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Chapter 340 Rubbish Skill Turns Out to be a Treasure
Meteorite hunters are an emerging industry. In recent years, due to the strong scientific research and economic development, collectors and scientific research institutions in various countries have increased their purchase prices, and then some people have joined this small circle, dreaming of finding meteorites worth [-] dollars per gram and getting rich overnight. .

One gram is ten thousand, as long as this kind of meteorite can be found, a multi-millionaire or billionaire will be born.

Although the odds are low, they are better than winning the lottery.

It's not that there were no people before, it's just that there were very few people.

Well, less now too.

Although Chen Xing was young, he was a well-informed person, but it was the first time he had heard of meteorite hunters, and it was even the first time he discovered meteorites that could be sold for money.

It seems that no matter how big a Swedish city is, whether it is Stockholm or a small third-tier city, the streets look similar, except for the lack of those beautifully decorated brand stores. The design of the street shops is very simple, but with a Nordic filter, Chen Xing also I don't think it's ugly.

Just ...

It's hard not to understand what people around you are saying!

His language learning ability is very good. After staying in Xijiang for a period of time, he can speak some simple Uighur languages. If he lives in Sweden for ten or eight days, he may also be able to speak a few words of Swedish. But isn’t this a lack of time? , He has only been in the country for two days, listening to the locals is like listening to ghosts.

In this environment, Chen Xing didn't dare to take pictures of people with his camera, he could only take pictures of buildings.

This small city gives Chen Xing the feeling that there are few cars.

At least the road he saw when he walked out of the train station can be said to be a pedestrian street. Although there are traffic division signs on the ground, people are basically walking on it. Occasionally, young people drive balance bikes or ride bicycles slowly. Speed ​​across the road.

He patted an ugly cat with a beautiful coat but an ugly face in the window, and after putting down the camera, Chen Xing teased it a little, then turned around and Erken Mattison walked a long way.

Quickly to chase.

"Mr. Mattison..."

"Just call me Erken. I'm not used to people calling me Mr. I'm still young."

He smiled at Chen Xing without slowing down.

Chen Xing was kind and said, "Nalken, how long have you been in contact with meteorites?"

"I have been studying meteorites with my uncle since I was 16 years old, and it has been... 11 years?"

Chen Xing quickly calculated in his mind, 16+11, Naerken is only 27 years old this year?
Can't tell, Chen Xing always thought he was over 30!
"11 years? That's amazing!"

"I'm not that good. I know there are a few guys in the United States who live outdoors for 10 months a year. They are the ones who are crazy about meteorites. Alas, America is such a good place. There are so many meteorites every year." Meteorites fell on America."

He also looked at Chen Xing and said, "China is a big country with many meteorites, but I haven't heard of any famous Chinese meteorite hunters."

"Maybe our meteorite belongs to the country?"

"That won't be true. Only the meteorites that fall in Australia are stipulated to belong to their country. There is no such regulation in other continents. They just have to pay 20.00% to [-]% tax."

Chen Xing looked at the navigation, this route should go to the station.

He asked, "How many days will it take us to find the meteorite this time?"

"How many days? That's hard to say. It's possible that the meteorite landed right in front of us, or it may take ten days, half a month, or even several months. This kind of thing is uncertain. Anyway, let's go and have a look." Right." After speaking, he smiled at Chen Xing, "We haven't had a meteor shower in Sweden for a long time, this time the scale is relatively large, if you like, you should be able to take good photos."

Meteor showers don't just fall in the same place. If they are all said to be rain, then there must be a lot of debris.

Whether these fragments can fall on the ground is not certain.

Most of them will burn up in the atmosphere, and a few of them can finally fall on the ground, which is enough for meteorite hunters chasing this wave of meteor showers to feel ecstatic.

And the location may be in Sweden, or in other European countries.

Erken Mattison came to Halsberg through his own calculations. How to calculate is his own unique skill, so it is not suitable to hand it over to Chen Xing.The companions who travel together are just companions, not a master-student relationship.

Chen Xing thought that he would only stay for ten days at most.

There was nothing he could do if he couldn't be found for ten days, and he had to go to Hasselblad after that. The three-month visa couldn't be wasted just looking for meteorites.

