Chapter 00260: A Meteor Falls from the Sky
# A Meteor Falls from the Sky
Chapter 260
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 260 A Meteor Falls from the Sky
The meteor in the sky pierced the firmament, vast waves of light flowing around it.
It should have been a rather beautiful scene.
At first, only one meteor's flight path veered slightly off course.
By the time Li Chengxi noticed it, it had already squeezed into his field of vision like a great ball of light, looking as if it was about to slam right into his face.
He could even see the white tail flame, trailing spots of seven-colored light, with perfect clarity.
He'd heard that the odds of winning the grand prize in the lottery were about the same as getting killed by a meteorite while walking down the street.
It was hard to say if this was a moment of good fortune or misfortune.
Li Chengxi had no time to think.
His first reaction was to turn, dive, and cover his head.
He remembered watching a science program once that said a five-meter-wide meteorite impact would have an explosive force equivalent to half the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Li Chengxi probably wouldn't even have time for his life to flash before his eyes; he'd be vaporized in an instant.
He covered his head and lay prone on the ground, waiting for the explosive impact.
Unless he could teleport, there was no way he could escape.
But after waiting for several seconds, his surroundings remained completely quiet.
There was no reaction at all.
He opened his eyes to see only the faint glow of the dim streetlights.
It seemed no meteorite had crashed down.
Had he been hallucinating just now?
Quietly getting to his feet, Li Chengxi looked toward his front door.
On the concrete ground in front of the door, a massive, circular patch of light was gradually fading away.
It looked similar to the magic circles Audel had drawn before, but the patterns were completely different.
It was as if it were slowly losing its energy, searing a faint mark onto the ground before dimming completely.
And in the center of this fading magic circle lay a...
It was hard to say if the creature could be considered human.
From the lines of its back, it looked like a female, but below its flawless, beautiful white back were two gray-brown legs with the structure of a goat's.
Li Chengxi moved a little closer, trying to get a better look.
From behind, it seemed to be wearing nothing at all, but a look at the front revealed that its upper body was wrapped in a layer of thorns, covering the important parts.
In the dim light, Li Chengxi could even see the sharp barbs on the thorns.
It was hard to say if this thing counted as clothing, but one thing was for sure: trying to take it off would likely result in blood splattering five steps.
However, she seemed to be unconscious and had no reaction to Li Chengxi's approach, merely curling up instinctively.
This was that meteor from just now?
He looked up at the sky.
The meteor shower had completely vanished, as if it had never been there.
Li Chengxi, his heart still pounding, immediately realized this was not the time to be studying what this thing was.
He picked up his phone, which he had dropped on the ground, and kept his eyes fixed on the unresponsive, unidentified creature at his door.
He practically blind-dialed Qian Sen's number.
Usually, Qian Sen would answer the phone before the third ring, but for some reason today, Li Chengxi called twice only to get a busy signal.
On the third try, the call finally connected.
"Hello? What is it? If it's not a dire emergency, I'll call you back tomorrow."
"It's very urgent, listen to me."
The sound of many people talking could be heard from the receiver, as well as a car door closing.
He could even hear Qian Sen moving the microphone away to talk to someone else, looking extremely busy.
"A creature with a human torso and goat legs just fell from the sky. It's right at my doorstep. What should I do now?"
"Wait, what do you mean? Are you saying it's a transmigrator?"
"I don't know if it's a transmigrator. When she fell, I thought it was a meteor."
On the other end of the line, Qian Sen moved the microphone away again.
Li Chengxi heard an extremely shrill alarm, the kind of warning sound you'd hear if a missile had locked onto you.
Then, Qian Sen spoke again.
"Can you guarantee your own safety?"
"The other party isn't reacting. It should be fine."
Li Chengxi nudged the unidentified creature's leg with the tip of his foot.
It curled up even tighter, but there was no other reaction.
"You said she has a human torso and goat legs. Is she wearing any clothes?"
Was this supposed to be some kind of diagnostic criterion?
"She's wearing something made of thorns on the front, a bit like lingerie. Nothing else. But I think she seems really cold. Should I drag her into my house first? I feel like she might freeze to death if she stays out here any longer."
It was December now, and the temperature late at night was already below freezing.
Even wearing a down jacket, Li Chengxi could feel the chill on his face.
"On the condition that you can ensure your own safety, you can drag her into your house for now. I'll be there in about fifteen minutes. No, ten minutes."
Qian Sen's voice sounded extremely urgent, accompanied by the screech of brakes.
Li Chengxi suddenly had a premonition.
Could he have stumbled into something major?
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Qian Sen said he would be there in ten minutes, but it only took seven or eight before Li Chengxi heard a knock on the door.
Qian Sen didn't come alone.
When Li Chengxi opened the door, he saw four cars parked outside his back door, and some of the people were even wearing bulletproof vests.
It felt like something huge had happened.
"Where is she?"
"Upstairs. I put her on the sofa."
Qian Sen gestured to the others, signaling them to remain on alert, then followed Li Chengxi upstairs.
The creature with the human torso and goat legs was exceptionally light, so Li Chengxi had no trouble carrying her upstairs.
He had even draped a blanket over her.
As soon as Qian Sen got upstairs, he could see her goat hooves sticking out from under the blanket.
"Did anyone else see?"
"It was already nine o'clock when I got back from eating barbecue. Not many people use the road behind my house anyway, so no one should have noticed. But there might be surveillance cameras."
As long as there were no eyewitnesses, it would be fine.
Surveillance footage could be easily erased.
Qian Sen took out a device like the ones used at high-speed rail security checks and scanned the sofa twice, confirming there were no dangerous items.
"It looks a bit like a Satyr from Greek mythology."
"So you're saying it's a native creature of our Earth?"
"We can't be sure yet."
Qian Sen didn't dare get too close.
He turned his head and asked:
"Tell me what happened."
"I was about to open my door on my way home when I suddenly saw a meteor shower in the sky. Then one of the meteors came right at me, and when it landed, it turned into her."
"A meteor shower? I haven't heard anything about one."
One could occasionally see a meteor or two with good luck, but a meteor shower wasn't something just anyone could encounter.
Usually, astronomers would discover it a month in advance, and the media would build it up with great fanfare.
"Anything else? For instance, do you know her?"
"Not at all."
Audel and Viola had both been pulled out of the screen by Li Chengxi, but that was a special case.
The average transmigrator didn't arrive on Earth in that style.
Li Chengxi had initially thought that crashing to the ground as a meteor was the typical style for a transmigrator, but judging by Qian Sen's attitude, it seemed that wasn't normal either.
Qian Sen appeared particularly tense right now, even panicked.
He hadn't reacted this strongly when Audel first arrived.
"Did something major happen?"
"It's not clear yet. I can't give you any definite information, but yes, it is a big deal."
As the two were talking, the eyelids of the creature with the human torso and goat legs twitched slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes...
(End of this chapter)