In outer space, a meteorite two kilometers in diameter hurtled through the void at a ferocious speed.
This meteorite had originally come from the Oort Cloud, roughly 30,000 astronomical units to one light-year beyond Pluto's orbit—the so-called Kuiper Belt.
There were a trillion comets orbiting the Sun here, making it the source of many long-period comets.
After a long journey, the meteorite caught Jupiter's gravitational slingshot at the perfect angle, gaining tremendous kinetic energy.
It then avoided the gravitational interference of the other planets and continued forward in a straight line.
Ahead of it lay darkness, like a black hole.
If the meteorite had possessed consciousness, it would surely have been astonished by the immense gravitational pull emanating from that darkness, bending its trajectory and drawing it toward something within.
What it did not know was that the dark entity had once possessed a satellite called the Moon as a gravitational shield. Now, that shield had long since vanished, turning this world into an undefended target range.
Fortunately, it was the first massive meteorite to reach this target range.
"Ten thousand kilometers... five thousand kilometers... three thousand kilometers... Intercept!" Jingwei's voice rang out in Shen Feng's mind. Their Consciousness Tentacles had both entered the Reverse Dyson Sphere in near-Earth orbit.
The next instant, waves of gray metal surged up before the meteorite like ocean swells, blocking its path.
Its violent kinetic energy was instantly converted into heat, bursting into brilliant flames within the dark void, as though a flower of fire had suddenly bloomed in space.
But the Grey Tide's intercepting force was clearly insufficient. Vast amounts of Grey Tide were directly melted by the immense kinetic energy, and the meteorite, still traveling at terrifying speed, continued slicing through the Grey Tide and rapidly approached the Reverse Dyson Sphere.
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