From the moment Li Long took the stone, he had assumed it was an ordinary rock, so he had paid it no attention. Now that it reflected the light and looked distinctly different in color, he knew he had been mistaken.
Holding the stone, he examined it from every angle and discovered that patches of its outer crust had fallen away. A beautiful green showed faintly through those exposed spots.
Was it jade with a thick outer crust?
Li Long looked closely, but it did not quite seem like it. The green inside differed from the green of jade, and it appeared as scattered crystals, the largest the size of a fingernail and the smallest like mung beans, rather than forming a single solid mass.
Setting down the stone, which weighed over ten kilograms, Li Long ran his hand over its brown surface and suddenly thought of a possibility-could this be a special kind of stone, a meteorite?
In his previous life, he had enjoyed scrolling through videos and had seen some introducing meteorites, but he had not been particularly interested. Although the East Three Counties in the same prefecture were rich in meteorites, and a meteorite weighing a ton and worth an astronomical sum had even been secretly sold abroad from Fukang over a decade later, as far as Li Long was concerned, Ma County had none, so there was no need to bother.
Could this stone in his hands be a rather unusual meteorite?
Over lunch, he asked the more scholarly Gu Boyuan, who put down his bowl and chopsticks and went to examine the stone with interest, but ultimately could not offer any definite answer.
After all, although he was a university graduate, the world's knowledge was vast, and he could not possibly know everything. Still, after