58. Identity (1)
When I wiped off the mucus that had splattered on my cheek, it came out thick on my hand.
And the fishy taste in my mouth that I kept feeling was indirectly telling me how the situation was going.
As I watched the acrid smoke of death blooming as if my soul had been sucked in, and the white dust falling from the far sky, it felt as if time had stopped.
Cold silence flowed between those who had the person in front of them bursting with white fear.
But when everything had already happened and everyone was standing still in shock, I shouldn’t have been the only one.
A body dying from exposure to radiation, an accident that exploded, but it was reversible.
The return point was long before this happened, long before the 10-hour journey to Hanford, Richland.
But it’s better than before, it was only 30 minutes with Legarete.
Compared to that time, this is a nobleman.
I had the belief that I could handle anything.
It’s not a failure, it’s a mistake, it’s going back while thinking about death.
But before that, there was work to be done.
Gritting my teeth, I kicked off my seat and stood up.
“Einheri?”
Leaving the others questioning behind, I jumped back into the facility through the researcher.
Still, still.
That’s how I made up my mind.
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The control room was literally the same as it was 5 minutes before opening.
From those who burst into laughter as if they were mad, to those who run around as if they are trying to somehow overcome the current situation.
I opened the door to the control room and entered, but no one looked at me.
And among them, there was one person left behind.
The name of the person responsible for the incident and the person wearing the armband was embroidered on the chest.
[Anatoly Dyatlov]
At the time of the first discovery, the situation was as it was with dazed eyes.
“You have to stop… Uh… Why? Should I stop…? I have to… Order… Order…”
Eyes that don’t match the body naturally shrunk a lot at the loud emergency sound.
“If I stop… I can’t… I have to…? I?”
Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, the levers were lowered arbitrarily, and the accident triggered by them.
Judging from the previous situation, this explosion is not a coincidence, but a man-made disaster.
And very few people have the knowledge to cause such an accident.
Looking at the perplexed look of the researchers, they didn’t even know that this would happen, so there was only one person who could deliberately cause an explosion.
“Louis Deviène.”
Or something done by someone who knows the facility well enough to be comparable to him.
He grabbed Anatoly, who was still unconscious, and hit him hard on the cheek.
Woah!
A striking sound that made nearby researchers look back at the echoing sound.
Her cheeks were flushed red, and her blurry eyes were focused at least.
When a person or a machine breaks down, it’s the same thing when you hit it with one blow.
”What is this…The core is exploding!”
Looking around, he soon realized that the core had exploded and tried to scream in surprise, but he was soon blocked by my hand.
“Eup-eup!”
“Lucky, help me move it.”
As one adult began to strain his body, it was definitely too much for an ordinary person, but when Lucky slowly appeared from the shadows behind him and slid a knife into his neck, it was solved at once.
“hehehe!”
I led him, half frozen above the waist, out again.
The researchers around them tried to approach them as if to stop them, but they stopped as if they were nailed to their place after receiving Lucky’s sad eyes.
He seemed to know nothing as he stammered.
He probably doesn’t know why this happened or what he did.
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But he had to know and he had to teach me.
When we went outside, we were greeted by a collapsed building still emitting pitch-black smoke and fragments of graphite chunks protruding from the reactor core.
In the meantime, symptoms of radiation exposure also began to appear on the remaining personnel.
“Wow!”
Some vomited on the floor, while others grabbed their temples as if they had a severe headache and evaded to one side.
Some of the researchers who followed outside had nosebleeds and blood stains coming up all over their bodies.
“Look. Look.”
A world where no one is fine.
“This is what you did.”
“Me, me?”
“I bet you didn’t know. But this must have been caused by you. I don’t know what it was, but I lowered the lever in the control room and pressed the emergency stop button to blow it up.”
Boom.
White fallout fell on his face in disbelief.
What would your face look like if you found out that those falling like snow are all radioactive lumps?
“There is no such thing as an emergency stop device! Since it is a procedure that forcefully inserts all the control rods, the reaction should be suppressed. There can be no such thing as an explosion like this! There must be something different, a different reason!”
“Yes, there must be another reason.”
But knowing that now only hindered rather than helped.
“But that’s not what I want to know.”
I needed to understand these structures, not the causes, and figure out who knew enough to trigger the causes.
If it was the deputy director, there was no way he would not know the position of the person in charge.
“Is the person who created and designed these facilities, Louis Deviène?”
“It’s confidential, I can’t tell outsiders…”
“f*ck, I can hear that even after seeing this scene!”
The reporter who was going to slap him on the cheek one more time, who was still unconscious, this time blood dripped from his nose.
My hands were beaten to the point of numbness.
“Whether you were possessed or not, that happened at your own risk. Face reality You couldn’t stop it, and you couldn’t mend it.”
Acrid black smoke billowing across the sky, laden with radioactivity that will turn this world into hell.
It was a catastrophe that the Soviet Union in the original world barely prevented with all their might.
A disaster in which countless people were ground under the ridiculous name of bio-robots.
It was difficult to believe that the people of this world, those who could not properly feel the damage of the radiation, would be able to prevent it.
