Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 207: Radiation Monster Production Line
In the eyes of those damn capitalists, the only thing they can see is their own interests. They don’t care about the natural environment or human safety at all... In the words of a famous scholar in the old era, "capital came into this world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and filth."
In fact, there were many solutions to the wastewater problem at the time, whether it was digging pits for deep burial or electrolytic purification, any one of them was more appropriate than discharging it directly into the ocean... But for those people, there was only one reason why these plans were rejected: the cost was too high.
They don't care what the consequences will be after the ocean is polluted... Anyway, the people who are mutated due to radiation have nothing to do with them. They live in a mansion with complete security measures and have fully armed security guards and guards at the door. Even if those zombies rush out of the radiation zone, they will not pose any threat to them.
While they were promoting to the outside world that there was nothing wrong with the seafood produced on Fudao Island and that the radioactive wastewater could meet drinking standards after purification, they were secretly enjoying food and water that had been airlifted from unpolluted areas and had undergone multiple tests.
Their safes are filled with precious metals, their bank accounts are filled with long strings of numbers, and to them, the lives and deaths of ordinary people are not a matter of concern at all... Anyway, while they still hold power and wealth, these changes will not affect their lives.
At the beginning of the accident, the power company was reluctant to pump seawater into the core for cooling in order to save the reactor worth hundreds of millions of dollars...and when the accident escalated and the reactor was completely scrapped due to the explosion , they withdrew all the staff in order to evade responsibility, leaving only dozens of "temporary workers" without formal staff to put on a show in front of the whole world.
Many of these people were people who owed high-interest loans and were unable to repay them, and had to work hard for this. They had no idea how to repair the exploded reactor... Things were delayed again and again...
Ten years later, the core deep underground was still burning, and large amounts of contaminated cooling water were increasing. However, in order to save land and costs, the power company decided to discharge all the waste water into the sea!
Their response was: “We really have no other options…”
But in fact, in the past ten years, their company not only did not make a loss, but its financial report has been rising year after year - they even used the losses of the nuclear power plant as an excuse to significantly increase the electricity prices for ordinary people's homes in order to pass on the costs...
If these beasts did such things in this day and age, they would have been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity long ago.
Ke Lan walked along the edge of the circular hall, his eyes sweeping over the corpses in each glass tube - these specimens were obviously specially selected by the Arasaka Group, and almost all of them had highly aggressive mutated organs. As for their purpose in doing so, it was self-evident.
"Why do they have samples of zombies from Earth more than a thousand years ago? I remember that when the Ark set sail, every inch of space was precious. How could they bring these things along?" Ke Lan asked Victoria.
"...They found an excuse." Victoria pressed her fingers near her temple - on the side of her brain, there was a microport connected to the large-capacity data storage device embedded in the prosthesis, allowing him to retrieve the required data and information at any time.
"What's the excuse?" Ke Lan continued to ask.
"Study radiation sickness and treatment plans, as well as the evolution and mutation of human genes... After all, what humans wanted to face at that time was the unknown universe, and radiation and mutation were an unavoidable problem in the future, so this proposal was quickly passed... Facts have proved that these specimens have indeed played an important role in the research of radiation sickness. The radiation-eliminating drugs you just took were developed based on these experimental data... Originally, these ghoul samples were stored in the freezer of the institute... Nineteen months ago, the Arasaka Foundation submitted a written application to the institute to borrow samples on the grounds of developing new anti-radiation drugs..."
"There is obviously something wrong with this application..." Ke Lan curled her lips and said with some disdain, "The key development area of the Arasaka Group is not in the field of medicine. Their pharmaceutical companies produce some medical consumables with no technical content, and their market share is pitifully small... Why do they dare to get involved in the most cutting-edge medical research and development field? Besides, these corpse samples have a history of more than a thousand years. If they are really for the research of anti-radiation drugs... There are so many living cases among the retired miners and retired soldiers of the Leviathan field forces. Why don't you study these mummies from the old era? I suggest that your security bureau check the relevant personnel who have approved this application. If there is no problem with these people, I will cut off my tongue for you."
"No need to cut it off. It's true that two senior researchers accepted bribes from the Arasaka Group. They have been dealt with. However, the Arasaka Group's new anti-radiation drug research and development project has been approved, and no problems were found in the follow-up investigation... In addition, these ghoul samples are no longer valuable in the eyes of the authorities, so the matter was left unresolved at the time." Victoria's tone was filled with obvious regret. In fact, she had already sensed something was wrong at that time, but because she was not responsible for the matter, and she had more important tasks at the time, she did not investigate the matter further...
"I now know where the radiation comes from, and what the Arasaka Group wants these corpse samples for... Look here--" Ke Lan has walked to the center of the circular hall and pointed to the ground - the floor here is a huge oval tempered glass. Through this "observation window", you can see that under this hall, there is a huge "underground space".
In this underground space, there were countless chairs made of lead. These chairs were covered in blood-like filth. Some of the lead chairs even had several mutilated corpses tied up with straps in miserable states of death...
These lead chairs were divided into dozens of "partitions" by thick lead plates, and different radiation sources were set up in each partition - some radiation sources were nuclear waste from industrial areas, while others were radioactive minerals brought directly from outside the Ark.
"...What a bunch of inhuman beasts." Ke Lan couldn't help but say.