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The sudden illness of the Sky Priest frightened everyone, especially Lin Yu. The moment Zhang Tian fell to the ground, her heart suddenly rose to her throat, fearing that he would just burp, leaving her alone to support him. In this situation, there will be no one to talk to from now on.

Fortunately, he was still breathing, but temporarily lost consciousness.

But Lin Yu was still uneasy. She was an optimistic person. At this time, she was standing by the bed, looking at the unconscious Zhang Tian, ​​but bad thoughts kept coming to her.

He won't go back in time, right?
Unlike Zhang Tian, ​​Lin Yu has always had hopes of returning to modern times. This wish may only be realized if certain conditions are met. The conditions for the two are not necessarily the same. For her, it means gathering five colored stones, while Zhang Tian's The conditions may be related to faith value.

Last night, she heard him say that the faith value had exceeded 6000. She thought about it, this is not a special number, it doesn't make sense...

At this time, a moan of "um" came from beside him.

The owl on the other side immediately put his head in front of the bedridden person and asked with concern: "Are you awake? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

Lin Yu stared at him silently, as if trying to judge his soul from the expression on his face.

Zhang Tiangang woke up, a little confused, and after regaining consciousness, his consciousness gradually returned, and his memory gradually became clearer.

His eyes swept across the faces of the "escorts" at the bedside, and finally fell on Xiao. He rubbed his temples on both sides and asked, "How long have I been sleeping?"

"It's been half a day and it's already dark."

"I'm fine. It's just that I've been too tired recently. I just need to rest for a while. Everyone, go and do your work. Lin is here, so don't worry."

Lin Yu also said: "The Sky Priest needs to rest. Crowding here with everyone will be detrimental to his condition."

The wizard is good at healing diseases and injuries, and he and Tianqing are brothers and sisters. Even she said so, and everyone filed out one after another without saying a word.

In an instant, only Zhang and Lin were left in the huge house.

As soon as the person left, Zhang Tian's expression immediately became solemn.

Lin Yu knew very well that he stayed with him not because he needed to take care of him, but to talk to him alone.

"You didn't faint from overexertion," she concluded.

Zhang Tian sighed: "I'm ashamed to say that I should have fainted from fright. When burning the straw, I suddenly felt some kind of potential danger, and the degree was extremely high! You know, since I unlocked the inspiration, I have become more aware of danger." The perception ability is more acute, and correspondingly, it is easier to be frightened and instinctively produce stress reactions."

Lin Yu looked surprised: "Is it more dangerous than a volcanic eruption?"

"Far more dangerous than a volcanic eruption!"

The level of danger is higher than that of a volcanic eruption. With the energy of mankind in this era, man-made disasters can basically be eliminated. It is most likely a natural disaster.

"Big earthquake? Big flood?"

Lin Yu immediately thought of the most common world-destroying catastrophe in ancient mythology.

Zhang Tian shook his head and said solemnly: "Danger comes from the sky."

Lin Yu was stunned for a moment, and countless possibilities flashed through his mind. Typhoons, heavy rains, severe cold, thunderstorms, snow disasters, meteorites... these can all be regarded as disasters from the sky.

She saw that Zhang Tian's expression suddenly became complicated, and expressions of joy, surprise, and anger flashed through his eyes one by one.

"what happened?"

"Zi Yan and the others are praying to the sky. I'm looking at the content of their prayers. They actually got the Yellow Stone back... Huh?" Zhang Tian suddenly cursed, "She and Wolf Boy assisted Xing Yue and worked together to use the Black Stone to summon Stars! They’re meteorites! They attract amazing things!”

Lin Yu said that when using five-color stones, the combined force of two people will have the effect of one plus one being greater than two.

In the past, if the Star Priest alone summoned meteorites, the meteorites would explode in the atmosphere and have no impact on the ecology of the surface. From this, it can be inferred that most of the meteorites summoned by Star and Moon alone were within 20 meters in diameter.

The famous Tunguska explosion in history is said to have been caused by an air explosion of a meteorite about 100 meters in diameter near the earth's surface. Its power was equivalent to the simultaneous detonation of 300 Hiroshima atomic bombs, and buildings within 20 kilometers were instantly razed to the ground. , a strong earthquake was felt within 60 kilometers.

The distance between Taoyuan and the Star Tribe is far more than 60 kilometers. Zhang Tian can feel the strong potential danger, which means that the meteorite summoned is bigger than the one that destroyed Tunguska!Big enough to destroy everything within hundreds of kilometers!
The degree of disaster caused by meteorites increases exponentially with the increase in diameter.

The power of a meteorite with a diameter of one kilometer is close to that of the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption, which is enough to have an extremely serious impact on the global climate; and the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 6500 million years ago is only 10 kilometers in diameter. Compared with the earth, It’s as insignificant as sesame and mung beans!
Zhang Tian's face looked ugly.

