Chapter 699

Chapter 699: Meteorite Impact, the Mysterious Village! Part 1 Translation
Inside a makeshift tent one kilometer away from the mysterious building.
It was almost midnight. With the bright lights still lit, Chen Shen sat at his desk with his head buried in official village documents.
The steady development of a thousand-people community was an easy task in the era of civilization.
A village chief would not have many duties apart from maintaining a general direction of development and could simply enjoy life as technological advances would drive the growth.
However, the concept of a village chief was completely different and even had several times more responsibility in the doomsday wasteland.
The village chief of Hope Village was tasked with managing every minor conflict in the village and arranging the daily work of each individual in a very meticulous manner.
It was necessary to be scrupulous to ensure that everyone would not become idle and lazy. They had to maximize the human resources as much as possible to promote rapid development in the village.
Chen Shen had a lot of heavy burdens to carry.
…..
“Village chief! Village chief! We’ve got a big…big problem!
Chen Shen was in the middle of flipping through his notes when he heard the frantic shouts outside of his tent. He frowned but remained in his seat.
He would have panicked and rushed outside immediately if this was when he had just arrived in the wasteland.
However, he remained calm despite the shouts this time.
There were no gunshots, explosions, or shouts of battle, which meant no enemies outside.
‘There was no enemy, so why is he panicking?’
“What’s wrong? Did something happen outside?”
“Village Chief! There’s a…a meteor coming our way! It looks like it’ll hit us in less than a minute!” the soldier rushed in and reported as he gasped for breath.
Buzz!
Chen Shen’s mind immediately buzzed after hearing the words “meteor coming our way.”
His heart was already troubled by the appearance of the strangers on the first day and the arrival of a mysterious building on the third day.
He had yet solved the two major problems of his heart, and now there was a new urgent matter of a meteor impact.
A series of strange things kept happening after one another.
This time, Chen Shen was unable to keep himself collected. He bounced off his chair and frantically dashed out of the tent at lightning speed.
“F*ck! There’s really a meteor!”
As soon as he got out of the tent, the meteor with a shining blue trail instantly entered his line of sight.
It was just like those disaster movies that he had watched on earth. The meteor’s moment toward them was extremely frightening. Anyone who was directly under it would go rubbery in their legs upon seeing it.
“RUN! GET THEM OUT OF THERE!”
“HURRY! GET SHEN KE TO TELL THEM TO PACK UP THEIR STUFF AND RUN!”
Chen Shen shouted in despair as he waved his hand to give the order. The meteor grew increasingly more prominent as every second passed.
Unfortunately, the soldier behind him was no better and had gone completely weak, unable to move an inch.
Everyone understood the meteor impact would have on them.
The huge kinetic energy would spread on the surface upon impact, causing a violent energy shock, thus triggering a super earthquake of more than ten magnitudes.
Then, the scattered smoke and dust would cover hundreds of kilometers like rain.
It would not matter if they started running now because the chances of whether they would survive even after reaching tens of kilometers away were very low!
They were left with no other options.
Chen Shen fell to the ground and shouted a few words but realized it was useless.
Everyone could only silent watch the meteor grow from grain size to the size of their fists.
Then from fist size to the size of a huge ball.
Fortunately, everyone had already been mentally prepared for a disaster, so despite the dire situation, no one went insane, nor did they yell hysterically.
All they could do was collapse to the ground and pray inside their hearts that a miracle would happen.
After ten seconds, the meteor broke through the exosphere and began to enter the thermosphere, gradually fighting against the resistance in the air.
The shining trail quickly disappeared and was replaced by a whistling red fire that enveloped the entire meteor.
The meteor lit up the entire night sky and seemed to be on fire.
After twenty seconds, the meteor passed through the thermosphere and crashed into the middle layer.
The falling speed of the meteor finally began to stagnate under the recoil of the force.
Although the direction it was headed was still within the basin, it had deviated from the path of the mysterious building and the village, navigating to the outskirts.
“Yes! That’s it, turn a little more!”
After 30 minutes of changing track, the villagers waiting for death on the ground stood up again, jumping and crying as they hoped for the miracle!
According to this trend, as long as the trajectory changed again, those present could survive the catastrophe!
The meteor passed through the middle layer in the thirty-ninth second and officially entered the stratosphere.
At this point, its volume had already exceeded the size of a fist, and it had also exceeded the size of a flying bird, reaching the size of a car.
According to the volume of an aircraft in the era of civilization when flying in the air.
This meteor’s surface area was larger than the entire Hope Village!
After resisting for another twelve seconds, the stratosphere helped Meteor fine-tune the trajectory again and shifted to the side.
The distance in the sky would be different from its landing point on the ground.
It may be only a few tens of centimeters of adjustment at high altitude, and a difference of tens of kilometers would occur when it lands on the ground.
With a glimmer of last hope, everyone who watched the meteor put their hands on their chests and clenched their fists as they waited for the final judgment.
One minute and seven seconds passed.
The meteor had officially crossed the stratosphere, reaching the last layer of the atmosphere—the troposphere.
Rumbling sounds began to echo throughout the sky. It was the only thing everyone below could hear after reaching the troposphere.
The meteor’s size had become several times larger to the naked eyes and looked like a building falling from the sky.
“EVERYONE, GET DOWN AND BRACE YOURSELVES!!!”
There were only a few seconds left before the meteor landed.
The fire was so bright that it was impossible to see what was inside the meteor. Chen Shen could only shout and order everyone to get down to the ground to protect themselves.
One.
Two.
Three.
Under such horrifying circumstances, all that was left for them was to count down in their hearts.