Chapter 579 "Desert!"
The day after the disinfection operation was completed.
An off-road vehicle approached the town of Danina silently.
Suddenly, the car stopped and the tires seemed to sink into the sand.
"Hmm? Are we there yet ?"
The driver was a middle-aged white man with pockmarks all over his face, and the passenger seat was a blond young man with pockmarks also all over his face.
When they opened the car door, they found that the asphalt road beneath their feet had disappeared and turned into a black-gray sandy material.
The young man squatted down and scooped up a handful of black-gray sand: "The asphalt road has been completely destroyed. It's terrible."
The middle-aged man wearing a cowboy hat carried an assault rifle and a backpack: "We should enter the disinfection area, put on the gas mask."
He casually caught the gas mask and put it on his face, and the young man also took out the gun and backpack from the car.
Then the two of them worked together to back the SUV out, parked it in a small woods beside the road, and pulled out a snow camouflage cloth to cover the car.
"Let's go!"
Along the road, they approached the town of Danina cautiously.
The road was almost completely devastated, but since it hadn't snowed in the past few days, the traces of the disinfection operation were not buried by ice and snow .
Sandy asphalt road.
Crooked trees.
The snow completely melted.
At first, the two encountered fallen fir trees on the road and tried to avoid them because some of the trees had not been completely turned to sand.
But as they went deeper, they found that the trees would basically rot at the slightest touch, just like wooden products that had been corroded for decades, and would fall apart at the slightest touch.
Suddenly, the two stopped, because the highway bridge in front of them had changed beyond recognition. Part of the asphalt road surface had turned into sand, and part of the cement structure had exposed the steel bars inside.
The young man gasped: "How terrifying!"
"Let's go to the river." The middle-aged man walked towards the small river on the side.
Although the ice in the river melted due to yesterday's disinfection operation, the local temperature is basically between minus 5 and 12 degrees Celsius. After a night of freezing, the river has basically frozen again.
Moreover, this small river is in dry season in winter, so there is not much water in the river. The two found a shallow beach and crossed the river by stepping on the stones.
Half an hour later, they arrived at the road about 1.4 kilometers away from the town of Danina, and could see the situation inside the town through the telescope.
However, based on the situations along the way, the two already had an idea of the situation in the town.
Even the concrete and rocks were "corroded" to pieces, not to mention the people in the center.
"Is there anyone here?!" The middle-aged man quickly pulled the young man down. The snow camouflage uniforms on their bodies made them blend into the ground.
Through a telescope .
They saw a dozen armed men with guns walking inside the town.
At this time in the town of Danina.
An armed force under the bald man was worried that something might have happened because they had not contacted the bald man for a day and a night, so they sent a reconnaissance team to Danina Town to check the situation today.
In fact, as soon as the reconnaissance team entered the 5-kilometer radius, they felt something was wrong.
The team leader looked at the completely collapsed villa and the "corpse" on the ground. The blood had completely drained from his face, leaving only endless fear.
Not only did the wood of the villa rot at the slightest touch, but the corpses also died in extremely horrific ways.
Because only the skeleton and a layer of skin were left of the body, and there was some frozen unknown blood around the body.
This is because when the human body is exposed to large doses of gamma rays for a long time, the cells in the body completely collapse, causing the muscles and organs to dissolve. In addition, some of the water molecules are decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and in the end only a brittle skeleton and skin are left.
Faced with this kind of death, the rebel militia who had no relevant experience were stunned.
One of the detectives was so frightened that he shouted like crazy: "NO, I want to go home! God! Please forgive me!"
"Barry! Calm down!" The captain immediately grabbed the other party's hands to prevent him from getting the gun.
The others were horrified but not crazy.
The team leader tied Barry's hands first, then yelled to the others, "Don't dawdle, go take pictures."
The trembling investigators quickly took pictures of the surrounding buildings and corpses.
The team leader personally inspected the vehicles, towed artillery, guns, ammunition, etc.
He picked up a Remington shotgun and found that the plastic parts inside were completely rotten, and the special shotgun shells were also scrapped, after all, the shotgun shells were made of plastic.
Picking up an M16 assault rifle, he found that the old-fashioned assault rifle was fine because there were not too many plastic parts, and the loading and safety functions could be enabled.
But instead of firing, the squad leader tied the assault rifle to the frame of the armored vehicle and tied a rope to the trigger.
He didn't dare to pull the trigger and shoot directly, mainly because he was afraid of the rifle exploding. After all, everything around it was completely rotten, and he couldn't be sure whether the rifle was aging.
A dozen meters away, he hid behind a pickup truck and pulled the rope.
"Hmm? No fire?"
He pulled the trigger again, but it still didn't fire. He ran over, took out the bullets from the rifle, and looked through them carefully. He estimated that these bullets were also scrapped.
He pushed a bullet out of the magazine he carried with him and loaded it into the assault rifle.
Pull the rope again.
Bang!
This time it fired successfully.
But the captain didn't look happy at all, because he saw the assault rifle exploded: "Damn it! The rifle is too old!"
After taking the photos, he no longer had any hope for towed artillery and mortars.
Even though there may not be any damage on the surface of metal weapons, the crystal lattice of the metal parts has actually been irreversibly damaged and the structural strength has dropped drastically. These weapons will definitely explode as soon as they are used.
The team leader and a group of investigators investigated here for more than an hour. In the end, they did not find anything useful, so they hurriedly drove away in a pickup truck.
Watching the rebel reconnaissance team march away.
The two intelligence agents belonging to the Council also quickly appeared in the town.
Looking at the collapsed villa, the emaciated corpses on the ground, and the exploded rifle, the two of them checked it out in silence.
"He's dead."
"Yes! It's really clean!"
Although they appeared calm on the surface, their slightly trembling feet betrayed their inner unrest.
"Let's go! Let's go to that base and confirm the situation."
More than twenty minutes later.
At the gate of the base in the forest, two figures appeared silently.
The originally sturdy iron gate was completely split open after a few hits with the hand axe.
As soon as the door was opened, an indescribable gas came out.
This is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Since the internal space of the base is relatively closed, the oxygen and hydrogen after the decomposition of organisms and water bodies cannot be discharged in time.
The two did not go in immediately, but waited for half an hour before carefully walking into the base.
Once inside, all the facilities showed varying degrees of aging and decay.
When they thought about the fact that there was more than ten meters of soil and rocks on the base, which still couldn't block the gamma rays from Homo Sapiens, they became more and more awed by the company.
The people in the base were also skin and bones, but due to the high temperature, there was a lot of water surrounding the corpses, which emitted an indescribable stench.
They came to the freezer where biological products were stored and found that it had been completely destroyed, with not even a single bacterium surviving.
