where the trajectory of meteors could be best observed.

This town has no character, it is characterized by its proximity.

So it's normal to see a meteorite falling from the sky, cutting through the space, and a blue air cover appearing around the meteorite, right?

Whether it's normal or not, it's so handsome!

This meteorite appeared from the front of Chen Xing, then passed over Chen Xing's head, crossed the roof, and flew towards the side of the other world. At this time, whether it was the people on the ground or the people standing on the roof, including Chen Xing, their eyes followed the meteorite, raised their heads neatly, then turned their heads, and finally watched the meteorite fly into the distance.

Chen Xing seemed to be able to hear him cut through the sky.

Until it was no longer visible, there were still traces of this meteorite in the sky.

Erken clenched his fists.

"This is it! This must be a big meteorite, maybe as big as a millstone! ”

Chen Xing shook his head and said, "At most, the basketball is so big." ”

The millstone is so big, it would be a disaster if it fell to the ground.

There are not many meteorites that can fall on the ground every year, ranging from the size of a marble to the size of a basketball, and the damage to the ground is there, but not too much. But the size of the grinding disc is different, and the effect of this meteorite falling on the ground is equivalent to an explosion of dozens of tons of TNT, even if it falls in the wild, it can easily cause a forest fire.

"You know? I think it's the size of a millstone! Erken was dissatisfied with Chen Xing's questioning of his profession, retorted, and then rubbed his hands. Why didn't anyone find such a big meteorite before, now it's okay, it's cheaper for me. ”

Under the temptation of money, Erken also loses his daytime maturity.

Of course I know, Chen Xing thought to himself.

And maybe it will decompose in mid-air, and then most of the basketball will be gone, and all you will see is the decomposed pieces piece by piece.

But think about meteorites are inherently expensive, and even if they are fragmented, they should be able to make a small fortune if they can be found.

Erken resisted the urge to set off immediately in search of meteorites, returned to his room after the meteor shower, and studied the map on his phone all night.

He can't use the same computers as scientific institutions to simulate the final location of a meteorite landing, but each individual meteorite hunter has his own unique skills.

In the room next to him, Chen Xing was also counting.

The location of the meteorite is not easy to find, the main thing is that you can't know in advance what his material is, is it iron? Is it a new element? Is it a rock?

Depending on the material, the rate at which it burns in the atmosphere is different.

Moreover, Chen Xing is still thinking about whether such a large stone falling into the atmosphere will decompose into pieces in the middle of the way?

Only half an hour later, Chen Xing made a mark on the map of his phone.

On the border between the provinces of Norrbothnstein and Ostrobothnia, near a village called Slugnes......

……………………

The next day, at seven o'clock in the morning.

Chen Xing and Erken set off after having breakfast on the first floor of the hotel, still taking the car all the way north.

Chen Xing didn't tell Erken about the meteorite landing point he calculated, and Erken didn't tell Chen Xing the location he found, but he didn't go to the estimated location he said yesterday, looking at the route, Chen Xing guessed that Erken's final location should be similar to the location he found.

In the car, Erken continued to educate Chen Xing on the composition of the meteorite.

"In fact, more than 90 percent of the meteorites that fall on the earth are stony meteorites, and even if they fall, it is very difficult to find, so 30 percent of the meteorites found by people belong to iron meteorites."

He patted his bag and said, "I'm not worried about telling you that my main tool for detecting meteorites is a metal detector, which has allowed me to find a lot of iron meteorites." If I have the chance, I'd love to invite you to my home to see my collection. ”

Chen Xing nodded again and again.

Newly fallen meteorites don't actually need to be found this way, after all......

A stone that has just been oxidized by the atmosphere and is black can still be seen very clearly in the wild.

What should be needed at this time?

And iron meteorites are only one of the meteorites, there are some common chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, and non-chondrites, and there are also valuable subspecies.

Chen Xing wasn't sure if his knowledge was right, and he hadn't really tried it, anyway, this time it would depend on Erken's performance, and he could also find some Erken's actions to complement his astronomer's knowledge.

The car drove for a day.

When parking, Chen Xing looked at the GPS positioning.

It was not far from the Slugnais they had found, within twenty miles of the surrounding area, and the place where they got off was an unknown village on the side of the road, and even the map did not mark the name of this place, only the road sign that said Nyliden.

It is surrounded by forests, the kind of cedar trees that are common in northern Europe, and in winter the leaves of the cedar trees near the road here have lost their leaves, leaving a bare gray trunk, but the inside is still verdant.

There is also a natural reservoir in the distance.

Or a larger pond.

Chen Xing is not a person who likes fishing, but when he sees this kind of pond, he wants to throw two rods.

This place belongs to the plains, there are no mountains in the distance, but it is very cold, Chen Xing can even see the snow that has not melted on the side of the road when he was in the car before, it should be swept down from the road in the morning, but it has not turned into water for a day, which shows that the temperature here is so low.

There are few families in the village of Nyliden, and a middle-aged man is repairing a handsome tractor outside his house with some oil stains on his body.

Naturally, Erken went over and asked, "Sir." ”

“！ @#@￥%@！ #……”

Chen Xing and Erken showed confused expressions at the same time.

It was normal for Chen Xing not to understand, he was a foreigner, but he quickly looked at Erken Mathieson with a look of disbelief.

"You don't understand? Aren't you Swede? ”

"When did I say I'm Swede? I'm Danish! ”

Erken said this to Chen Xing first, and then asked the middle-aged man again, this time he spoke in a slower tone, but Erken really understood, nodded while talking there, and then said thank you with a serious expression.

Thank you Chen Xing has heard the word a lot, and he already knows it.

Leaving here, Chen Xing asked, "Are you from Denmark and can speak Swedish?" ”

"That's not right." Erken Mathiessen shook his head and said, "Our Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian languages are somewhat similar, and although they are not very well spoken, there is no problem in understanding them. ”

“…… All right. ”

Actually, there's nothing incomprehensible when you think about it.

Chen Xing speaks the dialect of Sichuan Province, and everyone can understand eighty percent of the dialects spoken by friends from Guangxi, while the distance between Denmark and Sweden is not so far from Sichuan Province to Guangxi, so what is so strange about being able to understand each other's words, just as if they speak in the dialects of various provinces.

"What did he say?" Chen Xing asked.

Erken took a drink of water and said, "I asked him if he heard it yesterday, and he said he probably did, but he didn't know because he was still sleeping at the time. The sound probably came from that direction. He pointed in one direction.

"That's good news, why do you have that expression?"

"Yes, that's good news, but there's also bad news." Erken Mathieson sighed and looked into the distance, "The bad news is that we're not the first people to ask him this question today, there must be someone else who has found this place, and we need to hurry up." ”

In the middle of a vast forest, find a black rock the size of a basketball.

It's hard to find.

There are not many people looking for it, the problem is not big, and in the end, it depends on luck.

Moreover, Chen Xing deeply suspected that the meteorite would disintegrate, so what they were looking for might not be a meteorite the size of a basketball, but a stone the size of a mobile phone in this forest.

It's even more difficult.

(End of chapter)