Under the cover of the sewage ditch, Qi Lin quickly passed through the street and entered the opposite block.

Lifting the cover plate above his head, Qi Lin jumped out of the sewage ditch and ran quickly towards the load-bearing pillar that was close at hand.

The bottom diameter of the load-bearing column is nearly 100 meters, and the diameter of the top is slightly smaller, but there are also 60 or 70 meters, which is more like the kind of large cooling tower in the old nuclear power plant than a load-bearing column.

The general load-bearing column will be surrounded by a large number of buildings, originally according to the three-dimensional planning and design of the residential area of Vault 909, the load-bearing column is also known as the "round tower", a load-bearing column, counting its internal space and the outer ring of the building, can definitely accommodate thousands of people, but on the surface of this load-bearing column, there is no superfluous building, even the surrounding houses are kept at a certain distance from it.

Qi Lin has not yet run under the load-bearing column, he has already felt that the radiation dose in the environment is rising rapidly, although it has not yet reached the level of affecting the human body, but if you live in this environment for a long time, even if you knock on the "anti-radiation" every day, after a long time, you will either suffer from different degrees of radiation sickness, or suffer from side effects and complications caused by long-term medication.

Even in low-level residential areas, there are not many people willing to live around this load-bearing column, and many would rather squeeze a little more than live under the shroud of radiation.

Although the price of "anti-radiation" is not expensive, it is not affordable for everyone to eat it every day.

However, the radiation that ordinary people were afraid of avoiding made Qi Lin feel like a fish in water - the speed of the concentrating vortex in his abdomen was much faster, and if this thing had emotions, it would definitely be very happy.

Qi Lin ran around the load-bearing pillar for a small half circle, and finally found the iron gate that led to the interior, the iron gate was locked with a rusty chain, and it took Qi Lin less than five seconds to pry the old lock open.

Pushing open the iron gate, there was a deep narrow corridor inside, the width of the corridor was only enough for one person to pass through, Qi Lin raised his pistol and walked in with his steps.

After walking twenty meters inside, an inconspicuous secret door appeared on the right hand side, the secret door was not locked, Qi Lin just pushed it casually, and the metal door that was so rusty that it was almost impossible to look was pushed open.

It is a "dressing room" with a washing function, about 10 square meters, with a wooden bench in the middle, a wardrobe made of polymer on both sides, and a dusty shower in the corner of the ceiling.

The doors of the wardrobe had fallen to the ground, and Qi Lin saw that there were orange protective clothing hanging inside, the nylon fabric and rubber layer on the surface of these protective clothing had been completely aged, and through the cracked surface, it could be seen that there was no metal mesh structure in it - this kind of low-level protective clothing was the cheapest, and the protection against radiation was also the weakest.

"It's no wonder that you can't get sick from radiation when you work in such a torn protective suit......"

Qi Lin complained and continued to walk towards the depths of the corridor.

……

This is indeed a backup reactor, but to be precise, it is the site of a backup reactor that has been abandoned - inside the load-bearing column, Qi Lin did see that the reactor base and brackets were installed, but the equipment had been removed, and the entire interior of the load-bearing column appeared empty.

Without a reactor, there would naturally be no spent fuel rods that Qi Lin was looking for.

Merely...... Why is the radiation concentration inside the load-bearing column so abnormally high? According to all indications, this backup reactor has been dismantled a long time ago, at least for more than a year, and even if there is a residual radiation, after a year of dissipation, the current radiation concentration should not be so high -

Unless...... The radiation source is still here.

Qi Lin followed the intensity of the radiation and began to explore inside, and it didn't take long to find a manhole in the corner.

The manhole is sealed with a heavy metal lid with a striking yellow and black warning sign of "radiation hazards" – the highest concentration of radiation in the entire confined space.

"Sure enough, there must be something else under this manhole!"

Qi Lin said that he would do it, and immediately pushed the heavy manhole cover to the side and climbed down the iron ladder along the wall of the well.

Underneath the manhole is a large cavern resembling a bomb shelter, and according to the orientation, it is a separate underground space located a few dozen meters directly below Vault 909, and within this space, a large number of yellow metal barrels are stacked, and the radiation is emitted from these metal barrels.

“…… Damn, they actually turned this place into a warehouse for storing nuclear waste, no wonder there is no one around! ”

Qi Lin ran to the side of a metal barrel and pried the lid open, only to see that it was filled with cement, and in the cement, dozens of spent fuel rods the thickness of an arm were sealed.

More than 2,000 such drums are stacked in the entire waste warehouse, and according to the markings on the outside of the drums, excluding the cement, there are 400 kilograms of nuclear waste in one drum, and more than 800 tons of nuclear waste are stored in this warehouse.

You must know that in the old days, a medium-sized nuclear power plant would only produce a few dozen tons of nuclear waste in a year - these 800 tons of nuclear waste are probably all the stocks produced by the entire No. 1 energy reactor in the past few years.

This waste warehouse is a tricky problem for the management of Vault 909, but in Qi Lin's eyes, it is a rare treasure trove!

Where is this nuclear waste, it is clearly the experience value of Baihuahua!

Qi Lin immediately let go of the restriction on the concentrating energy vortex, and at the moment when Qi Lin's consciousness suppression disappeared, the concentrating vortex first paused, and then spun wildly, absorbing all the radiant energy overflowing from the waste warehouse in less than a minute.

"This packaging is really troublesome, if only there was a large can opener......"

Qi Lin complained as he pried open the lids of the barrels - the radiation escaping through the cement seal and the metal barrel wall was only a small part, and if Qi Lin wanted to continue to absorb it, he had to remove all the "packaging" used to isolate radiation.

Fortunately, due to the shortage of resources, the quality of these barrels is not good, and the walls of the barrels are as thin as cans, otherwise, with a small dagger in Qi Lin's hand, he may not be able to pry the barrel open.

……

As the spent fuel rods were exposed to the air, the shaped energy vortex absorbed more and more radiation energy, and the shaped energy vortex, which originally seemed a little ethereal and illusory, became more and more staring, with the experience in the game world, Qi Lin knew that this was a precursor to the fact that the shaped energy vortex was about to reach a critical point.