Chapter 1805 - 976: The Storm Ends, Spectacular Aurora! (3)

Four men were gathered around a fire, watching the squirrel carefully.

"It’s done, any more and it’ll be charred."

Chen Delong saw the squirrel’s fur burnt clean off by the flames, and quickly spoke.

Tui Zi hurriedly used a stick to lift the squirrel out.

It was blackened, with fur curled into a lump.

Tui Zi used two sticks to pick it up, went outside, and rinsed it with rainwater.

Then he brought it back and used a knife to separate the meat and clean it up.

Placed it over the fire to roast.

The flames were strong, and the squirrel was tiny.

In ten minutes, the squirrel was roasted well.

Tui Zi handed the roasted squirrel to Chen Delong for him to divide.

"Wait, let me sprinkle some salt, I got it last time from the base, can’t go without salt," Chen Delong quickly said.

After speaking, he sprinkled some salt over it and divided it into four pieces.

Roughly the same size.

The four took up the roasted squirrel and gnawed away, there wasn’t much meat.

But they enjoyed it immensely, none spat out bones, they held the bones in their mouths, slowly biting, slowly chewing.

Can’t chew through? Then slowly chew.

What they had the most now was time!

Even the bones they finished, leaving nothing behind.

Though not full, at least some food was in their stomachs, feeling much better.

After eating, they lay back down on their rudimentary wooden beds to sleep.

They just hadn’t noticed, the raging storm outside seemed to be weakening.

The frequency of lightning also reduced.

.....

Big Camphor Tree Base.

Li Yu listened to the rain outside, from pouring to a gentle patter.

From a torrential downpour to a moderate rain.

Then from moderate rain to a light drizzle.

"This rain is finally going to end," Li Yu said to himself as he looked at the sky which seemed not so dark anymore.

Others at the base noticed this too, and emotions were slightly stirred.

Some people even ran out from indoors, joyfully running and celebrating in the light rain.

The clouds in the sky slowly dispersed, at a very slow pace.

It’s still nighttime, but once the clouds dispersed a bit, the sky wasn’t as pitch black.

Voices could be heard from both the Inner City and Outer City within the base:

"The rain is stopping! It’s stopping!"

"Great, this damn rain’s been pouring so long, I was about to go moldy."

"It’s not stopped yet, don’t you see there’s still rain?"

"This isn’t rain anymore, by tomorrow, it’ll probably stop completely."

"It’s good if it stops, great if it stops, got to hurry out to do tasks, if we don’t, the supplies will run out."

"It won’t stop that quickly, it’s been raining for so long, probably flooded outside, you’ll have to sail and do tasks?"

"That’s true..."

....

An hour later.

The drizzle turned into a fine mist.

Finally.

It stopped!

The clouds gradually cleared away, a few hours later.

Without the cover of clouds, the sky emerged.

Coupled with such a long torrential rain washing away dust particles in the air, the air became extremely fresh.

A month-long cleansing of the sky, so clean it seemed unreal.

Looking up at the sky, many saw the most beautiful sky of their lifetime.

They swore, it was the most stunning scene they’d ever seen.

Aurora.

A dreamy, surreal aurora.

The aurora appeared like a delicate painting adorning the night sky.

Like an ancient dragon coiling in the deep dark of night, its tail so gloriously colorful that it made the whole night sky shimmer.

An unparalleled beauty that engrossed, consumed.

The aurora’s colors were like a meticulously woven dream, green bands of light darting through the night sky.

Its shape ever-changing. At times like a colorful ribbon, gently floating; at times like a blazing flame, illuminating the sky; at times like a vast canvas.

Enchanting, mesmerizing.

And with the storm ceased, no more thunder and lightning.

Quiet.

As the aurora appeared, the whole world fell silent, only the sound of the aurora blossoming in the night sky.

It was a wonderful sound, making one feel extremely comfortable and serene.

A sound indescribable by language.

Everyone was dumbfounded by this beauty.

Even Li Yu, who’d seen it in a past life, was struck by the glory of the aurora again.

First Outer City, in a greenhouse.

Noble Consort, originally sleeping in the greenhouse, was pulled up by Xiao Ye.

"Quick, quick, Sister Noble Consort, come out and see!"

Noble Consort seemed a bit dazed, surveying the greenhouse, there were only a few dozen people, and they too were running outside.

"What’s happening?" Noble Consort asked.

Xiao Ye’s face was excited, and said with some agitation, "Quick, quick, aurora, soon it will disappear. Hurry out and see."

Noble Consort’s face showed surprise. Impossible, Big Camphor Tree Base is at a low latitude, how could there be auroras at a low latitude?

But she wasn’t sure, perhaps auroras can appear at low latitudes under certain specific conditions.

Her geography knowledge wasn’t great.

She might as well go out and see.

Rushing out, she was instantly stunned.

Dreamlike and surreal, as if standing within a fantasy.

Her mouth was open wide, eyes round and shocked.

Various exclamations came from around her:

"It’s really beautiful!"

"So beautiful."

"It’s stunning."

"Don’t you have any culture, using just these words and nothing else?.....Whoa, whoa, whoa. That band of light moved...."

"You damn can only say whoa!"

"Whoa!"

.....

At that moment, people from inside and outside the base came out, quietly witnessing this breathtaking scene.

At that moment, time seemed to cease.

Silent sound. It’s a contradictory term.

But it seemed that only silence could grasp this feeling.

An eternal moment, as though the river of time paused reaching its course.

Perhaps a few minutes, perhaps several dozen minutes.

The aurora slowly faded from the horizon.

Leaving the crowd in quiet awe.

This scene brought them immense soul-stirring impact.

This scene cleared away the gloom of continuous downpour,

Leaving them yearning for a future of blissful living, giving them the motive to persevere.

But Li Yu knew, this was merely the beginning of another natural disaster.

The beginning of intense solar radiation!

This wasn’t a beautiful initiation, rather it’s the end of a calamity, the onset of another hardship.

In intense solar radiation, the temperature rise aside, the key is the fierce solar radiation, if people are exposed under the sun, their skin feels like it’s burned.

Perhaps everything in existence has its rationale and order in some mysterious way.

This torrential rain obscured the augmentation of solar activity.

Solar activity intensified, leading to a coronal hole in the solar atmosphere, forming a region of relatively low-density material in the solar magnetic field, consequently more solar wind than usual escaping the outer layer of the sun.

Thus creating the aurora!

The charged particle flow among them collides with Earth’s magnetosphere, causing a period of radio signal interruption.

Meanwhile, the intensified solar activity increased solar radiation, leading to subsequent solar radiation-induced calamities.

"Sigh...in two hours, it’ll be sunrise, the sun will rise.....damn it! Why is it never-ending?" Li Yu cursed in his heart.

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