Planet Vs Aliens: Space User Saves the World

As Naia’s party left for their new home, others were still reeling at the fact that they had lost theirs.

Some survivors at least had a chance of getting rescued, while others had to wholly depend on themselves.

For example, the areas near the impact sites.

Within kilometers of the impact sites, there was instant ignition of everything combustible. For slightly bigger pieces of space rock, this damage expanded to tens of kilometers.

Many living things in this radius experienced instant death, especially if they were out in the open when it happened, while some were lucky enough to have cover.

For example, those who were lucky enough to be within buildings, even within this range, might survive. The hundreds of degrees Celsius heat wave was deadly, but it was instantaneous. If one was lucky to be at just the right angle, they could survive with minor burns.

Of course, this also meant many structures would’ve been compromised, so the survivors might still face death if they did not react fast enough, though it would be because they were crushed by the buildings instead.

For the large meteorite impacts, their damage could be felt hundreds of kilometers away.

Near the impact zone, the surroundings were instantly superheated, and the clouds of dust and debris created localized darkness. Right now, even if it was in the middle of the day, it was so dark in certain places that it might as well be after dusk.

For areas even 50 kilometers away, most flammable things could ignite, and anyone caught in the open risked painful burns from the intense radiant heat.

As far as a hundred kilometers away, the radiant heat could ignite dry leaves, grasses, and other readily combustible materials, starting fires even so far away from the craters.

In the southwestern part of Danian country, one that bordered another country, felt this damage. A relatively large meteorite landed on the adjacent country, destroying half of it, affecting the neighboring nation as well.

The many villagers of the area were focused on putting out the fires that inexplicably started around them. Some had to be pulled out to take the burned people to the hospital, inevitably slowing down the handling of the raging fire.

They felt the impact, and it even caused landslides and several houses to topple, but they had no idea what caused it at the time. It was just that even when they were so far away, some things still got ignited into flames, shocking them all.

Now, about an hour later, the meteor had settled somewhat. The village was located above a mountain, and those who took time to check the horizon realized what might’ve happened.

They gasped when they saw how the forest they depended on burned.

From a distance, those with scopes could also see more damaged areas, indicating the source was in that direction. That area had been a dense forest just a few hours ago, but now it was dryland, seemingly filled with burnt coal.

The adjacent country was quite small, but now it was reduced to nothing.

The young village head, Elias, looked at the sight with reddening eyes. He himself was outside when this happened, but his instincts flared, and he immediately ran inside, all while shouting for others to do the same.

Sadly, not many were able to do so. There were also those who were injured by the landslide and their houses falling on them. From the impact, they already had a handful of deaths and dozens of injuries.

Their trucks—which used to transport only goods—held dozens of people to head to the hospital, with everyone hoping not to add to the death count.

Hopefully, they would get treated soon, but somehow he knew it would be a long shot.

"When will the forest fire brigade come?" the villagers gasped, already packing their things. There was an official team of firefighters assigned to the forests of this region, and they were usually the people in charge of handling forest fires.

Unexpectedly, Elias shook his head. "No, this kind of disaster is worldwide," he said. A meteorite like that never came with singular damage. He had a feeling things would even get worse from here on out.

They had to be prepared.

Elias was assigned to this poor village by the government, but he was a man with a high degree of education.

Just that in his country, politicians were assigned to low-tier jobs and then promoted step by step in a tier system. He happened to have taken this route just a year ago.

At most, his job was to mediate conflicts between villagers, implement some local regulations, and forward some community concerns to the upper ranks. Who’d have thought his leadership skills would be tested like this?

He looked at the ambulatory people around. "We don’t have to lose everything like them!" he said, referring to the fallen country.

"Follow me!" he said, pausing. "We will burn our own forest."

...

What he proposed was something called backburning, wherein they’d deliberately set a fire along a controlled line in front of an advancing fire.

This would consume the vegetation in its path, aka the fire fuel, in a controlled manner. This way, the actual fire would die out by the time it reached the spot.

This was not common knowledge to these villagers, unfortunately. They were in a humid area so forest fires weren’t common here. Fortunately, Elias read a lot. Now he hoped the villagers could follow instructions.

He also had to create a Plan B in case they failed to control it, in which case those who were not involved in the plan were to head to their evacuation center, which was the village covered court.

The roof was made of polycarb, though, and it was probably melted now, but they’d just have to rebuild it, bit by bit.

Elias didn’t believe that this village that still had so many working hands and feet would suffer helplessly in the upcoming disaster!

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