"I'm so hardworking!"
After checking that there was still no movement in the other rooms, Zuo Xiaoduo slipped out and went for a jog to get his morning exercise.
At that moment, beside the artificial lake in the neighborhood park, quite a few elderly people were already sitting quietly; many others were running laps for their morning exercise.
The ground was still trembling slightly, but the residents no longer found it surprising.
Zuo Xiaoduo looked up and saw streak after streak of meteors arcing down from the boundless heights, landing who knew where. Once, he had taken this sight for granted. Now that he knew some of the world's deeper secrets, all he felt was awe.
Just then, an elderly man and an Old Lady were slowly strolling along, supporting each other. Seeing Zuo Xiaoduo gazing up at the meteors, the old man's wrinkled face broke into a smile. "This young fellow still likes meteors."
The Old Lady opened her mouth, which had only a few teeth left, and chuckled. "There's nothing wrong with liking meteors. They say that back in the Technology Era, meteors were such a rare sight that people would make wishes when they saw one, thinking they'd stumbled upon a stroke of fortune."
The old man nodded. "A pity that after heaven and earth were overturned, nobody made wishes anymore. See a meteor, and your life was snuffed out..."
Thoroughly displeased, the Old Lady gave him a smack. "What kind of talk is that?"
The old man chuckled. "You can see hundreds of thousands of meteors in a single day. Saying the sight of that light makes you want to puke really wouldn't be an exaggeration... Just from last night until now, haven't a hundred thousand meteors fallen over Phoenix City?"
Another old man nearby, who