48 Hours a Day

Chapter 1134: Changes

The ambulance stopped outside Pripyat’s medical center. The nurses, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately carried the injured into the emergency room and began to treat them.

At this time, the maintenance workers had already parked the bus in the parking lot of the medical center and the players got off the bus. At this time, there were not many patients in the medical center. It looked a little deserted, but everyone knew that it would not be long before the doctors and nurses here would be swamped.

“The clothes we’re wearing now are still from the nuclear power plant. They’re too eye-catching. Moreover, there’s quite a lot of radioactive dust on them. Let’s go and change our clothes first,” the doctor suggested.

No one had any objections.

Therefore, the players quietly bypassed the outpatient building and arrived at the inpatient department at the back. There were two young nurses on duty there. When they saw the players walking in, they were stunned.

One of them stood up and asked, but in the blink of an eye, the group of uninvited guests in front of her restrained her. Her companions were no exception.

Master Kui killed the two people cleanly. After that, the players found two unoccupied rooms. The male and female players were each given one room and the youth in the Zhanfu found the place where the patient gowns were kept.

The players each took a set. Just as they were about to go to the room to change, they were stopped by the doctor. “Wait, I see a bathroom at the end of the corridor. Let’s go take a shower first. Although 80% of the radioactive elements have already accumulated in the granular layer under our skin, it’s still useful to use water to wash them down.”

The two ladies, Coconut and Master Kui went to wash up, followed by the maintenance worker and Mouse. Zhang Heng and the young man in the uniform were in line behind them.

Zhang Heng walked to the sink and took off his clothes and shoes first. Then, he turned on the tap and heard the young man in uniform praise him, “Idol, you have a real good figure. You probably spend a good deal of time working out, right? Or are you some soldier king or special force or something in the real world?”

“What’s a soldier king?” Zhang Heng asked as he splashed water on his arm.

“It’s the kind of soldier king that... When the god of war returns home and sees his daughter living in a doghouse, he orders 100,000 soldiers to go to the battlefield,” the young man said with a sneer. But it didn’t seem to have any effect on Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng turned to look at him and said calmly, “Aren’t you going to take a shower?”

“I’ve already been exposed to radiation, so I don’t care about this half a minute. I’ll shower with the doctor,” the young man said with a wave of his hand.

“Suit yourself.” Zhang Heng washed his hair and back after washing his arms. “Also, stay away from me. I don’t want my skin to be contaminated with radioactive dust again.”

“Okay, no problem.” The young man took half a step back and commended. “As expected of my idol. He’s always so cautious.”

“...”

After the Doctor and the young man had showered and changed, the team of players transformed from nuclear power plant employees to patients in the medical center.

With the help of the fluorescent lights in the ward, everyone noticed the changes in their bodies. Their previously exposed skin had turned red, and according to the doctor, was because their stratum corneum had disintegrated after being exposed to the high-intensity electromagnetic waves, exposing the cells under their skin.

Other than that, a portion of the players also felt a headache and nausea. However, the most serious one was the coconut. Her hand, which had been grazed by the high-energy electromagnetic waves, had actually started to swell up. Moreover, the wound had even split open, any slight movement would cause severe pain. In addition, her lips were also slightly swollen.

The doctor’s expression changed slightly. “Did you touch anything that you shouldn’t have touched before?”

However, when Coconut heard this, she suddenly exploded for no reason. “What’s something that you shouldn’t have touched? Is there anything that you should have touched in that nuclear power plant?” she exploded.

Her sudden anger also confused the players. Among them, the maintenance worker and the young man in the Zhanfu showed a hint of displeasure on their faces. It was clearly not the time to be petty, although they had become closer after experiencing the explosion of the nuclear power plant and escaping together, and they had begun to act like a small team. In the end, they had only known each other for less than an hour, no one would coddle anyone unconditionally.

In the end, it was one of the doctors who came out to comfort the others. “It’s okay. This is not her intention. She should be suffering from radiation induced mania in the nervous system now. Such an illness only appears extremely severe in the beginning.”

“What happens after that?” The dissatisfaction in the maintenance worker’s eyes disappeared when he heard that it was the illness.

“After that, it will turn into a deep depression. It’s fine. We’ll get some anti-depressants later,” the doctor said and looked at Coconut. “How’s your hand?”

“What do you think? I feel f*cked right now. It’s like someone is constantly slicing through my palm with a knife,” Coconut said. “And my mouth is swollen. I want to cut it with a knife.”

“When you fell at the nuclear power plant, you probably encountered some powerful radiation. That’s why your hand became like this.” The doctor took gauze from the nurses’ station and wrapped two layers around Coconut’s injured hand. “After that, when you vomited, you covered your mouth with your hand, so your mouth was also exposed to a high dose of radiation.”

The other players’ expressions froze when they heard this. They had thought that the radiation they had suffered from being so close to the core of the reactor was already very high. They had not expected that there would be such a dangerous thing in the nuclear power plant.

“Let’s find a wide-range radiation measuring instrument to test it. This kind of instrument can measure the nature and degree of radiation inside and outside.” The doctor paused for a moment before adding, “In the future, it would be best if we all take a test together. At the very least, we can know how much radiation we have been exposed to.”

After that, everyone left the ward and went to the outpatient building. What the players did not expect was that they could not find the kind of measuring instrument that the doctor had mentioned even though they had searched several places to place the instruments, at this moment, more and more injured people were sent to the hospital. Among them, there were quite a number of people who had suffered from severe radiation.

The Doctor suggested that the hospital check their radiation dose, but it turned out that the hospital only used a relatively simple measuring instrument to perform a simple radiation test on the incoming patients, after confirming that they were all radioactive, the Doctor gave them a bath, changed their clothes, and injected them intravenously.

The doctor was also surprised. “That’s it?”

“Why? Is there something wrong with their methods?” Zhang Heng asked.

“There are still a lot of problems. The medical equipment that I mentioned before is not particularly advanced, so it should be available in this era. Furthermore, this hospital provides medical services to nuclear power plants. At the very least, you should know how much radiation your patients have absorbed. In addition, the number of patients that have been sent here has also increased. Logically, the hospital should be classifying the patients according to the progress of acute radiation syndrome. However, all the patients that I’ve seen have been mixed together, and the medical staff’s protective gear is not in place.”