Buy a ticket at the station and get on the train.

This car should be long-distance?Chen Xing saw that the interior decoration of this bus is very luxurious. The air conditioner does not feel cold when it is turned on, and there is no smell. Affect passengers sitting in the back.

Erken fell asleep soon after getting in the car.

He seems to have the talent to sleep on any means of transportation. He also slept for a long time on the train before, and he woke up only when he was about to arrive at the station because Chen Xing kept taking pictures of the scenery outside the window. Now he fell asleep again on the bus .

Chen Xing was a little nervous, his heart was not so big, he could sleep peacefully and soundly in an unfamiliar environment.

Moreover, Erken Mattison is really not afraid of the camera being stolen.

His old-looking backpack is on the shelf. If someone gets out of the car and pulls it, he can take it away. Is Sweden so safe?Why does Chen Xingcha's data show that the crime rate in Sweden is the highest among the Nordic countries?
Fortunately, no one was interested in Erken's bag along the way.

Chen Xing won't get motion sickness in such a tasteless environment, but looking at his watch and the sky, he looks a little worried.

He said he was going to stay in a small town for one night, but the place where the car was going was getting more and more remote, and ice and snow began to appear sporadically around. Chen Xing even saw snow-covered mountains on the top in the distance. .

After a long time, the car stopped in a small town called Sweig.

After getting off the car, I couldn’t see the sky, it was covered with dark clouds, and there was a depressing feeling that it was about to rain heavily. The houses on the street were very low, with two floors at most, and an attic, which was the room where boys lived in many European and American movies and TV dramas.Chen Xing lived in this kind of loft when he was traveling in the Kanas scenic spot in western Xinjiang.

Although the area is small and the ceiling is weird, there is a sense of security when living in it.

If there are enough rooms at home, Europeans and Americans like to use this attic to store sundries, but even so, it is just a roof, and the whole house is not high.

The sky and the building made Chen Xing feel like he was in Tibet.

In Tibet, the buildings in the holy city are denser. The streets in other cities are very wide and there is not much traffic. It looks a bit similar to the Nordic style.

"Let's find a place to live first." Chen Xing said.

After getting off at a certain place, the first thing to look for is a hotel. This is a habit he has developed after traveling for so long. If you want to see the scenery in the sky, you have to go farther.

"No hurry...forget it, you have too many things, let's find a hotel first."

Chen Xing: "..."

He just bought some clothes in Sweden, and now the suitcase is almost bursting, and he is carrying a genuine travel backpack with the National Geographical Mark printed on it. inconvenient.

Not everyone travels like Erken, with less clothes and no need to take care of hair and beard.

Well, Erken is for work, not travel.

The hotel is easy to find. There are not many foreign tourists in this ghost place. After getting off the bus and walking on the deserted street, I soon saw a hotel with lights on. I went in and asked. There are more than a dozen people in the hotel. Choose any room at will, and there are only two rooms for people.

Chen Xing wanted to help Erken to pay together, but Erken refused, and in the end each paid.

When he went upstairs, Erken frowned and said, "Why do outsiders come here at this time? Couldn't they be colleagues too?"

Chen Xing was going upstairs, he was taken aback for a moment, thought for a while and replied: "Maybe?"

"No, no, I brought you to Sweig to have the best position to watch the meteor shower, but this is not the best observation position, no one else will come, maybe just passing by."

Chen Xing said, "Look at the meteor shower? Is it going to rain here?"

"Then we can only say that we are unlucky. I originally wanted you to take a few pictures of the meteor shower, and you'd better take a few pictures for me. By then, it will be considered that I have not been a meteorite hunter for so many years. You can also give it to me when you go home. Wife and children, look at me captured by top photographers."

"you are married?"

"I... isn't this normal?"

"..."

After finding the room first and putting away the things, Chen Xing opened the window and poked his head out to look at the sky carefully.

It should be showers, and it won't last long.

I don’t know when the meteor shower that Erken mentioned will come. If it comes later, the shower may have passed, and the sky after rain may be better than normal. This is a meteor shower, Chen Xingwan photography has not been photographed for two years.

