When the last player climbed onto the bus, the doctor immediately asked everyone to close the doors and windows.
The repairman was already sitting in the driver's seat, holding the steering wheel. However, the question he asked next made all the players a little dumbfounded.
"Hospital … How do I get there?"
Earlier in the corridor, the players had decided on the next step of their plan to go to the hospital to get iodine tablets. However, they had neglected the most important problem — they did not know where the hospital was. They were now certain that this quest was set in Chernobyl, and based on their historical knowledge, they knew that the nearest town to the nuclear power plant was Pripyat.
But for more detailed information, such as how many hospitals there were in Pripyat and where they were located, everyone was clueless.
It was not that they were careless. It was mainly because people living in the 21st-century information age were already familiar with the Internet. It was never difficult for them to find a place. All they had to do was take out their mobile phones and search for the location. Now, not only was there no Internet, but even though the players were wearing white skins, none of them could read or speak Russian.
In the end, it was Zhang Heng who reminded them. "Ambulance."
He didn't explain too much, because after observing along the way, he realized that although most of the players in this round were solo players without guilds, their average skill level was pretty good. Even though they were a little dazed by the nuclear explosion, he believed that they hadn't completely lost their ability to think and could understand what he meant.
When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, there would definitely be injured people. So, someone would definitely call for an ambulance. When the time came, they just needed to follow the ambulance to the hospital.
However, it was not the ambulance that arrived first. It was the firefighters.
In fact, before the players ran out of the building, the first group of firefighters had already arrived at the scene. At this time, only two minutes had passed since the explosion. Then, the second and third teams of firefighters arrived at the scene within five minutes.
As soon as the fire truck stopped, the firefighters on it could not wait to jump out and rush into the sea of fire with water cannons.
Before them, several staff members in white coats had been working there for some time. They replaced the hydrogen in the generator in the steam turbine hall with nitrogen to prevent an explosion. After that, they transferred emergency oil from the steam turbine oil tank to the emergency water tank above the reactor unit.
All the work was done under a high dose of radiation of 500- 15000 roentgens per hour. It was also their actions that saved the turbine hall from being engulfed by the flames and spreading to the other reactor groups, which would have caused an even larger disaster.
The firefighters climbed up to the roof through the fire ladder and began to think of ways to pour fire into the reactor. Like the staff of the nuclear power plant, these firefighters did not have any protective measures. They were only wearing ordinary firefighting suits. They were completely exposed to the radiation. Some of them even took off their helmets because it was too hot.
The thick smoke from the burning asphalt made it difficult for the firefighters to breathe. Their vision was also very bad, but they still tried their best to get closer to the fire.
At the same time, fire trucks were coming from all directions, not only from the vicinity of Chernobyl, but also from Kiev and other areas after receiving the call for help.
Under the doctor's guidance, the maintenance worker drove the bus behind a wall to avoid being exposed to radiation.
Until they could no longer see the scene inside the nuclear power plant, the players still could not calm down. Most of them had heard of Chernobyl more than once, but the disaster was too far away from them. Many of them were not even born at that time.
Everything they knew about Chernobyl came from various news stories on the Internet, or from the game. They never thought that one day they would be involved in it, witnessing one of the most terrible disasters in human history with their own eyes. Not to mention, they were so close to it.
"I feel terrible now," Mouse said. He slumped on the bus's seat, gasping for air. It was not because of how intense the exercise just now was, but purely a physiological reaction after his heart beat too fast. Mouse's legs turned to jelly when he thought of the view he had just seen from the reactor that had just exploded.
"Who doesn't? I thought it was a welfare mission, but I didn't expect to find it to be a suicide mission." The maintenance worker smiled bitterly. "No wonder the mission time is unlimited. Who would want to stay here? I can't wait to go back now."
"The situation isn't that bad. At least we don't have to worry about the sequelae." Kratos had calmed down by this time. "After all, we are in a game. Compared to the firefighters and the nuclear power plant staff, as long as we can return to the real world alive, our bodies will return to normal."
As soon as she said that, Coconut, who was sitting in the back of the bus, suddenly vomited.
"Are you okay?" Mouse had been following her all the way to the bus, and the two had become closer because of that. Seeing that Coconut was not feeling well, he asked with concern.
"Vomiting is one of the common adverse reactions caused by radiation," the doctor said. "Because a large number of your body cells are killed by radiation, and you need to divide new cells to make up for it. The production of new cells requires water and energy, which will lead to insufficient blood supply to your stomach and eventually lead to vomiting."
"I'm fine." Coconut wiped the vomit from the corner of her mouth with her hand and gave Mouse a weak smile.
"You don't have to explain everything in such detail. I feel like vomiting too," Zhanyi said.
"Sorry, I like to talk non-stop when I'm nervous."
After waiting for a few minutes, the ambulance finally appeared. A doctor ran down from the ambulance and injected a tranquilizer into an unlucky person who was hit by a beam during the explosion. After some simple emergency treatment, he asked someone to carry the injured person to the ambulance. As for the doctor, he stayed behind and continued to treat some people who were burned by the fire, but their injuries were not that serious.
When the players saw the ambulance, they were excited because it meant that they could finally leave this godforsaken place.
When the ambulance drove out of the main entrance with the injured person, the maintenance worker could not wait to step on the accelerator. The bus returned to the road from under the wall, followed the ambulance in front of it, and headed to the nearby town of Pripyat.
Zhang Heng looked back in the direction of the nuclear power plant. Several brave firefighters had climbed onto the roof of the reactor and were trying to pour water into it. Beneath their feet was a huge crack, and the melted nuclear core was spewing a huge amount of nuclear radiation into the surroundings.
This invisible flame burned everyone on the scene.
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