Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 209 Security Room
Victoria and Ke Lan rushed out of the factory one after another, but the radioactive monsters chased them all the way out and had no intention of letting them go.
"I've run out of bullets!" Ke Lan threw away the gun in his hand, pulled out a hunting knife, and held it in his palm.
"I still have five shots." Victoria said, and shot and killed a radioactive monster that rushed to her, "Four shots!"
As he was talking, Ke Lan felt something sticky coming out of his nostrils. He raised his hand to wipe it, and immediately the back of his hand was covered with sticky nose blood. The radiation emitted by these monsters had caused serious damage to his body...
Not only him, even Victoria, who was not very afraid of radiation, had her prosthesis' movements somewhat deformed. Radiation not only affects biological organisms, it also corrodes the precision circuits in high-tech equipment.
"We have to retreat back to the entrance of the park first. There are guns and protective clothing in the security room, and the bodies of the rebels are also carrying weapons!" Ke Lan shouted to Victoria while running as fast as she could.
"I...hiss...I know...hiss..." Due to radiation erosion, a lot of electrical noise began to emerge from Victoria's voice-generating device, but at least it was not completely scrapped.
"The radiation produced by these monsters gathered together is too strong--" Ke Lan said while covering his nostrils with his hands. The blood that seeped out from under the nasal mucosa was constantly overflowing, leaking out from between his fingers and dripping onto his lapels.
His legs felt like they were filled with lead. Every step he took required all his strength. His internal organs were twitching involuntarily, and the pain was so severe that he couldn't even straighten his back.
The Geiger counter in his pocket was beeping wildly, and the single-segment warning sound was almost continuous. Ke Lan knew without even looking that the number displayed on the screen must be a very scary number... If he could make it back alive this time, he would probably have to stay in the medical cabin for another ten days or half a month.
"...hiss...these radiation monsters...hiss...have radioactive minerals implanted in their bodies...hiss...I saw them...in a...hiss...corpse with its chest opened..." Victoria said intermittently.
“No wonder the radiation is so strong… The Arasaka Group’s goal should be to continuously promote the further mutation of these monsters… But for us, each monster is almost equivalent to a dirty bomb… These beasts… cough cough…”
As Ke Lan was talking, he choked out another mouthful of blood, in which were faintly some fragments of respiratory mucosa...
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"We're here!" Ke Lan stumbled into the security room first, and Victoria, who was in charge of covering their retreat, threw the empty gun at the chasing monster, then pushed hard and closed the heavy explosion-proof door.
The structure of this security room was quite solid. At least the monsters couldn't break into it for a while. With a sigh of relief, Ke Lan sat down on the ground, took out a water bottle from his backpack, and drank from it in big gulps.
"It's been so long since Major Ashkani fired the flare, and the reinforcements outside haven't come in yet... They must have been blocked by the heretical sects." Ke Lan put the empty kettle aside, wiped the corner of his mouth and said.
"Hiss... don't... hiss... put your hope... hiss... on reinforcements." Victoria said as she used her iron fist to break open the safe embedded in the wall, threw the medical box and protective clothing in the cabinet to Ke Lan, and then took off a "Riot Suppressor" shotgun hanging next to it.
"That's true... But what I mean is that there might be more than one monster like Arasaka Yui." Ke Lan reached out and pulled the medical box over, and directly pried open the lid with a dagger. "This kind of monster is really hard for the garrison troops to deal with without heavy weapons."
Their reconnaissance team was a top-notch team, consisting of veteran agents from the Security Bureau and elite non-commissioned officers from the garrison, plus a character with extraordinary combat power like Victoria. But even so, they were almost wiped out at the hands ... To be precise, if Ke Lan hadn't used the "Holy Word" to launch a weird "inter-dimensional strike", they would have been wiped out.
"This is not...hiss...something we need to worry about..." Victoria also put on a protective suit. Even a cyborg body cannot operate for a long time in a strong radiation environment like that, unless all the electronic chips in the body can be replaced with the crystal structure used by the Alpha civilization.
"But now I think there's something in Arasaka Yui's words that doesn't make sense... She lied." Ke Lan mixed "Radio-Away Ning", diuretics, potassium chloride solution and saline in a ratio of 1:1:1:9, and then injected it into the body intravenously.
"?" Victoria turned her head and looked at Ke Lan with a puzzled look.
"She said... a great ritual of the heretic sect has been completed, and we have already lost... But if we have already lost, if that ritual has been completed, then why did the heretic sect allocate so much strength to stop the troops from entering the East 9th District?"
"What exactly does the Great Ritual...refer to? ...hiss..."
"She didn't say... but I think it has something to do with their great god. Oh, by the way, this bitch also mentioned the 'holy object bestowed by the gods'. I think it should be referring to the thing that Manstein took out of Leviathan and hid in his body." Ke Lan's face suddenly changed slightly as he spoke, "Can you turn your head?"
"What's wrong?"
"The diuretic I just injected has taken effect... Are you going to watch me pee?" Ke Lan held the empty water bottle in one hand and placed the other hand on the zipper of his pants.
In fact, Ke Lan hadn't said half of what she wanted to say: Although you don't look like a woman at all, at least your identity data should indicate that you are a "female"...
Victoria didn't say anything, but turned her head back expressionlessly. Ke Lan quickly unzipped her pants, pointed her little brother at the mouth of the water bottle, and started "waterproofing".
The principles of oral and injectable radiation-eliminating drugs are basically the same, except that the latter works faster. The active ingredients in the drug will combine with the radioactive particles in the human body to form a precipitate, and then be excreted from the body through urine under the action of diuretics.
Although Radiation Eliminator cannot clear all radiation and has no effect on the damage already caused by radiation, it is still the highest priority rescue method for people who have just been exposed to severe radiation.
The 1.5-liter kettle was soon filled. Ke Lan tightened the bottle cap and threw the kettle directly out of the window. The urine had now become a dangerous source of radiation. Generally speaking, according to the standard operating procedures for radiation sickness treatment, these excretions must be stored in sealed lead containers to prevent secondary contamination.
