meteor showers

The night was starry, and there were only a few people in the observatory besides those on duty.

Xu Honghan greeted the person on duty and led them to the top floor as if he knew the place well.

Jiang Zhizhi followed behind him, looking around curiously. On the wall were maps of various galaxies and detailed introductions.

The metal frame dome above the head has been opened, revealing the four directions of the night sky divided by the steel frame, which looks quite technological like something out of a movie.

In the center, two black and white optical refracting telescopes are quietly placed on an old equatorial mount, bathed in starlight between the bare sky and earth.

"I'll adjust the focus for you. Is there any celestial body you want to see? All the celestial bodies in the solar system can be seen. Outside the solar system, I can see Sirius, the binary star Kahn and some nebulae and star clusters." Xu Honghan walked to one of the telescopes, turned around and asked them, but his eyes were only on Jiang Zhizhi.

Jiang Zhizhi smiled and said, "I can do anything."

Anyway, she doesn't know anything, so she makes money by watching everything.

Xu Honghan then looked at Xu Qingbo and asked for his opinion.

"How about, let's take a look at Saturn first." Xu Qingbo liked Saturn's ring very much and said excitedly.

"Okay." Xu Honghan put his brow close to the eyepiece and slowly adjusted the focus of the telescope.

In the silence of the night, Jiang Zhizhi clearly heard the sound of gears meshing, and a strange feeling inexplicably arose in her heart, as if the telescope in front of her was a key to open the universe.

"Ladies first, Zhizhi, you go first."

Xu Honghan adjusted himself and said to Jiang Zhizhi with a smile.

Jiang Zhizhi walked over obediently and put her eyes to the eyepiece of the telescope.

In an instant, the vision suddenly opened up and entered the dark and mysterious night sky.

The huge planet seemed to be floating in an endless abyss. The halo surrounding it was like a thin and light ribbon, gently holding Jiang Zhizhi's heart.

An incredible beauty.

The planet seemed to be right in front of her. Jiang Zhizhi subconsciously reached out to touch it, but only touched the cold metal tube of the telescope.

"How is it? Beautiful, right?" Xu Honghan said with a smile.

Jiang Zhizhi nodded mechanically, "Yeah."

After watching for a while, Jiang Zhizhi felt embarrassed to let Xu Qingbo wait any longer, so she left with a feeling of being unsatisfied.

While Xu Qingbo was looking at Saturn, Xu Honghan took Jiang Zhizhi to another telescope.

This time he did not ask Jiang Zhizhi's opinion and directly adjusted the focus to the Orion Nebula.

Xu Honghan is incredibly skilled in operating the astronomical telescope, and the entire adjustment process only takes one or two minutes.

The Orion Nebula is a bright nebula. Through an astronomical telescope, you can clearly see the corpse-like clouds surrounding it. It is like a beating heart in the dark universe, beautiful and dreamy.

The three of them stayed at the telescope until after midnight, and Xu Honghan lovingly let them observe all the stars they wanted to see.

Before leaving, Xu Honghan used the computer's star spectrum software to display the spiral arm structure diagram of the Milky Way for them.

Hundreds of billions of stars make up that brilliant and magnificent picture.

The Earth where they live is like a speck of dust in this huge picture, and it cannot even be seen.

Jiang Zhizhi was touched for a moment and couldn't help but reach out and touch it.

In an instant, the cold electronic sound in her mind rang out, and countless dense information suddenly flooded into her mind.

"Uh..." She groaned and almost couldn't stand.

"Zhizhi!" Xu Honghan quickly supported her. "What's wrong? Are you too tired?"

But the electronic sound in Jiang Zhizhi's mind was still ringing, and the countless sounds overlapped, making her unable to hear anything clearly.

"My head hurts..."

This situation lasted for more than ten minutes.

Finally, all the electronic sounds stopped and silence returned to the surroundings.

Jiang Zhizhi was confused. Xu Honghan and Xu Qingbo were standing beside her, talking to her anxiously with concerned faces, but the influx of huge amounts of information made her temporarily deaf.

"I'm fine."

Seeing Xu Honghan taking out his cell phone and about to call 120, she quickly stopped him.

The moment she finished speaking, an electronic sound rang in her mind again.

[Basic knowledge acquisition progress 97%——]

It was a strange sentence that Jiang Zhizhi had never heard before.

What is the progress of acquiring basic knowledge?

97%?

What will happen if it reaches 100%?

"Zhizhi, are you really okay?"

Suddenly, Xu Honghan's voice came to my ears.

Jiang Zhizhi was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that her hearing had returned to normal.

"Well, I'm really fine."

It seems that the spiral arm structure diagram just now had a huge impact on her, which led to this situation.

