Chapter 1134 Pripyat

The wheels of the bus pressed against the asphalt road, making a dull friction sound, and the roar of the engine was particularly clear in the silent night.

The players harvested a watch from the unconscious bus driver and finally knew the exact time.

——1:44 am, and according to Zhang Heng’s calculations, the explosion should have occurred 15 to 20 minutes ago.

It's still quite a long time before dawn. Most of the residents in Pripyat, located 3 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant, are still sleeping sweetly. They are unaware that the air wave caused by the explosion has already destroyed part of the core material. It was sent into the sky, forming a large area of ​​highly radioactive aerosol air mass.

At first the air mass just wrapped around the nuclear power plant, but soon began to expand and spread in all directions under the influence of wind.

The first residents of Pripyat to notice the explosion were probably a group of night fishing enthusiasts.

The nuclear power plant will discharge the cold water after passing through the turbine preheat exchanger into the Pripyat River nearby. Because the water is very warm, it also attracts fish and is an excellent fishing spot. And it happens to be in time at this time. During the spring fish spawning season, fishing enthusiasts come here one after another. Even at night, there are many people.

The nearest distance to Reactor No. 4 was less than 300 meters. When the maintenance workers drove the bus past them, the players saw some fishermen looking up at the thick smoke in the direction of the reactor. Some of them were because Worried, people began to pack their things, but more people still chose to stay where they were.

They seemed to be convinced that the fire would not spread here, especially when several fire trucks arrived just now, which also gave the anglers a lot of confidence that the fire would be under control soon. Some people even thought they could get close. Witnessing heroic firefighters put out a fire was something they could later brag to their friends about, so they all continued to hold on to their fishing rods and stay by the river.

In addition, everyone also saw a pair of young people eating forbidden fruit by the river. They turned a blind eye to the explosion behind them and were tightly entwined. Further away, several people were patrolling the railway bridge. The workers also stopped to watch.

"Haha, it seems like we are the only ones running for our lives within a hundred miles." Mr. Kui laughed at himself.

"They will pay the price." The doctor said with a serious look. "The radioactive dust above the nuclear power plant has floated here, landed on their skin, and entered their lungs with every breath they took. Waiting for them in the future Looking back...if they still have a future, this will be the thing they regret most in their lives."

"What are these people thinking in their heads? How could you be indifferent to the explosion in the nuclear power plant when you are active near the nuclear power plant?" The mouse looked in disbelief.

"I don't know, I'm just a surgeon, not a psychiatrist." The doctor shrugged.

"Will this radioactive dust drift to the town?" Mr. Kui was concerned about another question at the moment.

"There's no doubt that this is something that's just around the corner."

"So if we stay in the town, we will continue to be exposed to radiation?" the mouse asked.

His words also made all the players' hearts sink.

And unlike those fishermen and tired lovers by the river, all the players knew that they had no choice at all. In order to complete the mission, they had no choice but to stay here even if they knew there was radiation in the town.

Then the carriage fell into silence. After a while, Coconut started vomiting again, but because she had vomited all her dinner before, she could only keep retching while the mouse took care of her.

"Sorry, I seem to be a little motion sick." Coconut said.

"I will try to drive as steadily as possible, but this road is not very smooth." The maintenance man said. While he was talking, he saw several cars passing them from the opposite side. There were fire engines that arrived later, and some Private cars, one of which honked at them, seemed to want them to stop.

But the maintenance man would not be obedient. As soon as he turned around, he bypassed the car and continued to drive forward. He looked in the rearview mirror and saw that the owner of the car had got out and saw the bus. Kaiyuan seemed a little helpless, but had no intention of continuing to catch up.

About five minutes later, the ambulance and bus passed the safe zone near the nuclear power plant and finally entered the town one after another.

Everyone's impression of Pripyat is basically inseparable from the word ghost town, because soon after the Chernobyl incident, the city became deserted and no longer inhabited. In addition, later Ukraine has launched an adventure tourism project again, basically confirming the identity of Pripyat as a ghost town.

Tourists holding radiators in their hands and wearing protective clothing walked between the abandoned school and the stadium. Listening to the creaking sound of the counters, they seemed to be able to feel the horrific disaster that happened here decades ago, and at the same time enjoy the sights. The desolation of a ghost town.

However, at this point in time, Pripyat looks like any other town. No, to be more precise, Pripyat looks more beautiful than most towns of this era.

This town was built earlier than the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to the east. After the plan for the nuclear power plant was approved, workers' dormitories and management office buildings were first built here, and as the As the project progressed, the workers' families also moved here, and people named this new town after the Pripyat River next to it.

As the number of residents in the town increased, there began to be more and more houses here, shops, schools, stadiums, and even buses and railways appeared. When the No. 1 reactor of the nuclear power plant was put into operation, the staff of the nuclear power plant and their families They all moved into this town, and since then, the construction of the reactor has not stopped. After the No. 4 reactor, the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors are also under intense construction.

The number of residents in the town is also increasing, and so far it has exceeded 50,000. And unlike those compact and crowded old cities, Pripyat is a typical Brezhnev-style city with wide and clean streets. , distributed in a geometric shape, with well-proportioned houses, a majestic Children's Palace and the eleventh cinema in the entire SL.

Whether it is the design or planning of the city, it is the top level of SL, and it also demonstrates SL's ambition to use atomic energy. Everyone who has been to Pripyat is fascinated by its charm. In order to get People here are rushing to get their scalps for residence certificates.

However, Pripyat is still sleeping, and only a few people have noticed the fire of the nuclear power plant in the distance.