Chapter 95: Meteor from Outer Space.
April 4, 2023 - Author: Fu Hejun
[Ding!]
On this day, a "Ding!" echoed simultaneously in the minds of every intelligent being throughout the Douluo Continent. Having experienced this many times before, everyone knew a Q&A session was about to begin.
Moreover, this was a rare public Q&A!
Since the Q&A sessions first appeared, public sessions like this could be counted on one hand. Most of the time, they were either tailored for a single person or were multiple-choice questions. There had only been three such sessions aimed at everyone. This would be the fourth.
[Q&A Begins!]
[This is a public Q&A. All beings are participants and may answer questions freely!]
[Those who answer correctly will receive generous rewards!]
[Those who answer incorrectly will receive a corresponding punishment!]
[All participants, please proceed with caution!]
After the prompt, everyone who heard it felt their consciousness pulled into a strange space. They then began to watch the video playing in the Live Broadcast Room from a peculiar god's-eye view.
The first thing to fill their vision was a deep night sky!
As the view zoomed in, the night sky became increasingly clear. The shimmering stars continuously magnified in their sight until the perspective penetrated the atmosphere. The true face of the countless stars was finally revealed, but the result was a great disappointment.
[That can't be right. Is this what the stars in the sky really look like?]
[They're full of craters and pockmarks, so ugly!]
[How come these lumpy, pitted stars look so beautiful when we look up from the ground?]
[Is it because they're too far away?]
[And the Douluo Continent we live on is actually a sphere?]
[How strange. Why don't we fall off?]
[I can't wrap my head around it...]
At this moment, everyone in the Live Broadcast Room, from their strange god's-eye view, saw the true face of the land they stood upon. It was only then that many had a sudden realization. The world wasn't flat; it was round. What was even more bizarre was that the entire world was a giant sphere!
This scene completely shattered the worldview of the Douluo Continent's inhabitants! Most people were utterly stunned and bewildered by this sudden truth. They couldn't understand the concept of gravity, nor could they comprehend why people wouldn't fall off while standing on a sphere.
It was all simply and completely illogical.
The video in the Live Broadcast Room continued to play.
In the video, a meteor with a long, flaming tail appeared from the distant starry sky. It was rapidly flying toward the planet that was the Douluo Continent!
[So that's what a meteor looks like? Isn't it just a giant flying fireball?]
[Hey, it looks like that meteor is about to hit the Douluo Continent.]
[What's the big deal? It's not like a meteor has never fallen from the sky before.]
[But... this meteor is way too big, isn't it?!]
[Yeah, it's huge.]
As the bullet comments flew, the meteor, trailing its long fiery tail, penetrated the Douluo Star's atmosphere and rapidly descended toward the surface!
At this point, the perspective shifted to a boundless ocean.
The sky above was now covered in a deep crimson! The entire Great Sea was dyed a fiery red! Looking up, the meteor was like the sun itself falling from the sky. The terrifyingly high temperature instantly boiled the seawater below!
Countless fish and sea soul beasts flailed about, cooked in an instant!
"Boom!!!"
The meteor falling from the sky plunged into the Great Sea!
In an instant, it kicked up colossal waves, followed by steam that filled the sky.
For a time, this region of the ocean was shrouded in a mist of steam.
"BOOM!!!!"
An even greater explosion erupted from the bottom of the Deep Sea.
It turned out that the meteor, using the force of its impact, had pierced through the thick layer of seawater to reach the seabed. Its terrifying power had even breached the seabed itself!
A deep chasm appeared!
Countless cracks spread out around it, extending for an unknown number of miles across the sea area.
Immediately after, fiery red magma began to spew continuously from the deep chasm and its fissures!
Although the seawater almost instantly extinguished the magma erupting from the seabed, the terrifying heat was transferred into the water. In an instant, the sea in the entire region began to boil violently! Massive clouds of steam rushed high into the sky.
This scene was incredibly spectacular!
The power of nature brought an incomparable shock to everyone in the Live Broadcast Room! Even powerhouses like Titled Douluo, even someone as strong as Qian Daoliu, felt their own insignificance before this great power of nature.
Everyone was too stunned for words; not even a single bullet comment was sent.
However, an even more shocking scene was yet to come.
At the site of the submarine volcano, the cracks continued to spread and expand!
Magma spewed out endlessly, boiling the surrounding seawater!
Countless fish and sea soul beasts were tragically boiled alive!
To the naked eye, the area of the volcanic eruption on the seabed was still expanding!
It seemed to be spreading across the entire ocean!
[How terrifying!]
[Is that a volcano?]
[There are volcanoes on the seabed?]
[That falling meteor pierced the planet's crust and set off a dormant volcano on the seabed!]
[This is a completely undeserved disaster!]
[And from the looks of it, it's only getting worse...]
The bullet comments buzzed with discussion.
The video screen then abruptly switched from the hellish natural disaster to a beautiful island.
As far as the eye could see, the island was lush and green, with a warm, spring-like climate all year round, home to all sorts of plants... Under the sun's rays, the beach's sand was white and fine, its tiny, crystal-like grains shimmering with a silver light.
The sea and sky merged into one tranquil color, as seagulls soared in playful competition.
The sky was a perfect azure—high and distant, pure and transparent...
[What a beautiful place. Where is this?]
[I don't know. It must be some island in the Great Sea.]
[Why did the video suddenly jump here?]
[This is Sea God Island!]
[Sea God Island? Is it related to a god?]
[I don't know much, only that this place is, in fact, related to a god.]
The screen jumped again, arriving at the center of Sea God Island, inside a solemn grand hall.
There stood a woman dressed in a vibrant red robe. She had long, sea-blue hair and a gentle face that made her look no older than thirty. Her most striking feature was her eyes; her clear blue pupils were deeper than the Great Sea, filled with a gentle wisdom that spoke of ages past and many stories. How could such eyes belong to a woman of only thirty?
At this moment, the woman was listening with a worried expression to a report from her subordinate.
"Grand Priest, the arrival of that meteor from outer space has ignited the underwater volcano in the southern sea region!" a man in a black robe said with a heavy expression. "And what's worse, the eruption is still expanding. If this continues, I'm afraid more than half of the ocean will be contaminated and boiled by the magma erupting from the underwater volcano!"
(end of chapter)