Nonsense (2)

"Tap, tap."

"What was that sound?" He pricked up his ears and listened carefully, yet still found nothing.

"What's the big deal about hearing something in space?" After saying that, he closed his eyes, found a comfortable position, and dozed lightly.

"Tap, tap." The sound of stones striking meteors came down as densely as raindrops pelting massive rocks.

Sound could not travel directly through space, but matter could transmit vibrations. The faint tremors in the meteor's surface were almost imperceptible.

"Tap tap tap tap." The impacts grew increasingly dense. Their accumulated effect finally made the Otsutsuki, who was leaning against the meteor's surface, notice them.

The sound traveled through vibrations, resonated through his body, and was ultimately conveyed to his ears through his bones.

"What's going on?"

He pressed his ear against the meteor wall and listened carefully, hearing the increasingly dense, overlapping vibrations.

"Boom, boom."

Caught off guard, his whole body jolted. A deafening collision rang out in his ears as the meteor shook him wildly, then exploded into huge chunks of debris.

"Damn it, what rotten luck. Did a flying meteor hit us?"

When choosing these secret hideouts, they always picked hard, enormous meteors with stable flight paths—ones that would not vanish during long orbital journeys.

Such meteors were like Halley's Comet. Their trajectories extended as far as Neptune, passing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus before circling halfway around the Sun. Their evaporating vapor and dust streaked across Earth's sky in a brilliant blaze before following their orbit away again. Halley's Comet would next appear in 2061.

That showed just how tiny the odds were of such a meteor being destroyed. It was practically like winning the lottery.

"The secret gathering place was destroyed just like that?" While he was still lamenting, Li Yu, hidden within the rocks,