For some well-known reason, the story of a defunct red empire that once nuclear bombed reservoirs and extinguished oil wells is almost universally known.

But what is less known is that on the other side of the ocean, another great power in the Cold War, tried the "peaceful" use of atomic energy earlier than that red empire.

In July 1962, the Federation conducted the "Satang Experiment" deep in the Nevada desert and detonated a nuclear bomb with a yield of 1.04 million tons.

However, due to the configuration of the hydrogen bomb, 30% of the explosive yield of the nuclear bomb was caused by fission, and the huge radiation pollution produced by the fission reaction caused radioactive fallout drifted all the way from the west to New York on the east coast.

In total, about 13 million people in the federation are contaminated with radioactive contamination to a greater or lesser extent, and the radioactive material produced by fission decays for decades.

And this experiment is part of the "Ploughshare Project", which is intended to carry out a series of infrastructure projects by harnessing the enormous power of nuclear bomb blasting.

This includes "experiments to extract natural gas from tight geological structures that are currently unusable by the nuclear explosion stimulation method."

After that, there were several similar nuclear explosions in New Mexico and Colorado, but they were eventually abandoned because of the "unacceptable" radioactivity in the gas extracted.

The "Clark Test Site" that Hodgner refers to was once one of the "Ploughshare Project" nuclear bomb test sites in Colorado, and the green glass crystal was the product of those nuclear explosion experiments.

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Jeremy Andrews' father, Manad Andrews, died of illness more than 30 years ago, and he moved out of Centennial with his son, who was less than eight years old, after going bankrupt.

The whereabouts of father and son remained unknown until Jeremy became an adult, and records show that he attended a vocational school in Grand Junction for three years at the age of 18 and lived in Newkla. ”

Garcia sent the information she had just investigated, verifying the previous profile of the BAU crowd.

"The 'Clark Proving Ground' is located in northwestern Colorado, near the Wyoming interstateline, and if he does go there, he has to go through Highway 13."

Red quickly flipped through the map, drew a nearest route on it, and then told Garcia to call up traffic surveillance along the way to try to find the white van.

Female journalist Katrina Townsley, who regained some consciousness under the care of Jiejie and Emily, confessed that she was forced to call Jill Moss under Jeremy's threats.

But she didn't know what happened after that, and after Jeremy kidnapped Jill Moss, he began to torture the two in turn, until she lost consciousness in the continuous intense electric shocks.

An ambulance arrived belatedly to take the bruised female journalist to the hospital, the local sheriff's office sent two police cars, and several officers temporarily took over the scene.

The BAU crowd continued on the road, all the way north.

Their current location is almost the southernmost part of Colorado, and if you only look at the straight-line distance, it is only more than 300 kilometers away from Jeremy's "hometown".

The problem was that this wasn't Jack's east-west journey, the road was straight west, and it took half a day to move the steering wheel to keep the lane.

The journey from south to north was almost double that of the Rocky Mountains, and it was extremely difficult, with two cars barely halfway through the four hours.

The mobile phone signal along the way also came and went, but fortunately, this time Red brought a satellite phone, and before 10 o'clock in the evening, Garcia sent a good news.

Through image recognition, she found the white van that belonged to Jeremy in the meagre traffic surveillance footage of the towns along the way.

Guessed by Rosie, this guy really plans to return to his childhood "lair" with his prey and slowly "enjoy".

It was a moonless night, and the darkness of the night obscured the otherwise magnificent scenery of the Rocky Mountains, and a large SUV and a pickup truck drove quietly on a poorly maintained highway.

Jack's co-pilot was Rosie, with Jiejie sitting in the back, while Red and Emily were in the open Saab class in Hodchner, and everyone talked over the radio from time to time, and gradually became sleepy.

Everyone's interest is not very high, this case is probably the most unsuccessful one since the establishment of the group, if it weren't for Jack's crooked hit, I'm afraid everyone is still in the dark at the moment.

Emily originally had a good impression of that Jill Moss deep down, but of course only before she contacted the media on her own initiative.

Although it is not to the level of "girls help girls", as a female agent, she understands how difficult it is to make a difference as a woman in a male-dominated workplace environment like the FBI.

It is different from the Eastern countries that underwent a radical ideological change at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which fundamentally eradicated the soil of discrimination.

In Europe and the United States, discrimination against women is not something that can be erased by classifying them as politically correct and then making a few so-called feminist movements.

On the contrary, the Federation after the baptism of McCarthyism has mastered the skill of mixing sand to lead the direction when it comes to directing the various so-called movements.

Even environmental protection, fighting for the interests of the bottom, to racial color, and women's status issues, have all been reduced to seemingly glamorous flags that can be taken out and waved when needed.

It may be a bit far, but driving on this dark road, there are only the taillights of the Saabban driven by Hodgner more than ten meters away, and there is not even a passing car in the opposite lane.

Jack could only whisper to Red and Emily on the radio, after all, the old man next to him had already snored slightly, and his own woman was sleeping soundly in the back seat, and he didn't even dare to turn on any music.

Of course, he would never dare to expose his political coordinates, and occasionally make a sentence or two of heart-wrenching words that can make Emily and Red talk for a long time, such as the root of women's rights comes from labor rights and economic foundations.

It was 12 o'clock in the morning, and seeing that his car was running out of gas, Jack and Hodchner discussed finding a nearby place to rest, the car needed to be refueled, and people needed something to eat, and they had to rest.

They were now out of the mountains, on Highway 13, which Rhett had mentioned, less than 100 kilometers from their destination.

"There's a small town up ahead, maybe we can find a restaurant that's still open, eat some local food, and find a motel with no air conditioning broken down and sleep comfortably for the night."

Emily's voice was heard over the radio again.

"Maybe I can add some food to my fridge, and I'll have to drive back to Los Angeles when the case is over." Jack's head was a little big when he thought about it.

This case is not only not smooth, he has been driving almost every day during this time, and he has almost run several highways around Denver by himself.

Saaban led the way ahead and turned a fork in the road, and according to Red, they could reach the place called Lake Lake in fifteen minutes at most.

"Speaking of which, this town has been quite famous in recent years, although the population is only a few hundred people, but in order to revitalize the local tourism, they followed the Nevada's 'Burning Man Festival' and held a 'Mountain Man Music Festival', which should be there."

Red is still chattering on the radio before being interrupted by Hodchner.

"Red, there's still no cell phone signal around here, you can contact Garcia on a satellite phone and report our whereabouts, we may need the assistance of the nearby sheriff's office early tomorrow morning."

"Meihu Town, 'Mountain People's Festival'." Jack had a bad feeling in his mind, and it was only after the last ogre incident that he remembered that it was the famous horror film "Fatal Bend" series.

This is Meihu Town again, and it is the "Mountain People Music Festival", how many are it?

"Rhett, the 'Mountain Man Music Festival' you are talking about isn't going to be a Halloween-like festival where a bunch of people wear masks and pretend to be man-eating mountain monsters, right?"

Jack still asked with a fluke mentality.

"Have you heard of it too? In fact, the scale is not large. Uh, wait a minute, I'll call Garcia first."

"Hodge, I think we can go slower," Jack said before Saboban, who was driving the road ahead, let out a thud.

It's more comfortable, hurry up and update the book friends.

(End of chapter)