Chapter 346 Cyber ​​Patina

Late at night, most of the townspeople are usually asleep at this time, but tonight, Toga Town is destined to be sleepless.

After studying the video for a while and finding nothing, Wen Zhiyu's attention turned back again.

"Whether this picture is a problem with the camera or something else, I can't figure it out right now, so let's put it aside for now."

No longer looking at the tablet screen, Wen Zhiyu picked up his jacket. The outdoor temperature is a little low at night, so you need to wear thicker clothes and protect yourself from wind and sand.

After being delayed for such a short time due to the strange pictures that appeared in the surveillance, Wen Zhiyu's heated mind cooled down a little, and he rationally analyzed one thing - their equipment is limited, and they are not as experienced as professional meteorite hunters. At this time If you search recklessly, you may not be able to find meteorites. It is more reliable to have professionals with you.

"Quick, Da Pan, ask Uncle Du if he has any travel plans. Let Uncle Du take us to hunt for meteors! First come, first served!"

After Wen Zhiyu finished speaking, seeing Pan Weining still sitting there without moving, he urged 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 that possible! You didn't see how busy it was outside. There are quite a few meteorite hunters in Tuojia Town. They took action immediately. Look at the cars on the road outside, one after another roaring past!"

While talking, he looked out the window again.

call--

Another car passed 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 very quiet at this time!

"Of course you have to respond to this kind of thing as soon as possible! Are you looking for rocks? Are you looking for gold? This is money! How can a meteorite hunter sit still!"

Worried that Pan Weining would not believe it, Wen Zhiyu looked at Feng Yi again, looking for an ally: "Feng Yi, do you think what I said is right?"

Feng Yi nodded: "When I bought meteorites before, my uncle from the Wei family said that there was a lot of noise like this, and there were many witnesses. Even if the meteorites found have average composition, they don't have much scientific research value, but they are traded in the market. The price will still be higher.”

Pan Weining said: "It's not that I don't believe it. I can imagine it from the buyer's point of view. The fireball made too much noise tonight. There must be many 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 a 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 pointed to his phone with a helpless smile: "I know all this, but in this place, in this matter, for our own safety, we have to find a professional to take him with us, otherwise we will rush into the Gobi Desert recklessly. It's easy to go wrong. I'm waiting for Uncle Du's reply, but there's no movement from him."

"Maybe it's because I'm busy and I don't have time to reply to the message?" Wen Zhiyu thought for a moment and tapped his palm: "This is easy to handle. I'll drive directly to him. It's not far anyway. I'll go over and see if his home is there. The lights were not on during the break, so I didn’t knock on the door and turned back immediately, so I wouldn’t disturb them.”

Let Pan Weining and Feng Yi wait here, Wen Zhiyu decided to drive over now to take a look, otherwise he would not be able to calm down. My interest is high now, and I really can't wait any longer. Instead of just sitting here, I might as well drive out and take a look, and take a look at what other people in the town are doing.

When Wen Zhiyu left, the room became quiet again.

Pan Weining continued to study the strange scene. Feng Yi returned to the room and was also thinking about his own things.

A few days ago, I practiced with small fragments of meteoroids from the Perseid meteor shower, and I really became proficient in the [target targeting] skill.

But now, after performing it on the larger bolide, it is obviously difficult.

The bolide was more massive and required more energy. It took a lot of effort to pull it away. To pursue it, Feng Yi almost used all his strength to deliver the blow.

The explosion of the bolide was not entirely caused by Feng Yi's blow. Even without Feng Yi, the bolide would have exploded before falling to the ground, but it would not have exploded so completely, and the brightness of the fire would not have been so strong.

He took the water cup from Xiao Jia. It was not filled with tea, but Feng Yi's special nutrient solution.

Excessive energy consumption and some exhaustion.

After drinking a bottle, my complexion looked a little better.

"One more drink." Feng Yi said to Xiao Jia.

While eating compressed biscuits and drinking nutrient solution, I continued to think about bolides.

It's too difficult.

It’s really too difficult!

This is only at the meteoroid level, and it is not particularly large. When larger meteoroids explode, they can directly cause a large-scale meteor shower.

What he blew up could only be considered average.

However, at this "average" level, Feng Yi obviously found it difficult as soon as he got started.

