Chapter 424 Underground Radiation

"Warning: The balance system gyroscope is damaged, and the Power Armor balance system is out of function..."

"Warning: The back armor is damaged, and the protection ability is reduced by 18%."

"Warning: The damaged part of the left shoulder is enlarged, and 50% of the coolant leaks..."

"Warning: The mechanical joint of the left ankle is damaged again, and the automatic repair is forced to stop. Please replace the spare parts manually."

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The built-in intelligent brain of the Power Armor continuously sent alarms one by one, and the VR screen showed the damage of the entire Power Armor—only about 30% of the parts of the Power Armor turned into representative " Completely scrapped and need to be replaced with new parts" red, and orange representing "severely damaged and cannot be repaired by itself" also occupies more than half.

Those few grenades were specially made to deal with armored targets, and coupled with the bumps and bumps all the way down from the cave, this type 33 power armor has fallen into a very bad situation.

And Qi Lin, who was inside this power armor, turned on the metallization state in time, but the shock wave generated by the explosion still shook him up.

After lying on the ground for more than ten seconds, Qi Lin managed to recover his breath.

Shaking his dizzy head, he tried hard to stand up from the ground, but at this moment, he found that the damaged joints of the power armor were completely stuck, and even simple actions such as bending and extending the knee Can't do it.

"Damn...it's really bad luck..."

It took a lot of effort for Qi Lin to use brute force to directly lift the cover on the chest of the power armor, and got out from the inside of the power armor that could no longer move.

"Where... is this? The bottom of that cave?"

Looking around the cave where it is located, it should be under the foundation of the Herons Power Station. The surrounding cave walls are no longer artificially poured concrete foundations, but the unique hard frozen soil on the Mongolian plateau. The hardness of the permafrost is comparable to that of the hard limestone rock formations, so digging tunnels or caves in such places will undoubtedly require astronomical manpower and material resources.

The place where Qi Lin is now is an unnaturally formed tunnel. The tunnel generally presents an irregular oval shape. On the tunnel wall, there are obvious traces of corrosion and dissolution.

"Is this the monster's lair?"

Qi Lin looked back at the cave where he fell. The slope of the cave reached more than 60 degrees, which was very steep, and the depth was about 200 meters to 300 meters. It was very difficult to return from the original road. Moreover, even if Qi Lin tried his best to climb up, those who wanted to kill him might be guarding the edge of the cave, waiting for Qi Lin to hit their guns himself.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is impossible for Qi Lin to get back what belongs to him, and he can't even return to the ground.

Since it is impossible to return the same way, it can only bite the bullet and move forward.

Qi Lin checked the equipment in his hands - a Type 33 power armor (discarded), a GS-03 Gauss pistol, 41 rounds of 2.5mm electromagnetic bombs, a FMG9 folding submachine gun, Ninety rounds for the 9mm Parabellum pistol and two M84 shock rounds.

The heavy scrapped power armor can only be thrown here. Qi Lin originally wanted to remove the weapon of this type 33 power armor, but he tried his best but failed to activate the weapon system of this power armor. , can only give up.

According to the standard configuration of Type 33 Power Armor, there should be two foldable 5.56 mm arms inside the arm armor, using metal hard bullet slots for bombs, and on the back of the Power Armor, there is a small honeycomb rocket launcher. If Qi Lin can use these weapons, he will not be forced to jump into this cave.

After filling the empty Gauss pistol magazine with bullets, Qi Lin held the Gauss pistol in one hand and the FMG9 in the other, and began to move slowly towards the depths of the cave.

...

If this cave is really the lair of the monster above, then there must be other exits in other places-there is nothing in this hard permafrost that can be used as food for the monster, even if It simply feeds on radiation energy, and the place where it was attacked by nuclear weapons and was contaminated by radiation is also on the surface, not in the hundreds of meters deep underground.

It's just... why does the further I go, the higher the radiation concentration in the surrounding environment?

Thick rock formations and soil have always been the best shields against radiation—the shelters in the real world are generally only about 100 meters to 150 meters away from the ground, and the depth of those super-large shelters deep underground It will not exceed 500 meters, mostly at a depth of about 300 meters, and those ultra-small shelters located within 50 meters of the shallow layer of the ground actually have a good protective effect against radiation.

Those shelters built at deep levels are only prone to collapse if a large area is hollowed out under the shallow surface. Generally speaking, the soil layer is about 30 meters thick, the concrete layer is more than two meters thick, and a layer of lead is added. board and a layer of water, it can perfectly resist the radiation from the outside world.

As for Qi Lin, although there is no lead layer or water layer, there is a 200-meter-thick layer of permafrost. Even if a hole is opened, the radiation concentration here should not be so high... right?

"Could it be that I'm thinking wrong? The radiation here doesn't come from the nuclear power plant reactor above?"

Qi Lin glanced at the ambient radiation concentration displayed on the intelligence brain—it was only one of the few functions retained by the personal intelligence brain after the opening of the third stage—and saw that the radiation concentration in the tunnel at the moment was 89, compared to The radiation concentration in the surrounding environment of the Hellens Power Station was even higher.

The radiation here definitely does not come from the nuclear fuel rods exposed to the air in the reactor... Even, these radiations may not have anything to do with humans at all!

Reminiscent of the monster feeding on radiant energy, Qi Lin suddenly had a bold guess about the underground tunnel.

"Here... there shouldn't be a... uranium vein that humans haven't discovered, right?"

Although the mastermind said that the environment in the game world is all reproduced from the earth in the real world, it is obviously a lie - due to the existence of players, the wasteland in the game world has long been compared with the real surface. They are very different, and it is impossible for the two to reach a complete agreement, or even a general agreement.

In other words, even if there really is a uranium vein underground in the Herrons Power Station, it is not impossible at all. Just numbers made up of 0s and 1s.