What Did It Look Like When a Seven-Story Apartment Building Came Crashing Down?

What did it look like when a seven-story apartment building came crashing down?

Probably about the same as a small mountain suddenly collapsing.

It was a hulking structure roughly thirty meters tall.

Its collapse was more than enough to bury everything around it!

Especially when it had been smashed down by a meteorite!

All sorts of jumbled debris had been given an especially powerful kinetic force by the meteorite's impact.

Some of the flying bricks were easily capable of traveling over a hundred meters before smashing some unlucky person's head like a meteor hammer!

And the walls collapsing in all directions would bury everything around them on the spot, turning anyone still alive into mincemeat.

Thus.

At this moment, the workers bitterly regretted not having been born with two extra legs.

They all ran incredibly fast!

Even the lawyer beside Xi Shenlian instinctively tried to turn and run.

But when he looked toward Xi Shenlian, he noticed that the other man showed no sign of panic whatsoever.

It was as though he were merely watching a sandcastle built by a child collapse.

There was not even the slightest trace of fear.

All there was.

Was a little interest.

In that instant.

The lawyer's mind began spinning rapidly.

In the end... he arrived at a conclusion.

Standing beside Xi Shenlian was far safer than running around aimlessly!!

So he immediately stood beside Xi Shenlian, putting on an air of loyal protection, as though he would advance and retreat together with his employer.

To put it bluntly, if someone took a picture of this scene and entered it in a competition, it would easily win a photography award!

The only imperfection was that the lawyer's legs were too weak and kept trembling.

Like a frightened quail.

Seeing this.

Xi Shenlian merely chuckled indifferently and made no unnecessary move.

He simply stood there quietly.

Calmly watching the apartment building more than ten meters ahead collapse with a deafening roar.

Letting all sorts of bricks and debris fall around him.

In his opinion.

Being destroyed by a meteorite.

Was undoubtedly much more spectacular than being slowly dismantled with construction equipment!

Therefore.

He had to appreciate it properly...

During this process.

The lawyer, who had initially been terrified, soon discovered that the larger chunks of debris seemed to deliberately avoid this place, never falling toward them.

Only a few harmless fragments came close.

But those fragments would often suddenly shatter in midair...

As though they had been intercepted by something invisible!

And his employer, Xi Shenlian.

Still wore that interested expression.

As though he were admiring something.

That tall, straight body had not moved at all from beginning to end.

His expression was calm and composed.

Utterly unruffled.

This situation.

Made the lawyer swallow involuntarily as well, then secretly pinch his thigh as hard as he could, trying to force his legs to stop trembling...

He felt that he absolutely had to pull himself together at this critical moment!!

He absolutely could not let the big shot look down on him!!

But unfortunately, his legs still refused to obey him, continuing to shake as though he had suffered an attack of Parkinson's disease...

Half a minute later.

When everything had finally settled down.

Xi Shenlian looked at the apartment building that had completely collapsed.

Then he lightly snapped his fingers.

"Now go ask about the injuries and losses among the workers nearby. If there are any, tell them I'll compensate them in full."

"Then have them dig open the ruins."

"I'm a little interested in the meteorite inside."

Although he had no idea what the thing was.

Based on the feedback from Extra Talent, he knew that it must be valuable.

"Huh?"

After freezing for a moment.

The lawyer realized that the big shot was instructing him to do something and immediately nodded like a pecking chicken:

"Of course, of course. I'll take care of it right away!"

A few minutes later.

The results came in.

Although the losses to the construction equipment were considerable, the human losses were minimal. Only two unlucky men had been struck in the legs and needed to be rushed to the hospital.

For people in the construction business, that kind of situation could only be described as something they were accustomed to.

Even getting one's head split open by falling objects at a construction site was not considered a major incident...

Thus.

Very soon, in accordance with the employer's instructions, the workers immediately got to work.

Some of the workers even seemed excited.

Because this was the first time in their lives they had ever seen a meteorite hit a building!

And it was also their first time digging up a meteorite!

It would definitely make a great story to brag about over drinks in the future.

This put everyone in high spirits.

Only the two unlucky men with broken legs were wailing for their fathers and mothers.

Truly, joy and sorrow could not be shared!

After some time.

The excavation was still underway.

During the process.

Even the police came by once.

When the meteorite had previously pierced through the apartment building, countless fragments had flown everywhere, alarming many civilians.

But after investigating the cause and discovering that it had been a pure accident, and after Xi Shenlian stated that he would provide compensation, they could only make a token appearance before leaving at once.

At this point, through the efforts of numerous machines and workers, a huge pit was finally dug out bit by bit.

It was also then.

Everyone discovered that after the meteorite had smashed through the seven-story building as easily as piercing through plastic foam.

It had continued on like a space-based weapon, forcefully breaking through the foundation and plunging itself dozens of meters into the ground with its momentum undiminished!

To be honest.

That power was more than enough to penetrate most defensive fortifications!

When the meteorite was finally dug out.

Although it was only the size of a car.

It displayed an extraordinarily heavy quality.

Even a crane could not lift it!

They could only leave it in the pit.

In addition, the people present discovered that the thing possessed a faint metallic sheen.

Xi Shenlian looked at the excavated meteorite, thought for a moment, and then directly took out his phone.

After all, when you didn't know something, you just searched the internet!

What use was there in merely staring at it?

Next.

Through Auxiliary AI's search of information across the global internet, he soon learned what the thing in front of him was.

Arachi Metal.

It was an ultrarare metal from outer space.

Obtaining it usually depended entirely on luck.

The amount found on Earth was incredibly small.

It was usually measured in grams.

It had a crucial impact on spaceflight and various high-precision devices!

Its value was several hundred times that of gold of the same weight.

And at the same volume, this thing was already several hundred times heavier than gold of the same volume.

Thus.

If this car-sized chunk of Arachi Metal were valued in terms of gold, its actual worth would be at least equivalent to tens of thousands of car-sized solid gold blocks—in other words, a value starting at hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of tons of gold...

In the world of Xi Shenlian's previous life, all the gold developed by humanity amounted to only a fraction of that figure...

By the same logic.

Even if this world possessed more undeveloped and developed gold than his previous world, given the difficulty of extracting gold and its status as a precious metal, it was still a sum of money more than sufficient to buy all of Dongying.

A hundred quadrillion yen?

A quintillion yen?

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