It was late at night, and usually at this time most of the townspeople would have gone to sleep, but tonight the town of Tuoga was destined to be sleepless.
After studying the video for a while without finding anything, Wen Zhiyu turned his attention back.
"Whether this image is caused by the camera or some other reason, I can't figure it out right now, so let's put it aside for now."
Wen Zhiyu stopped looking at the tablet screen and picked up his coat. The temperature outside was a little low at night, so he had to wear something thicker to protect himself from the wind and sand.
Because of the strange images that appeared in the surveillance, Wen Zhiyu's heated mind was delayed for a while, and he cooled down a little. He analyzed one thing rationally - their equipment was limited, and they were not as experienced as professional meteorite hunters. If they went looking for it rashly at this time, they might not find the meteorite. It would be more reliable to have a professional to lead them.
"Quick, Da Pan, ask Uncle Du if he has any travel plans, and let Uncle Du take us to hunt meteorites! First come, first served!"
After Wen Zhiyu finished speaking, he saw that Pan Weining was still sitting there without moving, so he urged him again.
Pan Weining looked away from the tablet screen and said, "I sent a message to Uncle Du, but he didn't reply. Maybe he's resting now."
Wen Zhiyu didn't believe it: "How is it possible! Didn't you see how busy it is outside? There are many meteorite hunters in Tuojia Town. They took action immediately. Look at the cars on the road outside, one after another whizzing past!"
As he spoke, he looked out the window again.
call-
Another car drove by.
If you stand outside and listen quietly, you can also hear the sound of many vehicles driving on the road in the distance.
It used to be so quiet at this time!
"Of course we have to react as quickly as possible to something like this! Are you looking for rocks? You're looking for gold! This is money! How can a meteorite hunter just sit still?"
Worried that Pan Weining would not believe him, Wen Zhiyu looked at Feng Yi again, trying to find an ally: "Feng Yi, do you think what I said is right?"
Feng Yi nodded: "When I bought the meteorite before, my uncle from the Wei family said that in a situation like this where there was a lot of noise and there were many witnesses, even if the meteorite we found was of average quality and had little scientific research value, it would still be priced higher when traded on the market."
Pan Weining said, "It's not that I don't believe it. I can also think from the buyer's perspective. The fireball made too much noise tonight, and there must be a lot of surveillance cameras in the town that captured this scene. It will definitely be a hot search on the Internet tomorrow. With this kind of popularity, if someone finds the meteorite and sells it on the market, there will definitely be many people willing to spend money to satisfy their curiosity."
Seeing Wen Zhiyu looking over, Pan Weining smiled helplessly and pointed at his phone: "I know all this, but in this kind of place, in this matter, for our own safety, we have to find a professional to lead us, otherwise it will be easy to get into trouble if we rush into the Gobi Desert recklessly. I'm waiting for Uncle Du's reply, but there's no movement from him."
"Maybe he's too busy to reply to messages?" Wen Zhiyu thought for a moment and tapped his palm: "That's easy. I'll just drive to find him. It's not far away anyway. I'll go over and take a look. If everyone is resting and the lights are off, I won't knock on the door and will come back immediately. I won't disturb them."
Wen Zhiyu decided to drive over to take a look now, leaving Pan Weining and Feng Yi waiting here, otherwise he would not be able to calm down. He was in high spirits and could not wait any longer. Instead of sitting here, he might as well drive out to take a look and see what other people in the town were doing.
After Wen Zhiyu left, the room became quiet again.
Pan Weining continued to study the strange picture. Feng Yi returned to the room and was also thinking about his own things.
A few days ago, I practiced with the small fragments of meteors from the Perseid meteor shower, and I really perfected the skill of locking onto the target.
But now, after performing it on the larger fireball, he obviously felt the strain.
The fireball has a larger mass and requires more energy. It takes a lot of effort to deflect it. The pursuit from behind was an attack that Feng Yi had to exert almost all his strength to launch.
The explosion of the fireball was not entirely caused by Feng Yi's attack. Even if Feng Yi was not there, the fireball would have exploded before falling to the ground, but the explosion would not have been so thorough, and the brightness of the fire would not have been so strong.
He took the cup of water handed to him by Xiaojia, and found that it contained not tea but Feng Yi's special nutrient solution.
I've consumed too much energy and feel a little exhausted.
After drinking a bottle, my complexion looked a little better.
"Another drink." Feng Yi said to Xiao Jia.
While eating compressed biscuits and drinking nutrient solution, he continued to think about the meteor.
too difficult.
It’s really too difficult!
This is only at the meteoroid level, not particularly large. A larger meteoroid can directly cause a large-scale meteor shower when it explodes.
What he fried was just average.
However, even at this "average" level, Feng Yi felt obviously struggling as soon as he started.
