Chapter 36: Journeying against the tide without regrets in the dusty apocalypse, fighting to the death...

Everyone looked up in fear and gazed at the two main reactors standing at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

Two massive, narrow-waisted white cylinders stood side by side, resembling a pair of lovers clinging to each other amidst the violent tremors. Now, these two white giants began to crumble amidst the tidal wave of vibrations. The mist at the top of the towers ceased to release normally, now belching out thin steam like the breath of a dying man.

The muffled sound of the earthquake continued to spread to the white tower in the distance.

"Let's go... Let's go check out the reactor first."

When we arrived at the nuclear power plant, everyone's heart tightened.

The situation was worse than they had imagined. They didn't even have to walk up to the White Tower to see spider-web-like cracks spreading from the foundation all the way upwards. The entire nuclear power plant building had collapsed to varying degrees, and the outer shell of the cooling tower had partially peeled off, revealing the crisscrossing pipes inside.

The sharp alarm pierced everyone's eardrums, and staff members fled the nuclear power plant one after another, covering their mouths and noses.

Wen Chi grabbed the technician who was about to evacuate and asked, "Where is the control room?" The technician pointed to a corridor with trembling hands, "Over there, over there..."

Wen Chi waved his hand, and the special barrier opened up to block Wen Yi and the others: "Go!"

They ran, weaving through the violent tremors. The ground kept collapsing, forcing them to hop on the rubble. As they rushed into the corridor, a large piece of concrete crashed down where they had just passed, stirring up a cloud of dust.

When they stumbled into the dark control room, all the lights had been turned off, with only a few emergency lights still flickering dimly.

Guo Qingyu rushed to the main console, looked down, and then slammed the keyboard: "Damn it, the main power is off!"

He looked around with the dim light. "Help me find a generator! If there's a backup, I can try to power the core module and restore power to the nuclear power plant."

"We found the generator!" Gu Yifeng and Wen Chi worked together to move the heavy generator.

With the humming sound of the motor, the main screen struggled to start up. Guo Qingyu kept tapping on the keyboard with his ten fingers, staring at the red number on the screen that kept climbing.

"The cooling system has shut down, and the core temperature has exceeded the critical value by 12%..." His hand hovered above the keyboard, his fingertips trembling slightly, and his voice was low. "We don't have much time left. I'm going to try to access the central control system and manually activate the backup cooling system."

He paused, his eyes scanning the huge screen in the center of the control room, which displayed the damage in various areas in real time.

"But if the plant continues to collapse before the cooling system kicks in, it's all over."

Wen Yi immediately asked, "What should we do specifically?"

Gu Yifeng pointed at the screen and said, "Prioritize sealing the cracks in the reactor containment vessel in Area A7 and reset the cooling system as soon as possible."

"I'll go check it out!"

Wen Yi was about to turn around when Gu Yifeng gently grabbed her wrist.

"Be careful," he whispered. "Just do your best. Don't force it."

She nodded, turned and disappeared down the hallway.

Wen Chi frowned and watched Wen Yi leave: "What can I do?"

Guo Qingyu was operating the system and shouted at the top of his voice, "Please protect the electrical equipment! The power supply cannot be cut off again!"

The special area was deployed silently to protect the control room.

"In the R4 area in the southeast corner of the nuclear power plant, the surface gravity is abnormal," Gu Yifeng tapped the screen with his fingertips, looked up at Wen Shuyue and said, "Use your gravity to help stabilize the crust structure and prevent secondary collapse." Wen Shuyue looked at him deeply, without comment, but still turned and ran towards the southeast, his ponytail drawing an arc behind him.

*

Standing in front of the hideous crack in the reactor's containment vessel, Wen Yi fell silent.

She really wanted to turn around and run.

Holy shit, this crack is too big, isn't it? Her strength... honestly, it's really not enough.

The reactor was too large, and her gravity control was somewhat beyond her capabilities in the face of a structure of this level.

Now that she was here, she gritted her teeth and the gravitational field spread out in all directions with her as the center, trying to stabilize the ground that was undulating like waves.

However, the effect was not even as powerful as the aftershocks.

This did not prevent the collapse of the reactor shell.

Wen Yi wondered desperately, why wasn’t her superpower flying? At least she could run faster!

Just as she was about to turn around and flee,

Boom——

With a loud bang, a piece of reinforced concrete fell from the sky above her head and hit her, only a few meters away!

Between life and death, her mind went blank.

“I don’t want to die!!”

At this moment, countless intersecting light cones flashed before her eyes, and familiar energy fluctuations burst out from her body without warning!

Just like that day on the ice cream truck, a hole was torn in time and space.

It was as if an invisible giant hand stretched out from the void and suddenly squeezed the entire space inward!

Wen Yi's pupils suddenly shrank.

The air twisted instantly, the reinforced concrete walls made strange noises, and the metal crack that was originally slowly expanding - the most serious wound on the reactor containment vessel - suddenly made the unique sharp sound of metal being pulled.

The crack finally stopped expanding.

The sound of concrete cracking was heard in my ears. After being strongly squeezed, the edges of the cracks began to shrink towards the center. The broken ends that were originally rolled outward were like gears that were forced to bite together and were tightened again.

Cracks spread rapidly across the concrete shell, then quickly stopped, as if several forces, after pulling against each other, had reached a brief equilibrium within: uncontrolled structural stress on one side, and sudden spatial compression on the other.

