The wheels of the bus pressed against the asphalt with a dull grinding sound, and the roar of the engine was particularly clear in the silence of the night.

Players harvest a watch from the unconscious bus driver and finally know the exact time.

- At 1:44 a.m., according to Zhang Heng's calculations, the explosion should have occurred 15 to 20 minutes ago.

It was still quite a long time before dawn, and most of the residents of Pripyat, 3 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant, were still asleep, unaware that the explosion had sent some of the core material into the sky, forming a large mass of intensely radioactive aerosol gas.

At first, the air mass only enveloped the nuclear power plant, but soon began to expand and spread in all directions under the influence of the wind.

The first residents of Pripyat to notice the explosion were probably a group of night fishing enthusiasts.

The nuclear power plant discharges cold water from the turbine preheat exchanger into the nearby Pripyat River, which is warm and attracts fish, making it a great place to fish, and it is also in time for spring when the fish spawn and many of them flock to the river, even at night.

The closest one was less than 300 meters from Reactor 4, and as the maintenance workers drove past them in a bus, the players saw that some anglers were also looking up at the smoke in the direction of the reactor, some of them were starting to pack up for fear, but many more chose to stay where they were.

They seemed to be convinced that the fire would not spread here, especially since a few fire trucks had just arrived, which gave the anglers a lot of confidence that the fire would soon be brought under control, and some even felt that it was something they could brag about later to their friends about seeing the heroic firefighters extinguishing the fire, so they all continued to hold their fishing rods and stay by the river.

In addition, the crowd also saw a pair of young people stealing the forbidden fruit by the river, they were oblivious to the explosion behind them, tightly entangled, and farther away, several workers patrolling the railway bridge also stopped to watch.

"Heh, it looks like we're the only ones in this radius who are busy running for our lives." Kui Ye laughed at himself.

"They're going to pay the price." "The radioactive fallout above the nuclear power plant has drifted here, falling on their skin, and entering their lungs with every breath they take, waiting for them to remember later...... If they have a future, it will be the thing they will regret the most in their lives. ”

"What are these people going on in their heads, how can you be indifferent to the explosion at a nuclear power plant when you're at the side?" The mouse looked incredulous.

"I don't know, I'm just a surgeon, not a psychiatrist." The doctor shrugged.

"Will this radioactive fallout drift to town?" Kui Ye was concerned about another issue at this time.

"There's no doubt that this is already in the immediate future."

"So if we stay in town, we'll continue to suffer from radiation as well?" The rat asked.

His words also made the hearts of all players sink.

And unlike the anglers and greasy couples by the river, the players know that they have no choice at all, and in order to complete the mission, even if they know that there is radiation in the town, they can only stay here.

There was silence in the carriage, and after a while the coconut vomited again, but because she had vomited all her dinner before, she could only retch, and the rat was taking care of her.

"Sorry, I still seem to have a bit of motion sickness." Coconut Road.

"I'll try to stay steady, but it's not too easy." As he spoke, he saw several cars passing them from the opposite side, including fire trucks and private cars, one of which was honking at them, as if trying to stop them.

But the maintenance worker will not be obedient, a dozen directions, around the car, continue to drive forward, he looked in the rearview mirror, saw that the owner of the car has walked down, see the bus drive away seems to be a little helpless, but there is no intention to continue to catch up.

After about five minutes, ambulances and buses drove through the safety of the nuclear power plant and finally entered the town.

Everyone's impression of Pripyat is basically inseparable from the word ghost town, because soon after the Chernobyl incident, the city became deserted and uninhabited, and later Ukraine launched an adventure tourism project, which basically confirmed the identity of Pripyat's ghost town.

Visitors walk between the abandoned school and stadium with radiators in their hands and protective suits, listening to the creaking of counters, as if they can feel the horrors that took place here decades ago, while enjoying the desolation of the ghost town.

At this point, however, Pripyat looked no different from any other town, no, more precisely, Pripyat looked more beautiful than most towns of the era.

The town was built before the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to the east, where dormitories for workers and office buildings for managers were first built after plans were approved, and as the project progressed, the families of the workers moved here, and the new town was named after the nearby Pripyat River.

As the number of residents in the town increased, the number of houses began to increase, shops, schools, stadiums, and even buses and railways appeared, and when the No. 1 reactor of the nuclear power plant was put into operation, the staff of the nuclear power plant and their families also lived in the town, and after that, the construction of the reactor has not stopped, and after the fourth reactor, the fifth and sixth reactors are also under intense construction.

The number of inhabitants of the town has also grown, to more than 50,000 people, and unlike the compact and crowded old towns, Pripyat is a typical Brezhnev city, with wide, neat streets, geometric layouts, scattered houses, a majestic Children's Palace and the entire eleventh cinema.

Whether it is the design or planning of the city, it is the top level of SL, and it also shows SL's great ambition for the use of atomic energy, and everyone who has been to Pripyat is fascinated by its charm, and people are rushing to get a residence permit here.

But Pripyat is still asleep, and only a few people have noticed the flames of the nuclear power plant in the distance.