Chapter Twenty-Two: Meteor Shower

  In the vicinity of Earth's orbit, in this vacuum of cosmic space, there is nothing else except for various artificial satellites launched by countries around the world.

  A satellite orbiting in a predetermined orbit suddenly exploded, and the expensive high-tech product instantly became a pile of useless garbage.

  Explosions then occurred in rapid succession on different orbits, with satellites being destroyed one after another. The departments or users related to these satellites instantly lost contact with them.

  At this time, a large group of meteorites are constantly rushing towards the Earth's orbit, and then under the gravity of the Earth and the dynamic force of these meteorites themselves, they rush into the atmosphere at an extremely fast speed.

  These meteorites of varying sizes, under the intense friction with the atmosphere, bring long tails and huge heat energy to all parts of the world.

  Facing this sudden disaster, all countries on the ground were not prepared in advance. A large number of meteorites continuously entered the atmosphere at a speed several times that of sound and flew towards the ground.

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  Late at night, in the suburbs of Lushan City, the villa of the Mo family was quiet. After a busy day, everyone had gone to bed early, for they still had a whole day's worth of work tomorrow.

  Suddenly a huge explosion sounded instantly, and Mudan Xing, who was having a beautiful dream, immediately woke up. He got out of bed at the first time and walked towards the outside of the room to see what had happened.

  When Mudan Xing arrived at the corridor, Lao Xia and others had already been awakened by the huge explosion. Just as Lao Zhou was about to ask what happened, another loud explosion came from outside.

  Mudan Xing and Old Zhou exchanged a glance before everyone immediately ran out of the villa, preparing to see what had happened outside.

  As soon as they came out, they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them. They saw that countless meteors were constantly appearing in the sky above their heads and flying towards the earth, and those meteors with flames looked exceptionally beautiful and dazzling in the dark night.

  The ill-timed explosion sounds will shock the crowd who are attracted by the beautiful meteor shower in front of them, and the direction of the city area of Miao City is abnormally bright, and those explosion sounds all come from that side.

  Lao Xia was the first to react, and he immediately shouted loudly: "My god! The things in the sky are not shooting stars for making wishes, but extremely powerful meteor showers. How could such a thing happen!"

  Everyone present, including Mu Chen Xing, was shocked by Lao Xia's words. Although they were not professionals in understanding meteorites, they had all seen introductions on TV and the internet, and were aware of the destructive power of these things when they fell.

  And just now the explosion they heard was a vivid reminder of how powerful those dangerous guys were.

  Mudustar didn't say a word, and immediately took out the flying skateboard from the storage ring on his hand, rising into the air and heading towards Lushan City.

  At this moment, what appeared before his eyes was that several places in the city were constantly bursting into raging flames. In the dark night, they looked so conspicuous, with thick black smoke continuously rising towards the sky.

  To avoid being hit by the still falling meteorites in the sky, Muxin Xing immediately descended from the sky. At the same time, he said solemnly: "The city has been hit by a meteorite, and there are several places on fire now. It looks like there will be quite a lot of damage!"

  Mudustar turned his head to look at Old Xia, who had a similarly serious expression, and asked: "Old Xia, these meteorites in the sky won't cause the destruction of the Earth like they do in movies, will they? Although I haven't seen any particularly large meteorites in the sky, there are still too many of them."

  Regarding the question of Mu Xunxing, Lao Xia looked at the meteor shower that was still falling continuously in the sky, shook his head and frowned: "I don't know, it depends on how big the volume of the next fallen meteorite is. If it's one of those super-large meteorites, also known as 'Earth Killer', we estimate that we can only save our lives by hiding underground. However, from the current situation, they are all relatively small meteorites, so I don't think the situation you mentioned will happen."

  Xia Linxiao seriously said to Mu Chenxing and the others: "Then let's not live in the house for now, the situation here is really too dangerous."

  Lao Zhou highly agreed with Xia Linxue's proposal, and calmly said: "Linxue is right, for safety reasons, this house can't be lived in tonight. Why don't we rush to the institute immediately, and temporarily hide in that underground cave nearby?"

  Mudustar shook his head and analyzed calmly, "This method won't work. The meteor shower in the sky is too dense now. The jet engine has no way to resist those high-speed falling meteors. Now the best way is to stay where we are and wait for the things in the sky to finish naturally. Athena, you immediately monitor the airspace above our house with all your might, and strike down any small meteor that flies here. Old Xia, Old Zhou, Lin Yue, we will now put all the research equipment and other valuable items in the storage wristband, so that if something changes, we can evacuate immediately."

  Everyone thought this method was indeed good, and they immediately took action one after another. However, what Muxun Xing and the others did not expect was that this meteor shower did not last for just one night, but instead continued to fall intermittently for three days.

