Only My Way

It was noon, and the sun was at its peak.

The pure golden sunlight was brilliant and dazzling.

It made people want to squint their eyes involuntarily.

Ling Wuyuan, dressed in a tracksuit, stood in the pavilion at the top of the mountain, gently exhaling a breath.

He first glanced at the few scattered climbers on the winding mountain road below, and then turned his gaze to the clear sky filled with white clouds.

However, although he wanted to appreciate the scenery in the sky, the overly bright sunlight made him silently withdraw his gaze after a few more glances.

There was no way around it.

The light was indeed a bit dazzling.

If he continued to stare at it, his eyes might instinctively fill with tears.

“Climbing a mountain occasionally is really nice~”

While sighing softly, Ling Wuyuan turned his head to look at a certain area not far behind him.

As a mountain with a small reputation in the local area, although the basic infrastructure on it was not very good, it had all the necessary facilities, so climbers could eat something or buy souvenirs after successfully reaching the summit.

Right now.

He planned to buy a cup of milk tea and take care of his lunch at the same time.

However.

Before he could even take a step.

Suddenly, he keenly noticed something was wrong.

He saw that on the ground in front of him.

The golden sunlight, which was being poured onto the ground by the scorching sun above, had, from who knows when, actually taken on an unusual crimson hue.

Moreover, that crimson hue was becoming more and more obvious at an extremely fast speed!

“？”

At this moment.

Although he didn't know what was happening, Ling Wuyuan instinctively sensed some kind of danger.

A sense of palpitations instantly arose in his heart!

Without any hesitation.

He immediately raised his head again, his eyes looking straight at the very top of the sky!

Then, even though the light was incomparably dazzling, he still easily saw the source of the strange phenomenon.

It was a conspicuous red dot located above the firmament!

Although its size was incomparably small compared to the sun, which dominated the sky and existed eternally, the radiance it released was still so impossible to ignore, even the sun's radiance could not completely conceal it.

Under Ling Wuyuan's gaze, in a very short period of time, its size had obviously increased, and the crimson radiance it released had also become more and more obvious.

About three seconds later.

Ling Wuyuan gradually heard bursts of exclamations in his ears.

At this time.

Not only Ling Wuyuan, but other people around him were also gradually discovering that something was wrong.

But Ling Wuyuan had no time to care about those people now.

After a period of observation.

He had roughly figured out what that object releasing the crimson radiance was.

That was… a meteorite!!

A giant meteorite that was getting closer and closer to this place!!

Behind it, there were even layers upon layers of visible sonic boom clouds spreading wildly!!

Witnessing this scene, a series of thoughts instinctively emerged in Ling Wuyuan's mind.

‘Based on the trajectory of its movement, the point of impact is probably this mountain.’

‘The height of this mountain, I remember it's about nine hundred meters, less than a thousand meters…’

At the same time, Ling Wuyuan also instinctively compared the remaining time before it hit the ground with the time it would take him to descend the mountain.

The former had about twenty seconds left.

The latter… it would be absolutely impossible without several tens of minutes.

Even if he was standing at the edge of the cliff of the mountain right now, and jumped off the cliff without hesitation, the time it would take him to fall straight to the foot of the mountain might not be much faster than the time it would take the meteorite to hit the ground.

So, the current situation directly presented him with a rather bleak result.

【I should be dead for sure.】

‘…This is really bad luck…’

‘I finally managed to earn enough money and have some material conditions that could be considered good…’

Faced with the tragic and foreseeable outcome, as a guy who was born an orphan, at the age of twenty-five, looking at the increasingly large crimson meteorite, which was at least hundreds of meters in diameter, recalling his own life, after being saddened for a moment, more than the fear of facing death, he felt more of a sense of helplessness and acceptance.

After all.

Encountering such a situation, he could only accept his fate.

There was no other way.

Then, realizing that he was dead for sure, some rather inexplicable thoughts popped up in his mind.

‘But, this way of dying… is really cool~’

‘To be honest, I'm quite satisfied~’

Yes.

Perhaps out of the idea of finding joy in suffering.

