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

The sudden catastrophic event terrified Shunsuke Nishiura, who then took out his phone book and dialed the number of a taxi company that was still operating late at night.

The cost of calling a taxi at night is exorbitant, but at this point he doesn't care about anything else.

He didn't know exactly how dangerous the ruins were, but Nishiura Shunsuke knew that the thing could make the eastern sky glow like the aurora borealis, so he couldn't let his guard down.

Put work aside for now, just try to stay away from it as much as possible to minimize the influence of the substance behind that glittering light...

"Wide-area low-radiation ELID..."

He looked at his phone while anxiously waiting for the night taxi sent by the taxi company.

"Low concentration of collapse fluid... Oh, I see. If it explodes, then..."

Discussions on Twitter are growing, with some people posting photos taken after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, showing a plume of smoke rising in the center of the image surrounded by a faint blue glow.

Shunsuke Nishiura remembered another equally important matter: the nuclear power plant facilities in Okuma Town, Futaba District, which were under the jurisdiction of Fukushima City, had been damaged by the earthquake and tsunami not long ago and had been completely lost.

If the impact of the Nobuoyama ruins is widespread enough, then the emergency repair work on the nuclear power plant will be completely over.

Nishiura Shunsuke was initially hesitant, wondering if such a hasty and reckless move was an overreaction.

But as more and more information appeared online, his resolve grew stronger.

"Beep beep—"

The taxi has arrived.

The driver then offered an excuse for his lateness: "Sorry, I was a little delayed."

"nothing."

Shunsuke Nishiura sat in the passenger seat, counted out five Fukuzawa Yukichi bills from his wallet, slapped them on the dashboard, and said in a deep voice:

"This is one-third of your personal service fee, taxi fare is separate. I need you to follow my instructions from tonight until 7 a.m., deal?"

The driver quickly took the money, stroking Fukuzawa Yukichi's hand with his thumb, and then picked up each bill to check it against his own.

"Deal made. We'll serve you until 7 a.m. Where are you headed, sir?"

"Go to this address first."

Shunsuke Nishiura directed the driver to drive around Kyoto, buying essential supplies and withdrawing cash from ATMs at 24-hour convenience stores.

He wanted to clear his credit limit and convert the money into necessities for his upcoming trip; he even bought a camping tent.

The driver found Nishiura Shunsuke's shopping spree strange, but didn't think much of it; he figured the customer would just pay in the end anyway.

There aren't many lucky people like Shunsuke Nishiura and his family who managed to board a flight and arrive safely in Okinawa with a large amount of supplies.

By the time most people see the news, they have already missed the best window of opportunity to escape.

Although the airport is not closed, no new passenger planes are landing.

The collapse radiation cloud gradually spread and began to affect GPS navigation signals in the Kanto region.

Narita International Airport announced a halt to operations around 9:00 AM, resulting in tens of thousands of passengers being stranded; Haneda International Airport held on for a little longer, announcing its closure at 10:05 AM, leaving more than 20,000 people stranded at the airport.

New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido fared slightly better, continuing to operate despite severe radiation interference from the collapse, until all flights had taken off before announcing the cessation of airport operations.

Those who missed their flights fled in panic, heading south and north to any port they knew that was nearby.

Ports, even those frequented by fishermen, were teeming with refugees. The shores were packed with people, and frantic crowds surged toward the sea.

Hundreds

Thousands of people wanted to swim to the fishing boat, but the sea was full of reckless, overconfident water ghosts.

Some greedy individuals maneuvered small boats, weaving back and forth among the swimmers. They said, "Hand over all your belongings, and we'll take you aboard."

In situations like this, money is probably still useful.

Perhaps it's not just money, but also food, or anything of value to a shipowner looking to make a fortune.

Book 1: The World Before the Great War: Chapter 140 A Long Day

Raphael received the first spy photos taken by the Keyhole satellite.

Centered on the ruins of Mount Nobuo in Fukushima City, everything within a 30-kilometer radius was completely destroyed, with a rough estimate of the explosive yield being approximately 2-4 million tons.

In addition to Fukushima City, the towns of Kuwazori, Kunimi, and Date in the north, Kawamata and Iitate in the mountainous region to the east, and Nihonmatsu and Honmiya in the south were all affected by the explosion. It is no exaggeration to describe these places as "razed to the ground".

Even more deadly, the explosion not only blew Mount Nobuo into the sky, but also sprayed highly concentrated collapse fluid into the air.

Conservative estimates suggest that 200 million people died directly from the explosion.

Roughly estimated, about 4000 million people died within an hour of the explosion due to the high concentration of collapse fluid.

By 9:30 a.m., spontaneous evacuation work had begun in the Kansai region, where the radiation intensity from the collapse had not yet reached a level that would be directly fatal.

However, government agencies and volunteers involved in the evacuation efforts, along with a large number of ordinary people who were unable to evacuate in time, were unable to escape from the secondary contaminated areas.

Within an hour of the explosion, all members of the royal family were confirmed dead, and the Japanese government was in a similar state, with all members dying in their sleep.

At 13:42 p.m., the Keyhole satellite captured a new high-intensity flash, and the image taken by its high-resolution lens was full of noise.

The flash originated from the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma Town, Futaba District, followed by an extremely terrifying fireball with an estimated yield of 100-200 million tons.

