Island.

Noon.

The ruins of a nuclear power plant.

An eerie ritual is underway.

Hundreds of heroic guards gathered in front of the massive abandoned chimneys, all prostrate on the ruins of the melted and solidified nuclear reactors, arms raised in the air, in the direction of the chimney again and again.

A little further inside, it was the "orangutan" heroic spirit guard that Song Le had seen at the bridgehead of the military base.

There are only a few dozen of them, but there is a lot of noise.

They formed a small circle, arms held high, feet on the ground, and their mouths that were about to rot were wide open and ho-ho, as if they were dancing to some eerie melody.

Further inside, there was the giant heroic spirit guard that Song Le had seen on the top of the hospital mountain, this time it was not a phantom, but a real image, and there were not one, but three.

Their actions were the same as what Song Le saw at that time, chanting and kneeling.

At the feet of the three giant Heroic Guardians are three Heroic Commanders of normal size and appearance, their movements are exactly the same as those of the Giant Heroic Guardians, and even the mouth shape of their chanting is exactly the same.

In the middle, more than ten meters above the abandoned nuclear reactor that was still emitting heat, was a, or more accurately, a monster.

It was the size of a house and consisted of dozens of wriggling human corpses, including researchers in white coats, firefighters in heavy fireproof suits, elderly people with gray hair, and young and vigorous youths......

It is difficult to describe the form of its existence.

The corpses blended with each other, but there was no confusion in the slightest, as if they existed in different dimensions of space and time.

It's not even accurate to describe them as corpses, as they are still chanting the same eerie melodies as the giant Immortal Guards.

The only thing that is accurate is that its shape varies from one size to another melody that grows and sometimes sits small, like a huge, beating heart, or the seed of some strange life.

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The line of sight was raised and farther away, high enough to see the entire island's topography, and it could be seen that the entire island, numbering as many as 3,000 Heroic Guards, was all heading in the direction of the nuclear power plant.

It's not fast, but it's very strong-willed, as if inspired by some kind of mystery.

And those radiation mutants scattered all over the island were heading in the opposite direction—the direction of the maple leaf forest in Z City, with the same speed and the same firm will, as if they had received an order to get rid of Song Le and his party.

If you switch the perspective again and look at it in a way that allows you to see the radiation intensity clearly, you can see that the radiation intensity of the entire island is slowly but surely increasing without stopping.

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Song Le has no way of knowing the relationship between the topography of the island and the Chernobyl nuclear accident that year.

But the Geiger counter in his hand told him very clearly that even in the maple forest, which is 10 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant, the radiation dose has reached 17 microsieverts per hour, and it is increasing to a certain extent every day.

A normal person who is exposed to a dose of 4,000 microsieverts of radiation will die, which is only 235 times that of 17 microsieverts.

If the radiation dose continues to increase, sooner or later it will reach the point of death.

But this was not the most lethal factor for Song Le and the others, because it could be protected, and a castle lined with a layer of lead was enough to protect them from radiation.

The deadliest thing is that they can't get food from the wild, not any food.

Seawater is living water, which will be diluted after being irradiated, and will have little effect on the human body after desalination.

Animals, plants, and fish are different in that the radiation they receive accumulates in the body, and if people eat them, it can cause great harm to the body.

Even if it does not reach the point of death within 1 month, it will cause some damage.

(In a sense, while the island is lush with vegetation and even remnants of a human city, it's still a desert island because of the radiation.) ）

If this is just the case, the problem is really not big, Song Le can resist for a month, and after returning to the reincarnation space, he can carry out a perfect repair of the body, and he can completely remove the damage caused by radiation.

But the problem is that there are radiation mutants, Heroic Guards, Heroic Commanders, Orangutan Heroic Guards, and the kind of giant three-story monster I saw last night......

It was a desert island full of dangers, and he couldn't risk taking on the monsters with his radiation-damaged body.

Therefore, after solving the freshwater problem, Song Le's most important task is to solve the food problem.

What he has to do now is to build an underground greenhouse that will not be exposed to radiation.

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Personal warehouses are special spaces where there is no air and cannot store living things.

But the seeds are different, they are vacuum-packed, so they are not affected by the vacuum state, and they can be planted directly after taking them out.

Of course, you can't use the radiation-contaminated soil on the surface of the island, you have to dig deep into the soil below the surface, and the presence of excavators is not a problem.

Song Le simply dug a big pit behind the base to build an underground greenhouse, which can not only ensure the safety of the greenhouse, but also not affect the safety of the base itself, and can also use the soil dug out of the ground, which can be regarded as killing three birds with one stone.

However, due to time constraints, there are not many seeds to choose from, mostly spinach, greens, or bean sprouts that can be soaked.

As for rice, wheat and the like, they don't grow much in a month, and they don't taste good when eaten, so they are not as good as green vegetables.

Two men were left on the ground to be on guard, and the remaining two men built an underground greenhouse with Song Le, and then the task of laying the lead layer and planting was handed over to Hu Yifei and Chen Meijia.

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It took about three days for Song Le and the group of 6 to temporarily solve the two most important problems of fresh water and food.

During these three days, they experienced a total of 10 waves of small-scale radiation mutant attacks, and there were no Heroic Guardians, so they were very easy to deal with.

Traps prepared in advance, as well as the sentry posts left behind, can easily solve them.

So they are not a problem for Song Le, his main problem is still a material that is disabled every day.

On the first day, fresh water stored in personal warehouses was banned, on the second day was wireless electronic communication equipment, on the third day was fitness equipment, and on the fourth day was fuel.

On the fifth day, it was the last thing Song Le wanted—all the food in his personal warehouse was banned.

Including 10 tons of flour, 10 tons of rice, 1 ton of freeze-dried vegetables, 1 ton of various fresh fruits, dried fruits, dozens of boxes of soy sauce, aged vinegar and other seasonings......

It also includes 200 vacuum-packed braised rabbit meat, Song Le's favorite food, and even 30 boxes of candy and jelly.

The only exception to this is table salt, which is probably because it is considered to be a chemical substance rather than a food.

The food brought back from the yacht is not within the scope of Song Le's personal warehouse, so it will not be banned.

However, due to the damage to the yacht in the storm, a large part of the food storage was lost, and the rest was only enough for seven people to eat for a week.

The vegetables in the underground greenhouse have only just sprouted, and they will be barely eaten after at least half a month.

In the week that was vacant, Song Le had to find a way to make up for it, or they would have to fight the radiation mutants and the Heroic Spirit Guards hungry, which was not a good idea.

Another point is that after the fuel in his personal warehouse is disabled, he also has to find a way to make up for it, otherwise there is no way to solve the problems of base construction and lighting.

If it is really a last resort, you must take refuge at sea, and you must have fuel.

If he doesn't have fuel, he can't run away if he wants to, and the dozen or so barrels of fuel he collected in Port N before are not enough.

And even more important, that is firearms and ammunition.

Fresh water, fuel, and food have been banned, and guns and ammunition are obviously not too far away.

If one day, the giant Heroic Guardians of the nuclear power plant pounced on them with a large group of men and horses, but they were out of guns and ammunition, wouldn't they be sent to death?

After thinking about it, Song Le decided to take a trip to Port G to see if he could collect enough supplies for a month.