37: Penetrating the plasma jellyfish swarm! Deep into the reactor ruins

They were originally over a hundred meters high, but now only half remained above the water, the tower bodies covered in huge cracks and black moss.

That was the Hongwan Nuclear Power Plant. Once the crown of human industrial civilization, it had now become the largest tumor in these waters.

"Zzz..."

Jiang Ran noticed that the Bio-active Metal on the outer layer of the black iron ghost seemed to feel discomfort as well.

The originally smooth black surface.

At this moment, it actually rippled with a layer of fine wrinkles, like goosebumps on human skin when encountering strong acid mist.

"The hull is defending itself."

zero explained: "The Biological Armor is secreting anti-radiation grease, but this will accelerate the consumption of biomass.

I suggest a quick resolution."

"Dr. Su, stay in the cockpit and don't move."

Jiang Ran stood up and began to put on that set of black "Abyssal" powered armor.

"The radiation here can penetrate ordinary lead plates, but the inner protection of the black iron should be able to last for a few hours.

Don't leave the hatch."

"You're going out?"

Su Qingyu looked at him worriedly: "Although you've been injected with the Enhancement Serum, the radiation concentration here..."

"Don't worry."

Jiang Ran put on his helmet, and the faceplate dropped, covering those eyes that glowed with a faint blue halo.

As an Abyssal Walker, he could clearly feel those restless radiation particles in the air.

They were a deadly poison to ordinary people, but to him now, they were like a slightly hot heatwave.

There was a bit of stinging, but it made every cell in his body excited.

"I'm going out to scavenge some things."

Jiang Ran flexed his Mechanical Arm, which made a soft sound of hydraulic transmission.

"Since this place is already rotten to the core, I'll dig out the most valuable things. Think of it as waste utilization."

"zero, open the Airlock."

"Let's go see what good stuff is left in that submerged reactor."

"Splash."

Accompanied by a dull sound of entering the water.

Jiang Ran, wearing the black "Abyssal" powered armor, crashed into the dark red seawater like a heavy bomb.

[External Environment Warning]

[Radiation Level: 5.2 Sv/h (Extremely Dangerous)]

[Water Composition: Contains a large amount of heavy metal ions and radioactive isotope Cesium-137.]

The HUD on the faceplate was instantly filled with red warning pop-ups.

If it were an ordinary person, even wearing the thickest lead suit, they would feel nauseous and vomit at this moment because of this terrifying amount of radiation.

But Jiang Ran didn't.

On the contrary, when those radiation particles with a faint electric current sensation penetrated the outermost layer of the armor and touched his enhanced skin.

What he felt was a dry heat similar to drinking strong liquor.

The Abyssal Walker genes in his body were greedily devouring these free energies, converting them into cellular activity.

"Feels... not bad."

Jiang Ran moved his neck, and the miniature jet engines on his back started, pushing him forward through the murky red water.

His target was the reactor building ahead that had half collapsed.

Only there would he find the nuclear fuel assemblies and Zirconium Alloy Pipes he urgently needed.

However, after swimming less than fifty meters, Jiang Ran stopped.

Because the road ahead was "blocked."

In this dead water where no living creature should theoretically be able to survive.

Countless huge clusters of light emitting an eerie faint blue glow were actually floating there.

They were jellyfish.

But they were definitely not ordinary jellyfish.

Each of their bells exceeded three meters in diameter, and they were translucent throughout, allowing a clear view of the purple-red luminous organs inside that pulsed like nuclear reactors.

And below them.

Trailing tentacles over ten meters long, they drifted slowly with the current, occasionally bursting with a dazzling high-voltage arc.

"Zizzt—"

An unlucky Mutant Sea Snake had just swum nearby when it was instantly entangled by several tentacles.

With a flash of blue light, the sea snake didn't even have time to struggle before it was instantly electrocuted to a crisp and sucked into the jellyfish's digestive cavity.

"Radiation Mutant: Plasma Jellyfish."

zero's voice sounded in the helmet: "They've turned this place into a buffet.

Those tentacles can not only discharge electricity but also filter radioactive substances from the water."

"A bunch of roadblocks."

Jiang Ran looked at the dense wall of jellyfish blocking the entrance to the plant, there were about a hundred of them.

The electric field they released formed a natural high-voltage power grid in the water.

"Then I'll help them trim their tentacles."

Jiang Ran did not retreat.

He raised his right arm, and the High-frequency Molecular Vibration Blade instantly popped out, the blade buzzing in the red water, vibrating out a ring of white vacuum bubbles.

"Thrusters, full speed."

Boom!

The blue flames behind him surged, and Jiang Ran, like a black torpedo, rushed directly into this deadly plasma minefield.

"Zizizizi—!!!"

The moment he broke in, over a dozen huge jellyfish nearby seemed to sense a threat.

Countless tentacles carrying high voltage lashed at him like whips, and dense electric arcs instantly enveloped him.

The insulation coating on the surface of the powered armor alarmed frantically, but Jiang Ran acted as if nothing was wrong.

His own enhanced nervous system had extremely high electrical resistance; this bit of current only made him feel a little numb at most.

"Slash!"

Jiang Ran's figure carved a Z-shaped bolt of lightning through the water.

The crimson high-frequency blade danced into a mass of light and shadow in the darkness.

There was no blood, only severed gelatinous limbs flying everywhere.

Those seemingly terrifying electrified tentacles were as fragile as torn rotten noodles in front of the High-frequency Molecular Vibration Blade.

Swish swish swish!

Jiang Ran rampaged all the way.

The huge bells were neatly sliced open, and the glowing internal organs burst, staining the contaminated seawater even murkier.

In just one minute, that seemingly insurmountable "high-voltage electric wall" was forcibly pierced through by Jiang Ran.

Behind him, countless mutilated jellyfish corpses were slowly sinking.

Jiang Ran hovered in front of the massive concrete wall of the reactor building, which already had a gap blown open.

He casually shook off the residual slime on the blade.

"Cleanup complete."

Through his faceplate, he looked at the dark entrance ahead leading to the forbidden zone of human industry.

"zero, scan the internal structure. I'm going to start stocking up."

Passing through the shattered concrete gap, Jiang Ran entered the interior of the Unit 1 reactor building of the Hongwan Nuclear Power Plant.

This was originally the most strictly forbidden zone of human industrial civilization, but now it was like a steel tomb submerged in the deep sea.

Under the huge dome, murky red water filled every corner.

Countless thick pipes crisscrossed like blood vessels, connecting to the twenty-meter-high cylindrical behemoth in the center—

The Pressure Vessel.

Although it had been shut down and abandoned, that steel beast still exuded a suffocating pressure.