The crack was squeezed and shrunk.

She couldn't explain how the force just now could force a nuclear reactor that was about to collapse to be forced back to a basically controllable state at the critical moment.

"This is too outrageous..." Looking at the strange yet miraculously stable structure in front of her, she was stunned and stood there.

Although the process was a bit outrageous, the ending turned out to be a blessing in disguise?

Is this the legendary protagonist halo?

As soon as the power dissipated, Wen Yi felt a surge in her chest and her whole body trembled.

Suddenly, her nose felt hot and blood gushed out.

"here we go again."

*

Guo Qingyu continued to turn to the main console, his eyes sweeping over the constantly jumping core temperature indicator. The numbers on the screen were climbing at a suffocating speed:

478°C

501°C

512°C

…

"As long as we can hold on for another ten minutes," Guo Qingyu said through gritted teeth. His hands were shaking slightly, and the strands of hair on his forehead were soaked with sweat. "Restarting the cooling system will take time..."

He stared at the red countdown, and his heart beat faster with every beat.

Hold on a little longer...

"Not good!" Gu Yifeng pointed at the screen, "There's something wrong in the E3 area!"

"What?!" Guo Qingyu and Wen Die looked up at the big screen at the same time.

"It should be a broken pipe, and the radioactive dust is spreading..." Gu Yifen hadn't finished speaking.

“I’ll go!”

The control room fell into an eerie silence, with only the ticking of the countdown. Every second of waiting felt incredibly long.

Guo Qingyu's eyes were fixed on the screen, he was counting down in his mind, his nails clenched so tightly that they were about to pierce his palms.

A gratifying scene finally appeared.

The red abnormal areas on the big screen are decreasing one by one, E3 area, A7 area, R4 area... The background color on the screen gradually changes from red to green, giving Guo Qingyu time to reset the cooling system.

"Give me... another thirty seconds..." Guo Qingyu couldn't help but pray, "Twenty seconds... Ten seconds..."

The moment the green start button lit up, Guo Qingyu slammed the Enter key.

"Yes!!! It succeeded!! It restarted! The cooling system restarted!!" Guo Qingyu stood up suddenly and the chair fell to the ground with a bang.

The temperature curve on the screen begins to drop slowly.

602°C

595°C

583°C

"We did it! We did it!! There's still hope!!"

"You continue to monitor here, I'll go find her..." Gu Yifeng turned and disappeared in the corridor.

*

Wen Yi leaned weakly against the ruins beside her, her consciousness a little dazed.

The reactor's containment vessel has been compressed to the point of being almost completely sealed. Has the cooling system been restarted?

She moved her fingers slightly, wanting to find Gu Yifeng.

She gritted her teeth and tried to stand up, but her knees gave way and she slid down again.

Her eyelids felt heavy as if they were filled with lead, and through her blurred vision, she saw dust slowly falling in the air.

She felt a little sleepy after looking for a long time, and she wanted to... close her eyes for a while.

There seemed to be hurried footsteps coming from the distance.

“Wen Yi!!”

Is anyone looking for her?

His body tightened, and a pair of large hands suddenly pressed him into their arms.

Wen Yi tried hard to open her eyes, it was him!

She raised her head and saw that Gu Yifeng's usually calm face was now filled with panic and heartache.

He unbuttoned his coat and carefully wrapped it around her shivering body, his other arm around her shoulders.

His chest rose and fell violently, and she could feel his uncontrolled heartbeat.

"I..." Before she could finish her words, Gu Yifeng suddenly pushed her into his arms.

Ahhhh, it hurts!

She was really in pain, her ribs were almost broken from being hugged!

She wanted to struggle, but she could hardly even lift her hands, let alone struggle.

"We did it!" He whispered in her ear, his tone full of relief at surviving the ordeal, "You are not allowed to say a word now, save your energy.

I'm being strangled so hard I can't even speak! Can you please be gentler?

She moved her lips hard, trying to make a sound: "Um... Gu..."

"Shh—" He immediately stopped her from speaking, as if afraid that she would waste even a little more energy. "I know you're feeling very uncomfortable right now... Hold on, I'll take you away."

A tear rolled down Wen Yi's eyes.

She was angry.

Gu Yifeng looked down and saw her tears. He was slightly stunned and his voice almost choked: "Is it so painful? I'm sorry... I came too late."

Wen Yi: ???

She just couldn't breathe!

She silently spat out a mouthful of blood in her heart and cried even harder.

What the hell is this guy thinking about?

She was almost laughing out of anger, and just as she was about to open her mouth to explain, he blocked her mouth harshly.

The fierce kiss seemed to want to give her all the emotions that could not be expressed in words.

Wen Yi was stunned, and the dissatisfaction in her heart just now gradually disappeared in his trembling kiss.

She closed her eyes gently, and between their intertwined breaths, she tasted a slightly salty liquid.

Never mind, let it be...

Until a shrill loudspeaker shout woke the two intoxicated people.

"National Security Investigation Bureau! Give up resistance immediately!"

Gu Yifeng suddenly looked up and instinctively protected Wen Yi behind him.

Wen Yi raised her head slightly, and dozens of special agents wearing heavy radiation-proof suits emerged from the ruins.

More than a dozen red laser aiming points instantly locked onto them.

The leading man pointed his gun at Wen Yi:

"Wen Yi, SSS-level psychic, you violated relevant regulations and interfered with national facilities. You are under arrest!"

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