It's like a wild horse with a bridle. You can't pull it back, you can only make it deviate a little, but it cannot be tamed in a short time.
If our ancestors in the past really took action against asteroids that posed a "sufficient threat", what a huge force that would have been!
Feng Yi felt powerless as he could not envy her. He took a big gulp of nutrient solution to calm his lost heart.
The development stage and growth level do not reach the level of their ancestors. In comparison, they can only be considered as the initial and cub levels.
Very weak!
But there is no way. The energy and materials provided by this planet now cannot fully meet the needs of development in the subsequent stages.
Before this, Feng Yi was thinking that if those meteors could bring energy matter, he could absorb energy from these celestial bodies.
Those meteorites that exist on the planet but have not been discovered by humans may be weathered and eroded and disappear over time, and their energy substances will also change accordingly. A small part of them will become free and precipitate, but most of them will be converted into other substances and no longer be used.
"Fresh" meteorites may contain more usable energy materials, so Feng Yi turned his attention to them.
but now.
Feng Yi discovered that the energy contained in each of these meteoroids, regardless of size, was unknown.
For example, the fireball that Feng Yi shattered today contains very little energy matter.
Maybe the next time we encounter a fireball, there will be more energy and matter in it. It depends on luck.
These are like opening blind boxes.
Not every piece of cosmic debris contains the energy and matter he needs.
Not every piece contains sufficient energy substances.
Perhaps after decades of hard work in star hunting, the energy and materials he obtained still could not support the amount he needed for a molting.
And every star hunting process will consume some energy and matter.
It is very likely that, in the end, the effort you put in will not be worth the reward, and the loss will outweigh the gain.
Actually, think about it.
Countless cosmic debris break into this planet every day, but the total amount of energy and matter on this planet continues to decrease.
so…
“It won’t work.”
Feng Yi was worried.
No wonder my aunt stopped paying attention to meteorites after only studying them for a few years.
Only if a celestial body with larger mass and more energy breaks into this planet can it bring in more energy and matter.
But that level should be a destructive-class asteroid. If a celestial body of this size hits you, Feng Yi himself doesn’t know if he can survive!
Today's huge meteor almost made him faint.
If faced with an asteroid with a diameter of kilometers, he would be just like an ordinary person, trying to stop a chariot with his bare hands!
The meteorite route seems to be blocked.
But Feng Yi will continue to try, using the batch of meteorites he bought to practice, wondering if there is a more energy-efficient way to make a celestial body explode in the air.
If he does nothing and waits for the stone to fall, it will not be his. If he spends money to buy it, there will be too many things to do and it will be easy to be targeted.
But if you can't figure out a way to save energy, there's no need to blow it up. Not only will it attract attention if you make a big noise, but it may also not be worth the effort. It's better not to do it.
Feng Yi was struggling with the issue of energy conservation, while Wen Zhiyu, who had gone out to get information, had already driven back.
Feng Yi went to the living room.
Wen Zhiyu was saying, "I drove to Uncle Du's house. The lights were on. I knocked on the door and asked, but his family said he had already left!"
As we thought before, when it comes to meteorites, professional meteorite hunters are quite capable of taking action.
At this time, Uncle Du's message finally arrived.
Pan Weining took a look.
Uncle Du apologized and told them that he had already left.
"Uncle Du said he would go explore the way first and tell us later. Acting in the dark is not suitable for outsiders like us. Let's take a rest and recharge our batteries. Maybe there will be more information tomorrow, and then we can decide what to do." Pan Weining said.
Wen Zhiyu groaned unwillingly. He couldn't sleep now, so he shared what he had just seen:
“The traffic lights that were out of service at the intersection were all reactivated, and I encountered two red lights along the way.
Actually, there are not many cars on the road now. A group of people have already driven out of town. Not many people are left in the town, but it is very lively everywhere. "
"I heard some merchants calling to order goods and replenish supplies, saying that there will definitely be a lot of customers coming, so they have to prepare."
"The hotel on the next street, which is usually so quiet that the waiters are napping, is now brightly lit and they are cleaning the rooms."
"Also, the old lady who looked listless on the recliner at the entrance of the small supermarket that we saw the day before yesterday, stood at the entrance of the supermarket tonight and yelled inside. I don't know what she was saying because her dialect was too strong and I couldn't hear clearly, but her voice was very loud!"
The residents of Toga Town may not be good at other things, but they are extremely sensitive in this aspect.
However, there was nothing for these visitors from other places to do. Just as Pan Weining said, instead of acting hastily, it would be better to conserve their energy and collect more information tomorrow to see how things develop.
Feng Yi consumed too much energy tonight, so he went back to his room and had a midnight snack, then fell asleep immediately. He really needed to recharge.
Pan Weining shared the strange video with several of his tech geek friends in the room and asked them to help him analyze it.
Wen Zhiyu tossed and turned, finally falling into a drowsy sleep.
