Yang Qian has been flying eastward for several hours, and at his speed he is about to fly out of the Lop Nur area, although there is still a slight nuclear radiation here, but the dose of nuclear radiation in this area has been reduced to the range that ordinary people can bear, and the terrain here is no longer like the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert with sand dunes, at a glance it is full of giant sand dunes dozens of meters high, the desert ground here tends to be flat, it is difficult to see large sand dunes, and occasionally some yellowing weeds can be seen.

The radiation dose here is in a relatively safe range, and every soldier in the convoy is wearing orange radiation and chemical protection suits, even the drivers of trucks and wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, but they are not fully dressed in radiation and chemical protection suits, and their heads are still exposed to the air.

The narrow Type 92 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle was filled with eight heavily armed fighters wearing radiation and chemical protection suits, one of whom held a tactical tablet in his hand, and a seven-inch screen displayed an electronic map with a red route representing the convoy's route and a blue route.

The platoon commander Lao who was holding a tactical tablet asked the communication soldier on the side: "How is it, is there still no news from them?" ”

The communications corpsman adjusted the frequency of the radio station and listened carefully to the sound coming from the earphones, but except for the "rustling" noise in the earphones, he could not receive any signals from the outside world, and the communications corps shook his head and replied: "Platoon commander, it has been twelve hours since the last time Academician Wang sent out a distress signal, and still no signal from them has been received. ”

Hearing this, the platoon leader frowned, and said secretly: "I'm afraid something is going to happen." ”

The platoon commander Lao was subordinate to the Xinjiang Military Region, and after the end of the world, the Xinjiang Military Region gathered the remnants of its forces and recovered dozens of large and small cities around Urumqi, and the day before the Military Region ordered to send people to the Lop Nur nuclear test area to find a nuclear warhead that had not yet been detonated.

And according to the information that survived before the end of the world, the leaders of the military region also began to attack the idea of nuclear warheads in the Lop Nur nuclear weapons test area.

A soldier asked worriedly: "Platoon Commander Lao, it has been more than twelve hours since they lost contact with Academician Wang, it can't be that something happened to them, right?" ”

Platoon Commander Lao said: "Maybe Academician Wang, they just have a problem with the vehicle, we can't give up lightly before we find them, besides, the nuclear warhead is too important, with the nuclear warhead to deal with the corpse herd is a little more certain, we just need to follow the route of Academician Wang, I don't believe we can't find them." ”

While the platoon commander was discussing with the soldiers, Yang Qian tried his best to lower his body, flew slowly against the ground, and followed the convoy at a constant speed.

As the drone went deeper into Lop Nur, the radiation dose in the air increased slightly, and when the soldier in the military truck looked at the radiation detector in his hand and detected that the radiation dose was about to reach 1 gray, the soldier held the walkie-talkie and issued an announcement to all members of the convoy.

"All attention, all attention, the nuclear radiation dose is about to reach 1 gray, and it is about to reach a dangerous value, and all personnel will immediately wear radiation protective and chemical protective clothing, and repeat one piece, all members will immediately wear chemical protective clothing, and the nuclear radiation dose will soon reach a dangerous value."

Before the sound of the walkie-talkie fell, all the soldiers began to wrap the only exposed head, and since then, the more the convoy drove into Lop Nur, the greater the dose of nuclear radiation in the air, and gradually reached a dangerous value.

When a person is exposed to nuclear radiation, the person will feel nausea and vomiting within a few hours, followed by symptoms such as diarrhea, headache or fever, which is a mild radiation sickness.

If a person receives an absorbable dose of more than 1 gray, nausea and vomiting may occur after a few hours due to damage to the intestinal lining cells, and it may also cause leukopenia, decreased platelets, decreased kidney function, increased amino acids in the urine, or blood in the urine in severe cases, which is a moderate degree of radiation sickness.

If a person receives a dose of 25 Gray at a time, the skin will develop erythema and hair loss, sometimes causing death; 5 Gray's dose causes about 50% of the chance of death; Doses above 8 Gray almost certainly caused death.

Yang Qian also noticed the slightly increased nuclear radiation dose, but he did not feel any sense of danger, which means that Yang Qian could fully bear the nuclear radiation dose of 1 Gray.

Just as the convoy was about to pass through a small sand dune, a large number of mutated gerbils suddenly popped out from behind the dunes, the number was hundreds, and they were obviously covered with foul-smelling pus, and as soon as they appeared, they quickly rushed towards the direction of the convoy, and the breath of a large amount of fresh flesh and blood made them burst out at a speed of 200%.

