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The young man involuntarily looked into the sky after hearing these words. Sure enough, several streams of light had appeared in the sky at some point. These glowing streaks continued to fall and then quickly disappeared.
When he saw this, for some reason. the youth felt a hint of disappointment…
Just when he was feeling discouraged and was preparing to say something final, he suddenly saw that one of the streams of light had not been extinguished like the rest, but instead became bigger and brighter.
"Huh?"
Both the youth and the girl were a little puzzled. They blinked, only to find that the light seemed to be streaking toward them.
The speed of the meteor was so fast. In less than a few seconds, the streak of light flew over the heads of the two with a whistle and then they only heard a "bang", and a blazing light burst out from the top of the mountain!
The meteor had fallen?
Seeing this scene, the two looked at each other in unison. Both of them noticed the shocked expressions in the other's eyes. Then, the young man ignored the girl and he ran toward the site of impact without thinking!
As an astronomy enthusiast, he knew that ordinary people would never witness this kind of scene, not even once in their lives. How could he pass up this opportunity?
"Han Zizhe, Han Zizhe!"
Behind him, the girl shouted anxiously, but the young man still did not stop because, in his opinion, the blaze of fire was not far, only about three to four hundred meters away. This distance was short enough for him to be the first to reach the scene.
Sure enough, the young man only ran for two or three minutes before he reached the place where the meteor had fallen. He first smelled a pungent burnt stench, but in this smell, there was a barbecue-like aroma.
"Huff, huff!"
He ran to the front in one breath and finally saw a shallow pit, half a meter in diameter, in the ground. Even the soil in the pit was being scorched!
There was blue smoke in the pit and in the center of the crater, there was a fist-sized, irregular-shaped meteorite quietly resting there.
Illuminated by the light of his mobile phone, the meteorite was spindle-shaped and its color was pure black. He did not know if it was burned black when it fell into the atmosphere or if that was the original color. Other than that, he could not make out anything else.
About four or five minutes later, the girl named Zhang Qi finally rushed over. She looked at the young man by the crater. "Han Zizhe, I called you so many times, why did you pretend not to hear me?"
The youth looked back at the girl and replied indifferently, "I thought you weren't going to watch the meteors with me anymore, then why are you calling for me? Just go by yourself."
"So, you just left me there alone?"
The girl asked incredulously, "What happens if I'm in danger?"
"Heh heh."
The young man sneered and did not answer. He ignored the girl's nattering. He saw that there was no more smoke in the crater and it had probably cooled down. Then, he stepped into the crater and gingerly reached out toward the meteorite.
"Han Zizhe, I'll have this meteorite!"
However, before he touched the meteorite, there was a sudden burst of footsteps and the girl went straight past him and took the meteorite before his eyes.
"You!"
The young man frowned. "This meteorite is worth nothing. What will you do with it? You know I'm an astronomy enthusiast, so you want to snatch what's mine?"
"What's yours? This thing dropped from the sky!"
The girl instantly yelled defiantly, but at this moment, she felt a stream of heat flowing to the back of her hand and arm.
She reached out, only to realize that her hand was full of a sticky substance by now.
"What the h*ll?"
As it was dark, neither of them could see exactly what was on the meteorite. The girl moved her phone to the meteorite, only to see a lot of liquid leaking out of the meteorite like black oil. Some of the liquid had permeated the ground as well.
She turned her head and looked at the meteorite, but saw that there were a few small cracks in the meteorite. This liquid was flowing out of these cracks.
"Ugh, how disgusting!"
The girl hurriedly threw the meteorite on the ground, and then quickly took out the paper towel from her handbag and constantly wiped her hands.
"See? I told you not to touch this thing, but you just wouldn't listen."
The young man snorted, then he picked up the meteorite at once, turned, and walked down the mountain.
"Where are you going?"
The girl hurriedly shouted.
"Let's go, I'll take you home!"
…
After a twisting drive, by the time Han Zizhe had sent Zhang Qi to the door of her house, the two had reconciled as before.
When the girl had left the car, Han Zizhe turned his head again to look at the meteorite in the front passenger seat.
At this time, the meteorite had soaked the entire underside of the front passenger seat. He did not know how much liquid was in it, but it was not drained yet.
Could it be that this meteorite was a piece of meteoric ice?
Han Zizhe shook his head. He stepped on the accelerator and the vehicle returned to his rented residence.
He wrapped the meteorite in a piece of paper and moved the meteorite back to his home. Then, Han Zizhe excitedly turned on the light and looked at the meteorite carefully.
This meteorite was not big, only slightly larger than an ordinary person's fist, and it was all covered with cracks. Up to this point, there was still a trace of liquid seeping out, which looked dark and incomparably sticky.
"It doesn't look like water. Surely this thing isn't radioactive…"
Seeing this, the young man suddenly became a little nervous. He looked at his hand. This liquid did not seem to be anything special and was easily washed away with water. It was not as difficult to clean as oil.
Thinking of this, he leaned forward toward the meteorite again and sniffed it lightly.
