Closer to Revealing My True Self
Chapter 520 - 345 Faster Than a Shooting Star_2

Chapter 520: Chapter 345 Faster Than a Shooting Star_2

It was nothing like the distant streaks of light he used to see when observing meteor showers before, which looked like drizzles.

This one he was seeing now was closer, brighter!

It was a blazing fireball!

Wen Zhiyu got so excited that even the cigarette he had in his mouth shook off.

"Ah—A fire meteor!!!"

"Pan, get up! Let’s look for meteorites..."

Boom—

Dragging a long ion tail, the fireball plunging at high speed burst apart with a loud explosion.

The light that flickered on in an instant was brighter than daylight!

Wen Zhiyu, who had been staring at that fire meteor, reacted quickly by shielding his eyes with his palm, but it was still a step too slow, and he suffered from temporary flash blindness.

After the intense light, the delay in sound that followed drowned out all other noises, swallowing the half sentence Wen Zhiyu had not finished.

Now Wen Zhiyu couldn’t see anything, but his excitement did not die down; it continued in the wake of the explosive roar:

"Pan! Feng Yi! There’s a fire meteor! The fire meteor has finally appeared!! Let’s go hunt for meteorites!!"

Pan Weining had a restless sleep tonight. He was the type who usually sleeps well, having gone to bed early, but his dreams were weird, with the entire scene shaking as if it was caused by an unstable electric current, making him feel anxious and unsettled.

In between dreams and waking up, he heard Wen Zhiyu’s hoarse shout.

Not clearly hearing what the other was yelling, Pan Weining’s consciousness was still fuzzy when he opened his eyes.

The next moment, intense light projected!

The completely blackout curtains couldn’t stop the light that pierced through the gaps!

For an instant, Pan Weining thought he was still dreaming, but then he was quickly startled awake by a huge roar.

Pan Weining was so frightened that he tumbled off the bed.

At that moment, his first reaction was:

Has a war broken out outside??!

The bright light had already dimmed, and the roar had stopped.

He pulled the curtains aside and pushed the window open to look outside.

Lights had been turned on in other parts of the town, and the huge roar had triggered many alarm devices, the urgent beeping sounds chilling to the bone.

From a distance, people were hurriedly shouting something, unclear.

Something clutched at Pan Weining’s heart; he really thought some violent event had occurred.

Without even bothering to throw on clothes, he grabbed a knife, ready to rush out and alert the others in the house.

Then he heard the neighbor Wen Zhiyu bellowing through his hoarse throat: "Pan! Feng Yi! There’s a fire meteor—"

Pan Weining: ...

Pan Weining: ???

A fire meteor?

His rational mind quickly returned.

His racing heart gradually calmed down.

"A fire meteor?" murmured Pan Weining.

Thinking about it, it did seem likely.

Pan Weining ran outside to the terrace and asked the excited Wen Zhiyu, "Was that noise just now a fire meteor?"

"Yeah! I saw it falling with my own eyes, and then it exploded with a boom!" Wen Zhiyu was groping his way towards the terrace.

"So it was really a fire meteor," Pan Weining wiped his face, his hand sweaty, "I fucking thought a war had broken out here!"

As Pan Weining said this, he quickly realized something was off.

"What are you looking at?"

Wen Zhiyu: "I’m not looking at anything, just talking to you. Hey, when I was watching the fire meteor, that bright light shone on me, and now I can’t see anything, wait for me to recover."

It took almost half an hour for Wen Zhiyu’s vision to recover. Throughout this period, his excitement did not wane.

"I was almost asleep when suddenly my heart skipped a beat! I don’t have any such condition according to my previous medical exams! Then I got up and walked to the window, and right then, I saw that shining fireball! It’s destiny! Guiding me to see that bright meteor!"

By this time, Feng Yi had also come out of his room, but he looked pale and seemed somewhat haggard.

Pan Weining thought he hadn’t slept well. Feng Yi had been sleeping poorly these past few days, so Pan Weining wasn’t surprised to see him in this state.

But Feng Yi was merely looking weary. Having witnessed the incident just now, he appeared quite calm. He must have heard the few sentences Wen Zhiyu had been screaming.

