Chapter 1, When the Meteorite Strikes, Are You Ready?

The giant meteorite striking the blue planet first brings about a violent impact

If you are in the hemisphere opposite to the impact site during a meteorite strike, there is currently no danger. The sound of the shockwave will be sufficient to alert you to take shelter.

The dust clouds raised by the impact and the toxic gases produced by global fires will obscure sunlight, covering the blue planet for decades or even centuries, plunging it into a prolonged night

A day that was originally Christmas, after enduring a year filled with calamities, people are eagerly hoping for this year to pass quickly and for the disasters to subside

Fortunately, as an online writer, Chen Xin often has many creative ideas. He also has the habit of recording these ideas and attempting to think through and refine them. The scenario of a meteorite colliding with a blue planet happens to fall within the scope of the ideas that Chen Xin has contemplated.

The disasters that have occurred this year are truly numerous, and many people have already gained experience

Food, medicine, protective equipment, communication devices... These emergency supplies were quickly sold out as people rushed to purchase them.

The entire surface will become uninhabitable for humans, all plants will be scorched by this extreme heat until they ignite, and the toxic and harmful gases produced by global fires will spread throughout the atmosphere, killing the vast majority of life on the surface

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as recorded in the Bible, have ravaged the earth with plague, famine, war, and death, demonstrating that humanity is evidently so fragile in the face of the disasters brought by nature

However, people have not given up hope; even in the face of disaster, we continue to strive and resist these calamities, demonstrating the most precious golden spirit of humanity—full of hope and never yielding to disaster

This undoubtedly leads to Chen Xin contemplating matters in a more complex manner than others when faced with the potential occurrence of such disasters

While stockpiling supplies and searching for information that might be found online, Chen Xin also did not forget to pull out the ideas he had recorded in his folder of brainstorms.

If luck permits, perhaps millions of years later, if humanity survives, we might still be able to unearth your fossil

Due to the increase in atmospheric temperature, sea levels will also rise rapidly. Coupled with the kinetic energy released from meteorite impacts, this will generate tsunamis reaching heights of thousands of meters, impacting nearly all coastal cities

If you are interested in leaving a mark for humanity, you can raise a middle finger, and future generations will surely be moved by your optimistic spirit

However, such news cannot be contained

However, this is not the end, as the entire world is shrouded in a thick haze formed by clouds of dust and toxic gases. In the coming months, the temperature will rapidly decrease

The materials ejected into space by the impact of meteorites, along with smaller fragments of meteorites carried by the meteorites themselves, will continue to strike the Blue Planet

After all, the meteorite hangs in the sky, and as it approaches the blue planet, astronomy enthusiasts around the world can see the comet in the night sky becoming brighter and larger simply by setting up their telescopes

These subtle clues naturally spread online, sparking fervent discussions, while some perceptive individuals, having sensed the signs, began stockpiling supplies

Even if one could take refuge in an underground shelter, it would be impossible to survive under conditions where meteorite bombardments occur almost daily, ranging from several meters to hundreds of meters.

Even if shattered into meteorite fragments several kilometers in size, a collision with the blue planet could still bring about catastrophic disasters

Because this endless night without daylight will last for decades, or even centuries, the extreme cold weather will persist for an entire century. During this prolonged frigid night, the setting of the Ice Age will become a reality

However, it is as if God played a colossal joke on humanity; on this day, a massive asteroid with a diameter exceeding 10 kilometers was discovered by astronomers. After calculations, the astronomers confirmed that the trajectory of this enormous asteroid would intersect with the orbit of the blue planet and that it would collide with the blue planet within a few months

In the coming days, a firestorm composed of smog and debris will envelop the entire Blue Planet, causing global temperatures to rise from two degrees to 70 - 200 degrees at the equator, transforming the entire surface of the Blue Planet into a massive oven

A meteorite with a diameter exceeding 5 kilometers striking the blue planet would leave no living beings within a radius of at least 1,000 kilometers from the impact point

The impacting meteorite will directly hurl nearby materials into space, while the heat generated from the friction with the atmosphere and the energy released upon impact will create a scorching fire wall at least several kilometers high, with temperatures exceeding several thousand degrees Celsius, sweeping away everything within a radius of at least 1,500 kilometers.

However, this does not mean that the severity of the disaster will decrease, nor should one assume that smaller meteorites are less dangerous, as this "small" is relative to the main body of a meteorite with a diameter of several kilometers.

The first thing that came to Chen Xin's mind was this question

Fortunately, this year has seen a considerable number of disasters, prompting companies that produce these emergency supplies to increase their output of essential disaster relief items. In particular, emergency food that can be stored for 20 or even 40 years has become the most sought-after resource at this time

Based on the current volume of this meteorite, even if various countries have space interception plans, the likelihood of success is low. The most probable outcome is that the meteorite will break into several smaller fragments due to human interception efforts, either grazing past the blue planet or colliding with it

After all, this year has been a year filled with suffering for all of humanity

Upon learning of this news, governments around the world immediately sealed off the information to prevent social panic, and nearly all astronomers were placed under a gag order

However, in Chen Xin's view, what is more important than hoarding these supplies is to dig a shelter for oneself

If high-latitude cities are not destroyed in the impact, the temperature will drop to minus 70 degrees, while the equatorial regions will fare slightly better, with temperatures around minus 20 to 30 degrees.

Despite the fact that over the past year, emergency food has been one of the most favored disaster relief supplies, second only to protective equipment

As for the hemisphere opposite to the impact site, the luck may be slightly better, but there is still a random chance of meteorites falling, and it can almost be said that stepping outside carries a certain probability of witnessing meteorites striking down several high-rise buildings

Chen Xin is an online writer who makes a living by writing on various novel websites. As a writer, the most important qualities are creativity and logical thinking skills, as a novel is essentially an engaging narrative that is logically coherent.

In the hemisphere where the meteorite impact site is located, everything resembles a carpet bombing; the continuous meteorite strikes would leave very few survivors across the entire hemisphere

And all of this is still merely the prelude and overture to disaster; everything can only be described as the appetizer before the grand feast

The shockwave generated by the meteorite impact will propagate back and forth around the globe at several times the speed of sound, so at that time, no matter where you are on the blue planet, you will be able to hear the intense sound produced by the meteorite impact

How should humanity avoid disaster from a meteorite impact on the blue planet

Within this range, even if one can hide in an underground shelter, there is a significant probability of being cooked inside the shelter by the high temperatures, much like the stewed chicken in Meizhou, Guangdong. Even if the shelter you dig is deep enough, the subsequent earthquakes of at least magnitude 11 would be sufficient to bury you alive.

Moreover, the space activities and various response measures promptly initiated by governments around the world are difficult to conceal in this era of advanced internet technology

But all of this is merely a beginning, the disaster has only just begun