Three days later, at the bottom of the rift valley.
Lu Yuan, Hei Zi, and several other newly arrived researchers, dressed in heavy radiation protection suits, walked along the rugged mountain path at the bottom of the valley.
The air around was thick with smoke and dust. Every deep breath you took in this place would send countless particles of smoke and dust into your mouth, nose, and lungs. If a person lived here for a long time, they would definitely develop a serious lung disease.
Not only was the smoke and dust heavy here, but the temperature was also extremely high. When Lu Yuan and the others arrived, they were already covered in sweat. However, their heavy radiation protection suits had no ventilation devices, only a filter in front of their mouths and noses.
Lu Yuan suddenly stopped and called out to the person behind him, "Stop for a second. Something seems off here. I feel like it's getting hotter and hotter. What's the temperature now?"
A person walking not far behind Lu Yuan quickly took out a portable thermometer from his pocket and took measurements of the surrounding area.
"My God, it's already 60 degrees Celsius here! No wonder it gets hotter and hotter as we walk. What kind of place is this?"
At this moment, several team members immediately surrounded them, seeing that the temperature displayed on the thermometer in the other person's hand was still soaring, rising from sixty degrees to sixty-three degrees.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but look around. The air was thick with smoke and dust, and visibility was less than 100 meters.
Suddenly another team member pointed to the distance and exclaimed, "It looks like black smoke is coming from in front of President Lu!"
Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze focused on the direction the other person was pointing. Within a range of about a hundred meters, the sky was already covered with dark clouds, and a thick plume of black smoke was rising from somewhere, slowly surging towards the group.
"Damn it, what is that? Everyone, get back to a safe place and wait for this smoke to clear up!"
As Lu Yuan packed his things, he led his team members into the nearby ravine.
The group huddled in a narrow mountain hollow, peering out into the distance. They saw thick black smoke billowing into the sky, spreading rapidly into the surrounding air until it engulfed the spot where they had just been standing.
"Old Qin, go test this fog to see if it contains any poison. Please, it can't be some kind of toxic substance. If it is, we'd better leave quickly!" Lu Yuan panicked as he watched the black fog gradually approach their location.
After all, this place is still dozens of kilometers away from their mining camp. Even though there is such a long distance, if the poisonous fog continues to spread at this speed, it will not take long.
Upon hearing this, Lao Qin, who was hiding behind Lu Yuan, trembled with fear and hesitated to move forward. After all, the incident of poisonous fog injuring people was widely known in the mining area, but the only people who had seen it were the workers who were working in the camp at the time.
The thought of Lu Yuan asking him to go and see the poisonous fog filled Lao Qin with reluctance and fear. He dared not move forward. Noticing that Lao Qin hadn't moved for a while, Lu Yuan frowned and took the backpack off Lao Qin's back.
"Fine, you can stay here!" Lu Yuan said as he opened his backpack and took out the poison fog detection device that Chen Yan had specially made.
Seeing Lu Yuan leave immediately, Lao Qin regretted it. He was a newcomer, and he had come here specifically for the high salary and three meals a day.
He chickened out on his first mission with his boss, which probably means his future career path is in jeopardy. He reached out his hand twice, wanting to step forward, but the fear in his heart wouldn't let him overcome it, and he lowered his hand again.
Slowly approaching the direction where the black fog was spreading, Lu Yuan, relying on his invulnerable body, lightly waved his hand twice in the black fog, and immediately the small canister of the testing equipment was filled with black smoke.
However, as he approached, a scorching heat accompanied by smoke suddenly swept over him. Lu Yuan felt his coat and clothes crackling and popping, clearly unable to withstand the high temperature in the mist.
After taking away the smoke of unknown origin, Lu Yuan returned to the mountain valley. After activating the equipment and conducting tests, the toxicity detection device still showed a bright green light, indicating that the black smoke did not contain any pathogenic toxins.
Upon seeing this result, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Lu Yuan still did not let everyone lower their guard.
"Now is not the time to be careless. Although there is no poison in this black fog, there is indeed an extremely high temperature. When I passed through just now, my radiation protection suit was burned and deformed. Hei Zi, can you check if there are any burns on my body?"
Hei Zi nodded, then took off his goggles and began to examine Lu Yuan. Fortunately, although the black mist was quite hot, it was not hot enough to burn the radiation protection suit.
So everyone could only hide in the ravine and wait for the smoke to spread. As the black fog gradually approached them, Lu Yuan quickly told everyone to take cover to avoid being burned by the high temperature of the fog.
However, to everyone's surprise, just as the black mist was about to approach them, the sand and gravel on the ground in the distance were suddenly swirled up, and a gust of wind carrying the black mist began to blow in the opposite direction. Soon, the black mist in the air began to slowly retreat.
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