Jiang Zhizhi tried to recall the picture just now, but found that the structural diagram that she had only seen once was so clear in her mind at this time. She could clearly call out every detail of the corner and every star in the galaxy.

Faintly, she felt as if something was different.

In the past, she had never remembered the knowledge she had read so clearly.

"How about we stop here today? I see you are not feeling well, so let's go back early." Xu Honghan said worriedly.

"No, I'm really fine. Now that we're here, let's continue climbing up to watch the sunrise." Although Jiang Zhizhi had many questions in her mind and wanted to go back and test it in person, she didn't want to disturb Xu Qingbo's interest since she had finally come up.

"Okay, but if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me immediately."

"Um."

The three men left the observatory and continued to walk upwards.

Jiang Zhizhi followed them and called out in her heart, "Are you there?"

The gentle voice she expected did not answer her.

As far as I can remember, that voice hasn't spoken for a long, long time.

"Are you not here? Still don't want to talk." She sighed secretly.

"I don't want to disturb you."

In the darkness, the gentle voice sounded again, like a soft cloud of gauze, enveloping her.

"Why?"

"Frequent conversations with me may change your choice. I don't want to change your fate. Do what you like." said the voice.

"Who are you?"

Jiang Zhizhi had asked this question once before.

Just like last time, this question also caused the voice to fall into silence.

"Can't you tell me?"

"If you could reach a certain point in the future, perhaps you would know who I am."

"So, if I make the wrong choice, I'll never know?"

“There is no wrong choice.”

Jiang Zhizhi was silent for a moment, then asked, "Am I a test subject?"

The voice was also silent for a while.

He replied, "You are the one who is favored."

Jiang Zhizhi asked again, "If my knowledge acquisition progress reaches 100%, will the system upgrade?"

"Yes."

"What will become of it?"

"You'll know when the time comes."

"So...will it keep escalating?"

"It will grow with you until the day you die."

die……

Jiang Zhizhi was touched by these two words.

*

When we reached the top of the mountain, it was almost four in the morning.

The wind on the top of the mountain was very cold. Even though the three of them wrapped themselves tightly in their coats, they couldn't help shivering.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed across the sky, and the light and shadow flashed quickly on each other's faces.

"It's a shooting star!"

Xu Honghan said in surprise.

As soon as he finished speaking, more meteors streaked across the sky, and the originally quiet and silent night sky suddenly became brilliant.

"The Perseid meteor shower? But the previous estimate clearly said it would take another half a month..."

He looked at Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo and sighed, "You two are really lucky."

Xu Qingbo had no time to listen to him. He had already taken out his camera and was quickly adjusting the parameters and taking pictures.

It was Jiang Zhizhi's first time seeing a meteor shower.

It was like silver-white threads crossing the dark sky.

Some of them had long emerald-colored tails, and as they fell, they burst into countless sparks.

Those were gorgeous fireworks that were incomparable to artificial fireworks!

"Don't just take pictures, make a wish quickly! Wishing under a meteor shower is very effective." Xu Honghan said to Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo.

Xu Qingbo looked up from behind the camera in disbelief. "Uncle, you're a scientific researcher, and you still believe this?"

"So what? Scientific researchers are not allergic to romance." As he said that, Xu Honghan closed his eyes and silently made a wish in his heart.

"I guess your wish must be the complete success of this research project." Xu Qingbo said jokingly.

Xu Honghan ignored him.

When Xu Qingbo saw Jiang Zhizhi watching the meteor, he felt something in his heart and took a step back to adjust the angle.

With a click, a photo of Jiang Zhizhi was taken with the meteor shower.

If making a wish under the meteor shower could really come true, he hoped to be admitted to Shuimu University with Jiang Zhizhi.

What is Jiang Zhizhi's wish?

He looked at Jiang Zhizhi's expression at the moment, but couldn't read what she was thinking.

Silently, I took a few more photos.

*

After watching the sunrise, Xu Honghan took them directly down the mountain by cable car.

Along the way, he couldn't help but mention today's meteor shower and attributed this unique luck to Jiang Zhizhi.

"It must be because of Junior Sister Zhizhi that the meteor shower came early. Qingbo, you are not that lucky."

Meteor showers are rare in themselves, and they are even rarer when they appear in the best viewing locations.

Jiang Zhizhi smiled awkwardly and did not answer him.

But just when she was on the top of the mountain and the meteor illuminated the night sky, she heard the voice in a trance.

"This meteor shower comes for you."

She was so shocked that she asked the question several times.

But the voice had died down.

It was as if she had never heard that sentence before.

Jiang Zhizhi knew that from that moment on, the world she would face in the future had completely changed.