Zion People's Park—

Children hopped and skipped on the square, tugging at their parents' sleeves and cheering:

"It's a shooting star! Shooting stars! The whole sky is full of shooting stars!"

"Wow! Is this a meteor shower? It feels hundreds of times more spectacular than in cartoons!"

"1, 2, 3...there are too many to count! There must be over a hundred shooting stars!"

"These shooting stars are so orderly! It's different from what the teacher taught us in textbooks... these shooting stars are like a comb!"

Shanxi University, playground—

A vast number of students stopped on the track and lawn, looking up at the brilliant meteor shower in the sky:

"Where did so many shooting stars come from?"

"Was there a meteor shower forecast for today? I don't remember any... logically, a meteor shower of this scale should have been predicted!"

"Is this... really a shooting star? How can there be such a big, long-lasting, slow-moving shooting star..."

"Indeed, these shooting stars feel too close, not like real shooting stars. And the angle is too flat, what are these things?"

……

Countless videos were taken and uploaded to short video platforms.

People around Zion were enthusiastically discussing.

However, netizens in other provinces and cities looked at the gorgeous meteor shower scenes, then looked up at their own peaceful night sky... utterly confused:

"What's going on? Aren't meteor showers visible simultaneously in the Northern Hemisphere? Why is there no movement here at all?"

"Same here! Didn't see anything! Is Zion playing special effects?"

"Extremely weird! Is this a meteor shower that only belongs to Shanxi? Which rich guy pulled this off?"

"Hiss... meteor showers aren't something a rich guy can just create, right? What exactly is going on? Is there any official explanation?"

……

At this moment.

In the southern sky of Zion, 4,000 meters above the ground.

More than a dozen Big Brown Bear 100 aircraft were flying in an orderly formation.

In the leading "Big Brown Bear," Lin Xian sat in the cockpit, the voice of a staff member came through the intercom:

"The last wingsuit flyer has left the plane, each aircraft prepares to return according to the set procedure."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head, and looked through the front windshield of the cabin, at the "shooting stars" gradually flying to various safe landing points below.

In this way... the plan was a perfect success.

He smiled, watching the firework sprayers on the wingsuit flyers gradually extinguished, completely disappearing into the night.

This was a man-made meteor shower.

But it was more shocking and spectacular than a real meteor shower.

Half a month ago, after leaving Liu Feng's door, Lin Xian began planning this meteor shower operation.

Firstly, Li Qiqi's lifelong wish was to see a meteor shower before she died. She wanted to make a wish under the meteors, so that Liu Feng's "Cosmic Constant Derivation" could eventually be recognized and acknowledged by the world.

Secondly, Liu Feng's greatest wish was also for Li Qiqi to make it to the meteor shower at the end of the year. He didn't know that Li Qiqi was so looking forward to the meteor shower in order to make a wish, but this was also Liu Feng's regret and wish.

Lin Xian and Li Qiqi had the same goal, hoping that Liu Feng could cheer up and return to the research of the cosmic constant.

The two of them were the only two people in the world who firmly believed that "Cosmic Constant Derivation" was correct.

Lin Xian knew that the cosmic constant 42 was definitely not an ordinary thing because the genius club of the future world had twice murdered Da Lian Mao's father.

Li Qiqi was even more "great". She simply believed that such a beautiful and ingenious derivation formula could not be wrong; or perhaps the power of love made her blind, because she firmly believed that Liu Feng must be right.

But in any case…

In order to

Let Liu Feng regain his confidence and walk on this correct path, this meteor shower was a necessity.

Because he had won three city parkour championships in high school, Lin Xian knew a lot about extreme sports.

Red Bull had sponsored many death-defying projects related to wingsuit flying... Lin Xian was most impressed by the "artificial meteor" project—

The wingsuit flyers were transported to a height of three or four thousand meters by a skydiving plane, and then they put on their equipment and parachutes, jumped out of the plane, and began to glide freely in the sky with the help of the wind.

At the same time, the firework sprayers tied to the tail of the wingsuit automatically started and sprayed fireworks behind the athletes' flight path... a simple "artificial meteor" was formed.

The principle was actually very simple.

The main difficulty lay in communicating and coordinating with official organizations, obtaining flight permits, and finding willing athletes.

Relatively speaking, athletes were very easy to find. With Lin Xian's generous sponsorship, there were countless brave men. More than a hundred professional athletes were found quickly. Extreme sports enthusiasts loved excitement the most.

Official support and permits did cost Lin Xian a lot of money.