“Lou, Louis Devierne is right. He, he designed everything! He designed it!”
When Lucky pushed his sword all the way to his chin at the same time, he answered.
Drops of blood ran down the nape of his neck from the slight cut on his skin.
“Is there anyone other than Louis Devierne who knows the facility well… No, knows the specific flaws of the facility?”
“Louis Devierne did not easily tell others about the design. Even that was taught in parts, so each person knew something different…”
“If you divide the teaching, each person only knows his or her own part.
“Yes! In order to prevent technology leakage, he taught the guild members separately… When he was away, the dragon slave taught him what he had received instead.”
“…..Slave?”
“Yes! Taught by the dragon slave he always had, Louis Deviène! Because there is no method as safe as a slave’s subordination mark… Even if it is taught, there is absolutely no possibility of it being leaked outside! If I tried to do that, pain worse than death would overwhelm me.”
There was only one slave in Yongin.
“Maria Salomea.”
“Huh? Did you know?”
“Does Maria Salomea know everything about the facility then?”
“Perhaps… You know everything, because you are the closest to Louis Devierne’s knowledge…”
Looking at Lucky at that, she tilted her head.
“In the case of slaves with good brains, there are cases where they are sometimes hired instead of graduate students… I think this is too extreme? There is also a coalition, but not to that extent. No matter how dependent it is, it is not without security problems…”
A situation in which the teacher has become a reverse.
Just in case, if not possible, the thought that Louis Deviène was just a scarecrow passed through my head.
“So, which one did you learn more from, Louis Debjern or Maria Salomea?”
“That’s right, since Louis Devierne is busy with construction, he has no choice but to be freed from slavery…”
I don’t think it’s related to that –
Cool.
When I coughed up blood, blood flowed up.
[Applied effect]
Huge exposure (99999:59:59)-Update
There were pieces of graphite scattered all over the place. When I looked at my feet right away, I saw a small piece rolling around.
With hundreds of millions of invisible bullets piercing through my body even at this moment, it was too late to come back to life.
Since this happened in the first place, it was unreasonable to drag it on.
Perhaps it was because I used too much strength with my normal body, and felt my head spinning and sat down on the floor.
Gradual darkening of vision, a phenomenon no different from drinking radioactive black tea.
“Turn off the lights! Open the water world!”
Perhaps there weren’t any magicians who were always on hand, so they popped out here and there and began to use their own water-spouting magic-
“Crazy guys…The reactor core is open…If you pour water into it…”
You can extinguish the fire with normal fire or water. It was an act of suicide to pour water in this special condition, but I couldn’t help my eyes that started to close and my body to slow down.
And after a while, the body floated up with a pillar of light that brightened even the darkened vision.
Beep-.
The burning sensation that set my whole body on fire was the last sensation I felt.
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[Determine that it is a non-combat situation.]
[There is no penalty for the tetrahedron.]
[Sanity level does not decrease. 71/100]
[A non-combat penalty will be imposed instead.]
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Non-combat penalty: If you want peace, prepare for war (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
– Achievement points consumed by retrying will increase by 5 times.
-Retained Achievement Points 107/200 -＞ 102/200
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Maria Salomea was welcoming me at the end of the unpleasant and bizarre sensation of rewinding time along with the familiar notification window.
“The name of the project is Trinity, research for the advancement of mankind.”
The same words, the same actions, and the same people around you.
But I couldn’t do the same.
Louis Debjern and his dragon slave, Maria Salomea.
Regardless of the man who might have induced the reactor core to explode, Maria Salomea continued as if nothing was wrong regardless of all sorts of doubts swirling in her head.
When she thought she had heard enough, she shook hands with the branch manager, Philip, and stood up.
“You heard the story, then what can you do with this fuel… Is it a power plant?”
“Oh! Have you ever heard anything else? That’s a fact that hasn’t been made public yet. It’s also a guild secret…”
You almost snatched the Western Church’s chance in the middle.
“hahahaha, I heard that there is a very good opportunity from the Western Church. For example, a tour of a power plant.”
“If you already know that far, the story will be a little faster. But this part of Devierne’s slave should know better than I do. Hey, let me tell you.”
“The Central Church is also interested in it, because it is a method that emits light without any magical action… However, I am worried that it might be dangerous. Just as dangerous things can happen if mana is mishandled, isn’t the power plant carrying such a heavy burden in some way…”
And to my question, Maria Salomea naturally continued.
“Like you’re worried The power plant won’t blow up. Because it’s being operated in a stable way under close supervision. There’s also an emergency shutdown procedure in place… “
And at that, she stopped her steps as she moved outside of her, and turned her head to stare into Maria Salomea’s eyes.
“I never said anything about the power plant blowing up.”
Took.
The hardened body of Maria Salomea.
Her waist didn’t move, just her head turned and she looked at me the same way with an expressionless face.
A room full of silence.
Then, she threw a word at Maria.
“Nudge, AZ-5?”
And the corners of Maria’s mouth went up to the tips of her ears in an instant.
“Caught. Yes.”
Glad MC is really smart