booktalesy Chapter 276 The Strange Checkpoint
Chapter 276 The Strange Checkpoint
After driving for about ten more minutes, Lin Fan encountered a temporary checkpoint ahead.
Two military vehicles were blocking the middle of the road.
There were sandbags, barricades, and a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod nearby.
But there wasn't a single living creature in sight either.
Lin Fan parked the Hummer twenty meters away and turned off the high beams.
The entire checkpoint was eerily silent, but the warning lights were still flashing.
The red light flashed on and off.
The sandbags looked like a row of squatting people in the sunlight.
Lin Fan got out of the car, walked over, and examined it carefully.
There are spent shell casings on the ground.
a lot of.
There was blood behind the sandbag, but no body.
The military vehicle door opened.
The radio inside was still lit.
As soon as he got close, a voice came through the radio.
"Patrol Team Number Three, report the situation."
"Patrol Team Number Three, please respond."
Lin Fan picked up the communicator.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "They probably can't answer that."
There was a three-second silence on the other end.
"Who are you?"
"Kind-hearted passersby".
The other side fell silent again.
It's probably digesting this outrageous identity.
"Are you at the checkpoint?"
"right."
"Are there any survivors left there?"
"I haven't seen it yet."
"Leave immediately. Do not head towards the nuclear power plant."
"reason."
"It's out of control there."
"How out of control?"
The other person's breathing noticeably quickened.
"You're not a military personnel?"
"no."
"Then you don't have the authority to know."
Lin Fan smiled.
"Friend, things are like this now, do you think permissions are still useful?"
There was no response from the other side.
After a few seconds, he lowered his voice.
"I am Major Miller, commander of the perimeter emergency response team at the Kalowe Nuclear Power Plant."
"We originally had 187 people."
"There are only twelve left now."
Lin Fan paused for a moment.
"Dried from an infected organism?"
Not entirely.
"What do you mean by 'not entirely'?"
After listening, Miller hesitated for a moment and said:
"After the cooling system failed, abnormal radiation and electromagnetic pulses appeared near the reactor. At first, we thought it was an equipment malfunction."
"Later, some staff members went missing."
"Later, the missing people began to call for help via radio."
"We'll send people in to look for them."
"Then they started calling for help too."
Lin Fan looked into the distance.
The night was pitch black at the end, but then, a blue and white light flashed in the far distance ahead.
Lin Fan looked at the distance, which had once again returned to darkness, and asked in confusion:
"Are all the people who went in dead?"
"No."
Major Miller's voice was somewhat dry.
"Some have returned."
Lin Fan raised an eyebrow: "And then?"
They said they were fine.
"The physical examination was normal."
"But hours later, their bodies split open."
Something crawled out of there.
The car radio was humming.
Lin Fan did not interrupt.
Major Miller continued, "That thing isn't an ordinary infected."
"It is not spread by biting people."
Lin Fan frowned: "Then what do we rely on?"
"We don't know. It could be parasitic spores, or it could be nerve interference. They could lure people into the interior of a nuclear power plant."
"None of those who went in came back unscathed."
Lin Fan looked down at the communicator in his hand.
"So that little girl crying just now? Was it bait?"
Miller said, sounding somewhat distraught, "I don't know."
Lin Fan suddenly remembered the warning the woman had given him on the radio earlier.
This is actually becoming a ghost story?
Thinking of this, he asked the other party:
Where are you now?
"Shelter No. 2"
How far is it from the nuclear power plant?
"Six kilometers."
"How much ammunition do we have left?"
"Enough to last one night."
"food?"
"Enough for two days."
Lin Fan nodded: "Okay, wait."
Major Miller immediately asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Let's go in and take a look."
"Are you crazy?"
"Many people have said this."
"Listen, whoever you are, going in alone is suicide. We've already requested assistance from Cheyenne Mountain, but there's been no response. Unless we have heavily armed troops and a specialized nuclear engineering team, otherwise—"
"Xia Yanshan is busy moving right now, he probably doesn't have time to deal with you."
Lin Fan said.
Major Miller was taken aback.
How do you know Cheyenne Mountain?
"I just spoke with them."
"Who exactly are you?"
Lin Fan walked to the front of the checkpoint and looked into the darkness behind the roadblock.
Raccoon City, Lin Fan.
There was complete silence on the other end of the radio.
A few seconds later, Major Miller's voice changed.
"You're the one who built the Raccoon City safe zone?"
"almost."
Are you alone?
"right."
"Where is your support?"
"Eat at home."
Major Miller: "..."
That sounds like something a lunatic would say.
But if the other party really is Lin Fan, then it's a different story.
The existence of Raccoon City has been repeatedly mentioned by the remaining military channels.
Some people say there are high walls there.
Some people say there is a stable power supply there.
Some people say there is a Chinese man there who can tear apart infected giant beasts with his bare hands.
Major Miller didn't believe it before.
Now he's starting to believe it.
Because a normal person wouldn't say they want to go in and take a look at a situation like this.
Lin Fan took the checkpoint map and found several grenades and two gas masks in the military vehicle.
Gas masks may not be effective.
But it's not a bad deal to keep it.
It's a zero-yuan purchase.
Why not take it if it's free?
After doing all this, he contacted Miller again.
"Major Miller."
"I am here."
"Do you have internal structural diagrams of the nuclear power plant in your bunker?"
"have."
Send me a copy.
"We don't have internet."
"Then read it."
Major Miller took a deep breath.
"The main entrance is sealed off. The maintenance access road on the east side leads to the No. 1 turbine hall, but the radiation levels there are too high. The cooling tower area is inaccessible; any drones that enter there will lose contact."
"The control room is on the second basement floor of the administration building."
"If anyone is still alive, they're most likely there."
Lin Fan noted down the route.
"Where's the reactor?"
"Reactor 2 temperature is still rising. Automatic shutdown procedure failed. Backup diesel generator damaged. Cooling water pumps stopped."
"How long until something happens?"
"Based on the latest data, a maximum of fourteen hours."
Fourteen hours.
Lin Fan glanced at the horizon.
In other words, not long after dawn, this place could turn into a giant firework.
Raccoon City is less than 300 kilometers away from here.
It's really blown up; this is a huge problem.
Lin Fan got into the car and started the Hummer.
Major Miller was still speaking on the radio.
"Mr. Lin Fan, if you insist on entering, please at least come to Bunker Number Two first. We can provide protective suits and iodine tablets."
"Will the protective suit block that thing inside?"
"cannot."
"Never mind then."
Lin Fan shifted into gear.
"Keep the iodine tablets for yourselves."
"etc!"
Major Miller said urgently, "There's one more thing."
"explain."
"We received a signal from the control room half an hour ago."
"There's a woman still alive inside."
She said she had manually shut off some of the valves, but the main cooling circuit was blocked by some kind of biological tissue.
Lin Fan raised an eyebrow.
"Biological tissue?"
"Yes. Her last words were—"
However, before he could finish speaking, the radio suddenly emitted a piercing static.
Lin Fan reached out and pressed the earphone.
But just then, another voice broke in amidst the noise.
It was a gentle woman's voice.
Very close.
very clear.
"Lin Fan".
"You've finally arrived."