"...Observatory broadcast, at Duoling ti, 21:37, an extra-large teor shower will hit the southwestern outskirts. To avoid accidents, please try not to go outside during the teor shower... Please pay attention, citizens...."
The earth was shrouded in darkness, and white beams of light occasionally fell, breaking the darkness and illuminating gaps.
These were lights cast to the ground by the patrol chas of the city's defense system as they occasionally flew overhead.
On the black wilderness, several figures stood beneath a slightly arched hillside, as if waiting for sothing.
"Three minutes left...."
One of the four people looked at the ti and reported quietly.
The remaining three said nothing, all appearing to be teenagers around sixteen or seventeen years old.
One of them kept looking up at the pitch-black sky, while the other two, one tall and one short, stood beside him like followers, occasionally checking their phones.
The last teenager seed to be slightly isolated, standing a bit farther from the others, gripping a bag tightly around his waist, and looking at them with a timid expression.
The ti on the holographic screen projected in the middle of the group was ticking down second by second.
When the three-minute countdown ended, they subconsciously looked up.
Almost simultaneously, teors dragged brilliant flas, sliding down the dark sky as rain.
On ti with the observatory's prediction, the extra-large teor shower appeared, and the eyes of the four teenagers watching this scene lit up.
Reportedly, the formation of this teor shower was caused by a small asteroid mistakenly entering the star orbit.
The main body of the asteroid had long been repeatedly shattered outside the planet, and what appeared before them, turning into teors, were bits that hadn't been completely obliterated.
Even these remnants had less than a one in ten thousand chance of falling safely to the Earth.
The "Autonomous Defense System" covering the Great Capital would precisely target and shatter them as they approached.
In the eyes of the four teenagers, the scene quickly reflected teors bursting into flas mid-fall, disappearing in spectacular fashion.
This process lasted several minutes.
Perhaps the scale of tonight's teor shower was indeed a bit large.
Amid a "lively" shower of sparks, a few "fish that slipped through the net" managed to escape the defense system's "hunt" and fell below.
One of them seed to be landing not far from where the four were now.
"Let's go!"
The leading teenager quickly withdrew his gaze upon seeing this, swiftly pulled a capsule-sized object from his pants pocket and tossed it to the ground.
With a "boom!", a rugged black SUV appeared in place.
The teenager first jumped onto the passenger seat and urged impatiently.
"Stop dawdling, get in quickly, or the patrol cha will catch us!"
The remaining few quickly reacted; one skillfully climbed into the driver's seat, while another jumped into the back seat.
The timid teenager, carrying the bag, hesitated for a mont before being shouted onto the car.
The black SUV roared across the wilderness at high speed.
Standing on the passenger seat, the teenager leaned out of the car, eyes fixed unwaveringly on a fireball rapidly falling in the sky, eyes shining, face full of excitent.
"Qi Yuan, what do you want with a piece of teorite?"
While driving, the boy in the driver's seat asked his partner beside him out of boredom.
Facing the night wind atop the car, the teenager's hair flying wildly, his face softened a bit, and he replied: "Venia's birthday is in a week, I plan to give her a 'star'."
His two companions imdiately showed expressions of understanding.
It seed only his "Goddess" could make him this passionate and dedicated.
To them, the act of running out at night to collect stones as stars and play romantic was utterly foolish; even if successful, it would only touch himself.
But as his "followers," saying such things to his face was not an option, so they just casually muttered: "Why bother coming to the wild to pick? These things are easily bought online..."
"You don't understand."
The boy called Qi Yuan shot back, "How can a broken stone bought online compare to one I've picked up myself?
Venia hates insincerity...
Hurry up.!"
The teenager continued urging the driver's seat companion: "Go faster; if the patrol chas catch us, we'll be forcibly sent back to the city."
"The power is already at the maximum..."
"Don't give crap; this car can go up to 300 mph; how much can it do now?"
Amongst their noisy banter, the teenager tightly holding the bag in the back remained silent.
He occasionally glanced back at the increasingly distant main city direction, then at the ti, sitting uneasily as if on pins and needles.
Minutes later, the black SUV gradually slowed down on the wilderness.
Before the car completely stopped, the teenager in the passenger seat had already jumped off and rushed towards so position ahead.
The others quickly got out of the car.
The group eventually stopped at the edge of a large smoking pit.
This pit dug out by the falling teorite was only a dozen or so ters wide, and standing at the edge, they could see faint sparks from the pit's bottom.
Each person was witnessing such a scene of teorite landing for the first ti, all faces curious.
Even the timid boy among them who seed most distant was caught in curiosity, craning his neck and looking down alongside them.
As ti passed, the firelight from the pit gradually dimd, and the intense heat caused by the impact also rapidly decreased.
The surroundings gradually darkened, and the cooled pit bottom revealed a faint golden glow.
"Depth is 17.8 ters, pit temperature has dropped below 300; Level 1 protective clothing is more than enough...
Judging by the teorite glow, it might contain so rare precious tal that Venia would surely love.
Too bad I couldn't bring my cha out; otherwise, it'd be way easier."
The leading teenager excitedly asured the pit's situation with a portable instrunt and then pulled a capsule-like object from his pocket, dropping it to the ground, transforming into a set of pale heavy protective clothing.
Followed by scanning the side followers, he asked: "You two, who's going down?"
The two teenagers holding phones to record and photograph the pit were stunned for a mont.
They glanced at the boy in the lead, then at the steaming pit, forced a smile, and said: "Qi Yuan, you're not joking, are you?"
"Who the hell is joking?"
The leader said coldly to them: "Why do you think I brought you two out here?
It's not like I'm going down myself, is it?
Stop dawdling, put on the protective clothing and go down quickly; don't make wait too long..."
Two of the followers exchanged looks and after a few seconds, one of them spoke first: "I just drove! You go!"
"I..."
The other stumbled, wanting an excuse not to go down, but faced with the leader's increasingly cold eyes, sweat dropped from their forehead...
Suddenly, they glanced sideways, their eyes lit.
"Let him!
Let this kid go down! Young Master Lu!"
One follower roughly grabbed the timid boy beside him and pulled him forward quickly: "This kid followed without doing anything, perfect for picking stones."
Once those words were spoken, everyone's gaze fell hard on the timid boy lacking presence.
Feeling their gaze and hearing what they wanted him to do, his expression turned tense.
In a burst of courage, he suddenly freed himself from the follower's hand grabbing him, clutching his bag tightly, he turned and dashed away.
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