"Any sensational news recently?"
After getting into the car, before the female reporter could speak, Zhang Chen took the initiative to ask.
"The biggest news lately is Tengxiang Nation building high walls!"
The female reporter replied casually.
"I mean... before, before the high walls were built, were there any meteor showers, or events similar to the Mandela Effect?"
Zhang Chen continued to ask.
"What is the Mandela Effect?"
The female reporter asked curiously.
Zhang Chen then remembered that the Mandela Effect was a term from Earth, and that Mandela himself was a real person who had existed on Earth.
But this was Water Blue Star, so of course such a saying wouldn't exist here.
So he explained:
"The so-called Mandela Effect is when many people have the same incorrect memory about an event. For example, many people misremember the lyrics of a song, or remember a celebrity as dead, when in fact they are still alive..."
"This..." The female reporter and the cameraman exchanged glances, then instinctively shifted their bodies away from Zhang Chen.
They probably thought Zhang Chen was a bit abnormal.
How could such a situation occur?!
"However..."
The cameraman thought for a moment and suddenly said:
"I did see a meteor fall. Many people in our city saw it at the time, but it appeared too suddenly and too fast, so we didn't have time to take pictures."
"The strangest thing is that after it fell, there was no explosion or loud impact sound..."
Before the cameraman could finish speaking, he was immediately interrupted by the female reporter.
"Okay, Jason, the media has already debunked it. It was just a discarded military satellite that burned up in the atmosphere."
"Subsequent reports found satellite debris at the crash site, so it wasn't a meteor at all."
"But if it wasn't a meteor, why is that area still cordoned off?" the cameraman argued.
"Didn't I just say it was a military satellite? It must have involved some military secrets, so of course it had to be sealed off. Otherwise, leaking secrets would be no joke!"
The female reporter shrugged, feeling that the cameraman had been misled by Zhang Chen, and the topic had strayed far from the Tengxiang Nation's high walls incident.
"Where did you say that place was?"
Zhang Chen suddenly asked.
"It's in Shannan City, Qimu Nation, in the northwest national forest park. The entire park has now been designated a military exclusion zone!"
The cameraman replied casually.
"Okay, I got it, thank you!"
Zhang Chen said and directly opened the car door.
"Hey, are you crazy? The car is still running, stop it quickly!"
The female reporter yelled urgently.
Bang!
Before the driver could react, Zhang Chen jumped out of the car in shock to the female reporter and cameraman, and then instantly flew into the sky.
Following that was another loud explosion.
Zhang Chen's flight speed broke the sound barrier, and he flew north above the clouds.
Screech!
Only then did the car stop.
The female reporter got out of the car and looked at the clear blue sky. After a long while, she finally recovered and stomped her feet, saying:
"I knew this person was extraordinary. This is truly missing out on a major news story! It's such a shame!"
The cameraman stared blankly in the direction Zhang Chen had disappeared and murmured:
"Don't you realize... he flew away? Isn't this news big enough?"
...
After hearing about the national forest park northwest of Shannan City, Zhang Chen immediately knew where it was.
Because that was also the location where the meteor of creation and destruction had fallen before.
He hadn't expected such a coincidence that two different meteorites, descending from high latitudes into different parallel worlds, would land in the same spot.
But this was good, saving Zhang Chen the time of searching everywhere.
After all, Water Blue Star was so vast; searching without a clue would be a waste of any amount of time.
After flying for an unknown duration, Zhang Chen successfully arrived above the national forest park.
From here, he could overlook the entire Shannan City and the national forest park.
He saw that in the depths of the national forest park, there was a strange area.
The surrounding trees were straight and tall, looking as if they were decades or even a century old.
But in one area, the trees were unevenly distributed, with young saplings just breaking through the soil, mature trees, and even giant ancient trees that would take five or six people to encircle. However, they were already dead, with withered yellow leaves scattered all over the ground.
In the middle of this strange forest, there was a brilliant stone, reflecting dazzling light under the sun.
"Is this the core of the time meteorite?"
Zhang Chen smiled slightly, and was about to fly directly over to collect the core of the time meteorite into his ring, just as he had collected the cores of the creation and destruction meteorites before.
Suddenly, a powerful force repelled him, knocking him from mid-air to the ground.
The immense impact force created a pit four to five meters deep in the ground.
"What's going on? Could it be that these two meteorites really repel each other?"
Zhang Chen patted the dirt off his body and stood up.
With his physique, he wouldn't be injured even if he fell from outside the atmosphere; this height was nothing.
When the meteorite's power had previously tried to invade him, Little Soft had redirected the energy to this world, only to be repelled by a powerful force.
Now, Zhang Chen was also repelled when he tried to retrieve the core of the time meteorite.
It seemed that the core of the time meteorite wouldn't be easy to obtain; he needed to find a way!
Zhang Chen stood in the forest for a while, and suddenly remembered that when he was in the air earlier, he had seen a temporarily erected experimental research institute around the meteorite impact zone.
Perhaps he could try his luck there!
With that thought, Zhang Chen immediately ran towards the research institute.
Meanwhile, at the research institute outside the meteorite impact zone.
Chen Ye, the chief researcher of Raven Studio, was recording experimental data with a young researcher wearing glasses beside him.
After a while, Chen Ye looked up and gently patted the young researcher's shoulder, saying:
"Fortunately, we have you all, otherwise our research progress would be much slower!"
The young researcher pushed his glasses up his nose and said shyly:
"Researcher Chen, you are too kind. Your insights have greatly inspired me. It's a pity that we don't have you in our world, otherwise our world would develop better."
"Furthermore, our abrupt visit has caused some trouble for your world. I deeply apologize!"
As the young researcher spoke, he also bowed deeply.
"There was a little trouble, but fortunately, we have managed to control it. Through energy channeling, we have contained the mutation within that city, at least preventing it from spreading globally."
"As long as we can control the power of time, we can repair the damage caused by the energy diffusion."
"So, compared to the harm, Professor Tang Houde, your contribution as such a young and promising individual is actually much greater!"
Chen Ye looked at this young researcher from a parallel world with admiration.