The moment Xu Yi's detector touched Lin Weicheng, the numbers on the display screen instantly spiked.
"What?!"
Everyone present froze in place, instinctively looking at Lin Weicheng.
His skin was stretched to the point of being almost transparent, looking like a soft, fluffy steamed bun that would burst if poked with a finger.
Although her breathing was still slightly disordered, she was completely lifeless.
A tangled web of electrical wires and conduits clung to his limp chest, rising and falling with his weak breaths.
Lin Weicheng's body was mostly obscured by scattered rubble, with only the part above his chest visible.
“There was a hole in the ceiling, and it all fell on him.” Zhang Xiaojuan looked up.
The above-ground part corresponding to the workshop should be the warehouse of the Tengfei base. Looking up from the hole, you can still see the corn kernels they got from the granary earlier.
Why is there a pile of popcorn on top?
Han Rui released vines that stretched into the hole in the ceiling, and a pile of white popcorn rolled down with a whoosh.
"Oh my god!"
Lu Sheng and the others were staring at the large hole in the ceiling when a terrified female voice drew everyone's attention.
The scene before them plunged everyone present into despair.
Just as the K3 team members cleared the fallen rocks off Lin Weicheng, they discovered that his abdomen was connected to a smaller machine unit, and at the connection point there was a large hole that occupied almost a third of his torso!
There were obvious signs of an explosion in the unit and its abdominal cavity, and the entrance to the hole was filled with a scalding liquid that looked like magma.
A wave of heat rose from the cave entrance.
The crowd looked horrified.
"What happened..." The shocking scene made Su Zheng's throat go dry. "With such a high temperature, why wasn't Lin Weicheng's body burned?"
Even though most of the metal structure of the unit had been burned away, Lin Weicheng's abdominal cavity was like a sturdy container.
It seems the hole in the ceiling was caused by the reactor explosion, and all that white popcorn was also a byproduct of the explosion.
"He connected himself to the small reactor and took on the responsibility of powering the entire generator set."
Xu Yi's gold-rimmed glasses were fogged up by the heat. "Leave immediately, let's go outside first."
"Why? Aren't we supposed to be trying to get rid of the reactor?" one of the K3 team members asked, puzzled.
Ma Dongmei slapped the man on the back of the head. "Are you stupid?! Can't you see how big a crater it's made? If you don't leave, you'll end up as a pressure cooker stewed chicken!"
Only then did everyone realize what was happening, and they immediately set off to return along the same route.
They hurriedly returned outside, and K3 busied himself counting the number of people.
In less than an hour, seven people were missing.
Han Rui wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Hey? Where's Teacher Xu?"
"Didn't you come out with us?" Sun Tiantian stood on tiptoe and peered into the doorway.
"Could it be that we've encountered some monster again?" someone in the crowd speculated, still shaken.
Lu Sheng's heart sank suddenly. Before he could think, his body instinctively rushed into the gate of Tengfei headquarters.
The moment one foot stepped in, it collided head-on with two solid pectoral muscles.
QQ Bouncy.
"Are you... alright...?" Her throat tightened.
The huge weight that had been hanging over my heart finally lifted.
It's good that you're alright.
"I just took a look at the other locations of the nuclear power plant," Xu Yi said with a faint smile.
Xu Yi and Lu Sheng returned to the crowd one after the other, and the others immediately surrounded them.
"What do we do now?" Su Zheng asked, frowning.
"There are two emergency pressure-suppressing water pools connected to the reactor." Xu Yi said with a serious expression.
"The small explosion at the connection between Lin Weicheng and the reactor created a lot of high-temperature combustibles that will soon melt through the floor."
Han Rui blinked her big eyes, "What would happen if it melted through the floor?"
"If these hot combustibles melt through the floor and fall into the pool, they could trigger a steam explosion."
Xu Yi frowned slightly. "Considering the size of this small nuclear power plant, the power of this steam explosion is almost equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of explosives, and tens of kilometers upstream and downstream will be razed to the ground."
"Dozens of kilometers..."
Everyone present was horrified.
The Tengfei Base is located right in the center of H city.
Moreover, after multiple rounds of natural disasters, the only habitable area left in H City is the central area. Within a hundred kilometers of the Tengfei Base, there are numerous bases of varying sizes and scattered residential communities.
If the explosion flattens the entire area, hundreds of thousands of people could be affected...
Moreover, the K3 base is located within a few dozen kilometers, and there are more than 40,000 people living in the base.
"Won't all our chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep be blown up? And what about the red pandas?!" Han Rui's first thought was of the cute little animals at home.
There are also handsome zombie security guards.
"So what can we do now? Should we immediately evacuate the surrounding crowd?" Lü Song was the first to step forward and ask.
Su Zheng shook his head. "Evacuating tens of thousands of people to a place a hundred kilometers away is too difficult. We don't have the resources to do so."
"Then what should we do?"
All eyes were on Xu Yi, hoping to get a solution from him.
"The only solution is to drain the tank. But this requires someone to go under the tank and open the drain valve."
With a solution in hand, everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment.
No one knew the exact location of the valve; they could only dive down and search for it slowly.
However, their protective suits weighed dozens of kilograms, making it impossible for them to swim with such a heavy burden.
The longer you stay underwater, the more dangerous it becomes. You also need to change into a diving suit and oxygen equipment when diving.
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