In any case, the players finally had a plan for the next step.
It turned out that no matter what kind of disaster they were in, hope was humanity's best weapon.
After finding a new direction, everyone, including Coconut, calmed down for the time being. Everyone then began to discuss how to get close to Kong Witz.
According to Bryuhanov, the expert group had arrived in Kiev an hour and a half ago. Taking into account the time they spent on the road, they should be arriving in Pripyat by now. However, no one knew how they got here. Did they take a train, a car, or a ship?
And no one knew where they would go when they arrived and how they would arrange their schedule for the day. However, the players knew where the expert group would stay that night. It was the Pripyat Hotel, the only hotel in town. Usually, it was used to receive tourists from all over the world. The environment and service inside were excellent.
Besonova was certain that if the expert group were to stay in Pripyat, they would definitely stay in that hotel.
"This saves us a lot of trouble. We can just go to the hotel and wait," Kratos said. "We can also let Besonova see which room Kong Witz is staying in. If we're lucky, we don't even have to alert anyone."
Her proposal was also agreed by all the players. So the maintenance crew began to drive to the Pripyat Hotel, and everyone seemed to have regained their enthusiasm.
However, Zhang Heng knew very well that this enthusiasm was only temporary. If he got a dissatisfied answer from Kong Witz, not only Coconut, but many others would have a mental breakdown.
Unlike people of this era, Zhang Heng and the other players knew the horror of nuclear radiation.
In a sense, most of human's real understanding of crisis actually came from disasters. Perhaps this was the only way to attract everyone's attention and vigilance.
The Chernobyl accident was like a heavy punch, hitting everyone hard. Not just ordinary people who knew nothing about nuclear physics, but even the engineers and workers who worked at the nuclear power plant. Before that, due to more than thirty years of smooth nuclear utilization, everyone was a little numb to it. When the disaster really came, many people lost their sense of danger.
This was also an important reason why, in the eyes of many people in later generations, people at that time seemed to be a little slow in dealing with this matter. To put it bluntly, whether it was the SL or the United States, they had never dealt with a reactor explosion before. So even now, eleven hours after the explosion, many people did not understand what kind of situation they were facing.
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Just as the players rushed to the hotel, on the other hand, the Moscow expert group finally arrived at Pripyat by car from Kiev. Some of them went directly to the nuclear power plant and found Bryuhanov and Fumin in the bunker to understand the situation. Some of them tried to find an Mi-6 helicopter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as a photography club and binoculars. They wanted to fly above the reactor to see the specific situation.
When the helicopter approached the reactor, they were completely stunned by the scene under their feet.
The place where the reactor used to be was now completely in ruins. The drum separator had long since left where it was supposed to be, and even the pipeline below it was pulled out. The header pipe protruded from the outer wall of the auxiliary system, proudly pointing to the sky. Gravel and black graphite were everywhere. The asphalt road glowed with a blue luster, and the air was filled with a strong metallic smell.
And the amazing thing was that in this terrible mess, the water tank that controlled the emergency system that Bryuhanov and Fumin reported to had exploded did not seem to be damaged too much. The wall where it was still standing was still there.
The experts on the plane were also a little confused. The situation at the scene was too different from the information they had received. On the way here, they had already been thinking about how to repair the damaged part of the reactor as quickly as possible so that the reactor could be connected to the grid again.
But now, even the most optimistic person would not think that reactor number four could continue to generate electricity.
The experts let the helicopter hover over the right side of the reactor, then asked the cameraman to take pictures of the scene under their feet. Everyone's heart and eyes were beating wildly.
Even without a measuring device, they knew how strong the radiation was now. Especially when they looked at the ruins where the reactor was located, they could still see the dark red color below. The people on the plane quickly realized what this meant, but they did not speak out their conjecture because it was too scary.
It affected far more than just the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and not just the 50,000 residents of Pripyat. Ukraine, Belarus, and even places further away would be affected. In fact, just flying near the reactor, they had received a lot of radiation. It was only because they were responsible for the investigation that the experts did not let the helicopter land immediately.
But when they saw Bryuhanov and Fumin in the bunker, they did not expect the two to still grit their teeth and insist that the water tank had exploded and the reactor was safe.
Bryuhanov and Fumin had already figured it out. They had no way out. No matter how they tried to shirk responsibility, as the main person in charge of the nuclear power plant, the reactor explosion was inevitable. The only way to survive at the moment was to drag the experts sent by the committee down with them. After that, everyone would think about how to cover up this shocking lie.
The experts who had already seen the reactor were somewhat speechless. They even looked at Bryuhanov and Fumin with a trace of sympathy, thinking that the two had completely gone crazy.
But after all, the first team was only responsible for investigating the accident and coming up with a solution. They did not have the right to directly command and give orders, even though everyone who saw the reactor felt that the nearby residents should be evacuated immediately.
But they still waited until the members of the Accident Committee who took the second plane arrived, especially the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, Boris Yedodymovich Shcherbina, who was also the first person in charge of dealing with the Chernobyl accident.
Over the years, he had been promoting the construction of nuclear power in SL. Previously, Bryuhanov proposed to him to evacuate the residents of Pripyat, but he rejected it without hesitation. He arrived at Pripyat around nine o 'clock in the evening, and then rushed to the conference room without stopping.
"How's the situation?" Shcherbina rubbed his sore thigh and sat in a chair in the conference room.
"It's very bad. The reactor has been destroyed. I propose to evacuate the residents of Pripyat immediately," Marin, the person in charge of the nuclear accident of the Central WY, said in a solemn voice.
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