Immediately, he noticed that there was an odd smell from the meteorite, besides the burnt smell and barbecue aroma.
The burnt smell and barbecue aroma came from the outer shell of the meteorite, but this odd smell came from the liquid within.
"F*ck, it's quite disgusting…:
Han Zizhe murmured. He had not heard of any meteorite that turned out to be smelly.
Thinking of this, he quickly turned on the computer, logged in to the "Meteorite Home" website, about to make a post on the forum to see what this meteorite was.
However, he had just opened the webpage when he saw that there were already several posts published there —
[Newbie here, would like to ask you guys what kind of meteorite this is classified as? Is it an iron meteorite or a stone meteorite?]
[I just bought this from a layman, now I present it to you. It fell during the meteor shower tonight…]
[The scale of the meteor shower tonight is so big, I didn't expect that quite a few of you would have obtained a meteorite?]
There were pictures under the titles of these posts and the pictures were all the same. They were not very different from the meteorite he got. Some of them still had sticky liquid flowing out of them, which looked a bit disgusting.
Han Zizhe casually clicked into a post, and sure enough, the replies below were complaining about these questions.
[F*ck, what the h*ll is this, it's not like a meteorite at all, okay? Why is there goo on it?]
[Hey, it's real. The shell has the burnt marks formed when it passed through the atmosphere. It doesn't look fake. As for the oozing liquid, probably it's because the meteorite contains ice?]
[Will this liquid cause any problems? I advise the OP to go to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow.]
[So gross…]
[OP, I'm from the relevant department. This meteorite of yours belongs to the country. Please hand it over to the government tomo
rrow and claim your reward of a small red flag and 50,000 yuan.]
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Chapter 532: A Peculiar Case |
First of all, more than one piece of this kind of meteorite fell and there were several pieces on the "Meteorite Home" forum alone.
Secondly, this kind of meteorite had a common feature, which was it contained liquid inside. Once it fell to the ground, the liquid would flow out from the cracks in the meteorite.
Finally, the liquid in these meteorites had a fishy smell, reminding people of animal body fluids.
"Forget it, I'll stop thinking about this. I'll keep it for now."
Han Zizhe shook his head. He placed the meteorite on the coffee table, washed up, and then lay on the bed and played with his cell phone.
Unwittingly, he slowly fell asleep.
"Squeak squeak…"
When Han Zizhe was falling asleep, a special sound came from this meteorite, and then suddenly more liquid flowed out of it. This liquid flowed out across the coffee table little by little as if it was alive and then flowed in the direction where Han Zizhe was sleeping…
Han Zizhe had a special dream.
In his dream, he walked alone on a dark street. It seemed that because it was late at night and there was no one anywhere in the street, only a few cars driving on the road.
A night wind blew past and the empty streets seemed filled with odd loneliness.
'Where am I…'
Han Zizhe had some doubts but this kind of doubt only lasted for a moment before dissipating again. Human beings rarely doubted the logic in their dreams. This was a subconscious evasion.
Why, why was there no one on the street?
Looking at the empty street, Han Zizhe suddenly became a little confused and at the same time, an inexplicable feeling came into his heart.
This was a feeling of emptiness and a special desire.
Han Zizhe took a deep breath but felt that the loneliness was getting heavier and that he was going crazy from the silence of the street devoid of people.
How he wished he could be with people, sticking to them, melding as one, fusing flesh and blood, connecting vessels…
Suddenly, there was this feeling deep in his heart that Han Zizhe was at once startled by his thoughts in this empty and quiet street.
This scare woke him up.
Han Zizhe opened his eyes abruptly, only to realize that it was already the next day. Dazzling sunlight shone in from the window, completely dispelling the deep desire from the dream.
"In my dream, why did I have that idea?"
Immediately after waking up, Han Zizhe frowned. "Surely I'm not becoming a pervert?"
Thinking of this, Han Zizhe could not help but shiver. He only felt that his stomach was empty, racked by the unique hunger pangs of the morning.
He stopped thinking about that unique dream but looked at his watch and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock, so he got up and went out quickly.
Han Zizhe just graduated from university this year, but he had not found a job. He had only one job at present, which was to receive the allowance given by his parents, and eat, and wait to die.
Still, fortunately, his family was pretty well off. Even if he did not go to work, he would not starve to death.
Driving the car that his parents paid for, Han Zizhe first sent a WeChat message to his girlfriend. Seeing that she did not reply, he drove to his favorite restaurant and ordered a barbecue meal.
On the TV in the restaurant, the noon news was broadcasting about the meteor shower last night.
According to the news, the meteor shower last night was a large-scale meteor shower that was rarely seen even in a century. There had been more than one million meteors descending to the earth, but most of the meteors that were not large enough were burned up in the atmosphere, and only about one percent of the meteorites had fallen on Earth.
One of the most sensational ones was a giant meteorite the size of a house that fell in Mumbai, India, but fortunately, it fell on the outskirts of Mumbai without causing any casualties.
