The ambulance stopped outside the medical center in Pripyat. The nurses who had been waiting for a long time immediately carried the wounded into the emergency room and began to treat them.
At this time, the maintenance worker parked the bus in the medical center's parking lot, and the players alighted from the bus. At this time, there were not many patients in the medical center, and it looked a little deserted. However, everyone knew that the doctors and nurses here would be very busy soon.
"The clothes we are wearing now are from the nuclear power plant. It's too conspicuous, and there is a lot of radiation dust on them. Let's change first," the doctor suggested.
No one objected to the doctor's suggestion.
So the players quietly bypassed the outpatient building and went to the inpatient department at the back. There were two nurses on duty there, and they were stunned when they saw the players walking in.
One of them stood up and asked, but in the blink of an eye, she was controlled by the group of uninvited guests in front of her. The companion beside her was no exception.
After that, the players found two unoccupied wards, one for each male and one for the male and the female players. Other than that, the boy in uniform also found a place where the hospital kept the patient's garments.
Each of the players took a set of patient's garments and was about to change into them when the doctor stopped them. "Wait, I saw a sink at the end of the corridor. Let's take a shower first. Although 80% of the radioactive elements have spread and accumulated to the granular layer under our skin, washing it with water can still help."
The two girls, Coconut and Kratos, went to take a shower first, followed by the maintenance worker and Mouse. Zhang Heng and the boy in uniform were at the back.
Zhang Heng walked to the sink, took off his clothes and shoes, and turned on the faucet. Then, he heard the boy in uniform complimenting him, "Idol, you have a great figure. You must have spent a lot of time working out, right? Or are you actually the king of the special forces in real life?"
"What is a king of soldiers?" Zhang Heng asked as he washed his arms with water.
"It's the kind of … the god of war returns to his hometown, sees his daughter living in a dog house, and orders 100,000 soldiers to rush to the battlefield." The boy in uniform made a lame joke, but it did not seem to have any effect.
Zhang Heng looked back at him and said, "Aren't you going to take a shower?"
"Anyway, I'm already exposed to radiation. I don't care about half a minute. I'll take a shower with the doctor." The boy in uniform waved his hand.
"Then do as you wish." After washing his arms, he began to wash his hair and back. "Also, stay away from me. I don't want my skin to get contaminated with radiation dust again."
"Alright, no problem." The young man in uniform took half a step back when he heard that. At the same time, he praised, "As expected of my idol. He's always so cautious."
"…"
By the time the doctor and the teenager had finished showering and changing their clothes, the group of players had transformed from employees of the nuclear power plant to a group of patients in the medical center.
With the help of the fluorescent lights in the ward, everyone noticed the changes in their bodies. Their previously exposed skin had generally turned red. According to the doctor, this was caused by the disintegration of the stratum corneum after being irradiated by high-energy electromagnetic waves, exposing the subcutaneous cells.
Other than that, some players were also suffering from headaches and nausea, but Coconut was the most severely affected. Her scraped hand had begun to swell, and the wound had even split open. Even the slightest movement would cause excruciating pain. Her lips were also slightly swollen.
The doctor's expression changed slightly, "Did you touch anything you shouldn't have touched before?"
When Coconut heard this, she suddenly exploded for no reason. "What should I not have touched?" she said angrily, "Is there anything in that nuclear power plant that I shouldn't have touched?"
Her sudden anger also confused the players. Among them, the repairman and the teenager in uniform showed a trace of displeasure on their faces. Now was obviously not the time to throw a tantrum. Although they had become closer after experiencing the nuclear power plant explosion and escaping together, and they were starting to look like a team, they had only known each other for less than an hour, and no one would spoil each other unconditionally.
In the end, one of the patients, the doctor, came out to comfort the others, "It's okay. This is not her intention. She should be suffering from a neurological nuclear mania. At first, this disease will manifest as excessive tension."
"What happens after that?" When the repairman heard that it was a disease, the dissatisfaction in his eyes disappeared.
"After that, it will turn into deep depression. It's okay. We'll get some anti-depressants later," the doctor said and looked at Coconut, "How's your hand?"
"What do you think? I feel like someone is cutting my palm with a knife," Coconut said, "And my mouth is swollen. I want to cut it with a knife."
"When you fell at the nuclear power plant, you might have come into contact with some powerful radiation. That's why your hand became like this," the doctor took some gauze from the nurse's station and wrapped Coconut's injured hand twice. "After that, when you vomited, you covered your mouth with your hand, so your mouth was exposed to a high dose of radiation."
The other players were stunned when they heard this. They thought that being so close to the reactor core meant that the radiation was very high. They did not expect there to be such a dangerous thing in the nuclear power plant.
"Let's find a long-range radiation measuring instrument. This instrument can measure the nature and extent of the internal and external radiation." The doctor paused and added, "After that, it's best for all of us to take the test together. At least, we can know how much radiation we have received."
After that, everyone left the ward and went to the outpatient building. To the players' surprise, they looked for several places to store the instruments, but none of them could find the measuring instrument the doctor mentioned. At this time, more and more injured people were sent to the hospital, and some of them were severely exposed to radiation.
The doctor suggested to see how the hospital would conduct a radiation dose test on them. In the end, he found out that the hospital only used a relatively simple measuring instrument to do a simple radiation test on the patients. After confirming that they were sexually active, they were given a bath, changed clothes, and given intravenous injections.
The doctor looked surprised at this time, "That's it?"
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with their approach?" Zhang Heng asked.
"There are still a lot of problems. The medical equipment I mentioned before isn't particularly sophisticated. It should be available in this era. Besides, this hospital provides medical services for the nuclear power plant. At the very least, they should know how much radiation your patients have absorbed. Besides, there are more and more patients being sent here now. Logically speaking, the hospital should classify the patients according to the progression of the acute radiation syndrome, but now all the patients I see are mixed together, and the medical staff isn't protecting themselves well enough."
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