  Fortunately, in the following days, Lushan City did not suffer from larger meteorite attacks, but other parts of the world were not so lucky.

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  This sudden meteor shower attacked all over the world, but the landing place of the meteor still has a very obvious strong and weak distinction.

  The number of meteorites that fall in the Northern Hemisphere is far greater than in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, various losses in the Northern Hemisphere are also much higher than those in the Southern Hemisphere. Among the numerous fatal meteorite showers that fell in the Northern Hemisphere, those that fell in Europe were the most, followed by North America, while Asia, especially East Asia, suffered the least from meteorite attacks.

  Due to the meteorites appearing intermittently for three consecutive days in various parts of the world, the rescue efforts organized by governments of various countries have been greatly hindered.

  Most of the satellites in the sky were knocked out by the first wave of meteorites before they could even fall to Earth. As a result, various communication facilities that relied on positioning to transmit signals suddenly became unusable junk. News of the disaster from all over the world was suddenly interrupted.

  And after the meteorite hit the ground, road traffic was also basically paralyzed. Some main roads that were directly hit by the meteorite have become huge pits, and not only cars but even people cannot pass through.

  As governments of various countries began dispatching relief troops to their own disaster areas on the first day after the meteorite impact, no one expected that there would be a massive meteor shower in the next two days.

  As a result, most of the first batch of rescue personnel encountered the second meteor shower that came one after another on their way, and at one point, these people who came to prepare for disaster relief suffered heavy losses in an instant, suddenly changing from going to rescue people to being rescued themselves.

  Among them, those who drove helicopters to the disaster area were even more miserable. Due to the meteor shower being too dense, the helicopters flying in the air had nowhere to hide and were hit like a sieve, causing a huge explosion in mid-air before crashing down.

  Faced with this dangerous situation, the governments of various countries had to temporarily suspend sending rescue personnel to the disaster area again. However, this has led to extremely serious and terrible consequences in the disaster area, which is also something that the governments of various countries did not anticipate.

  In the next two days, the European region with the most severe meteorite impact, some countries' regions were even unlucky to be continuously hit by large meteorites for several days. The powerful impact force and shockwave destroyed everything in the affected areas completely.

  The once prosperous European region is now scarred, with many cities destroyed and heavy casualties.

  When the meteor shower in the sky finally began to weaken slowly until it completely stopped, the governments of various countries re-started sending large numbers of rescue personnel to the disaster area.

  However, when the rescue personnel finally arrived at the disaster area after much difficulty, they found that apart from the inconvenience caused by the impassable roads, there were even more troublesome things. The fallen meteorites brought a large amount of strong electromagnetic radiation, causing a massive disruption in communication in each disaster area. Helicopters and other rescue equipment would be severely interfered with once they flew into the disaster area.

  And the radiation in space is even more deadly, rescue teams have found strong sources of radiation at multiple locations, due to lack of specialized protective facilities they had no choice but to abandon search and rescue missions in areas with severe over-standard radiation.

  At the same time, the global climate is also severely affected by the constantly falling meteorites, and extreme weather conditions such as heavy rain and storms begin to appear frequently in various places.

  But these are just small things, one of the two major dangers that humans will mainly face in the future is quietly emerging in the disaster-stricken areas around the world.

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  At night, in a certain area of Europe that was severely hit by meteorites, the densely populated city has been devastated under the impact of the meteorite.

  Yesterday's bustling city is now a desolate scene of ruins, with large numbers of casualties found everywhere on the streets and among the rubble.

  Just as people were searching for the injured with all their might, some of the meteorites that had fallen to the ground began to crack, and then small black insects slowly appeared inside the meteorite.

  These small insects that appear from meteorites are extremely bizarre. Their bodies are very small, with a hard shell on their backs, six sharp claws on their abdomen, and a row of tiny eyes on their heads.

  Because the area where the meteorite fell has a large amount of lethal radiation, no one approaches this place, so these strange small insects that are constantly emerging from the meteorite have not been discovered by anyone.

  These strange insects, after landing, quickly crawled towards the ruins in front of them. Soon, one of the insect found a sheepdog that was possibly seriously injured from the impact in the ruins.

  The little bug found a place to slowly drill into the body of the sheepdog that was still breathing, after it had come to the sheepdog that had already exhaled more than inhaled. Soon, the sheepdog suddenly convulsed violently all over its body, continuously letting out a series of mournful cries, but these cries soon stopped.

  The sheepdog, which was originally on the verge of death, stood up spiritedly at this time, but its eyes had completely turned green.

  Such bizarre situations are still being quietly staged in various disaster-stricken areas, especially under the ruins and impact zones, where injured people or other large animals are constantly invaded by these strange insects that have fallen from meteorites, and then their eyes turn green and they regain vitality and stand up again.