From the prayers of the four people, he roughly understood what was going on. He knew that the star priest was weak, so he wanted to use the power of Zi Yan and Wolf Boy to summon enough stars for the next few years or even decades at once. In this way, , she would be freed from her priestly duties.Zi Yan has good intentions. After all, she was once bound by the duties of a priest, and she could be herself only after dying once.She knows how wonderful the taste of freedom is, so she wants to bring this beauty to people who share the same problem. Zhang Tian can understand her.

They probably thought that all meteorites would disintegrate in the air... It's not scary to have power, but it's just that the people who have power are uneducated!

Zhang Tian was a little annoyed, not because they were ignorant, but because they made their own decisions. If Zi Yan and Lang Boy prayed to the sky and asked for opinions before making a decision, he would have the opportunity to veto it through his dream.

Lin Yu swallowed hard, this was too sudden!We are about to mine and smelt copper and enter the Bronze Age. Why is it so unsatisfactory!

The two looked at each other silently for a long time.

After a while, her optimism revived, and she cheered up and said: "I think the power of Ziyan and Wolf Boy is about the same as that of the Star Priest. Although the Three Stooges are as powerful as Zhuge Liang, they will never be able to destroy the world. The magnitude, at most, is only the scale of the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption."

"only?"

"Well, I have read some research literature before, saying that once the Yellowstone super volcano erupts, the entire America will return to primitive society overnight... You should think so, at least we will not go backwards, right? We still have time, we can still Take refuge.”

Black Stone's power has a very high delay, usually with a buffer period of close to one year. Lin Yu knew that one year might be enough for them to move to a place where Zhang Tian would not feel the danger.

"The meteorites summoned by the Star Priest are all headed for the Star Tribe. As long as we move inland away from the sea, we have a chance to escape..."

Lin Yu talked about her countermeasures, but Zhang Tian lowered his eyebrows and remained silent, and a strange thought came to his mind.

Can you really escape?

In other words, should we really escape?
"...I know it's not easy. We have just established a foothold here, we have just built a new home, we have just discovered copper mines, and everything is developing in a good direction. However, we can only do this, only survive, Only then will there be a follow-up..."

Zhang Tian suddenly raised his head and interrupted her story: "Do you remember that we discussed the cause of the Younger Dryas incident before?"

The topic changed a bit abruptly. Lin Yu was startled and quickly understood what he meant.

When they were preparing for migration in the northern cave, the two of them talked about this matter. There are currently two main theories in academic circles about the cause of the Younger Dryas incident. One is the "planetary impact theory" and the other is the "ice cap melting theory." .

At that time, Zhang Tian supported the former view, while Lin Yu supported the second view.

"You mean, this is the meteorite that caused the Younger Dryas incident?"

"Maybe it's a combination of both. After all, the temperature has begun to cool down now. The meteorite may have just accelerated the process, causing the temperature that was originally slowly falling to suddenly drop. Otherwise, how can we explain that many species in the north include the Clovis people who dominate North America? , all perished in a very short period of time?”

"Well... it's not entirely unreasonable. Some people have indeed discovered the remains of some meteorites, proving that meteorites did fall in this era. However, they were all within the Arctic Circle, or near the Arctic Circle. According to existing theories, The impact point of the asteroid should be in Greenland, which is thousands of miles away from us!"

"That's right!" Zhang Tian straightened his back and deduced following her words, "This may be exactly what we want to do! Move the meteorite to where it belongs! Maybe, this is what we came here to do! "

"This……"

This inference was so bold that Lin Yu was shocked.

"Do you have any basis?"

Although those who work in archeology do not exclude conjectures, they must be based on sufficient physical evidence, historical data and rigorous logical reasoning. Lin Yu will not accept just random guesses.

"I don't have any concrete evidence, I just have a feeling that this is not a coincidence."

Zhang Tian stopped, thought about the wording, and then said: "Do you know the International Meteorite Society? It is a group of geologists, meteorite hunters and meteorite enthusiasts. They have recorded the observed events for nearly half a century. meteorite crash incident."

"Most lottery fans will study past lottery records before betting. What meteorite hunters do is essentially the same as buying lottery tickets. They also need to consider the probability. Judging from the recorded data, the distribution of meteorite falls is in North America and North Africa. , West Asia and Antarctica have the highest number, and the Arctic has the least number.”

"Is it really a coincidence that a meteorite that is powerful enough to change the global climate has landed in the Arctic Circle, which is the least likely and uninhabited place?"

Lin Yu said "hmm" noncommittally. She understood what Zhang Tian meant, but to be honest, she thought it was more likely to be a coincidence than to be caused by them.

Zhang Tian knew that she didn't take it seriously, so he approached it from another angle: "Didn't you say a few days ago that the story of Nuwa patching up the sky might be true? Mythological stories usually have metaphors. Have you ever thought about it? A piece of it fell down and caused a flood to destroy the world. What kind of disaster is this metaphor?"

Lin Yu was finally moved. (End of chapter)