It's like the reins of a wild and untamable horse. It can't be pulled back. It can only move a little, but it can't be tamed in a short time.

If our ancestors from a long time ago had really taken action against asteroids that were "threatening enough", what a huge force it would have been!

Feng Yi couldn't help but take a big sip of nutrient solution to calm his lost heart.

The developmental stage and growth level cannot reach the level of the ancestors. In comparison, it can only be regarded as the initial level and cub level.

Very weak!

But there is no way. The energy materials provided by this planet now are completely unable to meet the needs of subsequent stages of development.

Before this, Feng Yi was thinking that if those meteors could bring energy, he could absorb energy from these celestial bodies.

The meteorites that have not been discovered by people on the planet may be weathered and eroded over time, and the energy substances will also change. A small part will be precipitated in a free state, but most of them will be converted into other substances and no longer used.

"Fresh" meteorites may have more usable energy substances, so Feng Yi will turn his attention to them.

But now.

Feng Yi found that the energy contained in each of these meteoroids, regardless of size, is unknown.

For example, the fireball that Feng Yi smashed today has very little energy substances.

Maybe the next fireball he encounters will have more energy substances. It depends on luck.

These are like opening a blind box.

Not every piece of cosmic debris contains the energy substances he needs.

Not every piece contains enough energy substances.

Maybe after decades of hard work in star hunting, the energy substances he gets still cannot support the amount he needs for a molting.

And every star hunting process will consume some energy and matter.

It is very likely that in the end, the effort will not be as good as the harvest, and the gain will not outweigh the loss.

In fact, think about it.

Every day, countless cosmic fragments break into this planet, but the total amount of energy and matter on this planet is still decreasing.

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.

Unless there is a celestial body with a larger mass and more energy that breaks into this planet, it may bring more energy and matter.

But that level should be a destructive asteroid. If a celestial body of this scale hits, Feng Yi himself doesn't know if he can survive!

Today, such a large fireball almost made him faint.

If he faces an asteroid with a diameter of kilometers, he will be like an ordinary person, trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm!

The way of meteorites seems to be impossible.

But Feng Yi will continue to try, and practice with the batch of meteorites he bought. I wonder if there is a more energy-saving way to make the celestial body explode in the air.

If he does nothing and waits for the stone to fall, it will not be his. If you spend more money to buy, there will be too many things to do, and it is easy to be targeted.

But if you can't figure out a way to save energy, there is no need to blow it up. If you make a big noise, it will easily attract attention, and it may not be worth the loss. It is better not to do it.

Feng Yi was struggling with the energy saving problem, and Wen Zhiyu, who went 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. His house was on. I knocked on the door to ask, and his family said he had set off a long time ago!"

As I thought before, professional meteorite hunters have a strong ability to act on meteorites.

At this time, Uncle Du's information came late.

Pan Weining took a look.

Uncle Du apologized and told them that he had set off.

"Uncle Du said to explore the way first and tell us later. Acting in the dark is not suitable for outsiders like us. Let's rest first and conserve our energy. Maybe there will be more information tomorrow, and then we can decide how to act." Pan Weining said.

Wen Zhiyu groaned unwillingly. He couldn't sleep now, so he shared what he saw and heard just now:

"The traffic lights that were disabled at the intersection have been reactivated. I encountered two red lights along the way.

In fact, there are not many cars on the road now. A group of people have already driven out of the town. There are not many people left in the town, but it is very lively everywhere."

"I heard some merchants call to order goods and replenish supplies. They said that there will be a lot of customers in the future and they have to prepare."

"The hotel on the next street is usually so quiet that the waiters are dozing off. Now the lights are on and the rooms are being cleaned up."

"Also, the old lady who was very 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 and yelled inside tonight. I don't know what she said. The dialect is too strong and I can't hear it clearly, but her voice is very loud!"

The residents of Tuojia Town may not be good at other things, but they are extremely sensitive in this regard.

However, there was nothing for these visitors from other places to do. Just as Pan Weining said, instead of rushing to act, it is better to conserve energy and wait until tomorrow to collect more information to see how things develop.

Feng Yi consumed too much tonight, so he went back to his room for another midnight snack and fell asleep immediately. He really needed to conserve energy.

