The Lucians did not save Blue Star, and the interception operation failed, or was only partially successful.
As predicted in advance, the nuclear bomb shattered one of the three meteorites. Although it also hit the other two, it did not shatter them. It only polished the two meteorites. Now these two The meteorite is falling towards the Pacific Ocean.
According to astronomers' estimates, their landing point will be between Australia and Hawaii.
But 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 disaster, raising dust clouds all over the sky, covering the sky, and dragging the entire world into a long and icy cold war. It's been a long night.
Now all Chen Xin can do is take one last look at this sunny world, and then quickly hide in his shelter.
Because in the next dozens or even hundreds of years, there will be no sunlight on the surface of the earth. It is very likely that this will be the last time Chen Xin sees the sun in his life.
In the sky at this time, in addition to the sun, there were two huge fireballs. They were passing through the sky at extremely fast speeds and flying towards the east.
On the trajectory of the two large fireballs, small bright spots like sparks flew out from time to time, also dragging long trails across the sky.
Chen Xin knew that they were the two meteorites that were about to hit the Blue Star. The scattered Mars were just fragments peeled off from the meteorites due to the friction of the atmosphere.
With the landing of these two meteorites, Blue Star will usher in another mass extinction of life, just like the Cretaceous mass extinction, the fifth mass extinction 65 million years ago. More than 80% of the species on Blue Star will Living things will die and the entire ecosystem will collapse completely.
Chen Xin doesn't know whether the fate of human beings will be like the dinosaurs that ruled Blue Star back then.
If humanity can survive this crisis, it will still have a chance to rebuild its homeland.
If not, then human beings will become a stepping stone for the new generation of Blue Star overlords, just like the extinction of the dinosaurs gave way to the emergence of mammals.
However, this kind of thing related to 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 and can do now is to quickly enter his refuge and try to survive.
"Everyone, I have entered the shelter. If everyone can survive, let's continue to communicate using the shortwave radio station, using the channel we discussed before." Chen Xin sent the last message in the survival group, watching everyone say Thinking about the same thing, he thought about it for a while and then added another sentence: "Continuous life and prosperity."
This was the Vulcan's hand-raising message in the movie "Star Trek", but now Chen Xin feels that there is no more appropriate expectation and blessing than this.
Before the coming crisis of annihilation, what mankind needs is endless reproduction and prosperity after surviving this disaster.
Just as Chen Xin finished sending this message and watched everyone repeating this sentence on their mobile phones, and was about to take his belongings into the shelter, there was a sudden roar in the sky similar to that of an airplane engine flying overhead. Voice.
Chen Xin quickly looked up and saw a red fire in the sky heading towards his location.
It's a meteorite!
Chen Xin reacted, quickly put away his mobile phone, hugged the quilt wrapped with the TV in his hand, and ran towards the shelter. He couldn't help but regret in his heart, why he had to delay this!
Can a person outrun a meteorite
This question is difficult to answer.
The fastest human running record is 36.86 kilometers per hour. This speed cannot be considered slow, but the speed of meteorites can easily convert the time unit into seconds. There are many things in the universe that can travel tens of kilometers per second.
So if you want to run faster than a meteorite, unless you are a superhero or anime character with special powers like The Flash or Quicksilver, then don't even think about competing with a meteorite.
But if you just simply avoid the impact of the meteorite, as long as the size of the meteorite does not exceed a certain limit, you can still run out of the impact range and avoid being killed by the meteorite.
Chen Xin's luck seemed to be a little bit worse, because when he was very close to the door of the shelter, the meteorite that hit him in the direction had already landed.
However, Chen Xin was not hit, but was pushed out by the impact of the meteorite falling to the ground. He fell to the ground, and the TV wrapped in bedding in his hand also fell to the ground.
The roar caused by the impact caused tinnitus in Chen Xin's ears. He covered his head hard and it took a long time before he recovered.
Looking at the scratched palm and feeling the pain caused by the impact all over his body, he no longer even felt cursed or thankful.
Somewhat embarrassed, Chen Xin got up from the ground and checked whether the TV wrapped in the quilt was broken. Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he was wrapped in a quilt and there were pillows inside, so the TV was not broken.
After wrapping the TV again and opening the door of the shelter, Chen Xin stood at the door and hesitated for a moment before putting down the TV, turning around and staggering towards the direction where the meteorite fell.
If it can hit the ground and cause an impact, then there are nine out of ten meteorites left behind, and it will not be completely burned by the atmosphere.
The meteorites that can fall on the Blue Star at this time are basically fragments of the two large meteorites in the sky. Even if they are not, they are part of the original meteorite with a diameter of ten kilometers.
When this meteorite is about to bring about the end of the world, it seems to be a good thing to pick up a fragment of this meteorite as a souvenir.
Under normal circumstances, Chen Xin would definitely not have this idea.
But now the meteorites have fallen in front of me. This one-in-a-million thing only happens now when the whole world is being hit by meteorites. If I don’t pick up a meteorite as a souvenir, I don’t know if there will be any more in the future. Next time.
The meteorite that struck down didn't look big, because apart from the trace that was plowed out by the meteorite about tens of meters long, there was only a pit about ten meters in diameter on the ground.
The impact lifted up all the soil near the impact point and pushed it to the side. At the bottom of the pit, there was a burnt mark that seemed to be still steaming.
Chen Xin climbed down. He could still feel the heat generated by the impact at the bottom of the pit, but what he was concerned about was whether he could find the meteorite.
However, to Chen Xin's expectation, there was indeed something at the bottom of the pit, but it didn't look like a meteorite.
Because meteorites cannot be standard spheres anyway, nor can they emit light.
What on earth is this? Chen Xin stopped in fear. (End of chapter)