Eh? You want to try the humanoid girl's iron fist too?

Director Harry B. Carnegie was also furious; the things discussed at the Department of Defense's online meeting made him want to smash something.

But he suppressed his anger.

"Listen carefully, the order for Reagan Strike Group to depart comes directly from the President. He has granted the strike group the authority to fire freely, and for certain special reasons, Yokosuka Port will be abandoned."

"why?"

"Because it's already very dangerous there, don't try to cross Tokyo and continue north. That's an order, understand?"

"learn."

Raphael still didn't understand Harry's intention in avoiding the topic, but she now understood that these vague statements were definitely related to the activities of the CIA's Japanese station.

"Where is our emergency evacuation route?"

"The land route is to head south to Kagoshima Airport in Kyushu; if the airport is closed, the next option is to go to southern Kagoshima, which is the southernmost cape of the Satsuma Peninsula, to wait for evacuation helicopters from Naha Air Base, which is the most extreme scenario."

"Received. It seems you're tacitly accepting that areas outside of Kyushu Island could potentially become ruins."

"is it?"

Raphael hung up the phone, thinking to himself how heartless humans were. Disaster was already imminent, yet they only cared about their immediate interests and ignored everything else.

She thought to herself, "I should just kill them all."

Volume 1: The World Before the Great War: Chapter 137 Man-Made Disaster

The combined impact of the earthquake and the tsunami paralyzed infrastructure and industry in the northeastern coastal region, leaving approximately 20,000 people dead or missing.

At 15:36 that afternoon, a hydrogen explosion occurred in the No. 1 unit building;

Two days later, at 11:01 AM, hydrogen explosions occurred in Units 3 and 4...

The explosion caused further damage to the power plant, directly making the situation for the operators even more severe and dangerous.

Their inconsistent and opportunistic rescue efforts failed to save any of the generator units.

Due to the failure of the pressure vessel, a large amount of radioactive gas rose into the atmosphere and began to spread throughout the world along with the monsoon cycle.

The shockwaves from the nuclear accident in Okuma Town, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture had not yet subsided when equally explosive news quietly spread throughout the streets and alleys.

Students from Fukushima Municipal High School have gone missing.

Surveillance footage shows that they managed to climb over the barbed wire fence erected by the United Nations Office for the Management of Monuments and Sites at the entrance to the Shinobuyama site, and eventually disappeared from the surveillance footage.

After receiving the report, Fukushima City police immediately organized a search team to search all areas outside the Nobuoyama ruins in an attempt to find the missing high school student.

After two days and two nights of searching, the police search and rescue team held a press conference to confirm that students from the municipal high school were missing, and the search results confirmed that they had entered the ruins without permission.

The reporters present were in an uproar.

Reporters found the missing person's family and questioned them about why they didn't take care of their own children and how much trouble their illegal trespassing would cause to others.

Some journalists chose to criticize the Fukushima municipal government's lax attitude towards the management of historical sites, questioning the loopholes in their annual financial expenditures for maintaining the sealing and management of these sites.

Of course, the heritage management office was also harassed by reporters and protesters.

They were also incredibly confused, because

The staff who checked inside found no traces of other human activity.

After three days and two nights of emergency consultations, the Relics Management Office and the Fukushima Municipality reached a cooperation agreement to jointly dispatch staff to form a search and rescue team within the relics site.

By the time the search and rescue team passed through the main entrance to the Nobuoyama ruins, seven days had passed since the high school student went missing.

Yesterday we could not remain indifferent to all of this, and today we cannot avoid the thorny decisions regarding these so-called trivial matters, which ultimately led to the search and rescue operation within the ruins.

As news updates continue, people are gradually learning the truth about the abandonment and sealing of the Nobuoyama ruins more than 20 years ago through live news broadcasts and online channels.

The search and rescue team, wearing AA-03D heavy-duty protective suits, found no trace of the high school students' activities, but instead encountered a severely infected ELID patient.

At first, there were intermittent distress signals coming from inside, but unfortunately, the command post stationed at the entrance soon lost contact with them.

Subsequently, a second search and rescue team of four people volunteered and set off with semi-automatic weapons equipped with full-power ammunition provided by the Ground Self-Defense Force.

At the same time this news was broadcast, WikiLeaks released a highly confidential document from the Monuments Management Authority, with a timestamp of April 2028.

The document explicitly states that the widespread low-radiation infection outbreak in downtown Fukushima in April 2028 originated from the ruins of Mount Nobuo.

Due to the city's inadequate supervision, ELID has led to a large number of serious criminal cases, prompting the intervention of a special police department dedicated to dealing with ruins and ELID.

The investigation revealed that the incident was caused by an accident during urban construction that breached the outer isolation layer of the ruins, causing a stream of collapsing particles to erupt from underground onto the surface.

This explains the actions of the United Nations Office for the Management of Monuments and Sites in Japan in the latter half of 28, which indirectly shows that they were not crazy, but came to help the Japanese deal with this matter.

However, due to various influences from the public and the political sphere, the actions of the heritage management agency have been very slow.

In fact, there have been many similar crises involving historical sites throughout history. As long as they are handled promptly and properly, the severity and scope of the disaster can be controlled.

