Global Exploration: Starting from Decrypting Chernobyl

38: One hammer for a fish head, I didn’t lie to you, did I? 2/5”[Detection: The illuminance around the Host has exceeded 1000 Roentgens. The Nirvana Rebirth Talent is activating, increasing the Host’s radiation resistance at a rate of 1 point per second.]”

”[Keep going!]”

”[Your Talent is your greatest asset!]”

”Heh heh...”

Listening to the system’s voice in his mind, Wu Tian gave a faint smile towards the camera.

”I’m fine!”

”Brothers, don’t worry. I just smelled a metallic odor and it was a bit uncomfortable, so I coughed a couple of times.”

”Let’s continue exploring!”

”The control room should be on the second floor. Let’s head up quickly.”

...”Metallic odor? What metallic odor?”

”The brother upstairs might not know, but Uranium-235 smells metallic. And judging by the Host’s coughing, the radiation inside the Sarcophagus, which has been sealed for a long time, is probably quite high!”

”Hiss...”

”Then what should we do? Can the Host not handle it?”

”He definitely can’t handle it!”

The nuclear physicist in the live stream said pessimistically.

”Now it just depends on how long the Host can last.”

”Can he get the crucial evidence while he’s still alive? Sigh...”

”The Host shouldn’t have gone in!”

”He’s really pushing himself too hard!”

...At this moment, Wu Tian had already plunged into Reactor No. 4. The dark and deep environment forced him to hang his L-shaped flashlight on his... Huh?

That’s not right!

Wu Tian then remembered... his clothes were almost completely blown off!

He could only hold the L-shaped flashlight in one hand and a hammer in the other, feeling his way into the dark nuclear power plant.

The control building of the nuclear reactor had two floors.

The first floor contained the steam room, injection room, and reactor observation room.

The second floor was where the restrooms, control room, and other areas with lower nuclear radiation were located.

”Splash...”

After the reactor explosion that year, Gatilov directly denied the truth and even forced employees to open the water valves to cool down the non-existent reactor.

The water flowed directly through the burst pipes and seeped into the entire first floor.

Now, on the first floor, green sewage submerged Wu Tian’s calves.

”No one has entered here for thirty-four years.”

”It’s still unknown whether any creatures have emerged in this self-contained water source within the completely sealed environment.”

Wu Tian adjusted his flashlight and shone it on the calm surface of the water.

”We need to proceed carefully.”

Splash... splash... In the quiet, confined space, only the sound of Wu Tian’s footsteps breaking through the water could be heard.

Aside from that, there was no other sound.

Various equipment and structures, having not seen daylight for many years, had oxidized to black, adding a sense of oppression to the dim environment.

”Gurgle...”

Suddenly!

Just as Wu Tian stopped to orient himself.

A faint bubbling sound appeared in front of him to his left!

Whoosh!

Wu Tian instantly directed the beam of his L-shaped powerful flashlight towards it!

In everyone’s view.

It seemed a bubble had just burst on the water’s surface, and ripples were spreading outwards in a radial pattern!

”Hiss...”

Wu Tian’s expression became solemn.

He whispered to the Fans in the live stream.

”Something’s not right here.”

”So much time has passed from then until now, and only that one bubble appeared there.”

”This bubble shouldn’t have been caused by a crack in the ground or other reasons, but rather by some creature observing me there.”

”Let me go take a look!”

With that said.

Amidst the horrified and protesting cries of the Fans in the live stream, Wu Tian slowly waded through the water, approaching the place where the bubble had appeared.

Whoosh... A soft splashing sound rang out.

Just as Wu Tian was walking towards the spot where the bubble had burst.

”Gurgle...”

Another bubble emerged to Wu Tian’s right.

It burst instantly right in front of Wu Tian!

Then, faint ripples spread in all directions.

”It seems there’s also a problem here...”

Wu Tian hadn’t finished speaking.

Gurgle!

Gurgle... gurgle gurgle!

As if a large group of creatures underwater had all awakened due to Wu Tian’s arrival, dense bubbles simultaneously emerged from all directions around Wu Tian.

In an instant!

The calm water surface suddenly boiled!

”It’s over...”

Wu Tian swallowed.

”It seems I’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest. All these ghostly things have woken up!”

”No time to explore, I’d better go straight to the second floor...”

Whoosh!

As Wu Tian was speaking, a palm-sized red strange fish leaped out of the water and quickly pounced towards Wu Tian’s face!

”Holy crap!”

Wu Tian’s mouth twitched.

In the nick of time, he swung the hammer in his right hand and accurately struck the fish’s skull!

Crack!

A crisp sound echoed in the air!

The strange fish’s head instantly exploded, turning into a bloody mist in the air, and its limp body fell back into the water!

Splash!

When the crimson blood diffused in the water.

The water surface rapidly boiled!

Countless red strange fish wagged their tails and swam towards their companion’s corpse!

In just one second.

The strange fish’s corpse was completely devoured!

Not even bone fragments remained.

”These things...”

Wu Tian took advantage of these strange fish feeding to finally understand what these strange fish were.

”They’re a bit like the piranhas I encountered in that small stream before!”

”Only...”

Wu Tian shone his flashlight on one of the piranhas.

”These fish have a deeper red color and sharper teeth!”

”And judging by their ferocity, even eating their own kind...”

Wu Tian’s expression was a bit grim.

”These piranhas have most likely turned their own kind into food in this enclosed environment!”

...”Hiss...”

”Piranhas that eat their own kind, aren’t they too fierce?”

”When the Host shone his flashlight just now, I saw it very clearly. The teeth of these fish are comparable to dog teeth. Who could stand a bite from them?”

”Host, run quickly!”

”With so many piranhas, if the Host gets surrounded, he’ll be in danger?”

”Nonsense!”

”How could fish have such high intelligence?”

”Stop chattering, let the Host leave here quickly!”

...”Too late!”

Wu Tian only glanced at the bullet screen for a moment, and all the piranhas, like an army, surrounded Wu Tian from all directions, leaving a two-meter wide gap in the middle.

Countless piranhas wagged their tails, staring intently at Wu Tian.

The dense sound of water made one’s scalp tingle.

”These things have surrounded me.”

”Sigh...”

”Never mind!”

Wu Tian sighed.

He flexed the wrist of the hand holding the hammer.

”Since I’ve encountered them today, I’ll share a little bit of knowledge with everyone.”

Wu Tian smiled as he walked towards the school of piranhas, hammer in hand.

”When you encounter piranhas in the water...”

Bang!

Wu Tian smashed a fish head with one hammer blow.

”Don’t panic first!”

Bang!

”Because if you don’t panic!”

Bang!

”They won’t rashly bite you!”

Bang!

Bang bang bang bang... Wu Tian raised the blood-stained hammer in his hand and grinned at the camera, showing a smile.

”See?”

”I didn’t lie to you, did I?”

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