First to Arrive

Time passed, second by second.

Everyone grew increasingly tense.

The mechs were ready, and the pilots had taken their seats inside.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Alarms suddenly rang out across more than a dozen temporary bases.

The leaders of every nation paled as well.

The comet was here?!

The celestial observers hurried before their respective leaders. "Report! Halley's Comet has successfully split apart. A fragment weighing 155 tons is already falling toward Earth!"

The leaders were all stunned.

155 tons?

Even after burning through the atmosphere, it would weigh at least 10 tons upon impact!

The largest "seeding" event in history!

Everyone turned grave in an instant.

The first trial their mechs would face would be the meteorite's shockwave.

Perhaps some mechs would be destroyed by the shockwave before they even got a chance to take the field!

After all...

For the sake of making it easier to compete, the nations had built their bases less than ten kilometers from the meteorite's projected impact site!

"Report, sir."

"The situation has changed!"

Celestial observers from every nation shouted their reports at the same time from different locations. "The comet fragment encountered an unexpected collision and deviated from its projected trajectory. Its impact site is no longer nearby!"

"How is that possible?"

The leaders of every nation spoke in unison.

They had already calculated every possibility. There should have been no error in the fragment's landing site, and the fact that every nation had arrived here fully proved that their calculations were consistent.

The celestial observers trembled as they spoke. "This was very likely caused by human interference."

Human interference?!

Everyone felt a chill run through their hearts.

The leaders present all knew an ultra-classified piece of information.

A man named Di Wu had leapt tens of thousands of meters into the sky