The next day, Wen Zhiyu woke up with his mind still a little confused. When he opened the window and heard the sound of an airplane in the sky, he was refreshed.
He looked in that direction and saw a plane landing towards the airport.
“Someone is really coming!”
Wen Zhiyu ran to the roof and used a camera to observe the license plates of the vehicles on the road.
Sure enough, there are many people from other places!
This is only because the time is still short and only people from nearby cities have come here. Other visitors from farther away will come one after another.
This small town seems to be waking up again.
Wen Zhiyu asked his friend: "Da Pan, was it a fireball last night? This formation is bigger than I expected. Why do I feel uneasy?"
Pan Weining didn't know who he was messaging, and he said, "Not bad, pretty much what I expected. I have a few friends planning to come over as well."
Wen Zhiyu asked: "Why are you here? Looking for meteorites?"
Pan Weining said: "They are usually not interested in meteorites, but they are very interested in yesterday's fireball and the footage captured by the surveillance camera, and want to come and explore the mystery."
Wen Zhiyu: "What secrets are you exploring? Are you still studying that lake image? Oh, I don't know what's wrong with that camera. The meteors I took before were quite clear, but last night it suddenly seemed like there was a lake. The intelligent parameter adjustment doesn't work."
Pan Weining said seriously, "That's what I'm talking about! This situation is not unique to you, it's the same for everyone else in Tuojia Town! All the surveillance footage at that time was blurry! There must be some unknown factor causing it!"
"real?!"
Wen Zhiyu was surprised and opened his mobile phone to check the updates on social media.
Sure enough, there was a topic related to fireballs at the top of the hot search list.
After one night, many videos and photos were exposed on the Internet. Most of them were uploaded by other residents or tourists in Tuoga Town, or submitted to self-media and released by big Vs.
Wen Zhiyu clicked in to see netizens’ reactions.
I heard that the fireball was hit by something and then exploded [terrified]
High speed and high temperature, this is not the first time that a fireball has disintegrated in the air. This is a normal phenomenon, don't over-interpret it
No! This is really different from the previous ones! Go find the video! Check to see if the ion tail of the fireball has been split apart, and if something has caught up from behind and hit the body of the meteor!
I've said it before, there are aliens on our planet! It must have been shot down by an alien UFO!
Many of the IP addresses of people who posted the video show Tuojia Town. Is this place very remote? It looks like a small place in the video. I also want to go and see it, but it is too remote and inconvenient.
Tuojia Town? The meteorite city back then! How many people chased stars here! It was very famous 20 or 30 years ago. Parents and grandparents should have heard of Tuojia Town. But that place is really remote, surrounded by a large Gobi desert.
I checked the map and found that it was too far away and there were no flights. I had to fly to the nearest big city airport and then drive for six or seven hours to get to Tuojia Town.
There is an airport in Tuojia Town! In a chat group I joined, a rich man has already chartered a plane there! He said he wanted to find aliens [laughing and crying]
Wen Zhiyu thought to himself: No wonder I saw a plane when I woke up. Oh, and now I hear the sound again. The airport must be very busy today.
Continue to watch the videos of those fireballs.
They are indeed quite vague.
Many of the surveillance equipment installed in Tuoga Town are relatively old models and not as good as his equipment.
Sure enough, many netizens also believed that the video was fake:
Here it comes again, the scam of the outdated town is at it again!
It feels like this is an organized and large-scale fraud! Are they trying to trick the leeks into coming over to get their money's worth
The marketing account has received money, let’s make money together!
To be honest, it is really hard to take pictures of this kind of meteor, but it is not necessary to take such a blurry picture.
Can we have a clear video? The video posted by a certain big V is so blurry that it looks like someone has polished it to look like a cyberpunk!
All the videos released, no matter from which angle, are blurry!
Facing online doubts, Wen Zhiyu has something to say:
There's really nothing wrong with the camera, and he didn't deliberately make it so blurry!
But this is how it came out!
He himself feels wronged!
It’s really not my fault!
It must be as Pan Weining said, caused by some mysterious force's interference!
At this time, Feng Yi also woke up and was scrolling through the messages on his mobile phone.
The airport in Toga Town was suddenly full.
True and false news are rampant on the Internet.
However, under public opinion monitoring, those misleading remarks will soon be controlled.
I opened the door to the terrace. The wind blew, bringing with it too many smells that did not belong to the local area.
The town, which was originally in a retirement state, suddenly became full of vitality.
Sky.
The sound of a helicopter was heard.
Feng Yi looked up, paused, and retracted his foot that was stretched out towards the terrace.
"Feng Yi, what's wrong?"
Wen Zhiyu ran to the terrace and looked at the helicopter in the sky.
"that is?"
"From the special investigation team of the Joint Security Bureau." Feng Yi said.