hotmtlnovel Chapter 1: Are You Ready for the Meteor Strike?
Chapter 1: Are You Ready for the Meteor Strike?
Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Are You Ready for the Meteor Strike?Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation A day that was supposed to be Christmas, after experiencing a year of disasters, people desperately hoped this year would pass quickly, and the disasters would subside.
After all, this year has been a painful one for all of humanity.
Pestilence, famine, war, death—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as recorded in the Bible wreaked havoc all over the world. Humanity clearly seems so fragile in the face of natural disasters.
However, people have not given up hope. Even in the face of calamity, we still strive to fight against these disasters, demonstrating the most precious golden spirit of humanity—filled with hope, never bowing to disaster.
Yet, as if God played a massive joke on humanity, on this day, astronomers discovered a giant meteor over ten kilometers in diameter, and after calculations, they confirmed that the meteor’s orbit would intersect with the orbit of the Blue Planet and would collide within a few months.
Upon receiving this news, the governments of various countries immediately blocked the information. To avoid causing social panic, almost all astronomers were put under a gag order.
But this kind of news is hard to block.
After all, the meteor hangs in the sky, and as it gets closer to the Blue Planet, astronomy enthusiasts worldwide can spot the increasingly bright and large comet through their telescopes in the night sky.
Moreover, the space missions and various countermeasures that the governments launched subsequently were hard to miss in this internet-savvy era.
These traces naturally spread online, sparking heated discussions. Simultaneously, some foresighted individuals, smelling the clues, also began hoarding supplies.
Too many disasters have occurred this year. Many people have already gained experience.
Food, medicine, protective gear, communication devices... these emergency materials were quickly bought out by everyone.
Fortunately, with so many disasters this year, companies producing these emergency supplies have increased production, especially emergency food that can last 20, even 40 years without spoiling, which has become the hottest commodity.
Throughout the year, despite emergency food always being one of the most popular disaster supplies—second only to protective gear—
Chen Xin believes that digging a shelter for oneself is more important than buying up these supplies.
Chen Xin is an online writer, earning a living by writing on various novel websites. As a writer, the most crucial aspects are imagination and logical thinking. After all, a novel is essentially a story with a logically coherent premise that attracts people.
This also leads to Chen Xin thinking about more complex matters than others in the face of potential disasters.
How should humanity avoid disaster when a meteor strikes the Blue Planet?
This was the first question that came to Chen Xin’s mind.
Fortunately, as an online writer, Chen Xin often has many imaginative thoughts. He has the habit of recording these and trying to contemplate and improve them. The scenario of a meteor striking the Blue Planet was precisely within Chen Xin’s scope of imagination.
While stockpiling supplies, Chen Xin also
But even this isn’t the end, as the entire globe would be covered by a thick dust cloud and toxic gases, forming a smog that would lead to rapid cooling over the next few months.
If high-latitude cities haven’t been destroyed in the collision, temperatures could drop to minus 70 degrees, while the Equatorial Region might fare a bit better, with temperatures hovering around minus twenty or thirty degrees.
Because this seemingly endless long night weathers the Earth for decades or centuries, the extreme cold will last for an entire century, making the setting of the Ice Age scenario a reality in this prolonged, freezing long night.