Chapter 79: Falling! Falling!
Hearing Little Li’s questioning, in an instant, everyone present involuntarily stood up.
The expressions on everyone’s faces were different, some were terrified, some were shocked, some were angry, and some were even relieved.
Floating Continent falling?
This was a question everyone had been worried about since it appeared.
People couldn’t figure out why it was suspended?
Nor could they figure out when it would fall?
It was like a sword of Damocles, hanging over everyone’s heads.
And now, the longsword finally fell.
The thing they had been worried about finally had a result.
For a moment, several leaders even felt a sense of relief.
If they could sleep now, it would probably be the most peaceful sleep since the Floating Continent appeared.
It’s just a pity there’s no time for that.
Heaven wouldn’t give them a chance to sleep again.
It was rumored that the meteorite that destroyed the dinosaurs was only five kilometers in Radius.
And when the Floating Continent first appeared, its Radius had already reached more than five hundred kilometers.
Even if it only hovered at a height of ten thousand meters, once it fell, humans would still have no chance of survival.
Not to mention it has now expanded to a Radius of more than nine hundred kilometers, it’s as if it’s afraid that any survivors could live.
After today, the entire world will face destruction.
Except for humans, the vast majority of species on Blue Star will also face extinction.
Thinking like this, Qi Xuan could be considered to have died a worthy death.
With the entire Blue Star to be buried with him, this pioneer, it wouldn’t be an insult to him.
As everyone was thinking, they heard Little Li ask urgently:
“To be clear, is it the Floating Continent that’s falling, or is it the Land Chunk Fragment on the Floating Continent that’s falling?”
“Are you sure it’s the Land Chunk Fragment that’s falling?”
Hearing this, the leaders around almost couldn’t catch their breath.
“Which unit is it from? Can you make it clear in one go?!?”
As a leader with considerable cultivation, Liu Wang rarely swore.
Little Li glanced at Liu Wang and didn’t have the nerve to say that it was the UAV observer belonging to their own landing group.
“How big is the Land Chunk Fragment? How many pieces are there? How wide is the affected area?”
“Currently there’s only one, right? The estimated diameter is around thirty kilometers?”
“And the descent speed is extremely slow? How do you explain this extremely slow?”
Little Li seemed to have just remembered, and quickly pressed the public release.
Then, under the urgent explanation of the voice on the other end, everyone roughly understood the situation on the scene.
Specifically, after the Floating Continent stopped expanding, a Land Chunk Fragment with a diameter of about thirty kilometers suddenly fell out of the Fog Sphere, which was equivalent to an entire main urban area of the imperial capital falling from the sky.
Under normal circumstances, even if the diameter is only thirty kilometers, just falling from a height of ten thousand meters, the energy released upon landing is estimated to be equivalent to tens of millions of Little Boy, which can easily cause large-scale destruction of marine creatures, and form a nuclear winter to interrupt photosynthesis, leading to the extinction of more than ninety percent of species, and humans are likely to have difficulty surviving.
But the difference now is that this Land Chunk Fragment, possibly because it brought up a large amount of Mist during its fall, its descent speed is very slow, according to calculations, it may not even reach three kilometers per hour.
If it maintains this speed, it will take more than three hours to fall from the sky.
More importantly, the descent at this speed can be said to be quite gentle, it will not trigger the release of huge energy instantly, nor will it cause instant high temperatures and strong shock waves.
Not to mention affecting the entire world, the actual energy fluctuation at the time of impact may only be equivalent to two or three Little Boy.
In the ocean, this energy fluctuation can be said to be insignificant, and can be easily digested.
So, the most Core Disciple question comes—
Will the Land Chunk Fragment always maintain this descent speed?
Or will it gradually accelerate after leaving the Mist, and finally smash into the sea?
Liu Wang immediately asked the on-site expert group to conduct rigorous calculations.
Fortunately, the final conclusion was that, according to the current dissipation speed of the Mist, by the time the Land Chunk Fragment falls to the sea surface, a considerable part of the Mist will still remain.
This conclusion made everyone present feel slightly relieved, and then Liu Wang immediately ordered:
“Notify Lighthouse Country, the North Pole Bear, and other parties, report our observation results here, let them try not to interfere with the fall of the Land Chunk, do not use weapons to attack, forget it, I’ll talk to them myself.”
Liu Wang hurried towards the contact room, even starting to jog.
In fact, the observer had just reported the situation on the scene to this side, also to ask whether to launch an attack on the Land Chunk Fragment.
The UAV itself is equipped with Missiles, and can be launched with a single order.
In addition to him, Fighter Jets and Reconnaissance Aircraft from other countries were also found near the Land Chunk Fragment.
Therefore, communication between each other is particularly important, to prevent a sudden accidental firing from causing uncontrollable changes in the Land Chunk’s fall.
After close communication between all parties, under the premise that humanity might be extinct, a consensus was quickly reached.
Any country or individual who wants to make trouble on the matter of the Land Chunk falling will first be hit hard by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the mainstream countries.
In fact, even if they launch an attack on it now, with the current level of human technology and weapon yield, they simply cannot destroy it.
Using weapons to attack is in a certain sense equivalent to a placebo, or a placebo that may have side effects, and it is only natural to be abandoned.
Under the gaze of all, the Land Chunk Fragment slowly descended from the sky.
This scene was like a judgment made by Heaven on humanity.
Everyone could only watch helplessly, powerless and unable.
Fortunately, the dissipation speed of the Mist around the Land Chunk was extremely slow, and the descent speed never changed, always maintaining about three kilometers per hour.
After more than three long hours, the Land Chunk Fragment successfully fell into the sea, and people’s hearts also fell back into their stomachs with it.
The witnesses present all felt a sense of relief from escaping death.
But after the Land Chunk Fragment fell to the sea surface, the change did not completely stop.
The special Mist that permeated around the Land Chunk, continuously interacted with a large amount of seawater, evaporating extremely dense Water Vapor, covering the entire Land Chunk like a blanket, and a series of unprecedentedly strong Storms erupted around it, constantly spreading outwards, making it difficult to approach.
And the most bizarre thing is that the monitoring results show that, on the seabed below the Land Chunk, a extremely strong earthquake suddenly came, the originally flat Terrain, unexpectedly and very abruptly rose rapidly upwards, and before long, the rising huge rock peaks combined with the bottom of the sinking Land Chunk, completely merged into one.
Under the astonished gaze of everyone, this Land Chunk Fragment that fell from the Floating Continent, actually became a brand new island in the Pacific Ocean?!