This was not a real nuclear explosion, but its harmfulness was no less than that caused by the ascension of the Nobuoyama ruins.

The melted reactor core turned into terrifyingly hot magma, which first burned through the pressure vessel, then melted the underlying concrete protective layer, and finally came into contact with abundant underground seawater.

These underground seawaters immediately overheated and evaporated, ultimately triggering a severe thermal explosion.

All 880 tons of radioactive material in the reactor core were ejected by the explosion and scattered by the massive impact. Most of it will fall into the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of ​​Japan, while a small portion of the highly radioactive material will fly to Tokyo and Mori.

Unlike nuclear weapons, the explosion of the ruins does not trigger a high-energy electromagnetic pulse like that of a nuclear weapon because the irregular electric fields interfere with each other during the diffusion of the high-energy collapsing liquid.

Raphael managed to snatch a working broadcast van amidst the chaos.

Of course, the owner of the satellite broadcasting van put up a fierce resistance. He charged at the van unarmed, completely unafraid of the HK416 assault rifle that Raphael was holding in his arms.

Perhaps in the car owner's eyes, this is just a toy that a child took out of the store in the chaos. It's fine to scare children, but it's completely useless to scare mature adults.

But things took an unexpected turn; Raphael pulled the trigger, and an M855A1 bullet tore through his chest cavity.

The man stared in horror at the girl in loose casual clothes, who lay on the ground, dying in agony.

She then slightly adjusted the angle of the vehicle-mounted receiving antenna and quickly logged into the U.S. Navy's satellite network.

This method enabled a more stable signal connection with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which then delivered a large amount of real-time satellite data without any unnecessary chatter.

Large amounts of collapse fluid are returning to the ground from the stratosphere, and the region north of Nagoya, including Hokkaido, will experience an extremely deadly collapse radiation rain.

These places will become no-man's land, and even those who have received the ELID vaccine and anti-radiation drugs will not survive.

At 16:30 PM, death arrived. The collapse fluid had already spilled over the area, and in a few hours, only ELID-infected individuals would remain, with no normal life left.

These places will probably remain uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years.

This is completely different from the situation in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

At 17:11 p.m., Raphael received a message from the CIA that their observers in Nagoya had detected a rapid increase in ELID radiation levels in the city.

These observers only lasted 20 minutes before choosing to evacuate south.

The situation in Kyoto and Osaka is not much better; the radiation levels from the collapse are slowly rising, and panicked citizens are taking to the streets to loot food and water.

The situation became so chaotic that Kyoto Prefecture was forced to declare a curfew, and at the same time, they began to carry out self-rescue efforts.

The evacuation will be carried out in phases and zones, with personnel being dispersed using trams and gasoline-powered vehicles.

At this time, only a few people in the world who knew about the Shinobuyama ruins realized that hundreds of lattices storing the collapse fluid in the ruins might have been activated during the explosion.

Those self-propelled transport and storage systems were ejected from the atmosphere during the explosion and later crashed thousands of kilometers away in Central Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

During this time, Asuka managed to collect the police reports from the middle school students who had broken into the ruins and the search and rescue records from the joint search and rescue team.

However, this information cannot effectively explain why the collapsed liquid crystal lattice, which was stored in a thick layer of heavy armor sealing, would explode violently.

Current academic understanding of the collapse fluid and the remains indicates that only by placing the collapse fluid in a laser ignition system could it absorb enough energy to trigger a chain reaction, ultimately leading to an explosion.

Asuka did not believe that the middle school students or the joint search and rescue team composed of the site management office staff and the Fukushima City Police Department had the ability or even the equipment to do this.

Because there is too little information, it is impossible to conduct any simulations or deductions based solely on this information.

The question of "why it exploded" will likely remain unanswered in the future, and no one will be able to provide a precise and convincing answer.

Late at night, Raphael's phone lit up. She picked it up and glanced at it; it was a message from Line.

Surprisingly, someone in the band believed her warning issued late last night, and the senior student who plays the flute and her parents arrived safely in Okinawa.

At this moment, she sent a message back asking where Fushimi Raphael was, hoping to meet him in Okinawa.

This lucky senior student assumed that Raphael, who issued the warning, had already arrived at the Okinawa safety zone.

Raphael replied with an XD emoji and then logged out of Line.

As for the others, most of them are still trapped in Kyoto, waiting to be evacuated.

All she could say was that they would meet again when fate brought them together.

Raphael turned off his phone and continued to use the broadcast vehicle's satellite antenna to receive images from several keyhole satellites overhead.

The situation seems to be getting worse.

The camera on the Keyhole satellite was magnified several times under her remote control, finally allowing her to see what the dense spots on a street in Tokyo were.

—Those spots are all corpses.

The Tokyo metropolitan area is completely finished, littered with corpses.

"Boom boom boom——"

"Who's outside?" Raphael called out.

"It is I, Asuka."

Oh, right away.

"Open the door."

She put down her pistol, opened the back door, and let Fei Niao crawl in.

"What's the situation with the ruins at Nobuoyama?" Asuka asked.

"Take a look for yourself. The photos taken by the 24 keyhole satellites above are all here."

"The Japanese archipelago is completely destroyed, along with Russia's Far East, the Korean Peninsula, and the North and Northeast regions of that country to the west, all of which are within the contamination range of the radiation cloud."