In the middle of the night, Wen Zhiyu was already wide awake, suited up, and ready to leave at any moment.

"You two hurry up as well, get your gear ready, and let’s go find that meteorite!"

Feng Yi said, "Perhaps when that fireball exploded, the fragments were completely burned up in the air."

Wen Zhiyu: "Impossible! It was so bright, and the explosion was so loud, it must have been a big one! Surely many pieces fell after it exploded!"

Pan Weining was watching the video footage captured by Wen Zhiyu’s camera: "Even if there are fragments that have fallen, it should be quite a distance from here, right? That won’t be easy to find."

Feng Yi silently picked up his cup and took a drink of water.

After slightly deflecting the trajectory of that fireball, he thought about making it burn more thoroughly in the air, so there wouldn’t be chunks falling and causing injury to people or damage to objects.

Although it wasn’t possible to prevent this entirely, he could minimize the risk as much as possible.

Therefore, Feng Yi tried his best to break that flaming boulder into even more fragments.

And then, the fireball exploded in the sky with even greater intensity.

The commotion was slightly larger than he had anticipated.

"Are we going back to Jing City tomorrow?" asked Feng Yi.

"Go back? No way!" Wen Zhiyu enthused, rubbing his hands together, "I’m going meteorite hunting! Are you coming, Big Pan? Big Pan?"

After calling out twice and getting no response, Wen Zhiyu moved closer.

Pan Weining’s gaze was fixed on a segment on the tablet screen, a clip he had extracted from surveillance footage.

Wen Zhiyu asked, "What are you looking at? Did you hear what I just said?"

Pan Weining didn’t answer but instead paused the video at a certain moment, took a screenshot of that still image, and zoomed in.

"Look, right before this fireball exploded, was there something that hit it?"

Wen Zhiyu rubbed his eyes, which, though having recovered, still felt somewhat uncomfortable.

After looking at the footage Pan Weining mentioned, Wen Zhiyu was also full of disbelief and suspicion.

He hadn’t examined this clip very carefully before since he had already witnessed the fireball plummeting with a long tail.

Now, Pan Weining reopened the video captured by the camera and pointed out this detail, and Wen Zhiyu saw it for the first time.

Indeed, looking at that frame alone, it appeared as if something had cleaved through the tail of the fireball.

When Pan Weining extracted that segment of the footage and played it in slow motion, the detail was even more pronounced.

The only pity was...

"Why is the image from your camera so blurry? And there is significant motion blur!" Pan Weining complained.

"I guess I didn’t adjust the smart settings properly, you know, sometimes ’smart’ isn’t really that smart. I didn’t expect to actually capture a fireball, especially not one that was making noise," Wen Zhiyu said.

Wen Zhiyu’s attention was now focused on this matter, forgetting the earlier excitement about going to search for the meteorite.

"Although it’s blurry, this footage is definitely worth studying; this part shouldn’t be a matter of settings." Pan Weining frowned.

Wen Zhiyu took another look at the clip.

As the fireball fell, something behind it struck with even greater speed, and afterward, the fireball exploded.

"With the fireball possibly traveling tens of kilometers per second, what could be faster than that? A new secret weapon? Or is it..." Wen Zhiyu said with a mix of terror, excitement, and curiosity, "Aliens?"

Standing quietly not far away, Jia, whose presence was barely noticeable, slightly lifted his eyelids and moved his fingers.

But seeing that Feng Yi was calm, Jia continued to stay silent.

Feng Yi looked composed on the outside, but inside he was panicking—

[How could this possibly be captured on camera?!]

Energy matter is intangible and invisible to the naked eye.

But!

When they are in an active state and interact with other objects, they could indeed produce some bizarre images.

Feng Yi now knew this.

But there was no way he could explain what was happening right now!

And he couldn’t explain it!

Pan Weining and Wen Zhiyu were still discussing whether the footage captured by surveillance was real. If real, what was it that hit the fireball?

Feng Yi was worried.

If Wen Zhiyu’s equipment could capture it, then surely other surveillance cameras around Tuo Jia Town must have caught the same scene.

If someone posted this footage online, how many people would believe it?

In an era of fake videos frequently surfacing on the internet, it’s likely that not many people would believe such a blurry clip, right?