Seeing this, Han Zizhe also paid attention, wanting to hear about these meteorites, especially whether there was liquid in those meteorites. However, in the next second, the program turned to other news, and coverage of the meteorites was quickly over.
Seeing this, Han Zizhe lowered his head again. He simply opened the browser by himself and started searching for news about meteorites.
It was just that most media on the Internet was self-produced content that only talked nonsense. After reading a few articles, he lost all interest to continue reading.
After lunch, his girlfriend still did not reply, so he made a call.
Soon, Zhang Qi's blurry voice came on the phone.
"You haven't got up yet, little sleepyhead?"
Han Zizhe secretly breathed a sigh of relief as he teased her. "Would you like me to pick you up now? How about we go to a movie today?
"Okay, you wash up first, I'll come right away."
Hearing an affirmative reply from his girlfriend, he did not continue to stay in the restaurant, but paid the bill and drove in the direction of his girlfriend's house.
An hour later, he waited for his girlfriend Zhang Qi outside the community area.
The moment when he saw his girlfriend Zhang Qi, Han Zizhe suddenly felt his mouth becoming a little dry. At this moment, he suddenly had the urge to become one with his girlfriend.
He pursed his mouth. He did not understand why this feeling suddenly appeared. Is it because he had been holding back for too long recently?
That could not be it…
Little did he know, the moment his girlfriend Zhang Qi saw him, she also froze for a moment, and then her expression returned to normal again.
"Why did you get up so late today?"
Seeing his girlfriend getting in the car, Han Zizhe quickly shifted his thoughts and asked casually, "I thought I had gotten up late enough today, but I didn't expect you to not be up even by one in the afternoon. Isn't that too much?"
"Isn't it because I accompanied you to watch the meteor shower late last night?"
His girlfriend curled her lips, then rolled her eyes. She took Han Zizhe's hand and said, "By the way, I had a bad nightmare last night!"
"Nightmare?"
The strange dream from last night flashed across Han Zizhe's mind, after which he smiled. "What sort of nightmare?"
"I dreamed that I was walking in an empty city and I couldn't find anyone anywhere…"
His girlfriend said mock-seriously, "I also saw a lot of people staring at me, they almost scared me to death!"
"So, were there no people or many people?"
Han Zizhe raised his eyebrows and started the car. "You first said that no one was to be found and then later that there were many people looking at you. Did you dream of people or not?"
"I'm not sure too…"
His girlfriend frowned suddenly, seeming to be very confused. "It feels like I didn't see anyone and also that there was a group of people watching me from the distance, and I very much wanted those people to approach me…"
"And then?"
Hearing this, Han Zizhe's heart suddenly leaped.
"Then, I was woken up by your call."
His girlfriend replied, "When I think about it now, it's really scary. If it weren't for your phone call, I don't know what nightmare I'd have had!"
"…"
Hearing this, Han Zizhe was silent for a moment. He was about to tell her of his dream, but suddenly noticed the red light in front of him, so he hurriedly stepped on the brakes!
There was a loud squeal. Their car had almost hit the car in front.
"Phew, so close…"
Han Zizhe heaved a sigh of relief. After this interruption, his notion of telling her his dream was also forgotten.
After arriving at the movie theater, the two negotiated an
d finally decided on a superficial romance. Then, they bought two buckets of popcorn and two bottles of Coke and entered the venue.
The two found their seat numbers. This time, they had deliberately chosen the last row. They sat down with enthusiasm, but at this moment, Han Zizhe felt that inexplicable impulse hit him again…
However, the source of this impulse did not originate from his girlfriend, but from somewhere near the entry.
Han Zizhe looked there instinctively, only to see a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and refined clothes walk into the venue, toward the last row where they were.
At the same time he walked in, the man seemed to feel something and suddenly raised his head. His eyes immediately met Han Zizhe's.
At this, they both felt a jolt.
In the next second, the man recovered immediately. He smiled politely at Han Zizhe and then began to find his seat, which happened to be next to Han Zizhe's girlfriend.
Han Zizhe observed the other party secretly for a while. Seeing that there was nothing unusual about the other party, he then turned his head back.
Just then, the lights in the venue turned off!
The movie — was starting.
This romance movie was no different than other romances. Inevitably, it was the story of a couple who fell in love, had a misunderstanding, broke up, resolved the misunderstanding, met again, had another misunderstanding, and after a series of separations and reconciliations, finally stayed together for good.
Both the male and female leads gave an average performance, but at this age, few of the viewers were looking at the acting. Most of those who came to watch were young people in love. To them, watching the movie was just a pretext.
At this time, Han Zizhe had this kind of thought. As the plot was unfolding halfway, there was a special desire stirring awake in his body. He looked around, only to find that the entire venue was dark and he could barely see half a meter away. Only the deafening acoustics could be heard throughout the venue.
Seeing this, he had impure thoughts and wanted to lean in the direction of his girlfriend.
Even so, Han Zizhe found that no matter how far he leaned over, he could not touch his girlfriend. The seats in the cinema might seem to be close, but in fact, the space between them was not that small.