"Enemy attack!"

As soon as the mutant gerbils appeared, the soldiers who were always on guard spotted the mutant gerbils rushing towards the convoy, and after the loud siren, the soldiers on the car quickly picked up the guns in their hands and began to shoot at the rushing rats, they didn't want these disgusting mutant gerbils to rush into their carriages.

"Da Da Da, Tu Tu Tu Tu!"

Fierce gunfire suddenly rang out in the desert, and the soldiers on the truck rained down bullets on the mutant gerbils, and in the rain of bullets, the mutant gerbils opened their scarlet eyes, regardless of the death and maiming of their companions beside them, they still charged towards the convoy fearlessly.

Although the vehicle had increased to more than 50 kilometers per hour, the mutated gerbil was a resident of the desert, and its mutated huge size and tough muscles gave it strong running power, and it was rapidly approaching the convoy at a speed comparable to that of the vehicle.

Seeing that the mutant gerbil approaching the vehicle was about to tear the truck's tires with its sharp front paws, the soldier who leaned out of the car immediately aimed the assault rifle in his hand at the mutant gerbil, pulled the trigger with a murderous face, and the rapid flying bullet exploded any gerbil who dared to approach.

But there were so many mutant gerbils that there were at least hundreds of them attacking the convoy, and even though the soldiers on the vehicles were desperately trying to stop them, many gerbils rushed to the side of the vehicle and stabbed the tires with their sharp front paws.

Next to a military truck in front, the claws of a mutant gerbil just stabbed the front tire, but before it could pull out its claws, the rapidly rolling tire took it off the ground and rolled it into the tire, the huge mutant gerbil stuck in the gap between the tire and the chassis, and the huge squeezing force instantly squeezed it, but the truck with the front wheel lost its rolling force suddenly rolled over, and the vehicle behind it slammed into the steering wheel.

"Report to the platoon commander, car No. 1 overturned." The eager voice of the fighter sounded over the intercom.

"What, order the convoy to stop immediately, everyone get out of the car to rescue the fighters in car number one, and kill these brutes at the same time." The platoon commander Lao quickly gave the order with red eyes, he did not dare to imagine the consequences of the soldiers in the car being besieged, but this was the case.

The rollover of car No. 1 caused a large part of the pursuing mutant gerbils to rush to the front of the vehicle immediately, and the crazy mutant gerbils quickly pounced on the soldiers in the car.

"Damn brute, get out of here." A soldier roared angrily, his radiation and chemical protection suit had been torn open by the sharp claws of the mutant gerbil, thinking that he had received a large dose of nuclear radiation, the warrior's heart was desolate, and he angrily strafed the mutant gerbil who rushed towards him.

"Da Da Da, Da, Bang Bang!"

The warrior emptied his magazine, and just as he was about to pull out his saber, three mutant gerbils lunged at his face, and before he could draw his dagger, one mutated gerbil bit his throat, and the other mutated gerbil's claws stabbed deep into the warrior's chest.

The two mutant gerbils quickly tore open his chest, grabbed pieces of entrails and began to eat.

The soldiers in the overturned No. 1 car quickly ran out of the car, except for a few people who were killed and wounded, the remaining soldiers formed a triangular attack formation and shot at the mutant gerbils that pounced.

Soon, the remaining dozens of mutant gerbils were quickly shot by the warriors, and the originally empty sand was covered with a large amount of blood and scattered corpses of mutant gerbils, but the warriors were not happy, in addition to the corpses of mutant gerbils, there were three more corpses of human warriors.

"They're all good, bury them, we can't take their bodies on the road." Platoon Commander Lao patted the soldiers on the shoulders and took a deep look at the soldiers who had died in battle, as if to imprint their faces deeply into his heart.

After clearing the corpse of the mutant gerbil stuck in the front wheel of the No. 1 car, the convoy set off again, and under the large amount of flying yellow sand it brought up was a pile of sand where three warriors were buried.

After the convoy was far away, Yang Qian dared to show his figure, he flapped his wings and landed next to this small sand pile, looking at this sand pile Yang Qian's heart was full of respect, and saluted to the sand pile, he was also a soldier, he can fully understand the meaning of the word soldier, and the responsibility that a soldier should shoulder.

At this time, somewhere in the central and eastern part of Lop Nur, like other places, the air is filled with a strong sense of dead silence, and the same hidden danger is unknown, as if there has been no life here for a long time, but the pieces of metal scattered on the yellow sand indicate that this place is not without people, and sharp-eyed people will recognize it at a glance as parts of the vehicle.

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