Pan Weining shared the weird video with his technical geek friends in the room and asked them to help him analyze it.

Wen Zhiyu tossed and turned, and finally fell asleep in a daze.

The next day, Wen Zhiyu woke up, his consciousness was still a little confused. When he opened the window, he heard the sound of the plane in the sky and was refreshed.

He looked in that direction and saw a plane landing at the airport.

"Someone is really coming!"

Wen Zhiyu ran to the top of the building and used the camera to observe the license plates of the vehicles on the road.

Sure enough, there were many people from other places!

These were just because the time was short, and only people from nearby cities came here. There will be other visitors from farther away in the future.

This former 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 was messaging someone and said, "It's OK, about what I expected. I have a few friends who are also planning to come."

Wen Zhiyu asked, "Why are you here? Looking for meteorites?"

Pan Weining said, "They are not usually interested in meteorites, but they are very interested in yesterday's fireball and the images captured by the surveillance camera, and want to explore the mystery."

Wen Zhiyu: "Explore what mystery? Study the blurry image? Oh, I don't know what happened to the camera. The meteors were quite clear before, but it suddenly seemed to be blurred last night. The intelligent parameter adjustment is not working."

Pan Weining said seriously, "That's what I'm talking about! This situation is not only happening here, but it's the same for everyone else in Tuojia Town! At that time, all the surveillance images were blurry! There must be some unknown factors causing it!"

"Really?!"

Wen Zhiyu was surprised and turned on his phone to check the social media.

Sure enough, there was a fireball-related topic at the top of the hot search list.

After one night, many videos and photos were exposed online, most of which were uploaded by other residents or tourists in Tuojia Town, or submitted to self-media and released by big Vs.

Wen Zhiyu clicked in to see the reactions of netizens.

[I heard that the fireball was hit by something and then exploded [terrified]]

[High speed and high temperature, it is not the first time that the fireball disintegrated in the air. It is a normal phenomenon. Don’t over-interpret it]

[No! This is really different from the previous ones! Go find the video! Go and see if the ion tail of the fireball has been split, and something chased from behind and hit the body of the meteor! ]

[I said a long time ago that there are aliens on our planet! It must be an alien UFO that hit it! ]

[The IP address of the person who posted the video shows Tuojia Town in many places. 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 chase "stars"! It was very famous 20 or 30 years ago. My 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, it's too far away, there are no flights, you have to take a plane 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, there are already rich people who chartered a plane there! They said they were going to find aliens [laughing and crying]]

Wen Zhiyu thought: No wonder I saw a plane when I woke up, oh, now I hear the sound again, the airport must be very busy today.

Continue to look through the videos of those fireballs.

Indeed, they are all blurry.

Many of the surveillance equipment installed in Tuojia Town are relatively old models, not as good as his equipment.

Sure enough, many netizens also believe that the video is fake:

[Here it comes again, the scam of the outdated town is here again! ]

[It feels like this time it is an organized and large-scale fake! Is it to trick leeks to go there to cut? ]

[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 that all the pictures are so blurry】

【Can there be a clear video! The video posted by a certain big V is so blurry that it looks like someone has made a cyber patina out of it! 】

All the videos posted are blurry no matter which angle!

Facing the doubts on the Internet, Wen Zhiyu has something to say:

The camera is really fine, and he did not deliberately adjust it to be so blurry!

But it is like this when it is shot!

He himself feels wronged!

This is really not my fault!

It must be caused by some mysterious force as Pan Weining said!

At this time, Feng Yi also woke up and swiped the information on his mobile phone.

The airport in Tuojia Town was suddenly full.

True and false news on the Internet were rampant.

However, under public opinion monitoring, those misleading remarks will soon be controlled.

Open the door to the terrace. There is wind blowing, and the wind brings too many breaths that do not belong to the local area.

The town, which was originally in a state of retirement, suddenly became vibrant.

Sky.

The sound of a helicopter sounded.

Feng Yi looked up, paused, and retracted his foot that was stretched out to the terrace.

"Feng Yi, what's wrong?"

Wen Zhiyu ran to the terrace and looked at the helicopter in the sky.

"Who is that?"

"It's from the Special Investigation Team of the Joint Security Bureau." Feng Yi said.

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