"My hair..."
Lin Xiaoduo reached out in terror to touch the top of her head.
As she moved, a few more long strands of hair slid down her fingers.
She nearly burst into tears as her mouth gaped open; her drooping eyes looked particularly terrifying.
"Your body..."
Are you feeling unwell?
Before Lu Sheng could utter the next few words, his feet suddenly felt light.
Xu Yi frowned, picked her up in his arms, strode back to the villa, and then gently placed her on the floor.
"Close the door! No one is allowed to open it without my permission!"
After putting Lu Sheng down, Xu Yi solemnly uttered a sentence and quickly rushed out the door.
The group exchanged glances, a tense atmosphere instantly spreading through the air.
Lu Sheng was a little stunned by the harsh words.
From the very first day he met Xu Yi, no matter how big the trouble the team encountered, he always remained calm and composed, never losing his composure like he is now.
What exactly happened to Lin Xiaoduo?
But since Xu Yi had given specific instructions, Lu Sheng and the others weren't the kind of heroines in a romance movie who were deliberately courting death. They all obediently gathered around the window, looking in the direction of Xu Yi and Lin Xiaoduo.
Through a floor-to-ceiling window, several people watched from afar as Xu Yi carried Lin Xiaoduo like a chick to a spot far from the villa gate.
"Teacher Xu is so hypocritical." Han Rui blinked her big eyes. "She gives Sister Lu a princess carry, but grabs other people by the collar."
Lu Sheng: "..."
What princess carry?! It was an emergency! She's too big to carry easily!
She covered Han Rui's mouth with her hand and frowned as she looked out the window.
Lin Xiaoduo was on the verge of a breakdown, but Xu Yi leaned down and said something that temporarily calmed her down.
Then, he conjured up a testing instrument out of thin air and pressed the switch on Lin Xiaoduo.
Lu Sheng felt a sense of crisis.
Xu Yi even openly exposed his spatial abilities in front of Lin Xiaoduo, which clearly indicated that the situation was very complicated.
"Beep beep beep beep beep!"
The moment the testing instrument touched Lin Xiaoduo's body, it started beeping incessantly, like stepping on the neck of a screaming chicken.
Even through the thick glass, the piercing electronic sounds made the ears of the people inside the villa go numb.
Xu Yi looked down at the instrument's electronic screen, his expression becoming even more serious.
He knelt down and spoke a few words to Lin Xiaoduo, who nodded obediently.
Xu Yi then led her to an empty cabin in the safe zone outside the base, before returning to the villa with a solemn expression.
Just before entering, he knocked on the French windows and gestured for Lu Sheng and the others to leave.
Lu Sheng and the others didn't dare to delay and immediately returned to their rooms.
It was half an hour later when Xu Yi knocked on the door and called everyone out.
His hair was half wet, and he had changed his clothes from head to toe, clearly having just taken a shower.
"Teacher Xu, what exactly happened to Lin Xiaoduo?" Han Rui, a curious child, asked impatiently as soon as she opened the door.
Xu Yi took out the testing equipment and placed it on the table, his expression solemn. "Lin Xiaoduo's body radiation levels are more than 1,000 times higher than the standard. She is now practically a walking source of trace radiation."
"Nuclear radiation??"
Everyone present was stunned.
“I’ve seen documentaries about Chernobyl. People exposed to nuclear contamination do experience a series of physical changes. But we’ve only been separated from Lin Xiaoduo for two days. How could her body change so quickly?”
(Note: Chernobyl refers to the nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine under Soviet rule, which is the world's worst nuclear accident.)
Shocked, Xiao Yu looked at Xu Yi with a puzzled expression.
Nuclear radiation is colorless and odorless, and cannot be detected without specialized equipment. Direct contact with a strong leak source can kill a healthy adult within seconds.
In another extreme case, although no damage may be visible on the surface of the radiation source, the cell nuclei in the body may actually be completely destroyed by radiation, and all chromosomes may be broken or incorrectly stuck together.
Although the person is still alive, all the cells in their body have died.
If Lin Xiaoduo falls into either of these two categories, her body simply wouldn't be able to sustain the long journey to this point.
However, if she is a secondary contact, the damage to her DNA and cellular structure will usually manifest gradually over a period of time, with a certain timeframe in between.
When they parted, Lin Xiaoduo was still lively and energetic, and even when she arrived at the base yesterday, she only looked slightly tired. Why did her condition deteriorate so quickly overnight?
"Awakening superpowers is equivalent to gene recombination; the cellular metabolism of superpowered individuals is many times faster than that of ordinary people."
Xu Yi rested his chin on his hands, saying, "This also accelerates the corrosive effects of nuclear radiation on the body."
"The residual radiation in her body won't have a big impact on us right now, but we still need to keep her in a safe area and maintain distance for the time being. I will monitor her indicators over the next few days and bring her back when the levels drop."
After he finished speaking, he took out a bottle of iodine tablets and said, "From now on, everyone will take iodine tablets every day."
"Why do I need to take iodine tablets?" Sun Tiantian picked up the medicine bottle and looked at it, then subconsciously touched her neck. "I have hyperthyroidism... I need to limit my iodine intake..."
“Once the thyroid tissue is occupied by non-radioactive stable iodine, it will prevent the absorption of radioactive iodine, which is a method that is slightly effective in preventing nuclear radiation.”
Xu Yi smiled reassuringly, "Eating it for a few days won't have much of an impact on your health."
Lu Sheng had no interest in talking to the others at the moment, and his consciousness entered the space and quickly searched for something.
She clearly remembers buying a batch of drugs related to nuclear radiation when she was shopping at a pharmaceutical expo.
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