When the first explosion occurred in the mutated area, Lou Xiaoning and the other explorers were not far from the boundary line. They were all wearing heavy radiation protection suits, but they were still blown a few meters away by the huge shockwave generated by the explosion. They were almost blown away. As soon as they came back to their senses, they ran outside.
But they felt it for themselves. There was no flame or dark energy during the explosion, it appeared to come out of nowhere.
It was as if a plastic bag was filled with gas before it exploded with a bang and the gas spread to a bigger plastic bag.
After the explosion, the mutated area expanded to 30000 square metres, it had expanded by more than 100 times. The radiation level measured by the unmanned detector was 13.7 Gy/h, it had doubled. Counting from the time Tian Fuhou woke up at 6: 15 am, it had only been 4 hours since the explosion.
The second explosion happened at 16: 03 pm, 6 hours after the first explosion.
The second explosion was even louder. After the explosion, the mutated area expanded to 3 million square metres or 3 square kilometres, it had also expanded by 100 times. The radiation level was 25.2 Gy/h.
By then, Tian Fuhou's tree farm had completely fallen. So had the area around it. The soil was charred black and the air was filled with radiation.
The trees that had been planted for decades, the pine trees, locust trees, poplar trees … all withered and died. One by one, they disappeared.
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When the last tree in the forest disappeared, the explosion did not happen. This shattered one of their assumptions.
Even if all the trees in the mutated area disappeared, it would not explode and expand.
But what happened to the trees? Were living creatures more susceptible to the pull of space? What was the condition that caused the area to expand and how did it slow down and stop?
10 hours later, at 2: 18 am on 15th March, the third explosion happened.
This time, the mutated area only expanded by 10 times but it was already 30 square kilometres. The radiation level was 30.6 Gy/h.
The entire North Xun Village was finished.
Fortunately, there were no casualties. All the people in the village had been evacuated. Pets, poultry, and other animals had also been evacuated. Wild animals that could be evacuated had also been evacuated. Radiation could trigger genetic mutation. If these animals were left alone, they might breed mutated organisms, viruses and bacteria.
Ma Er Wan, which had 6 small towns including Yun Lin Town, had been evacuated for a long time.
However, the mutated area continued to expand. In less than a day, it expanded from 300 square metres to 30 square kilometres, it had increased by 100,000 times.
If this continued, the whole of Mo Bei would turn into a wasteland in less than a day. In less than a week, the whole place would be destroyed.
Even though radiation was no small matter, when Mo Bei Phecda first received the call from the Yun Lin Police, they did not expect the situation to deteriorate so quickly. Now, the country had raised this matter to the highest level. The higher-ups had issued a strict order to prevent the mutated area from expanding.
Mo County, the government had sent them to Phecda.
The legionella pneumonia could still isolate the infected area to slow down the spread of the germs but once the mutated area exploded, the radiation would spread instantly. No one would be able to escape from it. The legionella pneumonia could still isolate the infected area to slow down the spread of the virus but once the mutated area exploded, the radiation would spread instantly. No one would be able to escape from it.
GOA's The One and many Special Mobile Force units were mobilized. Phecda had sent most of his manpower to Mo Bei.
The GOA members were also providing emergency aid. The mutated area might eventually spread to their borders, the radiation would drift with the wind and contaminate the water. Once the mutated area was large enough and the radiation could escape, it would destroy the world.
From the incident to the third explosion, Phecda did not sit still, they had tried many ways to solve the problem.
They placed some Ancient Seal Towns at the border and tried to bombard the mutated area with missiles but to no avail. The second explosion came.
Then they tried to treat the mutated area as a leaking nuclear reactor. They used helicopters to drop boric acid from the sky to stop the radiation.
But the third explosion came.
"Why did it only expand by 10 times after 10 hours?"
At the command central, Tong Ye, the researchers and the nuclear engineers did not underestimate this change. The rate of expansion appeared to have slowed down! Was it because of the boric acid? Or was it because the larger the mutated area, the slower the rate of expansion?
There was another situation worth noting, the trees.
From the beginning until the first explosion, the mutated area was limited to Tian Fuhou's lumberyard so the area was filled with trees.
But after the second explosion, the lumberyard only took up 1/2 of the 3 cubic km area. The rest was mostly barren land.
"Let's try to treat this mutated area as a living organism." Tong Ye was struck by this idea again. "Some rituals are like living organisms, they need to be sacrificed, consumed and grown. Then will the mutated area need these plants and other living organisms? The more they eat, the faster it will expand. "
This was a hypothesis but it was also the only possibility that they could come up with a countermeasure.
In this uncertain situation, the operation to drop boric acid on the mutated area continued. At the same time, they sent out people to destroy the plants around the mutated area.
A 10 kilometer radius around the mutated area was designated as a quarantine circle. All the trees within the quarantine circle were chopped down and other plants were burned on the spot.
The quarantine circle was not drawn too big because they were in a hurry and there was another possibility, the barren environment might actually accelerate the expansion of the mutated area.
The trees within the mutated area would become untouchable, this was confirmed by the scouting vehicles and the lab rats. Therefore, the command central did not send too many people in to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. With a radiation dose of 30.6Gy/h, even staying in the mutated area for 1 minute would cause damage to the body.
Under such circumstances, GOA's The One was prepared to send someone into the mutated area for a 5 minute search.
At the same time, the result came out from the Energy Research Centre. Tong Ye, Yao Sinian and the rest looked at the result, they had no idea what it meant.
The radioactive substance inside the mutated area did not come from the nuclear reactor, it was a nuclear explosion, a very large nuclear explosion.
However, the location of the explosion could not have been there.
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