At this truly critical juncture and moment of despair, a strange sense of satisfaction suddenly arose in his heart…

A sense of satisfaction existing within the fear~

As an orphan.

An orphan with no ties and no one to rely on.

Ling Wuyuan had actually imagined countless times how he would move towards death.

Would he die of illness?

Would he be hit by a car while crossing the road?

Would he die of normal old age?

…

And among these many different ways of dying, he had always had one idea in mind.

[If possible, I hope that when I die, I can die in a way that is cool, the cooler the better… ]

There weren't too many reasons.

There was only pure expectation.

So, at this moment.

Looking at the increasingly close meteorite, Ling Wuyuan suddenly had a strange feeling that things were really a blessing in disguise… He deeply felt that his way of dying was truly cool to an unimaginable degree!

‘Wow~’

‘Really nice~’

While he was feeling deeply satisfied.

Various chaotic scenes were happening one after another in the surrounding areas.

Not only were the many people on the mountain crying and shouting, trying to find ways to survive, but even the cities around the mountain were in a state of extreme chaos, with countless horns, shouts, and cries… all mixed together.

Only Ling Wuyuan was in a rather calm mood, and even somewhat satisfied with the situation…

Before long.

About ten seconds later.

“Rumble~”

The huge sound, like a super thunderstorm, even more like a nuclear explosion, began to echo in the sky!

This was a strong proof that the giant meteorite's moving speed far exceeded the speed of sound.

Under the influence of some kind of force, these bursts of loud noise enveloped a wide range in advance at a speed that surpassed the normal transmission of sound, as if it were some kind of shock wave, causing countless glasses to shatter on the spot…

Just listening to it from afar, the eardrums in Ling Wuyuan's ears automatically shattered, causing blood to seep out of his ears continuously…

Accompanying it was also high temperature.

Even before it had officially landed, it still caused the average temperature in the area within a radius of dozens of kilometers to suddenly rise by more than ten degrees.

When the time came to this moment.

For the nearby area, the crimson radiance it released had already begun to gradually cover the golden sunlight, turning the world into a blood-like crimson, making the overall atmosphere of the environment look particularly ominous, like a nightmare ghost realm.

This caused the surging crowd around, who were already fleeing frantically, to become even more frantic in their behavior, and it would be no problem to say that they were fleeing blindly and unscrupulously.

Also at this time.

At the summit of the mountain, where there was no one else, Ling Wuyuan chose to move a few steps back silently.

Because he found that the landing point of the meteorite was right near him.

So, in order to be able to hit the bullseye, he chose to tactically adjust his position.

Until he was sure that he could be directly hit by the meteorite head-on, he, who was suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, then sincerely and secretly satisfied, said:

‘Now I finally feel comfortable… ’

Finally.

Along with the increasingly high temperature, in emotions that even he himself could not explain, Ling Wuyuan, in the second before the crimson meteorite completely landed, waved his fist hard at the crimson meteorite that was falling from the sky, like Odin's spear drawing a scarlet trajectory in the sky…

Perhaps it was out of final unwillingness?

In any case.

It can only be said that it was undoubtedly a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

In the next instant.

Ling Wuyuan's body was completely erased!

Then, in the huge explosion, the entire mountain under his feet exploded on the spot!

The scene was simply like a cake encountering a high-speed iron ball hitting it head-on.

Hundreds of millions of tons of mountain rocks and soil either evaporated or splashed open!

The huge ring-shaped shock wave then spread to dozens of kilometers away in a very short period of time, bringing devastating destruction to the surrounding area!

When everything subsided, there was only a sinister deep pit left on the ground, with a depth of about three thousand meters at its deepest point, a hole width of about forty thousand meters in diameter, and a large amount of scorching magma still rolling inside…

And such terrible scenes were happening simultaneously in more than a dozen places on this planet…

Front row reminder:

1. I have never had an outline for writing books, I basically write and publish as I go, I even think about the settings as I write, I only know the plot of the day a few hours earlier than the readers.

2. The protagonist is probably not a normal person, and does not have much sense of good and evil.

3. I can normally finish the book under the premise that there are no irresistible factors interfering.