Chapter 169 The Cause of the Incident

Just when Director Yang was reporting the situation on the phone, Lin Yuan suddenly reminded him: "Oh, Director Yang, the boss told me before that the blue can was sold to him by two young men."

"And it seems to have been removed from some medical equipment. I now suspect that they may have a radioactive source in their hands. Even if not, he is likely to carry a lot of radioactivity."

When this was said, Director Yang was dumbfounded on the spot.

The nuclear energy expert next to him was even more horrified and shouted excitedly on the spot: "What!!! This is not the source |?? Quick!! Find a way to control those two people, otherwise, our Xihai City will be finished!"

At the same time, in the municipal government office building.

When He Shuji learned about this, he staggered and almost couldn't stand still.

Although he didn't know much about these radioactive substances, he immediately realized how harmful they were.

In his opinion, the most terrifying thing about nuclear radiation is not just that it can destroy the human body.

But its spread.

Everyone who has come into contact with it will become a new source of radiation.

Even used tissues, water flushed in the shower, and urine excreted will be radioactive.

The most important thing is that this radiation source is invisible and intangible, and must be detected one by one with instruments.

This leads to many people not knowing that they have been infected with radiation at all, and continue to harm others.

This is too terrible!

Plague, it can at least be controlled by isolation.

How to control this thing.

How to isolate if you don’t even know who is radioactive?

Unless the whole city is checked, every citizen must undergo radiation detection.

But the problem is that there are millions of people in the entire Xihai City.

If they are gathered together, if someone is irradiated, they will be wiped out directly.

If they are not gathered together, they can only be checked one by one.

My God, how much work this will take.

At this moment, He Shuji hated the two young men who sold things.

If there was only a problem at the scrap yard, even if it was controlled, it would be okay, and the radiation would be limited to that area.

Even if it was a cat, it shouldn’t be able to run far.

But those two guys are purely mobile biochemical monsters.

I’m afraid that many people in Xihai City have been irradiated by them and don’t know it.

At that time, cross-radiation.

Although there is no exaggeration of zombie infection in the movie, it is likely that Xihai City will not return to normal for many years.

Most people will choose to move away from this city.

No investors will be foolish enough to come here to invest, and eventually it will become a fourth-tier city, or even a ghost town.

Such a thing is not impossible.

In fact, such a thing really happened in history.

At that time, due to the nuclear radiation leak, hundreds of people died, and tens of thousands of people were affected by radiation!

Many people never saw the source of radiation from beginning to end, and finally died.

After they died, they were dug out of their coffins and burned.

The land where they were buried was dug three feet underground and moved to uninhabited places.

The entire city, most of the buildings were demolished, and the land was almost doubled.

Even so, the radiation was still above the standard.

Let the city completely become a ghost town.

If there really is such a day.

I sweat profusely just thinking about it.

He Shuji turned to look at Secretary Li and ordered: "Let Director Yang immediately catch the two people who sold scrap to the boss, and then ask them about their recent life trajectory, and send a message to the people in the city, asking them to self-isolate at home and not go out."

"Especially those who may have had contact with those two people must be quarantined."

"Call the Nuclear Energy Research Institute in the next city and ask them to come to help with the detection. All the radiation detectors in Xihai City should be bought and checked door to door."

"The traffic police brigade will go to the streets to maintain order, and the police in the city will go out on patrol to persuade citizens to go home and quickly form a nuclear radiation medical expert team."

Secretary Li listened to the orders one by one, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

It's not that there are too many to remember, but he was panicking.

He couldn't figure out why such a dangerous radiation source would leak.

In fact, it was not just him, but everyone couldn't figure it out.

But fortunately, Director Yang quickly locked the two young people who sold scrap through surveillance and the boss's narration.

The police specially put on protective clothing and went to arrest people.

When they were caught, the two were still playing games in the Internet cafe, which resulted in the entire Internet cafe being blocked and no one inside was allowed to come out for inspection.

After testing, the radiation levels in the two people had reached alarming levels.

And their faces had already begun to ulcerate.

One of them had relatively mild symptoms, only diarrhea, vomiting, and a little dizziness.

The other was half dead when he was caught.

If the experts hadn't told them that they were exposed to radiation, they would have thought they were just suffering from heatstroke or cold.

When they learned that their lives were very likely to be lost, they were all terrified.

How could they dare to lie? They told everything they had done in a flash.

It turned out that their materials were stolen from an abandoned hospital.

The two of them usually had no jobs and were idle.

Some time ago, they saw a hospital that had been abandoned for a long time. The windows were broken, but there were many instruments inside.

They thought about going in to steal some things for money.

So the night before yesterday, the two of them secretly climbed in through the window.

But after searching the entire hospital, there was only one large instrument.

There is a lying board in the middle with a big ring on it. I don’t know what it is used for, but it looks very high-end.

But the thing is too big and they can’t take it away.

After some discussion, they decided to dismantle the instrument and sell it as scrap.

Among them, a metal cylinder attracted their attention the most, and they thought there was a treasure inside.

As a result, after trying their best to open it, they found that there was only a glass bottle filled with blue powder.

The two were disappointed and sold it to the scrap shop owner. After getting the money, they went to be free and easy.

Then, what happened this afternoon.

After Director Yang learned the ins and outs of the matter, a bigger doubt emerged.

That is why there are such expensive medical devices in an abandoned hospital.

After the expert’s explanation, he already knew that the value of cesium 137 is far higher than gold.

The raw materials of the small glass jar before are worth millions.

Adding the large instrument, the total price is at least tens of millions.

A medical device worth tens of millions is actually placed in an abandoned hospital. It sounds like a joke.

In order to find out the situation, I checked the hospital's situation.

As a result, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

This abandoned hospital was originally a private radiotherapy hospital, which had moved to another place two years ago.

Because of the ownership of the house, the hospital was involved in a legal dispute, and the court required that the items in the hospital could not be moved.

At that time, most of the medical equipment had been moved away, leaving only a very large radiotherapy machine that could not be taken away, so the machine was left in the hospital.

During this period, the hospital also reported how harmful the equipment was.

But no one took it seriously, so it was abandoned there for more than two years.

This is not an equipment!

It's clearly a timed nuclear bomb!

Now it's good, it's finally detonated.

The whole Xihai City will suffer because of it.

As for the two people who stole it.

In their opinion, it might be just stealing something, and even if they are sentenced, the sentence will not be long.

However, they don't know how much panic and economic losses their theft has brought to Xihai City.