CH 4.1

Chapter 4: Meteorite Shower

Xing Mo collected this valuable piece of sun green hibiscus jade into his space button, and then motioned to Elder Gao and the others to continue to grind stones.

Old Gao quickly picked up a piece of yellow sand skin jadeite. The matrix of this kind of jadeite is usually thicker, and the outer skin can be seen with green veins, which means that the inner green is better.

At first glance, the performance of this piece of wool is the same as the previous one. But after turning it over, you can see a large disgusting black scab at the bottom. These black tinea scabs are crystals of mineral impurities. Usually it has strong penetrating power and will destroy the quality of jade.

But there is a saying called ‘black goes with green’, which means that black tinea scabs usually grow along the jadeite matrix, so it isn’t certain if the scab is simply from the matrix itself or if it is actually grown into the jadeite itself.

Now its time to see if the black tinea scab has destroyed the jade.

So Old Gao asked Li Jun to cut the jadeite along the edge of the scab and directly cut the jadeite to see the situation inside in the most intuitive way.

Li Jun pressed the chrome knife again and quickly and accurately cut along the edge of the scab. A small patch of green soon appeared on the cut window surface. After splashing with water, you can see more clearly.

“It’s green! It’s green!” The people around shouted excitedly.

That layer of black tinea scab may not have formed for a long time, so it did not cause damage to the jade inside. If you polish this piece of jadeite completely, you should be able to pull out a larger piece of jade.

In front of the new boss, Old Gao continued to bet up two hard-to-choose jadeite, which really couldn’t be better.

The other gamblers also showed excitement on their faces, and hurriedly said to Li Jun, “Change the wheel! Keep grinding!”

The green is cut out with only one knife, then it must be finely polished with a grinding wheel to preserve the integrity of the jade to the greatest extent.

When everyone was enthusiastically watching the second piece of emerald emerge, suddenly a thunderous sound came from the sky.

Everyone hurriedly looked up and saw a bright light piercing the night sky and flying towards the ground at great speed.

It seems to be a meteor very common in the universe. Meteors are usually smaller than gravel and will soon be blocked by the protective cover on the planet’s surface during the fall, and will not cause any substantial damage to the planet.

The thunder explosion heard just now may be the sound of slightly larger meteors hitting the planet’s protective cover.

Therefore, the crowd did not pay much attention to this at first, and continued to watch enthusiastically.

But after the second and third loud thunder explosions sounded, everyone faintly felt something was wrong. At this time, when they looked up again, they saw countless fireballs falling in the direction of planet Kulta.

“Boom boom boom!” Those rapidly falling fireballs hit a transparent protective cover in the night sky, making deafening noises continuously.

There are too many fireballs, and everyone can clearly see that something invisible in the night sky is beginning to distort…

A huge boulder with blazing flames slammed heavily on the ground not far away, smashing the ground out of a huge pit. Everyone felt the tremor on the ground, and panic inevitably grew in their hearts.

“This is not a meteor! This is a meteorite! It is a large-scale meteorite shower! The protective shield is about to fail!” I don’t know who shouted loudly, with obvious panic in his voice.

Meteorite rain is very rare in the ancient earth period, but it is already a common natural disaster in the interstellar age. Meteor showers are usually caused by asteroid collisions. These fragments are both large and small, and fly out under the influence of the gravitational force of the universe. Once they hit a colony planet, it is likely to cause a large-scale disaster.

Therefore, the empire has special monitoring devices in the universe that are specifically responsible for monitoring natural disasters that may cause harm to the major planets within the empire, such as meteor showers and solar storms.

It takes time from the formation to the collision of meteorites. The general monitoring center will issue an alert to planets that may be hit by the meteorites as soon as possible, but who knows why, until the meteorite rain hit the protective shield of Kulta, it didn’t receive any  alarm from the monitoring center.

There are more than two hundred miners in Kulta, and almost all of them are gathered on the surface to watch the excitement of the jadeite selecting. After hearing the horrified shout, the stone field suddenly became chaotic.

Screams, curses, and calls for help were endless. The crowd ran like headless flies. Some people ran to the left, some people ran to the right, bumped together, and then fell to the ground.

Due to the friction of the air, the surface temperature of a meteorite can reach 3000 degrees. Coupled with the primary explosion resulting from the shock wave generated from the compression and friction of the meteorite on the air itself, the explosion from the meteorite hitting the ground was actually its secondary one. Between the two explosions, fragments shot from the smaller meteor hitting the ground had already caused some injuries.

Seeing the scene getting more and more chaotic, Xing Mo suddenly stood on the stone cutting machine and shouted, “Don’t panic! Don’t panic! Go to the mine!”

After all, Xing Mo is a graduate of the best military academy in the empire. Both his mobility and responsiveness are much higher than ordinary people.

“Go to the mine! All go to the mine!” Xing Mo yelled loudly, turned on the light brain, and sent out a request for help. Every star field has a cruise fleet responsible for protecting the safety of the empire. The cruise fleet received the signal and will come to the rescue immediately. Meanwhile their top priority is to find a bunker and hide.