By the time the players gathered together again, it was already 12: 20 in the afternoon.
Almost 11 hours had passed since the explosion, and Zhang Heng had interrogated everyone in the nuclear power plant who was involved in the accident. He finally understood why the evacuation of Pripyat took more than 30 hours to complete. However, the main quest that the players were most concerned about still hadn't been completed.
It wasn't just Coconut. The other players could not help but start to mutter.
"Dyatlov, Akimov, Toptunov, Burhanov, and Fumin. We have met all of them, but none of them triggered the completion of the main quest. Could it be that this explosion really has nothing to do with them?" Mouse asked, counting on his fingers.
"There's definitely something wrong with Fumin and Burhanov," Zhang Heng said. "They started the safety experiment without getting approval. That's what Burhanov said himself. I can't say for sure about the others, but the two leaders definitely can't get away with it."
He had just changed his clothes and threw the overalls that he wore to the nuclear power plant into the trash can.
The doctor also said, "The main quest this time is to find the key person, but it didn't specify how many key people there are. We fell into a misunderstanding earlier, thinking that we need to find the person who is the most responsible. Is it possible that we actually need to find all the parties involved in this accident to complete the quest?"
"If that's the case, we're in big trouble," Kratos frowned. "We don't even have an exact number of people. How do we know if we've left someone behind? We don't even know how many people we've found and how many we're missing."
"Who else is on the list?" the repairman asked.
"Uh, the designer of the nuclear power plant, or more accurately, the designer of the graphite moderated boiling water reactor. The problem is that we don't know who he is, and it looks like he's not in Pripyat," Mouse said.
He was a little panicked now. Earlier, everyone expressed their opinions and worked together to perfect the list of suspects. However, most of them were focused on the first few names on the list. They never thought that things would develop to this point.
As the first names were eliminated one by one, the ones left behind were unlikely to be the culprit. However, it would be very troublesome to find them.
If this were any other time, they could just investigate the matter bit by bit. However, in this Dungeon, what they lacked the most was time.
Although other than Coconut, everyone else's condition was still OK, according to the doctor, this was probably just a temporary illusion. When the reactor exploded, they were right next to it, so they should have absorbed a lot of radiation. This radiation damaged their DNA, causing their cells to be unable to continue normal regeneration. Once these cells completed their life cycle, what awaited them was death.
In the words of the doctors, it was probably the most painful and cruel of all known ways to die.
"What should we do? Are we going to Moscow next?" the young man asked. "But where should we start the investigation when we arrive in Moscow?"
"I've asked Brekhanov. The designer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is the Hydroelectric Engineering Research Institute. After the explosion, some of the experts from the Hydroelectric Engineering Research Institute were among the first batch of experts. The deputy director in charge of nuclear power plant safety, Konvitz, should know who designed RBMK."
"That's great," Mouse said.
The players breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that. It wasn't that they didn't want to go to Moscow. In fact, considering the current radiation situation in Pripyat, no one wanted to stay there any longer. However, based on past game experience, main quests rarely required players to cross cities to complete. It was easy to leave Pripyat, but it wouldn't be easy to return to Pripyat.
In another twenty hours or so, when Moscow realized what had happened to Chernobyl, the military would completely take over the place. All the people would be forced to evacuate, and the place would become an empty city.
In fact, in the morning, everyone saw empty buses entering Pripyat, and the roads near the nuclear power plant were guarded by militias. Other than that, militia squads from other places gathered at the Yanov Railway Station.
This might sound a little hard to believe.
After the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, it wasn't the experts led by Brekhanov and Fumin who first realized the danger. Instead, it was the militia of Pripyat. They first took over the scene from the fire brigade, then began to block the roads leading to the nuclear power plant, especially the popular fishing spots.
They even set up a temporary emergency command center, and under the leadership of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Gennady Vasilyevich Berdov, the people were quickly mobilized. This was also why the higher-ups could execute the evacuation plan so quickly.
Berdov arrived at the scene of the explosion at around five in the morning, and by seven o 'clock, 1,000 people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs had arrived at the site of the accident. After that, Berdov contacted the transport department of Kiev and asked them to provide 1,100 vehicles for possible evacuation.
Unfortunately, although the deputy minister smelled danger, he still didn't know how dangerous the invisible enemy he was facing this time. So, like the firefighters, the 1,000 militia of the Ministry of Internal Affairs didn't take any protective measures and were exposed to radiation for a long time. But because they guarded the dangerous area, it did greatly reduce the risk of others entering the nuclear power plant. Of course, this also brought some trouble to the players who were looking for Brekhanov and Fumin.
But because they received news from Fumin and Brekhanov that the reactor was safe and sound, the DW office in Pripyat didn't issue an evacuation order. They even refuted the rumors. The first secretary, Gamaniuk, was still waiting for the decision from the higher-ups.
However, things in the hospital could not be kept a secret. In the morning, people were still optimistic and went to work or school as usual. But in the afternoon, as more and more people felt unwell and kept coughing, all kinds of rumors and gossip began to spread.
When the four came out of the nuclear power plant and returned to Pripyat, they could see that the expressions of the pedestrians on the road had become serious and worried. Some of them even drove or took the train to leave Pripyat without waiting for the official notice.
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