However, this is Japan, and the Nobuoyama site was discovered relatively late, with research work primarily conducted by foreign scholars. Therefore, the local government lacks experience in handling the ELID incident.

This directly led to Fukushima municipal officials not taking the accident seriously enough, and the incident was not reported to higher authorities. They simply isolated and temporarily evacuated the contaminated area.

Based on the information and assessment report simultaneously transmitted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Raphael quickly grasped the general situation.

The condition inside the Nobuoyama site was actually quite bad. During excavations and research in the last century, it was discovered that a large portion of the space inside the site was used to store collapse fluid.

This suggests that the Shinobuyama ruins were likely a storage warehouse for resources from a previous civilization.

Theoretically, the collapsed fluid stored in these crystal capsules could be restored to its original state using reverse collapse technology.

For this reason, the Shinobuyama site was quickly deemed not worth further study after its excavation in the last century.

The things here are also found in other ruins, and the remaining supporting facilities are even more complete.

After some of the collapse fluid was extracted from this site in the early stages, it was basically determined that it had little value for further research.

Rather than continuing to maintain expensive personal protective equipment and labor costs, it would be better to simply close the Nobuoyama Relics Research Institute.

This is a very worthwhile economic deal; research projects without prospects do not deserve continued funding.

As Raphael understood, the world's major powers still only have a superficial understanding and application of collapse technology, and abandoning and sealing it is the best and most appropriate decision.

"...A fourth explosion occurred at the Futaba County nuclear power plant. TEPCO's crisis management team decided to spray seawater into the reactors..."

"Raphael, something seems to have happened at the Nobuo Mountain ruins."

Lingyin placed her precious laptop on the table and called to the sulking Raphael.

“Look, these are images sent back by the external camera of the AA-03D load-bearing suit. It looks like something has broken down.”

She tapped the screen with her finger; the image was a fleeting, distorted silhouette.

"...Could this be a high school student who wandered in by mistake?"

Raphael glanced at it. "I don't know. A normal person couldn't be twisted into that shape. Anyway, it's a severely ELID infected person. If they run into something like this, they'll definitely die."

She immediately received a call from Director Harry, who briefed her on the recent situation at the Shinobu Mountain site and nuclear facilities, and inquired whether the domestic decision had changed and whether it was "okay" to go.

"No."

The reply was as usual, leaving no room for negotiation.

Raphael tried to threaten her, but Harry seemed to understand the humanoid girl's thoughts and warned her sternly:

"DARPA still has the capability to produce mind cores, and when the production quantity is large enough, it can also obtain complete mind cores."

Using the data you left behind for another round of mental training, we can obtain new artificial intelligence and tactical androids.

"That would take two to three years."

"In cutting-edge research and exploration, time is the least valuable of all costs and expenses. We can afford to wait, and so can the Department of Defense."

"Yes, sir."

Raphael hung up the phone, frowning in dissatisfaction. It seemed she had no choice but to back down.

Uniqueness represents her value, and when that value declines, there is no room for negotiation.

"What should we do?" Lingyin asked.

“Be prepared,” Raphael replied.

Although she was not present at the scene, she was able to deduce the course of the disaster at the Nobuoyama ruins and the Futaba nuclear power plant by gradually analyzing the data...

Sometimes, Raphael wished she had never possessed this ability.

The feeling of standing idly by when disaster strikes is truly awful.

Moreover, the Department of Defense and the Research Agency must have other reasons for requiring them to remain stationary, and it is highly likely that they are undertaking a rendezvous mission.

As for what to receive, that depends on whether fate smiles upon us.

Book 1: The World Before the Great War: Chapter 138 The Length of Life

Things often take a dramatic turn for the worse.

In the middle of the night, Raphael suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness.

The night wind howled, constantly rattling against the room's windows. The reason she woke up was straightforward: she felt a subtle sense of shock.

She turned on the night light, and sure enough, the dim light flickered slightly in her eyes.

Raphael called out to both the birds and the bells, and as he passed the window, he saw the northeastern sky shimmering with brilliant light.

At first, she thought it was a more serious explosion at the nuclear power plant, but the magnificent beam of light rising into the sky was not the usual radiation glow.

The particles produced by the nuclear reaction raise the energy of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air, putting them in an excited state. When the nitrogen and oxygen molecules return to their normal low-energy state, they will radiate a blue glow.

However, this time the death light was not blue. Instead, it appeared in red, yellow, pink, green, blue, and purple from low to high, similar to the aurora reaction produced when solar wind blows to Earth and reacts with oxygen.

“…What beautiful light,” Asuka said, rubbing her eyes. “Did the reactor pressure vessel bloom?”

It's blue.

"Light is enough."

Lingyin came downstairs in her nightgown, gazing at the slender yet dazzling pillar of light in the northeast, and said meaningfully, "This kind of radiance once appeared on the battlefield of Vietnam."

"So now the Vietnamese and Laos are fighting like crazy."

Raphael clapped his hands and said loudly, "Girls, pack your bags and equipment."

"Yes, I heard you."

Lingyin was uninterested; her months of peaceful life had come to an end, and she hadn't had enough.

So, yawning as if she was still half asleep, she slowly walked up the stairs.