But it was lucky that money could solve the problem. Zion officials were just preparing to build a world extreme sports base, and they happened to need a gimmick to unveil it. Lin Xian's plan coincided with their plan, so he was given a lot of green lights.

The Big Brown Bear 100 aircraft was circling and descending…

Lin Xian took out his phone and opened the bank App.

It showed that his deposit balance had decreased to more than 70 million.

All in all, this magnificent meteor shower action cost nearly 30 million yuan... but this amount of money was nothing to Lin Xian.

With Raine Cat and Raine Moisturizing Cream, these two cash cows, this money would be back in two or three months.

Liu Feng was the original author of "Cosmic Constant Derivation", the second person besides Da Lian Mao's father to approach the truth of 42. Lin Xian felt that this investment was very worthwhile.

"I hope Liu Feng can cheer up as soon as possible."

Lin Xian locked his phone.

He took one last look at the Zion suburbs to the north...

He knew that in a small courtyard among the thousands of lights, Liu Feng and Li Qiqi must have seen the beautiful meteor shower just now.

At least, Li Qiqi's regret should have been made up for, right?

If he went back to the dream and looked at the ancient book dug out 600 years ago... the content on the small card inside would definitely change accordingly.

Just…

"When did Li Qiqi write that small card?"

In the sky, the fireworks at the tail of the last wingsuit flyer were also extinguished... He opened his parachute and slowly descended, the entire night sky returned to calm.

……

In the small courtyard in the suburbs.

Liu Feng squinted his eyes, looking at the southern sky...

He roughly understood the truth of the meteor shower.

If you looked closely, you could still see the flight formation in the sky, and the flashing position lights on the small plane.

Creak—

Behind him, the door was pushed open by Li Qiqi's wheelchair.

Liu Feng quickly walked up to open the door, looking at Li Qiqi:

"What gift is it, so mysterious..."

Li Qiqi looked nostalgically at the sky that had returned to calm, giggled, took out a beautifully bound book from under the blanket, and then trembled as she held it up, as if she had used all her strength... and handed it to Liu Feng.

"This is…"

Liu Feng saw the gilded letters on the book, took a deep breath, and his eyes were full of disbelief:

"Cosmic Constant Derivation

Author: Liu Feng"

This…

How is that possible?

No one is willing to publish my book!

And I have never looked for a publishing house... the inferences in this book are

All wrong, who dares to publish such a misleading book?

Liu Feng opened the cover and found that not only was his photo printed on the title page, but also a brief introduction of the author was written below:

Liu Feng, born in Shanxi, Dragon Country in April 1996, entered the Department of Mathematics of Shanxi University in 2014. After graduating with a master's degree in 2021, he devoted himself to the study of the cosmic constant and wrote the research into this book.

However, there was no information on the publication information page.

There was no publisher information, and no pricing...

"Hehe, I found a merchant on TaoBao to make it."

Li Qiqi stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, her breath was a little weak, squinted her eyes, and looked up at Liu Feng:

"Although... no one is willing to publish this book now, no one is willing to admit that it is correct, and there is only one copy in the whole world..."

"But I believe that one day... this book will be translated into dozens of languages, and in every bookstore in the world, it will be placed next to books such as 'Relativity', 'A Brief History of Time', and 'One, Two, Three... Infinity'..."

"I believe it will." Li Qiqi squeezed out a smile, leaned back in the wheelchair, looking at Liu Feng who was gradually blurring in her vision:

"Because I... made a wish..."

Liu Feng's hands trembled as he turned the book to the last page.

There was a small card in the book cover... the black handwriting on it was still dry, obviously written by Li Qiqi just after entering the house.

After picking it up, seeing the content written on it, Liu Feng bit his lip, and tears had already fallen.

He inserted it back again, afraid that the tears that fell would blur the already blurred handwriting.

"Feng Feng... I'm so cold..."

Li Qiqi murmured weakly.

Liu Feng prepared to push her back into the house, but when he put her cold hands under the blanket... he seemed to realize something.

"Feng Feng... hug me..."

Liu Feng bent his knees, knelt in front of the wheelchair, and hugged Qiqi tightly, who was so thin that she seemed weightless.

"So beautiful..." Li Qiqi in his arms became weak.

In her eyes looking up at the sky, her pupils gradually dispersed.

It was as if she had seen the meteor shower that had fallen for her a few minutes ago.

It was as if she saw hundreds of years later, the rows of "Cosmic Constant Derivation" displayed in the bookstore, the lines of concise and ingenious derivation formulas.

"They are all so beautiful..."

In a happy smile.

Qiqi slowly closed her eyes...