With the help of the sewage drainage ditch, Qi Lin quickly passed through the street and entered the opposite block.

He lifted the cover above his head, Qi Lin jumped out of the sewage ditch and ran quickly towards the load-bearing pillar that was close to him.

The bottom surface of the load-bearing column is nearly 100 meters in diameter and the top diameter is slightly smaller, but it is also sixty or seventy meters. Rather than a load-bearing column, it is more like a large cooling tower in nuclear power plants in the old era.

Generally, a large number of buildings are surrounded by load-bearing columns. Originally designed according to the three-dimensional plan of the residential area of ​​Shelter No. 909, the load-bearing column is also called the "circular tower". A load-bearing column, including its internal space and the outer ring, can definitely accommodate thousands of people. However, there is no unnecessary building on the surface of this load-bearing column, and even the surrounding houses are kept at a certain distance from it.

Before Qi Lin could run below the load-bearing column, he felt that the radiation dose in the environment was increasing rapidly. Although it had not yet reached the level of affecting the human body, if he lived in this environment for a long time, even if he was "radiation-resistant calm" every day, he would either suffer from radiation diseases of varying degrees or suffer from side effects and complications caused by long-term medication.

Even in a low-level residential area, there are not many people willing to live around this load-bearing pillar. Many people would rather squeeze a little than live under the storm of radiation.

Although the price of "radiation-resistant and anti-radiation" is not expensive, it is not affordable for anyone to eat it every day.

However, the radiation that ordinary people avoided made Qi Lin feel like he was in water - the energy gathering vortex in his abdomen was much faster. If this thing was emotional, he would definitely be very happy.

Qi Lin ran around the load-bearing pillar for a short time and finally found the iron gate leading to the inside. The iron gate was locked with a rusty chain. It took Qi Lin less than five seconds to pry the old lock open.

Pushing open the iron gate, there was a deep and narrow corridor inside, and the width of the corridor could only accommodate one person through. Qi Lin raised his pistol and walked in with his feet pressed down.

After walking twenty meters in, an inconspicuous secret door appeared on the right hand. The secret door was not locked. Qi Lin just pushed it casually, and the metal door that was so rusty that it was almost rusty was pushed open.

This is a "dressing room" with cleaning functions. It is only about ten square meters in area. There is a wooden bench in the middle. On both sides are wardrobes made of polymer materials. In the corner of the ceiling, there is a dust-covered shower.

The doors of the wardrobe had fallen to the ground. Qi Lin saw orange protective clothing hanging inside. The nylon fabric and rubber layers on the surface of these protective clothing had completely aged. Through the cracked surface, you can see that there was no metal mesh structure. This is the cheapest low-end protective clothing and has the weakest protection ability for radiation.

"It would be strange if you don't have radiation diseases when you work in such torn protective clothing..."

Qi Lin complained and continued to walk deep into the corridor.

...

This is indeed a backup reactor, but to be precise, this is the site of a abandoned backup reactor - inside the load-bearing column, Qi Lin did see the base and bracket used to install the reactor, but the equipment has been removed and the entire load-bearing column inside appears empty.

Without a reactor, there would naturally be no spent fuel rod that Qi Lin was looking for.

But... why is the radiation concentration inside the load-bearing column so abnormally high? According to various signs, this backup reactor has been removed a long time ago, and it has been at least one year. Even if there is radiation residue, after a year of dissipation, the current radiation concentration should not be so high.

Unless...the radiation source remains here.

Following the intensity of the radiation, Qi Lin began to search inside. Not long after, he found a manhole located in the corner.

The manhole is sealed with a thick metal lid, and the metal lid is a warning sign with two-color yellow and black colors of "radiation hazards" - the entire confined space has the highest radiation concentration here.

"Sure enough, there must be another world under this manhole!"

Qi Lin did it as soon as he said that, and immediately pushed the thick manhole cover aside and climbed down the iron ladder on the well wall.

Below the manhole is a huge cave similar to an air raid shelter. According to the orientation, this is an independent underground space dozens of meters below the shelter No. 909. In this space, there are a large number of yellow metal barrels piled up, and the radiation is emitted from these metal barrels.

"...Damn, they actually transformed this place into a warehouse where nuclear waste is piled up. No wonder no one lives around!"

Qi Lin ran to the side of a metal round barrel and pried open the lid. He saw that it was filled with cement. In the cement, dozens of spent fuel rods as thick as arms were sealed.

For such round barrels, more than 2,000 were piled up in the entire waste warehouse. According to the marks outside the round barrel, removing cement, there are 400 kilograms of nuclear waste in one round barrel. In this warehouse, more than 800 tons of nuclear waste are stored.

You should know that in the old era, a medium-sized nuclear power plant would only produce dozens of tons of nuclear waste in a year - these 800 tons of nuclear waste are likely to be the entire inventory generated by the entire No. 1 energy reactor in recent years.

This waste warehouse is a tricky trouble for the managers of Shelter No. 909, but in Qi Lin's eyes, it is a rare treasure house!

These are not the nuclear waste, they are clearly white experience value!

Qi Lin immediately let go of the restrictions on the energy-concentration vortex. At the moment when Qi Lin's consciousness suppression disappeared, the energy-concentration vortex paused for a moment, then spun around frantically. In less than a minute, all the radiation energy overflowed from the waste warehouse was absorbed completely.

"This packaging is really troublesome, it would be great if there was a large can opener..."

While complaining, Qi Lin pried open the lids of the barrels one by one. The radiation emitted through the cement seal and the metal barrel wall was only a small part. If Qi Lin wanted to continue to absorb, he had to remove all of these "packages" used to isolate the radiation.

Fortunately, due to the shortage of resources, the quality of these barrels is not very good, and the walls of the barrels are as thin as cans. Otherwise, just a small dagger in Qi Lin's hand might not be able to pry the barrel open.

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Chapter completed!