The main thing is that I don’t have the awareness to shoot this thing, otherwise there are still some meteor showers that can be photographed every year in China.

Chen Xing remembered that this was Northern Europe. If he went a little further north, he might be able to see meteor showers and auroras appearing in the sky at the same time.

After confirming that it was a shower, Chen Xing knocked on the door of Erken's room and opened it after a long time. He asked in a bathrobe:

"what happened?"

"When will the meteor shower come? It's a shower, and it probably won't fall in the next hour or two."

Erken tilted his head with a puzzled expression:
"How do you know it's a shower?"

"Isn't that easy?"

Chen Xing wants to say that this is all his long-term travel experience. If he travels a lot, he will naturally depend on the weather.

But quickly realized something was wrong.

This ability seems to have appeared suddenly at some point. He didn't know how to read it before. He only knew that it would rain when there were too many clouds in the daytime. You can find the Milky Way very naturally.

Chen Xing didn't speak, and quickly flipped through the skills of the system.

astronomer!

Fuck, when did I have this skill?
He almost forgot, after all, this skill is really useless, it is only slightly useful when taking pictures of the starry sky.And knowing the name of a bright star when he looked up, who discovered it and when, other than that, this skill had no effect on his life at all.

"I learned it from a teacher!"

"Oh?"

Erken Mattison was dubious, he knew the value of identifying meteorites, he knew how to observe the final arrival point from the appearance of the meteor shower, but this was all the experience his uncle passed on to him, what kind of weather, constellations, etc. I don't have much knowledge.

But he still answered Chen Xing's words.

"Today is the day when the Pegasus meteor shower reaches its peak. It can be observed with the naked eye in the Östersund area. This place is not far from us, and the time is probably early in the morning..." He rubbed his chin and thought for a while. "There may be an hour or so deviation, but no later than one o'clock in the morning."

"The rain must have passed." Chen Xing said.

He was still wondering why he suddenly became interested in meteorites. It turned out that he was a professional counterpart.

Thinking about it carefully, he also has a lot of knowledge about the types of meteorites in his mind, and he also has related skills on how to observe and find them. It's just that if there is no introduction to guide this knowledge, it will not suddenly emerge from his brain.

Just like when you were beaten by your parents when you were a child, of course you remember this kind of scene in your heart, but it will not be suddenly remembered by you for no reason, right?
Slowly returning to the room, Chen Xing bowed his head in silence all the way.

After entering the room, he clapped his palms together and thought to himself... Then I can be a meteorite hunter myself?

Maybe, maybe, the professional knowledge in my mind is richer than that of Ken?
No matter what, the Pegasus meteor shower that can be seen in the Nordic area this time is the star that Erken is chasing. Chen Xing will definitely not intervene. As Chen Xing himself said, he just wants to be a recorder. Take a pat on how the profession of meteorite hunter exists.

As for whether his video will attract a group of Chinese young people to 'chasing stars' every day after work, then Chen Xing can't control it.

Although Erken said that there are no famous meteorite hunters in China, it doesn't mean that there are none.

There are smart people in Huaxia everywhere, maybe they just made a fortune secretly and don't want to make a fuss about it?
After all, even if the meteorite found is not $500 per gram, as long as it exceeds [-] Huaxia coins per gram, it will be worth more than gold. Of course, the fewer people who understand this kind of profiteering industry, the better.

After a while, the heavy rain fell, accompanied by thunder.

The wind was not too strong, so Chen Xing opened the window, moved a chair and sat by the window looking at the dark sky.

The incandescent lamp that illuminated the roof ran through the rain like a thread.

The universe is really amazing, Chen Xing thought in his heart.

He is now recalling the knowledge contained in the skill of an astronomer. At that time, he felt that this skill was useless, so he didn't delve into it.But now I know that if used well, this is his most profitable skill so far.

Just find a meteorite that fell from the sky...

Chen Xing tapped lightly and rhythmically on the armrest of the wooden chair, thinking about chasing stars, which made him feel very romantic.

This time, let's follow Mr. Mattison to see how he does it. In the future, I will find a meteorite that belongs to me sooner or later.

(End of this chapter)